# Justice Dept. Removes Stars and Stripes from Website **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2010, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241 "2010-09-01T09:56:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/101 "2010-09-02T20:16:35Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > > Hey, Don, I know you think you’re doing us a favor by cutting and pasting all this nutjob stuff, but if we wanted to read [some fucktard’s blog](http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/department_of_justice_ditches.html), we would. > > Please, please everyone: do yourselves a favor and go read the comments from this link. I have never in my life seen such examples of Poe’s law. It is wonderfully funny. > > Check out the seed place too. Also quite funny. Wow. I think I have to sanitize my computer now. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/102 "2010-09-02T20:32:58Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > > [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > > > Please, please everyone: do yourselves a favor and go read the comments from this link. I have never in my life seen such examples of Poe’s law. It is wonderfully funny. > > > > Check out the seed place too. Also quite funny. > > Wow. I think I have to sanitize my computer now. And my eyeballs and my brain. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/103 "2010-09-02T22:10:54Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > > Hey, Don, I know you think you’re doing us a favor by cutting and pasting all this nutjob stuff, but if we wanted to read [some fucktard’s blog](http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/department_of_justice_ditches.html), we would. > > Please, please everyone: do yourselves a favor and go read the comments from this link. I have never in my life seen such examples of Poe’s law. It is wonderfully funny. > > Check out the seed place too. Also quite funny. I’ll never understand how people have the time and energy to devote to being _that_ batshit crazy and paranoid. If, on top of the various day-to-day details of my life that actually exist, I worried about the devious machinations of Lord Obamax of Muslimar-7 as he infiltrates the United States and mates with our women, I think I’d explode from stress. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/104 "2010-09-03T00:02:45Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > …First they re-designed our webpages, and I said nothing… Then they went after net neutrality, and again I said nothing… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/105 "2010-09-03T01:55:48Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Yes, but we will have to go with vertical stripes, horizontal makes us look fat. 🙂 In the interest of fighting ignorance by way of tireless tiresome picking of nits : this myth has been [busted](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3351615/Horizontal-stripes-make-you-look-thinner.html). ETA : I’m very fun at parties. Call me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/106 "2010-09-03T03:23:07Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I love it when you use the Random Legal Jargon generator. It’s so fun! I agree, and I think we’ve reached _consensus ad idem_ on that. I’m wondering if the OP is posting from a state of _non compos mentis_. In any event, I’m sure he’d like to plead _non est factum_ at this point. Hey, **Don** , should the changing of the website be _malum in se_ or _malum prohibitum_? And would you like to void this thread _ab initio_? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/107 "2010-09-03T03:37:06Z")
_De minimis non curat lex._ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/108 "2010-09-03T13:10:59Z")
Qvanti canicvla illa in fenestra? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/109 "2010-09-03T14:47:23Z")
But did the old web page have gold fringe around the edges? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/110 "2010-09-03T17:33:42Z")
Oh, I just looked at the [http://www.justice.gov/](http://www.justice.gov/) website. Looks like my computer will function for a little while before the trojan in my computer comes back, so let’s see. First impression: Oh, that’s a nice color scheme. Good use of gold tones. I approve. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/111 "2010-09-03T17:35:44Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But did the old web page have gold fringe around the edges? > [@foolsguinea](#): > > Good use of gold tones. I approve. A-HA! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/112 "2010-09-03T17:42:52Z")
It’s very classy. Looks like an official building rather than a flag-covered campaign stop. It’s a matter of presentation style. If I weren’t sleep-deprived, I might think better of saying this, but hey, I’ve been fighting a moving trojan, so here goes: Maybe certain groups make gaudy .gov sites for the same reason they spend all their time campaigning. They got into politics through a campaign culture. Thus they think that the government should look like a campaign stop. Whereas some other persons are primarily interested in government & the law for their own sake, & want .gov sites to express some dignity. Or it’s that Eric Holder is a career attorney (who was even a judge for five years). Unlike some AG’s. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/113 "2010-09-03T21:12:20Z")
So, do we have a consensus? That **Don123** is a moronic lout, with a head fulla fluff? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/114 "2010-09-03T21:18:10Z")
How dare you badmouth fluff! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/115 "2010-09-03T21:35:31Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > So, do we have a consensus? That **Don123** is a moronic lout, with a head fulla fluff? Yup. He should upgrade to bran and pins. On the other hand, I sincerely wish that I had thought of the seed bank scam. It looks like they buy seeds from the store for 79 cents a packet, bundle them up and resell them to survivalists/teabaggers/Beckists/Freepers for big bucks. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/116 "2010-09-03T21:58:33Z")
Correction: They are selling _heirloom_ seeds. Which means they paid 95 cents a packet. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/117 "2010-09-03T22:07:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Correction: They are selling _heirloom_ seeds. Which means they paid 95 cents a packet. Okay. I still wish I’d done it. Taking money from my political opponents for things they believe would be so sweet. Kind of like selling Che T-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/118 "2010-09-03T22:37:21Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > Correction: They are selling _heirloom_ seeds. Which means they paid 95 cents a packet. > > Okay. I still wish I’d done it. Taking money from my political opponents for things they believe would be so sweet. Kind of like selling Che T-shirts. Y’know, you might have just articulated the Ultimate Business Plan. I’m betting you could feed off my mom’s far-right paranoia and latent racism and crotchetiness… and make a bundle. By pandering to her simplistic beliefs ALL THE WHILE _MOCKING_ those beliefs, and she would never know. Hmmm… I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Glenn Beck beat me to this idea. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/119 "2010-09-03T23:25:24Z")
That would suggest that Glenn is a secret liberal. I don’t think I could stir up new right wing paranoia, but I certainly could pander to existing right wing paranoia while outrageously overcharging for gold, heirloom vegetables and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241/120 "2010-09-04T03:00:15Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > > [@matt\_mcl](#): > > > > We were about due for another **Beryl\_Mooncalf.** > > Since you live in a jurisdiction that doesn’t follow the Common Law legal system, shouldn’t you be out committing rampant acts of lawlessness and property destruction? Or at least fending off the looters who are surely clawing at your door? As we learned recently, the rule of law is impossible without the Common Law system. :rolleyes: Well, what with the [bijural system,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_in_Quebec) I only have to do that \*half \*the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-dept-removes-stars-and-stripes-from-website/552241.md?page=7)