Happy Independence Day!
We’re taking the day off to hang out with family and friends, show off our iPhones, watch fireworks, and celebrate Independence Day (United States).
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You’re very welcome at my place here in Belgium, but expect to go home without that iPhone!
Happy Indepedance day everyone.
I support the pursuit of happiness!
To our friends in the USA – Happy Independence Day!
‘…a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.’ Having just spent an exchange year at an american law school, and taken classes on american legal history, it always strikes me just how admirable people like washington, franklin, and, later, lincoln were. (I’ve no time for jefferson, the hypocrite). I wish that the US political élite still had that ‘decent respect to the opinions of mankind’!
here’s another one:
‘For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences’
Jesus. Has anyone in the US government even *read* the declaration?
Holidays could be a lot “happier” if everybody would not celebrate them on the same day, That is, if we didn’t all jump in our cars and drive to the same places on the same day of the year.
But humans like congestion, even if only so the can bitch about it.
There, flame that!
Happy 4th of July from your friends in Canada, eh!
@Happier
Or in the words of that great American philosopher, Yogi Berra, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded!”
Though his statement : If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.” might find relevance here on another day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_berra#Quotes
pieter De Becker,
I’ve been to Belgium 3 times and all I can say is, what a great country! Brussels is wonderful, Brugge is timeless and Antwerp was really cool. And the beer? Oh, the beer over there is fantastic. So, for now, you might not have iPhones – but you have great chocolate, waffles, mussels and beer!!!
My wife and I are going to stay in Brugge for a week the next time we come. That town is so beautiful (and modern – at least in the shopping area). And there are so many people riding bicycles there. Ahhh, the memories…
American cousins!
It’s never too late to repent of your sins.
If you decide to return to the fold, my great, great, great, great granddaughter, Elizabeth II will, graciously, make you welcome.
iPhones are the preferred gift at the palace.
Thenkyou kaindly!
Happy Independence Day, America!
Little Independence Day prezzie for all you lucky yank iPhone owners:
Free (decent) iPhone wallpaper at http://www.morguefile.com/iphone/
Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans. Enjoy the holiday!
Happy 4th from Italy too! Enjoy your iPhones!
Independence day??!! you guys are 3 days late! If you want to celebrate something, this is the 63rd anniversary of the battle of Kursk.
I second what Mummy said. Do come?
If you bring me an iPhone, you may have a go with my wife… affectionately known around here as “ol’ Seabiscuit”…
unless you’d rather have me o’course…
wut wut!!
Happy Fourth guys!
The unanimous decision of all 13 colonies to declare themselves free and independent states ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other…
Americans have no style…
The old world rules!
… let it be so.
J-L Picard
(no .sig today)
too bad the iPhone is not independent :'(
The unanimous decision of all 13 colonies to declare themselves free and independent states ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows (1950’s Twenty One quiz show scandal), games (Salt Lake City Olympic payments scandal), sports (Ice skating’s Tonya Harding assault case), guns (numerous campus shootings), bells (cracked Liberty Bell), bonfires (Ku Klux Klan celebrations) and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other…
As I floated above the Earth I saw endless swirls of blue with white, golden browns and green. As I moved closer in I began to identify myself with ideas …they alone began to differentiate me from my fellows and I warred with them in fear to defend my own understanding of real and right. I included aggression and greed and fought their descendants for millenniums until the Earth swirled red along with its blue and white. I have to admit it’s been fun but now I realize that I’ve been pretty f*ked up all these centuries. If ideas got me into this maybe ideas can find me a way out of the chaos. I think I’ll stop killing people …and then …then I’ll forward this on to Muhammad and see what he thinks.
I’m grateful this day to be able to wake up and use a mac.
I’m grateful this morning to wake up and remember dreaming of iPhones . . . . . yes iPhones (i’m so glad it’s not a stupid clamshell like in my dream; you know how dreams can be)
Only our free and great country provides that.
God bless us and our troops.
Bless our leaders that they may be honest and have integrity.
Ron Paul 2008
Happy Patriot Act Day!!!!!!!
Happy 4th from my family to this family.
And thanks for the greetings from those of you in other countries.
Also, congratulations to those who get to play with their iPhone, I’m envious!
Happy 4th of July to the troops around the world.
To those who have earned their independence, celebrate! To those who are still fighting for independence, best of luck. To those who can’t spell the word, give it up.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
And on this glorious day, we celebrate 231 years out from the yolk of the United Kingdom. Those pesky British! With their 0.5 percent sales tax on tea! Good riddance, I say! Let’s blow some stuff up in the yard with the other rednecks.
July 4th means it’s time to open the basement door, let the smell out and accept the sheriff’s warrant.
um, I believe the word would be “yoke”, not “yolk”. Unless they were keeping us captive in an egg.
LOL
Happy 4th to all.
DLMeyer–
That’s, “Make it so.”
shame the iraqi’s cant celebrate independance from the invading armys
America you should be ashamed of yourselves
Here’s my favorite part…
“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 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.”
These were very smart men.
Happy 4th.
~M
Happy Anniversary to the USA. God Bless America.
U.S. Constitution: First Amendment
First Amendment – Religion and Expression
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Happy July 4th everyone!!! Ironically, I flew out of Philly yesterday (where the Declaration of Independence was written – if you have never been to visit the house in Philadelphia where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration, you have to go. It is amazing to see such a piece of history. Anyway, I digress) and flew back home to Cincinnati. Hanging out with the family today!
And, nice touch MDN on the link to the Declaration of Independence.
Merci, Pierre! Ces sont belles.
I’ve always thought as a gesture of gratitude towards the French for the help they offered the Colonist, regardless of their motivations at the time, that Francais should have been made the other official language of the new State as of July 5, 1776.
LOL, don’t beat me up too badly! And for goodness sake, let’s hope our English and French readers don’t try to reenact Waterloo II, the web version!
Viva La Paix!
Twisted Mac Freak,
What you growing in your basement, dude?!?!?
tomo,
Why was Jefferson such a hypocrite? Just curious. It seems Ben Franklin would be more of a hypocrite. He started the U.S. mail so he could ship things more cheaply in his import-export business. There was NO selflessness in his act at all!
Thomas Jefferson was at least cool and forward thinking enough to bang a few of his black slaves – hats off to you T.J. for splittin’ some mahogany!!!
French??? Most people here have a hard time with English.
@ nuclear kid: don’t forget to visit our city: Ghent, it’s very nice too!
Happy 4th of July to everyone!
Lets not forget about our brave men & women who are deployed overseas.
Hate the war, love the warrior!
It’s kind of strange that you can’t just have a simple “Happy July 4th” wish without the anti-American crowd showing their usual class and turning it into a bitching session. Lefty slobs, all of them. Most are probably in their early 20’s – you know, that age where you think you know everything, yet know very little. And any that are older than that are probably permanently dumb.
It’s also kind of insteresting with this crowd how you can never acknowledge all of the positive contributions of this country. Only the faults, which half the time is what they perceive to be “faults”. You’d think that every other f**king country on this earth was a model of perfection.
The iPhone has its flaws and shortcomings. Right? But does the good of this phone outweigh the “bad”. If you’re Thurott, Enderle, or Dvorak, the bad outweighs the good. But if you’re a normal person with your head screwed on straight, the positive definitely outweighs the negative. Well, it’s the same with the America. But weakminded lefties can’t see it, because they don’t think for themselves, and they let their opinions be molded by the fashions of political correctness. And currently, it is fashionable to bash the U.S. Just like some people aggressively *want* to bash the iPhone, so too do some people want to do the same when it comes to America.
The moral preening, the self righteousness, the holier-than-thou-ness, the Michael Moore-ness, the fallaciousness, it’s all pretty pathetic and barf-inducing. I guess what I’m trying to say is that to all those who turned this into a America-bashing session, kiss my proud American ass!
Happy Anniversary to the USA. God Bless America.
ron,regardless of the way Bush butchers the language, the correct expression of that is: May the deity you so primitively worship be perceived as treating your nation-state with favoritism.
God Bless Everybody!
God Bless Belize Breeze.
<h2>Peace</h2>
neomonkey — Good name.
May God bless you anyway. Do monkeys have a god?
Happy Independence day! I hope that The US of A stays independent from what it separated itself from in 1776.
Happy Independence Day to all in the USA!
Peace & Goodwill Unto all Men, Women, Children, Animals & Plants.
God Bless Us All.
God Bless America, land of the free, home of the brave.
Forgive them, father, for they know not what they do.
America, freedom to worship as we see fit, I, for one, think the Flying Spaghetti Monster blesses us with his noodley goodness.
All myths aside, they were very smart people, those who figured out how to start this land. We have done great things and we have done dumb things but we are still around and looking to get better all the time.
Enjoy!
R’amen dude R’amen
Happy Independence day, everyone! Hope you’re showing off your iPhones to everyone at the picnic, I am!
Peace,
-c
Enjoy the day off America.
Now go get us some more of that oil.
“shame the iraqi’s cant celebrate independance from the invading armys – America you should be ashamed of yourselves”
Your right! Next time your are overrun by the Hun, we’ll just stay home!
MacArch
Yes, Happy Independence day–cheers and a Samual Adams beer to all.
May America remain the traditional “Melting Pot” of cultures and not become “Chunky Beef Stew.”
From many, one.
That’s the cool part about this place.
Happy Independence day from here in Canada land! Sorry, I didn’t have the time off to come down and celebrate again this year. It’s becoming a harder tradition to keep. 🙁
@viva la france
If it wasn’t for Uncle Sam, you’d be speaking German now…
Keep your head down, say thank you and remember you owe your useless freedom to the USA.
Loser!
Reader Feedback:
Jul 04, 07 – 04:30 pm Comment from: Camel’s Milk Drinker
Happy Independence Day to all in the USA!
Peace & Goodwill Unto all Men, Women, Children, Animals & Plants.
God Bless Us All.
Jul 04, 07 – 04:47 pm Comment from: Jake
God Bless America, land of the free, home of the brave.
Jul 04, 07 – 05:18 pm Comment from: Jesus
Forgive them, father, for they know not what they do.
Jul 04, 07 – 05:24 pm Comment from: Pirate4now
America, freedom to worship as we see fit, I, for one, think the Flying Spaghetti Monster blesses us with his noodley goodness.
All myths aside, they were very smart people, those who figured out how to start this land. We have done great things and we have done dumb things but we are still around and looking to get better all the time.
Enjoy!
Jul 04, 07 – 07:15 pm Comment from: Drunk Cheney
R’amen dude R’amen
Jul 04, 07 – 07:28 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne
Happy Independence day, everyone! Hope you’re showing off your iPhones to everyone at the picnic, I am!
Peace,
-c
Jul 04, 07 – 07:35 pm Comment from: boulderfrog
Enjoy the day off America.
Now go get us some more of that oil.
Jul 04, 07 – 10:11 pm Comment from: @ viva la france
“shame the iraqi’s cant celebrate independance from the invading armys – America you should be ashamed of yourselves”
Your right! Next time your are overrun by the Hun, we’ll just stay home!
MacArch
Jul 04, 07 – 11:50 pm Comment from: MacRaven
Yes, Happy Independence day–cheers and a Samual Adams beer to all.
May America remain the traditional “Melting Pot” of cultures and not become “Chunky Beef Stew.”
From many, one.
That’s the cool part about this place.
Does that mean that every other day of the year in the U.S. is Dependence Day?
You know, I have never heard any of these right wing monkeys say anything positive about America. Just empty platitudes that they don’t really believe in. They spout off about liberty and freedom, but support occupying other countries, cheer when we slaughter civilians, and applaud state-sponsored terror and torture. Stupid hateful cowards, all of them.
Re: If it wasn’t for Uncle Sam, you’d be speaking German now…
Keep your head down, say thank you and remember you owe your useless freedom to the USA.
Jesus, man, just shut up already. Ignorant much?
If it weren’t for the French, we would still be part of the British Empire and we’d all be speaking… well, English, but still.
Vive Lafayette!