It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: robins111 on July 04, 2012, 07:31:34 AM
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy 4th of July. I'm lucky enough to be able to see the fireworks show at Niagara Falls from the Canadian side.... Have a great day, and enjoy the Bar-B-Q's, etc.
::beertoast::
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Thank you Robin.
My wife and I will be taking my sons to the Iron Maiden/Alice Cooper concert in Milwaukee tonight.
Road trip!
::beavisbutthead::
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Thank you Robin.
My wife and I will be taking my sons to the Iron Maiden/Alice Cooper concert in Milwaukee tonight.
Road trip!
::beavisbutthead::
IDP... you better slow down a alot before EauClaire.
car jump (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0l3NO-35U#)
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Nothing particularly spectacular going on here...the local fireworks were last night and a good show as always over Chesapeake Bay. The local shows are usually staggered around the 4th here so that people going to the National Mall for tonight's show can see both.
I'll be puttering about, potting plants most likely, while attempting to elude the zucchini that has appropriated the front of the house (is it normal for them to start yelling "Feed me!" when they get chest high?)
But I will take a few minutes this afternoon to polish some ammo.
Just because I can.
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IDP... you better slow down a alot before EauClaire.
car jump (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0l3NO-35U#)
::speechless:: ::fail:: ::praying::
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Happy Independence Day
I shore am thinkin about gittin myself some!
::rockets::
::USA::
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This July 4th it’s time to tell another tyrant we’ve had enough
By Coach Collins, on July 4th, 2012
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to decide not whether they would tell King George III they had had enough, but how to word their message. They wanted nothing about our Declaration of Independence to be ambiguous.
They explained that it had become necessary to dissolve the political bands that connected them to England because they were entitled by God to have certain inalienable rights the British Crown refused to recognize. Our Founding Fathers confidently proclaimed the truths they relied upon were self-evident. To ground their declaration in logic they presented a list of evils and abuses George III had committed. It reads like a criminal indictment. Here are some of the charges they listed against the English King.
He refused to follow laws.
He forbade state governors from passing laws that would benefit their people. Moreover he completely ignored laws he didn’t like.
He refused requests for laws that would help people unless the districts they lived in agreed to give up genuine representation in their legislature.
He obstructed the laws for naturalization of foreigners.
He obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He erected a multitude of new offices, and sent out swarms of officers to harass our people, and “eat out their substance.”
He combined with others to subject Americans to a jurisdiction foreign to us and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
He imposed taxes on us without our consent.
The similarity between our predicament in 1776 and what Barack Obama has inflicted upon us today is eerie. With no alternative our Founding Fathers picked up guns and took to the streets to fight for their freedoms. We can’t do that today, but we can take to the streets and work to win our freedoms in November. When you do we must vote conservative.
http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/ (http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/)
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This July 4th it’s time to tell another tyrant we’ve had enough
By Coach Collins, on July 4th, 2012
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to decide not whether they would tell King George III they had had enough, but how to word their message. They wanted nothing about our Declaration of Independence to be ambiguous.
They explained that it had become necessary to dissolve the political bands that connected them to England because they were entitled by God to have certain inalienable rights the British Crown refused to recognize. Our Founding Fathers confidently proclaimed the truths they relied upon were self-evident. To ground their declaration in logic they presented a list of evils and abuses George III had committed. It reads like a criminal indictment. Here are some of the charges they listed against the English King.
He refused to follow laws.
He forbade state governors from passing laws that would benefit their people. Moreover he completely ignored laws he didn’t like.
He refused requests for laws that would help people unless the districts they lived in agreed to give up genuine representation in their legislature.
He obstructed the laws for naturalization of foreigners.
He obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He erected a multitude of new offices, and sent out swarms of officers to harass our people, and “eat out their substance.”
He combined with others to subject Americans to a jurisdiction foreign to us and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
He imposed taxes on us without our consent.
The similarity between our predicament in 1776 and what Barack Obama has inflicted upon us today is eerie. With no alternative our Founding Fathers picked up guns and took to the streets to fight for their freedoms. We can’t do that today, but we can take to the streets and work to win our freedoms in November. When you do we must vote conservative.
http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/ (http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/)
We can’t do that today,
Huh? Why not? What happened to the signers of the Declaration?
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Thank you Robin.
My wife and I will be taking my sons to the Iron Maiden/Alice Cooper concert in Milwaukee tonight.
Road trip!
::beavisbutthead::
I'm envious of that.
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy 4th of July. I'm lucky enough to be able to see the fireworks show at Niagara Falls from the Canadian side.... Have a great day, and enjoy the Bar-B-Q's, etc.
::beertoast::
Thanks!
Planning a trip to the range.
Not much to celebrate after the leftists put a dagger through the heart of liberty via the supreme court's obamacare ruling.
So my fireworks will be shot off at the range today and tonight will be spent in mourning.
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Went to church.
Will read the Declaration aloud with family later. Watching fireworks tonight.
I will honor my ancestors who fought in the War for Independence.
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It's good to have family and friends 'cause we
sure don't have a Republic.
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Means nothing to me. Happy Re-Dependence Day everyone.
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This July 4th it’s time to tell another tyrant we’ve had enough
By Coach Collins, on July 4th, 2012
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to decide not whether they would tell King George III they had had enough, but how to word their message. They wanted nothing about our Declaration of Independence to be ambiguous.
They explained that it had become necessary to dissolve the political bands that connected them to England because they were entitled by God to have certain inalienable rights the British Crown refused to recognize. Our Founding Fathers confidently proclaimed the truths they relied upon were self-evident. To ground their declaration in logic they presented a list of evils and abuses George III had committed. It reads like a criminal indictment. Here are some of the charges they listed against the English King.
He refused to follow laws.
He forbade state governors from passing laws that would benefit their people. Moreover he completely ignored laws he didn’t like.
He refused requests for laws that would help people unless the districts they lived in agreed to give up genuine representation in their legislature.
He obstructed the laws for naturalization of foreigners.
He obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He erected a multitude of new offices, and sent out swarms of officers to harass our people, and “eat out their substance.”
He combined with others to subject Americans to a jurisdiction foreign to us and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
He imposed taxes on us without our consent.
The similarity between our predicament in 1776 and what Barack Obama has inflicted upon us today is eerie. With no alternative our Founding Fathers picked up guns and took to the streets to fight for their freedoms. We can’t do that today, but we can take to the streets and work to win our freedoms in November. When you do we must vote conservative.
http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/ (http://www.coachisright.com/this-july-4th-its-time-to-tell-another-tyrant-weve-had-enough/)
We can’t do that today,
Huh? Why not? What happened to the signers of the Declaration?
Why not indeed.
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The fact that so many feel they have to make a conspicuous show of pooh-pooing that kind of talk is part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place.
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Mitt Romney’s 4th of July speech (http://www.therightscoop.com/full-video-mitt-romneys-4th-of-july-speech/)
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Believe in America (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUcugv926Fo&feature=player_embedded)
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I'm guessing this must be a particularly painful week for the prez--all that jingoist American rah-rah stuff. Must explain his schedule for today:
No public schedule
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I'm guessing this must be a particularly painful week for the prez--all that jingoist American rah-rah stuff. Must explain his schedule for today:
No public schedule
The SCoaMF is the most despicable and evil person to have ever occupied the White House bar none!
I will celebrate the Founders and the Principles upon which our liberty and freedom was established and honor those who fought for it and fought to maintain it.
(http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/libertasinfinitio/Patriots/surrend.gif)
Beyond that my celebratory mood is severely dampened by the latter day Americans who led us to the sorry state of affiars we find ourselves currently in. The unlimited power of the Federal government to dominate our lives has never been higher, our Founders would recoil in complete horror at the chains we have put on ourselves. They would be arguing to seperate from this phony republic as vociferously and violently as they did the English tyranny of their time.
I look at that Romney ad and I am reminded more of what we have lost than I am hopeful of what we can ever hope to regain. If freedom and liberty are to be regained, it will not be by peaceful political means. That has to be obvious to even the most densest of Americans if they honestly search their souls.
This is the most agony I have felt on a 4th of July in my lifetime. I fear my agony will only increase from here on.
I want to shake every person I see and get them to wake up to what is being taken from them, but it seems to be a futile effort. Most will not realize the tyranny until it has them by the throat and by then they will have no response other than resigned submission.
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One of the main problems with the modern USA is that there's simply too many damn people living in it. The rugged individualism of the past may be a relic of agrarian society, that disappeared along with it. We have too many limp-wristed metrosexual latte sippers now. Such people are terrified of living outside the confines of the human zoo.
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One of the main problems with the modern USA is that there's simply too many damn people living in it. The rugged individualism of the past may be a relic of agrarian society, that disappeared along with it. We have too many limp-wristed metrosexual latte sippers now. Such people are terrified of living outside the confines of the human zoo.
That is so descriptive of reality, I may have to borrow that line for time to time! ::thumbsup::
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What we need is a two million strong constant protest at Washington for two months. Sounds like a tall order considering that most of us constitute the productive class however if we take turns being there one day say every two weeks and another to take our place the next and so on, we can put enough pressure on the cowards of DC at both parties to have them pissing themselves then will we get what we demand, our Liberty. We must demand the republic be taken back to the time before the progressive "deemed passed" 16 and 17 amendments.
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From my friend Yehudit comes this link to Randy Barnett's annotated posting of the Declaration of Independence. (http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/04/the-declaration-of-independence-annotated/)
My rhetorical question above asking "what happened to the the signers of the Declaration" was made knowing full well the tragic consequences that almost all of them suffered for their belief in human rights and liberty.
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What we need is a two million strong constant protest at Washington for two months. Sounds like a tall order considering that most of us constitute the productive class however if we take turns being there one day say every two weeks and another to take our place the next and so on, we can put enough pressure on the cowards of DC at both parties to have them pissing themselves then will we get what we demand, our Liberty. We must demand the republic be taken back to the time before the progressive "deemed passed" 16 and 17 amendments.
How about a 2 million armed people just go in and occupy the place? Its what the founders would have done. Our leaders already made it quite clear they don't give a rats ass what we think, care even less about the Constitution, and they won't until we make them. They are illegitimate tyrants, and the Tree of liberty is thirsty. Protests will accomplish nothing.
We need to make it so that each and every one of our traitorous representatives is afraid to walk among us.
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This is the most agony I have felt on a 4th of July in my lifetime. I fear my agony will only increase from here on.
Ditto. I cannot celebrate. Its a farce. Liberals pretending to be patriotic when they have sold out every principle we have relied upon.
I hope God creates a new, lower level of hell for them.
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1 - We are celebrating our independence after just losing it in the supreme court
- Do we celebrate what we once had but now we’ve lost?
- Kind of like singing Amazing Grace when I once was saved, but now I’m lost.
2 - We’ve fought the war with Britain for our freedom from their onerous taxes, only to have our supreme court tell us that now, our government has unlimited taxing authority over us as a special gift for Independence Day.
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We celebrate to remind us of what we have lost, and what we WILL have again, even should it take force of arms to do so.
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We celebrate to remind us of what we have lost, and what we WILL have again, even should it take force of arms to do so.
I think what concerns me most of all is that there has been a quite deliberate effort since the mid-60s to dramatically alter the American population. The Left has enacted policies that opened floodgates to people who have no historical or emotional connection to America. While we perceive a great sense of loss over what is happening, a substantial portion of the population just shrugs its shoulders. "What's the big deal? It was all just a bunch of racist old white men anyway." The lack of an emotional bond to ones country is a type of damage that will prove fatal to it.
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Happy forth from the Immigrant to his hosts.
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Happy forth from the Immigrant to his hosts.
::grouphug::
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Happy forth from the Immigrant to his hosts.
::grouphug::
You big lug you. ::USA::
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We celebrate to remind us of what we have lost, and what we WILL have again, even should it take force of arms to do so.
I think what concerns me most of all is that there has been a quite deliberate effort since the mid-60s to dramatically alter the American population. The Left has enacted policies that opened floodgates to people who have no historical or emotional connection to America. While we perceive a great sense of loss over what is happening, a substantial portion of the population just shrugs its shoulders. "What's the big deal? It was all just a bunch of racist old white men anyway." The lack of an emotional bond to ones country is a type of damage that will prove fatal to it.
You are right to voice that concern, there is a concerted effort to dilute the American demographic with immigrants more likely to vote themselves privileges as clients of the state, but they are also attracted to immigrate BECAUSE of the history of "freedom" here. Having said that, I take heart from knowing that the membership of the NRA, the American Legion, and the VFW is far larger than any other standing army in the world...so if we can get enough of them to put down the barbecue and baked beans long enough to stroll into DC with their guns in hand, no telling what might happen.
Although I suspect a few lampposts might sport new decoration.
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We celebrate to remind us of what we have lost, and what we WILL have again, even should it take force of arms to do so.
I think what concerns me most of all is that there has been a quite deliberate effort since the mid-60s to dramatically alter the American population. The Left has enacted policies that opened floodgates to people who have no historical or emotional connection to America. While we perceive a great sense of loss over what is happening, a substantial portion of the population just shrugs its shoulders. "What's the big deal? It was all just a bunch of racist old white men anyway." The lack of an emotional bond to ones country is a type of damage that will prove fatal to it.
You are right to voice that concern, there is a concerted effort to dilute the American demographic with immigrants more likely to vote themselves privileges as clients of the state, but they are also attracted to immigrate BECAUSE of the history of "freedom" here.
Depends on the immigrants. We have a majority culture that full well understands freedom=liberty, or used to -- in the American sense. Today's immigrants are encouraged to "honor their heritage", which for most part have socialist underpinnings, while being DIScouraged from understanding just how a bunch of old dead White guys are largely responsible for the notion of freedom they see differently than we. It was not always thus. Most no longer come here because they want to BE American; they come so they can have what Americans have without having to give up "their culture".
Yes. I'm gawdamned bitter about it.
Having said that, I take heart from knowing that the membership of the NRA, the American Legion, and the VFW is far larger than any other standing army in the world...so if we can get enough of them to put down the barbecue and baked beans long enough to stroll into DC with their guns in hand, no telling what might happen.
Although I suspect a few lampposts might sport new decoration.
As well they should.
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I'm guessing this must be a particularly painful week for the prez--all that jingoist American rah-rah stuff. Must explain his schedule for today:
No public schedule
I don't know about that . He swore in some new members to his personal Foreign Legion at the White House yesterday .
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I'm guessing this must be a particularly painful week for the prez--all that jingoist American rah-rah stuff. Must explain his schedule for today:
No public schedule
I don't know about that . He swore in some new members to his personal Foreign Legion at the White House yesterday .
Can't compare or compete with the swearing I direct at this tyrant and his rotten regime! ::cussing:: ::angry:: ::cussing::
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I'm guessing this must be a particularly painful week for the prez--all that jingoist American rah-rah stuff. Must explain his schedule for today:
No public schedule
I don't know about that . He swore in some new members to his personal Foreign Legion at the White House yesterday .
Yeah. Heard a little clip of his speech; "we are a nation of immigrants and we must always be a nation of immigrants ...".
I'm not "an immigrant"; being born and raised here, I'm a native American. And he can kiss my born-and-bred-here ass.
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Watched the fireworks last night. Lame. They went fine until the end. When they just ended. No grand finale. The crowd just sat there expecting a big finish.
Nothing.
My husband said outloud "Get used to it. It's Obama's fault."
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One of the main problems with the modern USA is that there's simply too many damn people living in it. The rugged individualism of the past may be a relic of agrarian society, that disappeared along with it. We have too many limp-wristed metrosexual latte sippers now. Such people are terrified of living outside the confines of the human zoo.
(http://americandigest.org/sidelines/Cosmo_for_Men_Korea.jpg)
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Ah, Pan, what is that?
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Ah, Pan, what is that?
A "limp-wristed metrosexual latte sipper".
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And it's titled "What Women Want". LOL. I can give the magazine a hint, for 98% of them the starting point is "not another woman".
That thing looks like the lovechild of Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu.
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And it's titled "What Women Want". LOL. I can give the magazine a hint, for 98% of them the starting point is "not another woman".
That thing looks like the lovechild of Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu.
I saw it at American Digest and thought of your phrase when I did so. The title, "What Women Want" is just icing on the clueless metroseckshul cake.
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Ah, Pan, what is that?
A "limp-wristed metrosexual latte sipper".
Damn ... His suit doesn't even fit !
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Ah, Pan, what is that?
A "limp-wristed metrosexual latte sipper".
Damn ... His suit doesn't even fit !
Pffft. It's only old farts like us that even understand what that means.
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Ah, Pan, what is that?
A "limp-wristed metrosexual latte sipper".
Is that a rare limp wristed Coark Soaker??
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The Greatest Play In Baseball History- Rick Monday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZzeEaBHUBM#)