Thanks for everything Dave, it was a wonderful trip.  From meeting your extraordinary family to sampling some of the best food I've eaten in quite a while.  I had no idea how much hard work trucking is, the driving almost being the least of it.  All the behind the scenes work you do is incredible.  Everything from a requirement of an almost encyclopedic knowledge of local, state, and federal regulations to operating a truck with enough complexity to rival an aircraft.  Even operating a new water bottle.  I thoroughly enjoyed the trip in the Cajun Starship.  It's a traveling landmark.

Define and include a specific right to privacy.

Provide for full citizenship for members of the Armed Forces.  By this I mean that if you are old enough to die for your country you are old enough to drink and vote as long as they are on active duty.

Thank you for the kind words, gentlelady.

I'm unsure what you mean by this.  Do you think mandatory community service is wrong?  Or that the way it's being carried out is wrong?

I'm a fan of mandatory community service as a means of making one aware that he is part of something bigger than himself, like saying the pledge of allegiance.  But I agree with the professors that the way the NY bar seems to be going about it is ill-considered.

I've always thought of Indians as aborigines, rather than as natives.  How many generations of one's family must be born in this country to become native Americans?

There is a finite limit to how much outrage we have, or horror or even compassion.  With the amount of information about atrocities all over the world constantly bombarding us, I think we tend to start tuning things out to preserve our own sanity.

Small revolutions are happening in response to the federal government's continued desecration of the constitution.  The government says whatever it does is constitutional because they say it's constitutional, and everyone who opposes them is a supporter of terrorism.  More and more citizens are refusing to go along with the ever increasing abuse of power the federal government has claimed for itself.

About the law...are the feds right?  Does anything they say go?  Could be they are technically right.  That doesn't mean the people will accept it.

Like I said, I believe we are going to see an ever increasing number of small revolutions against the fed.

I'd be happy if we stopped supporting the North Korean government.  We send food that doesn't get to the hungry.  The money saved by the DPRK is then used to by weapons.  This kind of thing could only make sense to a madman, or a politician, but I repeat myself.

The price of intervention goes way beyond dollars.  We shouldn't intervene if we aren't willing to pay the full price, to go all the way until the job is finished.

America does not know how to win a war.  We can win the battles, and we do, but we end up losing the war because we don't know what to do after the battles are won.

What borders?  For all the success we've had at keeping people and things out, we might as well not have borders.

None of our business?  If we ignore the situation long enough, it will become our business with a vengeance.

What has kept us safe from terrorist is their ineptitude and sheer luck.  Politicians from both major religions, Democrat and Republican, have claimed to keep us safe from terrorists by burning the constitution and stripping Americans of their most basic rights. 

Might as well say they've kept us safe from zombies, because, well, have you seen any zombies?  Well, there you go.

Jones actions, silly as they may be, are defended by the First Amendment.  Those who would commit violence need no excuse, though the press will always willingly give them one.   There can be no way not to offend Muslim extremists.  The very idea of Christianity is antithetical to them.  Sure we all convert in order not to offend them?  Finally, where does one find a photograph of Mohammad?

Reenactors return the juices of life to history that is usually sucked flat and dry by the subtraction of everything but the barest fact.  I can't think of a more delightful way of learning than by watching people doing all those ordinary things that never seem to get much historical mention.

The money is a small price to pay just to see the likes of my friend Dave Carter.  The rest of you wonderful folks are icing on the cake.

What the heck, as well as tee-total lets push celibacy as well. 

As far as giving things to congress to keep 'em from doing their jobs, why bother?  They haven't done their jobs in years.

LOL  You had to have been there.  Oh, it was still creepy, but it was funny.