weird "stars and stripes" pyramid in news photo

[Ted the dog]

kinda weird .... the optical effect in the foreground of this photo makes it look like there's a pyramid jutting up into the picture plane...the "pyramid" is covered in the stars and stripes:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/congress_debt_limit;_ylt=AkQVyLPzm_k_UL3SfeKU3Z.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--">news.yahoo.com/s/ap/congr...NlYwN0bQ--</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[AlicetheCurious]

Oh, my God...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Senate, on a 52-48 vote, sent to President Bush a bill raising the ceiling on the national debt to nearly <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>$9 trillion</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> and preventing a first-ever default on U.S. Treasury notes. When the government reaches the new ceiling, expected sometime next year, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the debt will represent $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>...<br><br>Before approving the bill, Republicans <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>rejected</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> by a 55-44 vote an amendment by Max Baucus, D-Mont., <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>to mandate a Treasury study on the economic consequences of foreigners holding an increasing portion of the U.S. debt.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Now, why would they not want such a study to be done? <p></p><i></i>