But on the Iraqi side it is not a national flag that flutters but a black Shia banner.
A cabbage white butterfly flutters briefly before my nose, the first this year.
Above all, the Iraqi flag, in a region where flags matter mightily, flutters nowhere.
Most snafus get hidden in the normal flutters of a day's trading.Still, the exchange is trying to understand how such mistakes can happen.
Not so with the flag of the Confederacy, which still flutters defiantly in some places.
But Americans will still have many opportunities to gamble in casinos and on online sites that are restricted to flutters on horse racing and state lotteries, which are not affected by this bill.The risk now is that online gambling will be pushed underground in America, where organised criminals may profit, unfettered by existing safeguards.
The post-apartheid six-colour national flag, once scorned by many whites, now flutters joyfully from the cars, shops and homes of all racial groups.
And it is meaningless: the gold-starred blue flag flutters all over Europe, even without a constitution.There is something unconvincing about the way the ratifiers, led by diehard fans such as Italy, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg, explain how their beloved constitution ended up in its present pickle.
Here the green, white and black flag of St Petroc flutters from windows and rooftops, and even from the flagpole at County Hall, all in cheery defiance of rules that make it illegal to fly most non-national flags without planning permission.This is not the revival of some ancient symbol.
The most noted is the long battle over the Confederate flag that flutters above South Carolina's state house.
San Juan de Ulúa is a historic fort near an esplanade where marimba music flutters and elderly men play chess and drink coffee.
