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Not never, but close to it.
On a rare occasion, I'll go to a meeting or something where the pledge is used. I don't mind giving the pledge, but there aren't many opportunities in my life where it's done.
I have never heard of any business giving the pledge as part of their routine at all. None. I've never heard of any biz that did. I thought the mention was odd.
Of course you're not going to say the pledge unless you're in elementary school. Whats the point of this? Do I think we should do away with it in school? Absolutely not! It's patriotic and unifying.
Ah, so just school and kids? Not foosball games or polo matches?
Not at city council meetings? Zoning board?
I'm just trying to do some research as to why people are so angry that a foosball player whose ancestors were bought and sold under the Flag may not want to say it.....
I'm fine with it. I'm also fine without it. That is, if I feel like reciting it I will - if I don't I won't.
But I certainly won't judge anyone on their "say or nay" of it.
Maybe I'm the odd duck but I feel that Actions speak MUCH louder than words. A protestor at a foosball game, IMHO, is doing a LOT more for the TRUE American Way than a Congress Critter who recites it and then goes to work stripping health care from 20 million Americans.
Many here have claimed they are going to boycott those terrible traitors that don't recite in during a billion dollar corporate-sponsored taxpayer funded (stadiums) party......
Yet, at the same time they themselves don't recite it - meaning according to their own definitions, they are unpatriotic to the max.
Very telling, IMHO. The old hypocritical thing rearing it's ugly head again. Expecting things from other that you don't do yourself.
This goes hand in hand with all the other "holier than thou" stuff of the Right - family values, homophobia and Islamophobia, etc. etc. etc.
They like to talk a good game but when it comes to spending time to honor their country with a 1 minute pledge - they'd rather binge watch TV.
1. Don't watch football.
2. Don't care who salutes/recites or doesn't salute/recite anything.
3. My only phobia is acrophobia
4. Don't own a TV. Wait. That's a lie. I do own one. A 17" fake wood panel sided one that's somewhere in my attic.
ok, guess this post isn't about me then.
carry on.
Pledge? Not since grade school. I go to attention for the Anthem regularly, though.
I went to military school. I want to see your "attention". If there isn't about 6 folds in your chin and you aren't wearing 3 layers of uniform (for heat punishment), it ain't real......
OK, 25 hours of marching (in all weather) on the quadrangle for you....
Yeah, thinking of those City Council meetings - never was there a bunch of lower class criminals than that crew - and they recited it religiously. Hand on Bibles too.
I wonder if it works out that those who practice these dances more often actually do less for their fellow Americans and the world? We'd need a better study for that and I don't have the money.
So if anyone knows a think tank that wants to front some Koch money this way, I accept bitcoin.
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