Fireworks above the statue offered by the French




The flags I'm flying in my car on the 4th




To mark the occasion, I give a 10% rebate on my top range of used ox-carts to all American & French citizens.
Call me up.

Happy 4th! Nom de dieu!!!

In Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton



Happy Birthday America!!

The way the country has been going, and with the fact that Sarkozy is now the leader of the Free World since m'Bonga has been elected:

We may have to change the name of this site. It would be hard to keep 'Fuck France' when we start respecting France's foreign policy more than Washingtoons'.

I am truly embarrassed Obama represents this country. He treats our allies like enemies and our enemies like friends.

Fuck Iran, Fuck Venezuela, Fuck Obama, Long live our allies England, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel, Honduras, and any other country Obama has insulted.

JeanV, if Obonga keeps ruining the US, I may be in need of an ox cart from you. Have a K.

Thanks for your thoughts.Much respect my nigga.Peace!

trainer wrote:

Fuck Venezuela

NO! Fuck Chavez, yes!

America!

Keep your eyes on the dirt road, you west african nigger.... you don't want to hit one of those mud huts and kill a few innocent goats.

60% of that shithole is muzzie. You will be shot and killed for driving around with an American ( Great Satan ) flag on your dashboard

Fireworks above the statue offered by the French

and paid for by Americans. even so called french gifts need to be subsidized

.... yeh, fourth you.

he lives in s'pore , north korea lite, he may get shot for not having a piccie of their great dearly beloved leader lee kwan yu

4 pedants he lets others rule in his stead now

chiracsapussy wrote:


and paid for by Americans. even so called french gifts need to be subsidized

Gheee? Paid for by a French National Subscription... Yep, that's right, individual french citizens happily payed for this gift.

Gheee? Paid for by a French National Subscription... Yep, that's right, individual french citizens happily payed for this gift.

yeah half of it you stupid fuck, next time you buy your goat a new tutu to spice things up. ask the goat to pay for half, then tell him its a gift

Since the Statue was a joint effort between American and France, it was agreed that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French people were responsible for the Statue and assembly.

and most Americans could not have given a fuck

France, public fees, various forms of entertainment and items with the Statue on it were ways to raise money. This was also tried in the United States- but with limited results. Joseph Pulitzer stepped in and was able to raise the remaining money for the pedestal using his newspaper "The World".

Thanks GreyUhu! Great picture. Makes me smile every time I see it.

Good laugh!

Happy birthday, America!

Never forget that the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were risking everything on a gamble. If the US had lost the Revolution, what would have happened to them?

Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence:

-nine died of wounds or hardships during the war
-five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment
-several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children
-two had wives were treated brutally by occupying British or Hessian forces
-al were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes
-twelve had their homes completely burned
-seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected to the British, and only one went recanted his support for the Declaration (Richard Stockton, as a condition of his parole)

Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create is still intact.

Never forget New Jersey Signer, Abraham Clark.
His two sons became officers of the Continental Army. Both were captured and sent to the infamous British prison ship "Jersey," (aka the "hell ship - several thousand American POWs were to die there). Due to the prominence of their father, the younger Clarks were treated with special brutality. One was put in solitary and given almost no food. With the end almost in sight with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British demand when they offered to release his sons if he would recant and come out for the King and Parliament. The utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each and one of us down through 230 years with his simple answer: "No."

The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence proved by their every deed that they made no idle boast when they composed the most magnificent curtain line in history. "And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Holiday Trivia:

The declaration was actually on July 2, 1776. It was ratified and signed on the 4th.

The first reading (release) to the public was on July 8, 1776.

So go ahead, celebrate for a week.

Happy 4th!

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For those who asked, here is the source of the statistics quoted above.

Sources: Robert Lincoln, Lives of the Presidents of the United States, with Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brattleboro Typographical Company, 1839); John and Katherine Bakeless, Signers of the Declaration (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969); Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).

Something which could interesting NT.

Here is the arms of the (de) Barriac family. From Auvergne and known since ... 1350!



De gueules, à trois bandes d’argent,
au chef cousu d’azur,
chargé de deux étoiles d’or


Lords of Cardillac, Caila and Perle, parish of Sainte Illide in the borough of Aurillac.

You bunch of vile cheaters and cribbers...