It's July, say what's on our mind. Other than Politics/US Government or Lack Thereof!

[Bawanna]

Seems like this year is flying by, maybe life is flying by.

Anyhow this is the place for funny, clean, or just general discussion among friends.

We're closing in on election time, leave that someplace else PLEASE.

All good stuff here, help, ideas, family discussion.

Off color or unsuitable stuff will just disappear without notice. Kind of slows down this time of year as most are outside doing stuff with less time on the crystal ball and specifically Kahrtalk. Try to visit from time to time. Keep your friends and priorities straight.

I'm of to make sawdust. Finish some handles for Deacon today or tomorrow.

Peace out.

[Tinman507]

This still means something

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

hen 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. 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

[mr surveyor]

!!!

[OldLincoln]

Wife wants me to help her work in the yard, I prefer to declare it a wilderness zone. She says the exercise will be good for me, I say exertion is something to be endured, not chased after. Heck I just did 3 pushups a couple days ago which is 1 more than in the past year. Sigh.... the things we do for love......

[mr surveyor]

I remember a teacher in grade school that said something about your heart only having so many beats available for your lifetime... so I figure why waste any?

[MW surveyor]

Thanks for posting Tinman!

OL - I was saved by actual rain today!!!!!!

See, I knew he wouldn't forget. What with us sending out subtle hints!

[Barth]

Super busy implementing 2yr long ERP system at work this weekend. Bla
Got ammo and grips for the S&W 629 to shoot next week.
Storm Lake has my OEM P220/45 barrel and their dual ported wamma jamma.
Should have that back to shoot soon.
My triple ported Bar-Sto for the P239/357 should be finished later this month.
NFL starts soon Woo Hoo!!

I'm really trying hard to not buy any more guns this year.
I really mean it this time!!! (I hope...)

[MW surveyor]

No comment

Hope this works better than that horse.

[crazymailman]

Thank you Tinman! Great post

[wyntrout]

That Declaration thingy needs to be picked up and dusted off and then Obama's footprints scrubbed off. Then we need to make that declaration again with the same feelings as our forefathers... and foremothers did!

And, yes, thanks Tinman!

Wynn

[jeepster09]

Wearing hoodies.....

Peter is sitting at the Pearly Gates when two men wearing hoodies arrive.


St. Peter looked out through the Gates and said "Wait here. I will be right back."

St. Peter goes over to God's chambers and tells him who is waiting for entrance.

God says to Peter: "How many times do I have to tell you, you can't be racist and judgmental here. This is heaven. All are loved. All are brothers. Go back and let them in!"

St. Peter goes back to the Gates, looks around, and lets out a heavy sigh. He returns to God's chambers and says "Well, they're gone."

The guys wearing hoodies?" asked God.

"No. The Pearly Gates."

[OldLincoln]

Profiling!!!!!!

[muggsy]

Seems like this year is flying by, maybe life is flying by.

Anyhow this is the place for funny, clean, or just general discussion among friends.

We're closing in on election time, leave that someplace else PLEASE.

All good stuff here, help, ideas, family discussion.

Off color or unsuitable stuff will just disappear without notice. Kind of slows down this time of year as most are outside doing stuff with less time on the crystal ball and specifically Kahrtalk. Try to visit from time to time. Keep your friends and priorities straight.

I'm of to make sawdust. Finish some handles for Deacon today or tomorrow.

Peace out.

The older you are the faster time passes. It seems like just last week that I was nineteen. Of course the old woman that I'm married to says that I'm 66 going on 19. I'm thinking of becoming a curmudgeon like Jocko.

[muggsy]

I want to thank Chief Justice John Roberts for siding with the four liberals on the supreme court in deciding that it is constitutional for the federal government to tax the people of the United States for not doing something. By doing so he removed any illusion that we might have held that we live in a free country. We now live in Obama's socialist utopia. It is my sincere hope that the Chief Justice suffers a protracted and agonizing death under that very same federally controlled medical system that he held to be legal.

[Planedude]

I kind of thought Obumma has hit the Demmy trifecta...
He has created a new avenue for Taxing me.
He plans to Spend my tax dollors like my piggy bank will never run dry.
And
He has created a giant new Bureaucracy dept I never wanted.

His place in history is assured.