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Posted: Fri 17 Nov , 2017 5:56 pm
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And now lion body parts, too. Zinke must be so proud.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... rt-of-lion
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ABC News reports that that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) began issuing permits for the importing of lion trophies — lion body parts taken after hunting — from Zambia and Zimbabwe a month ago.

Officials told ABC News that the department decided that “legal, well-regulated sports hunting” could help the endangered species survive.

From National Geographic last year, an article that suggests this justification is nonsense in the case of Zimbabwe, at least:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... -zimbabwe/
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A year ago this week Cecil the lion was killed by Walter Palmer, sparking an international outcry and greater scrutiny of trophy hunting for the heads, skins, or other body parts of wild animals. Eight African countries allow the consistent export of lion parts, including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Tanzania, which holds nearly half the continent’s wild lions.

... Some countries decided to stop letting hunters take lion trophies across their borders. Australia flat out banned them. So did France. The United States, the biggest importer of lion trophies, added new protections for lions under the Endangered Species Act. Hunters now can’t bring back their trophies unless the animal came from a country that uses hunt fees to bolster lion conservation.
So it looks like Zinke and Trump have removed that restriction.
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Kenya, Botswana, and Zambia already had trophy-hunting bans in place before Cecil died. (Zambia decided to lift its ban last year.) But Cecil’s home country of Zimbabwe? In August it suspended big game hunting … for 10 days.
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Some studies have shown that trophy hunting has taken a toll on lion populations in parts of Zimbabwe and Tanzania (though they’ve since enacted reforms), while scientists consider Namibia a success story. “The thing about sport hunting is it’s not all good, it’s not all bad,” says Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota. “If you’re to take an average across the continent, though, the bad outweighs the good.”

One recent report by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources found that there’s little evidence to show that trophy-hunting fees help conservation, particularly in nations known for corruption.
For instance, Zimbabwe?

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Posted: Fri 17 Nov , 2017 6:36 pm
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More about Zinke's recent activities. He has created the very badly misnamed "International Wildlife Conservation Council" which seems to be designed simply to promote hunting interests and bypass scientific advice:
https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2 ... -interior/
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On November 8, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the creation of an International Wildlife Conservation Council that will advise him. As a recent Science Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assigned to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Division of International Conservation, I’ve watched the disarticulation of legislation intended to protect such iconic treasures as elephants, lions and giraffes, all species that the American public insisted upon saving, and which are protected via Congressional oversight. Here, however, that sanctity is jeopardized by beguilement at the federal level by Secretary Zinke.

I make three points: 1) that the Government Accountability Office is legally mandated to protect against conflicts of interests in appointments for federal advisory committees, 2) that duplication of regulatory bodies is to be avoided, and 3) the U.S. role in international treaties concerning wildlife conservation will be inexorably weakened once the fox guards the hen house, in which are the hallowed species Americans have chosen to legally protect.

The DOI plan is to draw an 18-“discretionary” member Council from at least five entities named in the November 8 notice. Four of these represent industry interests despite the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) dictating that committees have balanced membership, avoid conflicts of interest, and provide agencies with objective advice.

...The Council would also review import suspensions and bans and “streamline and expedite” the process of import permits, presumably making it easier for U.S. hunters to import international wildlife trophies irrespective of what the science says.
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The Council will also review seizure and forfeiture actions and practices, very likely diminishing the well-established 117-year-old Lacey Act by which USFWS wildlife inspectors and Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) can seize, upon attempted import, wildlife protected by laws in other countries; in this way, inspectors and OLE help regulate imports of unlawful hunting trophies.

Comment here in the Federal Register on Zinke's plan to establish this council. (Act fast - the comment period is extremely short).
https://www.federalregister.gov/documen ... ominations

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Posted: Fri 17 Nov , 2017 9:15 pm
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More from the your government is cartoonishly evil feed:
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Sanders is asked about the difference in response to the Franken and Trump allegations: "Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn't. I think that's a very clear distinction." (via CBS)
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I'm not sure I find that cartoonishly evil, but it did give me a laugh. So now Trump's as pure as the driven snow simply by denying it?

Then again, I'm rolling my eyes at all the moral outrage over Franken's off-color joke of pretending to grab a woman's breasts in a staged photograph, many years ago. Juvenile and stupid, sure, but he's apologized and let's be done with it.

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Posted: Fri 17 Nov , 2017 10:20 pm
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Yeah. Not excusing Franken, but there's NOT OK, and then there's preying on fourteen year old girls, which, the special Hell.
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I have to give Trump credit for this. True, it's after public (and some GOP) outcry and I'd be willing to bet he approved Zinke's decision earlier. But still...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -next-week
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President Trump on Sunday said that his administration will soon announce its decision on the controversial practice of allowing elephant trophies to be imported into the U.S., though he seemed to cast doubt on a decision lifting a ban on the practice.

"Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal," Trump tweeted.
Not a surprise, this, but confirmation that Mueller might be looking into charges of obstruction of justice.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... obe-report
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Special counsel Robert Mueller asked the Justice Department within the past month to turn over a wide array of documents as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, ABC News reported Sunday.

His team is particularly interested in materials that relate to Trump's dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe earlier this year, a source who was told about the request informed ABC News.

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The welfare of popular animals is one of the few issues that can reliably cut across the political divide in the US. Given that I'm not surprised Trump reversed course.


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It does. Even among hunters, many seem to disapprove of trophy hunting of endangered species.



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Yeah. Not excusing Franken, but there's NOT OK, and then there's preying on fourteen year old girls, which, the special Hell.
I just learned that there are supposedly also some videos on YouTube of Leeanne Tweeden initiating some rather raunchy behavior with other performers, including Robin Williams. (I can't watch them, so I don't know their veracity, but the links are below. Given her former careers at Hooters and as a model for Playboy, among other magazines, it wouldn't exactly surprise me.).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJidGI-NMd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGTqqeiAVs

It doesn't excuse Franken, of course, but if that sort of horseplay was common between performers on the USO tour, it kind of takes the wind out of her sails as far as being traumatized by the photo and explains why he might have seen it as a prank/ joke.


I'm also swayed by the letters from Franken's female staff in Congress and former women colleagues at Saturday Night Live, which say that he's always treated them with respect. There just isn't that pattern of behavior we saw with Weinstein. The only other incident I've heard of (the butt touching incident in a photo at the state fair) could have been accidental, given that she and Franken both smiling and he had apparently just pulled her closer for the photo her husband was taking.

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Posted: Mon 27 Nov , 2017 3:01 pm
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I can't figure out what's going on with the Whitefish contract/ Puerto Rico story (the 2-man company in Zinke's home town). They're under investigation by practically everyone and the island cancelled the contract, but they're still working??
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/ ... aid-report
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Whitefish Energy said Thursday it resumed repairs to Puerto Rico’s electric grid after receiving payment from the territory’s state-owned utility. The energy company on Monday stopped its efforts restoring the power grid on the island because it said it was owed more than $83 million.

The Puerto Rican utility released a payment to Whitefish on Wednesday “that was enough to show PREPA’s good faith intent to pay Whitefish Energy and its subcontractors for services rendered,” the company said in a statement
Questions from the Atlantic about why the Department of Justice is blocking the ATT/ Time Warner merger and whether it's more about antitrust or Trump's hatred for CNN:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... nn/546755/
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Days before the Thanksgiving holiday, the U.S. Department of Justice released its complaint against the proposed AT&T–Time Warner merger. The complaint is a history-making document. It announces a return to long-discarded approaches to antitrust, and argues that these old ways have regained relevance in the digital era.

The Justice Department’s arguments for this rediscovery are sophisticated and even compelling—so much so that they raise a retrospective question: If this big merger of content creators and content carriers is banned as anticompetitive, why was the previous big merger of Comcast and NBC Universal permitted? The issues raised by AT&T–Time Warner were also presented by Comcast–NBC. What has changed between then and now?

The morning after Thanksgiving, however, President Trump tweeted his latest and most outrageous attack yet on CNN, a unit of Time Warner.

.@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!


... Trump’s words inspired this lament from General Michael Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life. Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment.

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Posted: Mon 27 Nov , 2017 10:48 pm
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Things are getting interesting (depressing, some of us would say) at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... mp/546734/
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It was a move as calculated as it was stealthy. On Friday, Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) officially appointed Leandra English to the agency’s number-two position, deputy director. By installing an official deputy, Corday, who will officially resign by the close of business on Friday, is providing the agency with its best defense against a Trump appointee taking over the Bureau’s leadership. And signaling that the agency is willing to put up a fight to maintain its current trajectory.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... mp/546131/
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The strangest thing about the man who's expected to be named the next leader of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is that he has long opposed the agency's work. This is the agency established in the wake of the 2008 market crash, whose regulatory reach touches countless financial products that Americans use every day—student loans, payday loans, credit cards, mortgages, and so on.

Earlier this week, the bureau’s current leader, Richard Cordray, announced he will step down by the end of November, likely to pursue the governor’s office in Ohio. As early as Friday, according to some reports, President Trump could announce his temporary replacement. The frontrunner for the job is said to be Mick Mulvaney, the current head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—a man who once called the CFPB “a sick, sad joke.”
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/36192 ... nge-to-his
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An unusual scene unfolded Monday at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as two officials claiming to be the rightful acting director went to work, putting employees in the middle of an escalating legal dispute.

President Trump’s appointee to temporarily lead the agency, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, showed up at CFPB headquarters in the morning ... Meanwhile, CFPB Deputy Director Leandra English, whom Cordray appointed to be his acting successor, staked her claim to be the temporary chief of the bureau. She met with prominent Democrats on Capitol Hill to rally support for her claim.

In response, Mulvaney in his first memo to CFPB employees instructed them to ignore and report all official communications from English.

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The GOP shut down the government when they were in the minority. Now they control both House and Senate, as well as the White House, and Trump wants them to shut it down again unless they get everything their own way:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... t-shutdown
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President Trump said Tuesday he doesn't see a deal being made to avoid a government shutdown.

..."Meeting with “Chuck and Nancy” today about keeping government open and working," Trump tweeted. "Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!"

A setback for Trump's attempt to ban transgender people from the military:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... s-by-jan-1
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A federal court on Monday issued a clarification that the U.S. military must take transgender service members by January 1, after partially blocking President Trump's transgender policy in an earlier ruling.

Last month, a judge on the U.S. District Court ruled that the president's order to ban new transgender recruits from joining the military — as well as potentially expelling current members — cannot be enforced while the case is being reviewed in court.

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I mostly ignore Trump's tweets that have nothing to do with policy (though it's dreadful how quickly it's become normal for the US president to insult and bicker childishly with people)... but this is too disturbing to ignore. Any adult in charge of the government should have more sense than this.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... n-crutches
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President Trump re-tweeted a series of videos on Wednesday purporting to show violent acts by Muslims, which were first sent out by the leader of an ultranationalist party in Great Britain once convicted in that country for harassing a Muslim.

btw, it's interesting what happened in response to Trump's tweet yesterday. "Chuck and Nancy" simply cancelled the planned meeting with Trump, since he called it pointless and said they'd use the time to meet with GOP colleagues in Congress instead. So now we're seeing members of Congress treating the president like a badly behaved child.

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Posted: Thu 30 Nov , 2017 6:20 pm
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Mnuchin has apparently lied and pretended that an overall analysis of the tax bill exists, when it doesn't.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ves-doesnt
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An analysis promised by Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, which was supposed to show how the Republican-backed $1.5 trillion tax overhaul would pay for itself, does not exist, according to The New York Times.

An economist from the Office of Tax Analysis told The Times the report does not exist and, instead, Treasury staff have been using policy ideas and individual provisions to run numbers.
FYI, how Republicans stand on the bill:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3619 ... e-tax-bill
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Two Republicans, Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Steve Daines (Mont.), have come out against the bill. They want better treatment for so-called pass-through businesses but are still negotiating.

Other conservatives have raised concerns about the deficit, while centrists have floated measures to stabilize the ObamaCare insurance markets.

In the ongoing saga of how much the Trump presidency is costing us:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ince-trump
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The Secret Service has reportedly spent nearly $150,000 on golf cart rentals since President Trump took office.... Nearly $7,500 was spent on golf cart rentals during Trump’s Thanksgiving weekend at his private club Mar-a-Lago.
...As of October, the Secret Service had reportedly paid more than $63,000 to Mar-a-Lago.
So Trump isn't even willing to supply golf carts to the Secret Service when he owns the resort.

Our taxes are going to support Trump's and his family's lavish livestyles - because the Secret Service must protect his adult children, too, and they seem to take a lot of overseas trips. I don't understand why they aren't limited by a budget. If they want to take more trips, other than official business, they can pay for it themselves. (and that should go for any president, not just Trump)



Tillerson may be kicked out because he has clashed too much with Trump's idiocy:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... peo-report
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President Trump is reportedly planning to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with CIA Director Mike Pompeo potentially replacing him. The swap could come in the next several weeks, The New York Times reported, citing senior administration officials. Still, the Times added that it is not clear whether Trump has approved the plan, which was devised by chief of staff John Kelly.

Some administration officials had in the past suggested Tillerson could be replaced by U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, but Pompeo has become the favorite to take the role due to his rapport with Trump, the Times reports.

And some disturbing developments in the Justice dept:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... f-right-to
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A federal judge has ordered the government to say whether an unnamed U.S. citizen held for the past 11 weeks as an enemy combatant in Iraq has been informed of his right to counsel — and whether he has tried to assert that right.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the government to provide the court with the answer to her two questions by 5 p.m. on Thursday... “He's a U.S. citizen and it's been two and a half months and you can't tell me if he's been advised of his rights or requested counsel,” said Chutkan, who appeared visibly annoyed throughout a tense and at times combative exchange with Justice Department lawyer Kathryn Wyer.

...She argued that the broader case presented “troubling” questions. “As I see it, the government could snatch any U.S. citizen off the street and hold him as an enemy combatant as long as it took,” she said. “That kind of unchecked power is quite frankly frightening.”

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In case the rumors about Trump wanting to replace Tillerson with Mike Pompeo are right, some analyses of Pompeo's views:

He's definitely seems more inclined to start a war than Tillerson and to increase surveillance of US citizens. He's also willing to torture people:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... y-of-state
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In response to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pompeo signaled in January that he would be open to bringing back enhanced interrogation procedures like waterboarding, under some circumstances. That response differed from comments made during his confirmation hearing weeks earlier, during which Pompeo asserted he would “absolutely not” comply with an order from the president to use interrogation techniques that fall outside of the Army Field Manual.

During his questioning, Pompeo also defended a proposal to set up a “comprehensive, searchable” database of domestic personal data for intelligence purposes.
Pompeo seems to have anti-Muslim views:
https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... on/547217/


One of Trump's latest tweets. How presidential...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... s-too-good
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"Republicans Senators are working hard to pass the biggest Tax Cuts in the history of our Country. The Bill is getting better and better. This is a once in a generation chance. Obstructionist Dems trying to block because they think it is too good and will not be given the credit!"
Does Trump even have a brain? Who's going to believe this? [That the Democrats are opposed because they won't get the credit for it.] If he thinks the bill is so great, then persuade the nation that it is. That's his job, isn't it?



Trump still thinks a government shutdown would be nice:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... him-report
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The Washington Post reports that Trump has spoken with multiple advisers about the impact of a potential government shutdown. Trump reportedly believes a shutdown would be good for him and has told friends he would blame Democrats if the government did shut down, according to the Post.

And for those of us concerned that people who have a concealed carry permit in one state will now be able to carry a gun in all other states:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/36272 ... e-to-floor
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The measure would allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms in other states that have their own concealed carry laws. The bill states gun owners can bring a firearm to any state as long as they have a permit, a photo I.D. and follow the state's gun laws.
I thought the GOP was a big fan of states' rights? Or is that only when it doesn't conflict with what the NRA wants?


Article on gun law reciprocity, by state. Some states already honor concealed carry laws from selected other states, presumably because they are similar to their own.
https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/travel ... ry-permit/

Gun laws, by state.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/inter ... ted-states

A general primer on gun laws and concealed carry from Wikipedia, for those of us who don't have much background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed ... ted_States


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Does Trump even have a brain? Who's going to believe this?
All of his supporters.

Surely you've noticed by now that they believe everything he says, no matter what the evidence?

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The trouble for Trump is that his supporters are only a small percentage of the population. It's the rest of us he's going to have to convince. :)

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The trouble for Trump is that his supporters are only a small percentage of the population.
That doesn't really seem to have caused him much trouble.


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You have a point. :)

Though he seems to run into obstacles when there's enough public pressure on Congress and/or most people think his ideas are stupid - the Wall, healthcare, bans on transgender people in the military, etc. He can still pass executive orders to try to make things happen, but they sometimes end up mostly being symbolic.

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Post subject: Re: You've been Trumped!
Posted: Fri 01 Dec , 2017 5:00 pm
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I had to check - apparently this is a real thing.

And talk about disrespecting the flag!! :nono:

The flag should never be used as an item of apparel (blanket)! It should never be allowed to touch the ground, and must always be hung/displayed from a staff, unless covering a coffin.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3766753/amer ... es-broken/

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