Happy 4th of july

[redred]

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have a good day guys and girls:usa:

[Jezter]

!!Happy Independence Day!!

http://i.imgur.com/xJT09.jpg

[minz]

Happy 4th july to all our American friends, I look forward to the drunken posting later :tup: :lol:

[Lambchop]

Happy freedom day!

[MrsM]

Happy 4th of July!!! :dance2:

[Noilly Pratt]

Get out there and celebrate like we did on Sunday! :mrgreen:
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[DemonGeminiX]

:cheers: :usa:

[Godfather]

Happy bday America :mrgreen:

[Hal-9000]

so this gets stickied and Canada Day doesn't?




:sad2: Happy 4th America

[Godfather]

This is the anniversary of Will Smith saving the world from aliens, Hal. That deserves a sticky.

[Hal-9000]

don't stick up for the heathens GF :x


we want equality dammit!!

[Hal-9000]

*burns bra*






8-[

[Leefro]

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have a good day guys and girls:usa:


WHY FFS
WHY FFS

[RBP]

:usa:

[Leefro]

Bit like the Germans saying happy 2nd September to US

[PorkChopSandwiches]

This is the anniversary of Will Smith saving the world from aliens, Hal. That deserves a sticky.

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

:canada:

[DemonGeminiX]

WHY FFS
WHY FFS

In Congress, July 4, 1776.
A Declaration
By the Representatives of the
United states of America,
In general Congress assembled.

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislature.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic Insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress,
John Hancock, President.
Attest.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.

Philadephia: Printed by John Dunlap.

:usa: :dance: :usa:

[DemonGeminiX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Wt4XlXUrc

[Hal-9000]

In Congress, July 4, 1776.
A Declaration
By the Representatives of the
United states of America,
In general Congress assembled.

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislature.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic Insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress,
John Hancock, President.
Attest.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.

Philadephia: Printed by John Dunlap.

:usa: :dance: :usa:


...and afterwords, they all celebrated by having a BBQ :dance:

[Leefro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVrZJaN1IU

[DemonGeminiX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHwi_Z3Qp3Y

:usa:

[Leefro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c

[Jezter]

http://i.imgur.com/YWJrD.png

[Hal-9000]

I read that the average Chinese 6th grader does math and reads at the same level as an American 10th grader....that's a lil embarrassing


but you can't tell me that the same Chinese kid can go into a Walmart bathroom and make meth in a bottle, in less than an hour! :dance:

[DemonGeminiX]

Go grill some meat in the damned snow you damned Arctic heathen!!!

[-(

[Leefro]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo Look at you :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

http://kxrtonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Waving_American_Flag.jpg

[Hal-9000]

Go grill some meat in the damned snow you damned Arctic heathen!!!

[-(

http://i48.tinypic.com/2aipsba.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

That's labeled wrong.

[-(

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Go grill some meat in the damned snow you damned Arctic heathen!!!

[-(

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

That's labeled wrong.

[-(


[-(


You've seen more backdoor action than Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles

[DemonGeminiX]

[-(


I've seen more backdoor action than Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles

:hand:

Your sex life has nothing to do with our Independence.

[Hal-9000]

:hand:

Your sex life has nothing to do with our Independence.


[-(

I can't hear you over the sizzling of my BBQ'ed hamburgers....being cooked on the BBQ

[DemonGeminiX]

[-(

I can't hear you over the sizzling of my grilled hamburgers....being cooked on the grill

FTFY. :tup:

[deebakes]

[-(

I can't hear you over the sizzling of my BBQ'ed hamburgers....being cooked on the BBQ

:dunce:

[DemonGeminiX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3lnQivQDr8

[Southern Belle]

Don't be hatin' cause we still have guns! :lol:

I live in a little country community where we've had an Independence Day parade for the last 32 years. My parents were among the small group that organized the first one and it has grown over the years to the point that people started showing up claiming parking spots on the shady side of the road by 9 am along with participants in the parade lining up. The only requirement to be in the parade is to display and American flag. There were a few thousand people in the community to watch this morning and several hundred participants in the parade including everything from antique cars and tractors to horses and four wheelers, to little beauty queens, fire trucks and local politicians.
My daughter in law and grandchildren were here with us and we cooked hamburgers and hot dogs (Hebrew National :lol:) on the grill. Then we took the kids swimming nearby at the old US 601 bridge over Lynches River.
Tonight, we drove a mile up the road to watch a spectacular fireworks display where there were hundreds of people sitting on tailgates of pickups, on quilts and blankets and hoods of cars quietly enjoying the show and listening to patriotic country music. (lots of Toby Keith).
I know this sounds cheesy, but I got kind of choked up just from the fact that we can freely do all of this right here at home in our little hick place and not pay hand over fist for it. I plan to give a donation to the family who put on the fireworks display and other than that the only money we spent was on food.
Yet the kids had a ball and everybody is happy.
I'm proud to be an American.

And I got to razz my British husband all day...
But he loved it all.

[Hal-9000]

I worked at a hotel in the mountains.We had always heard the stereotype about Americans...rude, loud, egotistical etc. We had guests from all over the world there, as the town was renowned for it's good skiing.
Time goes by and I finally meet my first American family.I'm a chambermaid at the time, job was to clean the rooms and then GTFO of the rooms.

The American Dad, complete with cigar and 50000 dollar car, keeps calling me 'boy' and telling me to get extra stuff for his room :lol: I politely tell him the resort policy and he keeps shouting at me - Boy! There's something in it for you if you can get me an extra fireplace log! (we used chemical logs in the units). So I finally throw one at him and he hands me 20 bucks. Then as they're leaving he screams - BOY! If you git this luggage into the car...more greenbacks are headed your way!

greenbacks...really? :lol:


I've met a lot of Americans online and know more about the net folks, than I do about some of my coworkers. You guys are all great and I do feel richer for having met you. It's very cool to chat about the world around us and hearing your perspective. It really does shatter the stereotype...much like I've realized that the Brits are almost people too :thumbsup:


Have a happy 4th

[RBP]

Don't be hatin' cause we still have guns! :lol:

I live in a little country community where we've had an Independence Day parade for the last 32 years. My parents were among the small group that organized the first one and it has grown over the years to the point that people started showing up claiming parking spots on the shady side of the road by 9 am along with participants in the parade lining up. The only requirement to be in the parade is to display and American flag. There were a few thousand people in the community to watch this morning and several hundred participants in the parade including everything from antique cars and tractors to horses and four wheelers, to little beauty queens, fire trucks and local politicians.
My daughter in law and grandchildren were here with us and we cooked hamburgers and hot dogs (Hebrew National :lol:) on the grill. Then we took the kids swimming nearby at the old US 601 bridge over Lynches River.
Tonight, we drove a mile up the road to watch a spectacular fireworks display where there were hundreds of people sitting on tailgates of pickups, on quilts and blankets and hoods of cars quietly enjoying the show and listening to patriotic country music. (lots of Toby Keith).
I know this sounds cheesy, but I got kind of choked up just from the fact that we can freely do all of this right here at home in our little hick place and not pay hand over fist for it. I plan to give a donation to the family who put on the fireworks display and other than that the only money we spent was on food.
Yet the kids had a ball and everybody is happy.
I'm proud to be an American.

And I got to razz my British husband all day...
But he loved it all.

:)

:usa:

[Leefro]

Ohh well all over now you can go back to invading countries where you need their oil and ruining the worlds finances

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Ohh well all over now you can go back to invading countries where you need their oil and ruining the worlds finances

I mean this with all the love in my heart, get over it, we kicked your ass and we won...if you still hold a grudge more than 200 years later, then you need help.

So :fu:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Now that that's settled, I hope everyone had a good 4th yesterday :thumbsup:

I did BBQ the easy way, me and the girlie went to Famous Dave's :homer:

[Leefro]

I'm so bitter you could bottle my piss and sell it in pubs for 2 quid

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Sucks to be you then, doesn't it

[Leefro]

Nah it sucks to be a Pilgrim

[redred]

Ohh well all over now you can go back to invading countries where you need their oil

makes me wonder how they're doing trying to find the oil in the falklands :roll:

[Leefro]

There was no oil there in 1833 sonny