{"id":29,"date":"2014-03-14T22:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-04-10T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T22:23:52","slug":"asking-permission-to-elope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/asking-permission-to-elope.html","title":{"rendered":"Asking Permission to Elope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kin you imagine little Mary Jane, now 16 and wise in the ways of the world (some of them, anyway), coming to the startling conclusion that her life would be so much better if she were free from her mean, grumpy old daddy who never lets her have any fun at all, so when Rufus, the local dufus, suggests they ought to run away and get married, she goes straight home and asks her daddy for permission to elope.<\/p>\n<p>That is precisely what a simple citizen in Louisiana has recently done, with his petition for permission to secede, according to World Net Daily.\u00a0 He filed it the very day after the election.\u00a0 However, he just might be dumb like a fox, as we say.\u00a0 Mary Jane, for example, has a chance that her daddy will be so happy to see her go that he&#8217;ll say something brilliant like, &#8220;Here\u2019s a hunnert bucks.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the backside on your way out the door.&#8221;\u00a0 Uncle Sugar is not going to say that.\u00a0 He needs Louisiana oil, fish, timber, and most of all, the welfare votes that feeds the System.\u00a0 It would be too much to let such a lucrative concern just walk away, as if it were free.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut even so, the very audacity of some coon-ass in Slidell, Louisiana, drawing up a petition to secede!\u00a0 It stirs the soul.\u00a0 Even while we all laugh at him, many of us wish him luck, and the talk around coffee shops in Louisiana over the next month is going to be about this one subject.\u00a0 Now, that, my friend, is an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreaux is shaping the dialogue, whether he knows it or not.\u00a0 And after his petition is denied, well, he just might be in a bad mood.\u00a0 Y&#8217;all ever been to Slidell?\u00a0 I&#8217;m telling you for a fact that if you fly over that river, low and slow, in a private plane, them people will shoot at your airplane.\u00a0 (They think you&#8217;re snooping in on the only cash crop they&#8217;ve ever been able to grow in that gumbo soil, and they don&#8217;t intend for some &#8220;revenoor&#8221; pokin&#8217; around makin&#8217; trouble.)<\/p>\n<p>This Cajun points out that the Declaration of Independence clearly states that when governments become destructive of the rights of the People, they &#8220;have the right to alter or abolish it.&#8221;\u00a0 That would be true in a free country, but we don&#8217;t live in a free country.\u00a0 If we did, we would be free to withdraw, and we are not.\u00a0 The movement will grow when local elected officials take it seriously.\u00a0 And if they don&#8217;t, they may find themselves replaced by others who do.<\/p>\n<p>We wish him well.\u00a0 His movement needs to spread.\u00a0 Big Daddy is not going to give petitioners anything but a tax audit, but this is one of those little boiling pots that just could boil over into some real trouble.\u00a0 The mood of The People is definitely thinking about where to go.\u00a0 Many are contemplating moving out of the country for a few years (or decades).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought it myself, and you probably have too.\u00a0 Louisiana, however, doesn&#8217;t need to move to live in a third-world country &#8211; they already are one, and if the Feds bomb them back to the Stone Age, a lot of them won&#8217;t even notice!\u00a0 So they&#8217;ll just take their state with them, and leave.<\/p>\n<p>May God bless Louisiana, and some day, grant them Freedom.\u00a0 I hope to live to see it.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kin you imagine little Mary Jane, now 16 and wise in the ways of the world (some of them, anyway), coming to the startling conclusion that her life would be so much better if she were free from her mean, grumpy old daddy who never lets her have any fun at all, so when Rufus, the local dufus, suggests they ought to run away and get married, she goes straight home and asks her daddy for permission to elope.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubba-sez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oOJg-t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubbasmith.us\/bubba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}