And so I've been told...

that if I'm caught with rolling papers on my person without cigarette tobaco also on my person that I can be arrested and charged with a mistameaner for possession of drug paraphanalia.

And if that ever happens I will challenge it to the U.S. Supreme Court. I use rolling papers for the following LEGAL purposes:

lip blotter
make-up blotter (for oily skin)
nail wraps for broken nails

Now why rolling papers? Because in some places (not around here) there are beauty supply stores that sell thin linen papers for the above purposes. They charge 2-3 times as much for a package with the same amount of papers. I do not feel that I should (a) have to drive 45 minutes away to find a beauty store (b) pay more for the same exact product in a pretty pink package (c) be treated like a friggin' criminal because SOME people choose to use legal items for illegal purposes.

And for the record, I have bleach, amonia, Sudafed and lye at my house. Does this mean I'm making meth? NO! It means that I keep a clean house, had a cold a few months back, and make homemade soap.

I love my country. I am as red-blooded American as you can get. I think this is the best country in the world (despite the humorous Presidential bids that are going on between some the absolute biggest worthless idiots the country has to offer).

But I am tired of seeing my freedoms slowing eroding away. We are INNOCENT in this country until PROVEN guilty. Slowly but surely laws are being written, slyly, which would served to make us guilty until proven innocent, take our freedom away, and put us under the authoritative rule of those elected officials whose job it is to make sure this doesn't happen in the first place. Like a frog in water that is slowing heated, too many people let these laws be. In this case they sit back and say, "Well, it's to combat the drug problem, so I'll give up a little bit of freedom."

Ben Franklin once said, "A man who is willing to give up a bit of freedom for a bit of security deserves neither."

And in case you're wondering, the frog will stay in that water until he is quite litterally boiled to death, even though the lid is off.

Now, onto OTHER equally important business...

I've been TAGGED, by Pobble

I am to give three reasons why I blog, and then tag three other people. I've given this some serious consideration, so here goes:

(1) Anonymity. I say a lot of things up here that I wouldn't say otherwise. I let my hair down (and sometimes my clothes too...OH NO!). I don't care what people think (as long as they leave a comment as I am a whore about the comment section). Around people I don't know super well I have a tendency to give nervous and babble on (I babble on about certain subjects anyway in front of people I know really well, but they love me anyway). So I loose my inhibitions behind my "pen name" and can let the inner me hang on out.

(2) I am a writer. I have been since I were a wee li'l one. I write essays for fun. I have a small series called "Fairy Tales for Gun Loving Conservatives". I just don't believe I'll ever be published, so I "publish" my thoughts at my blog. The more comments I get, the better I feel (that's why I'm a comments whore). I may never see my writings at Amazon.com (Pobble, I am sooooo foaming with jealousy...but the good kind), but when I see y'all's (I live in the South, that IS gramatically correct) comments, well that's good enough for me. See, this blog is all about ME and my need to be noticed!!!

(3) I started my first blog ("What is Birth Control") when a fried emailed me hers. I started a blog to keep up with a hand-full from school. But now I've met some really amazing people through my blog. Who knows, one day I may contact a few of you and go on a road trip to meet ya...