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[Stephanie]

What is that?




U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on Gulf Coast reconstruction while visiting the region at St. Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi January 12, 2006. Bush is touring the Gulf Coast region to witness efforts to rebuild the region after Hurricane Katrina destroyed many parts of the area last year. REUTERS/Larry Downing

http: //news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060112/ids_photos_ts/r3776106245.jpg

[AllegroRondo]

1. state flag of Mississippi

[soothsayer]

2. Good ol' Miss! The last state to keep the southern cross

incorporated into their state flag

[Horse with no Name]

3. Better picture of it--but I know what you are thinking

[MADem]

7. Gee, ya know what that looks like to me? Good ole boys meet the French!

You've got yer stars-n-bars on the left, and a vertical representation of those "cheese eating surrender monkeys" tricolor on the right!!! Have a glass of Bordeaux, y'all!!!!!

[YOY]

9. "cheese eating surrender monkeys"

Groundskeeper Willie...my favorite Simpsons character and one of my favorite qoutes from him...

[long_green]

11. I've never thought of it that way but it does...

look like the battle ensign of the French Confederacy.

[MADem]

13. Good way to dig at 'em for keeping that racist symbol alive! n/t

[Greeby]

4. Confederate flag, check. Bush moving his arm towards a sieg heil, check

He's holding Klan meetings now? :puke:

[meganmonkey]

5. It's the Mississippi state flag

:shrug:

[Stephanie]

8. well you'll have to pardon my confusion

I am just an ignorant Northerner who was rather shocked to see it.

[meganmonkey]

10. Me too, actually

I didn't know until I saw the first couple posts - I was actually replying to someone else

:)

[stillcool]

6. how appropriate....

sometimes it takes a subtle reminder to admit that we have indeed arrived.

[deminks]

12. I did a double take on that one, too.

I had several scary thoughts when I first saw that.