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Seattle: resident thinks Norwegian flag = Confederate flag
July 29, 2020, 04:48 PM
lkdr1989Seattle: resident thinks Norwegian flag = Confederate flag
Norwegian Nazis strike back again, this time in Michigan.
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Flag removed from Saint Johns bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Bed and breakfast Nordic Pineapple in Saint Johns has removed their Norwegian flag after dozens of people confuse it for the Confederate flag.
Greg and Kjersten Offbecker moved into the historic mansion two years ago and turned it into a bed and breakfast. As decoration, they hung a Norwegian flag next to the American flag at the front entrance of the inn, but dozens of guests and people driving by have accused the couple of flying a Confederate flag.
“They are the same color, but there are no stars on the Norwegian flag, and the Confederate flag is a big ‘x’ and the Norwegian flag is part of the Nordic countries, they’re all crosses,” Offbecker said.
Last week, the couple decided to remove the flag as they were updating their marketing materials.
“We started to have this concern that it was deterring people away from coming to our bed and breakfast,” Offbecker said. “That they would see it and make this judgement.”
Offbecker said she was trying to represent her heritage, but it’s not worth the frustration. She said they have received cruel emails and phone calls over the confusion of the flag.
“What we’re getting is so much more negative now,” she said. “It’s not just, ‘hey you’re flying the Confederate flag.’ It’s, ‘you should be ashamed to fly the Confederate flag. You’re a bigot because you fly the Confederate flag.‘”
Some people are even convinced the home was built by Confederate leaders. In fact, it was built by union workers for the daughter of the Saint Johns founder.
The couple is trying to find a new way to hang their flag without getting complaints.
https://www.wilx.com/2020/07/2...rate-flag-confusion/
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV July 29, 2020, 04:53 PM
konata88Seems to me like they may be better off just getting Norwegian guests or otherwise those who know what the flag is. Better off deterring guests who don't know the difference.
Sometimes, Americans-in-name-only (aka traitors) are embarrassing to our country.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy
"A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book July 29, 2020, 05:06 PM
Mars_AttacksHowever the mexican flag is just fine.
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Eeewwww, don't touch it!
Here, poke at it with this stick.
July 29, 2020, 05:14 PM
tleo205our public education system has turned out decades of the stupidest people in the world who can't even tell the very simple difference in flags!
July 29, 2020, 05:24 PM
MrToadquote:
Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
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It was from Rebecca Morris, who is an author of The New York Times best-seller true-crime books.
I guess it is to much to ask that an author, of best selling BOOKS, be somewhat educated on the world. What a racist dip shit Rebecca Norris is.
One wonders how accurate her investigative skills and basic research must have been in her books.
If you like religion, laws or sausage, then you shouldn't watch them being made. July 29, 2020, 05:39 PM
corsairThese idiots, they live amongst us.
Sure sign of them, if they use the phrasing...There should be a law against X or, You should do X so people don't mistake Y
July 29, 2020, 05:46 PM
konata88When these idiots make mistakes and cause grief / lack of business / whatever to people / businesses, they should be held accountable and liable.
If the above business was affected by the mistake of an idiot, that idiot should be held liable for damages. They are not, but they should be. Stupid should hurt.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy
"A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book July 29, 2020, 05:58 PM
ARMT Guyquote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
bless their hearts
Exactly.

I'm a little surprised someone hasn't mistaken that flag for something the kkk would fly.

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me."
July 29, 2020, 06:06 PM
Tn226Ahhh Some of our brightest American voters. Always entertaining
July 29, 2020, 06:18 PM
casLike I said to someone about most of the statues that got torn down, you could put a gun to the heads of the people doing it and they couldn't tell you who the heck those people were.
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Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911.
July 30, 2020, 05:24 AM
pillboxesghostThere are way too many folks who don't know the difference in the Confederate 1st national flag (the
"Stars and Bars" )
and the Confederate battle flag / naval jack (the
Southern Cross).
If you were cockeyed with political correctness and totally woke -- I suppose it's possible to confuse a limp Norwegian flag with
the Confederate battle flag.
However the "Stars and Bars" resembled the US flag. It had a blue canton (upper LH corner) bearing either 7 or 13 stars in a circular
pattern. It had three broad horizontal stripes (or bars). Two red bars separated by one white bar. The 1st National flag was flown from 1861 to 1863.
That "dammed red rebel rag" is unmistakable --- a blue Cross of St.Andrew bearing 13 stars upon a red field. The Southern Cross represents the biggest "f-you" to government authority ever displayed on this continent.
Yeah, I'm a CW history freak!
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"I have resolved to fight as long as Marse Robert has a corporal's guard, or until he says give up. He is the man I shall follow or die in the attempt."
Feb. 27, 1865 Letter by Sgt. Henry P. Fortson 'B' Co. 31st GA Vol. Inf.
July 30, 2020, 05:43 AM
12131quote:
Bed and breakfast Nordic Pineapple in Saint Johns has removed their Norwegian flag after dozens of people confuse it for the Confederate flag.
..............Offbecker said she was trying to represent her heritage, but it’s not worth the frustration.
Wow! I'm not sure whom I despise more, the leftist maggots or those who don't stand up for their heritage.

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July 30, 2020, 11:07 AM
nhtagmemberpublic education at its finest...
July 30, 2020, 12:05 PM
rscalzoThese are the same people that made it mandatory to put those warning labels on everything these days..
July 30, 2020, 12:09 PM
rscalzoWonder if the same morons would think these were great? Looks like the flag of some radial groups.
The "Van Dorn battle flag" used in the Western theaters of operation
The "Sibley Flag", Battle Flag of the Army of New Mexico, commanded by General Henry Hopkins Sibley.
July 30, 2020, 12:25 PM
sns3guppyquote:
Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Seattle: resident thinks Norwegian flag = confederate flag
As the future king of Norway, I take offense at that.
It's on the to-do list.
July 30, 2020, 02:50 PM
Fla. Jimquote:
Originally posted by LDD:
Look, Confederates everywhere
Yep, we just be awaiting for the feds to get just
the right amount of stupid. So we can reclaim our heritage .