Happy Birthday United States of America!

nooshinjohn
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edited July 2018 in The Clubhouse
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,034
    edited July 2018
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    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
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    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,484
    Happy Independence Day on July 4th, 2018.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,862
    Happy 4th to all American polkies!
  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    Happy fourth ya’ll!!
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    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 4,950
    How I spent my morning...got to run through an empty Georgia Tech campus during swim practice
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 4,950
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    You couldnt come up with a beautiful woman dancing???
  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,192
    edited July 2018
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    You couldnt come up with a beautiful woman dancing???
    Men in thongs are allowed on the forum. Women... not so much.

    Where's @nbrowser ?
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,009
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    May not quite be militarily patriotic but the Hulk sure is American as can be!

    And I never watched or got into WWF. But I liked the Hulk in the clips I saw. He was INTENSE!

    Like basketball. I don't watch it but I did watch some of MJ's final seasons with the family. My daughter told me I should watch one of the greatest BB players there was. We knew it takes a team to make a star also, but he was good!

    Happy 4th!

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,009
    A kind-of preview of tonight's show up in NY. :DB)<3
    https://youtu.be/RfKtHrbo1vw
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    Happy Birthday America!!!!
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,192
    Hermitism wrote: »
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    You couldnt come up with a beautiful woman dancing???
    Men in thongs are allowed on the forum. Women... not so much.

    Where's @nbrowser ?
    After going back and reading my comment, I'd just like to clarify that my inquiry into @nbrowser's whereabouts had nothing to do with my previous sentence regarding men in thongs. What he wears in his private life is no concern of mine.

    Where's @nbrowser ?
  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,034
    Still gives me goosebumps to hear her sing the anthem...
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,124
    John
    I played that Whitney video this morning, still a lush for that version
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    It's amazing to think about the founding fathers, and the historic insight they had. From oppression, to give birth to an independent nation, and freedom. I can imagine their wonder when they look down at what our country has become. As Ronald Reagan said, "America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill". God Bless the United States of America!

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    242 years ago - On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States.

    Each year on July 4th, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event.

    THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
    Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776.

    In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: 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."

    Lee's words were the impetus for the drafting of a formal Declaration of Independence, although the resolution was not followed up on immediately.

    A committee of five was appointed to draft the declaration, and the task itself fell on Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Discussions of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence resulted in some minor changes, but the spirit of the document went unchanged.

    The process of revision by the Continental Congress began July 1, then continued through all of July 3 and into the late afternoon of July 4, when the Declaration was officially adopted. Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained.

    John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can read that without spectacles!"

    Today, the original copy of the Declaration is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and July 4 has been designated a national holiday to commemorate the day the United States laid down its claim to be a free and independent nation.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,197
    Happy Birthday America.

    Sometimes we've sucked. Sometimes we've sucked not too much. Sometimes we've been flat AOK all right.

    But in any event ..... God Bless America.

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
    I was sitting out on my deck watching fireworks in all directions tonight. Most miles away, the advantage of being in the country on high ground, but some very close. Sounded like a war zone out there......I love the smell of gunpowder.

    Proud to be an American
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,559
    You have a deck? I always pictured your front door looking like this, and that's the only part of the house you could see!

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    F1nut wrote: »
    I was sitting out on my deck watching fireworks in all directions tonight.

  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    4th of July fireworks Marine style!
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,116

    I came across this, thoughts??

    Sure makes me think of the song differently.


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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,559
    Damnit, I got something in my eye and now it's watering! Sure is dusty in here!
    vmaxer wrote: »
    I came across this, thoughts??

    Sure makes me think of the song differently.

  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,708
    vmaxer wrote: »
    I came across this, thoughts??

    Sure makes me think of the song differently.


    https://youtu.be/n7BMjS9vhVI

    Didn't they teach you that in school? Granted that was a bit dramatized, but basically the truth.

    One thing he got wrong, it's Fort McHenry, not Henry.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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    President of Club Polk

  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,505
    Happy 4th to the greatest country on Earth!

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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    F1nut wrote: »
    vmaxer wrote: »
    I came across this, thoughts??

    Sure makes me think of the song differently.


    https://youtu.be/n7BMjS9vhVI

    Didn't they teach you that in school? Granted that was a bit dramatized, but basically the truth.

    One thing he got wrong, it's Fort McHenry, not Henry.
    And, he keeps referring to the colonies, for crying out loud. In 1814...