Posted on 07/04/2021 7:01:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
From wikipedia:
Open warfare erupted when British regulars sent to capture a cache of military supplies were confronted by local Patriot militia at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Patriot militia, joined by the newly formed Continental Army, then put British forces in Boston under siege. Each colony formed a Provincial Congress, which assumed power from the former colonial governments, suppressed Loyalism, and contributed to the Continental Army led by General George Washington. The Continental Congress declared King George III a tyrant who trampled the colonists' rights as Englishmen, and they declared the colonies free and independent states on July 4, 1776.
Happy Independence Day!
Why the barf alert? The guy is 100% right. The official name of this federal holiday is INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Well, simply looking at just the most recent usurpation of liberties by the royals in Washington and the various state capitals, there ain’t much “Independence” or liberty left.
So I will stick with “Happy 4th of July” for now.
Barf alert??? Independence Day (not In dependence) is correct.
RATs would rather erase the holiday completely and have us celebrate Dependence Day instead.
I find it to be nothing more than a Raised Eyebrow Alert
I hear ya. I’ll still say Independence Day but I can’t say as I’m really feeling it.
It took a 1/2 cent tax on tea to start a revolution. Today we take hundreds of dollars of taxes a month and don’t complain. Government was suppose to be OF the people and FOR the people. Today, Government DICTATES TO THE PEOPLE and sadly, the people are just taking it. We have truly lost our way. It started when we threw GOD out of every walk of life in this nation. God’s hedge of protection is being withdrawn and we are falling off the planet. We are failing at most everything we do. Led by corrupt government officials from the Deadhead in the White House down to the local mayors.
I don’t understand the “barf alert”...I DO understand “4th Of July” and “Independence Day”...neither of which are “barfs”...
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Happy Insurrection Day!
I really think the average IQ on this website has dropped by 25 points since I joined FR in 2000.
What’s most pathetic is that we have plenty of these people right here on FR.
The other has a reasonable point about contemporary ignorance, but I agree with the barf alert when it comes to the focus on what people call the day. I just checked and there were plenty of references to it being the 4th of July during highly patriotic points in this country such as the 1950s.
*author, not other
The 4th of July is a date on a calendar. Independence Day is a commemoration of an historical event; the birth of a new nation.
I guess we should just call Memorial Day “Last Monday of May Day.”
So to check this out, I did a subject search on Independence Day using the online catalog of the the Los Angeles Public Library, which uses LCSH, as do all public libraries. The first results that I retrieved were two books on Mexican independence day followed by one on Ukrainian independence day. Among my other results were books on Irish independence and judicial independence. Not one of the books on the first page of my results was about Independence Day.
I did a little better when I did a subject search using the "Independence Day" subject heading for books on Worldcat, the international database of library catalogs. That search retrieved one book on Independence Day, which was second from the top. However, the book at the top of the list was one about the movie Independence Day, which I don't believe is about the holiday. I also retrieved seeral books on Greek independence day as well one on Israel's independence day.
In 1776 the poorest people weren’t the most likely to be obese. In 2021 they are. People that are the fattest, most comfortable and passively entertained in all of history will pretty much tolerate anything as long as they can stay fat, comfortable and entertained. And as you point out, faith doesn’t seem to prosper under these conditions.
Freegards
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