National Night Out  

Lots of people turned up
and amazingly, many noted and complimented on the better quality furniture!

Our neighbors are not nearly as stupid...
(and certainly no more so than ourselves), as the oligopoly-owned media(as in 6 holding companies) would have us fear.
Glad to hear they liked your furniture and that you apparently liked them liking it.
Neighbors meeting neighbors and talking is always the way great change in America begins. Once neighbors cease censoring themselves, shifting discourse and consensus inevitably alter what problems can be tackled and solved.
And people are so much harder to fool, once they know their neighbors and know their neighbors feel much the same on more things than the wedge issues being used to divide them would lead them to believe.
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
--Mohandas Gandhi
Design should nurture this culture.

I will avoid my neighbor like the plague
If they have a McCain sign posted in their front yard.

dcwilson...I never can decide
if you're giving a person a compliment or not. Thanks, I think

It was entirely a compliment...
I try not to be cryptic, or ambiguous, despite occassionally writing with tongue in cheek.
Tongue was entirely out of cheek in this case.