We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:34:33 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Flags of Our Denizens... the national colors of the Denizens of Argghhh! have flown at the Castle. I also learned that when you tighten the halyard per your habits, aluminum flag poles lean a bit... Now, by visitor stats order... The Red Ensign of Canada. The Red Ensign of Australia. And because Murray insisted, the Blue Ensign of New Zealand. When I get another 2 cubic feet of cement, a second pole will arise another flagpole will reach for the heavens - which will normally fly the Castle flag (when the design is finalized) and on appropriate days, the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:35:01 -0600 Don't you have two Child Labor Units that can be trained to the task? 8^ ) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62129 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62129 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:54:32 -0600 I'm lazy- AND practical, John. I know I'll forget to take it down/put it up, and I want the flag up as often as possible, so I'm getting lights. pththtththhththtth http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62128 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62128 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:14:15 -0600 Allow me to extend a virtual salute. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62127 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62127 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:35:36 -0600 No you don't, AFSis. You can save all that money by putting it up in the morning and bringing it down in the evening, rather than the *koff* lazy patriot's method of shining a light on it all night... I may not fire the salute gun every day (but I plan to on holidays) - but at Castle Argghhh! the flag flies to the normal rhythm. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62122 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62122 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:24:34 -0600 Keith put a flagpole up at my house just in time for the 4th of July. It's magnificent! I still need to get lights for it to properly display the flag though. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62119 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62119 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:32:30 -0600 Boy, Senator the General Dallaire is *not* going to approve of my flying the Irish Brigade and other militant/period flags from the second pole at the Castle on appropriate days. Equal to the national color, even. One reason for having two poles, so I can fly things equally. He really needs to find something else to get that excited about. It's not like it *replaced* the Maple Leaf, for pity's sake. I do have a Maple Leaf flag, and should I have visitors out at the Castle from Canada, I will fly that. Unless they are Brigadiers, in which case I'll let fly the ensign. I think I'm probably safe from the good Senator as a visitor, so I shouldn't offer any inadvertent offense there. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62107 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62107 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:25:39 -0600 yet another Red Ensign controversy? It shouldn't be this difficult to pay tribute to one's history.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62106 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62106 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:49 -0600 Are you going to do the Higgins thing with your salute gun for retreat? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62104 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/the_national_co.html#comment-62104 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:33:22 -0600