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I find it helpful to re-read this once in awhile. Nothing refreshes my love of this country more than realizing the courage of those who founded it.

Happy Fourth of July, all.


IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations 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 harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the 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 a 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 offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring 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 into 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, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & 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 endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an 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 attentions to our Brittish 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 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.

Posted by: Slublog at 10:03 AM



Comments

1 English, the way she was written when everyone went to school on the King James version.

Posted by: ricpic at July 04, 2007 10:08 AM (jrDE7)

2 What kind of preposterous bullshit is this?  Its not April fools day.

Posted by: Al Gore at July 04, 2007 10:13 AM (CmXp+)

3 Happy Birthday, USA

Posted by: ArmedGeek at July 04, 2007 10:15 AM (vjHOi)

4

My thinking exactly.  What a nice piece of writing. The first part was obviously the work of one man, Jefferson.

Later, when you get into the listing of grievances, you can start to feel the other voices shouting to get into the act.

Sigh, I must be getting old.  Seeing the declaration posted actually has some meaning and feeling for me.

Maybe seeing Jimmy Carter being forced to eat six or seven copies of it would cheer me up. At least it would shut him up for a while. If there's any left over that he can't swallow, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are welcome to <i> eat it</i> too.

 

Posted by: Lokki at July 04, 2007 10:19 AM (3nT23)

5 Oh , and add Al Gore to the list of Democrats who can eat it.  Maybe he can eat his cold, to counteract global warming

Posted by: Lokki at July 04, 2007 10:21 AM (3nT23)

6 Happy fourth!

America, you rock.

Posted by: Stormy70 at July 04, 2007 10:21 AM (Y+o71)

7 What's all this "God", "Creator," and "Providence" crap? Everybody knows the Founding Fathers (<i>Those phallus-worshipping, Eurocentric patriarchal <b>bastards!</i></b> were secularists!  We insist on a proper separation of Church and State (except for when, like, the Episcopalians and Unitarians and stuff condemn the war or endorse Hillary!) and we DEMAND that this awful document be removed from any public building where it is being displayed AT ONCE!

Posted by: richard mcenroe at July 04, 2007 10:22 AM (htggk)

8

If you're in Washington DC on the Fourth, you can listen to a town crier in colonial dress read the Declaration to the public on the steps of the National Archives.

Then they do a re-enactment of a musket-to musket firefight between the Minutemen and the Redcoats, right there in the street. 

Those black powder muskets are insanely loud. Everyone on the battlefields of the day must have been half deaf most of the time.

Posted by: Barry in CO at July 04, 2007 10:29 AM (kKjaJ)

9 Ahh, my favorite holiday. Happy Birthday America!

Posted by: T.Paine at July 04, 2007 10:39 AM (tyKQE)

10 I'm a proud 12th generation American.  Or would be if it weren't for the fact that my ancestors moved to Canada in 1768.  And then to New Zealand in 1852.  So I guess I'm at best 1/32 American.  Happy 4th, you ingrate tea-chuckers.

Posted by: Botec at July 04, 2007 10:42 AM (RWurL)

11 "Happy 4th, you ingrate tea-chuckers."

LOL. Hells ya!

Posted by: Duncan Avatar at July 04, 2007 10:46 AM (fOI0+)

12

Happy Birthday, America!

 

 

 

Posted by: eman at July 04, 2007 10:47 AM (FWrFx)

13

Is being saying the Happy Birthday to you America yankee doodle.

 

Want to buy radar station?  Is cheap.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at July 04, 2007 10:50 AM (FWrFx)

14 Barry in CO, blind too. One of the reasons the Brits wore the bright red was because the amount of smoke one of those muskets produces in one shot is pretty big. A whole battle will fill the area with smoke, and bright red uniforms are easier to see.


A good Fourth to all!

Posted by: Sinistar at July 04, 2007 11:00 AM (KyMWc)

15

I can haz Life!

I can haz Liberty!

I can haz Happiness!

Then...I already is hazzing ... EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS!

Posted by: Steamboat McGoo at July 04, 2007 11:38 AM (41Dd+)

16

"Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes"

Like penumbras, adumbrations, or the need to import a whole new bloc of voters.

If only.

Posted by: Zorachus at July 04, 2007 11:41 AM (Tmbny)

17

for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

That's right.  No wussy opposing.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at July 04, 2007 11:57 AM (FXakj)

18

"sacred Honor."

Outdated concept. Nobody expects that anymore.

Aaaanyway.

Posted by: lauraw at July 04, 2007 11:59 AM (DbybK)

19

An Immigrant yesterday to my mother, "it isn't the 4th, it's Independance Day."

That's what you get with LEGAL Immigration.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:08 PM (QTv8u)

20 There's a map on the back. Could you turn it over?

Posted by: km at July 04, 2007 12:17 PM (ZeIkZ)

21

heh.  "manly firmness"

 

yeah!  yeah!

 

heh.

Posted by: Jason at July 04, 2007 12:18 PM (EH1GS)

22 That movie was so horrible, but I still found it entertaining.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:19 PM (QTv8u)

23 Can you imagine something that consists of a single handwritten page getting through congress nowadays?

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:20 PM (QTv8u)

24

12th generation,  hmm, how do you figure that out.  Like every 10 years.  Start us at 1640, Westmoreland Co., Va..  Let me know what I can say. 367 years is that 36 generations?  Sounds like a lot.

Kemp

Posted by: kempermanx at July 04, 2007 12:20 PM (+AlFt)

25 Granted it's a pretty big fucking page.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:21 PM (QTv8u)

26 I thought that as for general measure a "generation" was every 15-20 years.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:22 PM (QTv8u)

27

Kemper,

Stuff like that kinda wierds me out, I'm a 3rd generation mutt, and I can trace my geneology back 2, (as in my parents) and my parents can trace theirs back 1 and 1/4, though actually I might be from a family much older than that, what with having an english name, but no discernable english ancestry, and the fact that one grandfather was born in a covered wagon (no shit a covered fucking wagon) as his family was moving back east in missouri before the turn of the previous century, so he might have been from a more classical stock, cuz you don't move from east to west, and then west to east blithely.

 

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 12:34 PM (QTv8u)

28 Can you imagine something that consists of a single handwritten page getting through congress nowadays?

Oh yea.  Mash notes slipped to pages.  Trust me on this one.

Posted by: Mark Foley at July 04, 2007 12:37 PM (CmXp+)

29 In opening, I'd like to announce that as usual I have a frozen piece of fruit in my anus and it feels rather remarkable. Can you guess what it is? Today happens to be July 4 as always, marked by lofty rhetoric about the significance of this traditional American celebration of independence and democracy (and maybe a day at the beach). Reality is not so uplifting. Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information (CPI), BLARG BLARG CRAP I CUT AND PASTED FROM ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of labor which frightened respectable people after such events as the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) victory in the Lawrence, Mass., strike of 1912. OH MY GAAAWD THIS PEACH FEELS FANTASTIC. Damn I gave myself away! Oh well, next time I'll stump you for sure.

Posted by: Erg dos Passos at July 04, 2007 12:39 PM (awMxg)

30 John Dos Passos should suck my cock.

-Stuff Jefferson Said, 4th Edition.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2007 12:43 PM (jXijA)

31

Thanks John Dos Passos!

Now I like the 4th that much better

Posted by: Zorachus at July 04, 2007 12:51 PM (Tmbny)

32 Beautiful writing -- not the sort one encounters here from the rest of you assholes.

Posted by: Steve (the artist formerly known as Ed Snate) at July 04, 2007 12:55 PM (vVK5h)

33 Best holiday ever....

The only holiday tradition I have is rereading the Declaration every 4th of July.

Thanks for making it easy to find the time to do it this year, Slu.

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 12:57 PM (gNyUT)

34 Check out the Google homepage today when you get a chance... The eagle they used in their Independence Day themed "google" reminds me of an eagle we've seen hanging around these parts lately...

Posted by: chinotex at July 04, 2007 12:58 PM (1gV87)

35 An answer to revisionist history:

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that 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 God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."
-John Adams, July 3, 1776

Posted by: Slublog at July 04, 2007 12:59 PM (4zStB)

36

Slub I thought that the distinction was that the second was the signing and the 4th was the distribution.

The authoring and the signing was a personal act, performed on the 2nd, but the distribution was the thing that made us a nation opposed to oppression.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 01:02 PM (QTv8u)

37 I think the fourth is when the Continental Congress actually approved the document and sent it off for distribution. 

Posted by: Slublog at July 04, 2007 01:04 PM (4zStB)

38 for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners Remember the days when obstructing the arrival of foreigners was cause for revolution?

Posted by: mck at July 04, 2007 01:04 PM (NsaV6)

39

That makes sense, there was some cat at NRO that broke it down on the 2nd I think, I kinda glossed over it.

Thanks Slub.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 01:06 PM (QTv8u)

40

Erg can't stand a moment of reverence for the Founders or any expression of general patriotism or any recognition of the good things that the USA has accomplished.

He must be a helluva lot of fun at Memorial Day picnics too.

Posted by: lauraw at July 04, 2007 01:07 PM (eXdIs)

41 Kinda like the signing was a conspiracy of treason, but the distribution was an admition to it.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 01:07 PM (QTv8u)

42

He must be a helluva lot of fun at Memorial Day picnics too.

Some of the boy's who served are thankful for guys like that, and erg just puts himself out there.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 01:08 PM (QTv8u)

43

In my job, we work with various subcontractors, some of them foreign. As it happens, every Wednesday we have a telecon with a French subcontractor team and then a telecon with a British subcontractor team.

(For those illegal immigrants lurking here, America fought the British in our War of Independence, and the French were our allies.)

Last Wednesday at the close of our first telecon, we said that there would be no meeting the following Wednesday (today) and a member of the French team jumped in with a happy voice, "Oh yes, eet eez your Independence Day, non? Happy Fourth of July to you all! Enjoy your holleeday!"

At the close of our second telecon we said that there would be no meeting the following Wednesday. A member of the Brit team said sullenly, "Oh yes, you've a holiday of some sort that day." A member of our team said, "Yeah, it's called Independence Day." Crickets chirping from the other end.

Posted by: Muskwa at July 04, 2007 01:10 PM (i3QB9)

44 Muskwa...

Heh. When I was kid (I think I was 9) my grandparents took me to London and trip spanned the 4th of July. I was very confused why there were no fireworks and nobody was very happy when I wished them a "Happy 4th of July!"

It's all in your perspective I guess.

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 01:14 PM (gNyUT)

45

really muskwa?

The limey pom's that I've known are rather playful about it.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 01:15 PM (QTv8u)

46 ...to beat down the threat of labor which frightened respectable people after such events as the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) victory in the Lawrence, Mass., strike of 1912.

He says this like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Slublog at July 04, 2007 01:27 PM (4zStB)

47

Merry 4th you colonial bastards.

 

 

Posted by: TheKing at July 04, 2007 01:32 PM (ojH/g)

48

"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"

Remember when levying War, contracting Alliances, and establishing Commerce was all the government did?

Those were the days.

Posted by: Zorachus at July 04, 2007 01:42 PM (Tmbny)

49 Which one of those signatures is by Ron Paul?

Posted by: JayC at July 04, 2007 01:45 PM (+1O2Q)

50 If you ever have trouble understanding why Canadians are so, you know, different, just remember that their forebearers were loyalists.  They didn't produce such a document because the desire to be free of the crown was not there.  They did wait quietly for about two hundred years until their independance was given to them.  You just don't appreciate something unless you had to fight for it.

Posted by: Hammer at July 04, 2007 01:52 PM (ScVon)

51

Hammer.  Right you are.

I go to Canada on business pretty often, and there is something different.  Nothing bad, but sort of, I don't know, like they wish they had the 2 century head start we did.

Still, very nice people.  Mark Steyn is a Canadian, so there you go.

Posted by: Zorachus at July 04, 2007 01:55 PM (Tmbny)

52 Cool Independence Day factoid: Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th 1826.

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 01:56 PM (gNyUT)

53

Does that bastard Adams, yet live?

Stuff Jefferson Said, 3rd. ed. revised.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2007 01:59 PM (FXakj)

54 Muskwa,

I remember reading a story about the ship convoys during World War II. Of course, that was a joint effort between the British and Americans. Part of story took place over 4 July and showed the different reactions between the American and British crews.

Posted by: DSkinner at July 04, 2007 02:05 PM (WIKFA)

55

Up the rebels, down the kingsmen.

Happy Independence day to all.

The bossman made me work today, but it's a fine day anyway!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 04, 2007 02:08 PM (jvG2F)

56

Happy 4th Ace and others!

Incidentally, regarding the british reaction to the 4th...

I belong to a certain british metal band's message board.  A band that has fans all over the world, so when I made a thread about the 4th of July (wishing the fellow americans on the board a happy 4th), they friggin' locked it up!  Can you believe that??

Posted by: dragonlady474 at July 04, 2007 02:12 PM (zxtIU)

57 Wasn't Tom also BORN on the 4th of july?

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 02:15 PM (QTv8u)

58

Hey guys, Al Gores son got busted for doing 100 mph with drugs in his car, but he's keeping it green in a prius, so it's all good.

 

Link

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at July 04, 2007 02:16 PM (i4QCx)

59

JOSE CAN YOU SI ?

Posted by: jingoistic jihadi at July 04, 2007 02:20 PM (URJXV)

60 Wasn't Tom also BORN on the 4th of july?

Nay...April 13, 1743

-Things Jefferson's birth certificate would have said if they had them back then

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 02:28 PM (gNyUT)

61

rws

just read that article about algore III. With all those prescription drugs in the car, its a wonder he needed the devil weed.

by the way, powerline has a post about McCain. Very interesting. While I cannot vote for him, I damn sure admire his courage and his patriotism in Nam.

Happy 4th of July to ace and all you morons. And God bless America.

Posted by: mikeyslaw at July 04, 2007 02:28 PM (mzbJI)

62 A couple of other things to remember that get lost this time of year....

Yesterday was the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg. And today is also marks the anniversary Grant's victory at Vicksburg. 

These two battles did much to ensure the Union's eventual victory in the Civil War and ultimately enable America to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 02:36 PM (gNyUT)

63 In some ways, reading the Declaration of Independence is depressing because of how painfully similar some of the complaints the document brings up are to problems today.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 04, 2007 02:38 PM (wmgz8)

64

Imperfect though it may be, I can think of no other country on earth that compares.

I mean, seriously. Can you?

Happy Independence Day to all!

Posted by: jmflynny at July 04, 2007 02:49 PM (iAdm7)

65 Who put this moonbat shit up?  I didn't expect to see bashing of our Commander in Chief here.  This is treasonous. Who supports a Trial by Jury for terrorists?

Posted by: AnnCoulter4ever at July 04, 2007 02:50 PM (oju5t)

66 The document was ready on July 2nd, but the Department of Colonial Security needed time to complete the background checks on the signers.

Posted by: lmg at July 04, 2007 02:53 PM (k8k3Z)

67 Just a thought...

Today is a great day to visit your milblog of choice and let a few of today's service men and women know how much we appreciate what they are doing. They are after all the successors to Washington and the Continental Army...a group of men who thought being the second freest people on the face of the Earth wasn't good enough.

Posted by: Drew at July 04, 2007 03:00 PM (gNyUT)

68 I am descended from Capt. Benjamin Rue, the captain of the frigate "Philadelphia", the first Colonial ship sunk by the British in the Revolution.  In every war since, my family has served in the Infantry. 

Only in America.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 04, 2007 03:01 PM (K/lgF)

69 Slub I thought that the distinction was that the second was the signing and the 4th was the distribution.

Actually, most historians are pretty sure that the 4th was the day all the delegates were sober enough to publish it.  I've seen the liquor bill, and I must concur.  Valu Rite Vodka?  Please.  Don't be frontin like dat.  The Founding Fathers would have drunk you lot of pikers under the table before 9PM.

Anyway, happy Independence Day to you all.

Posted by: Randy Rager at July 04, 2007 03:02 PM (hngM7)

70

In "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" Heinleins main character Maureen did voluntary work during the Spanish American war as a nurse's aid, and there is basicaly an entire chapter about how she saw men die from the various illnesses that occur when a large number of people are kept in a close environment, and I think there is a quote like "Many of them didn't go, but they were ready to, they were hero's, all of them." talking about those who served, but didn't "SERVE" if you know what I mean.

Heinlein isn't just a great author, he's a great American, and he's right.  Bloom didn't get shot but he died, and he's a hero, I will acknowledge that, why can't our media acknowledge that for all of those who serve live and dead?  Are you made of that stuff?  apparently not, cuz you are here, I envy them, I love them, I'm sorry I can't be among you anymore.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 03:05 PM (QTv8u)

71

Herr whatsyourface,

I was gonna make a lieutenant dan joke, but that would have been tasteless, I'm sorry for thinking it, on this day.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 04, 2007 03:07 PM (QTv8u)

72 History Channel is running the story of the Revolution all day. It's not only inspiring, it's chock full of little details. Like the fact that the German General Friedrich von Steuben, who arrived during the winter at Valley Forge and instilled discipline into the continental army ranks, was a rumored pederast.

Posted by: Muskwa at July 04, 2007 03:48 PM (i3QB9)

73

The limey pom's that I've known are rather playful about it.

Yeah, Pinto, I was a bit surprised at their reaction. Most Brits I know take it with good humor. My brother-in-law is a Brit living in Canada. July 1 is Canada Day, and he always sends the family a Happy Canada Day e-mail that also pays homage to "that other holiday."

 

Posted by: Muskwa at July 04, 2007 04:08 PM (i3QB9)

74

Happy Fourth of July, one and all.

Oh, and troll:

Trial by Jury is for American Citizens, not terrorists taken outside of American territory in time of war.

Just thought you would like to know.

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids at July 04, 2007 04:59 PM (wl1BH)

75

I feel guilty--I read the Dec of Ind with the new Rush album playing in the background.  

231 years and going...with a major war record of 10-1-1

- Revolution - W

- War of 1812 -- W (but close to a T)

- Mexican-American War -- W but outcome subject to change  

- Civil War -- W (sorry to my Southern friends)

- Spanish-American War -- W

- WWI -- W

- The Big One - W

- Korea - T but closer to a W than an L

- Vietnam -- Sorry, but counts as a L even though there was no earthly reason why we should have lost

- Cold War (yeah, that's right -- I needed to make sure Reagan was charged with the Win on one of our wars) - W

- Afghanistan - W

- Iraq (91-present) - W

 I call the Iraq War of 2003 a win but since it was a continuation of Gulf War '91 I only count it once...and I consider our long-term success a foregone conclusion.

I just wonder if the three branches of gov't continue to antagonize us citizens, how long it will be before we're forced to reconvene for a rewrite of the Dec of Ind (and no, I ain't a Paulite).   

Posted by: Xenu at July 04, 2007 05:44 PM (O28xr)

76 I read from Wikipedia (so it must be true) that Jefferson considered a passage in the Declaration condemning the slave trade, but that it has been edited out by the Congress.  Imagine how its inclusion might have changed the course of our history. 

Posted by: Xenu at July 04, 2007 05:52 PM (O28xr)

77 Who supports a Trial by Jury for terrorists?

Nobody sane.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 04, 2007 06:33 PM (wmgz8)

78 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r26_CSzk3Xw

Posted by: JayC at July 04, 2007 07:32 PM (+1O2Q)

79

Declaration is nothing more than toilet paper after criminal Chimpy let criminal Libby escape Scot free from massive felonies!

 

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1776-2007

Posted by: The Truth at July 04, 2007 09:08 PM (+VNlz)

80 Good parody.

Posted by: Slublog at July 04, 2007 09:17 PM (4zStB)

81 And they did not consult polls before they signed.

Posted by: eman at July 04, 2007 10:36 PM (FWrFx)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1776-2007

And counting...


There, fixed it.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at July 05, 2007 12:04 AM (Nn5hT)

83 And for many of the signers, the price was high, and they knew it was coming, but they did it anyway.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 05, 2007 02:02 AM (wmgz8)

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Yeah, it's independance day, this is the day that we memorialize when the hessians tore up the declaration of independance, before the Nazi's marched into vietname and decided to occupy Iraq.

(A short list of liberal history)

Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 05, 2007 04:16 AM (QTv8u)

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Was erq d/b/a john dos passos's comment deleted?

Was he banned again?    

Posted by: max at July 05, 2007 07:42 AM (OYeDg)

86 Max, I was wondering about that, too. I saw a troll comment signed by John dos Passos, and later it looked like it had been altered. What gives?

Posted by: Muskwa at July 05, 2007 10:39 AM (i3QB9)

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Muskwa,

I guess LauraW modified ergastularius's comment. If so, she did an excellent job.

In case you don't know, ergastularius is a loser troll who has been banned several times and in an effort to avoid being banned again, has been signing its posts with names of historical figures - everyone from a member of the Baader-Merhoff (sp?) Gang to President McKinley's assassin to now John Dos Passos.

LauraW's improvements of its posts seem to the best remedy against a troll who just doesn't have any manners (or hygiene or employment or brain, but that's another story).

Posted by: max at July 05, 2007 10:57 AM (OYeDg)

88

lauraw,

do you have any tips on how to freeze a banana? they're such a lovely shape and i'm dying to try one when my peach melts.

many thanks in advance, you facist warmonger.

ergalatrocious

Posted by: erq the loser gerbil lover at July 05, 2007 11:05 AM (OYeDg)

89

lauraw,

what about a watermelon? do you think i could fit a frozen watermelon up my sorry ass?

please advise ASAP as the peach is melting and the banana i froze has turned a funny color.

Posted by: erq the loser gerbil lover at July 05, 2007 01:29 PM (OYeDg)

90 --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That really isn't being taught much in today's ("we will subject you who serves the gov't") schools. And David Broder seems to have forgotten that notion as well. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401218.html

Posted by: tanstaafl at July 06, 2007 12:45 PM (M/8zd)

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"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Nothing like acknowledging those "insurgents" i.e., the people whose country it is, for their absurd attempt at fighting to defend their own country from outside invaders, not to mention calling them "merciless Indian Savages", when in reality it was the merciless European savages whose "known rule of warfare", stealing, plunder during their "destruction", though perhaps 'distinguished', and killing off the domestic population "of all ages" and "sexes" who really deserve the credit. "We're #1! We're #1"

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