BurntFlag.com

I’ve updated most of the site with the new layout. Much more spiffy than the old one, if I do say so myself. This area, unfortunately, will continue to use the old layout until I garner the energy to write a Wordpress template to match the rest of the site.

One of these days, I’ll finish the updated layout. In an effort to be hip and on top of the latest buzz words, I’ve decided to include Web 2.0 compliant colors and rounded corners–just because.

Unfortunately, my host doesn’t yet support Ruby-on-Rails, so I can’t utilize that functionality. Because of that, we’ll have to stick to good ol’ PHP and Java. Sorry!

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Soccer fans attempt to burn American flag - White Sox Interactive Forums
Soccer fans attempt to burn American flag WSI Roadhouse … Greek soccer club AEK Athens tried to burn the American flag before the team’s match against Scotland club … silence and tried to burn the American flag. “What badly disappointed …

(DV) Whitney: Show Your Independence on the 4th — Burn a Flag
… Show Your Independence on the 4th — Burn a Flag. by Mike Whitney … isn’t whether someone has the right to burn the flag but, rather, who really cares if they do …

People For the American Way - Hiding Behind the Flag
flag, patriotic, first amendment, free speech, freedom, civil liberties, flag burning, protest, civil disobedience, flag burn, american flag, anti-war … idea that using the United States flag as a means of political protest is … vote against the “Flag Amendment.” Tell them that they can call flag burning whatever they like …

The (Semiotic) Stench of a Burning Flag (Amendment)
The proponents of a flag-burning amendment claim that burning a flag is not … The burning flag itself is a semiotic sign in which the earlier levels of …

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Our Flag
Burn that flag… just ask permission… Written by Tom Adkins (7/1/98). What do we do about people who want to burn the American flag? …

In my browsing tonight, I stumbled across another flag-burning website. This one is solely directed at the American flag, but provides a bit more insight into the actual whys of burning a flag.

I’ve been continuously updating the site design and CSS…hopefully one day I’ll find something I like enough to let stick.

I put the stats page back up, hopefully it will work as intended and not cause any problems…earlier however, I noticed that I had forgotten to turn session-based limiting back on so users couldn’t repeatedly spam to cause abnormal statistics–at one point there were almost 50 burnings of the US flag showing, half from one IP.

Also, please note that Turkey is at the top of the list only to prove a point…I have no personal issues with Turkey or those from Turkey, other than that hacker guy, anyway. One of these days I’ll put it back into it’s rightful alphabetical position along with the rest.

So there I was, watching some juvenile clips of people burning flags because they didn’t agree with someone else. It’s like watching a five-year-old threatening to break his sister’s doll because she ate his cupcake. Except from what I can tell, most of the people burning flags are burning their own flags that they either bought or stitched together expressly for the purpose of burning. If I had to choose what flaming item a nearby protestor was carrying, I’d pick a burning flag far before a Molotov cocktail, but that’s just me.

Anyway, while I was watching those videos, I felt I should do something. The first thing that came to mind was to start a flag-exporting business with my prime customer target being the Middle East. Based on my pyromaniac background, I invented a self-igniting flag that could have been manufactured at a fairly cheap price. Alas, realizing I don’t have the capital or backing to carry on with such ideas, I had to look elsewhere.

So, after stumbling across some (almost) horrific images depicting the dangers of playing with fire, I looked inward and built this site (well, those images and all of the religious and political stupidity surrounding flag burnings). I suppose for some people, the ability to burn a flag is their greatest form of speech (whoopity-doo). What they don’t seem to realize that thousands of flags each year are burned not for desecration purposes, but out of respect.

At any rate, because of my humanitarian love for the species, I would prefer never to be subjected to the likes of the above pictures again. Therefore, what I present to you is this method of burning flags with no chance of starting yourself on fire! Stay safe people.

Apparently, I’m not the only one with hacker issues. If anyone has any protection suggestions, please let me know. I’ve taken a few precautions, but I’m willing to bet that it’s only a matter of time…

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