There's a website called Little Green Footballs which is kind of politically focused. The site owner has not so recently moved more towards the center and away from what he sees as more extreme right wingers. I generally have no comments or concerns over what he posts except for a recent topic where he injected his own interpretation of events that really bothered me. The topic? Kids with American flag shirts told to remove them as being culturally insensitive to Mexicans on a Mexican holiday.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Students-Wearing-American-Flag-Shirts-Sent-Home-92945969.html http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36305_Outrageous_Outrage_of_the_Day/comments/#ctop The LGF blogger's interpretation of the article and video was that the kids were deliberately trying to insult the Hispanic students. I read the article and watched the video and could see no deliberate insult in action or words. Was there something written there that I missed? Some tradition that I'm unaware of that the students are more keyed into? As for the students right to wear the flag, the district said there was no policy or problem on their level so it was school administration's interpretation of rules. And personally, I don't care what country's flag you wear on the 4th of July in the US. I'm not going to be offended by a Mexican flag then or any other time nor should Mexicans be offended by the US flag. NSFW side comment As a side thing on extremes - when NY Major Bloomberg was asked about the attempted bombing in NY, he brushed off questions of Islamic terrorism with a comment that it could well be extreme tea-baggers. This of course got me wondering how one can be an extreme tea bagger? Three balls at once? While wearing an anti-Obama mask? I guess I'm too innocent to know. ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
