The 13 American colonies throw off British rule as Philadelphia’s Continental Congress announces a new nation made up of united states. The anniversary of this Declaration of Independence, ratified one year into the Revolutionary War, will continue to be celebrated in the US as Independence Day.
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Aside from today being my youngest son’s 40th birthday (yes, 4 July 1976) I have just received exclusive footage from the latest DNC policy and planning group meeting concerning Hillary’s ongoing PR (no, not PuertomRican) problems:
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Happy birthday to your Yankee Doodle Dandy!
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It’s the flip side of Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones:
Question: “Can these bones live?”
Answer: “No.”
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The adventures of Ossie and Hairette, not your stock reply…
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Happy birthday! 1976…… I remember watches looked like this….
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Yeah, and a simple 4-function calculator was $125
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And dropping a dollar off a tall building could kill someone.
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Yeah, I understand that lessening the potential of damage to people from Ike dollars raining from the sky was one of the reasons the Fed switched to Susan Bs.
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“Y-Ikes, look out!”
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And he wonders hower you coming up with these.
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Eis just lucky, I guess.
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Dwight you are…
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Mamie I should quit while you’re ahead.
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We all outta Bicentennial Minutes here?
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Busy doing capitalist things despite national holidays.
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Ahhhhh…very inclusive of you, the price of those 40-ouncers with animals on their labels has been going up.
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“animals on their labels”
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That must be the label on the innercity 3.2 ‘thug starter’ formula
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Self-employment is the very definition of freedom!
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It makes for strange dinner conversation. Many people that have never run a business for any amount of time, think like employees; “Gross Profit” is thought of as lotto winnings to be spent quickly before it disappears as mysteriously as it arrived.
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Hey! Great motto for the huge flock,of welfare parasites. They ain’t workin’ for someone else but they’re gettin’ paid, therefore thru process of e-liminstion thry gotta be self- employed. Let’s see if Hillary’s crew need freelance apologists.
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We landed on the Moon with a 10 program functioning computer. The size of a shoe box.
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Yup, and now we’re dismantling our space program so that illegal and potentially terrorist immigrants can get three hots and a cot. China’s already said that when it lands it’s crew on the moon it’s claiming sovereign territory despite the US’s claim the moon belongs to mankind.
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I suppose we could then claim sovereignty, retroactively. That would make the Chinese squatters.
Man, the eviction process would be expennnnnsive.
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And our record with illegal aliens ain’t all that good
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It appears you’re back…
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Yep–back to the Punderosa.
(cue “Bonanza” music here)
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We’ve been pining fer ya, hoss…
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Happy birthday to Czar jr. 🇺🇸
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Yes, Happy Birthday!!!!
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Proper 4th of July breakfast:
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❤️
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Have you ever been accused of having a one track mind 🙂
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I sometimes switch it up: bourbon instead of bacon.
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What happens if you think about both of them at the same time ?
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That’s called brunch.
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Brunch is served 🙂
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And people wonder why I have sworn my undying for you. 🙂
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Speaking of brunch, new restaurant in N.O., see article on Black_Label_Ice_House_ bbq/Nola.com picture of fresh jalapeno cored &seeded, stuffed with cream cheese then wrapped with thick cut, smoked, candied bacon & baked till crispy; wash down with craft beer. Sorry I can’t post the picture, but this an iPad after all…
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Sounds FABULOUS. Lucky you.
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That was Czarina ghost-post. I’m growing TAM jalapeños for her so that she can enjoy the dishes the rest of us food masochists enjoy. I think most of us are of the opinion that barbed wire would be palatable given enough bacon, so given our appreciation for bacon and the jalapeno’s ability to be stuffed with almost anything the possibilities are endless.
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LOL!
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Excellent!!! ZM!!!
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Theme association (originally posted by FDR, next door):
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 nagware goes FULL SCREEN in final push
Meet the new BSoD – the Blue Screen of Despair
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/01/microsoft_gets_creepy_with_win10/
Pic As the Windows 10 free upgrade period draws to a close, Microsoft is stepping up its operating system’s nagware to full-screen takeovers.
The Redmond software giant confirmed today it will start showing dark blue screens urging people to install the latest version of Windows. The full-screen ads will pop up on Windows 7 and 8.1 desktops from now until July 30, when the free upgrade period ends.
“Nagware” for sure.
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I have Windows Update turned off for most workstations and servers. I run it manually a week or two late for the few systems that connect to the Internet. I like to read what others go through, before inflicting hours of frustration upon myself.
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Speaking of the BSoD, I could not post this morning. Think the issue is on my end, desktop and IPad…….
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I had Win 10 on my laptop before my satellite went down. It had more errors than the DNC platform. If Windows were a car it would have been recalled years aho but we’ve become so inured to living with a buggy OS that its primary selling point is it isn’t as screwed up as it could be.
What does that say about us when we rush out to buy a new and heavily failted iteration just as the one we’re using has been rendered largely bug-free? On the other hand it bodes well for Hillary..
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Love this! ❤️
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Looks good! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good morning and happy Independence Day, Nyet! Thanks for making sure the morning crew never goes hungry!
Enjoy!
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Oooh shiny!
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Excellent Nye!!! When the bottle is opened, I’ll be there!!!!!!!
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Love the flag bacon!
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Hope this posts correctly! Have a wonderful 4th, fellow patriots! May God continue to bless the USA! 🇺🇸
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When we lived in NC we were at a Fourth of July celebration, a small town gathering and we heard the most beautiful rendition of God Bless the USA, my MIL and I were enjoying this pure voice sining out the tune when suddenly there was a slight crack in the voice. We were both surprised because it was so beautiful we were sure we were listening to a recording, we walked a bit further and sure enough a young woman was standing alone on a stage singing the song.
My MIL & I looked at each other and both started to cry.
God bless the USA.
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It’s a beautiful song. That sounds like it was an amazing moment! 🇺🇸❤️
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It really was one of those timeless moments 🙂
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🙂
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4 PM and folks were already starting to gather at the around two-acre field where the volunteer fire department will hold the fireworks display. Display won’t be until 8-ish but from 5 PM until the display there’s a gospel troup there, at least three hoursof gospel singing that you’revfree to join in on.
When the display starts the attendees will be sitting within about 50 feet of where they’re being set off, the debris will rain down on the cars and audience as the fireworks go off directly overhead. Not as big or expensive as we have in the city but then you wouldn’t have the gospel singing, you wouldn’t be allowed to bring your own food and drinks and you sure wouldn’t let your kids run around freely. In al, it’ OK.
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You’ll love this – our neighborhood stand set on fire about 6 tonight – LOLOL!!! Next door to the fire station. Hellzapoppin’s an understatement.
Bad news – across from the cigarette store. I shall have to go inspect damage in the a.m……..
Better news – maybe it destroyed the train tracks long enough for the 4:00 a.m. train……..
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Woo Hoo, free show? Best that can be said for our ‘neighborhood’ stand is their credit card machine broke and I had to make a 16-mile round trip to get cash to buy the fireworks. Some y’all jes have allllll da fun.
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Very neat, a real community 🙂
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Just people, many of the city transplants won’t be here, they’ll be looking for more sophisticated entertainment. Many of the foljs out here ain’t bucks-down and are just looking for a way to enjoy being family and neighbors.
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When I was a child we had our own fireworks display, nothing fancy or huge or expensive, the best were the silver salutes 🙂, they echoed across the lake and made us cheer every time. I’ll never forget being allowed to light my first salute 😎.
We climbed trees, swam and ate hamburgers and hot dogs on Wonder buns before the PTB told us white bread would kill us all 😏.
On the lake front we shot bottle rockets out of Coke bottle we had drank earlier in the day, the kids had sparklers, red ladies and black snakes. The adults lit some larger fire works off once it was dark. Then the town did a small display which we watched from pontoon boats. Sometimes instead of watching from pontoons we would walk to town and watch the fireworks as we walked along the railroad tracks and then have ice cream in town.
Such good memories.
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Yeah, we’d bevover at the French-Canadian Club, they had a park area while the Polish Club was in the middle of a block of stores and apartments. Everyone would be drinking, sdults would be smashed, playing baseball or both. We had real fireworks plus the stuff the safety pukes hadn’t as yet outlawed – a few burned fingers but then that’s how you learned what not to do. Most Attendees were WWI orvWWIIvets, a few were both. Guess why that’s a reason I like it here, uncomplicated and basic.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Afternoon Ms.WeeWeed!!!!
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I didn’t think it was possible for her to drop any further in credibility. Is there a below zero scale?
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Yep. It’s called the Democrat Party
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Thought for the day, personal responsibility.
http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=OIP.Mc26b02761a4dc60b7317b4236e4edcc3o2&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
Take Care
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Try again.
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I think this is especially true now, since Obama has watered down what the police can do and he is letting the criminals run free.
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Plan for decades was to throw money at the failed program of trying to civilize thevferal thug herds – that didn’tbwork. Now the plan’s to make their prey more tastier and less dangerouser while maling the prey more accepting of their fate.
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Excellent quote, thank you!
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From FB:
Communist Rules for Revolution. Publication date of this clip: October 13, 1975 (original publication 1970). Scary, isn’t it?
In May of 1919 at Dusseldorf, Germany, the Allied Forces obtained a copy of the Communist Rules for Revolution. Fifty years later the Reds are still following these rules.
A. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion, get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby:
1. Get the peoples minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster lenient and soft attitude on the part of government towards such disorders.
7. By Specious argument, cause the breakdown of old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, confidence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view toward confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
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The wording causes me to question the realism of the clipping.
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I did a quick “google” and of course the first hit is snopes.
I could see it being a anti-anti propaganda / phyop piece from the 1950’s socialists.
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September, 1787, US Constitution ratified and accepted by the roughly 33% of the poulation desiring to be citizens and not subjects and kick Brit arses back to Europe. November, 2016, roughly same percentage of US population ready to once again retake their destinies from the hands of fat-arsed Chicago and Little Rock despots regardless of the election.
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Take a look at the jerk who wrote the piece in Vox. He looks like Jerry Lewis’ character, The Nutty Professor
, or Bob Denver’s Maynard G Krebs. Who raises these jerks?As Far as MSM is Concerned, America Was a Mistake
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/04/as-far-as-msm-is-concerned-america-was-a-mistake/
Yes, you read that right: The headline of Matthews’ piece is “3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.”
To fully absorb that headline is to comprehend just how utterly the left end of the MSM disdains this country—but you already knew that.
Matthews makes three specific claims as to why the American Revolution was bad: First, Abolition would have come faster without independence; second, independence was bad for Native Americans; third, America would have a better system of government if we’d stuck with Britain.
Matthews makes no mention, of course, of any of America’s achievements, from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Brooklyn Bridge, from providing a prosperous and free haven to hundreds of millions, as well as ridding the the world of Hitler, from putting a man on the moon to feeding billions around the world.
The author of the Breitbart piece, Stephen K Bannon, has a very persuasive rebuttal. Good read.
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I forced myself to read the slavery section, but would only skim the next two. It really is crap. If the guy honestly believes what he wrote, it’s all based upon the currently taught propaganda/history. Just a little reading of actual documents from the time period blows most of the assertions apart.
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Undoubtedly.
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Surely you can’t possibly be suggesting that a “journalist” go straight to original sources and do unbiased research. I must be missing your meaning.
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Liberals can never face reality, it is the same reason they claim again and again that communism has never failed it simply has never been properly implemented. They are disingenuous liars to their core, their minds are blinded by their agenda that they have to manipulate and contort reality to remain proponents of their ignorance.
I believe it is their soul which makes them such miserable people, their soul cries out for their mind to acknowledge concrete reality, but their minds demand that their emotions bend to the lie of their contorted biases.
I mean has anyone ever seen a happy liberal? Ever? They don’t exist. They are living a hellish existence where they must never accept truth as it is or the very foundation of their belief system crumbles.
I would put Mathews in this category of people.
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This happens today:
Giant spacecraft nears Jupiter
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/health/juno-jupiter/index.html
(CNN)It’s been speeding toward Jupiter for nearly five years. Now — can it slow down?
On Monday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft — a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court — will perform what the space agency calls a 35-minute long “suspenseful” maneuver that will allow it to be pulled into orbit around Jupiter.
Basically, mission managers will hit the brakes, and they’ll hit them hard.
They plan to fire Juno’s main engine for 35 minutes starting at 8:18 p.m. PT (11:19 p.m. ET). That should slow the spacecraft by about 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per second) and allow it to be pulled into orbit around Jupiter.
“We are ready,” said Scott Bolton, the mission’s principal investigator. “The science team is incredibly excited to be arriving at Jupiter,” he said in a NASA press release. …
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“We are ready”, yeah cupcake, heard that before………
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And what about the Lego characters? Weird.
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P.S. I have to say, they’ve done well with past missions, including the ones to Mars.
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I can’t wait for the flying beings that inhabit Jupiter to …… eat it. (They’re pretty big, jus’ sayin’……..)
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How do Americans stand out from the rest of the world?
Interesting statistics from Pew Research
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/03/12/how-do-americans-stand-out-from-the-rest-of-the-world/
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