Flag-desecration up 33% (3 incidents to 4); 4 days of Senate debate set

[DeepModem Mom]

In the Senate, Covering Themselves in Old Glory
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, June 27, 2006; Page A02

The Citizens Flag Alliance, a group pushing for the Senate this week to pass a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, just reported an alarming, 33 percent increase in the number of flag-desecration incidents this year.

The number has increased to four, from three....

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Fortunately, the Senate will have plenty of time to discuss that matter. The chamber has scheduled up to four days of debate on the flag-burning amendment this week. If that formula -- one day of Senate debate for each incident of flag burning this year -- were to be applied to other matters, the Senate would need to schedule 12 days of debate to contemplate the number of years before Medicare goes broke, 335 days of debate for each service member killed in Iraq this year and 11 million days of debate on the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the country.

Unfortunately, the Senate has only 49 days left on its legislative calendar for the year....

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Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) countered with a different set of figures. "There have been only seven acts of flag desecration annually in America in the last six years, so to argue that we have this growing trend toward desecration and burning our flag defies the facts," he said. "In fact, it rarely, if ever, happens. And so why are we about to change the handiwork and fine contribution to America of Thomas Jefferson?"...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062601321.html

[acmejack]

1. Hatch is babbling now.

It is painful. He has a chart of the last incident.

[acmejack]

2. Mel Martinez steps up to the plate

Flag raising story from fifth grade, flag of Cuba.

[Catchawave]

3. Have the Dems shown this yet....

[marmar]

4. Four desecrated flags? Quel horror!

The terra-ists hate us for our Chinese-made American flags.