Christie honors “true New Jersey treasure”
I wasn’t going to mention Whitney Houston, there was just no real need. Everyone knows how I feel about her without me having to write a word, but what does need to be discussed is the Great Hope Chris Christie’s decision to lower the flags in the State to halfstaff. In a statement yesterday, he wrote;
Whitney Houston was a true New Jersey treasure. Her terribly premature death is an awful loss for her family and the incredible New Jersey musical family. Her soaring talent put her in the pantheon of great New Jersey musical talents like Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Bruce Springsteen. Our prayers are with her family.
Ya know what, yesterday the Department of Defense announced the death of a young Marine from New Jersey who was killed in Afghanistan on February 10th.
Lance Cpl. Osbrany Montes De Oca, 20, of North Arlington, N.J., died Feb. 10 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
He was 28 years younger than Whitney Houston at the time of his death, I’d call that “terribly premature”, and he wasn’t found in a bath tub pumped full of drugs because he was distraught over the fact that he was famous and had more money than he knew what he could do with it. So who is flying flags at halfstaff for him, outside of his family? His loss is probably more of an “awful loss for his family” than the apparently surprising news to Houston’s family that she died. His talent and courage surpassed her by miles.
Blackfive wrote yesterday “this is a bad judgement call that they get to make”. I personally think that it more than poor judgement, it’s downright pathetic. I guess it’s got something to do attracting money to New Jersey, but look at who is bringing that money. Do you want those people in your state?
Like I wrote on Facebook yesterday, if they’re going to fly flags at half staff for every crack addict that dies in New Jersey, they might as well cut their flagpoles in half.
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Every day I wake up and hope that the nightmare is over and yet everyday I am shocked by the world around me.
Shame on you Gov Chris Christie. 609-292-6000 Please call an complain. Thanks
It is a slap in the Face of all our sons and daughters who have Fallen in fighting for our Freedoms. It say to me as a Mother of a Fallen soldier mine died in vain and I know he did not.
If anyone asks me about the flags at half staff in New Jersey, I’m going to tell them it’s for a fallen Marine.
The way it should be.
…And, to Mickey #2, no, it doesn’t say your son died in vain. What it says is that some politicians are idiots.
“Praise be to the “Crack is whack heroine!”
As for the New Jersey Marine KIA- I’m at a loss for words, and refuse include his name at my dismay over the honoring of the drugged-out New Jersey entertainer.
What is six inches long and DIDN’T get sucked on Valentine’s Day?
Whitney Houston’s crack pipe.
Keep reminding me that Christie, at the end of the day, is just another politician.
I thought Houston was a good singer before Bobby Brown got her hooked on drugs. That said, they shouldn’t have given her a flag-lowering burial. She should have received a normal burial that was commensurate with her status (rich, but normal).
When I was on orders after my injury, I had to pull teeth to get the city to lower its flags when one of our soldiers fell in Iraq. Hell, the city told the Chamber of Commerce and they told their members only. I had to call individual businesses to get them to lower their flags…
Once upon a time a fine looking woman with a great voice… but please, please PLEASE will people quit saying her version of the Star Spangled Banner was great, beautiful, etc. – she mangled it, and unfortunately paved the way for a whole generation of wannabes to gargle, mangle, and otherwise destroy it. I cringe every time I hear the SSB ruined by these singers who can’t or won’t just sing the damn song the way it’s written.
Noting, by the way, that it has only been a couple of months since many in the GOP were urging the same Gov. Christie to run for President like he was some Great White Hope. Obviously many have forgotten how well the last freshman politician, who was encouraged to run for President on the basis of one great speech, has been working out for us.
saw this on another internet site.
“GeneralRant February 14, 2012 at 5:41PM
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…don’t worry, I work at a State building & trust me, it’ll be at the discretion of the management. If you think there’ll be full compliance with the Order, think again, because there won’t.
Sparky the average crackpipe is 3-4 inches long. That’s still much bigger than YOUR pipe, but if you’re gonna make shitty jokes, at least get your figures right.
Dave, Hendrix’s version is the only celebrity version that should have ever existed. In fact, it should BE the National Anthem.
Werd, Spliff. It’s actually my ringtone on my phone.
I find it funny how a dead black celebrity gets blamed for a decision a fat white republican made, I guess birds of a feather, this site is no different.
Funny, Spliff back with the gay dick jokes again. Amazing how you and Dave know so much about gay dick. And here I thought you’d be on your “four-day weekend” by now. Oh, wait–96-hour liberty/pass policy. FUCK!!!!
And for the record, Dave, I was knocking on Christie for being a political hack more than Houston being a (ex) druggie singer.
To paraphrase Val Kilmer, “Oh, Dave. I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.”
@13 Sparky, that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Evelyn Beatrice Hall. Maybe some folks should consider this.
Wow, and of course some of the “progressives” on this site immediately throw the race card like they’re playing bigoted blackjack. Let me put in clear, distinct, and unmistakable terms then:
Washington State didn’t lower the flag when Kurt Cobain suck started a 12 ga.
California didn’t lower the flag when Jim Morrison left his last ring in the bathtub nor when Momma Cass made her last trip to the deli.
There was no period of national mourning when Janis Joplin took that last shot of SoCo.
Whitney Houston was a talented singer who had every advantage and opportunity. She was not a public servant nor did she ever sacrifice anything for her nation. She was a performer period. She chose a path that made her fodder for tabloids and wasted her talent. Wasted talent is not something to be honored and nor should she.
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As I’m from Jersey, I found this deeply repugnant. His explanation entirely misses the point about who gets this honor and why. You only lower the flag to halfstaff for those who have fallen in service to the State or Nation. She was a celebrity, what did she do for the country?
By the way, they did not lower the flag for Sinatra. Christie started this celebrity precedent with the guy who died in the E-Street band. The sad thing is he is probably the best governor we’ve had in twenty, if not thirty years. He will not be able to solve the state’s financial problems but he is burning the right entities who got us here. We won’t win but we’ll take them with us! In Jersey it’s all you can hope for.
I read about the Marine a few days ago. I’m not sure exactly how it works but I think either when they receive custody of the body or at the funeral is when the flag is lowered. With this state’s leadership, you can never be sure though, they may arbitrarily change the rules at anytime.
This Michigan dad made a statement about what Gov Christie did:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120219/METRO/202190341/Dad-fallen-Michigan-soldier-burns-N-J-flag-protest-Houston-tribute?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE