Posted on 05/28/2006 5:46:49 PM PDT by elkfersupper
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve lived too long.
I spent a lot of time outdoors over the last few days, and the mockingbirds are imitating cell phone and video game noises.
I can’t risk inviting people over for a traditional holiday weekend party because LEO may visit due to excessive smoke, noise, parking violations, dust, or watering the lawn at the wrong time of day, etc, etc.
If I do invite people over for a traditional holiday weekend party, they risk getting caught up in a “Click It Or Ticket” or “DWI” checkpoint - something my 7th –grade civics teacher (1965) told me could never happen in the United States of America.
A pack of cigarettes costs 4 times as much as a “Happy Meal”.
I can’t smoke anywhere (including outside in most New Mexico Counties), except in my truck or my home (for now).
I can’t fill up my truck at pay-at-the-pump gas stations because they cut you off at $75.00.
The neighbors are upset because I shot a marauding squirrel that’s been gnawing on various things I need.
It’s clear to me that I’ve just lived way too long.
Just kill me now.
This is SOOO easy to fix. Place one foot across the border down south of Columbus, then step back. Declare yourself an "illegal entrant". Now you can do anything you want.
Thank you John McCain, Ted Kennedy, and other assorted powdered pussies in what used to be the Senate of the United States (NOT of Mexico).
They could, but there's no money in collecting illegals.
Hang the code, and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway.
I kind of had the same feeling last night. I watched Saving Private Ryan and forgot how powerful the movie is. At the end, when Hanks tells Ryan to "earn this" I kind of broke down. I don't think America is earning this, and certainly the majority of the law makers in DC aren't.
Anyway keep your chin up.
"There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix"- Reagan
"America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet"- Reagan
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
—Farewell Address to the Nation, The White House, January 11, 1989
And not only that, but our local dump is no longer called a dump, or even a "landfill" for that matter. Now it's called a "transfer station".
And now that I think about it. We can't even throw batteries in the garbage anymore. I'm not talking about car batteries, I'm talking about AA, AAA, C, D, 9V etc.
We have to take them to the "transfer station" along with our fluorescent light bulbs.
But don't get me started. I could go on for hours.
We've got to get started or it's done.
I like you too much - I wanna keep you around for awhile longer.........
Actually I only wanna keep you around 'cause I neeedya!!!!!!!!
Great rant, my friend, great rant.
Thank you for all you are, Gabz.
Again, I know the feeling. I'm working offshore, and I tell the people I work with not to be suprised when I finally lose it and they see me on CNN, Mini-14 in one hand and M1911 in the other.
I'm not quite so inclined to agree with either of you on this one........dont' get me wrong, I totally despise the "click it or ticket" scenario...however, there was a situation last week where such enforcement was used primarily for ridding the roads of quite a few of them thar illegals.
the checkpoint was a "safety/sobriety" checkpoint........yet it was being done in broad daylight on a major highway. Eyewitnesses (people who went through it) said that nearly all vehicles that had been pulled over bore out of state tags and the skin color of those they saw walking around was neither black nor white.
Single-action .45 in one hand, .45-70 in the other, 16 gauge in a sling on my back.
I know the feeling all too well, my fried, I really do.
BTW, but not really off-topic because it ticks off the nanny-statist-do-gooders...........we had some absolutely awesome venison tenderloin steaks tonight.
The PETA types are probably foaming at the mouth about that comment and will scream even more furiously when I say those steaks came from a deer a friend of ours shot and gave to us (only because neither me nor hubby have taken the course required by Virginia for a hunting license, and we did all the butchering of it. Not that we don't want to, it's just the hours they offer it and the location make it a bit difficult to juggle that along with work, and school, and little league, and girl scouts.
It's easy to light a bonfire, difficult to put it out.
We had Oryx burgers. That'll really freak 'em out.
I see what you are saying..........
I'm truly over tired at this point and am probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer at the moment..........so I'll quit while I'm ahead and call it a night in order to be functioning at a reasonable our in the monring.
Boy Scouts can't have knives?
Not at school. I distinctly remember wearing all my Boy Scout gear to school, replete with knife, on Boy Scout Meeting days.
Not anymore.
Sigh. I hear ya. Tell your neighbors that cute little squirrel probably has the plague.
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