Happy 4th of July
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BassCliff
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Hi,
This is from one of my newsletters. It will take you a few minutes, but worth it.
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Happy birthday, America!
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Today, we celebrate 249 years as an independent nation, but the events of the past few years had many of us worrying whether we would have many more to celebrate. But now, there’s a feeling that America is back, we’re strong, and our best days really are in front of us. Just as with the border, all it took was a new President who put America first.
We started as a unique country based on the notion that our rights come from God, not government; that because we recognize God as creator of us all, we are all equal in intrinsic worth and value; that we would not require a big government because we would mostly self-govern and live with the understanding that the great freedoms we enjoy require great responsibilities. As the scripture teaches, “unto whom much is given, much is required.”
(Maybe if kids today aren’t taught the Bible or American history, they’ll at least know that lesson from Spiderman.)
We were never perfect and still aren’t. Remember, our founding document said the goal was to “form a more perfect union;” that is, we are always to keep working to improve it.. We’ve had some very ugly chapters in our history, but the brilliance of our Founders was to create a nation who would be governed by law and not by our passions and emotions. We would grant rights even to those accused of awful crimes, so that we wouldn’t be ruled by a mob, whose sense of justice would be at best uneven, and at worst, as evil as the crime it was seeking to avenge. It made our system at times slow, sometimes unfair, and just plain wrong on occasion. But the ideal was to make all of us accountable to the same laws and suffer the same consequences for violating them.
All of that is at risk of going away if we allow people in the highest levels of law enforcement and the intelligence community get away with trying to stage a coup d’etat against an elected President. Or if we let some people break windows, assault innocent people and law enforcement officers, loot stores, and burn businesses, just because someone in power agrees with their political views. When that happens, we are rewarding anarchy and mob rule.
But while the news reports the worst of our nation’s sins, there are truly outstanding acts of love, kindness, and sacrifice that are happening around us every day. We need to hear more of their stories, and that’s why we try to share them with you in this newsletter.
We hope you’ll celebrate America today, proudly, loudly and unashamedly. Okay, we aren’t perfect, but name a better one. Even the anti-ICE protesters who are waving foreign flags on US soil are protesting because they don’t want to be sent back to the countries whose flags they’ve waving; they want to stay here. We don’t think they’ve thought this through. But we’re not supposed to question them because they’re acting on “their truth,” rather than “the truth.”
Two-hundred-forty-nine years ago today, some very courageous souls risked their fortunes and their very lives to give us a country unlike any ever created. We can’t allow ourselves to lose this country because of some who would trade liberty for the lunacy of a system that resembles government in the time of the Judges of the Old Testament, where “every man did what was right in his own eyes.”
Let’s celebrate America. But let’s keep fighting to preserve the best of it, and working together to change and reform the worst of it.
The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington
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It’s astounding the way the left has been so successful at using the phrase “hate speech” and the fear of school shootings to convince young people to demand that their own First and Second Amendment rights be taken away.
Somehow, they have managed to bamboozle a large slice of the young generation into simultaneously believing that they are wise and mature enough to start voting and even writing laws at 16; yet they are so childish and irresponsible, they can’t be trusted to touch a firearm until they’re 21, or to hear an opposing opinion without rushing to a safe space to cuddle a puppy and schmoosh Play-Doh.
When young people don’t know their rights, where those rights came from, and how much was sacrificed to secure them, it’s easy to convince them to trade them away for empty promises of comfort and security. This is the basis of all those quotes warning not to sell your birthright for a mess of pottage, a bit of advice so ancient and universal that it dates back to Esau in Genesis 25: 29-34. But leftists are still counting on young people not knowing it (no wonder they want to ban the Bible from schools.)
These days, students are taught an ugly, twisted and totally negative perversion of American history. They’re taught to hate their own magnificent heritage, and they don’t learn the most basic facts (or even what the word “pottage” means), let alone all the great stories you discover when you dig into real American history. This seems like the perfect week for a lesson in how America came to be born. And we’ll try to put it into terms they can relate to.
Maybe – possibly – today’s students vaguely recognize the name Paul Revere (although they might believe he was a slave trader. We doubt they had to memorize the poem, the way we did.) But how many know there was another heroic midnight rider who warned that the British were coming, only this one was a teenage girl from Duchess County, New York?
She’s just one of many American heroes that kids don’t learn about because modern textbooks scrub history of everything interesting or inspiring in favor of leftist social and political agendas that downgrade America. They depict this as a land of nothing but racism and oppression, not as a land where people of good will have struggled and sacrificed for generations, constantly working to improve things by establishing justice, securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity and creating a “more perfect union” (note that in the original foundational document, the writers made it clear that nothing’s perfect, but we would strive always to keep working together toward perfection.)
Kids, American history is not a list of personal grievances against people who’ve been dead for 200 years. It’s everything that ever happened to everyone before you came on the scene. Seek it out. It can be pretty interesting, and you can actually learn things from it!
For instance: listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of…Sybil Ludington? Movies these days are filled with unrealistic fictional depictions of "girl power," but Sybil was the real article. As the oldest of 11 children, she had to take on a lot of responsibility at a young age. She was barely 16 on the night of April 26, 1777. She had just tucked all her siblings into bed when, suddenly, there came an urgent knock at the door. It was a messenger, coming to warn her father, Col. Henry Ludington, that British troops were invading.
His troops weren’t expecting an attack and were scattered all over the countryside. Gathering them meant a dangerous ride over pitch black roads, through enemy soldiers, wild animals and hostile Indians (sorry: “Indigenous Peoples.”) Understandably, the messenger refused an order to go. But Sybil volunteered. Her father protested, but she pointed out that only she knew where all his men lived. As any father of a strong-willed daughter will recognize, he’d long since learned that arguing with her was futile. So Sybil mounted up and rode off.
It was a rainy night. The British had already set nearby Danbury, Connecticut, on fire, and the flames cast an eerie, red glow on the fog. It spurred Sybil on as she galloped from house to house, banging on doors and shouting that the British were coming. According to legend, at one point, a highway robber tried to intercept Sybil, but she raised her father’s musket and sent him running. Yet another reason why teenagers should think twice before demanding that the Second Amendment be taken away from them.
By dawn, Sybil and her horse were cold, wet and exhausted. She’d roused over 400 troops, who joined the Battle of Ridgefield and helped drive the British all the way back to Long Island Sound. Gen. Washington personally honored Sybil for her heroism.
Today, there are historic markers all along her route, and statues of her in New York and Washington (if they haven’t been torn down by historical illiterates.) But we bet most young people never even heard of Sybil Ludington, a teenager much like them, except she knew what really happened during the American Revolution. Maybe it’s because nobody wrote a famous poem about her midnight ride -- even though her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s. Let’s hope someone turns her story into a hip-hop musical so they’ll finally learn about it.
(Since originally writing this, we decided we should mention that some revisionist historians have labored mightily to try to debunk this story, but the best they’ve come up with is to claim they can’t find documentation of her ride. Too bad Sybil didn’t record it on her iPhone. In a comment that says more about contemporary “historians” than it does about actual American history, one wrote, “Sybil's ride embraces the mythical meanings and values expressed in the country's founding. As an individual, she represents Americans' persistent need to find and create heroes who embody prevalent attitudes and beliefs.” We’d say that when you start out with the attitude that our nation’s Founders’ values were “mythical,” it tends to give you a persistent need to tear down American heroes. But that’s not actually history, now, is it?)
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Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
This is from one of my newsletters. It will take you a few minutes, but worth it.
*****************************************
Happy birthday, America!
-------------------------------
Today, we celebrate 249 years as an independent nation, but the events of the past few years had many of us worrying whether we would have many more to celebrate. But now, there’s a feeling that America is back, we’re strong, and our best days really are in front of us. Just as with the border, all it took was a new President who put America first.
We started as a unique country based on the notion that our rights come from God, not government; that because we recognize God as creator of us all, we are all equal in intrinsic worth and value; that we would not require a big government because we would mostly self-govern and live with the understanding that the great freedoms we enjoy require great responsibilities. As the scripture teaches, “unto whom much is given, much is required.”
(Maybe if kids today aren’t taught the Bible or American history, they’ll at least know that lesson from Spiderman.)
We were never perfect and still aren’t. Remember, our founding document said the goal was to “form a more perfect union;” that is, we are always to keep working to improve it.. We’ve had some very ugly chapters in our history, but the brilliance of our Founders was to create a nation who would be governed by law and not by our passions and emotions. We would grant rights even to those accused of awful crimes, so that we wouldn’t be ruled by a mob, whose sense of justice would be at best uneven, and at worst, as evil as the crime it was seeking to avenge. It made our system at times slow, sometimes unfair, and just plain wrong on occasion. But the ideal was to make all of us accountable to the same laws and suffer the same consequences for violating them.
All of that is at risk of going away if we allow people in the highest levels of law enforcement and the intelligence community get away with trying to stage a coup d’etat against an elected President. Or if we let some people break windows, assault innocent people and law enforcement officers, loot stores, and burn businesses, just because someone in power agrees with their political views. When that happens, we are rewarding anarchy and mob rule.
But while the news reports the worst of our nation’s sins, there are truly outstanding acts of love, kindness, and sacrifice that are happening around us every day. We need to hear more of their stories, and that’s why we try to share them with you in this newsletter.
We hope you’ll celebrate America today, proudly, loudly and unashamedly. Okay, we aren’t perfect, but name a better one. Even the anti-ICE protesters who are waving foreign flags on US soil are protesting because they don’t want to be sent back to the countries whose flags they’ve waving; they want to stay here. We don’t think they’ve thought this through. But we’re not supposed to question them because they’re acting on “their truth,” rather than “the truth.”
Two-hundred-forty-nine years ago today, some very courageous souls risked their fortunes and their very lives to give us a country unlike any ever created. We can’t allow ourselves to lose this country because of some who would trade liberty for the lunacy of a system that resembles government in the time of the Judges of the Old Testament, where “every man did what was right in his own eyes.”
Let’s celebrate America. But let’s keep fighting to preserve the best of it, and working together to change and reform the worst of it.
The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington
----------------------------------------------
It’s astounding the way the left has been so successful at using the phrase “hate speech” and the fear of school shootings to convince young people to demand that their own First and Second Amendment rights be taken away.
Somehow, they have managed to bamboozle a large slice of the young generation into simultaneously believing that they are wise and mature enough to start voting and even writing laws at 16; yet they are so childish and irresponsible, they can’t be trusted to touch a firearm until they’re 21, or to hear an opposing opinion without rushing to a safe space to cuddle a puppy and schmoosh Play-Doh.
When young people don’t know their rights, where those rights came from, and how much was sacrificed to secure them, it’s easy to convince them to trade them away for empty promises of comfort and security. This is the basis of all those quotes warning not to sell your birthright for a mess of pottage, a bit of advice so ancient and universal that it dates back to Esau in Genesis 25: 29-34. But leftists are still counting on young people not knowing it (no wonder they want to ban the Bible from schools.)
These days, students are taught an ugly, twisted and totally negative perversion of American history. They’re taught to hate their own magnificent heritage, and they don’t learn the most basic facts (or even what the word “pottage” means), let alone all the great stories you discover when you dig into real American history. This seems like the perfect week for a lesson in how America came to be born. And we’ll try to put it into terms they can relate to.
Maybe – possibly – today’s students vaguely recognize the name Paul Revere (although they might believe he was a slave trader. We doubt they had to memorize the poem, the way we did.) But how many know there was another heroic midnight rider who warned that the British were coming, only this one was a teenage girl from Duchess County, New York?
She’s just one of many American heroes that kids don’t learn about because modern textbooks scrub history of everything interesting or inspiring in favor of leftist social and political agendas that downgrade America. They depict this as a land of nothing but racism and oppression, not as a land where people of good will have struggled and sacrificed for generations, constantly working to improve things by establishing justice, securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity and creating a “more perfect union” (note that in the original foundational document, the writers made it clear that nothing’s perfect, but we would strive always to keep working together toward perfection.)
Kids, American history is not a list of personal grievances against people who’ve been dead for 200 years. It’s everything that ever happened to everyone before you came on the scene. Seek it out. It can be pretty interesting, and you can actually learn things from it!
For instance: listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of…Sybil Ludington? Movies these days are filled with unrealistic fictional depictions of "girl power," but Sybil was the real article. As the oldest of 11 children, she had to take on a lot of responsibility at a young age. She was barely 16 on the night of April 26, 1777. She had just tucked all her siblings into bed when, suddenly, there came an urgent knock at the door. It was a messenger, coming to warn her father, Col. Henry Ludington, that British troops were invading.
His troops weren’t expecting an attack and were scattered all over the countryside. Gathering them meant a dangerous ride over pitch black roads, through enemy soldiers, wild animals and hostile Indians (sorry: “Indigenous Peoples.”) Understandably, the messenger refused an order to go. But Sybil volunteered. Her father protested, but she pointed out that only she knew where all his men lived. As any father of a strong-willed daughter will recognize, he’d long since learned that arguing with her was futile. So Sybil mounted up and rode off.
It was a rainy night. The British had already set nearby Danbury, Connecticut, on fire, and the flames cast an eerie, red glow on the fog. It spurred Sybil on as she galloped from house to house, banging on doors and shouting that the British were coming. According to legend, at one point, a highway robber tried to intercept Sybil, but she raised her father’s musket and sent him running. Yet another reason why teenagers should think twice before demanding that the Second Amendment be taken away from them.
By dawn, Sybil and her horse were cold, wet and exhausted. She’d roused over 400 troops, who joined the Battle of Ridgefield and helped drive the British all the way back to Long Island Sound. Gen. Washington personally honored Sybil for her heroism.
Today, there are historic markers all along her route, and statues of her in New York and Washington (if they haven’t been torn down by historical illiterates.) But we bet most young people never even heard of Sybil Ludington, a teenager much like them, except she knew what really happened during the American Revolution. Maybe it’s because nobody wrote a famous poem about her midnight ride -- even though her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s. Let’s hope someone turns her story into a hip-hop musical so they’ll finally learn about it.
(Since originally writing this, we decided we should mention that some revisionist historians have labored mightily to try to debunk this story, but the best they’ve come up with is to claim they can’t find documentation of her ride. Too bad Sybil didn’t record it on her iPhone. In a comment that says more about contemporary “historians” than it does about actual American history, one wrote, “Sybil's ride embraces the mythical meanings and values expressed in the country's founding. As an individual, she represents Americans' persistent need to find and create heroes who embody prevalent attitudes and beliefs.” We’d say that when you start out with the attitude that our nation’s Founders’ values were “mythical,” it tends to give you a persistent need to tear down American heroes. But that’s not actually history, now, is it?)
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Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
Model 457
Master Class
Today I celebrate God, our forefathers, and the many that serve, served, or died serving, to afford me the liberties I enjoy. I do realize I am combining the birth of our nation with Veterans and Memorial day. I do this because all three go hand in hand in my mind. Without our forefathers, we wouldn't have what we have to begin with. Without those the are currently serving, or those that served, we wouldn't have what our forefathers initially provided. And without those that paid the ultimate price, all aforementioned wouldn't exist today. Above all, God smiles upon the righteous. It will be God that sorts us all out in the end...... Happy 4th and I thank all that made it possible for me to be posting this thought!
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Onewolf426
Hellcat
Hope all of you and your families, friends, loved ones have a happy and safe Independence Day.
TurboDog910
Elite
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
these peeps need to leave as all 3 are unhappy in this country of ours.
www.theblaze.com
they can go celebrate in another country of their choice and stay there. are other politicians that were running against them that horrible or just enough idiot voters to get them elected.
the 4th of july is political in every sense! i'll red, white and turn you blue you till the end of time!
God bless America and those who believe in this great country!
Here are the top 3 LEAST patriotic members of Congress | Blaze Media
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they can go celebrate in another country of their choice and stay there. are other politicians that were running against them that horrible or just enough idiot voters to get them elected.
the 4th of july is political in every sense! i'll red, white and turn you blue you till the end of time!
God bless America and those who believe in this great country!
Model 457
Master Class
4th of July celebration dinner -
Salad:
Arugula
Sliced strawberries
Diced green apple
Toasted pecans
Crumbled blue cheese
Vinaigrette
Corn Bread:
Jiffy corn bread mix
Hand full of thick grated Colby jack
Small can of diced green chilis
Melted raw honey applied to the top after baked
Cheese filled, bacon wrapped Jalapenos:
Cream cheese filled
Apple smoked thick bacon wrap
Cheese filled, bacon wrapped dates:
Cream cheese filled
Apple smoked thick bacon wrap
Ribs:
Beef ribs perfectly grilled
Honey habanero sauce
Salad:
Arugula
Sliced strawberries
Diced green apple
Toasted pecans
Crumbled blue cheese
Vinaigrette
Corn Bread:
Jiffy corn bread mix
Hand full of thick grated Colby jack
Small can of diced green chilis
Melted raw honey applied to the top after baked
Cheese filled, bacon wrapped Jalapenos:
Cream cheese filled
Apple smoked thick bacon wrap
Cheese filled, bacon wrapped dates:
Cream cheese filled
Apple smoked thick bacon wrap
Ribs:
Beef ribs perfectly grilled
Honey habanero sauce
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Custom
As we approach the end of the evening (at least here on the east coast) I sincerely hope you all have the same amount of fingers and holes in your body as you did when you woke up today.
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
we own guns and don't no howe tu count
Certified Silly Goose
Custom
That is stunning!