God Jul! - Merry Christmas from Sweden

God jul från Sverige!  

That's Merry Christmas from Sweden.  Here is a holiday flag in honor of St. Lucy's Day.  The Swedish celebrate Christmas like most American's on the 25th of December.  But the festivities star on December 13 on Saint Lucy's Day. 

Olympic Flags from Family Guy - The Griffin Winter Games

In the 7th episode of the 17th season of The Family Guy of FOX Network several mysterious flags appear during an Olympic competition.  Many of the flags are recognizable to us folks in this universe, but it seems the banners of several nations have crossed the quantum-entanglement matrix of time.  Meaning they have sneaked into our universe in this episode.  It is a known fact, the creator of this television series has quantum magical powers, Seth MacFarland.   MacFarland was scheduled to perish on 9/11/2001 but due to a providential hangover, he missed his flight and stayed with us, as the fates saw this special quasi-humaniod was destined to bring balance to network television. 

 

No doubt it is the Mandela Affect that has allowed a universe of quantum nations from MacFarland's many, many pan-dimensional realities to seep into this episode.  Some of the flags are recognizable as Russia, Belgium, Austria, Spain, and Italy. However, from our quantum reality, there are several unrecognizable nations.



There is a close up of some of the flags, which until til now, were unknown to our version of mankind as we know it.  Thanks to MacFarland, we are now able to acknowledge some of the trans-dimensional nations across the mysterious rift of space, time and reality. Although covered up with dry and raunchy humour, the deep truth to be seen is apparent for all kinds of sentient beings to notice.

Camp North Star Flag - Meatballs 1979

Meatballs is that old 1980s movie that is really a 1970s movie.  It's a totally groovy pic.  If you saw it as a young kid it was awesome.  But as a teen or young adult, it's fairly silly.  But if you grew up on it, and liked it, and have crossed the 40 yard line—it has ripened for another viewing again.  It has serious adult themes concerning young summer love, mixed in with childish antics, and it is when Mr. Murray was in his prime.

Of vexillological note is the flag for camp North Star.  It is white flag with a four pointed star in the middle.  The hard luck hero of the movie is played by Chris Makepeace as Rudy Gerner.  Rudy is the hard luck case kid who receives his summer camp lesson at the end.

One interesting flag is the pants of the fat boy.  He is caught in the act of being a sneaky 'Overhearing Oliver' at the girls cabin.  Subsequently, he loses his trousers.  And they became the prize of the day. Notice the yellow wiffle ball-like finial.

In the video below, Mill Burray echos the wise words of Socrates about the meaningless vanity of life, as neither the fruit of winning nor losing will rest the soul.  However, learning to fail with grace is one of the hardest, yet most beautiful lessons a soul can learn.

In the end, the drive to play for the sake of play, as with the spirit of a kamikaze warrior, is what motivates our rag-tag team of underdogs to the lodestar of the North.

 

Flag for Persons with No Official Citizenship

Persons who do not have a citizenship or had their citizenship revoked are permitted to fly this flag.  The blue sections represent that the sky and waters above and below.  Upon the fly side is a reminder that their blood is red like everyone else and finally the yellow sections represents a hope to be treated fairly.

This situation can arise during refugee crisis and when persons are born without the proper documents being processed and information being lost.  Likewise there are many places on the planet where nations do not give citizenship to persons born within their borders automatically.

Marquesas Flags - French Polynesia and the Florida Keys

There are two Marquesas in the world.  Currently one belongs to France as a part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific, while the other belongs to the USA as a part of the Florida Keys.  The flags here are inverts of each other via their red and yellow sections.  The mask of the French Marquesas has a traditional mask of the peoples to settle the South Pacific. 

Likewise the American Marquesas has a traditional mask of the peoples from the North Atlantic to settle this island and make it their own; the masks are of the theater variety of the comedy and tragedy of theater, or rather the joy and sadness of a story.



American Marquesas


French Marquesas

Chesapeake Bay Flag Association Meeting - Summer 2018

You can see the CBFA flag flying in Washington DC.  It kinda' looks like the flag of Washington DC, but there is difference, mainly the colours and the number of stars.

Dale Grimes presented some WWI badges and medals.  Notice the Yin/Yang symbol used to represent the US forces as united the Grey and Blue from the Civil War Era.  Back in 1910s, there were many survivors from the Civil War Era still witness to the Great War.  Present at the meeting was Peter Ansoff, Chris Bedwell, Daniel Broh-Kahn, Al Cavalari, Dale Grimes, Dick Libby, Jack Lowe, Chris Maddish, Jon Radel and guest Mattia Chasson—a friendly neighborhood local.  Also present from Philly, was a first time visitor to the CBFA—Arthur Etchells. 

One of the most 'peculuiar' flags in Chris Bedwell's collection was the flag for Peculiuar, Missouri.  The flag has the based tribar of Missouri but with a larger white T-bar with the water tower of the town, with some extra flowers on the blue stripe, very peculiar indeed.

Besides flags the party was witness to nesting doves, who were able to overlook all the flag flapping and yapping. 

Canada-China Flag

The China-Canada was recently used in a video created by Black Pigeon.  It is essentially the China flag with a Canadian Maple left instead the larger big star in the upper hoist corner.  This type of flag is political satire flag, that addresses the issues facing the new Canada under Trudeau.

Canadian Identity used to dominantly tied to British and French heritages, but now the duality of the dominion is embracing the new multicultural Canadian view. Currently about 1 out 5 Canadians were born outside of Canada.

Perhaps in the near future the provincial flags for Ontario and Manitoba will change, since they have an overtly British essence?