I often wish we could return to the freedoms we had in years past. When I was a kid, nothing was thought unusual when I rowed my boat to the pier in the Village and walked into a store to redeem coke bottles for pennies- while wearing my Mom's Colt Woodsman on my belt. ( rattlesnakes, you know, on the beach )
If I tried that now, there'd be a SWAT team called on me. And the Villagers & tourists would have an attack of the vapors.
We really have let a lot of our freedoms slip away.
Rush can, at least, afford the best lawyers & accountants to fight for him-- I'll spare you the details, but when we were involved in a running battle with the IRS a few years ago, it wasn't the hired guns, but my wife who got it settled. Combination of intelligence and charisma worked when reams of arguments on paper didn't.
I didn't hear all of Rush's show yesterday, but enough to get the drift, and I don't blame him for being fed up, personally and professionaly.
One reason I am no longer in business is the endless, never fully resolved battles with bureaucrats, regulators, and lawyers. You just get fed up after a while.
And on the political scene, when I vote for someone, I do expect them to stand for me in battle- not run away or be silent. The runaway Judiciary ( Supreme Court's juvenille Death Penalty case, Terri, etc. ) and uncontroled illegal aliens are going to be the death of this country if we aren't careful.
I want representatives who stand for something besides their own miserable careers.
"The runaway Judiciary ( Supreme Court's juvenille Death Penalty case, Terri, etc. ) and uncontroled illegal aliens are going to be the death of this country if we aren't careful."
Right. And if Rush is serious about replacing the beltway GOP with ordinary people, he best be clear of all the legal and beaurocratic fallout that could hit him here in the US. In other words, be in exhile, but still fight. Doing one [savaging the GOP leadership] or the other [going into exhile] on its own leads to sheer frustration. Both together is a better contingency.
And he'll need to either lavish the local regime with gifts, or buy a tiny nation. Owning a nation can make a little money for him, hopefully through loyal, dedicated US patriots he can delegate out assignments to, preferably vets who could double as emergency body guards. But the gifts are a simpler way to go. FReegards....
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The Press Shows Its Bias
TownHall.com ^ | 13 April 2005 | Linda Chavez
...He might be guilty of keeping bad company -- lobbyist Jack Abramoff, currently under criminal investigation for some of his activities on behalf of Indian gaming interests, was on the Russia trip and may have ginned up the contributions that paid for it -- but at the time DeLay took the trip, he had no way of knowing how unsavory his companions were...