Posted on 07/03/2011 5:14:02 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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I intend to enjoy it.
Had my fill of kids with glow sticks last night and tonight.
That’s a red head for you.
Bad to the bone.
OMGosh I saw it in action.Kiss and then a slap.Hehehehehheh
It's already started. The air outside is thick with the odor of sulfur!
Thanks a lot for the link.....as a contractor I see many branches of the armed services here in Kandahar.....how it is that the Taliban/Al Qaeda/Terrorists don’t want any part of such a Love (agape) for ones children is truly beyond the pale.
I’ve probably done as much but not recently.
Time for me to fold up shop and go home.
Night Fatima.
Night all.
Have a wonderful day tomorrow!
Thank you for being there.I have another song for you FRiend.
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfwcLdP5Xk
Might be the first time some have even seen those lyrics. Thanks for posting them!
Have a wonderful Independence Day!
Nights Reds.
I so know you heard this many times :)
Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liiberty Valance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN4L7cAQf0
I found this old news item that looked a little interesting but it ends up with the same old liberal refrain.
News Item. A military spokesman expressed opposition to U. S. involvement on the grounds that the intervention would not satisfy the conditions for a “just war” as they are understood in philosophy, in that the intervention could not be carried out with sufficient force to be successful.I am the very model of a modern Major-General;
I can't abide unseemly haste in matters interventionist,
I always want to think it out in manner consequentialist,
I'll make a different plan for every battlefield contingency,
But only if it meets a test of philosophic stringency;
I'm trained in formal logic and linguistical analysis;
I'll formulate a problem to the point of full paralysis;
I find it most imperative to think quite categorical,
Because I know that if I do I'll never go to war at all.
In short in every matter Philo-Sophico-conceptual
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
Happy 4th of July folks ... Happy 235th Birthday America!
Hi higgmeister ((((((Hugs))))))
Signs Signs, Everywhere a Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLm3HMG8IhM
Evening, Kathy. Happy B-Day, USA!
Air Force leaders issue Independence Day message
7/1/2011 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Roy send the following Independence Day message to the Airmen of the U.S. Air Force and their families:
In 1776, our nation's founders immortalized their vision of a free nation by signing the Declaration of Independence. With an abiding belief in certain unalienable rights -- to life, to liberty and to the pursuit of happiness -- they sought to create a federal republic that was separate from Great Britain and founded on a unique blend of traditions and values.
Today, we, as citizens and Airmen, hold these truths just as closely, demonstrating our conviction through our service to America. As we recognize and celebrate the anniversary of the birth of our nation, let us give thanks for the vision of our Founding Fathers and for those who have pledged to serve our country. We should reflect particularly on the debt that we owe to those Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for and helping to preserve our freedoms; and, we should express our gratitude to their families who will always bear that most difficult burden.
Today, more than 41,000 Airmen are deployed, and more than 57,000 are forward-stationed beyond our shores. In addition, some 134,000 Airmen directly support combatant commander requirements from their home stations. We join a grateful nation in thanking you for your service and sacrifice.
The Fourth of July is a day to recommit ourselves to doing all that we can to ensure that our children, our grandchildren and all the generations that follow will enjoy the freedoms that are our birthright as Americans. We salute you, our flag, and the United States of America; and once again, we bid all of you, and our nation, a very happy Independence Day.
And we thank you for your service to our country.
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