BurntFlag.com

At last! A non-scientific data analysis!

As you can see, the United States is far and away the most burned flag, holding 28% of the top 10 burns…yet just 9% of all burns. What is interesting is that the Hezbollah flag was only put on the site on July 19, but has already accumulated 1360 burns. If prorated out to the length of time that the rest of these countries have been on the site, the Hezbollah flag would have been burned an astonishing 7175 times! Israel, to compare and contrast, fell into 13th place having only 310 burns.

The least burned flag on the site was of the Falkland Islands having only 4 burns during this time period. I suppose they’re too small for anyone to hold a grudge against them?

Soon, I will be rolling out an animated GIF image of each flag burning. They should be of decent quality, though a tad smaller than the Java applets to save on bandwidth. They will be watermarked, though!
This should satisfy some of the requests…

In my tinkering, I caused some CSS rendering issues within IE and perhaps old versions of FireFox. Content is still readable…but if you’re still using that kludge of a browser, perhaps it is time to upgrade?
One of these days, I’ll fix it up though…

Stumbled across this post from aegis_one earlier: A frightening report written by another retired Pakistani military officer, Maj. Tahir Ahmad, appeared in the Pakistani newspaper Khabrain and suggested that the Muslim nation might use its nuclear capability to attack Israel:

“What could Lebanon or Hezbollah do against such awesome firepower? God had blessed Pakistan with nuclear capability; therefore, it should play a part in defending the Muslim world. Hezbollah’s and Iran’s leaderships were bold, but they were unable to respond to the attacks of a nuclear Israel. However, by the grace of God, if Pakistan made bold decisions, it could defeat Israel.”

Can you imagine if more of these militant-minded Islamic countries had nuclear capabilities? It’s no doubt they’d rig up some sort of shoulder-launched nuclear contraption–or maybe they’d just hide the warheads in various animal corpses alongside roads. Thankfully that military officer is retired and not making decisions anymore!

From a post on freerepublic.com: Iranian hatemonger/Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked fury yesterday by flying Hezbollah’s flag in his parliament building.

Don’t believe I missed this one! This guy is on the verge of becoming next on the list to being at the receiving end of an American Marine’s boot, and he’s pushing buttons? Just doesn’t make sense.

In other news, France is trying to negotiate peace between Hezbollah/Lebanon and Israel…or as I interpret it, trying to dictate who surrenders to who. But that’s a story for another day…