Happy Birthday, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CookingWithCarlo.com ^ | July 4, 2003 | Carlo3b

[GailA]

Happy 4th Carlo and ALL

From my email..it takes time to load, will bring tears NEVER FORGET

[GailA]

Capitol Concert...live from the WH West Lawn tonight...Dolly Parton is the headliner, it will be beamed to ALL our Troops Capitol Concert

[carlo3b]

We have the same bithday..YIKES, Sept 6...Virgo Rules.. I think.. LOLOL

[Domestic Church]

God Bless America!!!

[Aquinasfan]

God bless America!

And Freepers too 8-)

[firewalk]

Good morning
& Happy 4th to you

[TLBSHOW]

Happy 4th of July carlo3b.......

Thanks for the ping....

[mikeb704]

Today is also my birthday. No, I'm not quite as old as the USA, thank you.

Happy Independence Day to all.

Mike

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[MeekOneGOP]

Happy Independence Day, y'all !!

[Fiddlstix]

[headsonpikes]

Have a Glorious Fourth of July, y'all!

Happy Birthday, America!

[michigander]

Philadelphia, July 5, 1776.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever decided among men. A Resolution was passed unanimously -- "THAT THESE UNITED STATES ARE, AND OF RIGHT OUGHT TO BE, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES." The day is past. The 4th of July, 1776, will be a MEMORABLE EPOCHA in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the GREAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL! It ought to be commemorated as the DAY OF DELIVERANCE, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God--It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever! You will think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure it will cost to maintain this DECLARATION, and support and defend these States; yet through all the gloom, I can see a ray of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.

Yours, &c.,

JOHN ADAMS.

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It ought to be commemorated as the DAY OF DELIVERANCE, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God--It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever!

Now all you folks get out there and party solemnize! :-)

[galt-jw]

If you think you have freedom today, my emotionally effusive comrade, then you are FREE to do the following:
1. Stop paying your property tax. After all, you OWN it, not rent it forever. Your local RentWay would love to get terms like those the fedgov receives when it taxes your property, the stuff you need TO LIVE, FOREVER
2. Leave the country when you please. NO, you will need the govt to approve it first. You may NOT just come and go as you please. The govt gets to decide (freedom? Uh, yeah.)
3. Faced with some terminal illness and want to end YOUR life to stop the suffering? YOU can't. But wait, you are free, remember? You just don't own your life. The State does. It ALONE has the final say.
4. What is a peasant? If you don't know, consider that you are working FIVE months, OR MORE, to pay your TAX to the govt. Just like a serf. But NEVER like the founders did. That nonsense was WHY they revolted. Look it up.
5. Under God? That is so hilarious it defies discussion. YOUR tax money went to public schools that turns out human detrius at great expense while banning ALL religions EXCEPT the one that this country was founded on.
6. Elected leaders commit treason daily, while the media sits idly by and discusses the banal. The populace is so busy either working or mentally masturbating that they never notice, or don't care
7. Serious discussion of the creeping socialism of America is diminished and ridiculed, referred to as "conspiracy nuts" or other denigrating terms. As with the jews in Nazi Germany, the passengers of this socialist train sit idly by, noticing the dramatically changing scenery, but never wanting to admit WHAT such changes are inevitably leading to. Instead they opt for denial of one form or another: either reckless patriotism, one form of evasion, or mindless indulgence in range of the moment sensory pleasure, another form.
8. Massive abuse of governmental power was witnessed by all here during the klintoon admin, and by anyone paying even marginal attention. That the fedgov had too much power was indisputable. Yet now, the fedgov has grown even more powerful and intrusive, to the cheers of the very crowd that decried such behavior only a short time ago. Apparently, some are operating under the premises that humans will not abuse power, and, our presidents are infallible. Domestic terror, you say? The same charge was laid against the so called patriots in this piece by the English Crown. Our founders were villified as terrorists, pirates, rogues, savages, and every epithet ever leveled at an insurgent. Looks like the fedgov has created it's own life support system. One wonders how long it will be before blanket charges such as "revolution against the State", made in secret courts by unnammed accusers, will be leveled at US citizens themselves. Who gets to decide if the charges are legit? Someone, somewhere, they tell us. But never us. It sounds like Soviet Russia, North Korea or Saddam's Iraq, but really all it is is OUR version of the same old tryants song. Bad when THEY do it. GOOD for us, somehow.
You pay more in taxes, for less in services, than ever. Meanwhile, the border is wide open, which means you are paying for half the world, along with the old, the doomed, the stupid and the lazy here at home.
How's that freedom doin' for ya? Back to work on Monday. Hey look, a parade! lets all feel warm and fuzzy. Who needs reality when the great lie feels so nice?

[SerpentDove]

Excellent post, and I read every word of it (a rarity for me)!

SD

[stanz]

As I stand here ankle deep in watermelon rinds and vegetable debris, I wish you all a wonderful, safe and happy 4th. Yes.....it is a sunny day here in the Big Apple. I am meeting some friends and my daughter after her shift at NY Sports Club and we are headed to Central Park for a picnic. She took the non-perishables and left me with two insulated bags with all the bottles and containers which weigh 50 pounds. But, I will manage to drag myself on a bus and subway train somehow.I hope the sun stays out!

Have a great day and if you'e like me... you'll make your own fireworks....

[IronJack]

Careful, this is the piece that got Jeff Jacoby suspended from the Boston Globe. Couldn't have a left-wing newspaper reporting anything edifying about our Founders, could we? After all, Independence Day is just a day to get drunk, eat BBQ, and shoot off fireworks, isn't it?

Just one question to ponder this holiday: Look at the abuses cited in the Declaration of Independence, then ask yourself, "How independent am I today?"

[.45MAN]

Have a great 4th of July....................

[jellybean]

I'd take your post more seriously if you didn't hyperventilate so much. You make some good points, but they're surrounded by so much poppycock that they're hard to find.

You sound like you hate America, which I don't believe is the case at all. But, contrary to what you assert, it's not that difficult to leave if you can find some place with more freedom, more opportunities and a better way of life. Good luck!

Have a happy July 4th!

[SerpentDove]

bttt

[Gal.5:1]

great post.
Happy Birthday, America!