And I reciprocated .......
I was quite fond of Virgil's "Goode News." Virgil had some peculiar views. He was proud of them. They marked him as a maverick, not a marionette. Your newsletters have consistently pointed to the latter. I think I've expressed myself on that point repeatedly. I won't belabor.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote on the subject of your evident glee in thwarting the private property rights of St. James College, and your gratuitous parroting of unfounded and pejorative characterization by the looney fringe of the motivations and actions of our President. Also, you were proud of legislation that guts humane and wholesome laws, rather than fully fund their enforcement, and encourage Lawrenceville's participation in upholding the Rule of Law.
None of the recent response to my email addresses my concerns, but neither does it reinforce my concerns. You speak as a Congressman -- saying essentially nothing, but in a way that reflects a consideration of broad concerns which indeed have thwarted even the heroic efforts of Bush 43 to bring about a consensus. We are a similar age. If my father has his way, I'd have been Hampton-Sidney class of 1976. Instead, I went to Carnegie Mellon, and remember a fondness of Woody Guthrie, especially his Hobo's Lullaby and Los Gatos. That was 1948. It ain't going away. They ain't going away. I remember at Carnegie being a fan of Milton Freedman. Funny how Chile suffered under his advisorship. Funny how Alan Greenspan regrets the failure of objectivist ideology as a governing principle. Funny how those same principles failed Bremer's consulship in Iraq. YOU AND PAUL RYAN ARE IN THRALL TO A PROVEN FAILURE. -- but I digress. Dr. Freedman spoke of voting with your feet. What is more violent? The intrusion of our borders, or what is necessary to deflect that intrusion? Are people coming here to be given stuff? I think not. They want to be safe. They want to pursue aspirations. They want to be Americans!
I digress again. I was doing Census work in 1999 in the orchard country around Covesville during harvest season. When I had car trouble -- who came to my aid? Not the priest. Not the Levite. THE SAMARITAN! I'm proud to have such neighbors. I wish the law would adapt to the facts on the ground rather than promote violence to alter those facts. In fact, I demand it. Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and Pope Francis all demand it. And that is a much better governing principle than the "Triumph of the Will" philosophy prevalent in the Bush Administration. Perhaps Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand aren't so bad after all -- it's the Leni Riefenstahl aberration of the wingnut Right that screwed up Chile's and Iraq's economy, and are working hard (out of Wichita) to undermine our own.
In closing -- I wasn't particularly pleased by your response to my email, but was at least pleased to not be so aggressively and egregiously displeased as is routine from you weekly newsletter.
Friday, August 15, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Bobby Hurt is pissing me off yet again.
Rep Robert Hurt of Virginia's 5th Congressional District (our Represntative from Wichita) sends out a weekly email, touting the Kleptocrat party talking points. Last week, he was calling our President bad names. I sent a quick note there, especially in light of his pride in the interference in the private property rights of a local entity. Didn't blog it. This week it's a repeat of the "House Republicans have paved the way for the rape of our communities and wage-enslavement of our neighbors, BUT THE SENATE WON'T YIELD" trope that shows up every few weeks, on slow news weeks (or embarrassing rich news weeks).
I just cutting and pasting what I wrote. Maybe a few links thrown in for context...........
I've written in the past advocating private and public infrastructure investment. It would be nice to see a US Govt balance sheet where debt was balanced against income-generating assets. Then your 17 Trillion figure would be, hopefully, a net positive, and not a bankrupt government.
But my concern is the recent report that greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta oil sands are projected to exceed by a factor of three prior projections. And yet, with our cooperation or without -- say a British Columbia route to China or a Saskatchewan route to Europe -- extraction, refining, and combustion will proceed. Those gases are there, like it or not. (OR pretend it doesn't matter or not).
TAX CARBON!!! Build the pipeline, and tax carbon. Tax Western Virginia coal carbon. Tax the release of methane by fracking operations. Tax cow flatulence. Don't indemnify groundwater contamination and other externalities of extraction and transport. In fact, write laws which make it a rebuttable presumption that contamination originates from extractive use or transportation spill of the contaminating substances, with specific, preferably treble penalties. PAY AT THE PUMP!!!
Stop the subsidizing of harmful externalities. Create systems of compensation and remediation. Then, we will end up paying more money for our BTUs, entirely voluntary, when we pay at the pump. The system you are perpetuating with your very un-Republican objection to cap and trade, is one of violent coercion where I am enslaved by the consumer of cheap energy, who pollutes my air, my water, my vistas, my sacred natural spaces, even the very weather, to keep fuel cheap, at his neighbor's expense. I should think Ayn Rand would abhor the kind of coercive violence you have been advocating. And certainly Pope Francis has expressed his explicit abhorrence.
TAX CARBON!!! perhaps Cap and Trade. PAY AT THE PUMP!!! These are not socialist values. THESE ARE CHRISTIAN AND AMERICAN VALUES. INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE -- the Whig and Republican parties were born on that value. In times of cheap capital -- Where are the investments in low-unit-cost, large-capital energy production and conservation projects? Private projects? You, in your committee assignments, have and have squandered opportunities to alter that. Where is the information, transportation, electrical distribution, waste disposal, water impound, and other investment, both public and private? Why is Congress wanting to see America squander the Whig/Republican ethic that fed our prosperity? Why is Congress facilitating the erosion of the physical and moral fabric of America to subsidize the Plutocrats and Kleptocrats, who impoverish communities when they come waltzing in with their unregistered private equity advisors.
I just cutting and pasting what I wrote. Maybe a few links thrown in for context...........
I've written in the past advocating private and public infrastructure investment. It would be nice to see a US Govt balance sheet where debt was balanced against income-generating assets. Then your 17 Trillion figure would be, hopefully, a net positive, and not a bankrupt government.
But my concern is the recent report that greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta oil sands are projected to exceed by a factor of three prior projections. And yet, with our cooperation or without -- say a British Columbia route to China or a Saskatchewan route to Europe -- extraction, refining, and combustion will proceed. Those gases are there, like it or not. (OR pretend it doesn't matter or not).
TAX CARBON!!! Build the pipeline, and tax carbon. Tax Western Virginia coal carbon. Tax the release of methane by fracking operations. Tax cow flatulence. Don't indemnify groundwater contamination and other externalities of extraction and transport. In fact, write laws which make it a rebuttable presumption that contamination originates from extractive use or transportation spill of the contaminating substances, with specific, preferably treble penalties. PAY AT THE PUMP!!!
Stop the subsidizing of harmful externalities. Create systems of compensation and remediation. Then, we will end up paying more money for our BTUs, entirely voluntary, when we pay at the pump. The system you are perpetuating with your very un-Republican objection to cap and trade, is one of violent coercion where I am enslaved by the consumer of cheap energy, who pollutes my air, my water, my vistas, my sacred natural spaces, even the very weather, to keep fuel cheap, at his neighbor's expense. I should think Ayn Rand would abhor the kind of coercive violence you have been advocating. And certainly Pope Francis has expressed his explicit abhorrence.
TAX CARBON!!! perhaps Cap and Trade. PAY AT THE PUMP!!! These are not socialist values. THESE ARE CHRISTIAN AND AMERICAN VALUES. INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE -- the Whig and Republican parties were born on that value. In times of cheap capital -- Where are the investments in low-unit-cost, large-capital energy production and conservation projects? Private projects? You, in your committee assignments, have and have squandered opportunities to alter that. Where is the information, transportation, electrical distribution, waste disposal, water impound, and other investment, both public and private? Why is Congress wanting to see America squander the Whig/Republican ethic that fed our prosperity? Why is Congress facilitating the erosion of the physical and moral fabric of America to subsidize the Plutocrats and Kleptocrats, who impoverish communities when they come waltzing in with their unregistered private equity advisors.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Boehner
The IRS where? Cincinnati, you say? Boehner cronies in a false flag operation, I think. And the destruction of data only makes that seem more likely. But I believe truth will out.
It was like the cold war days. Russia hates China hates USA. The object is for A to harm B, while implication C. Then B and C are at war -- and A prevails. False flag, that's what I think.
Now this lawsuit. WTF!!! I would think that exemption from regulation, temporal or absolute, are part of the unmitigated power of the president to pardon. Perhaps unitary executive doctrine requires a specific exemption from the President -- an explicit executive order. Given the Republican preference for a strong (unitary) executive, then perhaps they are pursuing an action which they win by losing, solidifying the doctrine of absolute pardon power beyond criminal clemency. Boehner must be a genius. An evil genius, alas. Braniac from Superman, colored orange not green. There must be a word for a lawsuit that one wins by losing. Unconstitutional certainly.
It was like the cold war days. Russia hates China hates USA. The object is for A to harm B, while implication C. Then B and C are at war -- and A prevails. False flag, that's what I think.
Now this lawsuit. WTF!!! I would think that exemption from regulation, temporal or absolute, are part of the unmitigated power of the president to pardon. Perhaps unitary executive doctrine requires a specific exemption from the President -- an explicit executive order. Given the Republican preference for a strong (unitary) executive, then perhaps they are pursuing an action which they win by losing, solidifying the doctrine of absolute pardon power beyond criminal clemency. Boehner must be a genius. An evil genius, alas. Braniac from Superman, colored orange not green. There must be a word for a lawsuit that one wins by losing. Unconstitutional certainly.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Desperation and dependency
Bull Moose on the Loose
| It's up to us, not Priest nor King, To cede authority To folks with grand ambitious dreams To mold society By force or guile or subtle style Each seeks to gain the right To pick the traits that earn success What's fair and wrong and right 'Who is my neighbor?' Christ was asked, 'Who I ought love as self?' 'Who is his neighbor?' we might ask, 'What counts to him as wealth?' Counting wealth in dollars and cents Eye on the bottom line Neighbor is but cost or purchase Employed or coaxed to buy. Counting wealth in favors owed And power to coerce Neighbor is but us or them The minion or the cursed Counting wealth in a vista breadth Of beauty, peace, delight My neighbor thrills and entertains And keeps me safe from plight. Coercion and exploitation Want losers, all but few. And fight each against the other 'Who's with me?' Red or Blue? I choose neither of these swine To cast my precious pearl Kept in my pocket, I am rich Enough to make this world Yield more and more through stewardship Of what my vistas hold And dream of Teddy, LaFollette And Pinchot's days of old. By Robert Corey |
Letter to Bob Hurt, re: USPS financial services.
Predatory lending is among my greatest concerns for what's wrong about America. And I'm not at all sure how to fix things. I don't think financial services through the USPS will be a remedy without dangers... specifically the danger of systemic collapse should this "too essential to fail" institution have collection issues.
I developed a certain affection for Tom Bliley, when the Clinton impeachment circus destroyed my faith in Congress and I became something of an active correspondent. I had hoped that my Delegate, Paul Harris could replace him. I hoped he might have replaced Virgil when the district lines were drawn that way after the 2000 Census. Anyhow, I voted for Martin, not Cantor. Both had their issues, but I trust a man of faith more than an acolyte of Objectivism. You seem to be something of both, but I hope sometime to appeal to the former. Often, I see something in the Sunday texts that might serve to persuade you to follow Jesus, not Ayn. Anyhow -- back to predatory lending.
Cantor was only my Rep for his first term. I didn't write much, and his correspondence responses paled to Bliley's exemplary staff work (as do yours, though meritorious, relative to Virgil's -- I never cared for Perriello's). I recall writing against his signature education tax credit, for the designation of the Falls of the James as an historical treasure, for Bliley's signature Liberty Dollar, and for developing means for reputable financial companies to better secure debt to displace collateralized usury (pawn, title, and paycheck loans, also rent-to-own). I think perhaps Cantor read "securitized" instead of "secured" and "mortgage" rather than collateral, and tongue-in-cheek blame my emails to Cantor for America's economic collapse. (As I tongue-in-cheek imagine Lewinsky as a correspondence clerk reading my letter to the President mentioning his boring neckties (Rush, at the time, was selling neckties), then selecting her initial gift to Handsome).
The point being -- the clients of predatory lenders don't deserve too much consideration. Consumer lending in general is symptomatic of the cancer in our culture that creates desperation (which RHINOS love) and dependency (which Democrats love). A consumer culture is a sick culture -- an exploitative culture. It is the culture you, Rep Hurt, pander to every time the price of gas rises at the pumps. It is the culture those offensive internet campaign ads, funded with public money, appealed to. Our aspirations, not our appetites, ought direct our energies. That is authentic Republican culture -- nothing RINO about it, though too often dismissed as such.
But, our God accommodates the hardness of our hearts. He's a God of harm reduction. (I welcome the opportunity to expand on that theme, but I've diverged enough already). So we work to (treat the symptoms) thwart the exploitation and income inequality and compensatory socialism of a culture of consumer debt (including the National debt for recurring expenses), while seeking to identify, understand, and cure the illness. USPS financial services will likely be a more socially healthy response to consumer lending than Paycheck lending -- but bears the same risks. The risks, and means to lessen them (and not systematize them, as happened with mortgage lending) must be addressed. The public treasury and national economy cannot be held hostage to the insatiable hungers of a sick society.
What I hope to see more of is aspirational lending -- enterprise lending. What you, Rep Hurt, are championing (or seem to be) in your appeal for unfettered and unmonitored private equity funding. I see where micro-lending by faith organizations is something I'd like to explore. People with dreams need someone other than Gordon Gecko and the Shark Tank to support those dreams. And, despite your fine rhetoric, they need their Gordon Geckos to be licensed, registered and regulated.
I developed a certain affection for Tom Bliley, when the Clinton impeachment circus destroyed my faith in Congress and I became something of an active correspondent. I had hoped that my Delegate, Paul Harris could replace him. I hoped he might have replaced Virgil when the district lines were drawn that way after the 2000 Census. Anyhow, I voted for Martin, not Cantor. Both had their issues, but I trust a man of faith more than an acolyte of Objectivism. You seem to be something of both, but I hope sometime to appeal to the former. Often, I see something in the Sunday texts that might serve to persuade you to follow Jesus, not Ayn. Anyhow -- back to predatory lending.
Cantor was only my Rep for his first term. I didn't write much, and his correspondence responses paled to Bliley's exemplary staff work (as do yours, though meritorious, relative to Virgil's -- I never cared for Perriello's). I recall writing against his signature education tax credit, for the designation of the Falls of the James as an historical treasure, for Bliley's signature Liberty Dollar, and for developing means for reputable financial companies to better secure debt to displace collateralized usury (pawn, title, and paycheck loans, also rent-to-own). I think perhaps Cantor read "securitized" instead of "secured" and "mortgage" rather than collateral, and tongue-in-cheek blame my emails to Cantor for America's economic collapse. (As I tongue-in-cheek imagine Lewinsky as a correspondence clerk reading my letter to the President mentioning his boring neckties (Rush, at the time, was selling neckties), then selecting her initial gift to Handsome).
The point being -- the clients of predatory lenders don't deserve too much consideration. Consumer lending in general is symptomatic of the cancer in our culture that creates desperation (which RHINOS love) and dependency (which Democrats love). A consumer culture is a sick culture -- an exploitative culture. It is the culture you, Rep Hurt, pander to every time the price of gas rises at the pumps. It is the culture those offensive internet campaign ads, funded with public money, appealed to. Our aspirations, not our appetites, ought direct our energies. That is authentic Republican culture -- nothing RINO about it, though too often dismissed as such.
But, our God accommodates the hardness of our hearts. He's a God of harm reduction. (I welcome the opportunity to expand on that theme, but I've diverged enough already). So we work to (treat the symptoms) thwart the exploitation and income inequality and compensatory socialism of a culture of consumer debt (including the National debt for recurring expenses), while seeking to identify, understand, and cure the illness. USPS financial services will likely be a more socially healthy response to consumer lending than Paycheck lending -- but bears the same risks. The risks, and means to lessen them (and not systematize them, as happened with mortgage lending) must be addressed. The public treasury and national economy cannot be held hostage to the insatiable hungers of a sick society.
What I hope to see more of is aspirational lending -- enterprise lending. What you, Rep Hurt, are championing (or seem to be) in your appeal for unfettered and unmonitored private equity funding. I see where micro-lending by faith organizations is something I'd like to explore. People with dreams need someone other than Gordon Gecko and the Shark Tank to support those dreams. And, despite your fine rhetoric, they need their Gordon Geckos to be licensed, registered and regulated.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Bob Hurt uses targeted web ads for political advertising paid by public funds.
My letter today to my Representative....
Nothing to cause much distress in your latest Round-up. I hope the bill you reference does not indemnify frackers from damage to landowners. How does a community deal with negative externalities from extractive industries, even if the extraction is simply catching the wind or the sun? Emissions into the water and air are more concrete than microclimate and viewscape issues. But I fear the forces that evade regulatory and judicial remedies and compensations for these externalities -- not to mention indemnity limits for catastrophes related to extractive activities. I fear the forces advocating that the rest of us live with the consequences of our energy addiction, through the diminishment of our lives. We need to PAY AT THE PUMP -- not in slow death by repeated small cuts of negative externalities.
But that's not why I write. I write because I saw an ad on my Embarq webmail. Bob Hurt -- protecting your Medicare. I clicked the link expecting a campaign site -- but was directed instead to your congressional site. THAT KIND OF AD WITH CONGRESSIONAL MONEY IS UNACCEPTABLE. Please show me either how it is legitimate use of public funds, or that it was indeed paid for by campaign funds, despite linking to your congressional site.
I'm annoyed as well that I get these ads directed at me according to where I browse the internet. I get hotel ads because I've checked travel sites. I get political ads (AND THAT IS WHAT YOURS WAS!!) because I write my Representative. I even started browsing Victorias Secret to get a better class of ads. I don't care what NSA knows about me. BUT GOOGLE KNOWS TOO DAMN MUCH! Perhaps you can find a legislative remedy to all that. NO! You wouldn't. You are one of those who subscribe -- WITH PUBLIC FUNDS -- to those targeted web ads. FOR SHAME.
Nothing to cause much distress in your latest Round-up. I hope the bill you reference does not indemnify frackers from damage to landowners. How does a community deal with negative externalities from extractive industries, even if the extraction is simply catching the wind or the sun? Emissions into the water and air are more concrete than microclimate and viewscape issues. But I fear the forces that evade regulatory and judicial remedies and compensations for these externalities -- not to mention indemnity limits for catastrophes related to extractive activities. I fear the forces advocating that the rest of us live with the consequences of our energy addiction, through the diminishment of our lives. We need to PAY AT THE PUMP -- not in slow death by repeated small cuts of negative externalities.
But that's not why I write. I write because I saw an ad on my Embarq webmail. Bob Hurt -- protecting your Medicare. I clicked the link expecting a campaign site -- but was directed instead to your congressional site. THAT KIND OF AD WITH CONGRESSIONAL MONEY IS UNACCEPTABLE. Please show me either how it is legitimate use of public funds, or that it was indeed paid for by campaign funds, despite linking to your congressional site.
I'm annoyed as well that I get these ads directed at me according to where I browse the internet. I get hotel ads because I've checked travel sites. I get political ads (AND THAT IS WHAT YOURS WAS!!) because I write my Representative. I even started browsing Victorias Secret to get a better class of ads. I don't care what NSA knows about me. BUT GOOGLE KNOWS TOO DAMN MUCH! Perhaps you can find a legislative remedy to all that. NO! You wouldn't. You are one of those who subscribe -- WITH PUBLIC FUNDS -- to those targeted web ads. FOR SHAME.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Back to Shanksville
Some time ago, I posted on this blog something I wrote in 2005, four sore and sorry years after our national response to 9/11 destroyed far more than the terrorists did or ever could.
It's come to mind as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. That cartoon I link to raises a question concerning, of all things, our Pledge of Allegiance. While "Under God" is the phrase of greatest contention -- a phrase introduced into the Pledge as a rebuke of godless communism, but which began almost immediately a culture war, for the most part won by Madeline Murray O'Hair. She won because there is no such thing in Jesus' teaching as a Christian nation. The kingdom of heaven does not have boundaries. Some who call themselves Christian, and most particularly the Dominionists, regard the government of ancient Israel, according to the precepts of the God we have come to know through Christianity, as a model for our own time. But that government didn't survive the era of Judges into the Davidic monarchy, much less into Jesus's time, much less our own. But the silliness of "Under God" is just an aside. Increasing coming under question is "Indivisible." Some would remove that word from our Pledge. Ought they? Ought others resist? Ought I? I've not entirely thought it through.
But I've been trying to replace the phrase "Under God" when reciting the Pledge with "Of Laws Not Men." In the context of that phrase, the heads of our nation are not men or women, but charter documents. Many nations have a Head of State (The Queen), and a Head of Government (Prime Minister). The head of State need not be hereditary. Many nations elect or appoint one. We might imagine those two in the USA combined in the office of the President. But he's a man, just a man.
The Government originates from the State. It serves the State. Our Constitution is the LAW that constitutes our head of government. The Declaration is the LAW that constitutes our head of State. Our Declaration is immutable and inviolable except in its entirety. Its repudiation results in a new state, Repudiation of the Constitution is potentially gradual and remediative, as by amendment. Or by upheaval. As far as I know, the CSA of 1861-5 never repudiated the Declaration. It remained their State charter. A government in exile, perhaps.
When we pledge allegiance, do we pledge to both the State and the government? I'm brought to say at this point the we've had 44 Presidents, but one government. I'm not sure of the truth of that assertion. And it seems less and less true as purported champions of the Constitution seem anything but. Anyhow, I pledge allegiance to a FLAG, that I've honored in an essay I'm not sure I can find -- it was posted on GeoCities of all places. But I characterized it as a sovereign of stars, the people of the 50 states, on a field of stripes, born in the charters devised by the original 13. The Flag, not the President, is the institution in which the State and Government are joined. It is my Flag, your Flag, and the Flag also of the aspirational non-citizen. It is not the Flag of any class, party, movement, heritage group, or office. And when it's made into a mattress tag by force of law (some anti-desecration amendment, perhaps) it ceases to be a Flag. Which was the point of my GeoCities essay.
Back to the question of 'Indivisible.' Anyone who desires to remove that from the Pledge, I'm obliged to name a "Succesh" spoken with the same venom as by a Soldier being fired upon by a Confederate rifle pillaged from a United States arsenal.
It's come to mind as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. That cartoon I link to raises a question concerning, of all things, our Pledge of Allegiance. While "Under God" is the phrase of greatest contention -- a phrase introduced into the Pledge as a rebuke of godless communism, but which began almost immediately a culture war, for the most part won by Madeline Murray O'Hair. She won because there is no such thing in Jesus' teaching as a Christian nation. The kingdom of heaven does not have boundaries. Some who call themselves Christian, and most particularly the Dominionists, regard the government of ancient Israel, according to the precepts of the God we have come to know through Christianity, as a model for our own time. But that government didn't survive the era of Judges into the Davidic monarchy, much less into Jesus's time, much less our own. But the silliness of "Under God" is just an aside. Increasing coming under question is "Indivisible." Some would remove that word from our Pledge. Ought they? Ought others resist? Ought I? I've not entirely thought it through.
But I've been trying to replace the phrase "Under God" when reciting the Pledge with "Of Laws Not Men." In the context of that phrase, the heads of our nation are not men or women, but charter documents. Many nations have a Head of State (The Queen), and a Head of Government (Prime Minister). The head of State need not be hereditary. Many nations elect or appoint one. We might imagine those two in the USA combined in the office of the President. But he's a man, just a man.
The Government originates from the State. It serves the State. Our Constitution is the LAW that constitutes our head of government. The Declaration is the LAW that constitutes our head of State. Our Declaration is immutable and inviolable except in its entirety. Its repudiation results in a new state, Repudiation of the Constitution is potentially gradual and remediative, as by amendment. Or by upheaval. As far as I know, the CSA of 1861-5 never repudiated the Declaration. It remained their State charter. A government in exile, perhaps.
When we pledge allegiance, do we pledge to both the State and the government? I'm brought to say at this point the we've had 44 Presidents, but one government. I'm not sure of the truth of that assertion. And it seems less and less true as purported champions of the Constitution seem anything but. Anyhow, I pledge allegiance to a FLAG, that I've honored in an essay I'm not sure I can find -- it was posted on GeoCities of all places. But I characterized it as a sovereign of stars, the people of the 50 states, on a field of stripes, born in the charters devised by the original 13. The Flag, not the President, is the institution in which the State and Government are joined. It is my Flag, your Flag, and the Flag also of the aspirational non-citizen. It is not the Flag of any class, party, movement, heritage group, or office. And when it's made into a mattress tag by force of law (some anti-desecration amendment, perhaps) it ceases to be a Flag. Which was the point of my GeoCities essay.
Back to the question of 'Indivisible.' Anyone who desires to remove that from the Pledge, I'm obliged to name a "Succesh" spoken with the same venom as by a Soldier being fired upon by a Confederate rifle pillaged from a United States arsenal.
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