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A Grateful American |
 Happy Birthday, America. May you have many hundreds more... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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My Time is Yours |
Happy 4th of July my friends God, Family, Country. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
God Bless America God Bless this community, the membership of SigForum, and their families. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Good enough is neither good, nor enough |
Happy 4th. I am going to a fireworks, BBQ, pool party. Should be fun. There are 3 kinds of people, those that understand numbers and those that don't. | |||
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Ammoholic |
Happy 241st Birthday America! Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Live Slow, Die Whenever  |
 "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
We attended the parade this morning in town. There will be fireworks tonight out in the park as well. This was something right out of Norman Rockwell. Thankfully, clouds kept it from getting too hot, but did not prevent the B-25 flyover. The community band was on the bandstand playing patriotic songs, the service hymns, Stars and Stripes, Souza marches. I did not play this year, just watched. The parade was led by an American Legion color guard. People clambered to their feet as they passed, and stayed standing as maybe 100 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts followed, each carrying a full size flag. Then a bunch more carrying one flag as wide as the street. There were motorcycles, old cars, a caliope, more units, old jeeps, pulling artillary, etc. The street was crowded, pretty big crowd, actually. The County Democratic Party was allowed an entry. If that isn't tolerance, what is? When the last unit passed, the color guard presented colors at the bandstand, Star Spangled Banner was played and sung, and an invocation given by one of the local pastors. The Mayor made brief remarks, the County Judge followed, reminding us that General Pershing himself had addressed this gathering, on that same bandstand in 1917, and afterwards received a telegram from President Wilson appointing him Supreme Commander of the Allied Force. 500 men from the county answered the call, memorialized by a statue that was placed there in 1937. We were reminded in a number of ways that freedom, liberty and justice for all is not mere words but required effort, sacrifice and tolerance from everyone. The band played and the crowd sang patriotic songs, "America, the Beautiful", "My country, 'tis of thee" "God Bless America" and a couple more. A preacher pronounced the benediction, the colors were retired and all of us "bitter clingers" went about our business. Just like the good old days!This message has been edited. Last edited by: JALLEN, Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Hold Fast |
Today's the fourth of July Another June has gone by And when they light up our town I just think, what a waste of gunpowder and sky ****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Went to the parade in Onaway. Lots of antique tractors and modern trucks. One with train horns. And then there was a giant fish sculpted from steel:  Some of the same sculptor's entries from prior years starting with General Washington  :     | |||
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Semper Fi - 1775 |
...sigh... Another rough evening on the boat with the family. LOL Bring on the fireworks! #Merica  ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| A Grateful American |
 Scooter says, "Happy Birthday, America!". And she says; Sorry, it took so long, but I'm a turtle..." "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Not really "doing" anything. My son came over this after noon and cooked us a beer brats and then I went out and sat on my front porch to wait for a flyby by the F16 squadron in Tulsa. The guy on the radio said they would fly east to west on second St. arriving at "down town" , 7:40 p.m. Well, guess what? They didn't. They arrived at 7:38:30, thirty seconds early!  Damn, can't they get anything right? LOLA few years back I used to go to the gun club and shoot an informal military bolt action match and these guys from the F16 squadron would show up. One Saturday morning at breakfast with them, I had a question about something I had heard that previous week on the tv news. It seems an F16 had accidently released a "practice munition " and it ended up in someone's bathroom! Needless to say that did not turn into a popular subject of discussion and I felt like a red headed bastard at a family reunion. "If you think everything's going to be alright, you don't understand the problem!"- Gutpile Charlie "A man's got to know his limitations" - Harry Callahan | |||
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We are wrapping up a great 4th. It's about the only time of year we have both our children and their collective 5 kids, all under 9. We had the usual burgers, dogs, brats from the big green egg topped off with apple pie and ice cream. I gave my 9 year old grandson and 8 year old granddaughter a test. I asked them to tell me why we celebrate the 4th of July. I was impressed with their knowledge of this magnificent day. All is not lost. We just finished watching a couple thousand dollars worth of fireworks shot off in our rural neighborhood. We get the good stuff in Montana. Truly another memorable 4th. Mike I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Ammoholic |
Mowed the lawn. Watched some TV with the GF. Watched the neighbors blow up 1000's of dollars worth of fireworks. Ate huge ass perfectly cooked filet Mignon, couscous, garlic bread, and cucumber salad. Cucumber salad was made from my garden. Peppers, radishes, and cucumber from the garden, onions were from the store. Tried my first purple pepper last night, not bad. Erie looking, especially when you cut into it and it's green on the inside.  Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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We were invited to watch fireworks from an unfinished building in downtown Atlanta. We could see all the official shows from the 20th floor and all the unofficial ones too. It was a very different prospective. It was also cool prowling around a building like that. ------------------------------------ My books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/William-...id=1383531982&sr=8-1 email if you'd like auto'd copies. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
 "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
 With my siblings... Lake of the Ozarks. Good times. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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