March 28th 2009
Don’t Tread On Us
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esterday was a nice day. I drove with a Santa Margarita Water District board member and a Laguna Woods city council member from OC, across LA and into Kern County, to the beautiful, 97,000-acre Wind Wolves Preserve* for a meeting of the Southern California Water Committee. Unusual in today’s dreary SoCal water world, the meeting was productive. Plus, the conversations coming and going were terrific – and I went about 12 hours without news reports.
But when I got home, Incredible Wife was depressed. The difficult slog of being the CFO of a small biz in these times? Sort of, but more.
“You wouldn’t believe the things I’ve seen on TV today,” she said after listening to my report on my day, which cheered her up a bit.
“Geithner wants more control, so he can shut down a business if he thinks it’s a drag on the economy. The U.N. wants to take control of our economy. I don’t see the point of keeping on fighting against the economy if it’s going to be like this.”
That’s a bit worse than the usual recession worries about cash flow, eh? As I got caught up on the news, the positiveness of my day diminished, and within an hour or so, I was ready to be mad as he** and not take it anymore, so I went on line to buy some “Don’t Tread on Me” stickers for our cars.
I found some beautiful ones – 6″ X 4″ with the orignal artwork of the extended rattler on a yellow background – at Gadson & Culpepper, and ordered up 10 of them. We don’t have 10 cars; it’s just that “DOTM” evangelism is in order.
This morning, I got this email back from the purveyor of said stickers:
Thank you very much for your order.
Please give us a little extra time on your order this March and early April. Everyone seems to have the DTOM spirit and we will get everything to you as soon as we can.
So I have to wait, but is this good news or what? All across the country, people are typing “Don’t Tread on Me” into their browsers in search of a way to express their feelings, and they’re finding this site, and no doubt dozens of others that offer up this particular brand of rebelliousness. Gadson & Culpepper probably isn’t feeling the recession as much as other companies because they’ve tapped the root of a broad and spreading frustration and anger.
This morning on my way into the office (yes, it’s a recession so Saturday is a work day), I was listening to “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” NPR’s weekly quiz show. The caller was asked to guess what the most popular question was during Obama’s on-line Q&A session last week. The hosts mentioned that the Q&A was a part of a week of appearances by Obamarx, including “A prime-time press conference, Jay Leno and Home Shopping Network,” then it went something like this:
“Something about the economy?” guessed the caller.
“No, it was the one about his position on marijuana,” said one host.
There was some patter about pot, then one of the hosts said, “Maybe the financial stimulus plan would make more sense on pot.”
The joke got a solid round of applause – on NPR! – as did the Home Shopping Network jab. Things are not all peaches and cream for Rahmbama, folks.
* The Wind Wolves Preserve runs from the prairie-like grasslands at the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley floor to the peaks of the Tehachapi range. It gets its name from the wave-like movement of tall prairie grass in the wind … wind wolves. A very cool word picture, until you imagine yourself in the 1800s, on your Conestoga wagon, surrounded by miles of tall grass filled with all nature of beasts and think for a moment that every ripple of wind through the grass could indeed have been a wolf. And that one … and that one … a pack of wolves all around you.
Or are they just wind wolves? Brrrr.
Feel free to make the easy analogy to being surrounded by Obamarxists.
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March 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am
It’s sort of like a Grateful Dead record that way.