tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post3532013427383171332..comments2024-03-28T12:46:50.341-04:00Comments on Paco Enterprises: Happy Fourth of July!Pacohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004124282907287652noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-70354137456282880252016-07-06T11:46:24.129-04:002016-07-06T11:46:24.129-04:00240 years. An anniversary of some gravitas.
There...240 years. An anniversary of some gravitas.<br />There's a lad from the USA working at my place at the moment. He's fairly laid back about most things, but was still somewhat bereft at how the day is no more noticed or remarked upon here than is, say, the National Day of the Congo, or of Moldova.<br /><br />All part of the vive la difference one experiences when travelling in exotic foreign cultures!Steve at the Pubhttp://www.the-public-house.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-71352207767354387732016-07-05T06:59:43.770-04:002016-07-05T06:59:43.770-04:00Some old-school class for you on your national day...Some old-school class for you on your national day: Ava Gardner waves the Stars and Stripes.<br />http://67.media.tumblr.com/cb3f3ec7184fc7b63aae1b8e83dccf9a/tumblr_o9s6k4FVdT1rq0r8go1_500.jpgGregoryno6http://gregoryno6.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-56158763498355513122016-07-04T21:55:08.526-04:002016-07-04T21:55:08.526-04:00The problems we have now may arise if it's not...The problems we have now may arise if it's not self-evident as they thought. In the time of the Founders, people like Voltaire wrote (using Jesuit reports from around the world) about supposed universal human qualities. That turned out to be a huge over-simplification. I really like this piece: <br /><br />http://www.cato.org/blog/how-people-abroad-viewed-our-declaration-independence<br /><br />brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-81239932134486809772016-07-04T16:15:07.800-04:002016-07-04T16:15:07.800-04:00I have no idea how many times I've read the De...I have no idea how many times I've read the Declaration of Independence, but this time this really caught my attention for some reason: <i>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.</i><br /><br />How prescient.rinardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084346073021788172noreply@blogger.com