re: Florida neighbors can't bear the sight of nude gardener

It's always a guy.

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came out Sunday night to put the trash out, and I look over and he is bent over, winding up his hose

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Ol dude is hung











Oh meant garden hose

Just put up a fence if it bothers them so much.

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Absolutely do not agree. Loss of the Blue Laws have as much to do with the deterioration of our society as the loss of School Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Department of Education.

It is time to take a stand for God, morality and loyalty

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1. Not everyone is religious or believes in God(s) and that's okay. It doesn't make them ammoral people. The government should represent all of its people equally and therefore should not be allowed to take a stance when it comes to religion. Of course, I'm only speaking of public schools. If you want your child to have prayer in school then private school is available to you and I would fully support people getting a tax allowance of their portion that goes to public schools if they have their children in private schools. You shouldn't have to pay for school for your kids twice over. Also, religion is a private matter not a public matter. It's not something we all share or fund.

2. I love this country but pledging allegiance is a form of indoctrination that should be voluntary. I don't pledge my allegiance to anything but my family. If this country were ever attacked and my family was threatened I would absolutely defend it but it wouldn't be because I'm defending the country it would be because I'm defending my home and family. I can't say I really care enough about the other 400 million people in this country to die for them. Maybe that makes me selfish but it's the pursuit of one's own self-interest that is the basis for our highly successful capitalist economy and is what made this country great.

3. US Department of Education? Yeah, we can find common ground there, that shite needs to go the way of the dodo bird. States, but more importantly, individual school districts, should be in charge of their own schools. The more dispersed the power and the more local the governance the more effective it is.

“Naked Gardner observered with hose on both arms”

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a man who does yard work and walks around his property in the buff

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Rake out with your snake out

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No I don't think you do

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And why is that?

Is it because I don't subscribe to the specific brand of lockstep nationalism that you do? I would argue that based on my post that you responded to, my patriotism is more originalist than yours.

My only guiding principal is liberty, above all else and all the arguments I made are consistent with that principle.

The points that you've made involve forcing or coercing people to both pray in school and pledge their allegiance. I understand that you won't see it this way because you think the actions are noble and the ends justify the means but when you break it down it's really just more forced action against the citizens by the government.

At some point you have to ask yourself, are my personal values and specific lifestyle so important that I'm willing to risk one day having to live someone else's when I'm no longer the majority, just so I can enjoy the satisfaction of having everybody else live mine right now.

This is why freedom and liberty should always be the overarching principle of this nation and why, in the beginning, it was. We all agreed in the beginning that people should be free to live their life as they see fit in their private homes and private businesses but that specific forced action should never be applied to the general citizenry especially by an entity as powerful as the government