my father in law had to get his two cents in. so i gave him my fifty bucks.

i guess this leads back to my previous post about perspective of history. i had yet another post on my facebook by someone who likes to - as i have heard before - drink turpentine and piss in a brush fire. what a mess. i unfriended him and all of his many "aspects" and one lady from my church who happens to share his views. i am not anti-republican or anti-conservative. i'm pro-reason and anti-mob invective. she got upset and messaged me about it. i explained my position as carefully as i could without turning stoic. but then my father in law had to put all of these posts about freedom of speech and patriotism aimed at "shaming" me for my behavior. so i wrote back all of the things i wanted to say to mr. baker et al. that the language he used was not that of a reasonable person wanting the best for his country. that the blessed forefathers would not have appreciated his remarks. that what he said was tantamount to the mob-riot invective used during lynch mobs and witch hunts. full of passion and spit-fire, but utterly devoid of intelligence and perspective. used to whip up anger and malice, violence. destructive and narrow-minded. rrg.