I used up a big fat sharpie making my sign for the tea party last night.
I still want to make another one for the back side. But I can't make up my mind what to write. I have about 3 or 4 ideas and can't settle on one yet.
Anyway, this is side one:
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Sorry for the blur. My camera is cranky today.
But just to prove my photography skills don't ALWAYS suck,
I give you the following.
This is a bloom from a plant that is growing in my side yard that was given to me by a friend up north. I don't know the name of it. Though I think it is in the geranium family somewhere....
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This of course is much prettier than my sign. And what I am usually focused on around here. I usually have my Pollyanna hat firmly on my head. But lately, well things have gone on that don't sit right, and I have to leave my garden and go out into the crowds. Honesty demands it...
I quote on of our esteemed founding fathers...
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...."
Thomas Jefferson
Oh, how I wish he was going to be there tomorrow. Wouldn't you love to hear what he would have to say about what has gone on in Washington these last few months?
Tomorrow....
Pollyanna goes to the Capitol.
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Yes. Well.
While you are off
consorting with the rabble,
who is going to do the laundry?
Sweep up all this dog hair?
Keep an eye on that cat?
You better be home before dark.
That's all I have to say
about this protest business.
Buk!