Do they have a Forth of July in England?

It’s an easy question to trip up the best of snobs with. I love asking people the question every year. Most people are quick to answer “No” as they have no idea of the question asked of them and some have a problem seeing the sense of it.

The truth is the British don’t observe the American holiday celebrated on the 4th known as Independence Day. A sad truth is most people in this country don’t know why they do so other than to cook out, wave flags and watch an annual display of evening fireworks that takes place in every city, town, village or burb on this date. The best fireworks I have seen were while at a military base on a Libyan shore of the Mediterranean Sea and again on the mall in Washington, DC. The foreign display stands out because of the fact Americans could celebrate such in that locale and the water was peacefully calm – a movie couldn’t have captured that evening.
Every American should experience Independence Day in DC at least once. I saw the Beach Boys before they were banned and the fireworks were ethereal as I happened to be in the vicinity of the reflecting pool situated between the Washington monument and Lincoln memorial. They are shot up to go off over that area and the residual sparkles shower down there.

How many of those reading this have read the Declaration of Independence as of late? How about the Constitution of the United States? I have hard copies here on my desk.
They can be seen and read HERE   

The Declaration of Independence pretty much lays the situation of that day out on the paper it was drafted on. We need a present day revolution and draft another similar document for now and the future to restructure the obese and intrusive leviathan known as the United States government – though doing so would seem almost hypocritical in nature. Truth be told, the present federal government has surpassed many of the oppressions petitioned for redress in that petition drafted 233 years ago. Read through them and decide for yourself.
Likewise, there are many ideals not realized today as was planned in the drafting of the Constitution. There have been so many amendments to the original it appears to be moth eaten. I will have to go so far as stating many of the goals that were planned have never seen light.
Too many representing too many interests changed the big picture and distorted the vision. A problem I can point at is most professional politicians are lawyers. I don’t know if that fact was foreseeable nor were the implications. “What implications?” you may ask. Law does not change unless a court, judge(s) rather than a jury, decides it need be changed. A judge is nothing more than a lawyer promoted to the highest position he can achieve. The Supreme Court is the super bowl of judges.
The problem? Lawyers bring various torts/cases/suits before a court of law to be judged. Most often a judge will render a decision based upon the present statutes. If a decision is appealed the case is given to a panel of higher court judges to make a ruling to uphold the previous decision or change it. If they find reason to change a ruling they alter a statute or law which effectively altars every ruling made based upon the previous statute. What results is a ripple or domino effect that can be nightmarish. It happens everyday in every state as well as in the nation’s capitol. When it comes to shredding the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights I find it deplorable. The majority of us have based our lives upon the ideals of the template whereas others seek a way to tear it down.
What I find really distressing is these same people want to celebrate Independence Day along side me.

I could write tomes on the subject but wanted to touch on the sentiment of the holiday and what we hopefully base it upon.

Barack Obiden – History has been made

As I sit and read or watch black Americans go on about the successful election of OBIDEN I have to pause to think what the totality of it is.

The USA is 70% white which means the chances play out as such. I have seen Oprah, Sherri from “THE VIEW” and a host of other black Americans come across as if blacks now have the same chances in life that whites haven’t had for a long time. That is one of the misconceptions that hits me as funny, being white never put a free pass into my hand, a million dollars in my bank or a brand new car in the driveway. Anything I have achieved in life I have paid for dearly.

Our current president is white. Again OUR current president is white. He never did anything for me or any other white people I know. He is a fuck up as far as I am concerned. He and his administration screwed us all over.

Black Americans act as if they have their own president now because as he is black as well and surely in touch with the African American struggle, something Bush could never know about.  Didn’t white Liberals push Political Correctness on us all so that the term African American is meant for blacks in America who were descendants of slaves of the mid 19th century? Didn’t they coin the term – The “N” word?
Barack Obama doesn’t fit that mold. The closest he may have come to slavery was the chance his white family owned them years ago.

My parents were born and raised in Kansas and I lived there for a couple of years. We lived in Libya for three years and my youngest sister was born there making her African American by virtue of where she was born. My siblings and I were raised by people from Kansas. How much in common do I have with OBIDEN? I have lived in Africa, whereas he hasn’t, and I am white. Nothing was ever handed to me on a silver platter on a chance of a prayer.

Whenever a new white president was been voted into office I only cared about his platform and where he stood concerning the future of this country. I don’t really care what the president’s color is – does he make sense and can he do the job? The people I saw at the polls were there to push one button and I doubt they knew the rest of the offices that were on the ballot. I study before I vote so it is no mystery to me. From watching the time the others spend voting I gather they pushed that one button and left.
The folks I have mentioned that have been on TV speak as if apartheid has ended in the USA. I have to wonder if it ever existed in my lifetime. Anyone can run for president and that is a Constitutional right. This time it took somewhat over 10 times the annual salary of the president to run a campaign to do so. If what I read is correct, it was the most expensive campaign in American politics. If you have watched NFL football over the past month you saw campaign ads during every commercial break.

It makes me wonder if politics is going to become as professional sports in this country wherein rich white men end up paying black candidates to campaign for office as they would athletes on a field or court for entertainment.

What happens when we have an Asian or Hispanic man or woman elected into that office? Have the walls of apartheid have fallen enough for that?

I wait to see how OBIDEN can juggle the economy. The bailout was of no service to the American public, can any more payouts be in the plans? We are in the Middle east for a long time, like it or not. I am truly interested in how the kooky tax and energy plans will unfold.
The people who I saw on TV as praising the fact OBIDEN got in are making well over $3M, especially Oprah. I hope she plans on bending over to get shafted as he takes from her as well as every other “rich” American. Then I come to reality and it hits me that he won’t be taking that money from them as they won’t surrender it. They have attorneys for that purpose. Is every “rich” black American anticipating the wallet raping he has planned for them? I doubt it.

We have a little over two months – let the games begin.

Dallas Cowboys

How about them Cowboys?

Ask Jerry Jones. Then ask the sad sack head coach that wanders the sidelines like a lost Santa Claus, Wade Phillips. He waddles back and forth and seems lost in space from my viewpoint. He rarely wears his headset and probably wonders what the voices mean when he does. Does he carry a piece of paper around with him that looks like it might have the roster of players on it? Maybe in his pocket?

I don’t get it. Wake up Jerry! Your head coach has red hair and is calling the  game, why not admit it? Get off the field and let your team play the game. Your special teams coordinator runs up and down the sideline and coaches his guys the best he can. Is Wade thinking about a ham and cheese sandwich he left in the locker room?

The game the Cowboys just lost to the Arizona Cardinals was a pathetic display of poor coaching. It happened against Washington and it will happen again if Jason Garrett isn’t promoted to position of head coach. Wade can make Gatorade and hand out towels if the thought enters his mind. The old guy doesn’t seem to have the reins in hand.

The Dallas Cowboys have the talent to win a Super Bowl but don’t have a head coach to lead them. Bill Cowher would be a kickass head coach for the Cowboys and needs the job. Any coach that can inspire would be a good choice for me. He is a cocky little guy that will stand toe to toe with those super stars and put them in their place. Santa doesn’t put the same fire into them The Tuna did.
I would love to hear the NFL Network’s opinion concerning the manner.

How unprepared can they be for other games that should be smackdowns? Fumbles, sacks and penalties are killing them and they are playing as if they have no will to win. The only time I see them fired up is when there is a sense of urgency. They should play all 60 minutes with urgency.

Folk can hit a 55 yard field goal dead center but anything in the 30-40 yard range is in danger. The missed field goal was the game.

What is the offensive line coach doing during game time? Listening to the same Lawrence Welk Muzak on his headphones that Wade does? He must because Romo is eating dirt every play. Aikman and Staubach had too many concussions and Danny White suffered a few as well. Do ya wanna go a round of deja vu?

Jerry, get the kindly old timer off the field and put the red haired guy up front. He knows what is going on during the game. You used to pay him to ride the pine, pay him to run your team.

Signed,
A fan who has been a fan of the Boys for 41 years and can’t watch it fall apart further.

The truth about Green Jobs

I have been hearing about “green jobs” for too long and I have no idea WTF a “green job” is.

Is there anyone in the wonderful world who can properly define the term or is it yet another hip and cool sound bite we hear from the lips of the media and politicians because we think we want to?
We pay far too much homage to the bullshit that we hear from the media already and most people I know that mirror that crap have no idea of what they are saying.
Luckily, my best of friends don’t think in that train of thought. We all have formal educations and tend to form our own thoughts and opinions in a different manner than most of what I see about any of the current topics which flash by as quick as pop culture.

I think that is most of the problem with most of America. The media runs data over the people of the world in such high volumes it is no less than sound bites and pop culture.
Some female being photographed sans panties is as important as Brad and Angelina and pushes real news to the back until it comes forth in small bites when there is a pause in the onslaught. Political news should be ground to hamburger fare for the gossip news shows to be reduced to content that is easily understood by those that care about whether Britney or Hannah Montana are clothed or responsible role models. Who gives a shit?

CNN, FOX, HLN and MSNBC have already put OBIDEN in the White House. Anytime I watch them they declare that he has won every debate and converted all red states to blue. I have given up on watching the news because it isn’t “news”. It has become cesspools of whatever agenda the networks have to push.

Let’s turn our eyes to energy and the financial crisis…
America has to look into a mirror and point at itself. Each and every one of us. We are all at fault. That is where the finger points – to the mirror. Don’t believe either of those two running for president when they say it will be alright – they are lying assholes. We are staring depression in the face and inflation is holding it’s hand. Taxes will be in the 40- 50 percentile range within five years if not in two.  Someone has to pay for the spending our lawmakers have been reckless with and “someone” always = taxpayers. The bitch is we have a lot to catch up on so we will have to pay a lot to do so.

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Debt – why do some of you pay over $300 a month for a car? Is it a huge behemoth or a sensible vehicle that gets you and your family around from A to B? If you spend $50 in gas a week you are STUPID. It’s your fault. Get rid of your big pieces of shit and buy a little box. The insurance is cheaper.
Detroit has yet to pull it’s head out of it’s FAT ASS in an attempt in coming close to equaling a Japanese engine that is more efficient than anything you will buy domestically. A Toyota engine will last forever as will a Honda if one maintains it. Will a Ford, Chevy or Dodge engine? ROTFLMFAO!
Yet, they are claiming losses in the millions that the average American citizen cannot. They project revenues they are not meeting and get to take tax losses. How about us? I projected I would earn a million dollars and knew I would never for the year. Can I take a tax cut? Fuck no!

More debt – how many of you dumb asses are carrying around credit cards and owe money on them? WHY? Do you see what kind of shape the US federal government is in? It’s for the same reason. You spend what you don’t have because you want, want, want and spend, spend, spend with no means to pay. Some of you are foreclosing on your mortgages because you agreed to buy a house that was %500 above your means. Yep, you can blame some greedy fuckers for pushing you that way but where were the warning flares that told you not to do so? You keep your cable, satellite and internet and that expensive piece of shit car for some reason. My car is paid for but I need to get rid of pay TV. Why we will need a special receiver for digital next year is but another stroke of illegal night moves we let our elected officials get away with.

Our legislators just passed a trillion dollar band aid for our retarded president – BUSH – to sign into law so the stupid and greedy assholes of this country can be excused of all of their errant ways.
Why do they blame it on Wall street when it is actually the fault of Main street? It’s like SOYLENT GREEN. SOYLENT GREEN is people. The financial crisis is people, not Wall street.

Merchants had better cry poor mouth this Christmas rather than the people of this country going out and buying shit they don’t need and can’t afford. Most would do better to blow off buying Christmas shit for the next couple of years than incurring more debt they can’t afford.

Who sets the price on the barrel of crude oil? Do the oil companies simply make up numbers and tell us what they want just to shaft us or is it really that expensive? I think the oil companies are plainly fucking us over while they rack up record income and profits. Explain that Mr EXXON! Fuck you!

CNG – How many of you are aware of the vast amount of compressed natural gas we have under the soil of this nation? Why doesn’t the US government let Pickens pump that out of the ground so we can use it for energy uses?
Everyone needs electricity, correct? Why not convert every non nuclear or hydraulic power plant to CNG and build pipelines to power them at decreased prices and cleaner emissions?
Here’s one reason – the fucking US government has to put their hands on it and regulate, tax and rubber stamp it all before they figure out a way to fuck us out of the benefits of such a simple plan.
Why can’t we drill for oil in our own country? Because the fucking US federal government – led by the nose by industry and special interest groups – needs to make a buck on it before we can benefit from it.
How in hell did they pass a trillion dollar piece of legislature so quickly?? Someone is out to make a fucking fortune from it just as they do from the $10B a month they send to the illegal war.

Why are we in a war? Is anyone trying to kill Osama fucking Bin Laden? They never had an intention to do so and most of it is a ruse.  The attack on Afghanistan was simpletons using their email to send anti Bin Laden crap around and spinning each other up over nothing. The US government probably started half of the stupid propaganda to keep American citizens at fever pitch. Why is Castro or any other evil entity the USA detests still alive? Qaddafi and Arafat were free to come and go forever. Putin is a pain in the ass as is Kim in Korea. Don’t you think we would’ve figured out some way to pop a cap into their asses by now rather than involve our nation in war?
BUT we can’t do that!! We need bad guys to instill fear and terror. Hussein was like a boil on the neocon idiots asses for some reason. Iran is a bad guy we better not fuck with.

As far as “green jobs”. Has anyone ever researched the difference it would make in this country if the USA cultivated HEMP? We used to at one time until prohibition was over and the federal government didn’t like people smoking weed. Hemp is more efficient than corn for use as a bio-fuel and can make more paper than trees. Levis were made from hemp as linen that rivals cotton can be made from it. It can be used as food.
I haven’t even gotten to the medical uses and getting high. Everyone should smoke dope rather than take the pharmaceutical chemicals we ingest everyday for each and every thing your doctor prescribes them for.

Then there is the court systems and prisons filled with people that merely smoke it. You can get 25 years in jail for possession of less than an oz of weed yet be sent away for 8 years for rape or other sexual crimes.
I find that to be rather fucked up.

You want to know the truth about Green Jobs?
Both MCCAIN and OBIDEN will fuck us – believe it folks- things will never change unless a woman becomes president. I am a man and I know this to be true. Who raised and nurtured you? A woman.
Our mothers are women and have never had the opportunity to run the country though they can do everything else. They did the shitwork your father wouldn’t.  A mother knows tough love – a mix between liberal and conservative.

The only genuine thing I have seen in the 2008 election free-for-all is the naiveté of SARAH PALIN. Many don’t like her because they never heard of her or don’t like her outer beltway way of thinking – mostly due to the fact the media has convinced you not to.
You know what? The Constitution was written with her point of view in mind. The framers of the Constitution didn’t write all of that for a bunch of white haired old men to sit around for life and fuck up the country and/or  the world in they way they have in the past 100 years.
Ever since the depression and on through WWI, WWII, Korea, the Cold War, Watergate, Vietnam and the past two wars about bullshit, the USA has been at the hands of old white haired white men thinking for themselves. They have succeeded at keeping us in a state of fear.

Nothing will change if you put the two male candidates in office in November.

You read it here.

Let’s get a fresh new gang of numb nuts with open minds to go to Washington next time. Ron Paul should have planted a seed of sense in your empty brains, let it sprout and grow.

$700 Billion Dollars!!!

They actually did it!

The US Senate as well as the House of Representatives bought out all of the bad financial decisions made by Americans across the board for nearly one trillion dollars.
It’s not as though they have already spent two trillion dollars the USA does not have on the illegal war in the middle east – NO! The dimwits that WE, THE PEOPLE, vote into office have assumed the numerous errant loans of the past 7 years as well as all the liability of the criminal backlash the greedy scumsuckers have left behind such as healthcare insurance and other various crap I hear them trying to rationalize behind me on CSPAN.

Does anyone in America know where that money comes from?  When you hear the presidential candidates tell you they won’t raise taxes you can assume that to be a lie. Why? Because the American public is going to start coughing up some heavy taxes to pay for the events of the last Bush administration. If you don’t believe me now you will when your income taxes are between 40-50% within 5 years. That money was not in some hidden cache that a magic wand revealed. Demand that your senators and congressmen explain where it will come from. I put it to you to do so so you may further understand. Are we to continue to borrow from the Chinese to fund our bumbles?

We are living in a recession and inflation/depression are around the corner, folks.

America needs the opportunity to vote for Ron Paul at this time. He pointed out all of this if you paid attention.

Is it a bail out or should we have the opportunity to bail out as when the plane is going down?

OBIDEN – Barack and Joe

Yep, there you have it folks. Just as with with BEN-JEN, BRANGELINA, TOM-KAT and other pairings of names the media spin doctors weave together for the paparazzi to chase down, I’ve coined a name for the collaboration of Barack and his first mate, JOE BIDEN.
I knew it a week ago and that was when it came to me.

The names OBAMA/BIDEN don’t quite roll off the tongue as neatly as BIDEN/OBAMA but Barack is running for president. The world press will eventually go for OBIDEN because the idiocy of it plays into the minds of idiots.

What really cracks me up with this decision is OBAMA has consistently claimed to want a VP that would challenge him or his decisions. If that is the case, BIDEN will have to take over as president as OBAMA has never managed a supermarket. BIDEN has been in the senate since 1972, almost 40 years, and is one of the elder statesmen that takes new congressional rookies under their wing to show them the ins and out of their slacker job.
That in itself should scare people, congress needs term limitations for the same reason the president has them. Liberals (democrats) don’t care when the issue is raised as they will continuously vote the same guy in term after term. TED KENNEDY is a perfect example.

Here is the 2007 listing of the most liberal senators.

I am more than concerned as to what “CHANGE” entails and think about it.
In my humble opinion, OBAMA needs someone a bit more centered as “CHANGE” cannot be a free-for-all of social programs this country cannot afford.
I don’t know why politicians try and sugar coat the issue of taxes because they will be stellar within time. The income tax reform act does not realistically account for “the war” which continues to bleed our coffers and push the country closer to recession and inflation. We will soon be staring both in the face for the simple reason the Bush administration overspent as if the USA were Paris Hilton on vacation. Paris has rich parents, the USA does not. We are in the hole big time. Read this.

All of the financial experts in the world can’t erase the deficit nor explain how it is to be balanced. They can blow smoke up the asses of those that want but those us that have to live within a balanced budget know otherwise.

The federal government cannot fund research for renewable energy and turn that knowledge over to private companies that will make fortunes with that knowledge. It has been happening for years though no one points it out.
Correcting the economy and stemming the usage of oil is not the government’s responsibility. Something the government can do is quit spending money. The government can cut back the visibility of its services without cutting them. 12 managers in an office in the middle of Iowa is waste. 12 managers in an office anywhere is waste. Manager is a title given to too many civil employees – who does the actual work?
The price of fuel is not the government’s duty. If anything, it gets us into mock wars and causes our legislators to spend, spend and spend. Politicians can talk about it in their committees and other wasteful meetings but we live in a capitalist market and supply/demand are what drive the economy.

OBIDEN are the most liberal running mates in years and their “CHANGE” is not going to be the answer.
I am not advocating MCCAIN at all because he is too old and thinks 20th century revenge.

This country needs to relocate and focus our concerns on the 50 states of the nation. The economy would be easier to right if the powers that be had never blessed NAFTA or other free trade agreements that have come back to sting us in the ass. We need to manufacture on our own continent. Let’s make stuff here again. Here is a small list of clothing.

Something that drives me insane is the drug laws of the country and how we strive to shove our “ideals” up the ass of every other country of the world. Tobacco is legal and a huge source of tax revenues. The same can be said for alcohol. Anyone of legal age can buy a carton of Camel cigarettes and a half gallon of cheap vodka and smoke or drink themselves to death. It’s legal.
On the other hand, marijuana, grown as a plant as tobacco might be, is public enemy number one according to the DEA.
I equate it to the sight of a woman’s nipple or a man’s penis. Society will surely crumble if untethered breasts or penises are seen by someone on primetime television.
The funny thing is I think we have all seen breasts and the deadly nipple. Some, myself included, were nursed from birth on mama’s.

As far as the penis is concerned – my dog has one and I see it every day. It’s not like pulling down my pants and looking at my own but neither have shocked me into raving insanity.
A breast is a mammary gland that can be seen on any dog or cat. A cow has 4 huge dangling teats that are comparable in size to the average male penis. That is potentially mind damaging.
Maybe it’s the thought that nipples or a penis are somehow connected to SEX! and drives a spike through the hearts of those that recoil. Add to that the last 40 years of liberal hedonism and the evolution of vulgar pornography – oh yeah, vulgar is the only word – and I can understand why some draw the line.

Marijuana, hemp, gets a bum rap as well as the fact that we all have bodies with sex organs. Is a breast truly a sexual organ? I have nipples and have never had to cover them for fear of driving someone insane.

I’ve read a lot over the years and it’s fascinating to know that HEMP is better than the corn farmers are prompted to grow in the Midwest for ethanol. I have known a lot of the facts for years but when realizing how much paper is produced in this country for our personal printers it amazes me why we don’t grow the plant like George Washington did. People were prompted to grow hemp in this country for various reasons such as fiber for linen or for making rope. One half acre of hemp plants is far more productive than corn or wood for paper or biofuel.

Think about the amount of money spent in the legal system prosecuting the evil marijuana. A 50 year old woman arrested with a pound of marijuana is likely to serve more time in a state prison than a rapist. Is that a kick in the head or what? Most want the rapist to report where he lives in your neighborhood. I don’t care where the guy with pot is unless I need some. Marijuana is a class 2 controlled substance – most surely surely deadly…NOT – and the courts pass down maximum prison terms that go into decades for growing, selling, possessing or – GASP! – SMOKING marijuana. Oh, the humanity!

The propaganda was bizarre and made good movies. Those of us who have smoked it know it not to be the evil substance the government associated with criminal Mexicans and Negros. Yep, the federal government had to devise another crime to chase after prohibition was repealed so they went after NARCOTICS they associated with those minorities. What a country.

A sensible move that OBIDEN might make would be a push for legalization and cultivation of the plant on this continent to help with the break in foreign energy dependence.

OBAMA said he inhaled several times – “that was the point”.
I suggest that everyone purchases marijuana with their stimulus checks.

I don’t trust a politician (especially a democrat) 55 or under who claims they never smoked a joint.
That person is a LIAR.

Blacks for McCain?

Veterinary Hospitals

Yeserday… my dog was mauled by a muttweiler who almost took his ear off. I took my dog home, put him in the shower and washed him with betadine before calling his vet. The vet is usually very full serviced but not until next week – apparently summer vacations took them away. As in humans, medicine doesn’t take a day off. I was referred to an EMERGENCY VETERINARY CLINIC yesterday by his vet’s office.

If you love your pet do not take it to a VCA Animal Hospital. Going on the 20th hour mark, my dog is still lying in a cage waiting for emergency surgery. Worse? He has gone deaf over the past year – he will be 12 in two weeks – I told the doctor and technicians of the fact yet no one knows of it so he soils the cage he is in because no one attends to him. He is truly lost and alone without me. I am retired and spend all day with him therefore I know his needs. I know him well enough I could smell his blood in my truck while riding to the EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. You are close to your dog at that point.
Actually, blood has a metallic odor I learned to smell while miming my dog when he would sniff the air. Try it, you will smell the BBQ grills in your neighborhood you missed previously.

Here is the real bite in the ass. His ear was tattered and bleeding profusely when I presented him. The doctor gave me an estimate of the surgery, $528.00.
When your best friend’s ear is ripped up and he is bleeding that is a shock leaving you vulnerable and susceptible for anything to fix him.

Keep in mind VCA Animal Hospital – I am going to call them and find out what the fuck is going on. If it was going to be this way I would have waited it out at home and taken him to a premier veterinary surgeon today – right now!

I am going to contact the ASPCA and the BBB. Animal Planet would air a show featuring the SPCA raiding the place for negligence.

Sean Taylor – how society treats celebrity versus others that have fallen

Ever since this young man was gunned down by some punk hoping to clean up opportunistically on what was supposed abandoned cash I have been curious if any other 24 year old black men were shot to ultimately die by another on Nov. 26. The odds favor it but are any of them being honored as a fallen US soldier never has within the last 7 years? Pat Tillman doesn’t count as he was another of NFL celebrity.

Taylor was an NFL football player for a very short while. Dale Earnhardt drove race cars for a long time. These two were celebrity sports figures, nothing more. Heroes to some but millionaire sports figures don’t play into the moral fabric of everyday life as the memorials of these two might suggest. All that can be gleaned by putting them on that pedestal is learning of their lives, which we needn’t do. I don’t know if America really needs to grieve over FATHEADS as we are given over to. What does it say about our priorities when soldiers come home dead in body bags and go nameless – minus the fanfare of nationwide memorials that would put their names and faces on news channels as well as newspapers and other periodicals? How many periodicals will Sean Taylor’s face grace the cover of? As was with Dale Earnhardt it becomes macabre.
How many names and faces of the victims of crimes such as the VA Tech shooting or the DC snipers can we readily identify? Who cares? They aren’t celebrity sports figures are they?
Maybe it’s the fact that the media constantly spotlights highly paid sports figures so we may live vicariously through their excesses. Does that cause us to hold them above all others in life? I think the media itself teaches us who to hold in esteem. Hours upon hours of news stories and exposes puts them foremost in the minds of society.
Paris Hilton, not a sports figure, is a celebrity for no reason at all. The world bent a knee and wept when Princess Diana died in an automobile accident while the death of Mother Teresa was barely noticed. Paris would have a leg up on Teresa as well as we know far too much about her than is necessary. I think Teresa was glossed over by the media in its efforts to discuss Di, Di, Di.

The 4 youths that wanted to steal from Taylor are a product of the mindset I have described. They were out to take another’s valuables – steal – no doubt thinking the rich sports figure might have the best goods. They no doubt had an inside line as to what was where.
Shooting Sean Taylor was probably as easy as playing a video game for the trigger man. He has probably played enough games where he has shot another in the game. What is the sense of playing if you don’t shoot someone?
Breaking and entering with a handgun was far too easy. The 4 in question supposedly didn’t know someone was home and planned on ransacking the home to get money to blow within week to further their stupidity.

 

So goes society.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY?!

I have been to numerous fireworks shows – my father used to moonlight for good cash and do those shows while he was in the military. The best one I ever remember seeing was in the 1960s. We lived in Libya and the shows were shot off over the Mediterranean sea while all of those watching were on blankets, towels or whatever on the beach. He did them everywhere we lived and I learned the technical side; basically cool for an adolescent military brat.

Second to that was the time I went to the Mall in DC and had a day of wall to wall people. Like Mardi Gras, I suggest it for the young and all should attend once. I went in the 1980s – my girlfriend’s parents even dragged me downtown for Reagan’s second inauguration back then. I guess you gotta do it all if you live here. What!?? You don’t like CRABS!!!

I got to see the Beach Boys perform a full concert way back in time. The fireworks were the icing on the cake after checking out the . Back in the days before the WWII memorial (like there are not enough memorials on the mall) displaced the beauty of the Mall the works were shot up over the reflecting pool and that was the place to be. The show took place directly overhead and the little silver and gold sparkling embers fluttered down to the point you could almost touch them.
I’ve had a seat on a rooftop of a 10-story building a dozen blocks away as well as watching them from across the Potomac river near Arlington memorial cemetery – underneath is the best.

I’ve gotten into watching the annual Maryland public television program “A Capitol 4th” over the past few years. I enjoy seeing the entertainment on the west lawn of the capitol building that I would never have a chance to see otherwise. The National Symphony Orchestra is a staple and is one of the best, in my opinion.

I don’t know about the rest of my fellow citizens but, I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I hear Patriotic standard tunes such as “Stars and Stripes Forever”, “God Bless America”, “America the Beautiful”, “National Anthem” and a dozen more when played by by a full symphony orchestra such as the NSO.
I hear and feel the emotion behind the words and musical notes and it takes me away from present day America.

What do I mean?!

I don’t know how anyone in their sane minds can feel any patriotism for the sorry excuse of a government that WE,THE PEOPLE vote into the White House, senate and congress. This has to be the low point of American government for the ages.

Tomorrow, all of the “4th of July” magic will be gone save for the fact it is a 5 day weekend for most federal employees and the rest of America that will continue to swill beer until Sunday night.

When did WE, THE PEOPLE decide that we couldn’t have our own simple fireworks – firecrackers and bottle rockets – for this holiday??! This is but one freedom lost to the political machine with the assistance of lawyers. What else is to follow? I can count a few already.

Does anyone feel that patriotic magic at any other time of the year? It’s not like our over-commercialized fake Christmas season that goes on for 60 days. The majority of you get more worked up about that than being Americans as it is. Christmas starts the day after Halloween and ends January 1 = 60 days. The majority of people that take part in all of the festivities are not Christians. They may claim to be but, it is merely a part of our society that has become a festive custom with no thought of who. what when, where or why. Show me in any bible where it is written that Christmas is to be an observed “HOLY DAY” and I will look further and write about it. It was against the law to celebrate the holiday in this country at one point.
Cards, present, decorations, special clothes and parties…that’s Christmas. Most know the words to several carols but can’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands:
one Nation under God, indivisible,
With Liberty and Justice for all.

The latest assault on our patriotic heritage is the want to remove the two words “under GOD” from this pledge of patriotism as some think it is against their better judgment. The ACLU has been taking an active part in this move to erode a very wee part of America – a part that most people have no contact with to begin with. The following is Eisenhower’s words when changing the wording …

“In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.”

If we read of very early American history, the reason so many Europeans to made the trip is in these words.

Those that want to change it are the same people that worry about the Political Correctness of our very lives. Get off of it folks – read The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution instead. Base your “feelings” – where feelings come into play, I dunno – upon the written word the government of this country is based. There is no crying in baseball and there is no allowance to tear down the fabric of this country on behalf of PC either.

As for the Republican weenies that are trying to push “Truth, Justice and the American Way” onto the rest of the world – unconstitutionally – be ready to tumble. I certainly hope and pray that my fellow countrymen are learning to put down their TV remotes and beer so that they may re-educate themselves about the political process. Get your friends and family registered to vote and let’s get this train back on its tracks.

If you were born in this country and are at least 35 years of age you are eligible to run for president of the USA. If the selection we have to pick from is the very best and brightest this country has to offer we are, quite frankly, FUCKED.
The two party system is ineffective and the results of such can be seen by the “war” we are five hundred billion dollars in debt to.
WE, THE PEOPLE have to vote at every election so that the old wood is lost and new minds can start to legislate. There are far too many professional politicians on Capitol hill with tenures of 20 years or more. And doing what?? Google congress or the senate and look at the years of the individual’s tenure.

My favorite presidential candidate to point out is Ron Paul from TX. He is an old goat; where has he been with all of his political genius for the past 30 years?? He is now the tool of the internet crowd that have as much of a clue as he does. This guy is their political saviour?

I have come to learn that the more one is detested for no reasons, the more they are a threat to the status quo. The status quo is dangerous in two respects as it can be the same old bald tire about to go flat in one sense or the knife that is slicing away the prime cuts and leaving nothing but bone in another. Either way, it is a system that is wholly inefficient.

Back to the main point…will you feel the same about your country in two months as you did today when you watched the fireworks?
If no, why?

Think of how a child stares in wonderment of a fireworks display and has no idea at all why it is there. He has yet to learn why he lives in a cornucopia which the rest of the world desires; in some regards. At least he was free to watch the fireworks and hopefully went home with his parents to sleep in a nice bed.