When Progressives are in
charge
London: 1908 Olymics At the opening
ceremony, American shot putter Ralph Rose, the US flag bearer, refused
to dip the flag to the royal box because, "This flag dips to no earthly king."
With a few exception that practice was repeated by American Olympic
delegations until prior to the 1936 Hitler Olympics in Berlin, "
the tradition gets codified for the USOC — it's not just the athletes
doing it, now there's an official policy After 1936, we never dip
again."
(LA
TIMES)
Of course since 2008 the United States president,
Brock Ebola, has
dipped himself to every monarch he's met (with the exception of
Britain's queen), showing particular displays of fealty to Islamo
nabobs.
It's funny how one thing will send
my mind racing to other things that have no apparent
relationship. The below, seemingly unconnected event produced all that.
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