Thanks; we’ll be headed down to Boston in a couple of hours (for a little taste of culture) to watch the Boston Pops orchestra and fireworks display on the Esplanade tonight with 400,000 other chumps Hotwater
I was supposed to comment you back but I couldn't find your comments box/page/thingo so I couldn't. But hello BTS.
In a recent poll, something like 15% of Americans couldn't answer the question of what country we declared independence from. It pisses me off when people compete with me for the title of world's lowest IQ.
Independence day... the question is independence from what? Oh well some colorful explosion pics for everyone's consumption...
Bright colors that commemorate independence from repressive British taxes and rule... now we have our very own repressive taxes and rule to gain independence from.
So where should we move to? Where can we steal land from relatively unarmed natives and start over? It worked so well the first time...
Unfortunately a move is out of the question from my perspective... it's a waiting game for for more people to catch up to the realization that their government has abandoned all but a pretense to representing their interests. Unfortunately once that has taken place the general response will likely furnish justification for further curtailing freedoms and rights as those in charge have seized upon the concept of crisis as a means of leveraging more power for themselves.
It used to be easier to go elsewhere than to try and reform an existing government, but we've run out of places to run. That's the real killer this time around. There is no New World.
