I know you're all looking for some thoughtful essay about how those $4 per gallon gas prices are threatening our independence. You'll want something that satirically compares George Bush with England's King George. After all, they do share the same first name. Ah ha!About a gazillion blogs and newspapers will re-publish the Declaration of Independence. Throughout the day, great men will give speeches to reassure us we are still Number One, baby. They hope we can forget our dying planet, lousy economy, even lousier health care and that little war in Iraq and Afghanistan, funded with tax cuts by insaniacs who are screwing our grandchildren as much as any pedophile.
As these great men rise to speak, we'll bow our heads with religious reverence at the mention of America's name. We'll give dirty looks to those obvious terrorists who refuse to put their hands over their hearts for the pledge of allegiance, our modern loyalty oath. Not many will mention that William Allen, after whom Allentown is named, remained one of King George's biggest cheerleaders. None will tell you that Northampton County courts actually classified the Amish as Tories because they had religious scruples against taking loyalty oaths. This enabled "patriots" to take everything the Mennonites had, right down to the shoofly pie.
What we will hear is how great it is to be an American. Then we'll eat cancer sticks, aka hot dogs, and get drunk.
I'll have no essay today. I'll celebrate our independence by going to Nazareth's kazoo parade.
It seems fitting.
Lousy economy? Historically, it's pretty good except now that whenever someone in the mideast uses the word 'oil' in a sentence, brain-dead speculators raise the price of oil by $3/bbl.
ReplyDeleteMy personal economy is good because I save money, have no CC debt, have a 15 year mortgage because I bought a house I COULD AFFORD. Maybe the economy is lousy because people are lousy at controlling themselves and think that wants and needs are interchangeable words.
Happy Fourth, everybody. This is the greatest country on the planet, no matter what anyone says. Those who speak otherwise are generally bitter and shallow and fail to see anything other than some arcane belief they have that if everyone ain't rich and some people have to work harder than others, then life in these Fifty united States must be horrible.
Yankee doodle dandee.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your blog. Despite your lousy attitude.
ReplyDelete-- Neil Owen
Are the Kazoos made in the USA or in Red Commie China like most CON-servatives Flag lapels?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 9:55AM
ReplyDeleteCan I use your blog and show it to some of my real estate customers?
Great response
Mr. Owen, Thanks for the compliment, I think.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:55, I'm glad your personal economy is good. But the notion that the only people who complain are those "lousy at controlling themselves" is ridiculous. I know plenty of good and frugal people who are suffering right now.
Spike, be nice. Although we like to think so, liberals do not have all the answers.
Chris, I did not see you at the kazoo parade.
Bernie
ReplyDeleteJust checked my kazoo from the parade and it is says made in USA by Kazoobie Kazoo comapny!
Thank goodness! Spike is off his meds again. Are you a Blue Star mother? I saw a contingent. If so, thank you very much for your fine work. My daughter appreciates it, as do her fellow soldiers.
ReplyDeleteI also saw Peg4RO in her niftly little red Triumph. She even produced her kazoo. The kids she was driving were having the time of their life.
yes I am a Proud Blue Star Mother.
ReplyDeleteThose kids wuth Peg are her grandchildren!
It was a good way to spend the 4th
What a cool grandmother she must be! She was driving her grandkids, each armed with a kazoo, in the Nazareth parade. What's more, that red Triumph convertible is beautiful. That's one of my favorite cars. Peg must be able to drive stick.
ReplyDeleteWe've got some cool grandmothers in county politics. A few weeks ago, I bumped into Ann McHale as she watched her grandson play baseball. She adores him.
Maybe when the two County Councilwomen are back on the job they can investigate how anm arrested child molester was hired by Northampton County Childrens Agency. How many children he was with, how one client already is saying he was molested. Why the County hid this from the public for days after the arrest until the Easton-Express reported it.
ReplyDeleteI am a concerned employee who has seen too much allowed to go under the bridge lately.The lawsuit by families will cost millions. We have a great Human Resources Dept.
I doubt very much that you are a "concerned" county employee. Instead, you are a political hack trying to capitalize on a tragedy.
ReplyDelete1) What law permits the county to divulge the kind of information concerning families under C & Y?
2) What law permits the county to divulge confidential information concerning one of its employees?
3) What specifically has gone under the bridge to make you so concerned?
4) What is your evidence that the county "hid" this information?
In truth, you've got nothing. If there is any kind of cover-up, I'd seek a criminal investigation by the DA. If you have such information, let it be known. But you are interested more in political mileage than facts. That's why you inject yourself with OT comments daily. I told you several days ago to give us the infoirmation of a coverup or to enlighten us about which law authorizes administrators to discuss children under their care or to discuss an employee relationship. Instead of doing that, you bray on.
Hey just making a point that most of these self proclaimed "Patriots" use Commie labor products in place of American made.
ReplyDeleteIf Liberals had all the answers John Edwards would be the Nominee.
and I'm a big Pat Buchanon fan myself.
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I didn't say people who can't control themselves can't be good. They are many people who are legitimately struggling and that was true 10, 25, 40 and 100 years ago too. It will be true tomorrow, true on January 20, 2013, and true 25 years from now. Society will always have good people whom bad things happen to.
ReplyDeletemy lack of cIf you can't control yourself, then learn. It's one of the challenges of life. We grow stronger by overcoming our obstacles and not whining about them.
Locally, many who are struggling are those people who moved here from NJ, still work in NJ, driving 60-100 miles round trip daily and now burned themselves by buying a house they could barely afford when gas was a buck a gallon and now, bam! The sky falls in. If you want the good times to last, live well under your means and prepare yourself the best you can if the local and national economies turn sour and dour.
I dislike $4.15/gal gasoline and inflation too as much as anybody but I make do with what I have - my mind, my sense of responsibility, and my seemingly un-American ability to buy only what I can afford.
Glory, glory, alleluia...