The Flag children...

They are at it again, in the lead up to a national election, the GOP is pushing hard for an anti flag desecration amendment to the constitution.
They are counting on the current patriotic fervor, not so much to pass this dubious statute, but to cast their opponents in a harsh un-American light.
Ho hum, it is the same old, same old down at Conservativebehemoth.com.
To hear these flag hags tell it, old glory is thrown on the barbeque every hour on the hour in this country, and that somehow hurts us all.
If you are living in the Bay State, then lets try this....
Take a leisurely drive up route 95 North to the border from Massachusetts, count the number of tattered and forlorn flags you see snapping in the breeze from the aerials of passing SUVs.
When you get to ten or so, you'll have a number greater than all the reported flag burnings from the year 2002.
Then pull over, talk a walk up the side of the highway, I guarantee you will find dozens of tattered little flags by the roadside that have flown off some car antenna somewhere and are now slowing rotting on the way to the Granite State.
You could easily roll all those lost and abandoned flags into a gigantic ball and make a gift of it to President Bush the next time he blows into Portsmouth to thunder his disapproval of flag desecration.
Ask him to toughen the punishments for this outrageous crime, like burying miscreants alive in their SUV's after that worn and tattered ensign is ceremoniously removed by an Honor Guard from Americans for Tax Reform.