Today's USA!! PATRIOTIC AMERICAN trivia question

[underpants]

What is the only USA!! State flag that features a nipple?

[NightWatcher]

1. Virginia's flag has side boob

[underpants]

3. Correct

Well that didn't take long

[NightWatcher]

6. Seriously? I giggled at the flag out front of Embassy Suites when I was there

a couple months ago. Our corporate HQ is in Hampton Roads.

[underpants]

8. My boss asked me to purchase flags this morning

US and Commonwealth

Me: "one question on the Commonwealth flag, nipple or no nipple?"

[FSogol]

18. Cuccinelli wanted to cover her up!

It was one of his top priorities.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Nipplevania?

[underpants]

4. LOL

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. I almost went with Nipplechussets.

.

[jberryhill]

13. Nipplesippi

[LisaLynne]

14. Nipplegan. nt

[pinboy3niner]

15. Nipplefornia

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. And here I thought it was Tittysippi. nt

[FSogol]

19. Be careful. You're going to draw the attention of the Nipple Alerter!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. Only if I post an image of the map.nt

[NutmegYankee]

5. The one with Sic Semper Tyrannis on it?

[NuclearDem]

17. Thus always to nipples!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

20. That means "Thus always to tyrannosaurs"

(Why they have it in for dinosaurs is a question best left alone.)

[Orsino]

23. Tit for tat, tyrants! n/t

[NightWatcher]

7. Which state flag has the fewest colors?

[underpants]

9. 4

Alabama Alaska New Mexico and South Carolina each only have 2 colors ... Oh and Oregon which has a two sided flag

[Enrique]

10. it should be Alaska

because it's so cold.

[Inkfreak]

37. lol! (nt)

[woo me with science]

12. I was going to make a nipple torture joke having to do with patriotism,

but I am still too utterly revolted and chilled by the sight of an American President labeling torturers as "patriots" and those opposed to torture as "sanctimonious."

[LordGlenconner]

28. That makes me feel good

[woo me with science]

29. I see you're learning to temper your comments a tiny bit.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025349092#post20

Apologism for torture is still about as low as it gets.

[LordGlenconner]

30. Thank you

[woo me with science]

32. I'm serious.

Our economy is controlled by thieves and looters, but we haven't been completely devastated yet. It's still possible to find occupations that don't require the sacrifice of one's moral compass and human decency.

Do you have children?

Children were tortured in front of their parents by order of the American government, and our president just publicly called that a patriotic act.

[LordGlenconner]

36. Sorry, no sale

I think you see torture as a means to bludgeon politicians that don't share your world view. I think you care much more about that than you do the actual torturing of folks.

[msanthrope]

38. Goddamnit!!! "Folks" is my DU drinking game word! Bottoms Up!!! nt

[woo me with science]

39. Who don't share my "world view" that torture is wrong? Who consider torturers "patriots"?

That's quite an accusation you just made. That takes some serious gall, to assume that another human being's opposition to TORTURE is merely a rhetorical tactic, a bludgeon in a political sparring match.

Well, you're wrong. Deeply wrong.

The vile spectacle of an American president minimizing torture as policy and hailing its perpetrators as "patriots" is not a political game to me or, I daresay, to the hundreds of other DUers who are expressing outrage. Trashing basic moral principles of our nation is not a rhetorical game.

But this isn't the first time I've seen that accusation hurled at DUers who dare to criticize policies and political behavior they find morally indefensible.

I suppose people often make false assumptions about others based on their own experience and moral worldview. It's difficult for me to fathom that human beings can choose to spend time deriding others for standing opposed to the government torture of human beings. I suppose it's difficult for at least a small few to fathom that human beings can genuinely care about these things, or that comments made on a discussion board could ever reflect more than cynical political gamesmanship.

[Orsino]

22. None.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is frequently mistaken for a state by the uninitiated (or by those with lives).

[NutmegYankee]

24. Damn.

This whole time I thought it was one of the 50 states of the United States of America. Must be part of Canada...

[Orsino]

25. The 49 states are wannabes.

[NutmegYankee]

26. 46.

Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania also call themselves Commonwealths.

[Orsino]

27. Hey, that's cool!

Virginia has graciously agreed to let the states be represented by stars on the Flag, just as though they were Commonwealths.

[underpants]

31. I was going to use an *

But I thought that would give it away.

Well played.

[Takket]

33. Hmmmmm... is New Orleans a State?

[gratuitous]

34. Nice try, but . . .

Take a good look at the state flag of Ohio.

If you're not satisfied with nipples, though, the Oregon state flag has a beaver on it.

[underpants]

35. Ha!

Beaver