Patriots on parade

Big Fun in Burlington, WI (my hometown) on Memorial Day! Watch your toes as you sit along the curb, here come the Tripoli Shriners in VW Beetle go carts doing figure 8's and other cool stuff in the Chocolate City Festival parade. The day starts out with Nestle handing out free candy bars along the parade route, then fire trucks, veterans, scouts, bands, clowns, horses, all your parade stuff. The Shriners never disappoint.

Another patriotic thing not to be missed this weekend was Lee Iacocca's editorial in the Journal Sentinel. Here's some brilliant quotes;

"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder.
We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car.
But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!"

"I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged…. Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them — or at least some of us did. But I’ll tell you what we didn’t do. We didn’t agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn’t agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that’s a dictatorship, not a democracy."

This is a must read from a voice on the right. (I can't believe I just typed that sentence!)

Lee has a new book out, "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?," and with writing like this, he's about to become a pinata for the right-wing talk shows. Don't let them decide for you, read the editorial.