What most people don't realize is that Santa is a Yeti and his suit just serves to cover all his fluffy white fur and huge cranial ridge.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sorry, it's true... Santa is a Yeti.
What most people don't realize is that Santa is a Yeti and his suit just serves to cover all his fluffy white fur and huge cranial ridge.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Just Some Tommy J to Chew on
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson
So are we really just so happy with our current form of governance that we feel no need to rebel? I mean, according to TJ we are about 18 rebellions behind, that is if we count the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement as embodiments of that spirit of resistance. We may question their results, but they do show without a doubt a willingness to risk life and limb for the sake of liberty. We shouldn't accept everything that Jefferson says without question-- he is as fallible as the rest. But without refreshment has the tree of liberty survived? or have we just not noticed it's loss? Freedoms are given, but liberties are earned. We are free, but we're "freely marching on to exploitation," and the next four years are not likely to be quantitatively different-- so I suppose we're just not paying attention.