Here's the one that got away yesterday in case you want to read it.

Bulletin: A few minutes ago I...

nearly swallowed a spider. I killed one like it last night. I picked up a book (which I really want you to consider reading) off the small chest by the loveseat and took a mouthful , and then thought, "That the heck was that in the water?" How did it get dirty? I hadn't swallowed. I spat it out and there it was - the identical twin of last night's squashing. EEEEUUUUUUuuuuu!

They say that you swallow about eight spiders in a lifetime. I'm going to be watching from now on.

It must have fallen in when I picked up the book. EEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUU. That was awful! Had the creeps for a long time after that.

Now, back to the book. If you scroll through the old posts, I had linked a video on our contemporary government and its threat to our liberty. My cousin Tom, a staunch conservative, ex-Air Force captain and Viet Nam vet, was very, very upset when he listened to it, because he believes Naomi Wolf who was pictured giving a lecture to students on how precious our liberty is, and how we have let others govern every aspect of our lives, steal our liberties and our rights is virtually a Communist. The book is "The End of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, a Citizen's Call to Action". Well, I don't agree. Not when you hear her speak, or read the book. What I am getting from it are the "GPS readings" of the warning signs of a disastrous disintegration of our country, and why.

I'm not too far into it. But Wolf has the unique gift of upending the box of the jigsaw puzzle, and show you where the pieces go.

We are here because of the singular courageous acts of our patriots. They were radicals in a time of unease and restraint. Liberty was a radical thought. Whether they were seeking religious freedom as the Pilgrims, or the sweetness of breathing the free air of personal freedom by escaping the rule of a tyrant king, these radical men and women eventually fought an impossible war on soil they claimed as theirs, which of course, displaced our native Americans, but I'm not going to light another fire. King George's fist reached across an ocean, but the blood of the new American patriots boiled and watered and fertilized that fabled tree of liberty. And America was born.

The concept of the founders of this country - that radical thing called FREEDOM - and the carefully crafted Constitution, called for all of us to be engaged in our pursuit of limited government, maximum freedom and the right to privacy. They wanted us to understand, as we walked through our lives to new centuries, that we were given individual responsibility, to protect the preciousness of freedom and liberty and understand the tenets they set down for us.

Today, the Supreme Court has legislated law - not interpreted the Constitution - in the case of the sentencing of rapists, particularly in the case of children, in Louisiana. Rapists, including those who viciously rape children, will only be put to death when they kill their victims. I heard Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana speaking on Glenn Beck's show today, so impassioned, so angry and frustrated that the Justices would disallow the death penalty for rapists of children.

In the case of Heller, a case which decides whether or not residents of Washington, DC are "allowed" to keep and bear arms for hunting and personal protection, they were deciding on OUR RIGHTS, to which we are entitled the moment we are born, if we are free children of a free country. There are, however, restrictions on the types of weapons, and if law enforcement can have them to use at will against free citizens, then we should have them available to us.

The Founders, I'm sure are banging their fists against their coffin lids wherever they are buried, or their ghosts are pacing the cemeteries, forests and fields where they fell birthing America.

This is not really a digression from Naomi Wolf's book. We've been sleeping. And when we awoke, we took liberty and freedom and placed it in the hands of politicians who are mercenaries of corrupt global entities whose sole purpose is the destruction of the concept of freedom and liberty because they don't want us to feel our power. We didn't take the smoldering fire with us as we trekked through those 200+ years from then to now. We didn't teach our children, and we didn't think it was so important that the Constitution be taught and understood in the classroom. Seldom if ever do we hear about it in church, yet it gives us the right to worship as we please.

President Dubya Bush has signed our liberties away with a penstroke many times. And now we are headed into draconian times if we aren't careful...our lives as free men and women are seriously under siege.

Whether you are liberal, conservative, middle of the road, please acknowledge the right to the word "patriot". It is the name proudly worn and earned as a defender of the Constitution in a time where political correctness has sullied its meaning. The rights it denotes, are divinely bestowed to each human being, and not bartered or begged for. It doesn't mean fight and die on foreign soil for a tyrant who made you think it was for the good of America. That war we're fighting, I am convinced is a scam; there is now so much evidence to prove that we have been duped. The forces that control our politicians never sleep.

But neither do patriots.

Read the book for a wake up call.