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Monday, July 4. 2022

Happy 4th

Hope our readers - Americans, would-be Americans, and those in other lands who find America interesting - will take a few minutes to peruse the US Constitution. Certainly declaring independence was a courageous if not reckless move, but our foundational document is the Constitution.


Other than a moment of gratitude for that, today is a beach day or hike day or a boat day or a day to crank up the barbie and have a few beers. 

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have a 'gansett, neighbor!

do they still make it?

Curt Gowdy one mike, Sox at Fenway, a 'gansett in my hand==summertime
#1 bob sykes (Link) on 2022-07-04 07:48 (Reply)
Yes, they do still make it. The can looks about the same as it always did. And it’s actually not half bad.
#1.1 Galway Boy on 2022-07-04 08:49 (Reply)
Anything but Ballantine.
#1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-04 09:40 (Reply)
Actually, every once in a while I craved the taste of creosote.
#1.1.1.1 bob sykes (Link) on 2022-07-04 11:40 (Reply)
Happy Independence Day, America!
#2 Tim McCann on 2022-07-04 07:53 (Reply)
Happy Birthday America, and once again Thank You Maggie's Farm for providing such a great community. Celebrate the Day!
#3 Aggie on 2022-07-04 09:37 (Reply)
Happy Independence Day to the Farm community!
To celebrate I will be heading to Wellfleet and Provincetown for the next two weeks, looking forward to some glorious seafood.
#4 Jim on 2022-07-04 10:35 (Reply)
"BREAKING: Internal email reveals day before Jan 6 riot, US Capitol Police intel unit warned "BLM from Baltimore" was bussing in rioters: "BLM/Antif will wear MAGA hats, wear camo,and attempt to blend in with MAGA crowd" so violence blamed on Trump supporters attending Trump rally"

The J6th committee has known this all along and has hidden these emails. The capitol police knew this and intentionally had only half a shift of capitol police on duty for the rally. Nancy Pelosi knew this and ordered the capitol police to man half a shift.

Are you getting this? This was a setup, just like all the BLM and ANTIFA riots the left allowed they allowed this one too. The BLM and Antifa are the black shirts of the Democrat party and do their bidding. This is 1933 Germany politics and the J6 "riot" false flag was our Reichstag. I have to admit Hitler did it better than Pelosi did! And the J6 protestors in jail are Pelosi's Gulag. Funny how history rhymes!
#5 OneGuy on 2022-07-04 10:45 (Reply)
Yep, seemed like a sham from the start. But this will never see the light of day in the MSM, so the official narrative will prevail. Enjoy the end of the Republic, and welcome to Caracas.
#5.1 Nonna Mouse on 2022-07-04 22:24 (Reply)
Every English-speaking nation has a "4th of July", so I'll wish farmettes and farmers a Happy Independence Day! :: winks ::
#6 LTC Ted on 2022-07-04 11:52 (Reply)
Color photographs Independence Day 1954

https://www.vintag.es/2022/07/independence-day-scenes.htmlurl
#7 feeblemind on 2022-07-04 12:36 (Reply)
https://www.vintag.es/2022/07/independence-day-scenes.html
#7.1 Aggie on 2022-07-04 13:14 (Reply)
Thanks Aggie.

I am just getting over what I believe to be my secound bout with covid in a month. I am fatigued and my brain is in a bit of a fog.
#7.1.1 feeblemind on 2022-07-04 13:37 (Reply)
Get Well Soon! Instead of having a Summer Cold this year I had Summer COVID. Happy Fourth, All.
#7.1.1.1 Aggie on 2022-07-04 16:21 (Reply)
I see the Declaration as mostly a vision statement of what the American Experiment hopes to create:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to preserve these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
The Constitution, especially the Preamble, is more an action statement of how we are going to go about achieving the vision:
We the People of the united States, in order to form a more perfect union, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
#8 Another guy named Dan on 2022-07-04 13:48 (Reply)
I think Randy Barnett says it best:
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What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant
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It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights
"
Without the bold declarations in the Declaration, there IS NO Constitution.
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Happy Independence Day!
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https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/04/what-the-declaration-of-independence-said-and-meant-4/
#9 Tom Armstrong on 2022-07-04 15:12 (Reply)
We don't have Narragansett here in South Jersey, but my neighbors put on the best illegal fireworks display I've ever seen on the dam across our lake. It was better than some municipal displays I've seen. No Independence Day blues in this neighborhood, just happy Americans celebrating their Nation's birthday.
#10 Hairless Joe on 2022-07-05 17:19 (Reply)

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