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Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/1/2011 10:19:33 PM   
seekingOwnertoo


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Status: offline 		We are in a time of great joy and celebration!

But let us not forget, those who have come before us!

The Women and Men who have fought for Freedom, throughout the world!

As well as how we vanquished and defeated evil ... including: Colony Makers, Kings, Queens, real slavery, Kaisers, Dictators and Communism! And most recently, Bin Laden!

That is the legacy of Our Nation!

First and Foremost, We stand for freedom! For each individual, country and person!

Monday is the anniversary of the public reading of Our Declaration of Independence ... in our own revolutionary struggle for freedom!

But because of the Heroism of Our Fore Fathers, and Fore Mothers, many people in the world today, are far freer! And we have made the world a better place!

Of course we have enjoyed the assistance of the country that once oppressed us, Great Britain, as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand! Then again, we are just a people separated by a common language!

And our special thanks to France … without whom, our revolutionary struggle would have been very difficult, if not impossible!

Yet it is another mark of our country, we return the favor, when the world is the darkest! And we did, on June 6, 1944, D-Day!

So happy birthday, to the United States of America!

The land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave!
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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/1/2011 10:21:51 PM   
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May you somehow be able to reclaim your country from the international bankers and restore your Constitution and freedoms. Until then, best wishes to Americans and those held in their owners' icy grips.


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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/1/2011 11:03:52 PM   
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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 1:39:47 AM   
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Happy birthday all you Southron bastards! You're a little loud, but we really couldn't ask for a better neighbour.

(though the Danes do give you a run for your money. )

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 5:46:34 AM   
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The Fourth commemorates one of the most wildly successful social experiments ever - the United States of America.  Once the most radical idea - freedom from monarchy and from religious rule - it's now boringly commonplace as Europe, Canada, Australia/NZ, and to some extent Mexico and Asia have developed their own free market models.

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 4:47:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ahh, it's about time for my yearly viewing of 1776!

John Adams: This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!


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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 4:52:42 PM   
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Once the most radical idea - freedom ... from religious rule - it's now ...
... what the religious right and the Michele Bachmanns of this world want to get rid of in favor of a Christian theocracy.

Let's hope Independence Day reminds them of where we came from...and why.


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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 6:03:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: seekingOwnertoo

We are in a time of great joy and celebration!

But let us not forget, those who have come before us!

The Women and Men who have fought for Freedom, throughout the world!

As well as how we vanquished and defeated evil ... including: Colony Makers, Kings, Queens, real slavery, Kaisers, Dictators and Communism! And most recently, Bin Laden!

That is the legacy of Our Nation!

First and Foremost, We stand for freedom! For each individual, country and person!

Monday is the anniversary of the public reading of Our Declaration of Independence ... in our own revolutionary struggle for freedom!

But because of the Heroism of Our Fore Fathers, and Fore Mothers, many people in the world today, are far freer! And we have made the world a better place!

Of course we have enjoyed the assistance of the country that once oppressed us, Great Britain, as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand! Then again, we are just a people separated by a common language!

And our special thanks to France … without whom, our revolutionary struggle would have been very difficult, if not impossible!

Yet it is another mark of our country, we return the favor, when the world is the darkest! And we did, on June 6, 1944, D-Day!

So happy birthday, to the United States of America!

The land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave!



Thank you.

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 6:05:54 PM   
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It is 9:04 PM here and I have not heard one single explosion. Should I shoot of a gun or something to get the spirit started ? You think it would get people up to spend their rent money on firecrackers ?

T^T

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 8:01:47 PM   
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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 8:16:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: KiGirl

Ahh, it's about time for my yearly viewing of 1776!

John Adams: This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!




OMG! My favorite quote from one of my favorite movies! Happy viewing, KiGirl.

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 8:18:14 PM   
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Happy birthday all you Southron bastards! You're a little loud, but we really couldn't ask for a better neighbour.

(though the Danes do give you a run for your money. )


Thanks you cranky old Ottawa Hippy
-Your American Dane neighbor SternSkipper


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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 8:49:25 PM   
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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 8:54:00 PM   
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It is 9:04 PM here and I have not heard one single explosion. Should I shoot of a gun or something to get the spirit started ? You think it would get people up to spend their rent money on firecrackers ?


We were surfing out at the back shore early this afternoon and the kids on the breaker rocks were shooting off those mortar style cans 100 feet over our heads... it was kinda cool



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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 9:04:43 PM   
Termyn8or


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Status: offline 		It was noted in history that rain followed battles in which explosives of the type that are being mocked during this time were used. Therefore "medicine men" or "rainmakers" shot off fireworks into the air after they got paid by farmers who were in a drought. Some legacy.

But what if they thought they were right ? Certainly the charlatains of today don't think they're right, if they were that stupid they would never be able to play the game.

T^T

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/2/2011 11:16:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		I posted this in the other love America thread, so I figured I'd repost it here so you guys who never get out of the basement could see it too. I figured you might like to know what a raving loonie pinko bastard thinks of you and your country.

What do I love about America? What it stands for. Not to US citizens, or too foreign leaders, but what America means to the man in the street the world over.

The idea. America is an idea, the idea that freedom can be made to work. That just maybe a country can work based on the idea that a person should be as nearly free as can be arranged, that a man can make his own way, and that a people made up of just such men can as well.

The dream. America is a dream. it is a dream of freedom hidden in the hearts of billions of oppressed people the world over. Maybe they can get to America, or maybe America can come to them, or maybe even, they can make their own America wherever they live.

The hope. America is a hope. The hope that freedom will survive, and that in time it will spread. That like an insidious disease, the germ of freedom spreads out from America.

The promise. America is a promise, a promise made to the people of the world. That as long as it stands, as imperfect and often off track as it may get at times, the idea, dream, and hope will not die.

You have probably noticed by now that I haven't really mentioned anything that actually applies to or affects the people of the USA. That's because America doesn't belong to the people of the U.S., it belongs to everybody else. America is not the same thing as the USA. The USA belongs to you, it is your country, yours to figure out and to do whatever you want with. But America, the idea, dream, hope, and promise that is America, that belongs to the rest of us, and you are only the caretakers of America. And no matter how powerful the USA gets, America will always be infinitely stronger.

Do what you will with the USA, but take good care of America, we have entrusted it to you, please don't fuck it up.

Take the idea of America into your hearts and make it part of you, keep the dream of America alive in your hearts, let the hope of America flourish in your hearts. And keep the promise. it's a promise your ancestors made when they wrote those words that echo in the heart of every free person and every person yearning to be free: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, ...

Noble words that made a weighty promise, one that has been entrusted to you to keep.

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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/3/2011 1:34:54 AM   
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"The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and sometimes the suffix '-ique' and '-ika' can mean not only wind or air but also a spirit that breathes, life itself."

Which in this case depending on one's sense of humour, is true of some Americans on this board alone.

But, an interesting read none the less ;

THE NAMING OF AMERICA: FRAGMENTS
WE'VE SHORED AGAINST OURSELVES BY JONATHAN COHEN

But what of a country founded on great words, are those words forgotten, misunderstood or abused, perhaps on one's birthday, one should consider the promises made and see how far they have deviated from their original intent, and if necessary, bring them back into line in honour of that promise.


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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/3/2011 7:12:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		"The derivation of America has several explanatory naming theories. The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century. Later, his published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller's 1507 map, which is the first usage of America."

--The Naming of America
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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/3/2011 2:30:07 PM   
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I posted this in the other love America thread, so I figured I'd repost it here so you guys who never get out of the basement could see it too. I figured you might like to know what a raving loonie pinko bastard thinks of you and your country.


I hereby retract the "loonie pinko" part




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RE: Happy Birthday to the USA - 7/3/2011 2:42:44 PM   
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perhaps on one's birthday, one should consider the promises made and see how far they have deviated


Thanks for the birthday greets... And let me assure you this is a country currently gripped by introspection. Some of it positive and some deeply misguided.
   I know for some who slip on blinders before they look at us from the outside this struggle might be seen as arrogance, and sometimes it is. Other times it's a struggle inside and out of the individual.
  Don't count us as down along with the Romans yet, I really think we're on a comeback.


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