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    Every state flag is wrong, and here is why

    As long as we’re on the subject of flags that should and should not be flown in states, let’s take a moment to talk about state flags.


    Every state flag is wrong. If you don’t believe me, look at them. Here are the 50 worst.
    ALABAMA

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    Someone gave the state of Alabama a box to check with the question “DO YOU WANT TO CREATE A FLAG” and this was the response. That or Alabama is unable to write its name and has to sign everything with a big red X. In general, it is a poor idea to pick as your flag an image that could be regarded as a negative answer to the question, “Should you visit Alabama?”
    ALASKA

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    Alaska, that’s not a flag. That’s a child’s crude rendition of the Big Dipper.
    ARIZONA

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    Come on, Arizona. What is this? Are you Imperial Japan? No, you’re not. Get it together.
    ARKANSAS

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    What is this, Arkansas? This looks like a design for a Confederate ketchup bottle.
    CALIFORNIA

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    Okay, California. Half credit for containing a bear. But you have not been a Republic since 1846, so this flag is misleading. I guess the words “California Republic” were necessary because otherwise you could be mistaken for something having to do with the Soviet Union.
    COLORADO

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    Colorado, this is worse than the Hillary 2016 logo, and that’s saying something. I could have come up with something more visually dynamic in MS Paint.

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    Go home, Connecticut. You’re drunk. At least you say something that isn’t “Connecticut” but…”He Who Transplanted, Sustains”? If that’s what you picked, what did you reject? “He Who Mulched, Will Probably Check For Aphids”?
    DELAWARE

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    “Were we supposed to dress up for this?” the guy on the left is asking. “I didn’t, but it looks as though you did. And why is there a cow?” Whatever committee designed this flag clearly solicited suggestions for what should go on a flag of Delaware and then said “YES” to all of them. Date? Seal? Cow? Ship? Motto? Hoe? Guy In A Fancy Hat? Sure, why not! Slap ’em all on.
    FLORIDA

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    “Can we just use the Alabama flag?” Florida asked.
    “No.”
    “How about if we put our seal on it?”
    “Yeah. I guess, but –”
    “Great.”
    GEORGIA

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    I see what you did there, Georgia. “But if we put the words ‘Wisdom’ ‘Constitution,’ ‘Justice’ and ‘Moderation’ on it, they’ll never guess that it’s secretly a Confederate flag 1.0.”
    “How about if we put WIS DOM on instead?”
    “Sure, okay.”
    HAWAII

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    “Okay, I have a perfect idea for a state flag. We average the British and American flags, but with a hint of Yugoslavia!”
    “Sure. What state is this for, again?”
    “Hawaii.”
    IDAHO

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    “I”m worried. There’s a lot going on here. Horses. Horns of plenty. A big steaming pile of what I hope is dirt. How will they know it’s Idaho?”
    “I know! Let’s put the name on TWICE!”
    ILLINOIS

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    This ill eagle should be illegal. Why is “Sovereignty” upside down? None of the other words are. A lot going on here, none of it good.
    INDIANA

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    Indiana made this in six minutes just before class ended!
    IOWA

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    Iowa tried to turn in the French flag as its own work, but Iowa’s older brother told it to put “an eagle with, like, something in its beak” on, too, to throw the teacher off.
    KANSAS

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    I’m not sure, but I think this is the logo for Oregon Trail.
    KENTUCKY

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    This flag is uncomfortably intense, like Daniel Boone just wishes he knew how to quit you, Henry Clay. Points for “Commonwealth,” though.
    LOUISIANA

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    Union. Justice. Confidence. Pelican cannibalism.
    MAINE

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    “I LOOK LIKE A PIRATE, BUT IN MY HEART WHAT I AM IS A PAINTER. SEE, LOOK, I MADE A MOOSE UNDER A BIG TREE. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. I HAVE A CUTLASS.”
    MARYLAND

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    Maryland was told that the primary use of flags was in NASCAR and designed its own accordingly.
    MASSACHUSETTS

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    OH GOD, THERE’S SOMEONE CLIMBING OUT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FLAG, AND HE’S GOT A WEAPON.
    MICHIGAN

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    “Yes, of course we have people in Michigan,” this flag says. “It’s just full of people. That is why we have a moose and an elk holding up this sign with a picture of what appears to be a jovially waving yeti on it. But everyone else here is people. And we totally know how to spell TUBER.”
    MINNESOTA

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    Minnesota bought more supplies than it needed for this project, but it tried really, really hard to work them all in.
    MISSISSIPPI

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    “Two words: Confederate Yugoslavia.”
    “But neither of those places exists any longer.”
    “Sounds to me like their flags are free for the taking.”
    “Well –”
    “MISSISSIPPI!”
    MISSOURI

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    Remain calm. The state of Missouri definitely has not been overrun with bears, and they definitely did not kill a fat knight and use his body to display a crude coat of arms, one part of which is an image of another bear. There is nothing to see in Missouri.
    MONTANA

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    I take it back. This is the Oregon Trail logo. Good of them to put the name on.
    NEBRASKA

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    “Put a blacksmith and a train on it,” Nebraska said. “And don’t change the default background at all, not even a little. No one pays attention to state flags, right?”
    NEVADA

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    Nevada was not told the correct size for the file it was supposed to upload. When asked if it wanted to change what it had sent, Nevada said, “Nah.”
    NEW HAMPSHIRE

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    “I have a love of ships. What can I say? They transport food around the planet.” That is a quote from “Grey,” the “Fifty Shades of Grey” book told from Christian’s perspective, but it could equally describe how New Hampshire came up with its state flag.
    NEW JERSEY

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    Liberty and Prosperity have not spoken since Liberty killed Prosperity’s prized horse and put its head in Prosperity’s bed.
    NEW MEXICO

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    “Look, we’re going to be next to Nevada. How hard do we have to try?”
    NEW YORK

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    Stan Lee designed this. Also, the lady on the left has killed the Sorting Hat and impaled it on her long stick for some reason.
    NORTH CAROLINA

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    This is just a mess. These dates mean nothing to the rest of us, North Carolina! It looks like NC perished tragically after less than a year.
    NORTH DAKOTA

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    “Shhh, if we put a big crown on the top and write ‘NORTH DAKOTA’ on the bottom, no one will notice that we stole this entire design from the Seal of the United States.”
    OHIO

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    This is what the wildly successful Obama logo would look like if it were the wildly unsuccessful Hillary logo.
    OKLAHOMA

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    The least Oklahoma could have done is put an “!” on there.
    OREGON

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    Okay. Fine. THIS is the Oregon Trail logo. But they could have colored it in, at least.
    PENNSYLVANIA

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    MUFFINS.
    RHODE ISLAND

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    Someone on Twitter whom I can’t find now described this flag as “hope being crushed by a giant anchor,” and that is exactly correct.
    SOUTH CAROLINA

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    “Tell me again about the things flags usually have.”
    “Um, seals — people — stripes — colors — maybe the state name?”
    “Let’s put on NONE of those things. And a palm tree.”
    SOUTH DAKOTA

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    “You’ve definitely heard of South Dakota,” this flag says. “Look at this seal, full of familiar images! No? Okay, well, have you heard of Mount Rushmore?”
    TENNESSEE

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    I’m sorry, but everything about this is just terrible. What was Tennessee even trying to accomplish here? You know something is the matter with your flag when you make Arkansas look good by comparison.
    TEXAS

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    “You mean this isn’t taken yet?” Texas asked. “How is this not taken? This was literally the first thing I thought of.”
    UTAH

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    “UTAH: OUR FLAGS HAVE HIVES. Er, I mean, ‘Industry.'”
    VERMONT

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    This is just a picture of some hunter’s wall.
    VIRGINIA

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    Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, Virginia happened. Virginia, do you know there’s a dead guy on your flag? “Yeah,” Virginia says, shrugging nonchalantly. “That’s what we do to tyrants here. Kill them, and then we pose for pictures on their corpses.” Don’t mess with Virginia.
    WASHINGTON

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    Come on. You can’t just pass a crude rendition of a dollar bill off as a flag. I don’t care if your name IS Washington.
    WEST VIRGINIA

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    This picture of two rugged men in hats leaning on a big rock also doubles as West Virginia’s online dating picture.
    WISCONSIN

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    If the sailor moves, that crouching badger will attack him.
    WYOMING

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    “Sometimes,” Wyoming said, “I doubt other states’ commitment to GIANT BISON. Let’s show them we mean business.”


    In conclusion, every flag is awful and needs to be fixed. Just not all for the same reason.



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    My flags

    The Ontario flag looks similar to the flag for Hawaii. The City of Toronto has an ugly flag!!

    I would say that out of the ones you posted Heidi, the worst are the Imperialistic WW2 Japanese flag for the state of AZ and the illiterate x marks the spot flag of AL.


    Coat of Arms of the City of Toronto changes over the years and the flag of the City of Toronto


    Coat of Arms for Ontario and Flag of Ontario


    Canadian Flag of 1867 and todays version which was made its first official appearance on February 15, 1965
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    I like the Virginia Beach flag.

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    That is a nice looking flag.
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    As long as we're throwing out suggestions, I think Florida should should have a horizontal half circle with two hands on it and a hat above it (an old man driving) with a broad golden bar along the bottom (symbolizing Beaches) with inverted Mickey Mouse ears in the top corners (to keep the flag square) all complete with a top down satellite image of a hurricane off to the left and the Electric Chair off to the right. The motto should also be changed to "Where the rules are made up and the points don't matter."
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    I like what the writer said about the Virginia flag.

    Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, Virginia happened. Virginia, do you know there’s a dead guy on your flag? “Yeah,” Virginia says, shrugging nonchalantly. “That’s what we do to tyrants here. Kill them, and then we pose for pictures on their corpses.” Don’t mess with Virginia.
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    Isn't the Alabama flag basically the cross of St Patrick? Interesting they'd use that as their flag. Was the state founded by Irish settlers?

    I like Alaska's flag most, most of the others are basically emblems on plain backgrounds. Ohio and Texas have good flags as well.

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    Amazon and eBay: No More Confederate Flags, but Nazis and Mao Are Fine

    By David French
    The National Review

    Due to some combination of activist journalism and corporate conscience, major retailers such as Amazon, eBay, Target, and Wal-Mart are removing Confederate flags and other types of Confederate memorabilia from their shelves. Let’s pause for a moment and applaud the Left for its dramatic about-face on the question of corporate morality. Just one year after denying that corporations can have a conscience when that conscience dictates opposing abortion, the reversal is now complete.

    Corporations — as instruments of the people who run them — do indeed exercise First Amendment rights and do indeed express a moral point of view in the products they offer.

    So, now that Amazon and eBay — two retailers I frequent online — have adopted the view that they own the moral message of their products, I decided to do a few simple searches for their views on some of the 20th Century’s deadliest regimes — regimes responsible for race- and class-based genocides that claimed the lives of up to 100 million innocent men, women, and children. It turns out that these retailers are happy for you to remember, enjoy, and sometimes proudly display emblems of deadly hate. First, on eBay, you can find this fetching hammer and sickle necklace, “handmade” from “English Pewter,” and thoughtfully gift-boxed for that special communist in your life:




    Of course, nothing complements a hammer and sickle necklace quite like a nicely fitting, bright red Soviet T-shirt:



    The ensemble still feels incomplete, however. What about the children? Shouldn’t a self-respecting communist family be able to use their baby as a billboard? Thankfully, Amazon has it covered, with this lovely hammer and sickle onesie:



    And if clothes can’t adequately express your sympathies, you can fly this Soviet flag high and with pride, for the whole neighborhood to see:



    All this Soviet gear smacks of white communist privilege? What about Chairman Mao? Well, thanks again to Amazon, you can enjoy saving your pennies with this Chairman Mao piggy bank. Better hurry, though. Only one left in stock:



    What about the Nazis, you ask? No need to fret — Amazon and eBay are nothing if not inclusive in their glorification of dictatorships. They have all your national-socialist needs covered, too:



    And no Nazi depiction would be complete without glorifying the SS and objectifying women:



    Finally, for your middle schooler’s art project, eBay presents this handsome Nazi-flag diorama accessory:



    I’ve barely scratched the surface of totalitarian products at the two sites. Corporate morality is indeed an interesting thing. I’m sure that good, progressive companies like Amazon have a perfectly reasonable explanation for their “genocidal tyrants’ collection” of consumer goods — just like Apple had a perfectly reasonable explanation for condemning Indiana for passing a religious-liberty law while opening stores in nations where LGBT acts can be punished by death. Or did it? It’s so hard to keep up with the Twitter-driven outrage machine. But while we figure it out, at least corporate America remembers (some) history. Happy shopping!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helen69 View Post
    Amazon and eBay: No More Confederate Flags, but Nazis and Mao Are Fine
    So offending the Jews and having your baby support communism is A-okay with Amazon and eBay? Excellent!
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    Should I even bother pointing out that the Nazis killed far far FAR more people than the Confederates ever did and that Mao (and Stalin, he's all over the place too) killed far far FAR more people than Hitler could've ever dreamed of? True Story, I was arguing with a young liberal at Subways once explaining to her that you can fly whatever flag you want but you can't control how people interpret it. Some will look at the Confederate Battle Flag and see Rebellion or Southern Pride, and yes, even Racism. She called me a Neo-Con Racist and said I was short. So I pointed to her Che Guevara t-shirt and said "You may think that shirt symbolizes Rebellion and Pride, but all I see is Oppression and Mass Death." and left.
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