The Mystery Of The Angry Foreigners

Solomon sent me a link to what appears to be a military video of a bomb being dropped in - if the title is to be believed - Fallujah.  It's taken from very high up, so it's only disturbing when you realize the little ants blowing around are people.  But then I remembered that the little ants vociferously hate freedom, so it was okay.

The website hosting the video has the following sentence on their main page:

Amerigo Solutions would like to show their support for those who were effected [sic] by the tragic events on September 11th, 2001 by providing a photo gallery of vehicles with American flags. Click on the photos below to view.

And then when you click on the photos below, they have a gallery of photographs of people with flags on their cars.  I'm not making this up.

Here's what I find wrong with this:

1. Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of “to influence” (how smoking affects health). Effect means “to bring about or execute”: layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.

2. Putting a goddamn flag on your car does not fight terrorism, even if you park the car at Wal Mart, and especially not if the car is an SUV.

That is all.