Flags half-staff for 30 days for Rehnquist!

[TomInTib]

Just on Newshour.

What arrogant pricks.
The guidelines are very specific.
10 days for VP, Chief Justice (active or retired).

This may be a tad picky but half-staff is one of the most solemn traditions in this country we used to have.

BTW I am not a flag freak. This just bothers me.

[nickinSTL]

1. and how long was it for the freaking Pope?

Maybe that wasn't 'official', but I swear, the flag was at half staff for the head of a foreign state FOREVER.

Not as long as for Reagan, I suppose. But, at least I understand Reagan.

[Inland]

2. Fuck that.

I think ten days is fine, fer cry-eye.

[rurallib]

3. Should be staff -and-a-half!! The old racist is dead..

[Charlie Brown]

4. It's been a month since Rehnquist died

Can't we move on?

[TomInTib]

6. That's not the point

the deal is pomp and circumstance over regulated policy.
Isn't GOP the Flag Party?

We are in effing Oz.

[ProudDad]

5. Renquist? What's a Renquist?

I thought they were at half staff for the dead folks in the Gulf Coast, the * administration and the Bill of Rights?

[lcordero2]

7. good riddance to bad rubbish

[onenote]

8. got a link for this?

Cause the official proclamation from the WH called for flags to be flown at half-staff for Rehnquist for the standard 10 days:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050904-3.html

Can't find any evidence to the contrary.

onenote

[TomInTib]

9. Woman on Newshour said that Robert's first day (today) was

the first day flags had been full-staff since the old bastard checked out (actually, she did not use those exact words).

[zulchzulu]

10. As long as they are upside down too

I'd be for that. Actually, all American flags should be half-mast AND upside down for the remainder of the Bush administration.

http://www.awolcowboy.com/media/Flying_My_Flag.mp3

[Vickers]

11. It's like all the flags are on Placidyl.

:spank:

[TomInTib]

12. Now that is funny

Having had a run-in (strictly experimental) with Placidyl back in the 60's I was just foored when I read about Rehnquist and that drug.