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I would like to take this opportunity on this Fourth of July to thank Christopher Columbus for sailing over on the Niña with his fellow Scottish heroic sea Captain, John Paul Jones who together landed on the shores of Pennsylvania on Plymouth Rock, whereupon they were met by a savage band of Indians who raided both ships. During this famous engagement, Captain Jones uttered the famous words, "I have not yet begun to fight," to the Indian-Chief. And so he did. And from there, our history sprang, with the Declaration of Independence being signed on that famous day.
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it still applies today even if you are so self-involved you can only think of the inconvenience to yourself and your cat.
Okay, now let me make many of you downright mad. The Declaration of Independence may be something really special to many of us but to the world back in 1776 I think more people saw it as nothing more than a high sounding reason for rebellion. Actually that is what the latter parts of it amounted to. They were telling the world that their rebellion against Great Britain would be for all the mistreatment by the King's government.
Now that I have made so many unhappy with those words let me say that I am sure that those people showing their ignorance on that beach got that way because nobody told them about what the day is to celebrate in school. My son who is 30 says he doesn't remember anything much other than knowing when it happened beginning somewhere in school. He would remember, if I hadn't been kicked out of the school for telling the Superintendent how to do his job, he would have known the day and time I pounded it into his head as that was my subject.
The other day our OP hinted at the fact the progressives have already stopped teaching things like this and it is as true as all hell.
You wouldn't last long in my neighborhood. About an hour till the show starts.
The Chick should have been living in my part of Kansas this year. We have been so dry that out city and county forbid the shooting of fireworks except for the softball diamonds between the hours of 6pm and 10 pm on July 3 and 4th and it was very peaceful. Better yet, the city didn't have their big show at the city lake for the first time in many years. I am going to do my anti-rain dance days running next year.
That is some of the funniest crap I have heard lately...
Fireworks are now BOMB'S...........
Some of those things they have these days are at least as loud as that. Last year I went out into the street and told some kids that the big ones would be saved for another day when it wasn't so late (10 pm) I told them that there are a number of old people in this part of town, (I was 77 then) who go to bed early to get a night's sleep and they stopped for over an hour.
it still applies today even if you are so self-involved you can only think of the inconvenience to yourself and your cat.
In the spirit of the Declaration of Independence where it says in the 2nd PP
".... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, ...."
Today Congressman Ron Paul said in his "Texas Straight Talk" update that he will be introducing the "American Traveler Dignity Act" which would make it illegal to continue nuking and groping Americans.
I think the news about the 95 year old lady with cancer who the TSA insisted had to remove her diapers combined with the fact that they let a Nigerian practically sail through security with a stolen boarding pass and a fake ID with little more than questioning was the last straw for Dr. Paul. He says we have not gotten security from the TSA -- only abuse and it is time it stops!
Means very little to me, I just live here. I see this country as very crooked and insane......but go ahead and light off your fireworks and get drunk anyways.
Means very little to me, I just live here. I see this country as very crooked and insane......but go ahead and light off your fireworks and get drunk anyways.
The Chick should have been living in my part of Kansas this year. We have been so dry that out city and county forbid the shooting of fireworks except for the softball diamonds between the hours of 6pm and 10 pm on July 3 and 4th and it was very peaceful. Better yet, the city didn't have their big show at the city lake for the first time in many years. I am going to do my anti-rain dance days running next year.
We had some kids posted at the corners coming into the neighborhood with walkie talkies to let us know if the cops come rolling around. They were being azzholes last year. We got one and he turned our way and folks scattered like roaches when the lights came on and garage doors slammed shut. Was like a ghost town when the cop car rolled by. Funnier than hell. I had my video cam ready to record the next alert but never got one.
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