20 thoughts on “Happy Fourth of July!”

  1. “And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

    Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

    Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

    Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

    Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

    But not only that.

    Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

    Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

    Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!

    And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”

    Andrew

  3. By The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1976

    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, . . .
    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;

  5. Hi America, it looks like you got the Higgs for your birthday. Lucky you!

  9. Happy birthday American cousins!!

    And I’m not sure you’d have been better off under us British – you seem to be thriving just fine 🙂

  10. Richard

    You would’ve been better off under the British

    I doubt it. But why do you think that?

  11. Anteros

    you seem to be thriving just fine 🙂

    And came to your aid on one or two occasions. 🙂

    And to the French as well but that was a debt we owed to especially to (See: ‘Lafayette, We Are Here!”) Or course France also sent Rochambeau and some money.

    But after rocky start, we ended up pretty good allies with England. We seem to mostly get along with Mexico and Canada too. (Knock on wood!)

  14. Strange thread. In most countries one must show ones passport to leave. Not so in the States. Says something about liberty I think.

  15. SteveF,

    If I understand the news about the new “U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan”, Canada will be required to make available to the U.S. information about U.S. citizens entering Canada. I’ve heard concern that it acts as a defacto exit check. I’ve only caught a couple of stories about it, so maybe I wrong.

    Regardless, hope y’all had a blast. Happy belated.

  16. SteveF (Comment #99091)
    July 5th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
    Strange thread. In most countries one must show ones passport to leave. Not so in the States. Says something about liberty I think.

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    yes, I almost got trapped in Jordan because they would not let me leave. I had an unstamped kuwait Visa and they were convinced I was a spy of some sort. A quick call to the palace straightened them out.

  17. Mosher,
    Joking aside, controlling who can leave is as clear an ibdication of totaliterian government as exists.

  18. dude I aint joking. that happened to me. Luckily I had the prince’s business card. ( err, I used to be an merchant of death–errr..sold arms in the middle east I meant to say)

    and yes what you say is true

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