Burn the Flag. Apparently, the vote to prohibit the burning of the flag was turned down by ONE VOTE. That royally pisses me off. People have DIED defending that flag. But I guess liberals believe it's violating 'freedom of speech' to disallow burning it. ((Speaking and burning are two VASTLY different things.)) Hey, is it violating my 'freedom of speech' to make murder illegal? I mean, after all, if burning a flag is permissible 'speech', why isn't chopping someone's head off and riding around with it in your car with you? I'm sorry, but I can't think like that. Liberal thinking is an oxymoron, I swear it.

It was the third of june, another sleepy, dusty delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was baling hay
At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
Then she said "i got some news this morning from chocktow ridge
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahachee bridge"

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
"well billy joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty i got to plow"
And mama said it was shame about billy joe, anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good on chocktow ridge
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahachee bridge

Mama said to me "child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, brother taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday, oh, by the way,
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you on chocktow ridge
And she and billy joe was throwing something off the tallahachee bridge"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news about billy joe
Brother married becky thompson, they bought a store in tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, i spend a lot of time picking flowers up on chocktow ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the tallahachee bridge

Listen, I'm all in favor of reading and studying all manner of philosophy and literature. And while social studies evidence cards cut both ways, there are not too many expert physicists out there claiming objects regularly fall up off the table and into the air. People are not pool balls. Their behavior is not as predictable. Both intellectual studies, and expert opinion, have their place. It is only when they are used beyond their limits that problems come thick and heavy.

Don't take my word for this. Let's not sit down in the bilge arguing about whether Karl Marx or Adam Smith had the best course to freedom and happiness. Let's just go up the stairs, open a hatch, go out on deck, get out the telescope and have a look at what actually happened to the lives of the people impacted by one map, and what happened to those subjected to the other.

We are not blind, and we are not crippled, and the world is not a novel or a treatise or a theory or a manifesto. It exists. We can go look for ourselves. And on the way up, when those desperate elitist bastards start clutching at your ankles and implore you to stay below where it's safe and argue some more...be sure to kick those sons of bitches right in the teeth. Their blind obedience to their Big Ideas have killed more people in history than anything except disease. Boot to the teeth, I say.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Phillipians 4:6-7)

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city

Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

Small-mouthed Libertarians have existed mainly in frontier societies in human history. As soon as the folks from that period's version of California invade that frontier, the newcomers institute restrictive laws and the SMLs move on.

Large-mouth Libertarians are found all over, for short periods of time. Generally, they're used as target practice by the police/military agencies of whatever government there is at the time.

If you're going to stay in America, stay quiet, insure the survival of your philosophy and your bloodline by making your family strong and use the weaknesses and inefficiencies of the government to benefit yourselves.