bjorn_skurj Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 She's got her good points and bad ones, but she's my country and I love the shit out of her. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 My National Anthem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Hope it's a good one! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 I prefer this one.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pocahontas Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Have a glorius fourth of July everyone. Wave that Flag, Wave it High. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiokills Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 show me someone who says fireworks arent fun and i'll show you a liar Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Here's to the greatest country in the world! Yep I said it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Here's to the greatest country in the world! Yep I said it.I'm with you on this. Sweet land of liberty.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Happy Birthday! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cousin Tupelo Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 show me someone who says fireworks arent fun and i'll show you a liar... or a man missing fingers on one or both hands ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Wave that Flag, Wave it High. Beat me to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug C Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Ha ha ha!! Thank you. We haven't laughed so hard since I don't know. Happy Birthday America!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamradio Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Here's to the greatest country in the world! Yep I said it. Yes! God bless America. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Fireworks for those of you who aren't seeing the real thing tonight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Some tough times, but we'll get through. Happy birthday, miss. "And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Required Reading When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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 to 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 shown 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 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 President Thomas Whitmore: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day! Yeah, that's right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamradio Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Required Reading Awesome post my friend. I think that's the first time I've actually read the entire Declaration of Independence. Ever seen the actual document at the Smithsonian? I love how John Hancock singed it in HUGE letters so it would be sure to get the British attention. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Happy birthday, America! (Apologies in advance if I drink too much and feel you up too often on your birthday, it's just that you're such a sexy country.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Happy birthday, America! (Apologies in advance if I drink too much and feel you up too often on your birthday, it's just that you're such a sexy country.)WOW! That gave me a funny feeling. You really know how to..........say things. Best post I've read today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 :usa i hope all of you yankees have a super fun weekend!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 :usa i hope all of you yankees have a super fun weekend!!Hey, i root for the Mets! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Awesome post my friend. I think that's the first time I've actually read the entire Declaration of Independence. Ever seen the actual document at the Smithsonian? I love how John Hancock singed it in HUGE letters so it would be sure to get the British attention.Thank you. I always remember my H.S. government teacher, Mr. McDonald, saying he read it every 4th of July. I try to continue that tradition. I have seen the real thing at the National Archives. It's under so much glass, it's pretty underwhelming. The words are much more moving than the piece of paper they were written on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Hey, i root for the Mets! why i outta.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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