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

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world (2004)
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 02:49 AM

ha whos cares americas deseaves everything they get and george bush is a dickhead and america got what they deseaved because they start all the trouble around the world because they like killing people go die

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world (2004)
From: InOBU
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 01:14 PM

HAPPY DC COP DAY TO AMERICA AND THE WORLD!!!!!
1841 -- A riot at the White House over President Tyler's veto of the third Bank of the United States led to formation of the District of Columbia police force. The first act of the new police force, was to riot over President Tyler's veto of the third Bank of the United States.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world (2004)
From: InOBU
Date: 15 Aug 04 - 03:04 PM

Happy Woodstock Day! Yup, it is the aniversery of the first day of the festival at Yasgur's Farm... Happy Day, World (no kidding!) Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 07:29 AM

HAPPY MISERY DAY TO THE WORLD!!!
Yes today is the day (August 10, 1821) Misery entered the Union as the 24th state. Named after the native American people that originally inhabited the land, (referred to as those miserable Indians) Misery was acquired by the U.S. as part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. At that time, the territory's 10,000 occupants were mainly French settlers. After the War of 1812, American settlers poured into the region, changing the "Mac Gros" into the "Big Mac" in neighborhood MacDonalds, but few other changes... This was called the Misery Compromise, and had something to do with slavery.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 10:09 AM

Correction... August 5th will be celibrated on June 8th this year... we missed it. Everyone go back to bed.
Sorry
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 11:24 PM

AUGUST 5th!!! HAPPY Income tax day to the WORLD!!! 1861 -- The first income tax was levied by the Revenue Act on all income over $800. This day is generally celibrated (as is April 11th or is it the 14th) by an increase in suisides and child abuse.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:19 PM

Happy Battle of Cannae Day!AUGUST 2! In 216 BC the American general, President Hannibal defeted a force of 80,000 Romans with an army of six Norweegians, 10 Cajuns, a parot and 80 pitbulls. Armed with flaming marshmellows and a pack of hungery dogs, President Hanibal set the Romans to route, and invented the Eliphant burger at McDonnalds.
MARY! See ya at the Jackson Diner, hopefully before next Battle of Cannae Day.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 10:24 AM

The Jackson Diner! First touch of homesickness, Larry. Breakfast at the Jackson Diner. With freshly squeezed orange juice. Then lunch at the Jackson Diner in Littly India.MMMMM.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 09:21 AM

HAPPY BOMBAY DAY! Yes, today is the day when in 1498, Christopher Columbus (or Jagjit the wanderer, as he is called with some ironic laughter in New Deli) landed on the North American contenant, or Turtle Island, as the origional Americans call it, or India, as Christopher "Jagjit the wanderer" Columbus called it.
Upon landing, Christopher met a native fellow, and asked him, 1. could be be shown the Taj Mahal, 2. did he have any star maps of Holiwood, 3. and three, where could he get a good lamb curry to go... The fellow told him that the Taj Mahal had not yet been built, Holywood was not nearly all he had been told it was, and that he should try the Jackson Diner in Queens, but they didn't do take-out.
So, Christopher set out for Queens, but not being a great navigator, it took until November to get there, so they had a great curried turkey and that's why Thanksgiving.
So, happy Bombay Day to the US and the WORLD!
Larry
PS See you at the Jackson Diner for Thanksgiving. Na mas dey, Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 09:22 AM

In the USA we celibrate Ly Thai Tong Day. This day celibrates the day he was born - named at the time, Ly Phat Ma - in the year 1000 - he died in 1054 of disapointment when he heard that William the Bastard was going to make 1066 the most famouse year in that century). He was the second king of the Vietnamese Ly Dynasty. He made great efforts during his reign to strengthen national unity and defence. He is celibrated in the United States as the father and founder of the Republican Party, and the first director of the CIA. Being that the day celibrates the founding of the CIA, we go about business as usual, and pretend it is a day just like any other, and it is a federal crime to mention what day it is, though a quiet celibratory tradition is to inform on one's neighbors.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 10:48 PM

Hello, I know july the 4th is AMerican Indepen dance day, but wehn is English Indy pendants day?

Wehn I find out, i will celebrate, [drink loads of guinneess and eat a few meat pies etc].

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 28 Jul 04 - 09:58 PM

JULY 28TH!!!!!!!!!! Yup it's National Dentist Ethics Day, the day when in 1864, the US Code of Ethics for Dentists was codified... There are no formal celibrations, traditional to this day, but taking your dentist out to get piss drunk before work is not a bad idea.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:07 AM

HEY! Happy July, 23! GUSTAVAUS II DAY!!!!
This is the day which cellibrates the victory in 1631, when Sweden's King Gustavus II repulsed an imperialist force at Werben, Russia. Of course, at the time Gustavus was also president of the united states (spelled with small u and small s - as it was before the Revolution ).
Werben, or Werben D.C. was then proclaimed to be the capitol of the united states, and remained so until the birth three days later, of George Washington, when the name of Werben was changed to Washington D.C., in preparation of the critical role it was to play when the kid grew up. Werben, or Washington, was then moved from Russia to the swampy bits near Vergina, Maryland and the Congo, thereby starting the "Cold War" (see my book, the effect of moving Werben on the Gorilla population of Russia, a study of hyper nomadic embology on higher primates due to the effect of cold winters and beer. Bantam Brothers Press, New York, 1974). [I was espcially pleased with the cover art, a painting by Mongo Jim Phaszerby Hink...]
Gustavus, repulsed the imperialist forse by mooning them, after a long horse ride from Sweden. Though repulsed, the Russians still won the battle, but lost Werdan in a card game when Gustavus produded the 22nd Ace of clubs during a hand of poker, in which most players had at least three aces (there were 8 hands dealt, the players being Russia, Sweden, the yet to be descovered Pitcarin Island, Togo, Bob Hope, the Republic of Swindon, France and playing for England - Brazil.
So there you are... history friends, the stuff of dreams.
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 07:08 PM

HAPY July 18th, Missing In Action Day! MIA day, celibrates the death of Captain John Paul Jones. On the day he died, it was safe to love him again, and so, after getting the hero's welcome reserved for Viet Nam War Vet's after the Revolution (poverty and no job from the grateful government...) he died in France - the equivalent of dieing on the streets in New York today. Well that is it in a nut shell, go out and feed a MIA vet. You will find the Missing in Action of the Viet Nam war on wet corners and dark allyways where America hides its shame.
Help the guys all you can.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: YOR
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 04:17 PM

Glad you enjoyed it Larry, yeah I thought that was so cool. If you do a bunch of fast clicks you can get the feel of the northern lights over NYC. Something not seen too often I guess.

If the Army Corp of Engineers is going through all that trouble and expense they should try and take it on the road for awhile to get some of that money back. I bet they could get a bribe (I mean contract) from Disney to show it at Epcot for a month.

Best wishes in the slammer.

Enjoy, Roy

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 05:19 AM

Thank you YOR: That was very cool... Everyone in the world should look at this. Really, I am not being sarcastic. However, it is not July 4. You will note that the Verrasono Bridge is behind and to the right of the Statue of Liberty, where New Jersey really is. This phomoninon only occurs on July 17... on National (international) Army Corps of Engineers Day, when the entire US Army Corps of Engineers slips Liberty Island onto pontoons and tows it accross NY Harbor to the mouth of the Narrows (at a cost of about 12,000,000,000,137.35) and invites folks to fire off Fireworks, (no cost) which they do, and are arrested by the NYPD as Fireworks are illegal in New York. Why do they do this every year? To show the world that they can (or can can as the song associated with the holiday states). This holiday commemorates an event in the Revolution where the newly formed Army Corps of Engineers built a bridge across the widest part of the Chesapeke Bay for an assault on New Jersey, only to find that Washington had already crossed the delaware on a bunch of small boats and was now President, and had been for three years.
Thanks again, YOR, I really enjoyed setting off the fireworks with my mouse... I have to go now, however, as I am in New York, and setting off fireworks, even on your computor is illegal, and I hear sireens approaching... write to you from the pokey
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: YOR
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 10:43 PM

A friend emailed this link to me a day or two after the 4th.

http://www.njagyouth.org/Liberty_.htm

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:34 PM

JULY 16! Happy Battle of Stoney Point Day... I'll let someone else fill in the details, in my family, we always celibrate the day by staying in bed... Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 07:03 PM

PS the meeting of Bad Spellers Anonamous sends a hearty What the Hell to all who are going to comment on the spelling above.... All the best and Cheers, Anon.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Jul 04 - 07:02 PM

Yes, today is the 14 of July, in the USA we call that Bastille Day, the day that the US bombed Puerto Rico to break six drunkards out of the Bastille in Paris, France in responce to a bomb attack on Binghamton, NY by three Figi Islanders armed with a rubber chicken filled with a volitile mixture of vodka and urine. The outcome of the war was a suspention of civil liberities in the US and thousands of deaths of Arroack Natives in Puerto Rico, which was then declared a possesion because they were not yet ready for independance or statehood. The six drunkards invented AA and began the myth of some guy named Bill. Which reminds me, the meeting of 12SA (tweleve steps Anonous) has been, as usual posponed, so that anyone who has not been to any 12 step meetings can send me a post card to recieve their one year or whatever coins... redeamable for what ever your vice is at Molly's (you know where THAT is!)
Cheers and happy Bastille Day, the USA and the WORLD!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Jul 04 - 08:44 AM

HEY! It's July 13th! Happy John Parker Sinatra day! Today is the day that John Parker, the founder of the minute men was born. He was the one who said, if it must be war let it begin there - way over there, like you see that hill, that ain't half far away enough FAR FAR FAR over there... see you all OVER there in a minute or two, I'm just going to nip over to McDonnalds for a McFat burger, and don't shoot until you see the whites of their rice. History remembers the quote a wee bit differently, but what the hell. He was convinced that the Revolution could only be won by those who cooked the fastest, so he invented 1. The minute men and B. muinte rice. His first idea was to make very little soldiers who would eat very compact foods like minute rice, then, someone pronouced minute (little) as minute (60 seconds) and a light went off in his head. When he came too, he invented the minutemen and minute rice at the same go, as well as fast food (food with more fat than any other ingreediant so our soldiers would be fat and short of breath, making for short violent battles) and heart desease.He also invented Uncle Ben, to put a kinder gentler face on slavery, latter making a woman from Ben's rib, who he named Aunt Jemmima - who then became more famous than John by inventing the minute pancake.
Latter in life, to make up for pancakes... John Parker changed his name to Frank Sinatra and invented blue eyes.
Happy July 13th to the world,
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 03:58 PM

February is the one exception and it has either 729 days or 6421 in a leap year.

As they always say, don't believe everything you read on the Internet...

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: GUEST,IMHO
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 03:40 PM

For those who can't remember. Use the knuckles of your left or right hand. If you use your left hand it goes as follows.

Make a fist. Notice how your knuckles make 'mountains and valleys.'
Start at the knuckle of the little finger. That is Jan. Move to the right and Feb is in the valley, March mountain, Apr valley, May mtn, June valley, July mtn, and now return to the knuckle of the little finger. That is Aug mtn. Sept valley, Oct mtn, Nov valley, Dec mtn. All the mountains have 31 days. The valleys have 30. February is the one exception and it has either 729 days or 6421 in a leap year. I was taught that by a kid and it has helped me many times, because the friggin' rhyme never made any sense to me.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 11:45 AM

Thirty days hath Septober,
April, June and no wonder.
All the rest have peanut butter-
Except my grandmother, who has a little red tricycle.

..from childhood memory 50+ years ago

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 08:25 AM

Or as the Kippers had it:

Thirty days hath September,
All the rest I can't remember."

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 08:15 AM

HAPPY Gwiff "Snarch" McGiver Day! July 10 on years when the Missippi is less than flooding, July 10 1/2 when there is a flood.
Gwiff, or Snarch as he was generally know, was the first deserter from a US Army, having deserted the riot on Boston Common, stollen tea during the tea party, fragged his sargent and captain at Bunker Hill, (was aquitted for being drunk at the time) took a pot shot or two at General Washington, hitting Martha's cat "Hamelton" finally tripping while getting out of the boat at the crossing of the delaware, and sleeping through the battle of Newark, waking with the comment, "Can't we get out of New Jersey already?"
GSM day, if generally cellibrated by getting royally souced by 6:30 AM and sleeping through the day, having a big meal of gin and tonic around 10 PM singing half a courus of God save the Quee... and passing out in the lap of who ever is sitting to the left of you. I forget the day that Bush senior barfed on the Japanese Prime Minister, but, I believe it was Gwiff Snarch McGiver Day, or Mr. Bush thought it was. It was his son George's favorite holliday, and George celibrated GSM day for most of his high school and college years. His daughters are carring on in the family tradition which is why they are the only canadates kids, kept in the closet during the campain.
So, Cheers all, I'm off to bed.
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 12:31 AM

"Thirty days hath September, October June and February...
All the rest have thirty-one, except my brother,
Who got six months."

- Peter Sellers as "Hrundi V. Bakshi", in "The Party"

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 11:24 PM

durn, Larry...I want some of whatever you're on the last few days....

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 09:18 PM

I am sorry Kev. The USA ownes the rights to September, April AND November... as well as Marvember, Decarch, and Maltober. More on this on the appropriate hollidays. Fees for copy write infringement can be sent (cash only) to Lorcan Otway - Infringement Officer , USA INC. 80 Saint Marks Place NYC NY 10003/ Thanks for the infringement Kev... that will be, 5 cents US, or 25 Euros, 18 Yen, A scheckle and a half, ten Rupies, 8 Rubles, Half a crown, two Cronig, a Pizza or a Partrige in a Pear Tree.
Cheers
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 06:06 PM

"What is so rare as a day in June?""

A day in September, April or November. Days in February, of course, are significantly less frequent, even in leap-years.

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

now THERE is an answer to "What is so rare as a day in June?"!

(I sing about the 45th of May in one song, but....)

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 02:41 PM

AH but do you have a July 33rd? THAT's A HOLIDAY, Wolfgang! Tell ya about it soon... Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 11:01 AM

We always have a happy 4th of July in Germany. But this year it was something more special for it was the sixtieth anniversary this year.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 08:35 AM

HAPPY JULY 8TH to the WORLD!!!!!!! (Patriotism Day)
Yes, July 8th, when Pokahantus woke the patriot fathers up, after thier long not so cold water binge, and warned them, that in her oppinon, they better get their colective asses together and prepair for the war of 1812, which she knew was comming because White folks don't forget anything exect how they lost the last war, and where they left their cars on Monday morning. Cars had not yet been invented, or Monday mornings, but... well there was work to be done. And work they did!
They arrested Pokahantus and then drafted the Alien and Sedition Acts so they could charge her under that... and then invented Patriotism and hence, July 8th - Patriotism Day.
On Patriotism day, you arrest the loud mouth you disagree with and invent a law to put them away under... (Today the Justice Dept. is celibrating at the trial of Lynne Stewart)How do you decide who IS a loud mouth? Well that is the person who lets facts get in the way of popular oppinion.
Other great moments of Partriot Day have been forgotten, for example, after the British DID return in 1812, the nation forgot Pokahantus and instead created July 7th Day dedicated to John Smith.
Happy Patriot Day
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 08:28 PM

Also the birthday of Stephen Foster and Louis Armstrong, making it a day for everyone to celebrate.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 11:09 AM

I pray for independence from Archer Daniels Midland (so that I may, once again, eat at restaurants without ADM corn products making me sick).

Larry, you speak for me, too.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 10:12 AM

Larry (InOBU), that was brilliant!

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 of 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 shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I'll stop there, as it's pretty long. The whole thing (and a first draft) is at www.ushistory.org. For me, July 4th is a day to remember the ideals of a new and hopeful nation, and a time to think about where we are now in the fulfillment of those ideals.

Larry (InOBU), that was brilliant! Perhaps, it's not a July 5th thing, and July 4th should simply fall on the closest Monday like so many of our holidays. Next year, it WILL be on a Mon, but in 2006, the 4th of July will be on the 3rd. Makes sense to me.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 09:22 AM

I prefer July 5th, or "What da Fah????? Day." July 5th, celibrates the day that the Patriot Fathers and their Mothers, (Brothers etc...) went to the bank and found, to their drunken dismay, that the British had in fact left, and taken their money with them. In a single voice, through 13 colonies one heard "WHAT THE FAH...." (they remembered they were puritans just in time, or there would be a hard sylable at the end of the holiday...) In tears, George Washington led them down to Francis Taveren, which at the time could hold most of the population of the United States, and they cried into their cold water, the Brits having taken all the beer with them as well, and the water wasn't too cold either, as they had not yet invented ice or diet coke - which WAS being drunk over ice by the Indians but had not been discovered by White Folks yet, so it didn't exist. Well, the day was getting wuser and wuser until it occured to George that we needed 1. a President and B. a war. So he told Shey that he was going to make up for the loss of British gold by taking all the farms away from the soldiers who fought for him, shoot anyone who made whiskey without paying tax (they had all these Tea Tax stamps in desk draws...) so it was back to war. After he killed more members of the old Contenental army then Cornwallis (who just wanted to A) Free the slaves, 2. go home and paint petunias anyway) so where was I, Oh yea, the surviors decided it was better to kill Indians than each other, and continued to do so until they invented the car and needed oil for the engines and politician's hair. Along came the Dixie Chicks and the rest is history.
Happy What Da FaHHHH!!!!!???? Day America and the World!

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 09:12 AM

When is July 4th ?

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 08:29 AM

Had a fine July 4 over here in Germany. At the 50th anniversary of a tiny fire fighting department in an even tinier village we celebrated our annual firemen's county rally; the parade was longer than the main street. Every 6th or 7th group was a band blaring, fifing and drumming happily away.
Afterwards we met in a giant tent with lots of beer and music. Met a lot of friends I mostly see on such occasions only.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Kaleea
Date: 06 Jul 04 - 01:30 AM

Many people have forgotten or never learned that the actual holiday is "Independence Day." I pray for Independence from tyranny-aka Democracy-for regular folks (not just the rich) in all nations.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Mudlark
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 09:58 PM

Out here in the boonies, in a US west burning up from the worst drought in centuries, the whump! sound of fireworks being set off in the distance was a little too warlike to be comfortable. Love of country I still have in full measure--we are incredibly lucky to have all we have here-- but this largesse of goods, and the abundant goodwill this nation enjoyed right after 9/11, is being squandered heedlessly and needlessly. What a waste...

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: mg
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 09:51 PM

Only for as long as we are all willing to cooperate with her and bear many unpleasant burdens. mg

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 09:46 PM

God HAS blessed America. I just wonder for how much longer.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 08:56 PM

I watched our parade yesterday and though I stood, hand over heart for the passing of the colors, I kept feeling weepy. The thought 'God forgive us' kept recurring.

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 08:25 PM

BillD:

Wow!! What an invasion of privacy and trespass. What business is it of his/hers to put little flags out in other people's lawns? What a lickspittle. Mind-numbing mass-think. IF we learned anything from the tragedy of German politics in the 20th century it should have been to avoid such goose-step patriotism like the plague it is.

A

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: mg
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 08:18 PM

I would have called MacDonald's, taken a picture of her if I had a camera, called the police, been a witness to her report of a theft. She can burn the flag if it is hers and if she doesn't break any burn bans. mg

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 08:14 PM

someone came around our neighborhood (and MOST areas in Montgomery County, MD., and stuck little plastic flags in front of each house, as if saying that we couldn't be trusted to honor the good things about our country in our own way. My wife expressed it pretty well, "I respect the flag, but not "flag wavers!"

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 08:14 PM

I went to the rainbow gathering yesterday..
wow! thousands of hippies! tie die! rainbows!
http://home.earthlink.net/~scrollinfo/
http://www.moongulch.net/rainbow/
I heard one girl saying how she had 2 flags...
american flags, and was deciding which one
to burn....one was taken from the flag pole at
McDonalds..I did not stop to talk to her, as i was
passing by, but thought i might have said, are
you aware how lucky you are to live where you
have such a choice? (the pollution alone from all
that synthetic fiber going up in smoke was a
choking thought.) I thought how the burning of the
flag could actually give more energy to the Bush regime,
as it cast a negative image on those who question
the powers that be. Wish i could have articulated some
of these ideas to those who were in the flag burning circle-
but alas, I did not take the opportunity...these were
big, big flags. What would you have said or done?
I liked her rebellious attitude, just wish it was focussed
in a more creative, less destructive way. Laurel

Subject: RE: BS: happy fourth of july to the world
From: Once Famous
Date: 05 Jul 04 - 07:38 PM

I could give a royal crap about your "mate Percy's" birthday. Maybe you had your head up his arse.

Happy Birthday to my America! My country!

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