Independence Day

Due to an event on 3 July I was helping to produce, I ended up home in Washington, DC for the 4th of July.  I called on my friend Keith, who I know does not trek down to the Mall, to hang out a bit in the neighborhood.  After a couple beers at the local attempt to open a "local only" grocery, which is becoming less of a "local only" grocery as the new owners quickly realized would completely fail as a business model, we head to another watering hole where multiple TVs blare useless garbage all day.  Is there anything worse then Wolf Blitzer talking about Egypt?  I don't think so.  But not to be undone, there was our Commander and Chief making some kind of a speech on the balcony of his temporary home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, just few blocks away from where Keith and I were enjoying our hormone / antibiotic / GM fed, Sysco delivered chicken wings.

It was unbelievable.  Did he have anything to say about our independence?  Rights? No Way!!  (He saved that for his weekly address apparently)  Those are being taken away as fast under his administration as they were under door knob idiot president W. before him, in fact things are getting worse.  Here is my statement on our 4th of July Celebration for 2013 after hearing / reading (on the teleprompter) some of his balcony statement before asking the bartender to please turn it off!!

Saw the pathetic speech by our military commander, I mean president, who took a celebration of independence and our bill of rights, things we are loosing more every day, and instead of celebrating these rapidly declining freedoms, he spews out all this shit about wounded warriors and military this and that. I am through with this military run nation and these thoughtless drones who participate and don't have a clue how badly damaged our reputation is becoming every day all over the planet. Yes, independence day!  It is all a charade to hypnotize the masses and reinforce the well orchestrated myth that is America. I shall not celebrate again until this nation is free again from the shackles of the military domination and control.  Where our best and brightest can contribute to humanity instead of only having the opportunity to contribute to destruction.