BS: happy fourth of july to the world (2004)

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 06:41 PM

Whats all this America crap, head up their own arses as usual. Surely every knows that July 4th is my mate Percys' birthday he was 50 this year!!

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: mg
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 11:51 PM

For some reason I keep thinking about when Romania shed off its shackles and the evil Couschecos ?? were gone. I was in Austria at the time, and I might be mixing up my trips, but had also gone to Germany to chip away at the Berlin Wall...the day after Christmas, early in the morning, only me and one other person, chip chip chip. Then I went through Checkpoint Charlie, which I never in my life expected to do. Saw lots of people going both ways, going back with armsful of bananas. Great trouble with the East Germans coming west because they couldn't afford the public bathrooms which charged 50 pfenig..so we would let them in after us for free. By the afternoon when I recrossed, it was more than chip chip chip, it was a symphony of chipping..hundreds of people probably.   And probably a few days later I was in Austria and the evil ones in Romania were poof gone. I couldn't remember my pitiful college German, but I could tell something major was going on. You can feel it in the air. It is a great cleansing feeling. I have a friend who works for Microsoft and went to Romania recently. They are really rooting for the Iraquis she said, and have sent troops there, I think....and soon the Iraquis will join the Romanians and go fix another place. Perhaps they will come to America and fix some of what is wrong with us. More power to them.

Happy 4th, 28, 17th, whatever.

mg

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 11:02 PM

Sorry, mg, but fir the first time in my 57 years on the planet I'm just not feeling either free or patriotic anymore. I mean, even last year I could muster up some rationale to go watch the fireworks, drink a few beers and be somewhat proud to be an American. The last year, I guess, has pushed me (and a lot of others who I know) into a real funk. We are totally disenfranchised and beginning to know just a little what it must have felt to be a slave on Boss Hog's plantation in the 1800's...

Like I said, sorry, you didn't make this happen but you should know that for a lot of Americans, this 4th just doesn't have that luster anymore...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 08:48 PM

May 17.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 07:16 PM

Yes, happy Fourth of July, World! We're rally sorry about all those bombs and soldiers we sent your way. We were only trying to make the world safe for democracy, you know.

Mary, loyal Prairie Home Companion listeners know that Sytende Mai (Syttende Mai) in Norwegian Independence Day. I think it's the 17th of May, but maybe it's 16th.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 07:07 PM

I just wish our Long Lost Colony of the North Americas was making Better use of their freedom at the moment .

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 07:00 PM

Yea.

Subject: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: mg
Date: 04 Jul 04 - 03:52 PM

Hope everyone around the world will soon have their own version of the fourth of July, Sytende Mai, June 28th. (Not quite sure what Sytende Mai stands for but they have great parades in Seattle). So please celebrate along with us, and newly free people of the world. mg