Happy 239th Birthday!

I suspect that if Mr. Jefferson, et all where to return to present day America they would hardly recognize it nor believe what it has become, both good and bad.

That being said, let's hoist a cold one(beverage of your choice)to the people who make this crazy nation go round--you, me and our fellow citizenry.

My house is situation on a hill above the town park, less than a mile away, where they shoot off fireworks every July 4th weekend.
Enjoy this brief snip of what transpired last night in my neck of the woods!



Here's to the freedoms we still enjoy in America!
Now go wave a flag, shoot off bootleg fireworks(and hopefully not your fingers) and drink your neighbor under the table.

Sluggy

We Must All Hang Together.....

"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."--from the Declaration of Independence, July 1776.


It's July 4th.
Please enjoy this clip from the HBO miniseries "John Adams".
And remember the sacrifices our fore bearers endured to secure our liberties.

I feel this stuff deeply since I am directly or by-marriage related to 5 of the 7 Signers to this document from the Virginia Delegation to the 2nd Continental Congress.
Yep, I come from a long line of Virginia rebels.......



Then, to paraphrase my esteemed cousin, Sonya Ann "Go celebrate by drinking and blowing shit up".

Yours in Liberty,

Sluggy