Happy Belated 4th
Yes, I realize it's the 7th. Been too busy beer-be-cuing with the other ednecks this past week to blog. It's called LIFE, you should try it.
So what's my rant for our nation's birthday? That we have nothing in common with the guys who formed our nation. No, most of them were God-fearing farmers turned soldiers who were brave enough to sacrifice their simple lives to defend their communities ( and the business interests of their wealthier neighbors, of course), and still be tolerant enough to accept a constitution that protects the rights of assholes like Rosie O'Donnell, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore and the Dixie Chicks. What about the rest of us (not me or other ednecks, but Americans in general)? We're a bunch of couch potatoes who are too concerned about NASCAR, Paris Hilton, and "global warming" to get off our fat asses and care about the idea of 'America'. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, et. al., were concerned enough about guaranteeing individual rights that our system has actually fostered individuals and groups who have a blatant disregard for anything nationalistic -- that is "American". I'm glad to see people practicing their freedom of speech. Too bad their blatant ignorance of history has hindered their appreciation of our nation. Yes we had slavery (under a Democrat controlled South) and we ended it (under a Republican controlled North). We get into unpopular fights (Bush a Republican with Iraq and Kennedy a Democrat with Vietnam) , and there are lots of other "undemocratic" things we've done as a nation (like decimate native American tribes and imprison American citizens of Japanese descent during WWII). I'm not proud of that stuff. But I am proud that we defeated fascism, put a man on the moon, and come to the aid of nations recovering from disasters who generally end up resenting us anyway. Do the positives count for anything? I guarantee that Michael Moore and that fat little singer for the Dixie Chicks would have been executed in Nazi Germany for saying far less about Hitler than they have about our country. I'm tired of hearing my liberal friends bitching about having "all their rights being taken away". Bullshit. If that was true, just about anyone blogging about anything would be whisked away in the middle of the night by the secret police. How many times has that happened to you Michael? Rosie? Stephen Decatur once said "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!" If you don't know who Decatur is, Google him. I'm not going to spoon feed you.
'Nuff said.
So what's my rant for our nation's birthday? That we have nothing in common with the guys who formed our nation. No, most of them were God-fearing farmers turned soldiers who were brave enough to sacrifice their simple lives to defend their communities ( and the business interests of their wealthier neighbors, of course), and still be tolerant enough to accept a constitution that protects the rights of assholes like Rosie O'Donnell, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore and the Dixie Chicks. What about the rest of us (not me or other ednecks, but Americans in general)? We're a bunch of couch potatoes who are too concerned about NASCAR, Paris Hilton, and "global warming" to get off our fat asses and care about the idea of 'America'. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, et. al., were concerned enough about guaranteeing individual rights that our system has actually fostered individuals and groups who have a blatant disregard for anything nationalistic -- that is "American". I'm glad to see people practicing their freedom of speech. Too bad their blatant ignorance of history has hindered their appreciation of our nation. Yes we had slavery (under a Democrat controlled South) and we ended it (under a Republican controlled North). We get into unpopular fights (Bush a Republican with Iraq and Kennedy a Democrat with Vietnam) , and there are lots of other "undemocratic" things we've done as a nation (like decimate native American tribes and imprison American citizens of Japanese descent during WWII). I'm not proud of that stuff. But I am proud that we defeated fascism, put a man on the moon, and come to the aid of nations recovering from disasters who generally end up resenting us anyway. Do the positives count for anything? I guarantee that Michael Moore and that fat little singer for the Dixie Chicks would have been executed in Nazi Germany for saying far less about Hitler than they have about our country. I'm tired of hearing my liberal friends bitching about having "all their rights being taken away". Bullshit. If that was true, just about anyone blogging about anything would be whisked away in the middle of the night by the secret police. How many times has that happened to you Michael? Rosie? Stephen Decatur once said "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!" If you don't know who Decatur is, Google him. I'm not going to spoon feed you.
'Nuff said.
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