excellent use of schnikeys

violence is not the answer, guys. unless great britain is taxing you without representation.

Thanks. I wanted to keep it family friendly, while still conveying a message.



I'm not condoning violence, but at the same time, I don't see why everyone insists on a GB vs. US distinction. The colonists were citizens of GB at the time of the revolution. They were just treated like crap. Similarly, US citizens are treated like crap by our government.

Just a brief rundown, but don't these sound familiar?

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

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 transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

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 excited domestic insurrections amongst us,

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.

Lifetime Monarch =/= President bound by 4 year terms. If Obama somehow made himself president for life with supreme authority, I would think differently.

Even at the time, the Monarch (which the UK still has) was becoming a figurehead. It was parliament who committed most of the intolerable acts that enraged the colonists (eg. the stamp act). However, to rouse the public anger, they targeted the king, rather than the supposedly representative part of the government.

Also, the problems aren't limited to Obama. Liberty has been under serious attack since the New Deal.

Hi Opy. Be careful where you step. Wouldn't want you to tread on anything or anyone.

Was just thinking that. And since I've been known to have F.I.M. syndrome I will just be a spectator.

Liberty is always under attack. It's been under attack for all of history. In our country, the very beginning had Hamilton pitted against Jefferson in a battle around liberty. A violent overthrow of our government is a ridiculous idea. It's unnecessary and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. The truth of the matter is that on a global scale, liberty is winning. Communism/Socialism is failing left and right.

BOOBIES!!!!!!!!

i'm on to your distractionary tactics!

T!TS!!!!!!!!!!!!



Blue #### to be specific.

Good job A. I think we distracted them. Either that or I went one step too far and offended them... then again I dont think they can be offended .

The trouble is that everyone seems to forget about that failure, and they keep trying it again and again.

Also, no one said that the overthrow had to be violent. Our current Constitution was an overthrow of the government formed under the Articles. Three of Jefferson's better known quotables are appropriate here:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown 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 [the people] 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."

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”


Haha nice job A with the boobies.

Amber pulls Richie back in...

works errytime.

Hello WL

RICHIE!!!!!!! Whats up? I was just in your thread the other day but got distracted before I could post.

I saw that. Thanks for stopping by lol.

Doing OK. How you Opy??

And, how is everyone else??

I see Isaac has a beautiful new addition to the family. Congrats Mr. F !!!

O hai.

Howdy huckleberry. How's Kate?

Hi Richie!

I'm abstaining from the problems with this country discussion, but I really like that last Jefferson quote.

If I thought a libertarian had a chance to win, I'd vote for them. Otherwise, I can't risk taking a vote away from the lesser of the two evils of the two parties (usually the Rep). Especially now that NC, and my county in particular, are getting less and less red and starting to actually matter in elections.

Doin pretty good... when I sleep lol.

Just ate a subway meatball sub and I think I'm gonna need some time alone in the bathroom.

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

"Most bad government has grown out of too much government"

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny"

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious"

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."


Thomas Jefferson was the man!

Indeed.

Hello Chris!


me two.

You need a nap?



Understood. And thanks for playing TMI.

"Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you." Andrew Wilkow

That he was.

Hello Henry!

RICHIE!!!!!
Misschu.

Richie my friend, how goes it with the shoulder?

You too!!!!


Coming along slow but sure Thank You.
No pain really. Gaining strength and range of motion by the day.

Hi Richie!! Glad I could entice you back.

Good news!

How are the family and the aquariums?

16 years ago today the way the world looked at white Ford Broncos was changed forever.

Time flies.

And the battle of Bunker Hill. Well 235 years ago today.

got a new work laptop! woo!

What kind?

HP Elitebook 2530p

Hello Amber! Say hey to mah buddy preeze. Hope all is well.


Thanks 'skilzy!
Doing well Thank You. Hope all is well with you and yours.

600 pages of gibberish, shinanigans, b.s., fish stuff, more shinanigans, boobies and best of all 600 pages of you guys .

Rocks my effin face off!

Speakeasy big daddy. Mmm.

I can't get that here


Have you tried the brooklyn brewery stuff

Web cam
Night light
Finger print ID

In the words of Tim the tool man..........More Power Argh Argh Argh!!!

yeah, but none of that stuff works, lol

Popcorn

i'll drink it in a pinch. not my favorite stuff though. you can find too many really good microbrews in bars around here. sixpoint is a brooklyn brewery that's way better than the b-brewery stuff, imo.

My son just peed on me.
Hubby was amused, I am not.
He's a 4yo, not an infant with no control over his spout or anything either.
Lets just call it a bathroom mishap.

IN. CREDIBLE.

4yo = sleep outside with the dogs.