I pledge allegiance... what do you mean I can't???

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Student leaders at a community college voted to drop the Pledge of Allegiance after a tense meeting in which one flag-waving pledge supporter berated them as anti-American radicals.

What?

Orange Coast College's student trustees voted Wednesday not to recognize the pledge, with three of the five board members saying it should be dropped from their meetings.

Excuse me?

Board member Jason Ball argued that the pledge inspires nationalism, violates the separation between church and state with the phrase"under God,"and is irrelevant to the business of student government. He cited a 2002 San Francisco federal appeals court ruling _ later dismissed by the Supreme Court on a technicality _ that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public schools.

Stop, stop, stop.... enough of this crap.

I'm done with this whole campaign of making sure that we can not be proud to be American anymore.

I have had people approach me and tell me that either the pin on my coat is offensive (An American Flag) or the tattoo on my ankle is offensive (again, an American Flag). I will bet you dollars to donuts that if I had a flag of Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, or anything from Al Qaeda, I would be the popular talk of the town!

This Costa Mesa school states that the pledge makes those from other cultures uncomfortable. Why??? If they don't want to pledge allegiance to the flag that represents the country that's offering them a damn good education, they should sit their asses down while those who appreciate this country get's on with their appreciation.

I just timed it... The Pledge of Allegiance takes 15 seconds to recite. My question now is "Do these un-American, leeching, uninformed, cocky, kids have ADHD so bad that they can't sit still for 15 seconds? Or do they really feel so threatened by even the act of showing appreciation to a country that is THIS great, they must put a stop to it?"

How does this sound... How about we pass around a petition for anyone to sign who wants any mention of America and God removed from the public eye, and also offer this petition to anyone who wants to put our country in harms way by removing the troops in the middle east before the job is done, anyone who owns any Michael Moore film, anyone who voted for Nancy Pelosi, anyone who voted for Hilary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or John Murtha... then take that petition, give it to Al Qaeda and say, "You wanna kill Americans? Start here."