Buycott Arizona

I have some good friends who never miss KISS when they are in SoCal.

In light of recent events, however, they are traveling to Phoenix to see KISS and spend some of their hard-earned money in the beleaguered state of AZ.

Great idea. We should all follow suit. And not just if we're KISS fans. Spending $$ in AZ is sticking our thumb (or wallet) in the eye of those calling for a boycott.

The city and country of LA may replace France in my spectrum of how to do things. If I don't have time to study the nuances I just see which way they are pointing and then happily turn 180 degrees.

All Four Stanzas of The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

click here to hear a Marine sing the fourth stanza a cappella at a tea party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc&feature=player_embedded

Read this

http://www.american.com/archive/2009/march-2009/the-europe-syndrome-and-the-challenge-to-american-exceptionalism