Happy 4th to all.
GOOD DX!
Drifter...
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the
Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured
before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two
lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two
sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships
of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor. What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were
farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But
they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the
penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his
ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and
properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move
his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay,
and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from
him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British
General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his
headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire.
The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed
his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their
13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were
laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves,
returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few
weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and
Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These
were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men
of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty
more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the
support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of
the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books
never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We
didn’t just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time
and we fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so
much for granted...We shouldn’t.
So, take a couple of minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday
and silently thank these patriots. It’s not much to ask for the price
they paid and remember todays enemies are tomorrows allies.
--
"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists,
and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service."
- former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman,
unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!)
Drifter - May You Live Long in Personal Liberty
and Proper in Economic Freedom.
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness
This 4th of July may the Blessing of God {Allah} Be Upon
the USA and Each and Every American Citizen - Amen ~ RHF
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RHF wrote:
Read this, written by Rush Limbaugh's father:
dxAce
Michigan
USA
> Here is something to think about.
>
> Happy 4th to all.
>
> GOOD DX!
> Drifter...
>
>
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...
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.
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 the amount and payment of their salaries.
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 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.
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 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 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.
Impeach Bush.
FH - Enjoy your Holiday in the USA. ~ RHF
I had forgotten that a several miles of New Hamshire
http://freestateproject.org/community/multimedia/images/nh-map1.gif
borders on Canada and another several miles meets
the Atlantic Ocean.
http://www.adventureassoc.com/us/new-hampshire/new-hampshire.gif
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>>> Happy 4th to all.
>> Hi, Happy July 4th
Death to tyrants!
.
Thanks RHF, I always thought that NH was "landlocked"
I guess we learn something new everyday..............
Dave - Whatever Makes You Happy this 4th of July :o) ~ RHF
.
He is only happy puffing on a bowl of mixed amphetamine and
hallucinogenic drugs.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
You are not just a pot smoker. That pot must be dusted with something
else.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
You would know this how? Hmmmmm or have you been doing some pretty heavy
stuff
> Ventura, California
You really need to get off this strange obsession of yours.
- - - - - -RHF wrote:
- - - - - - Happy 4th to all.
- - - - - - Hi, Happy July 4th
- - - - - Death to tyrants!
- - - - Dave - Whatever Makes You Happy this 4th of July :o) ~ RHF
- - - He is only happy puffing on a bowl of mixed amphetamine
- - - and hallucinogenic drugs.
- - Amphetamine all by itself is pretty hallucinogenic.
- - But I only smoke leaves of the hemp plant
- - and drink pure rain water.
- You are not just a pot smoker.
- That pot must be dusted with something else.
- --
- Telamon
- Ventura, California
Paraquat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat
Herbicide - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicide
California Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP)
http://ag.ca.gov/bne/camp.php
Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE)
http://ag.ca.gov/bne/index.php
California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.
http://ag.ca.gov/ag/brown.php
-ps- Dave Jerry Has Your Number On 'Speed' Dial
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RHF wrote:
Hey, it's Cinco de julio, 'Eduardo' is probably out on the corner partying.
> Paraquat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat
>
> Herbicide - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicide
>
> California Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP)
> http://ag.ca.gov/bne/camp.php
>
> Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE)
> http://ag.ca.gov/bne/index.php
>
> California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.
> http://ag.ca.gov/ag/brown.php
> -ps- Dave Jerry Has Your Number On 'Speed' Dial
> .
Naturally, as a true conservative, you must support the state's right to
regulate herbal supplements however the state chooses. no?
That's an interesting observation considering that you have the
obsession with drugs. Don't shoot the messenger dude.
Unfortunately in your permanently whacked state you think you generate
normal looking posts. I'm here to tell you that you are whacked and your
posts reflect that.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
Dave,
Making a Hazardous Item Illegal and Against the Law
is the Highest From of State Regulation
-and- Yes I support this Law as a Citizen of the State.
Dave - "Just Say No"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No
How Safe Are Your Illegal Drugs ?
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2001/10/47659
What You Need To Know About Drugs and Alcohol
http://www.mcgruff.org/Advice/drugs.php?gclid=COar0_e6qZQCFSMYagodrQxWuA
Volunteers Help Sierra Clean-Up Illegal Marijuana Gardens
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/newslog/august2006/roundup/marijuana-volunteers.php
.
> "Telamon" <telamon_s...@pacbell.net.is.invalid> wrote in message
> news:telamon_spamshield-8...@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com...
> > In article <486e8133$0$26217$bd46...@news.dslextreme.com>,
> > Dave <da...@dave.dave> wrote:
> >
> >> Telamon wrote:
> >> > In article
> >> > <82afd866-95f5-4414...@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
> >> > RHF <rhf-new...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Jul 4, 6:54 am, Dave <d...@dave.dave> wrote:
> >> >>> RHF wrote:
> >> >> - - - Happy 4th to all.
> >> >> - - Hi, Happy July 4th
> >> >> - Death to tyrants!
> >> >>
> >> >> Dave - Whatever Makes You Happy this 4th of July :o) ~ RHF
> >> >> .
> >> >
> >> > He is only happy puffing on a bowl of mixed amphetamine and
> >> > hallucinogenic drugs.
> >> >
> >> Amphetamine all by itself is pretty hallucinogenic. But I only smoke
> >> leaves of the hemp plant and drink pure rain water.
> >
> > You are not just a pot smoker. That pot must be dusted with something
> > else.
> >
>
> You would know this how? Hmmmmm or have you been doing some pretty heavy
> stuff
All you have to do is read the guy's posts. It is very apparent. You
must be an idiot not to see this.
And the retard comment that I must be doing "pretty heavy stuff" when I
give him a hard time about doing drugs is evidence of cognitive
dissonance on your behalf best case.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
>
> Unfortunately in your permanently whacked state you think you generate
> normal looking posts. I'm here to tell you that you are whacked and your
> posts reflect that.
>
Such as?
Go back and read your posts. Most are off the wall rants.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
> Making a Hazardous Item Illegal and Against the Law
> is the Highest From of State Regulation
> -and- Yes I support this Law as a Citizen of the State.
>
> Dave - "Just Say No"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No
>
>
> All you have to do is read the guy's posts. It is very apparent. You
> must be an idiot not to see this.
>
> And the retard comment that I must be doing "pretty heavy stuff" when I
> give him a hard time about doing drugs is evidence of cognitive
> dissonance on your behalf best case.
>
You wish.
- - Dave - "Just Say No"
- - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act
Twenty-First Amendment (Amendment XXI)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
dang that was easy ~ RHF
.
Really? It's observation Mr. Fried brains.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
It is to late for you. You are fried.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
This one of my favorite pieces of history. I love to share this with
my high school constitution class. So, many people think that putting
this country together wasn't a whole lot of work. BUT when you look
at the framers of the Declaration of Independence and realize they all
had businesses, farms, families - they left at home without their help
for months at a time - and realize that they all put their life on the
line to just sign this piece of literature - it's really quite
outstanding and speaks volumes for how important they thought a free
country was.
And we have the framers of the Declaration of Independence to thank
that you can even put that in writing on a newsgroup!!!
> And we have the framers of the Declaration of Independence to thank
> that you can even put that in writing on a newsgroup!!!
"Framers" typically refers to the guys who wrote the Constitution,
wherein the right to speak unpopular ideas is enshrined.
Observing yourself again Douchebag Number Two.
I found a lot of those so called off the wall rants to be much more educated
and requiring intelligence than anything you have ever wrote here
> Telamon wrote:
> > In article <486fcf38$0$26214$bd46...@news.dslextreme.com>,
> > Dave <da...@dave.dave> wrote:
> >
> >> Telamon wrote:
> >>
> >>> Unfortunately in your permanently whacked state you think you generate
> >>> normal looking posts. I'm here to tell you that you are whacked and your
> >>> posts reflect that.
> >>>
> >> Such as?
> >
> > Go back and read your posts. Most are off the wall rants.
> >
> Off the wall? How so?
Well for example in this thread you have people wishing happy July 4 to
each other you you back with "Death to tyrants". Pretty typical of you.
Look whack job I'm not interest in a discussion with you even if it is
on topic, which this isn't so get lost.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
> "Telamon" <telamon_s...@pacbell.net.is.invalid> wrote in message
> news:telamon_spamshield-F...@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com...
> > In article <486fcf38$0$26214$bd46...@news.dslextreme.com>,
> > Dave <da...@dave.dave> wrote:
> >
> >> Telamon wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately in your permanently whacked state you think you generate
> >> > normal looking posts. I'm here to tell you that you are whacked and
> >> > your
> >> > posts reflect that.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Such as?
> >
> > Go back and read your posts. Most are off the wall rants.
> >
>
> I found a lot of those so called off the wall rants to be much more educated
> and requiring intelligence than anything you have ever wrote here
With the reading comprehension problems you have I can believe that.
Please do stick with posts like "death to tyrants" as it is about all
you can handle.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
>
> Well for example in this thread you have people wishing happy July 4 to
> each other you you back with "Death to tyrants". Pretty typical of you.
>
That's what Independence Day (aka July 4 by people who don't get it) is
about; overthrowing repressive governments is part of whom we are.
Go back and read The Federalist, and even yet, again, the
Constitution. The reason we have the government that we have is to so we
can enjoy non-violent revolution. Death to nobody. Tyrants are simply
removed from office and left to live in peace. Overthrowing governments
through the ballot.
Only in the gravest extreme, the bullet.
- Observing yourself again Douchebag Number Two.
Billy Smith - Less "BS" and more 'BN' {o: Be Nice :o}
-cause- It's Nice... To Be Nice ! :o) ~ RHF
Remembing : "It's Nice... To Be Nice !
- by Louis H. Narcisse,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWwsO5RJurk
- aka: "His Grace" Bishop King Dr. Narcisse D.D.
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3z09p3cf/
http://www.worthyonegiftsonline.com/site/1533836/page/901610
- Religious Radio Broadcaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJ3mnKspiY
"His Grace" King [formerly Bishop] Louis H Narcisse.
Here was a Singer, Preacher and Founder of the
Mount Zion Spiritual Temple in Oakland, CA whose
Church Services and Radio Programmes regularly
featured Edwin Hawkins
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/King_Louis_H_Narcisse/Its_So_Nice_To_Be_Nice/7262/
The Man had Style and Flash plus a White Rolls Royce.
King Narcisse founded Mount Zion Spiritual Temples
http://mcnsarticles.blogspot.com/2003_07_13_mcnsarticles_archive.html
and claimed a following of 2 Million people in the
United States, Africa, France and Sweden. Now about
2,000 Members are active in Seven Temples in Oakland,
Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans, Orlando, Houston and
Baton Rouge, said Princess Ann James of the Oakland
Temple. An additional 200,000 Followers Listened to his
Sunday Radio Broadcasts, which were carried in recent
years over KEST after several years over KDIA
.
Million Bayonets in a Historical Black Church
-by- Prince Ray Bullock
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/07/18359183.php
.
It's pretty grave out here...
"...extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!"
If extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, then get off your
fucking ass and DO something.
Sitting in your blue smoke haze shouting 'Death to Tyrants' on USENet
is hardly the peak of activism. Nor is it extreme.
It's just more noise, in a world of screaming wannabe's jealous of
what those who have worked for their success have acquired.
Typical.
You appear retarded.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
Typical of what?
Typical diversion from the point of the discussion. No different than
Pancho.
D Peter Maus wrote:
Pancho Gleason?
>> You appear confused.
>
> You appear retarded.
>
I AM retarded; so what?
The very same.
- Your definition of success doesn't match mine.
- Successful people stay married and don't destroy
- their hearing with pills.
(OT) : Dave - So By Your Own Definition - Are You A Success ?
1 - Been Married Once and Only Once to the Same Woman
and Never Divorced Ever.
2 - Never Did Drugs to the Point that they effected Your
Physical and Mental Wellbeing.
do you walk the talk ~ RHF
.
Well, OK. What would you prefer to call them, then??
So, only married people are successful?? And what does destroying
hearing with pills have to do with it??
Rebels, patriots, men with testicles the size of bowling balls.
>
> So, only married people are successful?? And what does destroying
> hearing with pills have to do with it??
Successful people don't lose themselves on drugs.
- - bajohnso...@yahoo.com wrote:
- - And we have the framers of the Declaration of Independence
- - to thank that you can even put that in writing on a newsgroup!!!
- "Framers" typically refers to the guys who wrote the Constitution,
- wherein the right to speak unpopular ideas is enshrined.
Dave,
Clearly You Should Be "Enshrined" In Your Own Mind.
rotfl ~ RHF
.
-or- he has pickled his brains and living in a bottle of alcohol
-or-he has smoked his brains and living in a haze
>> -or- he has pickled his brains and living in a bottle of alcohol
>>
>> -or-he has smoked his brains and living in a haze
>>
> Sober as a judge, except on the weekends. Haven't been drunk in decades.
And when were you last stoned?
I'm personally interested in the scheduled recording feature of the
radio.
Thanks for your time Frank.
On Jul 3, 8:38 pm, "Frank Halaburak" <fhalaburakNOS...@videotron.ca>
wrote:
> "Drifter" <drif...@pgh.net> wrote in message
>
> news:w5OdncnX5cxIa_HV...@earthlink.com...> Here is something to think about.
>
> > Happy 4th to all.
>
> > GOOD DX!
> > Drifter...
>
> Hi, Happy July 4th to everybody that lives to the south of me ! LOL
> I am looking looking foward to the week of July 13th as we ( my wife,
> daughter and me) will be relaxing in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire
> and doing a little DX'ing with my newGrundigG4that should be arriving
> tomorrow. Good DX to all, Frank in Montreal..................
David was stoned just last weekend by his own account.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
You appear to be drunk all the time.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
Only in your drug warped Kentucky fried mind.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
>
> Only in your drug warped Kentucky fried mind.
I'll take that as a yes.
>
Yeah, that's yes. Time for a bowl of dimwit for you David.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California