HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Imagine if George W Bush was the Worst AND the First:
Separation of Church and State
.Like most early Americans, our Founding Fathers fled Europe to escape wacky religious fanatics who caused the Spanish Inquisitions (first waterboarding), the Holy Crusades (300 year war), witch burnings, etc. These great men considered themselves as FreeThinkers with a Generic God who included ALL Religions.
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion (Virginia’s new law to make Christianity the official US religion)? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 363.)
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the Divinity, the most destructive to morality and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist.> (Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794-1795. From Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich, eds., The Harper Book of American Quotations, New York: Harper & Row, 1988, p. 494.)
Benjamin Franklin: “Think how great a proportion of Mankind,” he warned in 1757, “consists of weak and ignorant Men and Women, and of inexperienc’d Youth of both Sexes, who have need of the Motives of Religion to restrain them from Vice, to support their Virtue, and retain them in the Practice of it till it becomes habitual, which is the great Point for its Security.” (Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 61.)
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ABOVE LEFT: Memorial Day 2009 President Obama places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
RIGHT: 2011: Many of us vets would like to see our Commander-In-Chief honor the Wall of 59,000 KNOWN Soldiers who died in Vietnam. Put a name on our occupations…Or better yet a face.
This link is an amazing video: 500 faces (of the first 2000) to die in Iraq in less than 5 minutes- Did You Ever Wonder What 2000 (now more than double that number) Looks Like?.
Click here to watch the meter spinning for The Cost of the Wars Since 2001
America topped the $TRILLION Mark at 10AM PST Sunday May 30, 2010.
The First Memorial Day…
…was observed by formerly enslaved blacks at the Washington Park in Charleston, South Carolina.During the Civil War this race course was a Confederate prison camp for captured Union soldiers and the site of a mass grave for blacks from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
.The 54th gained recognition as one of the bravest Union units on July 18, 1863, by spearheading an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina. Although Union forces were not able to take and hold the fort (despite taking a portion of the walls in the initial assault), the 54th was widely acclaimed for its valor during the battle, and the event helped encourage the further enlistment and mobilization of African-American troops, a key development that President Abraham Lincoln once noted as helping to secure the final victory. Decades later, Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first black to win the Medal of Honor for grabbing the U.S. flag as the flag bearer fell, carrying the flag to the enemy ramparts and back, and saying “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground!”
Ironically, during the week leading up to the 54th’s heroic sacrifice near Charleston, simmering racial strife climaxed in the New York Draft Riots. African-Americans on the city’s waterfront and Lower East Side were beaten, tortured, and lynched by white mobs angered over conscription for the Union war effort. These tea-bagging, yahoo mobs directed their animosity toward blacks because they felt that blacks, who CHOSE to have really dark skin, caused the Civil War.
The mass grave incident would probably would have been ignored by American history if the dumbass rebs had not dumped a WHITE GUY on top of the pile: Robert Shaw…Caucasian Leader of 54th.
Shaw’s father convinced a Union officer to ask for the return of his son’s body but was informed by the Confederate commander, Brigadier General Johnson Hagood, “We buried him with his niggers.”
Oh dear, Fox News was not around at the time to put a spin on this.
WASP Americans were outraged. Robert Lowell wrote:
Shaw’s father wanted no monument except the ditch,
…where his son’s body was thrown.
.Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, formerly enslaved people exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard. The work was completed in only ten days. On May 1, 1865, the Charleston newspaper reported that a crowd of up to ten thousand, mainly black residents, including 2800 children, proceeded to the location for included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first Decoration Day…later to be known as Memorial Day.
Monday American yahoos get a paid holiday and thus invite friends and inbred family members for cow flesh and pig tubes on the BarBQ. Do they understand?
Memorial Day honors the great patriots of the BLACK 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment! Rent the movie Glory for a painless history lesson.
Here are 10 more great movies for Memorial (and Veterans) Day:
Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick, The Hurt Locker, Platoon, M*A*S*H , Catch 22, All Quiet on the Western Front, King of Hearts, and No Man’s Land. The History of Easter.
.What if Fox News had been around when…
.THE ONLY PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF JESUS IN THE BIBLE:
Rev. 1:14: “His head and his hair… like wool…”
Daniel 10:6: “His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass…”
This image of Jesus found in a Roman church in AD 530.
Michelangelo painted Ceasare Borgias in 1400 and used him as model for the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus American and European Christians worship today. Ummmm…Let’s get real. Jesus was a liberal…didn’t speak a word of English and probably looked more like Bob Marley than Michelangelo’s White Christ.
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Lincoln’s Birthday
Our 5th Christmas Special!
There’s No Toys on this Christmas DayCause the North Pole Has Melted Away!
The best new classic Xmas tune since Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer! The North Pole melted away due to global warming and Santa’s workshop sank to the bottom of the sea…claimed by Russia.
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NO TOYS ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY by Greg Giacona
1- There’s G no toys on D this Christmas G day.The C North pole has Em melted D away.
C It really is a D shame, Global G warming is to Em blame.
And C Santa’s mail got G dumped into the D bay
2- My Christmas list splashed down in icy water
And, sadly it was gobbled by an otter
…swallowed by a polar bear who really doesn’t care
if I get my toys and every Harry Potter
3- No presents beneath the Christmas tree
Cause my mom still drives her SUV
Dad’s rolling in his Hummer and freezes us in summer
So I’ll never get to sit on Santa’s knee
4- A Russian flag no flies on Santa’s workshop
at the bottom of the deep blue sea
Godless Commies now own Christmas and Santa sure will miss us
But he’s got no toys to give to you and me
5- No toys beneath the Christmas tree
Cause my mom still drives her SUV
It really is a shame, Global warming is to blame
So I’ll never get to sit on Santa’s knee
Cause he’s C got no toys to D give to you and G me.
.Contact Greg if you are inspired to create a YouTube of my song. Please rip me off! I will post your vid here and you will become a SuperStar in the eyes of both of my readers.
CloneMasters Videos and Songbook.
YouTube links to my favorite weird Xmas songs- Ballad of Tiger Woods Xmas song, Buy War Toys For Christmas by Roy Zimmerman, Christmas Is Pain by Roy Zimmerman (doing his best Bobby Zimmerman), Chanukha Song By Adam Sandler, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer A Christmas Classic! Often heard on Dr Demento before you were born. Bohemian Christmas Rhapsody, There’s No Toys on this Xmas Day Cause the North Pole has Melted Away by the Clonemasters, Santa Baby By Eartha Kitt
Print out and send this Christmas card to your Uncle Bubba
Santanarchy!
Boing Boing TVAbout this time each year thousands of EVIL SANTAS attack American cities!
From Wikipedia In 1994, the Cacophony Society staged the first SantaCon in San Francisco. Influenced by the surrealist movement, Discordianism, and other subversive art currents, the Cacophonists decided to celebrate the Yule season in a distinctly anti-commercial manner, by mixing guerrilla street theatre, pranksterism, and public intoxication. In subsequent years, SantaCon evolved, spawning many different versions of the event throughout the world.
Local Cacaphony Societies have staged SantaCons in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, San Jose,Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Austin Texas, Vancouver, London, Tokyo, and McMurdo Station in Antarctica. By 2003, the idea had spread to almost 30 cities in four countries. In 2005, enough Santas participated in the Washington DC Santarchy to encircle the Washington Monument.
Fight them at the North Pole so we don’t have to fight them here!
I barely survived these terrorists in SF last year as they hopped from bar to bar and bullied innocent tourists.
Where is Homeland Security? 1995 SF Santarachy Police Report
Dec 7- Pearl Harbor
.2003: Iraq, Afghanistan…They’re all Muslim terrorists. Who cares?
1941: Japan, China…They’re all Asian terrorists. Who cares?
Bookmark this page. Trust me…You don’t want to miss my Christmas special. A preview:
The real origin of American Thanksgiving
We all know the sweet Thanksgiving story taught to us in school, but recently old official Dutch records revealed the dark side of our great American tradition:In late November of 1637, a force of colonists (with the help of a bunch of Blackwaterish paid Dutch mercenaries) trapped an entire tribe of seven hundred unarmed Pequot Indians celebrating their corn harvest in their long house near the mouth of the Mystic River. Them Injuns was in the way of progress!
Captain John Mason shock and awed the camp with “fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk.”
Compassionate conservative Christians set the windowless building on fire and slaughted these peaceful Native Americans (unarmed men, women and children) one by one as they tried to escape the blazing inferno. “To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice to the great delight of the Pilgrims, and they gave praise thereof to God,” said the Cap.
For 66 years thereafter the Pilgrims celebrated the date as a Day of Thanks. In 1704 Massachusetts Governor Dudley declared a “General Thanksgiving” state holiday and soon after the day became a National Holiday to celebrate the Holocaust/Genocide of Red Man and Woman:
“[God’s] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors… In defeating and disappointing…. the expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands,” said the Gov. Link to article
I will say a prayer for the Pequot Indians before Thanksgiving dinner as I do each year.
Speaking of Turkey Day, Ben Franklin campaigned hard to make the wild turkey our National Bird but was outvoted.
Hooray! It’s a holiday for Everybody But Veterans Again!
I returned from Vietnam in 1970 and have been forced to work on each Veterans Day since while the rest of my family: Parents, sibs, wife and kids celebrate with time off. Wednesday was TYPICAL: wife and daughter are teachers- day off with pay. My schedule: 8:30 AM until 11 PM (3rd day in a row). WTF!
I lied…I had one V Day off 2 years ago for cataract surgery…without pay…Couldn’t keep my job without.
Can anyone tell me who benefits from this holiday? Certainly not me…not the 40% of the homeless who were unable to readjust to civilian life after witnessing the horrors of our occupations in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan…Not the 200,000 American kids currently serving in MidEast Hell on their 3rd, or 4th, or 5th year-long tour.
Next year we’re taking the holiday off and the rest of you are on your own. Contact Greg.
Uh, oh. Nasty worst-president-ever shadow…Winter will last til November!
Published by Nick at 08:19 PM on July 4, 2010