4th of July.

While visiting our home town, my boyfriend and i mulled over whether or not it's actually become even more conservative in the last several years. A while back during the yearly 4th of July parade, there was a float of catastophically bad taste.

It depicted a man dressed in flowing robes and a beard as Jesus, holding his outstretched arms and looking at the sky. In front of him was a mock-up of the twin towers about six or so feet high, with cotton 'smoke' and a model airplane of a 747 puncturing the side.

i love moments when i'm struck speechless for positive reasons. Not so much a fan for moments like that one.

This year several different people were handing out unwanted pamphlets on saving souls from atheists, saving unborn 'children' from pro-choicers, saving America from the godless liberals.

Pretty much saving everyone from us. Saving you from me.

We tolerate the atmosphere and the people a little bit less each year. It just wears after awhile.

Over at the Huffington Post is this article.

"In the months following Obama's win, the Southern Poverty Law Center has reported more than 200 hate-related incidents referencing race. In Madison County, Idaho, a school superintendent found it necessary to respond to a complaint from parents that children on one school bus were chanting "assassinate Obama," while in North Carolina, the Statesville Record newspaper apologized for running a leader column asking, "What's more scary, a bleak economy or a black president?"

Good and proper god-fearing christian republicans. Every single one of them.

Despite this, we try to stay positive and make the best of it while there.