*Now* the WH flag is at half-staff because of Rehnquist...not New Orleans.

[Roland99]

[Z_I_Peevey]

1. Mourn your traitorous enabler, you jackals in the WH!

May you get what you deserve.

[liberaliraqvet26]

2. sick and twisted....

where are the priorities of this country??

[pepperlove]

3. And that is fake as well....`

because we all know Shrub cannot wait to put some freeper dipstick in that place to uphold his war and hate.

[WePurrsevere]

4. I don't recall... was it lowered for 9-11? What is the protocal...

and precedent for lowering it?

[kdmorris]

6. Yeah, it was.

From Wikipedia:

United States

In the United States, the President can issue an Executive Order for flags to be flown at half-staff. When such an order is issued, government buildings, offices, and military bases are to fly their flags at half-staff. Private organizations and individuals usually also fly their flags at half-staff at these times, but are not required by law to do so.

* For thirty days after the death of a current or former President.
* For ten days after the death of a current or former Vice-President, Chief Justice, or Speaker of the House of Representatives.
* From the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a Secretary of an executive or military department, a former Vice President, or the Governor of a State, territory, or possession
* On the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress
* Until 12:00pm on Memorial Day
* On Executive Order by the President or State Governor (some examples include for remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, the death of Pope John Paul II, and the Indian Ocean tsunami).

So, even Pope John Paul II and the tsunami victims got half mast. But the people of LA, MS, and AL don't warrant such treatment. How disgusting!

[WePurrsevere]

9. Oh my... thank you. You're absolutely right... that is disgusting...

So Bush is saying that the people of LA, MS and AL less important then the Pope and the Indian tsunami victims. The more I see the more I truly believe that Bush suffers from (aka: he's a sociopath).

[kdmorris]

5. 1 rich white man > 10,000 poor black people

Man, I hate this administration!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Yeah, but Rehnquist helped put * in office.

The people in New Orleans voted 77% for Kerry. Who do you think * will give a damn about?

[kdmorris]

8. I hear what you are saying

But he also flew it half staff for the victims of 9/11 (New York is not really a Republican base) and for the victims of the tsunami (the Americans on vacation there MAY have voted for him.

In addition, the 144 people that died in MS and the however many number who died in AL were most likely Republicans (not to say they WERE, but likely were).

Maybe he just doesn't know what to do now that Cheney is wherever the hell he is (hospital maybe?). You are required to do it for the Chief Justice, but have to actually do some work to do it for everyone else.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. But 9/11 was unique.

And the fact that he flew it half-staff for the tsunami victims, but not the NOLA victims (who were the ones mostly affected) speaks volumes.

[kdmorris]

11. True

I think in the case of the tsunami, he was shamed into it by other countries. His initial reaction to it was pretty anemic. After all, most of the people affected by the tsunami were "brown" people too.