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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

download-1The Fourth is one of my favorite holidays as a time when citizens should put aside our differences and focus on the freedoms that unite us.  The American Republic is still a work in progress, a constitutional system that must be renewed by each generation.  This holiday unfortunately shows how our differences threaten to overwhelm our common article of faith in this representative democracy.  The Nike controversy shows how our differences are now overwhelming our core shared values, including the very symbol of this nation.  Nevertheless, many of us will join today to celebrate these United States and its history and values.  My family will celebrate with a cookout and, of course, fireworks.

The Betsy Ross flag is a wonderful symbol for this day. She has long personified the considerable contribution of women to our Revolution. Women made huge sacrifices to gather material for the Revolutionary cause from saltpeter to clothes to lead. Ross made uniforms, tents, and flags for the Revolution from her upholstery shop in Philadelphia. Her iconic flag remains a symbol of a struggle for freedom around core values that still define our nation.

Happy Fourth everyone.

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60 thoughts on “HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!”

  1. It’s a military industrial complex until there is a crisis, then it becomes the arsenal of democracy.

    1. IB,

      “Crazy Abe” Lincoln violated and nullified the Constitution by denying legal and constitutional secession and initiating the Northern War of Aggression. The American Founders’ thesis on war was to avoid foreign entanglements and “…provide for the common DEFENCE…”

      NO NATION IN HISTORY ENDED SLAVERY WITH WAR.

      Lincoln was a psychotic with homosexual tendencies who was corruptly ensconced as president with 39.8% of the vote and martyred by the “deep deep state” of bankers/industrialists/politicians when his “job” was done and his usefulness expired.

      Lincoln eliminated “classes” paving the way for the Progressives (progressing to communism), Roosevelt and finally Lyndon Johnson to eliminate the rights, freedoms, privileges and immunities of Americans and to forcibly impose the principles of communism on America.

      Try it, you’ll like it:

      “Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics – The History They Didn’t Teach You in School”

      – Donald Jeffries.

  2. Its raining hard in our area and it is forecasted to continue including nearby DCA, which means we are not going to see this wonderful attempt by Trump to make Americans feel great again about our country.

    These Asians do decked out in patriotic clothing attiring flashing thumbs up in front of a Humvee.

    Happy 4th Hillary, Barack and Nancy….go easy on your alcohol and meds, Nance! 🙃

    Revellers pose in front of a military Humvee parked on a street in the capital…Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2019/jul/04/independence-day-fourth-july-washington-dc-parade-trump-in-pictures#img-5

    1. I’d a rate Eisenhower as one of our better presidents, in the top third of the historical “presidential pack”.
      When he gave that speech nearly 60 years ago, defense spending was well over 50% of the U.S. budget. Today, it’s probably about 20%. Also, the number and influence of lobbyists, and the role of Megabucks in politics, etc. are far bigger issues than they were 60 years ago.
      I think if Ike were to give a similar speech today, he’d probably include a warning like the one back then, “watch out for the military- industrial lobbyists”.
      But the entire situation is so much different c.60 years later that he’d probably look at where the percentage of federal spending goes and give far different warning about federal spending in general and lobbyists.

      1. https://images.app.goo.gl/R3EJAHyvV79Jjej86
        It’s hard to believe that defense spending was 55% of the U.S. budget in 1960.
        Vs.
        about 20% today. I’d guess that we probably had close to 3,000,000 active duty military personell in a population of about 160 million.
        Today, there are about 1,500,000 active duty military in a country that has about 320,000,000.
        There is likely waste/ inefficiencies that need to be addressed in the area of military spending. But those who think that “cutting defense spending” is going to have a major impact on the budget, when that share of the budget has become a much smaller share of the budget, are not being realistic.

      2. Tom Nash, you really, really NEED to read:

        “Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics – The History They Didn’t Teach You in School”

        – Donald Jeffries.

        1. I think we’ve been over this before, George…..sorry, but I can’t dismiss the Mount Everest stack of evidence against Oswald.

    2. Americans were taxed at a disproportionately higher rate when Eisenhower made his speech, mostly for defense spending, which has fallen to 20% of the Federal budget.

      If President Eisenhower had a crystal ball at his disposal, he’s have warned us about Kennedy and Johnson’s crippling insecurities which cost us $25.4 billion in 1960s dollars ($153 billion in today’s dollars) for Project Apollo and 55,000 young American lives in LBJ’s pecker contest in Vietnam.

      While, if Nixon had been elected in 1960, the same unimaginative, uncharismatic guy every right-thinking liberal liked to crap on would probably have insisted the space program stuck to things like getting us overhead photographs of Russia ad China with a minimum of fuss and muss.

      1. The real cost- drivers of the exploding federal budget have been the “entitlement” programs that are have been on “autopilot” for decades.
        And continue to be on autopilot. I see from watching the Democratic debates that the answer to these cost drivers is more entitlement programs, or the expansion of existing ones.

  4. Seriously? You haven’t noticed that all the constitutional rights, freedoms, privileges and immunities of Americans, including their English

    language, their security “…in their persons, houses, papers, and effects…” and their national borders are gone?

    Let’s see, an unconstitutional invasion of foreign parasites seeking “alms for the poor” from American taxpayers, mass importation of

    communist (i.e. democrat) voters, free medical care for illegal alien foreign invaders, affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, rent

    control, social services, forced busing, minimum wage, utility subsidies, WIC, TANF, HAMP, HARP, Education, Labor, Obamacare,

    Obamaphones, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, MediCal, “Fair Housing,” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws,

    etc., etc., etc., and actual Americans can find something to celebrate?

    “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, Comrade Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon “$22 Trillion War on Poverty and Poverty Won” Johnson et al.

    comprehensively nullify and void the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and actual Americans have something to celebrate?

    No. Actual Americans have something to recover; their country.

    What would George Washington do?
    _____________________________

    Ben Franklin,1789, we gave you “…a republic, if you can keep it.”

    Ben Franklin, 2019, we gave you “…a republic, if you can take it back.”

  5. Happy Independence Day…from Free Derry, Northern Ireland.

    Few realize how rare freedom is, until they’ve lost it.



  9. Happy 4th — to the gullible.

    George Carlin:

    “You Have No Rights”

  10. mespo727272 on July 2, 2019 at 8:47 PM

    The EU is self-immolating with the Visegrad Group and the Italy taking the lead in pouring gasoline on open borders and the bullies from Brussels. And since no good nationalist movement should be without it’s Churchill so I give you today’s version, Viktor Orban:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGyDw6_ypo

    Here’s the words that will survive and prevail:

    𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝑆𝑜 𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡. 𝐼𝑓 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠? 𝐿𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠: 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑠, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝐺𝑂𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 “𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑠”. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚.
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    Same things happening over there has been happening here right now!

    It’s been mostly a cold civil war, but the leftist totalitarians are taking it hot.

    BTW: did you see the news of Jeb Bush’s veiled death threat aimed at Prez Trump?

    So many sick creeps in the Deep State.

  11. Hey Nancy Pelosi, what day is it? It’s “TRUMP DAY”! Mike,Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.

  13. Happy 4th JT.
    A special thanks to President Trump
    For sharing the magnificent power machines
    Which gave us Liberty and Freedom.

  14. IJt’s a shame with your education you don’t the difference between Our Representative Constitutional Republic which does exist and what was that ‘representative democracy’ which has never existed.

    Still waiting for someone to point where that other word, after being rejected by the founders nine times, might be found in the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, or the Bill of Rights or anywhere else that is an official document.

    Opinion pieces such as the federalist and anti federalist papers are not official documents. .

    1. It is a pretty awesome parade. You’d think he’d have something to say!

      1. The paid trolls are paid 1.5 x on holidays per character, including spaces. They are paid to act like left wing Stalinists something they do all too well. Be thankful they cant throw milkshakes at you! lol

        Joy is the best response for these miserable trolls

    2. “Anonymous” should submit a schedule of topics and dates that JT should follow in covering these topics…..I think Anonymous and others who whine about these columns and the the topics/ lack of topic/choice of topics/ dates topics covered should be the ones making these decisions.😄😃😂🤣
      When JT gets done reviewing all of the demands for what’s covered and when, he’ll have a better idea of how to accommodate people like “Anonymous”.

  17. JT, be vigilant

    When those F-35’s show up tonight in Wash DC & the sky jocks come in hard & fast there could be some collateral damage. Sonic booms from F-35’s have blown out windows & cracked sheet rock inside homes.

      1. “If you want peace then prepare well for war.” Not sarc. Wisdom of a people who ruled the western world for hundreds of years.

        1. While I don’t disagree, there’s no need to arrogantly and unnecessarily flaunt it. In doing so, it ultimately works against us.

          1. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1964, Sen. Fulbright help to shove through a nearly unanimous Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964.
            He didn’t want or allow a lot of debate or dissension in the Democratic- controlled Senate.

  18. The Nike controversy shows how our differences are now overwhelming our core shared values, including the very symbol of this nation.

    No, the Nike controversy shows there are people in gatekeeper positions at Nike who aren’t loyal to this country and fancy themselves superior individuals to its founders. They’ll do tricks for a tiresome no-account like Colin Kaepernick. It isn’t business, it’s the culture of a large slice of our professional-managerial class.

    1. “the Nike controversy shows there are people in gatekeeper positions at Nike who aren’t loyal to this country”

      Nonsense.

      Enjoy the day, you old sourpuss.

  19. To all those Americans who still think she is worth whatever it takes, I say Happy Independence Day. And to those who would oppress us and take our birthright, don’t tread on us. We remain Revolutionaries!

    1. “And to those who would oppress us and take our birthright, don’t tread on us.” mespo, the great patriot

      Get thee to Trump’s big parade and mingle with like-minded yahoos. And psst: No one is wants to “oppress” you, “take [your] birthright” or “tread on you.”

    2. Et al.There are now open calls to President Trump to call to arms of loyal Americans/Military/Police/militias to protect the USA from foreign/domestic enemies. Right Now!

      Alex Jones Show, Stuart Rhodes/Oath Keepers, 7/1/2019, about 56:40 in the vid.

      btw: the 1st part of the show is telling & the back part.

      https://www.brighteon.com/6054465237001

  20. F@@k Nike and the LGBQP’s running that POS Anti American company making shoes with slave labor.

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