Flamigo Style

I am trying to understand a recent development in my sleeping position repertoire; recent being the last couple of months. I lay on my back with one straight leg and the other leg bent, knee facing out, obviously, and foot planted flat up against the inside of the straight legs knee. It’s flamingo style, ladies and gentlemen, and it is sweeping my bedroom. First, I thought I was the only one doing this other than larger than normal pink birds. So I made it known to my fiancé that she be aware that she is lying in the same bed as a human flamingo, only to hear that she has been doing the same thing!

Striking friends! Two flamingo-style sleepers, crossed paths in the remote village of Vermillion, SD only later to find that they share a rare, but extremely special trait.

My Bear Arms are Itching

Not for one minute did I ever consider the history behind the right to keep and bear arms as stated within the Second Amendment. I understood the reservation of freedom as allowing registered firearms to be maintained by individuals for sport and for personal protection. Protection, to me, meant from unruly neighbors. It meant from robbers, assailants, or anyone else trying to take advantage of me or my family and friends. But today, my uninformed understanding of this amendment to our constitution has been replaced.

We have not been assured the right to bear arms to protect us against fellow citizens – but rather – in the unfathomable event of our government taking tyrannical blows against its own people. The statute protects us against our own government. Which then begs the question, why are automatic weapons not allowed to be included in our (American people) arsenals? We are allowed pea-shooters, while the entity we are to fortify against wields rockets? I have a hard time understanding the restraints our government places upon its people.

I believe in a small, hardly-involved form of government, and not just at the federal level. I want a small fed, a smaller state, and an even smaller local government presiding over our lives. We may live in a “free” country by definition, but we are far from self-dependent. Citizens can delay payment on their taxes for a couple of months and be sited with fines. But when the Government holds our tax refunds, not to mention increases the rate 4-months before tax time, because they need it to buy more sh*t we don’t need, they see no penalty. What is the interest rate they will pay on the loans we have given them? The California State Government forgot to mention that in the paperwork we read through and agreed to.

Wait a minute, did you see the paperwork? Did you see a list of terms and agreements that you signed and dated? None of us did because there was no such thing. We were informed a month in advance that a greater percentage was going to be taken from our wages to cover the mistakes of the state government. We put the wrong people in office and are paying for it. When these dollars will ever show back up in our pockets, we do not know. Will they ever? I am thinking not. So in the mean time, I would like to request the SCAR-H full-auto be removed from the do-not-sell list for the non-felon US population.