4th of July recap

First off, I will rant a little bit. It has occured to me that there are a lot of people out there that don't like America, and those in this country that realize that and try to appease those losers by always blaming america first (see liberals) are missing the point. Do I love my country? Yes. Do I think it's perfect? HELL NO Would I give my life to defend our freedom? Yes. What is amazing to me is those people that are embaressed to be here (see liberals again) well, you guys can get the fuck out, no one is keeping you here! Go to socialist Europe and bitch over there, you will find comfort over there. And maybe then when you see what shitholes most of those countries are over there you will realize how great this country is and how lucky you are to live in a country where you can openly criticize the government and not face punishment. Anyway... on to my day.
The day started off with me getting up at 7:30 am to head over to our local community center. I helped blow up ballons and get our floats ready. I got talking with a WWII vet as we were wrapping up and he told me that back in 1945 the Army had anticipated that we would have to do a land invasion of Japan and made out a bunch of Purple Hearts. To give you an idea on how many they made, they are STILL USING THE ONES THEY MADE BACK THEN TO THIS VERY DAY!!! Think about that for a minute...
Then we lined up on the street for the parade. I passed the local Green and DFL parties areas and they sucked ass compared to us. The DFL has this ex-marine that is challenging our local state senator in 2006. He shouldn't be too much of a problem but will probably put up a pretty good fight because he will go Kerry on our ass and play up his war record while ignoring the issues, its so predictable at this point. But I digress... the highlight of the day had to be when he was coming up and passed us smiling and waving yelling "Hi yall" and "Semper Fi" I looked around and all my conservative buddies were looking down embaressed and stuff. So I thought to myself screw it and yelled back to him, "Good luck, your going to need it!" Made everyone around me laugh and then I started ripping them for not joining in with me. God, we can be such pussies sometimes, thank god the party has got me, they seriously need a "bombthrower" like me, as we call it. We marched in the parade and handed out beads with our senate district websites address on it (Shameless plug time!) if you want to check it out go right here as a sidenote our site kicks ass compared to their and they don't even have a main meeting site, its so sad and yet so funny. I got talking with one of my conservative friends I realized I wasn't the only one with issues with our party (i.e big gvt. conservatives, the "Religious Right", etc.). We went back to have a BBQ afterwards and on the way back I managed to scrape on knee and get a lovely 1st degree burn on my other leg (I can be a klutz sometimes). At the end Mark Kennedy stopped by and I was surprised how quiet and softspoken he is. To everyone that doesn't live in MN remember this name, because we will be a key Senate race in 2006 because Mark Dayton is retiring (thank god). I went over to a neighbors house where I got talking with a conservative adult. The day was very nice, it was the first time in months I was able to rant in public outside of this blog. It was very refreshing and therapeutic to me. And I went over to watch the fireworks at night then came back and played Tiger Woods 2005 on my PS2. That was my day feel free to share yours here.