Celebrating rebellion

[greg_in_london]

We just bumped into a happy yank at the bus stop coming back from the pub. She'd been celebrating a successful rebellion a couple of hundred years ago or so. Apparently it's a national holiday over her side of the pond, but she found it a bit odd celebrating it here in London/the UK.

 

There's no accounting for some folks, but if you're that way inclined, I hope you've had/are having a nice day .

[az1103]

Well Greg I am not sure anymore whether to rejoice or not.... Another 4th of July and it Looks like we are back to "Taxation without representation" . :confused24:As you can see I am in California so my taxes are going to supporting the exploding birthrate of illegal aliens. Our legislators are mostly wasting their time on legalization of queers and pederasts and rapid redistribution of income according to socialist ideas.....I guess they failed to note how well that worked out in the FORMER Soviet Union , Cuba etc....

[hipshot]

We just bumped into a happy yank at the bus stop coming back from the pub. She'd been celebrating a successful rebellion a couple of hundred years ago or so. Apparently it's a national holiday over her side of the pond, but she found it a bit odd celebrating it here in London/the UK.

 

There's no accounting for some folks, but if you're that way inclined, I hope you've had/are having a nice day .

WOW , Greg.

i have received some "left handed well wishes", before but i believe your's takes the prize!

thanks for the support.

 

i've been considering a move to London, just to escape what we fought so hard to gain!

lol

just jt

[mraf]

It was a sliver moon on a clear summers night. The air so crisp you could slice it. The Big Dipper is pouring out all of summer. I and the evil one are sitting out front of the Ponderosa watching the evenings festivities unravel around us. The powers that be in our small town have dwindled down to be so small that fireworks town sponsored {Fire tax} have become non-existent. So sitting in the front yard we wait, pretty soon one bang over here two over there. YES INDEPENDENCE DAY!

What is it? The thought almost escapes me. But then I walk through my local cemetery and see the markers. I REMEMBER. Freedom isn't free.It never stops, someone always want what you have but doesn't want to pay the hard price.

It remains to be seen if we can hold on to this idea, but we do have the vote. It isn't perfect but were working on it.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE GAC:D

[az1103]

Yes, we do have the vote.....But somehow it isn't as it used to be. Maybe I am just getting old, but I remember a time when we actually voted for rather than against something. And I remember when we actually voted for people who presented ideas we agreed with and not just spoke of somekind of nebulous change without actually having any ideas about anything.

Let's not forget that there was voting in the now defunct communist block countries too. Was it meaningfull voting? That's another question, one I suppose that Castro, Mugabe, Lenin, Stalin etc..had their own ideas about. Yet people voted for all of those tyrants....

It isn't just the actual voting that's important - It's having a choice, a meaningfull choice that's important. It's being informed enough to actually know what you are voting for that's important.