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Have a grumbly and dyspeptic 4th of July: anything else is a sign of treachery.
Same to you and yours, my friend.
I’m viewing this day in much the same light as my deceased daughter’s birthday. Then again, America isn’t quite over yet.
God bless you and all who sail in you.
Randy Barnett on the Declaration of Independence
Notice the word that’s missing (properly missing) in Barnett’s sweet account.
properly, sdferr?
Yeah, properly because it doesn’t belong.
why doesn’t it?
Bad link Red.
Red/leigh
I fixed the link
There’s a little extra in Red’s link. Here.
Well, the Declaration in particular — and the political philosophy of the founders in general — is an extremely beautiful, carefully thought out, coherently constructed, and if I may say, the single highest political achievement in the history of political thought, taken all in all. Any haphazard introduction of foreign terminology is, I think, to do injustice to the thing, analogously akin to a child set loose with tubes of color and brushes painting over a work of fine art on canvas.
This is merely on grounds of a serious consideration of the founders’ work.
We could also view the anachronistic importation of these foreign terms from the serious questions they raise independently and with which they contend as well. So we might see that making frivolous use of them does a similar injury to their unique point of view, resulting in a sort of two-fer: damage to the classical liberal stance and damage to the positivist stance, all in one. It’s just a bad and sloppy practice.
Sorry, html-fu weak at home. Thx all.
Thanks, Darleen.
Red, thanks for finding that. It’s very good and a good reminder to us all.
Barnett – optimism, leigh.
Roger Simon, on the other hand.
Another good, short, timely essay — Richard Samuelson at LibertyLawBlog: Taxation v. Regulation: A Revolutionary Question
Unfuckingbelievable! Check out Google’s Independence Day logo doodle. “This land was made for you and me” is stylized in red, white and blue into the Google logo. This, of course, is taken from This Land Is Your Land, by Woody Guthrie, a card carrying Communist.
“Happy Birthday, America! You suck!”
Here.
In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.
Switch to Bing, Pablo. I like it better than Google.
I did that ages ago, leigh. But the browser on my Droid defaults to Google.
Pablo:
I am sorry about your daughter, I had no idea.
Peace to your family is about as much as I can muster.
Thanks, Roddy. It’s been quite some time and we’ve learned to carry on. A little one never really leaves you though.
– The same from my family to yours Pablo, and a happy forth to all you nice people (Even you Darleen ………just kidding :) )
BBH
You’re incorrigible … but would have you any other way! :-)
Beethoven salutes America.
Okay, he didn’t, but just pretend it’s My Country ’tis of Thee.
Google *always* passive-aggresses on pro-American holidays. *Always*.
Well, when they don’t ignore them, that is.
It’s daddy issues 24/7 for the left (and they are *profoundly* left).
I go here sometimes it’s just down the way in this kinda neat block or three of shoppings but I never been shot to death there before… it’s owned by some wing-loving harvard trash lawyer dude – you know, kinda like John Roberts except with tasty wings. You may remember we talked about this place here.
also Johnnie L. Cochran is involved
I’m rather shocked that they mentioned, straight up, that the shooters were black guys and that the now dead cook was hispanic.
I’ve gotten annoyed when food is taking too long to get served, but I’ve never shot anyone over it. Especially over wings, for pete’s sake.
wings are a very very high-margin item
i read that somewhere on the internet but I can’t remember where
I go here sometimes
black on hispanic or maybe white hispanic. the commie demonrats are pushing their little brown ones to bonerfag’s party
Wings are marketing magic for restaurants. They used to be trimmed off chicken carcasses and used for stock until someone thought of battering them and tossing them in the fryer. Viola! A new greasy bar food is born.
The same is true of potato skins.
My heart goes out to Guadalupe, what with the 5 mouths to feed. But son Melesio looks like he would make a fine roofer someday.
But son Melesio looks like he would make a fine roofer someday.
yea maybe he owns the company.
But son Melesio looks like he would make a fine roofer someday.
them wetbacks do fast work dontcha know.
Little by little, the home of the brave and the land of the free has become a nation of rent-seeking dependents clamoring for their share of state largess. Even before the latest entitlement blowout called Obamacare, we crossed the line where more than half of Americans receive some kind of assistance from the government every month, paid for by the fewer than half that still pay income taxes. As we move into the future and the number of dependents grows while the taxpayer pool shrinks, we call the result social justice rather than its old name: theft.
Our forefathers shed blood rather than render unto King George. Yet today we madly mortgage our nation’s future to foreign powers, piling debt upon debt without limit or thought as to how it will be repaid. These debts ensnare our children and grandchildren even as we stop having them, confident in the knowledge that the government will take care of us in our old age, so why bother with the trouble and expense?
If we were still a nation capable of shame with enough intellectual integrity to call things as they are, if we hadn’t debauched our language as badly as our currency, if we had the courage to look in the mirror and see how woefully we have squandered our Founders’ legacy, this Fourth of July would be a day not of celebration but of atonement.*
Emphasis mine, but RTWT.
– potato skins. My son and I make them with a mixture of cheese. red and green peppers, sauteed onions and mushrooms, and chopped smoked and grilled bacon pieces. Did I mention lots of cheese, baked then fire flashed to give the cheese that slightly roasted golden crust.
– To die for.
“Happy Birthday, America! You suck!”
Well the US is giving Google hell about their advertising methods right now… they are the new high tech whipping boy (like Microsoft used to be for bundling apps like browsers and media players with their OS).
– PBS is doing its annual faux tribute to America. Its a wonder that the front row of NRO types don’t barf in their champagne.
– But then they’re still doing their perpetual funding drive, so they need to put on a happy face.
– I truly hope that prick Roberts is enjoying his down the rabbit hole vacation in Malta.
Pablo, that Forbes article is one of the most honest assessments of modern America, outside of places like PW.
Sadly.
Gird your loins. It’s going to take something extreme or a collapse and re-build, to reverse this. Pain involved, either way.
From the Wiki on This Land Is Your Land:
Happy B-day America.
On the bright side, the left’s tank is running on recycled and discredited ideas (in other words – it’s magazine is empty)
SO KEEP FIRING PEOPLE!!!
This land ain’t your land,
this land is MY land.
I’ve got a shotgun,
and you don’t got one.
I’ll blow yer head off,
if you don’t get off.
This land
is private property!
I want BBH’s potato skin recipe.
~ Twice cooked 4th of July Potato Skins ~
( mult. 2 full potatos per person – serves 4 halves each) Recipe assumes 8 potatos. Adjust measures as neccessary.
– Select medium to large Russet potatos, wash in cold water and de-eye, but do not skin.
– Pre-bake on a cookie sheet for 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees in a bottom heat oven. If you use top heat set at 325 to avoid over drying.
– Remove and let cool.
– Slice each potatos in half legthwise.
– Carefully spoon out the innards and ‘coarse’ mash in a bowl, set shells and mash aside.
– French 1 large red, and 1 large green bell pepper.
– Fine slice 1 sweet onion and 8 button mushrooms
– Precook 6 slices (2 rashers) of thick cut, smoked bacon until just rubbery. Remove from heat, allow to cool, and dice.
– In a large sauce pan with 1/16 inch deep EVOO and a 2 tablespoons of melted butter, sautee over high heat turning with a cooking fork often, red and green peppers, onions, mushrooms and bacon pieces , until onions are well caramelized and slightly scorched.
– Remove from heat and drain liquid from sauce pan and allow to partially cool.
– dice 12 2×2 cheese slices or use 3 cups of shredded mild cheddar.
– Carefully fold contents of sauce pan into coarse mash, along with 1/3 of cheese bits.
– Repack shells by spooning in the mixture and top each one generously with remaining cheese bits.
– Brush each top with clearified butter if desired and lightly dust with with a pinch of papareka, pepper ,and sea salt.
– Rebake each shell for 15 minutes at 350.
– Move shells close to top burner and flash heat for 2 to 4 minutees with oven set on broil, or until cheese is slightly golden and crusted.
– Best served hot, but may be reheated.
– Serve with sour cream, or fresh Salsa.
Done and done.
Many thanks. I’ll be making those sometime soon.
You ever try finishing ’em in a grill instead of running them through the oven a second time?
I was going to suggest that, but you have to really sit on them if you go that route because temp control can be trickey, but yes, I actually do it that way sometimes.
I’ll admit, I don’t feel very independency these days.
More like we traded King George for King Obama, ELECT ROMNEY, LONG LIVE THE KING!
– You can make the shells and misture the night before and let them set overnight covered in the fridge, finishing them the next day on the grill as desired. Let them get back to something close to room temp so it doesn’t throw off your cooking times to much.
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