The burning issue of today was whether to add an amendment against burning the American flag or showing disrespect for the flag in other certain ways, I mean certain other ways.

Wow. This certainly ranks up there with issues such as abortion, equal rights and all that. They've never made it either, but the point is -- burning a flag??? Granted, it is a kind of stupid idea in the first place. If I had a flag, I wouldn't burn it because then I'd have to get another one. Somebody might be watching at the check-out stand and report me -- "this guy must have burned his flag and now he needs a new one". You'd never hear from me again.

With the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan, the threat of war in both Iran and North Korea, terrorism, global warming and hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters, immigration, and the list goes on and on, it certainly makes me feel better to know that our Senate and Congress have the time to deliberate on such an important issue as burning a damn colored strip of cloth. I know lots of folks think that you should show respect for the flag, and I feel kinda bad calling it a damn colored strip of cloth, but I'd rather respect what it stands for. Or what I think it should stand for.