happy birthday america
 

ngod?

today/last night was fun. i love america.

I wonder how the bats are feelin' about the fireworks.

well there we go

this was played for the finale of the fireworks show hosted at my friends house.

what is wrong with americans?

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands 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:
google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);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.

Have you read the band's wikipedia entry?

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sou...0 9yWMM4Yv5rw

i had a nice 4th. i hope all gringos did too.

best america birthday ever!

SO - who is doing what over the Holiday weekend?

I've been off the past three days and return to work tonight. However, tomorrow we are kicking it backyard style at my Aunt's house who just had a new in-ground pool installed.

The grill will be fired up with enough burgers and hot dogs for all to enjoy! My wife is going grocery shopping later today and will be making her world famous sopapilla cheesecake with homemade whipped cream.

The Interstate Ten traffic was crazy yesterday afternoon as many have already started their long weekend. I'm sure it will be more so this evening, so please be careful if you are hitting the roads.

If you can, try and see some Fireworks and celebrate our Freedom!

watching the world cup and otherwise staying away from people

locking the gates

reading books

shooting guns (wabbit, stay out of my basil)

drinking beer that tastes of blueberries

waiting for the rain to come

Does playing Skyrim for 12 hours straight count?

ive never played that.

is it any good? and does it have a standalone mode?

Funny you should mention this as my cousins husband loves this Louisiana strawberry beer and it's very tasty.



Don't recall seeing a blueberry brewed beer?

To be completely honest, I had to look that up.

So if you are willing to play for twelve hours tomorrow, but must be pretty good? Does Mrs. Instigator play?

Just make sure you have some good eats......

it is ONLY standalone. No co-op. Just you, a massive world, and endless possibilities.

It is a role playing game for sword and fantasy types, but so free form and open ended you feel like you are living in a movie or something.

Mrs. Instigator has a lifelong aversion to Video games due to her older brother hoarding their playstation and nintendo back when she was young. she enjoyed playing Sims for a week until she killed off her Sim because she forgot to feed it.

^^^no older brother to blame, but I too have had an aversion to video games.

When our girls received a Wii for Christmas several years ago, I was somewhat addicted to this golf game they had, but I was burnt out a few weeks later.

However, since stepping up from my flip phone, I'm now one hell of a subway surfer!

we should go to England tomorrow and piss on the queen's face

oh, amigo, you must seek this



it's not, you know, some suppa-supreme thing like a belgian lambic, so don't expect that or you'll be disappointed--it has a much lighter body, and simpler flavor, but damn, for an unpretentious summer beer you can get in a supermarket, pretty tasty and a nice suprise like smelling a nice stack of blueberry pancakes maybe a little fake but still good.


aaaah! i should give it a try some day. i love to immerse myself in a good game and forget everything else every now and then.

hahahaha.....this made me laugh.

AND @&)(*$&(^% I will be looking for that beer tomorrow. Sam Adams never disappoints.



As for my plans tomorrow.....I really have no clue, this is the first 4th I'll really be able to enjoy completely, so I'd like to take advantage. A friend of mine is having a party(where just about everyone is going), my best friend and his Dad are doin' it big at their place, my neighbor invited me as well. AND this girl I'm talking to is unsure of her plans. She too was invited to my friend's house, but when she told me about it....she doesn't sound too interested(maybe it's because her cousin will be there?) so.....I dunno. I'm going to hang with her tonight so hopefully I will be able to officially decide tonight.

^^ i hope you can find the blueberry hill by itself. if not, it comes as a part of their current summer pack (i got a case of 24).

it hasn't been my favorite pack to be honest, i prefered their "hopology" that came out in the spring-- but if you enjoy lemony beers a la mexicana you might just love this pack. the porch rocker is almost like a boozy lemonade-- not my taste, but i can see the hot weather appeal. plus they have other brews in it you might like (or maybe not, ha ha-- i loved the blueberry but hated the summer ale).

im waiting to finish the sam adams case (saved the tastiest bottles for last) and i'll start to work on a mixed case of new belgium brews i picked up last week. BEER.

And bust some Dope Rhymes on them!

For today, one can tune to AMC and watch: Rocky I, II and II followed by Rocky I, II, II ad IV which takes you past midnight.

EVOL - nice to have choices......it's what freedom is all about!

Some July 3rd Eye Candy for EVOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeD2nrLZRU

stayin inside.

no. maybe grilling some livers with bacon. drinking. hanging with my gf and

stayin inside:cool:

;).

you guys remember davenotdead? I miss that guy.

One thing about Obama he has been the single best sportsman president since fucking Teddy Roosevelt yo!!





Hahahahha I just randomly repped that guy on a post I saw telling him that very thing!

lol america

Well decided on what I'm doing. Going to my friends party. Finna max out of some brisket and pork shoulder ><