Since it’s the 4th of July here is the incomparable Chet Atkins playing The Stars and Stripes Forever. I like the way he worked the fife (or flute) part into it.

And here is Vladimir Horowitz playing it on the piano.

I hear this and then I think of the traitor we have in the White House and how the Dimocrat Party with the help of many “Republicans” are destroying this country. The Supreme Court has pretty much destroyed the Constitution. They find all sorts of stuff that isn’t in it. James Madison is spinning in his grave. Even John Adams who was for a strong central gummint would be shocked at the behemoth it has become. And Jefferson? He would be totally ashamed and appalled that today’s Dimocrat Party has declared him to be one of its founders. He believed in a small central gummint with most of the power and gummint at the state level. He would be much more attuned to the Republican Party. I hope you are proud of yourself Justice Roberts for how you have helped subvert the Constitution. I’m just wondering what it is the Dimocrats have on you?

We have defined deviancy so far down in this country that morals are pretty much non-existent. That’s what happened in Rome. The virtues of the Roman Republic degenerated just like the virtues of our current citizens. I’m glad my mother did not live to see what had become of this once great country. It is sad. So very very sad. I’m glad I’ll be dead before the collapse. Seeing it in its death throes is bad enough.