12:23 AM -:- Posted by Allen    

Speaking of Stupid...

It's worse than you think out there!

My neighbor Dick and his wife Carol have moved away to Kansas City and put their house up for sale. It's a 1006 square-foot cottage with one bath and one-and-a-half bedrooms. (You have to go through one or the other bedrooms to get to the bathroom, so while people can sleep in both rooms, those in the central room won't have any privacy whenever company is over.)

The house is on a 50x135 lot. It's listed for $628,000.00 and after 4 days on the market it appears there will be a bidding war.

Obviously, this house will not sell to your average garage mechanic. It will go to someone who made a lot of paper money during the tech boom. One of, as they like to call themselves, "the best and the brightest".

Anyway, here's the stupid stuff.

This morning, Chuck, the real estate agent, told me that one of the people who wanted to buy the house was concerned because "the next door neighbor has a militant flag on the front of his house!"

That would be me.

That would be the Culpeper Minute Men / Patrick Henry Brigade battle flag that two of my ancestral cousins fought under back in the good ole days. Says "Liberty or Death" right on it.

I confess. I put that flag up the day after 9-11. Everyone else was putting up Old Glory. But I thought somebody ought to put up something to remind the real perpetrators, the domestic enemies in Washington and on Wall Street, that they'd better watch out.

The Old Glorys are all gone now, but the Culpeper is still flying.

Because the domestic enemies are still in power.

Yes, I am militant. I am, after all, the belligerent claimant in person, Yes?

And I get a lot more positive feedback than negative from the thousands of people who've seen my flag. Particularly from people over 50, people who grew up before the commies got control of the government schools.

There are neighbors who talk to me who don't talk to anyone else on the street.

And a lot more neighbors than that who feel free to call on me; nobody around here calls the cops anymore. They know where the fastest response time is. The cops don't even patrol this street any more.

So Chuck, who happens to be another neighbor of mine, and a friend if not a kindred spirit, asked the caller if he knew the history of my flag. "No." The guy didn't know.

Chuck explained that it was a historical flag, a battle flag from the revolution. Chuck had a feeling that he'd need to explain a bit, so he added, "The American revolution."

Guess what? The caller gets really indignant. He is nearly screaming into the phone: "The American people have never revolted against their government!"

There you have it, right from the mouth of the best and the brightest.

Chuck was stunned. The guy didn't have a clue. The conversation went downhill from there and ended quickly. (I asked Chuck, "Please don't sell the house to that guy!" He told me not to worry, the guy was out of the picture.)

That, my friends, is what we're up against.