1: Swastika trivia. It is indeed an ancient Indian symbol of goodness and was adopted via Buddhism all over Asia. To this day, Buddha images arriving in Canada from the Chinese mainland typically have a swastika on them, to the dismay of almost everyone who sees one for the first time.

Stars and Bars: even with Google, I'm not able to tell what the difference is between that and the Confederate Battle Flag: please enlighten. But I was rather started to see the crossed starry bars image used on the silks of a jockey in the recent annual running of the Queen's Plate thoroughbred race here. The name of the horse was I believe Starry Night, which fit the image, but it was amazing that the PC police didn't make an hysterical arrest before the race even started. The horse lost and was not seen again so it may of course have happened afterwards.