 These four or five easy payments of whatever, 29.95 or whatever it is, how come the payments are always easy? Easy for them. Easy for them to receive, you mean. It's easy for them to receive your... Receive it, put it on the couch and put it in the bank. Four easy payments, yeah. And then they vanish it. The product is investigated and it's fake. They vanish, the PO box is gone, and then they come back with another product under another name. Unbelievable. Anyway, let us, oh by the way, do you feel a tad bit warm or are you okay? No, why? You feel comfortable? Yeah, why? Oh, because you got the thermostat on our central air... I have it on 74. Oh good. Central air conditioning on 74. Don't wonder I'm a little sweaty. Alright. It's 74, you shouldn't be, it's blowing right on you. It's blowing right on me, brother. Okay. When I get up, maybe I put it on 74. Cameraman, camera person, is everything okay? The red dot is on, everything look okay? Yeah. The magical red dot, everything is fine, great, great. Red dot. Okay. The orange red dot. Okay, let us sink our teeth into these readings. The other day, I was having some words with some people. I always have words with some people. Certainly people. Now, the people involved had an idea of what they wanted to defend and they did so. Now this doesn't just involve like one person or whatever, this involves the Supreme Court of the United States also because they too have an idea but they are supposed to obey the Constitution. Hopefully. Well, they don't. Now, let me read exactly what the Constitution says about this subject and the subject is the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. Now, this is a quote from the Constitution of the United States, quote, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Yes. I hear you. Okay. So now where, where does that, as the Supreme Court has said, that is a right to bear arms per se. The Constitution is saying, yeah, you got a right to bear arms but you are also in a militia and a militia either is fighting for the state or fighting for the national government. So yeah, when you come for a meeting, you bring your gun, you go home, you hang your gun up on the wall, over your fireplace, unless you're going hunting. Well, I was just going to say, if there's a problem with an American citizen getting a permit for a gun that's meant to kill people, there ain't no problem. If there's a problem, well, under Republicans in the NRA, there won't be a problem. But if there is ever a problem, you just buy a hunting rifle or shotgun. If you want, look, a 12-gauge shotgun is extremely effective at defending your own, you know, in a case of martial law, you know, and people are running around looting and there's burglaries. But here's, here's the issue. Pump some double-o-buck into them. Here's the issue that the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court did not recognize and the individuals do not recognize because they believe that the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment is clearly stating that you have this right to go against your government if it becomes a tyranny. Which is becoming. It's not a tyranny. Not yet. It's fascism. But that doesn't give you a right to go out there with your gun and kill cops like this lady and guy did the other day. The point I'm making, the point I'm making is that's not how the Second Amendment was written. Yeah. You're right. You're right. Okay. And innocent whites, white people, elderly whites, a World War II veteran out in the West Coast just randomly selected and murdered. But those are individual problems. Because of ever since the Zimmerman case, innocent people, no, no, it's more than that. What do they have to do with the Second Amendment? Innocent people are targeted. Well, what does that have to do with the Second Amendment? That's my point entirely. No, you're talking about the Second Amendment. That's correct. But these things that you're talking about are problems. They're social problems. They're mental problems. Yeah. This, that needs to be done. Right, exactly. They have nothing to do, you know, with the Second Amendment for a second, right. But the point is that the conservatives will tell you, we need the right to bear on because we have to protect ourselves from the government. They are the government. They own the House of Representatives. And they have the opportunity to vote out the government leaders come election time. Get their asses to the polls. Make it your business to get to the polls. It was pathetic, the percentage of Americans that end up going to the polls and voting. So tinier. And they want to make that even tinier. Then they have no right to complain. Look, an old Jewish guy told me back in the 1980s. He had an accent like this, James, you, if you, did you vote? Well, I was young. I didn't think about voting. Well, of course not. I should have been more responsible. You have no right to complain. You have no right to complain if you don't vote. And he's right. If you don't vote, don't complain. You do have a right to complain because the fact that the matter is people evolve at different points. For instance, get your ass to the polls. Don't listen to what he just says. Get your ass to the polls and vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. But most people don't be lazy until it happens to them. They do not move. I know. Same with some sort of catastrophic illness or something. I know somebody, I know somebody who used to be really right-wing and pro-100% pro-corporate and who used to say, well, you either work for a minimum wage or you don't have an income at all. That's right. And you die. I used to know somebody like that. But that person became financially destitute and became liberal, progressive liberal awfully quick. Became liberal. Ran out of mula. The problem is that there were signs and instances and stuff that that person should have been aware of long time ago to understand that there's something going on beyond his control that is making the economics of this country and the morality of this country all rigged. Correct. And a lot of people just say, oh, how terrible human nature is. No, there's no love in their hearts. There's no compassion. There's no empathy. It's rigged. It's rigged. The liberally rigged. It's rigged. It's the liberally rigged. It's rigged. But like I say, people come to these epiphanies at different times. That's why a show like this is important because it gives the information that the person ain't getting now so that he can digest it, assimilate it, eat it up and then start making some decision. You know, I was a late bloomer. I did not become enlightened until later in life. It wasn't my time to become enlightened. When I first met you, I did not have the enlightenment and knowledge about what's really going on like I do today. Well, it's the same thing with schooling or something like that. My personal example is that I, maybe in my early years I didn't, but later on through school, up until 1963, graduation time, I couldn't have cared less. I couldn't have cared less. But in 1963 when I graduated, I had an epiphany and the epiphany drove me to the library every week. And I devoured books, periodicals and stuff, according to my five taboos of American life. Very studious, man, Dr. Bill is... Stupidious? Not stupidious. I said studious and focused. Very focused. Like Mr. Miyagi told Daniel's sign, you are very focused. Well, that's what it's all about. What is this, a Philippine science professor I used to know, used to say, fuck us. You need to fuck us, I go, excuse me. What did you say? I need to fuck. No, fuck us. She was trying to say focus. Bless her heart. Bless her a little heart. Bless a little heart. Moving right along. Moving right along. You know how the, we learn about history and things of that nature, we tend to think in terms of, hey, General Dwight D. Eisenhower won the war, World War II, or George Washington won the war single-handedly. Excuse me, yeah? I mean, we think of Napoleon. We think of history in terms of the great man. Great man? Because they were a dictator that wanted to conquer the world and kill people? Yeah, it's the same thing like with the king. You know, only... The great man? Only like the early kings and everything, they went out and they fought with their men. After that, they sat on their asses while the men fought. They sat on their asses on their thrones in the castle drinking ale and different intoxicating liquors. My point entirely is that history is made by the populace, not by the great man. He gets the credit, but it is the people who make history. Case in point, take the common tale of Paul Revere, his midnight ride. What a guy, eh? I know somebody better who wasn't nearly as famous as Paul Revere. It was a young teenage girl who rode to warn people. We will get to that, please. I'm already ahead of you. Have you heard about that chick? And she never made... Sixteen years old. That's right. That's right. All right. I'm sorry, continue. But contrary to the storybook version, his ride was not a spur of the moment act by an impetuous revolutionary hero, nor did Paul Revere ride alone, single-handedly dashing through every middle-sex village and farm, to alert the slumbering masses, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said in his poem, here's another important tidbit. The Agilators leave out Paul was a woman. Yeah. The one who really rode. Wait until you hear this. Revere was a prosperous politically connected industrialist, hobnob with Sam Adams, Jan Hancock, and the other Massachusetts leaders of the revolution. Far from being an impromptu, individualistic act, his now legendary ride of April the 18th, 1775, was one part of an intricate alarm muster, a web that settlers and the militia had used since early colonial days. Their network included dozens of express riders, special horses, church bells, drum riffs, gunshots, trumpet blasts, and beacon fights. But of course the hoity-toity Paul Revere had to take credit for it all. Well, he didn't do that. That's what I'm saying. It was a long, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who did that with his stupid poem, and we do that with George Washington and with the other ones. That's the whole point. We make them the heroes. I don't even know if George Washington ever chopped down a cherry tree. He didn't. That was a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a fish story. It's a tall tale. Well, he probably really did have wooden dentures though. He had wooden dentures. That's correct. Months before Revere's famous moment of action, the Revolutionary Congress had chosen him to make sure this system was in place all around Boston and ready to go. By preparing in advance, the movement's spies, signalers, and riders were able to spring immediately into action on that fateful night when the Redcoats first stepped from their Boston encampment to march on Lexington and Congolese. Revere had positioned himself across the Charles River with his horse already saddled, a fast mare named Black Mewkay. Really? Yeah. That was the first Black Beauty or the Black Beauty? Well, I guess that's the thee. And to him, specifically for his journey by Deacon John Larkin, his assignment was to ride to Lexington to warn Adams and Hancock that the British were coming to capture them. By the way, Revere did not shout. The British are coming as he galloped down the road. This was a stealth mission, so shouting was a no-no. No, it just sounds better for story writing to be more dramatic. Exactly. Now, this young lady. We're getting there. Okay. Ah, your pause. I thought you were done. Nor did he knock on every fondor. Rather he awakened key militia leaders. Get the time, militia, and militia fought for Massachusetts, state militia. At the time it was, the priority was Massachusetts at the time. Revere's ride most certainly was courageous and historic, but so were the rides of more than 60 other men. And yes, women who also were alarm messengers assigned different routes that night. By 5 in the morning on the 19th, patriot militias from most of the communities 50 miles around Boston were on the move to Lexington and Concord, well ahead of the bumbling and foundering British. I stood in a hotel one time in Lexington, Lexington, so I was there, I went to Concord, I didn't see any Concord grapes anywhere. You know, Welch's, Grape's Jam, all right, good. The British were routed in this opening military battle of our independence war. The victory was not sparked by a lone ranger, but by an organized insurgency of hundreds of people. You see, it's insurgent, insurgency, you know, it doesn't mean you're automatically the bad guy. It depends on who it's against. Because you call it called an insurgent. But what do you call people who are anti-government, hate-government, have their guns because they're afraid that government's coming after them, what do you call them people, patriots? You certainly don't call them patriots. Now, how about that female Paul Revere? Oh yeah. In April 1877, two years after Lexington, British troops were burning down Danbury, Connecticut, just across the border in Patterson, New York. A militia commander named Luddington, or Luddington, learned of the attack and surmise that his area would be next. So he needed to muster the area's patriot farmers to confront them, upstepped, civil, a 16-year-old daughter volunteering to be the messenger. She saddled a horse and off she went in the middle of the night, in a rainstorm on unmarked muddy roads, pounding on doors, calling out the area's militia to assemble at Patterson. Sure enough, the farmers rallied and forced the Redcoats to retreat. Paul rode a hard 40 miles that night, twice as far as Paul Revere. Like the others who rode with Revere, a remarkable contribution to our democratic history remains unknown, while Paul is firmly announced and is scorned in the pantheon of heroes who created America. The end. I want to salute, of course, may she rest in peace, she was 16 years old when she did this, Sybil from Revolutionary War Times, who was the real hero, the real Paul Revere, not Paul Revere. Yeah, there were more Paul Revere. Yeah, it wasn't just Paul Revere. One man against a machine. It was that goofball writer, Longfellow, that made Paul Revere, the hero, seeming like only he was the one that rode around to warn the colonists. Yeah, it wasn't. Napoleon won all of his victories, or that this king won all of his victories, or that king won all of his victories. Yeah, but Sybil wrote the farthest. Yes, she did. She wrote further than Paul Revere. In the rain. In a rainstorm. Now, you know what story really impressed the hell out of me involving Revolutionary War Times? When the Appalachian settlers beat the crap out of the British Army, the British Army wanted to go farther west and invade Appalachia, and those hillbillies out there, they fought like the Indians, like it's guerrilla warfare. Yeah, they stood behind a tree. They were behind, and they were all for us. They were behind trees, or up in trees, or anywhere they wanted to be, behind bushes, and they all, I guess, fired at will, and the British, they had to be out in the open. The British kept it coming, and it wasn't as many as it was a while ago. Well, they marched in formation out in the open like the Romans did. You know, it's different. Yeah, but the ones who fought the Romans didn't have guns. They didn't have guns. Or they had to moat them down, baby. The Romans were not up against any army with firearms, you know. And the worst was archers, but you know, the Romans had the, they formed a, they had a formation called the Testura, means tortoise, and they had these rectangular curved shields that the men, you know, the men on the outside, of course, had the shields facing out, and the other Romans, and inside the formation, lifted the shields above, as to form like a tortoise shell. And you know, so the arrows wouldn't... And the Greeks had to fly in wedge. Penetrate, and they had the pike. The pike's were out the front. The pike was an extra long spear, and they kept on marching, and they didn't throw it. Push, push, yeah, they just pushed right through. But you know, the Appalachians, they used guerrilla warfare, which I assume they learned from the Native Americans, and they beat the British. Anyway, what time do we have? We have time for this one here, that's for sure. Okay, go ahead. Thank God for Congress, right? When things get out of balance in America, we can always count on our legislative stalwarts to recalibrate the scales of justice, right? Yeah. Take greed, for example. The Wall Street barons wrecked our real economy while pushing Washington to let them keep their public subsidies, fact bonuses, and special low tax rates. So our Congress critters turned their legislative guns on avarice. Unfortunately, their aim was a little off. Instead of popping the overprivileged, Congress hit the most unprivileged Americans, people on food stamps. That does with escape codes. Too many families are getting food stamps, they shriek, driving the cost of this poverty program to record levels. Hey, knuckleheads! Record numbers of our people are on food stamps today, because, guess what, record numbers of them are unemployed or underemployed. And the jobs are not out there. And not to mention all the trillions of dollars of welfare for the rich. With bailouts, Wall Street bailouts, yet the Tea Party, Republicans, how ruling U.S. House of Representatives are demanding cuts of as much as $25 billion a year in the food stamp benefits, which would prevent some 13 million Americans, half of them children, from receiving the program's groceries. Well, Representative Michelle Bachmann rose to a biblical falsetto. You mean, Publ headed Bachmann got all dramatic? To rationalize this. Rationalize? She said. Well, if you don't work, you don't eat. Yes it is, but it doesn't mean you gotta look at the context. The context was that if you don't do the work of God, you don't eat. See, they turn it around and say, if you don't do the work of some corporation, some company, you don't eat, you see, there's a big difference between doing the work of God and doing the work for some company. It involved the context when Paul stated that he was talking about people in the church who won't do the work. They won't, you know, talk about God and this, that, they may be afraid or whatever the hell it is, but that's what he was talking about. He was not talking about privatized work, institutions or whatever. Do you see how they twist and distort the Bible? These conservatives? Well, how the hell do you think these prosperity preachers get away with their shit? They twist and? They twist and rest the Bible. Yeah, twist and distort, yeah. And then they say, it's there, it's yet, I'll find it for you. Uh, I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. And what we were talking about Wednesday, I'm still waiting. You will still be waiting. But I won't forget. For now it will. But I won't forget, yeah. That's not quite what Jesus said. Also, many are working but not paid enough to make ends meet. More are desperately seeking jobs that aren't there. In fairness though, the GOP did vote to give these food stamp applicants something. I don't recall that Jesus, at the Sea of Galilee, required anyone to pee in a cup before getting the fishes and loaves of bread that he gave to them freely. Freely. After miracleizing that. Freely, with no loans or expecting to be paid back with interest. And they didn't work for it. And if he had done so, he would have required the bankers to take the first pee in the cups. That's right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. The end. Now, did you know, before we take our break, did you know that South Carolina wants to make homelessness illegal? Ha ha. Now. Remember. So I think I know why the Republicans of South Carolina want to implement something ridiculous like this. So they can get the homeless into privatized prisons so they can work for free and they can get free slave labor. That's my take on it. Remember, South Carolina was the first colony to, let's say, instigate the Civil War. Fort Sumter. Okay, South Carolina. The battle of Fort Sumter. Loves their slavery. Even today. Okay? Well, I mean, the homeless, so what they're doing is they want to punish the homeless for being homeless because they think the homeless are homeless by choice. Not by circumstances created by the government. Something is going on in Texas right now involving the XL pipeline. Coming down from Canada, Trans-Canada Pipeline. And the pipeline wants to have an easement in this particular farmer, this female farmer's land that she don't want to. So they get the government, the state or county or whatever city they're going through and they claim, and all they have to do is check the checkbox on a piece of paper, that they are a public whatever, community or whatever. And they can get eminent domain to take over the land of that poor farmer and put their stinking pipeline. Steal the land. Yes, that's what they do because they have the power, they have the lawyers, they have the money. As I said, there is no justice if courts are not free. Yeah, sure. All right, we're going to take a break now. It's time for the Reverend Dr. William J. Heisman's gastronomic delight known as lunch. And we will be back in a little bit with the one and only William H. Morrill III. I believe he's calling at 3.10 p.m., 3.10 p.m. and he will talk for 20 minutes. I won't interrupt him too much. No pun intended. Well, he better have some good things. Oh, no, no. He's going to come prepared and he's going to have the flow, otherwise known as the floor. That's Louisiana talk, right, Luke? The flow? The flow. Pull bar sandwich? Oh, boy.