Afternoon Delight....
Jeers to that title I am sure a few of you have the earworm going now. hehehehehe
Cheers to the Declaration of Independence and its' writers They had more character and intelligence in one of their toe nails then the current idiots, both sides of the aisle. That is what we are going to be discussing after the flip.
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 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. 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 Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 1
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. 2
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.3
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the 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 4.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. 5
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: 6
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 7:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: 8
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 9
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 into 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 power 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. 10
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 compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. 11
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 amongst 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. 12
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 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.
-- John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Doggie269
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson,
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter
Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
OK, I have found 12 items that I personally believe this administration's George is mirroring that of King George. How many can you find?
Though passed later, the first 10 amendments of the Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights, lets see how she is doing.
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Dead. Killed by this administration, Faux News and Fundies Note to the NY Times, you can take it and roll over or you can stand up and fight like your enterprise's survival depends on it.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Alive and Kicking
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Alive and Kicking
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Dead. Killed by this administration unPatriot Act
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Dead. Killed by this administration unPatriot Act
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Dead. Killed by this administration You can now be held indefinitely without being charged. unPatriot Act
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be
preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Dead. Killed by this administration Just look at the FCC under this group, goes with their establishment of Religion. Ewwww a nipple.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Dead. Killed by this administration Read that, Just because it is not in the constitution, does not mean that right does not exist. That is not "activist judges", it means they can read you silly wingnuts. BTW 77.8% of the Supreme Court are Republican appointees.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Dead. Killed by this administration The power resides with the people, not with Signing Statements and I did not abdicate my powers to this administration. You want that broad power, go to Congress and get it. That is who we give our power to.
Cheers to puppy pics Bill you magnificent bastard..
4th of July by the numbers
Americans are 540% more likely to consume potato salad today than on a `typical' day.
Baked beans: 357% more likely. Do not pull Bill's Finger
Cole slaw: 150% more likely. Dear God, Please Do not pull Bill's Finger
Hot dogs: 210% more likely. Terry
Pickles: 167% more likely. Stop it Terry, I can hear you snickering.
Macaroni and other pasta salads: 150% more likely.
[Source: CNN/Money]
Number of states in which the value of chicken broilers was $1 billion or greater in 2003. 6
[Source: USDA]
Number of drunks lighting the wrong snake: 53
Number of sparklers on Doggie's cake this year: 41
Cheers to My Marine Corps She has had some black eyes, but I will defender every day.
The Oath of Enlistment USMC
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
I fight with all I have left, my dollars and my vote. It is my opinion that the enemies of the Constitution of the United States that fall under the domestic label are those Congress Critters who enable the continual raping of this document, the RWNM who knowingly lie and obfuscate the truth from their audience for personal gain and those who willingly attack those who disagree with this administration. Like this man, who I can honestly say is one of the most genuine people you could ever meet.
Cheers to a more accurate one
US MARINE CORPS OATH OF ENLISTMENT II
"I, (pick a name the police won't recognize), swear..uhhhh....high-and-tight.... grunt... cammies....kill....fix
bayonets....charge....slash....dig....burn....blowup....ugh...Air Force women....beer.....sailors wives.....air strikes....yes
SIR!....whiskey....liberty call....salute....Ooorah Gunny....grenades...women....OORAH! So Help Me Chesty PULLER!"
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Jeers to personal fireworks Oooh, Ahhh, BOOM. Not what I want to hear at 3 AM. Hmm, maybe I do ;) Dammit, Marc stop that!
Cheers to kilts Andy T. & Doggie
Cheers to the USA Yes, I bitch about this administration and think we are on the wrong course; but I love my country and would not want to live anywhere else. America, when right, kept right. When wrong, put right. I just want her put right.
Jeers to OKIYAR! No it is not, quit using the Constitution as toilet paper.. Fuckers!!!!!!!
Cheers to real Patriots Those men and women who get up everyday to make us safe and try to make the our world a better place to live. They are members of our armed forces, police forces, firefighters, environmentalists, mothers and fathers, your neighbors and bloggers. You will know them by their deeds; especially teachers. To all teachers, a big thank you. It is because of you I can read and understand that document.
Jeers to FAKE Patriots They claim to love the USA and stick a shiv into her every chance they get. Some of them are addicts, addicted to OxyViagra. They never serve in the military and crow upon the dead bodies of the brave. I really wanted to puke when I heard a (R) member of the Senate say om C-SPAN "We lost 3000 on 9/11 and have only lost 2500 in Iraq." I did not know we had to kill more soldiers before we could bring them home, what a fucking ass hole.
Cheers to the 4th of July Just because I can. That would make the Declaration of Independence a Cancer... Just sayin.
Cheers to Fireworks at Night Oooh, Ahhh, BOOM. Dammit, Marc stop that!
Cheers to eej Did ya snap his neck? Now go have a jello-shot on me... DAMMIT, MARC STOP THAT!
Cheers to Mrs. Pastor She only tunes in to C & J for the Pottie Pics.
Cheers to pimpin' for the lady
Cheers to 1st timers and lurkers Welcome and post something dammit, we are all about the love here!
Cheers to You Yep, all of you. here is the group of us at YK. I miss you all.
The kiddie pool is now open, Happy 4th everyone.