Flags in the Adjustment Bureau - 2011

Notice Unique Yellow Water Taxi Flag

Sometimes it feels like there are persons or entities out there that work against your intended desires and dreams, blocking your path on its intended purpose.  

For instance, when five random extra-ordinary events happen in one day that change your destiny.  Imagine if when you go to your dream job interview, and then, a car accident happens, followed by a construction crew that appears soon afterwards, after you pass the accident.  This makes you late for the interview, of your dream job,  you end up missing it, and you are denied entry into the building. 

Is this a Miracle on 48th Street? And Notice Italian Flag

Or the one time you forget your cell phone because you were helping somebody in need, and then you miss a very important call for the deal of a life time! Are there spirits blocking your path?  Angels?  Or higher beings?  Well, this is the plot of the Adjustment Bureau -2011.

Striving for your Destiny is common story telling device

Surely in the near future such technologies will allow people to play judge and jury as the gatekeeper to your ultimate destiny.  As most youth already post nearly everything of mild to no importance online, an AI will be able to calculate your points of destiny and map out your life, without your consent, likewise everything you do online is absorbed and used in a multitude of ways with out your consent.  It already happens with texting with the auto-fill spelling options.  It's only a matter of time when machines are able to predict every permutation of human behavior.

Nonetheless, the Adjustment Bureau is thought provoking film that takes on these themes.  Well made, it is a small treasure on the nature of human life.  Part fantasy, yet it can be considered science fiction.  This movie takes this the theme of path-blocking, and turns it into a homily of happiness.

((WARNING ENDING SCENE: Please watch the whole movie first))

Homestead Logo from Passengers - 2016

The Homestead logo from the movie Passengers 2016 features a kind of bee hive like hexagonal structure.  It has 38 hexagons in three different sizes.  In a way it reflects the class system of passengers upon the ship, large sizes for higher classes near the center and small sizes for classes on the outer rims.

Class is an ancient structure of society and communal animals.  In the modern day, many try to ignore and attempt to make it disappear.  But the need the separate and judge others according to ability and awareness seems to be natural phenomena, be it academically, by physical capacity, or by organic nature with identity politics.

Often, children especially relish judging others by their capacity to be athletic, beautiful, or intelligent, demonstrating the human appetite to put others in different classes, subsequently forming different cliques or "classes."  As with identity politics, wolf packs or any type of colonial insect, people are born or grow or fit into different castes.

Previously, new social perspectives would take decades to ferment and cause effective change. Usually younger generations would judge their ancestors as prejudiced-backwards thinking persons.  However as we go forward, the restructuring of the social class class dynamic has accelerated to about a five year span, whereby view and opinions from 2013 are deemed old fashioned by updated by socially progressive leaders.   Perhaps in the near future the dynamic will shift to a yearly cycle?  Whereby, last years viewpoints are deemed inappropriate?
  

The logo of the homestead company, which is shipping Earthlings on a one way trip to another planet, can be seen on a screen.  The hero/bad guy's name is seen on the screen, James Preston.  





An officer is awoken to help rescue the ship.  Only after a high ranking member is awoken can change be made.   On his right arm, the logo of the Homestead company can just barely be seen.

US Flag in Needtobreathe - Something Beautiful

Music is a strange type of speech that is a mix of prayer, chant, and release of spiritual energy.  In the Needtobreathe's Something Beautiful, the hopeful enchantment of this song mixes into le land of prayer, making it a kind of Sprayer or Sprong?

Is that Mr. Seagull, Johnathan L.?  With one of his disciples?  

The US flag appears in this song several times. Likewise there are also fireworks in this video.  Making this so so appropriate for today's holiday, the 4th of July!

Mercer County, New Jersey - Looks like a King's Head

Mercer County, New Jersey has a humble flag.  It is a green tree on a buff background, with ribbons announcing its name and established date, 1838.  But there is something neato about the shape of the county.  It looks like the head of a king! 

The crown portion is mostly Hopewell Township, which runs into Hunterdon County.  If you can imagine this king with a beard, then the city of Trenton is where the ear would be.

But the best association is, that, the nose is where Princeton Township is located.  This is so appropriate since many (but not all) academic egg heads are snooty and stick their noses up at common folk who do not have a substantial amount of letters that follow one's name like Ph.D., M.S., LL.M., S.J.D., or MD. If you can't find the nose, it's sniffing Somerset and Middlesex Counties.   Rumor has it the King of Mercer County is looking at NYC, in admiration, or is that jealousy?

As for the eye-ball of the Old King of Mercer County, it would be the area on the southwestern side of Mt. Rose, New Jersey.  Specifically the three roads when you line them perfectly outline the eye: Carter Road, Elm Ridge Road, and Pennington Rocky Hill Road.  Thus if you run around this area, you have run around the eye of King of Mercer County. 

The Original Canadian Tribar Flags: Newfoundland and Acadia

Happy Canada Day 2018!!!

Before the Canadian tribar flag was adopted in 1965, other Canadian flags have were adopted soon after Canada was confederated in 1867.  It was during the Wilfrid Laurier Era, Canada's French speaking founding father, that these flags were created.

Acadian-Canadians differ so slightly from the Quebec-Canadians, likewise Newfoundland-Canadians differ from the Continental-Canadians, since they were the last part incorporated into Canada after WWII.  Every so often you hear that some of the old British Caribbean Colonies might join up with Canada some day?  Like Turks and Caicos?
 
Although these flags have no official rank to represent geography, they are heritage flags that commemorate two honorable and distinct voices within Canada. 

New Inclusive US Flag for All Americans

Happy Flag Day 2018!

Finally a new inclusive flag that reflects of the diverse geographic regions that make up the USA, no one is excluded.  Just like the current flag there are 50 stars for 50 states.  However, there is also a badge with 16 stars which only have four points, since they do not represent fully fledged states.

Can you guess the other non states of USA?  Most people know that Washington DC is a part of America, yet it does not get a star in the official banner.  But the problem is solved with this flag.  You probably know of Puerto Rico?  More off the grid is the US Virgin Islands. Further down the limelight of the USA is Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.  They are two similar yet very different places.  Perhaps you heard of Saipan?  Well, it's an island within the Northern Mariana Islands.

Now we are getting seriously off the grid.  Only a few people know about the others, like American Samoa.  After that you are entering the TOP SECRET level of American geography.  Only a handful of people know these places by heart, including yours truly.  And these places are not always inhabited, yet, they are as much a part of America as Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, and Independence Hall.

The hidden bits of the USA are Navassa, Midway, Wake Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Palmyra Atoll, Johnston Island, Kingman Reef, Swains Island, and last but not least my favorite, Jarvis Island.

Thus we have a total of 66 stars; 50 five pointed stars in the canton that represent the states and 16 four pointed stars in the badge that represent the external territories and Washington DC.  Although some places are void of people, they do have rich histories to tell, especially during  WWII.  There was a racially charged slave-labor rebellion on Navassa.  There was a juicy murder mystery plot on Palmyra Atoll.  It really is fascinating.

It's high time that the United States acknowledges her Asiatic, Caribbean, and lands down under.

Now every one in America is represented with a star!

My Little Pony - The Pennsylvania Flag

My Little Pony is an 80s reboot that has remade itself with a second life in the 20-tweens.  It has a strong cult following.  Out of all the state flags, the Pennsylvania State flag is the best suited to get a fun My Little Pony honor!

Official Flag of Pennsylvania

On the left is a brown pony, Liberty Bell, who represents the call of Providence.  On the right is a periwinkle pony, Freedom Writer, whose words speak directly to the soul.  These two little patriotic ponies appear when help is needed to set someone free from injustice, whether a physical or mental prison. Their primary passion for being, is, aiding people to follow their dreams, with one's heart as the compass, in the pursuit of happiness.