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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 09:04 PM
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Want to aid Glenn Beck's demented "art" fixation-toss him one of these


The fasces in the United States
The following cases all involve the adoption of the fasces as a visual image or icon; no actual physical re-introduction has occurred.

* In the Oval Office, above the door leading to the exterior walkway, and above the corresponding door on the opposite wall, which leads to the President's private office. (Note: the fasces depicted have no axes, possibly because in the Roman Republic, the blade was always removed from the bundle whenever the fasces were carried inside the city, in order to symbolize the rights of citizens against arbitrary state power (see above).)

National Guard Bureau insignia



* The National Guard uses the fasces on the seal of the National Guard Bureau, and it appears in the insignia of Regular Army officers assigned to National Guard liaison and in the insignia and unit symbols of National Guard units themselves. For instance, the regimental crest of the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard consisted of a gold fasces set on a blue background.
* The reverse of the United States "Mercury" dime (minted from 1916 to 1945) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.
* Two fasces appear on either side of the flag of the United States in the United States House of Representatives, representing the power of the House and the country.
* The Mace of the United States House of Representatives, designed to resemble fasces, consists of thirteen ebony rods bound together in the same fashion as the fasces, topped by a silver eagle on a globe.
* The official seal of the United States Senate has as one component a pair of crossed fasces.
* Fasces ring the base of the Statue of Freedom atop the United States Capitol building.
* A frieze on the facade of the United States Supreme Court building depicts the figure of a Roman centurion holding a fasces, to represent "order".<4>
* The main entrance hallways in the Wisconsin State Capitol have lamps which are decorated with stone fasces motifs.
* At the Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln's seat of state bears the fasces—without axes—on the fronts of its arms. (Fasces also appear on the pylons flanking the main staircase leading into the memorial.)
* The official seal of the United States Tax Court bears the fasces at its center.
* Four fasces flank the two bronze plaques on either side of the bust of Lincoln memorializing his Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
* The fasces appears on the state seal of Colorado, USA, beneath the "All-seeing eye" (or Eye of Providence) and above the mountains and mines.
* On the seal of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, a figure carries a fasces; the seal appears on the borough flag. Fasces can also be seen in the stone columns at Grand Army Plaza.
* Used as part of the Knights of Columbus emblem (designed in 1883).
* Many local police departments use the fasces as part of their badges and other symbols. For instance, the top border of the Los Angeles Police Department badge features a fasces. (1940)
* Commercially, a small fasces appeared at the top of one of the insignia of the Hupmobile car.
* A fasces appears on the statue of George Washington, made by Jean-Antoine Houdon which is now in the Virginia State Capital
* VAW-116 have a fasces on their unit insigina
* San Francisco's Coit Tower has two fasces-like insignia (without the axe) carved above its entrance, flanking a Phoenix.
* The seal of the United States Courts Administrative Office

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#The_fasces_in_the_United_States


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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 09:05 PM
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1. Becky Boy is going with the traditional Republicon Feces Fasces
Around which the Republicons do their Diabolical Diaper Dance.

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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 09:21 PM
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3. Only a few more days until we find out what "he has been working on"
:scared::hide:

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Pangolin2 Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 09:10 PM
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2. Maybe he thinks they're feces?
:shrug:
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