Since I wished Canada a Happy Birthday Monday, I should do the same for USA. Provo is having their big Freedom Festival Parade this morning, fireworks are scaring dogs, and hot dogs are selling, well, like hot dogs on the Fourth of July.

On a personal note, I mailed my resignation from LDS Inc 15 years ago on Canada Day (a country I spent half my working life in or right next to) and it was received on July 3, 15 years ago. I was trying for delivery on Independence Day, but of course there is no mail delivery that day, so I came as close as I could. Anyhow, Independence Day has an added layer of meaning for me, so mazel tov, or something like that. :))

I’m celebrating with a family BBQ! My family fled Europe to America to escape “isms.” Thanks grandparents for giving me the fruits of your sacrifice. Warts and all, this is a fine country. Happy Fourth, everyone!

Happy 4th, everyone! My daughter was born on the 4th of July, 1985!!! That day, I had eaten a pile of watermelon for lunch and thought at first I had gas. Nope, it was my bebe! I'll be at a bbq in her honor this evening! Y'all have a great celebration!

Considering we virtually wiped out the native population couple of centuries ago and I believe reneged on virtually every treaty, I'm not sure that there is a lot to celebrate.

Drinking and introspection...

I think there are those who celebrate that "...we got away with it!"

You've got a hard sell, there, historian, but since I am stone-cold sober, I'll agree that remedies aplenty would be a nice thing. But that same sobriety urges me to wait sitting down.

The " native population" originated in Asia, from the regions around Lake Baikal.

DNA does not lie.

I guess it was okay to slaughter them then.

I did not say that, please stop putting words in my mouth.

You are always arguing with everyone. God, people must think you are a cantankerous beech.
Shoo.

please stop putting words on my screen.

You are always arguing with everyone. God, people must think you are a cantankerous beech.
Shoo.

It's not "your screen".
You don't own this board.

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> It's not "your screen".
> You don't own this board.

Actually we do own our own screens. (unless we leasing the screens)

I thought board rules required we lease a screen from exmormon.com if we wanted to post here? No?

Who am I sending monthly checks to? I should probably look into that.

What is the purpose of your post, then? You were replying to a post on the slaughter of Native Americans. Your post says they weren't native Americans. What, in your mind, was the connection between their genetics and the massacres?

On a different note, do you know what the word "native" means? Because the Native Americans were both descendants of people in north Central Asia and native to the Americas. The two facts do not conflict.



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It's a little late in the day, but for those who might like a pleasant refreshing on their American Revolutionary War history, the musical "1776" is available on disc from Netflix. Howard DaSilva as Ben Franklin is great. Special treat: Blythe Danner singing and dancing about her love for Tom Jefferson, "He Plays His Violin."

Does Canada have a fourth of July ?

Yes, Dave, it's on the calendar between July 3rd & July 5th!!


next silly question?


btw, it's the anniversary for the United States of America.


America includes Canada, Mexico, + all of central & south America...

I was trying to find out how many gullible people I could snare. *LOL*

Apparently, I'm not fooled by your fruitless attempts; 'sorry'

We went shopping for palm trees at Home Depot this morning and my husband has a military discount card from when he was in the Army many years ago.

It is very nice, the way each employee always says "thank you for your service" whenever a veteran shops there.

I've never seen such a spirit in other countries.

Anyway, Happy 4th of July !

Other countries do appreciate and celebrate their veterans too.

Home Depot?

Wasn't there a time a few months ago when you described the Muslim invasion of France, Tom in Paris replied that you didn't know what you were talking about, and you answered that you know because you live in Strasbourg?

And now it transpires that you live in the States?

I'm watching a "Capitol 4th" on PBS this evening. It's a helluva improvement to watching tanks on Washington Mall!

Happy Birthday, America, indeed!

Long wave Old Glory.

Happy Fourth but a fifth is better.

wReminds me of the old joke, "Wherever you find four Episcopalians, you'll probably find a fifth."

I watched what are probably the best fireworks display in the country, shot up from four or five barges anchored in Boston's Charles River, a full half-hour of sometimes very specialized fireworks. Unusual shapes besides the basic halos, secondary and tertiary off-shoots, etc. They send up a high canopy and maintain that for a couple of minutes while they shoot specialized lower-altitude stuff.

It all starts with the Boston Pops. They segue from the concert into the fireworks with the 1812 Overture, that wonderfully patriotic symphony written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald as he watched the Duke of Washington's forces defeat the Kaiser's army at Waterloo, which I think is in Iowa, thus securing Republican independence.

It's a good thing that George Washington's Continental Army seized the airports or we might not have won the war.



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I thought a "Contiental Plan" is when breakfast is included with your hotel package. I didn't know it was a plane. You're a virtuousable font of interesting information, Dave!

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> It's a good thing the George Washington's
> Continental Army seized the airports or we might
> not have won the war.


Hahahahahaha! I know, right!? It must have been rough being a flight attendant back in those days what with the poofy powdered wigs and all. And, it's scary to me that the man who made that amazingly dumb remark about airports is the leader of our country.

It was much worse than the Bowling Green massacre.

> It all starts with the
> Boston Pops. They segue
> from the concert into the
> fireworks with the 1812
> Overture, that wonderfully
> patriotic symphony written
> by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
> as he watched the Duke of
> Washington's forces defeat
> the Kaiser's army at Waterloo,
> which I think is in Iowa, thus
> securing Republican independence.

You made me twist a couple of synapses with that explanation...

Well, George Washington did win with the help of Baron von Steuben and his Hessians.

I for one am glad he did.

America is not perfect, of course, but it's the best country I know.

Good thing you don't need health care.

That's no problem. They can fly to their homes in France and/or Germany and get state-sponsored healthcare there.

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Now that's some funny sh**!

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Ok that's the best one yet! Thanks for the great history lesson, Dave! If I was still teaching, I could invite you to my school as a guest speaker where you could wow the students with a PowerPoint presentation explaining how the revolutionary war was won!

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That's some funny **** too!

Bertha was the digging machine that bored a new tunnel under part of Seattle for U.S. 99 / Aurora Avenue.

it wasn't built in the U.S. or even in America.

I broke down & had to be dismantled & removed, rebuilt & re-inserted shortly after it started digging.

The legal battles that are still pending are aka the Attorney Relief action of the PNW / 2010s.


in case you're interested, the major legal battles of recent past:

Ride The Ducks fatal collision on another segment of Aurora / 99.

School Funding cases

Assisted Suicide Case, late 1990s (Washington v. Glucksberg)

I like reading the significant cases that break new ground explain legal principles.

Bertha broke down ... well....

yeah - after hitting an 8 inch steel well casing....

Dearest Mother
I write from the tarmac where the ground agents are holding us. It seems no one can find steps - I believe it may be a ruse, but at least we weren’t charged ‘sports equipment’ fees for the muskets. To battle soon, and a latte.

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#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories

"The Battle of Baggage Claim (1776)
Many Lives were lost. And Bags too. Some people are saying it was the worst massacre they had ever seen."



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FOFLMAO You could add a reading of your personal rev. war correspondences to the school presentation. If there were airports there, you could have fought in it. This presentation, however, must include a time machine.

dearest mary,
today was a bad day, the red coats took the high ground behind the customs desk. we were forced to take shelter at the united terminal, they charged us over the luggage conveyor at noon.
the smell of cinnabon will forever haunt me.
love charles.

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> dearest mary,
> today was a bad day, the red coats took the high
> ground behind the customs desk. we were forced to
> take shelter at the united terminal, they charged
> us over the luggage conveyor at noon.
> the smell of cinnabon will forever haunt me.
> love charles.

Poor little Charles and Mary! lol x 1000

Yawn. This is from 2010.

Now that’s damn funny . . .

Dave is on a roll.

Also, in the special school guest speaker presentation, that live footage of soldiers capturing the airport must be included. I am still missing a suitcase during my return here from China. ( this part is true.) If you get a chance look around...

I'd say day, not birth, because we aren't really sure of her parents.

And EVERYDAY not being LDS, or believing in that nonsense, is a good day.

Have a good day!
That's what I say :)