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Rant.....gotta say it, some still don't hear it
susie
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I just wish everyone would get it in their thick heads that we DO NOT celebrate the 4th of July!!!
Guys/Gals, we celebrate INDEPENDENCE DAY. Just sit back and think on it a minute. When we talk about celebrating the 4th we are losing sight of the true meaning behind this national holiday.
We aren't celebrating that we have a day off from work, that we have an excuse to light fuses and blow up stuff.
We are celebrating the cajones that our ancestors possessed when they finally said, ENOUGH, we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore. We are free thinkers, we are entrepeneurs, we are gentlemen and scholars, we long for a nation free of tyranny, where each man plots his own destiny, we are Independent. We will fight for it and not fear the consequences should we fail.
Hear us and heed our call. Unite for freedom, follow us to a new nation.
That, my friends is what we celebrate. Remember this when you wish someone a "Happy fourth of July" instead of "Happy Independence Day". Do you say Merry 25th of December, or Merry Christmas? Stop yourself and observe the meaning of celebration in your speech, let our young ones be reminded of what spirit our forefathers had in standing up to a tyrannical nation and the forging of what became to the world a beacon calling to others who wanted to hold their destiny in their own hands.
We have lost our way and parsing words lays a foundation of apathy. To this day, peoples of all nations continue to flock to our shores, seeking the flame that was lighted centuries ago. Don't let our complacency extinguish it.
Guys/Gals, we celebrate INDEPENDENCE DAY. Just sit back and think on it a minute. When we talk about celebrating the 4th we are losing sight of the true meaning behind this national holiday.
We aren't celebrating that we have a day off from work, that we have an excuse to light fuses and blow up stuff.
We are celebrating the cajones that our ancestors possessed when they finally said, ENOUGH, we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore. We are free thinkers, we are entrepeneurs, we are gentlemen and scholars, we long for a nation free of tyranny, where each man plots his own destiny, we are Independent. We will fight for it and not fear the consequences should we fail.
Hear us and heed our call. Unite for freedom, follow us to a new nation.
That, my friends is what we celebrate. Remember this when you wish someone a "Happy fourth of July" instead of "Happy Independence Day". Do you say Merry 25th of December, or Merry Christmas? Stop yourself and observe the meaning of celebration in your speech, let our young ones be reminded of what spirit our forefathers had in standing up to a tyrannical nation and the forging of what became to the world a beacon calling to others who wanted to hold their destiny in their own hands.
We have lost our way and parsing words lays a foundation of apathy. To this day, peoples of all nations continue to flock to our shores, seeking the flame that was lighted centuries ago. Don't let our complacency extinguish it.
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"U.S. securities markets and USAA Investments will be closed Monday, July 4 for Independence Day."
Our nation's education system has done a spledid job in meeting its goal of dumbing down this once great nation.[V][V]
[;)] Way too many people do not even understand what July 4th means...Happy Independence Day! drives the point home for everyone.
Good point. Goes along with so many high school seniors not even knowing what the Capitol of the US is!
We have lengthy political discussions in our home with free thinking encouraged. That being said, some will take heart that my 19 year old daughter and I were discussing the 2nd Amendment about a month or so ago.
Her words, not mine, "It was written to ensure that We the people have a means to rise up and overthrow a government that no longer abides by the Constitution. It is not about being able to defend ourselves or deer hunt."
She said she learned this in school. For the most part, Southerners still get it. [;)]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Especially the idiots who holler...Happy Memorial Day...
Happy as in you are to be happy remembering those who died in war?....ooookay..
Some folks really don't have a clue
If only we were still independent.[:(]