You know what just hit me? “When it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another” is something that happens in the course of human events. It’s nothing new. It happens from time to time. #Independence Day!
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Good People of the Earth: I have things to do. I cannot become engaged in this flag thing that’s hit Mississippi. It’s hot and there are a few things that I urgently need to tend to so I cannot possibly spend the next day researching the origin of the flag(s) … or burning of …
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In the last few days some so-called “conservatives” have informed me that collecting meta-data is nothing to worry about. No biggie, you libertarian-contitution-loving-reason-reading dears- bless-your-pea-pickin’ hearts. The Government just wants to keep you safe! The Government isn’t really listening to your silly phone conversations or keeping track of what looney-tune web sites you visit on
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Recall, March’s Crappy Old Book of the Month was Anniversaries and Holidays, a Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them (1928). And the first week of March was a Big one for those Texas folks: Texas Flag Day… Sam Houston Day… Texas Independence Day… and Alamo Day. Mr. Big Food’s Dad– a Texan if
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Independence Day is day after tomorrow. I may be busy, but… . It is almost Independence Day.From American History Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Being American? Solomon M. Skolnick, MJF Books, New York, 2005.
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The nearly week-long weekend is over and I can finally put away all of those crappy old American history books to gather dust for another year. Thank goodness– they sure were cluttering up the place.~~~ …~~~ . . .~ ~ ~ . . . The Old State House in Philadelphia [From Nation and State: Text-Book
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About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very
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This evening, Mr. Big Food, Miss M & I watched a video of a television special that aired on NBC in 1976.Here it is. It stars John Wayne and features Ann Margaret, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark, Bing Crosby (as Mark Twain), Roscoe Lee Brown (as Fredrick Douglas), William Shatner,
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From my inbox: Those of us who celebrate Independence Day here at the Farm read the Declaration every Independence Day. Can’t eat if you don’t! Here’s the link to the Pledge if you’re interested.And by the way– if you head over to the link here, you’ll read that last year there were nine copies
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56 Traitors From Independence Day, 2012: At The Volokh Conspiracy, Randy Barnett annotates the Declaration of Independence. His concise (e.g. doesn’t take much time to at least skim through and come back to tomorrow when you have more time) article begins: When reading the Declaration, it is worth keeping in mind two very important facts.
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and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860) “Painting depicting the midnight ride of Paul Revere” -1937.Artist A.L. Ripley.Courtesy of the National Archives & Records Administration [Full
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Click to enlarge (& read!) The focal setting of the remarkable western movie, Unforgiven, is the town of Big Whiskey– an unremarkable town inhabited largely by unremarkable characters. The movie begins when a local cowboy slashes the face of a giggling whore. The sheriff, Little Bill (who may be the only remarkable inhabitant), is called
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I am pleased to report that thanks to Mr. Big Food’s unrelenting efforts in a small space of 50 square feet and wall heights ranging from 8-10 feet the prison-striped wall paper is history! As you may recall, there is no law (Yet? That I’m aware of?) forbidding home owners from affixing wall paper to
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I wouldn’t have believed this even if I’d seen it with my own eyes. Daughter C. driving the truck. She built this fire, too! From scratch!! Self-reliance. Ain’t it great?
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I’m no Utilitarian, but I’m reading some John Stuart Mill. Interesting stuff. Stay tuned. “It is desirable, in short, that in things that do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself.” From the crappy old book series, The World’s Great Thinkers, Man and the State: The Political Philosophers, edited by Saxe Commins & Robert
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The American Woman’s Cook Book, edited and revised by Ruth Berolzheimer, published by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, in 1946. As much care is needed in selecting and preparing the food for the lunch box as for the other meals served to the family. If the lunch is inadequate or lacking in food essentials throughout the
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Fittingly, the PJMedia contributor who writes under the pen (keyboard?) name, “Zombie” posted this video from RevealPolitics. Here’s what Zombie says, Until this moment I had just assumed, apparently quite naively, that Democrats and liberals deep in their hearts of course loved freedom, and only appeared to embrace the incipient totalitarianism of “big government” Democratic
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Of the origin and design of government in general. With concise remarks on the English constitution Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the
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or some such gibberish. I am but a lowly country bumpkin vegetable farmer who loves her some guns and even I know this don’t make no sense. Melissa Harris-Perry: I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to
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