It is a happy day. BUT, don't try to light a sparkler in Massachusetts today -- they are banned. And don't drive to NH to buy them -- state police are waiting at the border and will arrest you. You will be charged with a misdemeanor.

Wasn't Massachusetts at the center of the American Revolution? Not any more -- brought to you by concerned Democratic legislators.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Happy Birthday America...

Two years before his death, Sir Winston Churchill wrote to President Kennedy, just two months before the President's own life was cruelly and wickedly cut short.

8 Hyde Park Gate, London, April 6, 1963
As read at the White House
by Randolph S. Churchill, April 9, 1963

Mr. President,
I have been informed by Mr. David Bruce that it is your intention to sign a Bill conferring upon me Honorary Citizenship of the United States.

I have received many kindnesses from the United States of America, but the honour which you now accord me is without parallel. I accept it with deep gratitude and affection.

I am also most sensible of the warm-hearted action of the individual States who accorded me the great compliment of their own honorary citizenships as a prelude to this Act of Congress.

It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former Prime Minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. I say "great sovereign state" with design and emphasis, for I reject the view that Britain and the Commonwealth should now be relegated to a tame and minor role in the world. Our past is the key to our future, which I firmly trust and believe will be no less fertile and glorious. Let no man underrate our energies, our potentialities and our abiding power for good.

I am, as you know, half American by blood, and the story of my association with that mighty and benevolent nation goes back nearly ninety years to the day of my Father's marriage. In this century of storm and tragedy I contemplate with high satisfaction the constant factor of the interwoven and upward progress of our peoples. Our comradeship and our brotherhood in war were unexampled. We stood together, and because of that fact the free world now stands. Nor has our partnership any exclusive nature: the Atlantic community is a dream that can well be fulfilled to the detriment of none and to the enduring benefit and honour of the great democracies.

Mr. President, your action illuminates the theme of unity of the English-speaking peoples, to which I have devoted a large part of my life. I would ask you to accept yourself, and to convey to both Houses of Congress, and through them to the American people, my solemn and heartfelt thanks for this unique distinction, which will always be proudly remembered by my descendants.

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

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Happy Independence Day, everybody.

I am sure many of you will celebrate the freedoms ourt Founding Fathers and brave soldiers sacrificed to give to us, like I will.

 I am also sure there will be a few who will curl into the fetal position underneath a dark, damp sink, haitng life, cursing this country for all the evils in the world. I pity those people.

This is a magical day, a day of amazement and wonder. How fitting that James Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same date in 1826, while James Monroe died on this day in 1831.

 First, "Happy 4th Yall"

Now, i would like to start an anual award, to be bestowed each 4th of July henceforth, called the "Would'nt Make a Pimple on a Real Journalist Arse Award" Anyone who would like to participate and bestow this "honor" on whoever they select, on their blog, whatever, etc., feel free to do so. My first pics are, brian williams, tom brokaw, chris matthews, keith olberman, dan rather, katie couric, dianne sawyer, kate snow, julie chen, harry smith, maggie rodriguez, barbara walters, dan abrams, and there are more but; We live out in the sticks and don't have access to cable are satlelite, we only get 3-5 channels sometimes and sometimes not. I would appreciate your participation!!

(GRINS)  kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

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Sen. John McCain (2003):
"...I am proud to say that I was born in your country.&

Big ugly convict talking to the clean cut man in the jail cell. "What the hell you in for dude?"

"Well, er....I bought some sparklers in New Hampshire and tried to bring them back into Boston for the 4th of July family celebration, and I got busted at the border."

"I tried to tell them, the nice policeman, that I was only doing it for the Children."

You can perform any kind of sexual deviant behavior your sick mind can think of but by God you better not have any sparklers or ladyfingers in your possession in Massachusetts you firecracker freaks!

We were listening closely and it sounds like the mush-head Alicia Keys.
Yes/No?

Yeah, the one who said the government started the east/west coast "rap wars" to... I dunno... probably have all the black people kill each other or something.

She also may be a 9-11 "truther", i could be wrong.

I hope that's not her singing in the posted fireworks video.

Here is a special Independence Day greeting for you all!

Well, here is my contribution....(thank you drillanwr)

Then we have this juxtaposition from this lovely lady.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh