… but the news editor of the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Maverick Daily is partial to white tulips as an illustration to accompany the publication’s announcement of a new non-credit course: Active Shooter Training.
White tulips symbolize innocence and purity. Blood-red poppies are all about war.
Why pretty things up? Why pretend? If you’re going to go with flowers at all (already a strange choice), put them on top of a coffin or in front of a grave. Let’s not have them thrusting up from the ground in springlike vigor.
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UD thanks Dirk.
October 27th, 2015 at 10:59AM
“Visit Nebraska. Visit Nice” rose-colored glasses doesn’t begin to cover the deep rooted denial here, of course our other current motto is “We Don’t Coast” which is more of a f*ck you to the poor liberal-elite states, so not so nice…
October 27th, 2015 at 2:14PM
This gun fetish is totally out of hand.