My 4th of July card

[TUSooner]

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.

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[Okla-homey]

May I offer a humble postscript spoken by the Second Greatest American on the occasion of the dedication of the national cemetery where the fallen of the great battle that concluded on this day in 1863 were laid to their eternal rest?


Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[KC//CRIMSON]

Happy 4th of July, everybody!

On this most patriotic of days, I encourage you all to think about the sacrifices made by our forefathers. Sacrifices that allow a guy like me to post freely about boobs and pop culture without the King of England coming into my home and teabagging me, if I recall my history lessons. So, on that note, USA!


p.s. bring a musket!

[Okla-homey]

USA...the World's Oldest Democracy

[KC//CRIMSON]

Could you make that font any bigger? I can't quite make it out. I'm really having to squint over here.

[Jerk]

Happy 4th of July, everybody!




p.s. bring a musket!

How about an Fabrique Nationale Fusil Automatique Leger chambered in 7.62 x 51 NATO. dat okay?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_FAL

Anyone who denies your right to free speech will get shot!