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2007-07-04 
We find these truths to be self evident - Happy Independence Day!
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Posted by Fred 2007-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Nearly 1 am RDST (Rantburg Daylight Server Time) and Google U.S. is not yet observing July 4. They're in Cali, so perhaps they go live at 3 RDST. I'll be watching. Yahoo had their holiday page up by 8pm on July 3.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-07-04 00:53||   2007-07-04 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes bwana, I hear the drums. I must must go to her quickly.
Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-04 01:26||   2007-07-04 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 A glorious Fourth of July to all Rantburgers. Long live America!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-04 03:10||   2007-07-04 03:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Nation to Celebrate Fourth with Caution

Up yet, Sea?
Posted by Bobby 2007-07-04 08:39||   2007-07-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, I thought you'd promised to be up by 8 am today. Senioritis.
Posted by Bobby 2007-07-04 08:40||   2007-07-04 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Nearly 1 am RDST (Rantburg Daylight Server Time) and Google U.S. is not yet observing July 4

Why would the running dogs of the Commies in Beijing celebrate the American Fourth of July?

Do you know what your neighbor is Googling comrade? Our monitors do, thanks to the ever vigilant champions of the party, like Google, Microsoft, Cisco ....
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-04 09:14||   2007-07-04 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by spam 2007-07-04 09:16||   2007-07-04 09:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Happy Independence Day, my dears! Wishing all the Americans delicious cook-outs and beautiful fireworks, homey gatherings with family and friends, and all the things our men and women in uniform are fighting so hard to protect. And for those many proud Rantburgers of other nations, please lift a glass with us, as we toast a friendship well worth treasuring. :-D
Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-04 09:34||   2007-07-04 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Yet another Rantfidel holiday? Yawn. So be it, so be it. The blessings and safety of Allan to all.

I remain your loyal servant,
Raisuli

Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-04 09:51||   2007-07-04 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 happy 4th to all RBers and especially you, Fred
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-07-04 10:17||   2007-07-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Happy 4th to you all. I plan to cook some tasty animal flesh over a external global-warming device and consume vast quanities of beer.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2007-07-04 10:25||   2007-07-04 10:25|| Front Page Top

#12 What Steve said, plus vast quantities of gratiously water usage in the quest for the greenest lawn in my neighborhood. When I see rivlets coursing down the street, I know it is then time to move the sprinklers.
Posted by USN, ret. 2007-07-04 11:45||   2007-07-04 11:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Procopius, I also checked at 1200 EDT. But Google runs PDT; they changed at 1200 PDT. They aren't as being obnoxious this time.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2007-07-04 12:03||   2007-07-04 12:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Besoeker, and a happy 4th to you, too. One of the great films, and after reading your post, I watched it again.
Posted by mrp 2007-07-04 12:25||   2007-07-04 12:25|| Front Page Top

#15 #4: cisco makes configurable hardware, don't lump them in with yahoo and google giving out personal info to the gov't. it would be like blaming gun mfgs for shootings, we all know how that goes.
Posted by Unique Battle 2007-07-04 12:41||   2007-07-04 12:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Apologies to #4, supposed to be #6
Posted by Unique Battle 2007-07-04 12:43||   2007-07-04 12:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Rita Hayworth wearing sensible shoes? Doesn't seem to fit by boyhood recollection of her.

On the other hand, I marched in our 4th of July parade today along with my son. We had a bunch of "anti-war vets" who looked more like ex-Japenese POWs (if you get my drift). One guy wearing a T that said "Marines". If he was a Marine then Capt. Manwaring was his CO. We also had the Unitarian Universalist Church marching with signs that were actually paragraphs of intellectual discourse but basically "make love not war'. Then to top it off we had our own chapter of Code Pink. My one reflection from all these oddball kooks is that it is a good thing we don't have to ever depend on them to defend us. The 4th of July has now been hijacked by the loons. God Bless America, please!
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-07-04 14:38||   2007-07-04 14:38|| Front Page Top

#18 God help America, Please. would be better
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-07-04 15:00||   2007-07-04 15:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Happy B-Day 'murica!...and a most Happy 4th of July to all denizens of the 'burg. Fire the coals, and may your beer be cold and plentiful.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2007-07-04 15:09||   2007-07-04 15:09|| Front Page Top

#20 The 4th of July has now been hijacked by the loons

Well, they did get kinda kicked out of Memorial Day, the Teamsters have a lock on Labor Day, and Arbor Day doesn't have the same speaking-political-truth-to-power as the 4th....
Posted by Pappy 2007-07-04 18:53||   2007-07-04 18:53|| Front Page Top

#21 a few photos from home for the troops
Posted by 3dc 2007-07-04 21:20||   2007-07-04 21:20|| Front Page Top

#22 We did our own little Fourth Parade here is beautiful downdown Oak harbor, and I am pleased to report that there were no reported sightings of any loons, troops out now, code pink, or any of that crap. The parade was kicked off by a fly over of a pair of our own hometown EA-6Bs; low altitude and the J-52s at full song. made this old airframer break out in goose pimples. Wing rock in formation was tops and lots of waves back at them from all the assembled multitudes.....
Posted by USN, ret. 2007-07-04 22:11||   2007-07-04 22:11|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm a bit late to the party....but hope everyone had a Happy 4th. The Tsarevich enjoyed his first fireworks show, and hopefully next year he'll be "ooh"-ing and "aah"-ing with the rest of us!

And thanks to all who are defending this land so me, the Tsar and my boy could sit by the Banana River and enjoy the show.

Happy 231st, America!!
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-07-04 23:39||   2007-07-04 23:39|| Front Page Top

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