We saw an odd flag in a suburban/rural area, flying on a pole above an estate or farm. The oddest aspect to this was that it was flying above an American flag, which seemed somewhat heretical per American flag ettiquette (though, this was a private residence, so they can mostly do what they want).
I cannot seem to figure out what it was. The vexillological description would be something like a field argent, a half-canton azure bearing a (device) gules – or, in normal person terms, it was mostly white, with a small blue square in the upper left (pole side) that had something red in it (possibly a star, we could not make it out).
The first Google Images hit I got for “white flag with blue field and red” was something called “the Christian flag”, which I suppose could be described as argent, a canton azure charged with a Christian cross gules.
Well, now you’re gonna have to explain why the hell you decided to venture into rural Lewis County in the first place. Just getting off the freeway is madness in and of itself.
I have a tremendous dislike for the freeways. The competitive driving style makes me very unhappy. The handy thing about driving through there is you can do it without having to stop much.
Bah. The only redeeming quality Lewis County has going for it is that the speed limit on I-5 is 70 instead of 60, so you get to spend slightly less time on your way to Portland and back to civilization.
Well, that and they have a Burgerville in Centralia.
Ironically, by not taking the freeway, I never have to look at that thing. I go where people live, so they are generally a lot less shouty, because they have to live there.
Decades ago, I read a pamphlet on U.S. flag etiquette. (No cite — sorry.) According to it, USN vessels are allowed to fly the Christian flag above the U.S. flag while services are in progress. (I’d ask my dad the Chief about it; but the Chief of Chiefs recalled him seven years ago.)
So, if this is true, it might be acceptable for a private residence to do likewise, maybe even all day on Sunday. And if it’s unacceptable, I’m inclined to let the Chief of Chiefs deal with the matter…
It’s interesting to recall that the phrase ", under god, " wasn’t in the Pledge of Allegiance until the last religious wacko revival in the USA around 1850. Then they wedged that in there, utterly ruining the meter of what had been pretty good poetry. They also stuck “In god we trust” on the currency and coinage at about the same time.
Neither of those things were there before. Both represent an unconstitutional encroachment of a single religion into the affairs of our required-to-be irreligious government. But they’re sure popular with the religious crowd.
