Another tidbit that was buried in my old hard drive:

"What if what they really want is us to herd children into stadiums, and put soldiers on the street, and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution a little? Because if we torture him, we do that, and everything that we have bled and fought and died for is over, and they’ve won. They’ve already won."

From the movie The Siege, released Summer 1998

Flag Contest

OK, since nobody likes the Iraqi flag that the American occupational government came up with, here's your chance to come up with your own.

Tell your friends! I am holding a contest to come up with a better flag than the Israeli knockoff that our stupid government leaders did.

Rules of the contest:
1. Images may be photoshopped, hand-drawn and scanned in, or whatever, or, if you completely lack time to draw anything but have a good idea, simply well-described.
2. Email the image to me, at pluther at usa dot com. Alternatively, you can post the picture elsewhere and email me the link.
2.5 Please use the subject "Flag Contest" in your email, so I'll be sure not to lose it.
3. If you email me the image, it should be no more than 150K in size, and 800x600 pixels or less.
4. I will compile all the submissions and host a poll next week.
5. The winner will be determined by the poll.
6. The winner will be able to gloat about winning the contest to all of their friends.
7. Entries may be appropriate, inappropriate, humorous, serious, pointless, stupid, or tasteless.
8. All entries will be memorialized until the end of the world, or until I run out of server space and delete them. Whichever comes first.
9. When you send in your submission, please tell me whether you want me to mark it with:

A. Your first name.
B. Your full name.
C. Your screen name.
D. Some other name.
E. And/or a particular URL.

( Here's my entry, which will be ineligible for voting, since it's submitted by the judge )