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Happy Independence Day! (4th of July)

Bay

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    Happy Independence Day everyone! Man, now I'm reminded of this one line from Kanye West's song Homecoming:

    Maybe, do you remember when fireworks at Lake Michigan


    XD

    And oh, congrats Alter Ego. :3
     

    Aegis

    The Savage Nymph
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    Happy Independence Day everyone! I hope all of y'all get out of the house some and soak up some sun :>
     

    Gooberdued

    < Is friggin' awesome
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    w00t! *takes sparkler*

    232 years! Take that Britain! 8D

    jk, you know I love the Brits... *suspicious eyes*
     
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    Eternal Nightmare

    Stunningly Handsome
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    Woot! the 4th of July *runs around with sparkler*
    I really have now clue what I will be doing today, maybe a barbaque or maybe watching some fireworks.
    I really wish I could go to this thing we have down here called Thunder on the Hooch to hang out with my friends, but I have to take care of my little brothers. So everyone regardless if your staying in or having some fun in the sun, I hope your Independece day be a good and rememberable one.
     
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    Happy 4th of July everyone! *does nothing with aforementioned sparkler*
    Be careful with those fireworks (if you're handling them) ;)
     
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    Great... sparklers ><!

    *switches everyone's sparklers with M80 firecrackers*

    There, now we can have fun!!! ^^

    Happy 4th to you all! Now it's time to sit through countless recordings of Nathan's hot dog eating contest, trying to mimic Kobayashi while trying not to throw up on the carpet ^^...
     
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    In honor of the birthday of my homeland I will post its "birth certificate", the Declaration of Independence
    Declaration of Independence said:
    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

    When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

    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 in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a 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. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

    Such
    has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let the Facts be submitted to a candid World.

    He
    has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

    He
    has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He
    has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

    He
    has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

    He
    has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

    He
    has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

    He
    has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He
    has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

    He
    has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

    He
    has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

    He
    has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislature.

    He
    has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

    He
    has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For
    quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

    For
    protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For
    cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

    For
    imposing taxes on us without our Consent:

    For
    depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For
    transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

    For
    abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in these Colonies:

    For
    taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For
    suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

    He
    has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He
    has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

    He
    is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

    He
    has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He
    has excited domestic Insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

    In
    every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

    Nor
    have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

    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 the 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 the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

    Signed by ORDER and
    in BEHALF OF THE CONGRESS
    JOHN HANCOCK,
    PRESIDENT.

    ATTEST.
    CHARLES THOMSON,
    SECRETARY.

    PHILADELPHIA:
    PRINTED BY JOHN DUNLAP.
    Now I will take my sparkler.:)
     

    sirboulevard

    Apricorn Maniac
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    Happy 4th of July everyone! Thanks for the sparkler Mewthree. Time to get ready for our fireworks show in a few hours.
     

    Lucy Lu

    Keep On Moving Foward...
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    Happy Fourth of July everyone! I hope everyone is having a nice time with their familes with BBQ, watching movies, and also fireworks! Be happy with independence! \o/
     

    Asura Nirosuki

    Shes a good person~
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    Happy Fourth of July - -hands everyone self made chocolate red white and blue cupcakes- =3
     

    Lash

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    One of the greatest days of the year. I am as proud as anyone can be to be an American.

    So, happy birthday, old gal'. I heard a country song on the radio, God Bless America, and now I am into the entire genre.

    Time to grab me some beer, and hang outside all night watching the fireworks. Have a good one, everybody!
     
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