Burning flag amendment, my ass.

I'll tell you what. You can have your "anti-flag burning amendment" if it is written as a "proper flag display" amendment instead. This means that I cannot burn the flag to protest US government activities, but you cannot:

1. Mount a flag on your car and drive 70 mph until it is a tattered remnant or flies off to be run over.
2. Fly a flag at night, except if it is properly lit.
3. Fly a flag in the rain or other inclement weather.
4. Dispose of a flag by any means than a ceremonial burning (ironic, eh?).
5. Display a flag pinned up other than with the stripes vertical and the star field on the left. If displayed horizontally, it must be free-flying.
6. Use it as adornment for any individual.
7. Ever let it touch the ground.
8. Write on the flag.

Deal?

Killing Al-Zarqawi not a "success"

I wish the damned conservative pundits would stop pointing to the killing of Al-Zarqawi as a "success" in Iraq. He would not have even appeared on the radar as a threat if it had not been for America's invasion in the first place. He only came into being as a leader of the terrorist insurgents in Iraq after we went in and painted a big bull's eye on the country. This is the equivalent of turning a tenant house into a slum and then indicating how good it is that you are there because you killed a rat. Or turning a river into a sesspool and then showing how good a job you are doing by cleaning up one pollutant.

Hospital Episode II

Ellyn is back, this time planned. She had her colostomy reversal surgery today and Dr. Bussell said all went well. She is currently in recovery and I am waiting in the visitor's lounge on the 10th floor waiting for her to come up to her room. They said they were going to block off one side of a semi-private room for her and let me sleep in the other bed. There is a woman here who is waiting for her husband as well and heard me talking to the nurse manager about that and she also asked to be able to stay tonight in his room. Looks like they will be able to accomodate us both.