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).
If you’re celebrating today, too, we wish you a happy and safe Fourth! To everyone else, we thank you for visiting MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews!
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MacDailyNews Note: Click for The Declaration of Independence.
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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.