I wanted to wish everyone on this site a Happy Independence Day. I will be spending my July 4th in, of all places, Cheyenne, Wyoming at the Cheyenne Civic Center. You would not believe the grapevine amongst single postal workers. On July 4th, Radiohead and Duffy are playing in Cheyenne Wyoming but NOT Denver. We are all confused, because I am sure they have more fans in a city with over a half of a million like Denver than Cheyenne. I am holding in my posession at the moment, two Bill Engvall tickets for July 26th at the same arena in Cheyenne. Bill Engvall I can understand, but Radiohead and Duffy? Hmmmmm........

Anyhow, about 75 of us misfit postal people from the surrounding Denver area will be converging on Cheyenne tomorrow and we plan on a picnic in Lion's Park in the Goat Roper State. Because what is more traditional than a picnic on the Fourth of July? Americans since our Founding Fathers - Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John McCain and Tony Bennett - have been doing this for a long time. Over 200 hundred years, these same hearty souls hunkered down over a barbecue grill and invented the traditional picnic of hot dogs charred into cylinders of industrial grade carbon and hamburgers so undercooked that they jump off of the grill and chase the squirrels in the park.

July the 4th is the season of picnics, hot dogs, apple pie and baseball. I mention baseball for more reasons than one. Because I live 25 miles from Denver - I am a Colorado Rockies fan. There is a Rockies player than was injured while trying to steal a base during a game about 5 weeks ago. One of their most promising players Troy Tulowitzki was placed on DL with a torn left calf muscle. The Rockies have gone from first in the NL West to the worst.

I am sure you asking yourself what this has to do with July 4th or this site? I was reading Tom's blog and the other newer blogs before I logged on here. There have been banners lining Coors Field in Denver reading, "We Miss You Tulo!!" , "Get Well Soon Troy!" and "We Need You Back on the Team, Tulo!"

As the Rockies trainers know, you cannot fake a torn calf muscle. Troy told his trainers that  he heard an audible "pop!" From the footage shown on our local NBC affliate, KCNC-TV, Troy's calf area had completely swollen from his knee to his ankles and had severe bruising in that area. You cannot fake an injury like this!

So if this were to happen to one of us as a postal worker, what do you think the reaction would be by the autocrats of postal management? Our management would not back us like the Rockies have backed Troy Tulowitzki. Because a lot of postal management looks for the easy way out and thinks in a lawless way - so, naturally, they assume that we think in the same manner.

Evil and greed is easily obtainable but goodness is eternally difficult.

Not only does that simple sentence apply to Tom's situation but to our real founding fathers as well. Our founding fathers left England and other parts of Europe to found a country where We The People had a chance for freedom.

We live in a country free from tyranny based on ideas from republic and religious ideas and we are free to comply or to choose and rebel against them.

I am praying for the best for Tom. I am sure you would love to have the summer away from the Postal Service - but not like this. We are all thankful that you created a forum so that the rest of us normally unknown postal folks could message and blog each other. To the management at whatever Dallas branch Tom works at I say, "Fruit You!"

What???

I am censoring myself.

Like some of those censored movies I see on regular TV, instead of "F--- You" they say "Fruit You!" and instead of "Motherf----r" they say "Muffinfluffer!" Not only does does that sound silly to me - it makes me hungry at the same time!

"We need you back on the team Tom!"