4th of You Lie

At least in America (due in part by our founding fathers being killers) we can freely state our position on anything without the consequences of immediately seeing our family members decapitated and raped to a mutilated death right in front of your very eyes, within the confines of our home, for even saying such a thing (^^^^dingus^^^^) in public.

PS: If anyone here has ever personally witnessed the event below, they would clearly understand my post. Nothing else on this planet comes close to it..... nothing I tell ya. Happy B-Day America!

Please, Blue and others you didn't know John and don't pretend you do.

And at this point, on this 4th of July, the most patriotic thing we as a nation could possibly do is bring Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Alberto Gonzales, and John Yoo (all notable among others) up on charges of treason against the United States. The only reason these f*#ks were in power to begin with is the pardons of the Ford and Bush Sr. administrations and by sweeping it under the rug yet again it will return to haunt us down the road.

The above two Brave and Selfless souls are indeed are what the 4th of July truly means to me.

Why would any GI want to put his life on the line for an incompetent politician...?

There's no rational reason why a small republican experiment in 1776 grew to dominate global culture and society — except that this is the only nation, past or present, that trusts the individual rather than the state and its bureaucracy. Such confidence in average citizens made us absolutely exceptional — something we should remember more than ever on this Fourth of July.

Unselfishly? You have reminded us 1000 times on the internet that you served. You were paid for doing a job. Now please, stfu.

So all was not so peachy peac and loving rosey in the land of the Native American Indian before Whitey showed up.

So all was not so peachy peacey white and rosey loving in the land of the Native American Indian before Whitey showed up.

The Fourth of July may be just a holiday for fireworks to some people. But it was a momentous day for the history of this country and the history of the world.

Not only did July 4, 1776, mark American independence from England, it marked a radically different kind of government from the governments that prevailed around the world at the time — and for thousands of years before.

The American Revolution was not simply a rebellion against the King of England, it was a rebellion against being ruled by kings in general. That is why the opening salvo of the Revolution was called "the shot heard round the world."

Autocratic rulers and their subjects heard that shot — and things that had not been questioned for millennia were now open to challenge. As the generations went by, more and more autocratic governments around the world proved unable to meet that challenge.

Some clever people today ask whether the U.S. has really been "exceptional." You couldn't be more exceptional in the 18th century than to create your fundamental document by opening with the momentous words, "We the people."

Those words were a slap in the face to those who thought themselves entitled to rule, and who regarded the people as human livestock, destined to be shepherded by their betters. To this day, elites who think that way — including many among the intelligentsia as well as political messiahs — find the Constitution a pain because it stands in the way of their imposing their will and presumptions on the rest of us.

EVERY civilization has been caught up in unimaginable atrocities towards other humans, nothing new, and it will not go away, doesn't matter how many people serve...

Charles

particularly your hateful stance on immigration and immigrants. You are well primed to fall right into place.