The United States Of The Used To Be...

The early morning television news spoke of a bleeding need; residents hailing from Georgia, both Carolina's, Alabama, New York, Michigan and thirteen other borderlines have declared their freedom by introducing a petition then filing it with a White House program called: We The People. 4,000 names currently appear on the Georgia movement which strongly informs: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government... Wait! Wait! Before you officially run off and impeach your Mother-in-law from Secretary of the Superior Interior...you've got to follow the well laid out rules! Whoever initiates the petition must get 150 signatures just to "go live" on the Whitehouse website. Then, each state must get 25,000 signatures by Dec 10, 2012 to be considered by President Obama. Each state's plea reads similar: "Peacefully grant the State of Missouri to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government." Maybe I should mention why this seasons Thanksgiving Dinner talk might be a little testy. Um, yeah...the last Presidential election...it's kinda, sorta become a dip in the highway creating some serious stomach cramping, achy legs and bent but not broken bones in an already tired back. I mean seriously, what's a person supposed to think? Nowhere has it been written, I-books, drug store mailers or on a high school desk that The American Dream would include George Lucas selling out to Disney. When Yoda no longer feels the force...something's gotta snap. I'm sure the White House is taking this news of seceding very seriously. The last thing we need are more public disconnections like Paula Abdul leaving American Idol. If she would've could've hung on a little longer we'd be completely free of Entertainment Tonight's constant E-blasting of the verbal dispute between Mariah Carey and Niki Minaj. Think it's different? Hollywood is a nation of its own. What about the video game Call Of Duty Black Ops II? What if the election had interrupted last night's official release of what's said to be the greatest single most important mind blowing adventure ever? Those innocent Joy Sticks would never make it past security at McDonalds. What if President Obama wrote onto a scribble pad, "The 31 States of America?" Instantly We The People would get hooked up with a bad rap; always being compared to 31 Flavors. Knowing 19 states are currently screaming doesn't make us ice cream makers! Wonder how the Occupied Movement is handling the news of something a little more focused wanting to joust the biggest baddest knight in the kingdom? I was born in 1962 which made me much too young to know the whereabouts of the keys that unlocked 1968. Perks and spurts have been squirted on a few potentials but it's been next to near nothing since the Great Move Forward. I don't think it's cuz we're lazy. The streets are overrun by fuel guzzlin engines swiftly pushing people to anywhere USA! It not cuz we're poor. Billions come from out of nowhere for books, movies, concert tickets and technological releases. The more you spend the easier it is for CEO's to raise prices. Even if it means not paying this month's HBO bill...you've got what it takes to make it in America. I'm not making fun of the 19 states wanting to pick up and drop off the scene. Nobody knows more about being free than a Montana raised Big Sky chasing loud mouth nobody understands especially when he's writing. But... your movement can't come across as an angry teenager threatening to run away from home. Once you're out there someone has to put gas in the tank, come up with the dollars and cents for the cell phone to put out and it's no political statement or poor poor pitiful me party when the mail service makes mention of barely having enough cha ching to pay for employees. Being free from the belt loop doesn't make you a new pair of jeans. Fight! Fight for your right! Fight! Fight for your height! But be right with how high you're willing to fly. Not all wings are made of feathers strong enough to lift ambition. The last thing we need is a situation put together by leadership that checked out sometime last week. Keep Being American! It's in our genes.