Posted on 07/03/2014 7:22:45 PM PDT by Drango
It takes a lot of energy to break through a popular delusion.
Celebrating OUR Independence day with a die-hard lefty from England was a true pleasure for me.
Great friend and always fun to be around, seeming intelligent but superficially liberal and anti-American.
During his trip to the US, he drove up and down the east coast from Virginia to Massachusetts. As we headed down to the Mall in DC for the “4th of July”, I asked him about is road trip, he said “You Americans have no creativity”, “Most of the towns and cities I drove through are named after places in England”. I shot back in an instant “We weren’t Americans then”.
As Cassius Clay once famously said, sort of...
Our grandfathers may have come over in different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.
Interesting information.
LOL, good one!
Indeed.
When the Potato Famine hit Ireland, the Irish left.
When Hitler came to power in Germany, the Jews left.
When hard economic times hit Italy and Poland, the Italians and the Poles left.
When religious freedom was denied in Britain, the British left.
If the country you live in is the worst place on earth, it wouldn’t be too difficult to find a better place to live.
I recently expressed my suspicion the Left is attacking the 4th of July.
Yes, he was.
Go live in Somalia, see if you like that better.
Indeed.
So what is this drama queen gonna do instead?
Cal a press conference?
Commit suicide?
Just bitch?
What?
On the dime of taxpayers
I am observing We Sold Ourselves for Benefits day.
And try carrying a flintlock on Lexington Green and see how long it is before you are arrested (or shot).
The totalitarians among us don't wish to be free, but to be free FROM freedom. Yes they do. I know it is illogical, but it is true. It's a frightening world to them. In their myopic treatment of freedom they will usher (have undered) in a tyrannical and deadly state. Look at every disarmed hell whole the left has destroey since the start of Johnson's Great Society.
Of course, in this day, there’s really nowhere else left to go.
So, we’ll just have to stand and fight.
This gentleman was refusing to celebrate the 4th of July because of the (then) current “situation” in America as he perceived it.
The 4th of July is Independence Day. It is a celebration of our Declaration of Independence and the principles on which our great country was founded.
So many people confuse the government with our nation itself. Our government has failed on many counts, mostly due to the lack of understanding or the intentional undermining of the basic principles of our Constitution.
Those principles are about personal freedom and the elevation of the citizen above the government. The fact that a majority of our citizens do not understand or appreciate those principles does not, in any way, negate their fundamental truth.
We must protect and live up to those beautiful principles. If we do, we will continue to be the great nation envisioned by our brave and insightful founding fathers.
I will proudly celebrate the 4th in the spirit of the foundation of our nation.
Perfect description of life under the thumb of Obama.
“How can I celebrate liberty with bondage economic bondage, educational bondage, political bondage, health care bondage, and religious bondage all around me?””
Maybe he should spend the weekend contemplating the source of those miseries and why they still persist in 2014?
I’ll give the reverend a hint to get him started: it’s not the Tea Party.
Hey Linton Weeks, I hear there’s a new caliphate forming up, perhaps you should move there. And don’t let the door hit you in your sorry ass on the way out.
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