American Independance Day...July 4th
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 Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 
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Well, we're into the four day 4th of July weekend culminating in the 3 B's...Beer, Booze, & Barbeque along with parades and fireworks. I want to wish all fellow Americans a safe and happy celebration with our friends, families, and neighbors. And for everyone's sake, please don't drink and drive or have a designated driver with you to drive you home. Remember, friends don't let friends drive drunk. Account frozen... ID: 354373 ·  |
Dr. C.E.T.I.  Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0
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. . . same 2 ya Sir and 2 all others ID: 354375 · |
Mike   Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34630 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 
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I absolutly agree. Best wishes. Mike With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 354384 · |
Michael    Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4609 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18
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Well, we're into the four day 4th of July weekend culminating in the 3 B's...Beer, Booze, & Barbeque along with parades and fireworks. I want to wish all fellow Americans a safe and happy celebration with our friends, families, and neighbors. And for everyone's sake, please don't drink and drive or have a designated driver with you to drive you home. Remember, friends don't let friends drive drunk. Truer words have not been said here. ID: 354408 · |
Scary Capitalist  Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Yep, and those are nice sentiments. I am choosing to use this opportunity to go and spend a bit of time with my father...he's a good man and uses the excuse to use me for yard work in order to see me.....bless him.....and bless the Flying Spaghetii Monster also.... ID: 354419 · |
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Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4609 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18
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Yep, and those are nice sentiments. I am choosing to use this opportunity to go and spend a bit of time with my father...he's a good man and uses the excuse to use me for yard work in order to see me.....bless him.....and bless the Flying Spaghetii Monster also.... Stay Noodly! ID: 354421 · |
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Yep, and those are nice sentiments. I am choosing to use this opportunity to go and spend a bit of time with my father...he's a good man and uses the excuse to use me for yard work in order to see me.....bless him.....and bless the Flying Spaghetii Monster also.... I'm Uber Noodly....you just make sure your wife and motorcycles are Uber Noodly as well.....you don't want to be subjected to the Noodly police.....they're evil bastards. Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! 
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Siran d'Vel'nahr  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7381 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238
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................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ I will be watching the movie Independance Day with my brother. It has become somewhat of a tradition with us. We will BBQ, snack, have a beer or 3 and watch movies. We will remember what this day stands for.... (-:< CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath ID: 354456 · |
John Clark  Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 
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................................................................ Enjoy the celebrations, and remember it was the birth of your country!! It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues  
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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0
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The Declaration of Independence Actually, it was a diplomatic note to King George III of Great Britian to buzz off. Account frozen... ID: 354472 · |
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7381 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238
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................................................................ Thanks John and the same back at ya. As long as we have the red white and blue to look up to, it's meaning will never be forgotten. Happy 4th.... (-:< CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath ID: 354473 · |
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John Clark Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0
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The Declaration of Independence But it started the process to build your country! It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues
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Jeffrey  Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
The star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun. ~ Congress 1977 wiki hmm... ;) ID: 354561 · |
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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0
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The star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun. "George, I haven't got a clue, looks better than polka dots," Betsy Ross, circa 1777. Account frozen... ID: 354577 · |
Misfit  Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0
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What makes me an American BY RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE July 2, 2006 Just in time for the Fourth of July, a reader sends along this charming query: “Are you an American?†I don't take offense. I assume this has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Hispanic, or that I often defend immigrants (legal and otherwise) against scapegoating, ignorance and bigotry. I figure this guy is just taking a survey. Well, put me down as a “yes.†I am an American – a brown-skinned, Spanish-surnamed Yankee Doodle Dandy. I'm an American because I love and appreciate freedom, and I want people around the world to have the chance to experience it firsthand. When liberty is threatened, or when a tyrant preys upon the weak and defenseless, I favor sending in the troops to set things right. I'm an American because I don't believe in isolationism or disengaging from the rest of the world. I agree with those who say the United States is the world's one indispensable nation, and that it's our solemn responsibility to be – not “the world's policeman†– but its role model and defender. I'm an American because my sympathies lie with the little guy (especially when he is being pushed around by the big guy) and because I won't stomach bullies, foreign or domestic. The country is most righteous when it defends the underdog and shows the world how to be tough and compassionate at the same time. I'm an American because I reject protectionism. If we don't run and hide from foreign armies, why should we run and hide from foreign trade? Whether our competitors come from India or China or Latin America, if we produce unique and quality merchandise, we'll outsell anyone – even if our prices are higher because our labor costs are higher. I'm an American because I'm convinced that U.S. law exists to protect the rights of minorities – racial, religious, those with a particular sexual preference, etc. – because the majority can protect itself. And because I believe that institutions, if left unwatched, would often roll back hard-earned gains in civil rights. I'm an American because I believe the U.S. government can't run roughshod over civil liberties and simply lock up people and throw away the key. And because I think that due process, including the right to counsel and to a speedy trial, should not be a casualty of the war on terror. I'm an American because I believe in the power of public education to change the lives and destinies of individuals and entire families. Of course, the process only works if there are high standards, strict accountability for both teachers and students, and an end to excuses and low expectations. I'm an American because I believe that, with personal rights come personal responsibilities – to yourself, your family, your community and your country. And because I think that if more people owned up to their responsibilities, many of society's problems would disappear. I'm an American because I believe that the future belongs to the bold, the optimistic and the hardworking. And because I'm convinced that – despite the insistence by some that sinister forces are undermining America's poor and middle class – the direction of our lives is in our own hands. And I'm an American because I believe that immigrants are our most valuable import and that we should welcome as many as possible – as long as they come legally. Contrary to those who get worked up over changes in culture and language, I see this kind of change as not spoiling America but illustrating the whole point of America. And because I'm not afraid to say that the real dangers are the familiar toxins of racism and xenophobia, and the arrogant claim that the immigrants of today are inferior to those of years gone by. Somehow, all these things seem more significant than something as arbitrary as bloodline – the fact that I was born in the United States to parents who were also born in the United States and that the same can be said for three of my four grandparents. On that point, I bet I'd get no argument from another reader – an immigration restrictionist – who recently took issue with something I'd written and informed me that the fact I was an American citizen was just a “technicality.†If that's the case, it's a technicality for which I'm immensely grateful. me@rescam.org ID: 354637 · |
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7381 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238
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................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ The National Anthem: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath ID: 354759 · |
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7381 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238
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Captain Avatar  Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0
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This is more like it: AAA+ 
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7381 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238
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This is more like it: Thanks....! (-:< CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath ID: 354799 · |
Es99  Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 
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The National Anthem: Cool! The lyrics! I have the sheet music, but for some reason when I suggested I sing the Star Spangled Banner in honour of your national holiday Dogbytes started to cry. I can only assume that he was deeply touched by the idea. Reality Internet Personality ID: 354959 · |
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