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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 02 Jul 24 - 12:35 PM

I will wish my friend from Montréal a happy birthday.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 24 - 09:39 AM

That’s Thursday, right? Dominion (Canada) Day shenanigans will be over, so I’ll go to the gym in the morning and then make a grocery run. In the afternoon I’ll work on the choir library.

Nothing to see here …


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 01 Jul 24 - 07:23 AM

Well, we might go to a music session as we will be home before the results really start coming in, I don't trust any of the polls this time and the vote is the only one that matters.

Roin


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: DMcG
Date: 01 Jul 24 - 07:16 AM

In the UK, so I will vote fairly early.

I was planning to go to a National Trust property (the Vyne), then in the evening to a sing-around.

Because we *may* have covid in the house, I might not do those later things, but I will still vote.

Then overnight I plan to stay up until about 5am watching the results come in.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 Jun 24 - 02:42 PM

Not telling: postal vote (Scotland) already in so the die is cast. Won’t be staying up all night to see results coming in.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 03:09 PM

Early morning music circle in front of a historic schoolhouse at Nottingham (NH) Square prior to the reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Last year this event, which had been discontinued in 2018 or 2019, was resussitated and the venue changed from Demmon's Old Country Store to this location.

But as we've done for over twenty years in the past (and did again last year), a bunch of us from the old Press Room session and other local musicians will sit in a circle and sing and play.

We're carrying on the tradition started several decades ago by the late David Behm.

Linn


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 08:54 AM

My plan, from the first light of dawn dropping off leaflets to remind voters to vote, followed by the rest of the day knocking on doors to get people out to the polling station, and after 10pm heading down to the trade union club to watch the election results through the night.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 07:21 AM

Some of us are going to kayak out into San Carlos Bay from Punta Rassa, (where Ponce de Leon first came ashore in 1513 and subsequently started the Florida cattle industry, it's mostly condos and a tennis center now) so we can view the fireworks from both Ft. Myers Beach in the east and the Sanibel Causeway in the west. I've been doing it on and off for 30 years and when the weather cooperates it's spectacular. The first time I went I didn't get out far enough initially and had to paddle like hell to escape the bombardment from the folks on the shore.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Jun 24 - 03:58 AM

We shall be celebrating in the UK this year but for an entirely different reason:-)


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jun 24 - 08:59 PM

I heard fireworks in the distance last night, probably part of an outdoor performance. The dogs didn't respond, but once the local firecrackers and m-80s start, they'll be unhappy.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jun 24 - 07:45 PM

It's that time of year, so
it's time to refresh this thread.

The Fourth falls on a Thursday, which is kind of inconvenient
for those who favor long weekend schedules.
I know of one party which is being held on Monday,
the First of July, rather than the Fourth.

Anyone else with quirky scheduling?


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 08:33 AM

There were over 20 mass shootings this holiday 4th season. CNN


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 11:07 PM

I'm in my basement office, waiting for the explosions to start.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 07:48 PM

After our backyard picnic for the Fourth (table under a tent),
the able-bodied among us played kickball, although it was hot.
Rain interrupted the kickball game, and cooled things down,
although it stayed humid all day.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 03:27 PM

I'm having independent hot dogs and liber tea.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 09:17 AM

Great refresh!

Happy birthday, great idea!


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 03:35 AM

Happy Independence Day US friends.

I'm off to the gym!


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 10:55 AM

Texas is truly the Wild West when it comes to guns; fireworks are illegal in city limits but that never stopped them before.

I've vacuumed the closet where the dog bed resides for hiding during thunderstorms and for New Year's and July 4th fireworks; maybe I should bring my little white noise sound machine from the bedroom and set it up in there. It probably wouldn't fool the blue heeler, though.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 08:55 AM

As for me, I foresee a long night of police and fire reports, possible fines, lawyer fees, and threats of incarceration, reports of mass shootings replacing fireworks. Sweet Jesus, I need some drugs.......which are now legal for anyone here over 21.
Guns however are legal for the kids and concealed carry laws in Florida have been expanded.

BANG BANG those aren't fireworks anymore.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 03:03 PM

A modest party I have been invited to.
THere will be a lot of people, but no fireworks.
Ice cream sundaes along with the grilled and barbecued foods.
ANd the guests are encouraged to bring their pet dogs, on leashes.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: GUEST,Barry D
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 11:04 PM

No, it isn't difficult to keep a small carbon print to celebrate. We buy local micro-brew, organic foods locally produced, and have a share in a CSA farm.

As to the pollution, hey--it is my world too, and I have a right to protest dumb asses polluting my enviroment for their jollies. The pollution doesn't stay in the driveway.

Living in an urban area, we are surrounded my major fireworks displays going off every night for over a week. Add to that the THOUSANDS of groups setting off illegal fireworks--as we speak, as they too have been doing for well over a week, starting countless fires, injuring a whole lot of people, including innocent bystanders, and suddenly it doesn't seem so fun anymore. My car was nearly hit by bottle rockets driving home three times this week.

From the Los Angeles Times
Pollution Is Fireworks' Dirty Little Secret

Los Angeles Times
    July 4, 2008

When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America's birthday.

Chemists say fireworks are the dirtiest of the dirty bombs: When their blends of black powder, metals, oxidizers, fuels and other toxic ingredients are ignited, traces wind up in the environment, often spreading long distances and lasting for days, even months.

Although pyrotechnic experts are developing environmentally friendly fireworks, Fourth of July revelers this year will be watching essentially the same, high-polluting technology that their grandparents experienced decades ago.

Public health officials warn that people with heart problems or respiratory diseases, such as asthma, should avoid the smoky celebrations, staying upwind or indoors.

"I enjoy a fireworks display as much as anyone else but we do have concerns about exposure to high levels of smoke and particles," said Jean Ospital, health effects officer for the South Coast Air Quality Management District in California.

Also, traces of poisonous metals, which give fireworks their bright colors, and perchlorate, a hormone-altering substance used as an oxidizer, trickle to the ground, contaminating waterways. One Environmental Protection Agency study found that perchlorate levels in an Oklahoma lake rose 1,000-fold after a fireworks display, and they stayed high in some areas for up to 80 days.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 09:21 PM

The true patriot doesn't just love and approve of his or her country in spite of how it neglects many of its own citizens' well-being and how it behaves in the world, the true patriot is one who insists that the country live up to the principles and ideals upon which it was founded.

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:52 PM

BTW, fireworks and making pointless road trips aren't exactly environmentally friendly. Are we just supposed to ignore those facts, in order to party guilt free, hmmm???

You have to get over the view of "patriotism" espoused by those who have appropriated it in recent years.

I feel quite sure that you live in a glass house, so check out those food miles on that tasty food and those few cold ones before you start throwing stones at those who would go to one place to watch a firework performance over, say, all of the smoky little displays in driveways across America.

SRS


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: GUEST,Barry Devine
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 05:26 PM

Independence??? It pretty much depends upon your point of view, doesn't it? Though 'born in the USA' I can't say I feel any pride whatsoever at these faux-patriot picnic parties.

Democracy having gone pretty far a field, and haywire at that, we don't "do" 4th of July, beyond enjoying places often crowded in summer that are deserted on the 4th.

So today it will be out for a hike, eating some tasty food, watching an Almodavar film w/popcorn and a few cold ones, and avoiding Americans celebrating the destruction of North America.

BTW, fireworks and making pointless road trips aren't exactly environmentally friendly. Are we just supposed to ignore those facts, in order to party guilt free, hmmm???


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 12:11 PM

I wish a great day for my American friends.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: billybob
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 09:05 AM

Bill has a large stars and stripes flying on the top of the garden shed.We will bar b q and drink beer and listen to some music then phone Bill's sisters in New Jersey. So, we shall be celebrating over here in th UK.
wendy


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:41 AM

I think we in UK should celebrate 4th July - After all we DID get rid of those troublesome Colonials !


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: GUEST,aloyalisttokinggeorge
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:07 AM

Enjoy your day of national ingratitude. I shall celebrate by buying tea in Starbucks and then pouring it in the river. See. Not so funny when we do it to you, is it?


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 11:27 PM

On the night of July 4th, there are two fireworks displays visible from where I live. One is at Myrtle Edwards Park north of the Seattle waterfront, and the other is at the north end of Lake Union. To see the one at Myrtle Edwards Park, one needs to go to the street corner half a block south. But one can watch the Lake Union display from one of the common area balconies upstairs in our apartment building.

Bernice, Denise, Jo, Mary, and possibly Nora are joining Barbara and me (six women and little ol' me) at 7:00 p.m. for a picnic-type supper (chicken, potato salad, other stuff). Then at 10:00, the fireworks displays begin, and it's either down to the corner or up on the balcony. Probably up on the balcony.

Since it's not real easy getting my wheelchair up and down two flights of stairs (I hate that sickening crash when I hit the bottom!), I usually watch it on television. Both displays, carefully coordinated with appropriate music (invariably including the finale of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture) are televised, and I often switch back and forth between the two channels.

Then, when the displays are over, it's back to our apartment for strawberry shortcake.

Don Firth


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:53 PM

plan to sleep and also finish mowing lawn


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:51 PM

My main weapon is foil, but I'm doing some epee now as well. I'm also learning to coach. That's a lot of fun. I'll keep an eye out for your friends.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Beer
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:21 PM

That was good stuff Spaw.
And everyone I hope you do celebrate and be safe.
Beer
(adrien)


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:12 PM

Well, come on up here and we'll show you some real fencing. Electric, barbed wire -- we got it all!

By the way, our Club will be wearing cobalt blue long-sleeve tee shirts. If you see them, ask for Barb Steele (yes, that's her real name) and tell her Mike sent you -- and ask her if we're going to do the party in August.

I mess around with epee and a little sabre -- all steam. I also have a steam foil. Now, there IS a cavalry saber, a small sword, and a double-clamshell, swept-hilt rapaire just sort of hanging around the house, and a 17" blade bayonet for my 1917 Enfield rifle, and....


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 10:06 PM

Rap, it's not quite as impressive as it sounds. For veterans (fencers over 40, regardless of military experience), all you have to do to qualify is fence in a qualifier. How you finish matters not a whit. Also, the top 64 finishers get national points. There are 58 registered in my event for nationals. That's the most there have been in a national level event where I have fenced. Accordingly, I am 35th on the National Points List for my event. I love it!


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 08:05 PM

In seventeen hundred and seventy-six
A group of American mavericks
Denounced the yoke of tyranny --
The tax on stamps, the tax on tea.
Our Fathers felt that they were fit
To tax themselves...and you'll admit,
They have don e VERY well at it.

Bit of doggeral I found in a magazine circa 1959 (and can't seem to shake).

Linn


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 04:36 PM

Our small New Hampshire town of Nottingham (tucked between the Seacoast and Concord, the capital) has one of the nicest small town Independence Day celebrations I've ever experienced.

We gather at Demmon's Old Country Store on Rte. 152 at 7 a.m. for a free breakfast (eggs & homefries on the grill, red white & blue berry cup, etc.), then sit around and play music and sing from 8 to 9 a.m. Then, traditionally, David Behm would read the Declaration of Independence (the whole thing) from the store's porch. Alas, David passed away a year and a half ago. Last year, as a memorial to him, we used a recording of him reading the Declaration. This year, I understand, someone else will read it.

Fairly often a local piper plays a tune or two from the hill across the road, and friends from Massachusetts arrive in their 1954 MG-TF (or other piece of Brit iron) to be "representatives of the Crown".

Then we all traipse off to a local party. And this year, because it's a Friday, most of the party will then head to Portsmouth for the Press Room session at 4 p.m.

Because of Tom's work schedule the past couple weeks, we'll probably go home before the party for a nap!

Linn


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 04:31 PM

Jeffp, I'm gonna GET you! The Nationals! Well, I hope you get beat by someone from our Pocatello Club, so there!

But me? I intend to spend it in leisure, perhaps traveling around the nearby mountains with my wife, or doing some good reading:

None of these thought, or ever dreamed, of robbing the colonies of their constitutional rights. That was to mark the era of the late administration: not that there were wanting some, when I had the honour to serve his majesty, to propose to me to burn my fingers with an American stamp-act. With the enemy at their back, with our bayonets at their breasts, in the day of their distress, perhaps the Americans would have submitted to the imposition: but it would have been taking an ungenerous and unjust advantage. The gentleman boasts of his bounties to America. Are not those bounties intended finally for the benefit of this kingdom? If they are not, he has misapplied the national treasures. I am no courtier of America; I stand up for this kingdom. I maintain, that the parliament has a right to bind, to restrain America. Our legaislative power over the colonies is soveriegn and supreme. When it ceases to be sovereign and supreme, I would advise every gentleman to sell his lands, if he can, and embark for that country. When two countries are connected together, like England and her colonies, without being incorporated, the one must necessarily govern; the greater must rule the less; but so rule it, as not to contradict the fundamental principles that are common to both. If the gentle- man does not understand the difference between external and internal taxes, I cannot help it; but there is a plain distinction between taxes levied for the purpose of raising a revenue, and duties imposed for the regulation of trade, for the accomodation of the subject; although, in the consequences, some revenue might incidentally arise from the latter.

The gentleman asks, when were the colonies emancipated? But I desire to know, when were they made slaves. But I dwell not upon words. When I had the honour of serving his Majesty, I availed myself of the means of information which I derived from my office: I speak, therefore, from knowledge. My materials were good; I was at pains to collect, to digest, to consider them; and I will be bold to affirm, that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies, through all its branches, is two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war.... You owe this to America: this is the price America pays you for her protection. And shall a miserable financier come with a boast, that he can bring a pepper-corn into the exchequer, to the loss of millions to the nation? I dare not say, how much higher these profits may be augmented. Omitting the immense increase of people by natural population, and the emigration from every part of Europe, I am convinced the whole commercial system of America may be altered to advantage. You have prohibited where you ought to have encouraged, encouraged where you ought to have prohibited. Improper restraints have been laid on the continent, in favour of the islands. You have but two nations to trade with in America. Would you had twenty! Let acts of parliament in consequence of treaties remain, but let not an English minister become a custom-house officer for Spain, or for any foreign power. Much is wrong; much may be amended for the general good of the whole....


Well, that didn't do a lot of good. So then I'll read this:

   1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

   2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

   3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

   4. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge be hereditary.

   5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judicative; and, that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

   6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.

   7. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority without consent of the representatives of the people is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.

   8. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty, nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgement of his peers.

   9. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

10. That general warrants, whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive and ought not to be granted.

11. That in controversies respecting property and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred.

12. That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

13. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.

14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

15. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 04:20 PM

I'm off to a music festival in the UK but I will be thinking of the good friends and kind hospitable people I met in the US last month; have a great day everyone.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 03:56 PM

Getting up at 3:00AM to catch a plane with my fiancee to San Francisco. We'll see the fireworks over the bay there, spend a couple of days in Frisco, then off to Napa for a couple more. After that, it's three days in San Jose for the US Fencing Association Summer Nationals, where I'm in the Men's 50-59 Foil championships. Then a night in Monterey and back home to Maryland where I need to find a new job.

Well, you asked.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 02:26 PM

Whatever your plans, I wish all my Yankee brothers and sisters a great day. Celebrate the wonderful country you have built and it's proud history that continues to evolve and grow each and every day.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Jul 08 - 09:03 AM

For your retirees:

When I retire in due time,
Way down to Florida;
Mine Miami Condo will be devine,
And we'll roll the U-Haul down.

Cho:
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling the U-Haul down,
That Sweetheart of mine's on the Flatbush line;
And we'll roll the U-haul down.

A redwood hot tub there will be,
Way down in Florida;
With Champagne and a Jacuzzi,
And we'll roll the U-Haul down.

Cho:

Mine condo will have an ocean view,
Way down in Florida;
That the hurricanes will come right through,
And we'll roll the U-Haul down.

Cho:

My condo, it will be so neat,
Way down in Florida;
With Plastic covers on every seat,
And we'll roll the U-Haul down.

Cho:

Add verses as needed. When Bernie Klay moved to Florida, we added
The folks in Tampa had better flee,
Right out of Florida;
'Cause Bernie is the terror of the streets,
And we'll roll the U-Haul down.
etc.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Schantieman
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:31 PM

Big party - there are 12 of us retiring (or getting out early) and Friday's the party night! Whoopee!

Steve


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:15 PM

Well, this ol' hillbilly is booked to perform at a 4th of July Festival in Luray, Va... But we're slotted from 6:00 to 7:00 so there will be plenty of time after packin' up our gear for the important stuff like, ahhhhh, drenking beer and checkin' out the womenz... You know, men stuff...

BTW, Spawzer... That was one fine tale, son...

B~


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:07 PM

I'll have to come back later to read 'spaw's long story.

His mention of khandu reminds me that, once again, Fourth of July weekend marks the annual little festival at the Mississippi John Hurt Museum and that, once again, I won't be making the trip.

One of these years, I'll find my way there and, with luck, maybe get to meet Ken (khandu), my email buddy Frank Delaney (volunteer webmaster for the MJH Museum's), maybe Tweed and few others.


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:05 PM

Nothing particular. Is the date special in any way?


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:47 AM

Thought you said "Grilling my brothers-in-law."


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:23 AM

Go sailing to the local fireworks show. No bugs, no electricity...Aaah!


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:37 AM

Cycle to Newport, train to Holyhead and cycle home over 5 days. About 265 miles with a few serious hills - and Welsh rain, by the forecast.

Much healthier than beers, etc - although we'll probably manage a few on the way.

Phil


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: irishenglish
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:29 AM

Wesley, as Homer Simpson would say....Mmmmmmmmm.....bacon.......aaaaaarrgghh


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Subject: RE: BS: What are your 4th July plans?
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:27 AM

Grilling by my brother in laws pool with some friends. As long as my boy is in the pool he's a happy camper. One local grocery store offers "cowboy burgers". They grind up bacon with the ground beef and it's all mixed together. Yum.


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