4th of July weekend - Happy Independence Day, USA!!

Thank you my dear.....................but I'm broke can't buy any "fire crackers" will you lend me a few bucks...................lol

 

ops...................sorry wrong person.......lol

 

nothing in the western hemisphere was dependent on anything besides nature and the land they stood on, before the columbian invasion.
so much for "independence". of course i realize that was referring to britan and its empire before rebranding itself as a commonwealth.

"oh look, pritty lights in the sky" well i think that's cool, except for all the loud bangs making us little furry creatures quivver and cringe because our lives depending on them being sensitive, our ears i mean, being able to hear wee small sounds far off, being blasted with sensory overload. not really that much of a joke for humans either, who seem to have awfully strange ideas of fun.

yes yes, making pretty colors of fire is an art form too, but you don't see much of ground displays in the u.s. any more, just sky flowers of light, which are ok, but i remember groud displays that made pictures with the different colors of fire on vertical frames of wires.

well i don't mean to be all grumpy cat, and happy is good. just all the socio-political exagerations, i can enjoy just better without.

 

Don't your eye hurt with all that blinking...................lol

 

US Celebrates Independence Day 2021


Fireworks explode over homes ahead of the Fourth of July Independence Day holiday in Medford, Massachusetts, June 30, 2021.
The Fourth of July is celebrated as America’s Independence Day in observance of July 4, 1776, when representatives from the 13 colonies that became the United States approved the historic Declaration of Independence, a grand announcement of the colonies’ self-declared independence from England.

The Fourth of July has been a federal holiday since 1941. It is usually a day for families and friends to get together for backyard barbecues. Many cities and towns throughout the U.S. celebrate the day with picnics and parades and fireworks displays.

This year, the Fourth of July may be the first time many families and friends see each other in more than a year, as the country begins to emerge from restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The American Automobile Association is predicting a record number of cars on the highways this year, while airlines are struggling to keep up with the demand for tickets.

Face masks are still mandatory, however, on all forms of public transportation.

“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,” the country’s founding fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence. Women were not considered equal, and many of the signers of the declaration were slaveholders who did not view slaves as equal or endowed with rights.

In July 1852, Frederick Douglass, a former slave and great orator who traveled the country and abroad to lecture about the evils of slavery, was invited to give a speech in Rochester, New York about the Fourth of July. In what is perhaps his most famous speech, Douglas asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”

America continues to struggle with inequalities based on race and gender.

 

Happy Original Br-Exit day

 

You know more about the 4 of July then I do and I'm a American...............lol

 

I have many American friends. X

 

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I bet you do...............me included...

 

Don't forget Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Maimonides Park, Coney Island (home of the warriors) at noon today on ESPN to see if Joey Chestnut can break his world record 75 hot dogs in only 10 minutes

 

I spent 3 years in the Army of America just out of high school .......I love this country!

 

I salute you...................

 

Of course with that lovely smile. X

 

Wife is gone for two weeks now so now smile.......lol