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jwhop
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posted July 04, 2009 02:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message

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Lara
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posted July 04, 2009 02:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
Yes, Happy 4th July to one of the most UNfree countries around.

It's just such a shame that 80 million American Indians had to die so America could be the land it is today... still in puberty and not showing signs of advancing into adulthood.

HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY AMERICA !

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pire
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posted July 04, 2009 02:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pire     Edit/Delete Message
Happy national day people.


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Scorpionic Web
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posted July 04, 2009 04:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scorpionic Web     Edit/Delete Message
Ah, such a grand day for such a granfalloon.

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lalalinda
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posted July 04, 2009 04:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lalalinda     Edit/Delete Message
Happy 4th of July Lindaland

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Peri
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posted July 04, 2009 04:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
Happy 4th!

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jwhop
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posted July 04, 2009 04:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
"It's just such a shame that 80 million American Indians had to die so America could be the land it is today... still in puberty and not showing signs of advancing into adulthood."

If this immature juvenile scribbling on our National Holiday is a sign of what passes for European "adulthood" I'll keep American perpetual puberty.

"Ah, such a grand day for such a granfalloon."

Sorry to hear your associations are meaningless Scorpionic Web. Perhaps it's the company you keep.


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Azalaksh
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posted July 04, 2009 05:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message
For once I agree with you, jwhop

Happy 233rd Birthday, USA!!
(**wipes the snide and unsolicited verbal pee off her leg and goes on with the parade**)

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Lara
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posted July 04, 2009 05:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
Nothing immature about the truth and about remembering the wipeout of millions of people!!

It's called paying respect and giving credit to the American Indians who sacrificed their lives so you can have fireworks on 4th July.

I'm not at all anti-4th July... i'm just seeing both sides

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Scorpionic Web
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posted July 04, 2009 05:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scorpionic Web     Edit/Delete Message
Hey, jwhop, are you ever not the perennial assh*le?

I'm globally minded and don't care for national pride. It's the Aquarian Age, not "the company I keep".

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Lara
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posted July 04, 2009 05:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
Globally minded is good... very good.

Now lets see how far those Korean missiles/fireworks can fly! lmao

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NosiS
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posted July 04, 2009 09:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message
Happy 4th everyone!

May America keep prospering on its path! Our path is a unique love and our mission will often be misunderstood. Here's to our country's future!

Cheers!

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PeaceAngel
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posted July 05, 2009 12:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
Happy 4th of July to all our celebrating American friends.

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jwhop
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posted July 05, 2009 12:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
Hey Scorponic Web, take your global community and stuff it up your butt.

Your shittthead remarks are not appreciated on the day we celebrate US Independence Day.

If you need directions to the US borders, I'll be happy to drop kick your sorry butt in the right direction.

No Indians died so we could celebrate July 4th with fireworks Lara. However, a good number of King George III's soldiers did die in 2 wars Britain lost to the United States of America.

God, the deplorable state of public education in Britain.

It's hard to imagine a nation of people depraved enough to keep an insane tyrant on the throne of Great Britain. We were quite happy to be done with the whole lot of them.

Declaration of Independence

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)

The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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 to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute 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 shown 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 the 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 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 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 offenses:


For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 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 power 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, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete 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 amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 attention 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 Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

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Cheshire Kat
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posted July 05, 2009 01:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cheshire Kat     Edit/Delete Message
The Indians eh?..Um what about slavery?

Yeah..nevermind I had the best day popping fireworks and spending time with my family..>_>

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T
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posted July 05, 2009 01:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
Happy 4th everyone!

I'm lucky to live here
& amongst so many great souls.

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Xodian
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posted July 05, 2009 05:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Xodian     Edit/Delete Message
For the love of...!

To the chronic complainers:

For once... PLEASE leave a thread that is only ment for jovial celebration for the independence of a nation, well enough alone. Just to let you know, there were plenty of Native American braves who fought side by side with American colonists against the British for America's freedom. Its an insult to those brave souls to make such snide remarks about this holiday.

With that said, a Happy 4th of July to you too Jwhop and the rest of the American forum members.

BTW: A Happy belated Canada day to my fellow Canadians as well as to all the forum members as well .

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braveheart
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posted July 05, 2009 06:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for braveheart     Edit/Delete Message
Happy Independence Day, America!!


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Musette
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posted July 05, 2009 05:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Musette     Edit/Delete Message
As a global citizen, I think it's important to understand that feeling pride in your own country/family/sun sign/whatever does not automatically negate anyone who is not part of your country/family/sun sign/whatever. Thinking in polarities just brings unnecessary hatred, like the comment above about Korean missiles. Every country has a rich history and culture and I don't see how celebrating that is evil. Why can't we just respect each other?

I'm 1/4 Native American. I find it endearing when people get uppity on my family's behalf. Those millions that were wiped out? Er, in reality that decimation was mostly courtesy of European cooties.

Happy Independence Day and weekend to everyone! This country gave us the lovely Linda Goodman, after all! And a belated happy Canada Day to our northern friends!

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Azalaksh
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posted July 05, 2009 05:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message
Thank you, Musette
It *is* distressing when self-proclaimed evolved people "LMAO" about the possibility of missiles exploding in other peoples' countries.....

Happy (belated) Canada Day for July 1st, Xod et al

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Lara
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posted July 05, 2009 07:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
Zala LOL

you are so sensitive aren't you... if you read the news, you would have known that my LMAO was at the fact that the Koreans couldn't reach America even in their dreams... zzzz

Dear me... so negative all the time!

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Azalaksh
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posted July 05, 2009 07:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message
Hmmmm, my comment about "other peoples' countries" doesn't mean just Americans.....
Sensitivity for Native Americans is expected (by you) from us, but not (from you) for South Koreans nor Japanese people??
Yes -- negative all the time, that would be me

N Korea missile tests fuel fears
Home » News » World
Mon, 6 Jul 2009
News: World
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/64275/n-korea-missile-tests-fuel-fears

The ballistic missiles that North Korea test-fired this weekend were likely capable of striking key government and military facilities in South Korea, a defence official said, amid growing concerns over Pyongyang's firepower.

North Korean state media did not mention the launches but boasted that the country's military could impose "merciless punishment" on those who provoke it.

Pyongyang launched seven missiles into waters off its east coast Saturday in a show of force that defied UN resolutions and drew international condemnation.

The missiles appear to have travelled about 250 miles (400km), meaning they could have reached almost any point in South Korea, an official at the South Korean Defence Ministry said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

U.S. Condemns North Korean Missile Tests
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Published: July 4, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/05korea.html

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, Japan and the United States condemned a barrage of short-range missiles fired by North Korea on Saturday, while Russia and China called for calm.
[. . .]
In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura called the tests “a serious act of provocation against the security of neighboring countries, including Japan.”

North Korea Reportedly Fires 7 Missiles Off Coast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea
July 4, 2009
http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/04/nkorea-missile-3

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted military officials as saying the missiles appeared to be a type of Scud missile. North Korea’s Scuds are considered short-range, the South’s military said.

But Yonhap also said it is possible they could have been longer-range Rodong missiles fired a shorter distance.

Scud missiles have a range of up to 300 miles (500 kilometers), which could hit most of South Korea. The Rodong has a range of up to 800 miles (1,300 kilometers), putting most parts of Japan within striking distance.

Assumptions.....

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AcousticGod
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posted July 05, 2009 09:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message
Lara, trashing the U.S., and then saying let's see how far those Korean missiles can go doesn't exactly look you're making fun of Korean weaponry. It looks like you're cheering it on hoping they hit the U.S. You've been remarkably offensive in this thread. There's been enough discord around here lately without you trying to start more stuff.

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