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2005-07-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2005-07-04 00:13|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 hapy 4th yallz. :)

Posted by muck4doo 2005-07-04 01:19|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-07-04 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Happy 4th, all!

"unanimous"

Sigh. Today the DhimmiWits would filibuster this - demanding, EU phonebook-style, a few thousand "special" sections to house their constituent insanity bits.

Posted by .com 2005-07-04 02:54|| 2005-07-04 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps so .com, but it's still a tremendous document - something to be fiercely defended.

I'm also wearing my American Eagle 'e pluribus unum' cufflinks (bought in Washington DC no less) today in recognition of all the good things the US has done over the last 229 years, and will be having a sherbet with some American colleagues after work...

Happy fourth of July you ex-colonists!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-04 04:44|| 2005-07-04 04:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you,Tony.I would like to invite you to partake of a traditional 4th of July repaste,burgers and dogs(over Mesquite charcol)

Posted by raptor 2005-07-04 07:26|| 2005-07-04 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks Tony. Sorry it didn't work out, it was for the best etc. We can still be close. Yes, I'll always remember that day at RunnyMede. Please stay in touch.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-04 07:50|| 2005-07-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Tony, do the British celebrate Runnymede every year? If not, why not?

If you neighborhood school doesn't teach your kids about the Magna Carta, get the book "Magna Carta", by William Swindler (awful name, excellent writer) out of the library. It should still be there somewhere if your library's part of a large system. Excellent description of Magna Carta's evolution into the English Constitution, which spelled out the rights our Founding Fathers desired for America.

Posted by mom 2005-07-04 10:32|| 2005-07-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Mom Ima expect Tony has a damn fine understanding of the relationship of the MC and the DOI. It's hard to imagine but it turns out that the Declaration of Independence was written by of all things..... Englishmen.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-04 11:32|| 2005-07-04 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Happy Fourth!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-04 11:32|| 2005-07-04 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship - and don't they all talk real purty?
;-)

Posted by .com 2005-07-04 13:06|| 2005-07-04 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Magna Carta? Isn't that the largest handgun ever made? That was Dirty Harry's gun, wasn't it?

Posted by Penguin 2005-07-04 13:16|| 2005-07-04 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks, Tony.

I'm reminded of a big sign in London, on the occasion of our celebration of our 200th anniversary, which read: "Happy Birthday, America. Love, Mum"

God, I love the English! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-04 16:10|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-07-04 16:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Happy Birthday America!
Happy Birthday Liberty!

Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-04 17:20|| 2005-07-04 17:20|| Front Page Top

#13 why not say that from the land o' the free, TGA - you're welcome to join! Probably 26 sponsors from Rantburg alone

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-04 17:25|| 2005-07-04 17:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Back from my couple of drinks now...

Raptor, thanks for the invite - I'll burn something later on and pretend it was a BBQ. It'll probably be the oven though, this is the English summer after all...

Shipman, you crack me up! - I'm sure we can still be friends, and yes, the relationships between MC and the DOI are not lost on me, which is one reason I absolutely despise the European 'project'. We, the English, have lost our way a little recently, but the core is still there.

Oh, and the range of accents over here is amazing - born and bred in Laahndun, live in the North East and can't understand 50% of the words that a true Northumbrian says to me (that's about 20 miles away). That's a total distance of 300 miles between London and Northumbria and it might as well be a different country (actually, it nearly is - Scotland!) .... ;)

And Barbara, that's a great story.

Now you guys have a great day and I totally agree with TGA , Happy Birthday America!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-04 17:44|| 2005-07-04 17:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Frank G, many thanks...
But you know... There is work to be done here.

"By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property."

Cato

Posted by True German Ally 2005-07-04 17:45|| 2005-07-04 17:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks for the kind words from our overseas contingent. TGA, what Frank G said goes double for me. We'd love to have you.

Posted by Mike 2005-07-04 18:12|| 2005-07-04 18:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Same here, TGA.

In looking for Cato, some old Roman guy, I came across this - On November 5, 1720, the first letter from Cato (pseudonym for John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, honoring Cato the Younger, whose dedication to principles of liberty led him to oppose Julius Caesar) appeared in the London Journal. Many more followed, reflecting the ideas of John Locke, soon making it England's most influential newspaper, and leading to collections of Cato's Letters that were, according to Clinton Rossiter "the most popular, quotable, esteemed source of political ideas in the colonial period."

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-04 20:33|| 2005-07-04 20:33|| Front Page Top

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