Firelights and Stopworks

Happy Fourth All. As you watched the illuminations tonight, I hope that you kept on your mind our troops and their witness to real rockets that explode not in the atmosphere, but on the camps and homes of our enemies and the families that they hide among. In addition to that, I also thought of the sacrifices of so many to keep America strong and free.

Especially in the last 79 years, America has kept alive the torch of freedom for billions around the world. We and those saved are the legacy of those celebrated by our lighting of the sky: we should never forget this. As I took a panoramic sweep of the crowd at Kollen Park, I just couldn't disregard the ignorance many (or most) members possessed about our nation's past and present. Forgetting our Founders' intent and meaning is, naturally, more prevalent in some than others but a sad testament to the public school system's lack of meaningful history education.

Specifically in the Democratic Party and its spawn, the meaning of America is lost when they, for instance, 'miss' changing times on our stop lights. As my wonderful girlfriend and I were making our way home, we came across stoplights which were practicing their usual 11pm-to-4am-ish blinking even though traffic volume was easily ten times the usual.

Some may call this being overly picky, but I just want to call the drunk bureaucrats out on not switching times beforehand. We saw what they call "street-level bureaucrats" (cops) changing the times...nearing the end of the whole outlet cycle.

It just seems that, in our age of technology, our wonderful and benevolent government would have some sort of efficient system managed by decently intelligent, drunk bureaucrats. Common sense is just lost in the cities...

The whole thing just really bugged me...have a nice day!