“About the Declaration, there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter.
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all memes 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..."
Happy Independence Day to Gato and all freedom-loving feline friends!
I try to read this at least twice a year. Always timely...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.
I have responded to every Happy 4th( which Irks me, we are celebrating Independence not a date.(Happy December 25th),
With a copy of the preamble and a list of unalienable rights.
The Right to Life, Freedom, Health and the Pursuit of Happiness The Right to Contract, or Not to Contract, which is Unlimited The Right to Earn a Living Income by being Compensated with Wages or a Salary in a Fair Exchange for one's Work The Right to Travel in the Ordinary Course of one's Life and Business The Right to Privacy and Confidentiality, free from Unwarranted Invasion The Right to Own, and Hold Property, lawfully without Trespass The Right to Self-Defence when threatened with Harm, Loss, or Deceit The Right to Due Process of Law, with Notice and Opportunity to Defend The Right to be Presumed Innocent, suffering No Detention or Arrest, No Search or Seizure, without Reasonable Cause The Right to Remain Silent when accused, to avoid Self-Incrimination The Right to Equality in the eyes of the Law, and to Equal Representation The Right to Trial by Jury, being an Impartial Panel of one's Peers The Right to Appeal in Law against Conviction or Sentence, or both The Right to Expose Knowledge necessary to one's Rights and Freedoms The Right to Peaceful Association, Assembly, Expression, and Protest The Right to Practice a Religion, and to have Beliefs, of one's choosing The Right to Love, and to Consensual Marriage with Children, as a Family The Right to Security from Abuse, Persecution, Tyranny, and War The Right to Refuse to Kill under command, by reason of Conscience The Right to Live in Peace and be left alone when Law-Abiding
and the way it is applied today? "Terms and conditions subject to change without notice" = That is what our ancestors fought against and what we continue to fight against perpetually.
Our rights were endangered by the time of the second Presidency. We must fight against human nature every day. Every single day. The way things are now is the way things always go when we don't remember our own part, every moment of every day.
OMG, how did they know about my weird uncle?! He is a self-taught chemist hippie who blew off a couple of fingers in one of his experiments, which landed him in jail for several months because they claimed he was manufacturing a bomb. He maybe was kind of sorta doing other illegal things with his chemistry skills, but that wasn’t one of them.
He did make spectacular fireworks, though. I remember one multi-stage volcano that kept erupting in one ecstatic burst of sparkles after another. This was appropriate because he used to bring me alien-looking flowers that he claimed came from Volcanoland. I finally asked him a few months ago where he got those flowers, and he said he shaped them from ordinary flowers, don’t ask me how.
I have said for a very long time that the Declaration of Independence should be read at the beginning of each Congressional session as a reminder. Shoot, they should be given pop quizzes throughout the year.
Too bad we aren't all in Washington DC today rolling out guillotines... But I guess everyone celebrates differently... Anyhow, thanks for the great meme's... I have taxed them for my collection...
And you can share it more than once without Violating the 2nd Law, or suffering from Still Have Checks Left syndrome. And you don't have to crazy like that guy from A Beautiful Mind.
🤔 A Redistribution of Wealth system that I can finally get behind. Excellent.
I have confidence thst you too can earn your own team , Pi! I believe in you! Also, I'll out a word out that having you at my camp will surely disable and dishearten me... surely... * snikker*
Give our veterans an entire month of dedication, give our mothers and fathers an entire month of reverence, and give Christian’s an entire month of respect for their faith (Easter is a single weekend, and Christmas isn’t about our faith anymore but was hijacked and replaced by greedy commerce, snowmen, and Santa’s,) and then MAYBE I’ll be less pissed about a pride month. Maybe, but I doubt it because they prematurely and selfishly grabbed it to force down everyone’s throats without careful and reasonable contemplation of the fairness to those of us with different lifestyles they have tried to suppress in schools and in government. There is no logic or fairness to their “month”.
Truthfully NOTHING needs an entire month except Independence Day!! That’s the only thing we all share in common and grants us freedom to be who we are. That’s worth a month long celebration.
Let them drink Coke! Turbidity or Stupidity? DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory
This morning, July 4, 2024, along with over 1,000,000 other locals in the DMV, I received both a Don’t Drink the Water because “Turbidity” and an Air Quality ORANGE Alert because “pollution” from the Powers That Be. Is this Fear Porn? If the 6 million people in the DC/MD/VA/WV region can’t breathe or drink water…..isn’t that a National Security issue? Or Perhaps a “General Welfare” issue? Or a "Wake Up People, It’s time to Fight for Independence from Tyranny again!"
DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory For All Customers In The District Of Columbia, The Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery And Reagan National Airport
“About the Declaration, there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter.
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
~ Calvin Coolidge
tokikawai.substack.com/p/nhtr
Indeed! I felt that way in integrated schools but I learned a lot more about how it really is when I became a teacher. So so sad.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all memes 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..."
Happy Independence Day to Gato and all freedom-loving feline friends!
I try to read this at least twice a year. Always timely...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.
Maybe the greatest words ever written. I pray we can still read them 250 years from now.
I pray we can still read them 25 weeks from now...
right on! that's what we're fighting for
Ahh, but some memes are more equal than others. Happy Independence day to ya'all. And to our pResident happy In Depends day.
I will allow it.♥♥♥Nicely done
I have responded to every Happy 4th( which Irks me, we are celebrating Independence not a date.(Happy December 25th),
With a copy of the preamble and a list of unalienable rights.
The Right to Life, Freedom, Health and the Pursuit of Happiness The Right to Contract, or Not to Contract, which is Unlimited The Right to Earn a Living Income by being Compensated with Wages or a Salary in a Fair Exchange for one's Work The Right to Travel in the Ordinary Course of one's Life and Business The Right to Privacy and Confidentiality, free from Unwarranted Invasion The Right to Own, and Hold Property, lawfully without Trespass The Right to Self-Defence when threatened with Harm, Loss, or Deceit The Right to Due Process of Law, with Notice and Opportunity to Defend The Right to be Presumed Innocent, suffering No Detention or Arrest, No Search or Seizure, without Reasonable Cause The Right to Remain Silent when accused, to avoid Self-Incrimination The Right to Equality in the eyes of the Law, and to Equal Representation The Right to Trial by Jury, being an Impartial Panel of one's Peers The Right to Appeal in Law against Conviction or Sentence, or both The Right to Expose Knowledge necessary to one's Rights and Freedoms The Right to Peaceful Association, Assembly, Expression, and Protest The Right to Practice a Religion, and to have Beliefs, of one's choosing The Right to Love, and to Consensual Marriage with Children, as a Family The Right to Security from Abuse, Persecution, Tyranny, and War The Right to Refuse to Kill under command, by reason of Conscience The Right to Live in Peace and be left alone when Law-Abiding
and the way it is applied today? "Terms and conditions subject to change without notice" = That is what our ancestors fought against and what we continue to fight against perpetually.
Our rights were endangered by the time of the second Presidency. We must fight against human nature every day. Every single day. The way things are now is the way things always go when we don't remember our own part, every moment of every day.
FTA: "The Government is composed of Unchecked People."
The government is an "us," not "them."
"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses"
https://youtu.be/t2c-X8HiBng?si=qFZVYE3Yb2_5x8pE
“Bloody peasant!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Another one of the greatest scenes of all time!!! Love Monty Python!
Things not basis for government:
1. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
2. Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies
3. Watery tarts throwing swords
4. Moistened bints lobbing scimitars
Thanks for the great link and stroll down memory lane😂
And yet we keep blaming others for our predicaments. All that hero-worshipping thingy of guys who are just like us.
>>>>We must fight against human nature every day. Every single day.
Never truer words. EVER
Whelp they trashed this right for Trump:
“…and to Equal Representation The Right to Trial by Jury, being an Impartial Panel of one's Peers”
That jury definitely was not an impartial collection of his peers. Not sure why that point alone is not being fought against.
OMG, how did they know about my weird uncle?! He is a self-taught chemist hippie who blew off a couple of fingers in one of his experiments, which landed him in jail for several months because they claimed he was manufacturing a bomb. He maybe was kind of sorta doing other illegal things with his chemistry skills, but that wasn’t one of them.
He did make spectacular fireworks, though. I remember one multi-stage volcano that kept erupting in one ecstatic burst of sparkles after another. This was appropriate because he used to bring me alien-looking flowers that he claimed came from Volcanoland. I finally asked him a few months ago where he got those flowers, and he said he shaped them from ordinary flowers, don’t ask me how.
Better Living Through Chemistry, I always say.
My brother, a Chem major at Harvey Mudd, makes the BEST craft beer. He put his education to good use.
I'll drink to that!
That’s why I got a degree in chemistry. However, it really hasn’t turn out that way; better living. Only kidding, it’s fine
*nods* Cool. It fits.
You have to know a Guy of the Pi persuasion would dig a Chem Major. *renods*
You know, most folks never realize how much fun chem majors are. I was also a bio major & theatre minor, always busy, never bored.
I thought it was just Clark Griswalds BIL
We have a drain field a backup is possible.
But I do like to dress like this and vacuum the driveway every once in a while. Keeps the neighbors from asking to borrow the chain saw.
https://youtu.be/RC7Nz0ostKA?si=rgnu96ebBFvak8Po
Hahaha
I have said for a very long time that the Declaration of Independence should be read at the beginning of each Congressional session as a reminder. Shoot, they should be given pop quizzes throughout the year.
"Shoot, they should be given pop quizzes throughout the year."
Supreme Court Justices, too.
"Don't you think that might hamstring the government too much?"
- Woman with Job who Doesn't Know What a Woman Is (despite that being her stated most outstanding qualification for said Job)
I can support this.
With ya!
Outstanding today, El Gato. Thanks.
Correct. In my haste, and lack of coffee, I forgot to mention the Supreme Court Justices should also be subject to the reading and to pop quizzes.
Heck, maybe we should start baseball games that way.
I mean, even Plumbers and Bartenders and Accountants and People Who Play Pickleball should know and respect and be proud of this stuff.
I suspect that many "Plumbers and Bartenders and Accountants and People Who Play Pickleball" DO "know and respect this stuff".
The problem is that their 'betters', our would-be lords and masters, DO NOT, or at least, assume that the concepts therein don't apply to them.
Yup, what kittyana says.
@Andy- THIS
Please include every bureaucrat’s office too.
and also subject to tarring and feathering. Oh, hell, let's not pussyfoot around -- subject to drawing and quartering.
@Moon- I like the way you think.
But they hope we forget about it.
Happy Independence Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydBIHhLUqA
Beautiful!
Nice!
Definitely time for Independence Day II. Happy 4th!
Happy 4th of July to all...
Too bad we aren't all in Washington DC today rolling out guillotines... But I guess everyone celebrates differently... Anyhow, thanks for the great meme's... I have taxed them for my collection...
"I have taxed them"
And you can share it more than once without Violating the 2nd Law, or suffering from Still Have Checks Left syndrome. And you don't have to crazy like that guy from A Beautiful Mind.
🤔 A Redistribution of Wealth system that I can finally get behind. Excellent.
I already spent 4 in X , in exhortation to my overwatch agents to assign my gulag accommodations already!
Wait - you have _your own_ Overwatch Agents? Mine are kinda matrixed into slots.
*vows to up Online Troll Game*
I have confidence thst you too can earn your own team , Pi! I believe in you! Also, I'll out a word out that having you at my camp will surely disable and dishearten me... surely... * snikker*
https://youtu.be/Frks2l8trSw?si=i-8m3kNlNIgX8ocq&t=34s
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
Happy 4th of July to all!
Eternal vigilance. May I never set it aside again!!
Well I love this but Facebook removed it immediately after I shared it
I'm sure someone was triggered and had to move to a safe space until it was pulled down.
They had some “misleading” reason but I’d bet it is because the link pic is the flag dude kicking out the gay dude
You can tell a lot about the state of a nation by who or what comprises a protected class.
Indeed.
Congrats, Zach. You're on The List.
It's cool. We have snacks.
I don’t do facebook. Maybe I should. Snacks you say,
me neither since 2016 and haven’t looked back
https://youtu.be/-_IlNbsILLE?si=fHfFYzBpE_GpnB-O
I shall choose wisely
you're too young for Facebook. Facebook is for communicating with your parents!
*clinks Finger Food with Dr. L*
Cheers!
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The Pi-Dewey Thread System. Thread alignment. Thread safety. Data synchronization. Engage!
🤣
Uhh, finger food . . . Sounds risky
I meant to put this here:
"Use a Cocktail stick!"
https://vimeo.com/380138470
Okay, cocktail sticks it is; no AT&A though. Finger food still iffy. Regular meat, no icky stuff.
I e been on their list since Covid 😁
👊
Give our veterans an entire month of dedication, give our mothers and fathers an entire month of reverence, and give Christian’s an entire month of respect for their faith (Easter is a single weekend, and Christmas isn’t about our faith anymore but was hijacked and replaced by greedy commerce, snowmen, and Santa’s,) and then MAYBE I’ll be less pissed about a pride month. Maybe, but I doubt it because they prematurely and selfishly grabbed it to force down everyone’s throats without careful and reasonable contemplation of the fairness to those of us with different lifestyles they have tried to suppress in schools and in government. There is no logic or fairness to their “month”.
Truthfully NOTHING needs an entire month except Independence Day!! That’s the only thing we all share in common and grants us freedom to be who we are. That’s worth a month long celebration.
*wipes single tear*
"I'm free every weekend."
https://tinyurl.com/5n8nfk5v
'Merica. F#@& yeah!
Loved the memes! Thanks for the laughs, Gato
Let them drink Coke! Turbidity or Stupidity? DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory
This morning, July 4, 2024, along with over 1,000,000 other locals in the DMV, I received both a Don’t Drink the Water because “Turbidity” and an Air Quality ORANGE Alert because “pollution” from the Powers That Be. Is this Fear Porn? If the 6 million people in the DC/MD/VA/WV region can’t breathe or drink water…..isn’t that a National Security issue? Or Perhaps a “General Welfare” issue? Or a "Wake Up People, It’s time to Fight for Independence from Tyranny again!"
DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory For All Customers In The District Of Columbia, The Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery And Reagan National Airport
https://www.dcwater.com/about-dc-water/media/news/drinking-water-advisory-dc-water-issues-boil-water-advisory-all-customers
https://www.mwcog.org/environment/planning-areas/air-quality/air-quality-forecast/
Thanks for the great memes, El Gato Malo!
"Let them drink Coke! Turbidity or Stupidity?"
A great lede.
And how often does one get to work Turbidity into conversation?
*high five*
Thank you, Pi Guy! (…blush)
It couldn’t happen to a better place. Let D.C. trade water supplies with Flint, Michigan. Please.
Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY our eloquent malicious feline !
And to all of my fellow followers of el gato malo:
Become Ungovernable!
I love the meme where July is kicking out June.