Wants, needs and rights

Well tomorrow is the big day. Fireworks have been popping around the neighborhood off and on since Sunday. We’ve even an occasional cluster go off above the roof tops.

We still have to go get our supply. I think I’ll kick in an extra $100 for the back neighbor display this year. All the neighbors gather in the street and shoot off the fireworks they gathered. The kids have a “blast” and except for the next morning clean-up, a good time is had by all.

I raised a 16’ flag pole in the back yard and bought a brand new flag to hoist precisely at 0800 tomorrow morning. I found my Marine Corps Band CD box set and will play the Marine’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner as I briskly raise the flag in the manner prescribed by flag etiquette.

Then I’m going to light my patio burner and keep it going all day so the kids can “burn a dog” or roast a marshmallow anytime they want while being serenaded by the 12 CD set of the MCB playing martial music. I plan to stock up on pop and beer and put out for the neighborhood.

It’s going to be a great day in spite of what the Dear leader and the Demo-Dopes are franticly doing to undo what the founders set up for us. While we celebrate the courage and vision of what took place 233 years ago, others are celebrating the undoing of much of what has been created.

I look at tomorrow sort of like you might with an elderly grandfather at Christmas. You never know, this may be his last, so let’s have a really good one. I’ve never had such an uneasy feeling about the fate of our republic. I thought that 2010 would roll around and we’d get the chance to turn things around. Now I’m not so sure we haven’t gone too far down the socialist path that a quick countermarch won’t get us back. And I’m not sure a majority of Americans even want to countermarch. Many seem perfectly happy to let their neighbors pay for their car, home, health care, xbox, credit card debt and every other want and need that have some how now become "rights" according to Demo-Dopes.

So let’s celebrate and – dare I say it – “hope” we can “change” directions in 2010.

Happy 4th!!