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I demand that a REAL July 4th thread be posted instead of this hijacked MrFun thread with an agenda. 
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"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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Originally posted by mrmitchell
What MrFun's beloved Union did to Atlanta
The tragedy of total war, unfortunately. Sometimes a positive victory for a great cause comes with a high cost -- look at World War II.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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For instance, some people still argue to this day that we should not have nuked part of Japan in the final days of World War II.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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And here's to our kick-ass revolution that let the world know that "divine right of monarchs" was/is bullsh!t.
Is this like those people who say Columbus discovered the world was round?
Divine right of monarches was an outdated concept by the 1700s. You know, this thing called the Reformation happened?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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The concept was still alive and well during most of the 18th century, Imran. I assume you mean the Enlightenment as opposed to the Reformation? The US was the first government to be structured along the ideals of the Enlightenment.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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No big deal. Atlanta is a city that tears itself down every 20-odd years anyway. Grant just hastened the next revitalization.Originally posted by mrmitchell
What MrFun's beloved Union did to Atlanta
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What the fine slaveholders and confederates of Gainsville, TX did in 1862 to suspected Unionists in a kangaroo court convened because a the common folk had the temerity to protest the slaveholders getting draft deferments. Google "Great Hanging" and Gainsville, TX. They were lauded for this mass lynching in the state - the high quality of confederate supporters.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
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France was an absolute monarchy before its own revolution happened in the 1780s and 1790s.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
And here's to our kick-ass revolution that let the world know that "divine right of monarchs" was/is bullsh!t.
Is this like those people who say Columbus discovered the world was round?
Divine right of monarches was an outdated concept by the 1700s. You know, this thing called the Reformation happened?
Prussia was also a monarchical state. Great Britain was the European nation that had a form of monarchical government that relied much less on the idea of "divine right of monarchs." But the "divine right of monarchs" existed through the 1830s.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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Happy Holidays to all
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"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
--The first modern general, the hero of Georgia ...
Union forever, hoorah, boys, hoorah!
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We in our household celebrate both of these days for others aside from the wars and such. but two days of no work is always good
When you find yourself arguing with an idiot, you might want to rethink who the idiot really is.
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That explains so much!He's actually Saturday Night Live's Debbie Downer!
Seriously though, Happy Independence Day!
Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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The United States
From the mountains....
...to the praries...
And the Oceans, white with Foam!
God Bless America, my home, sweet, Hooooome!Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Mrs TOriginally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
We in our household celebrate both of these days for others aside from the wars and such. but two days of no work is always good
I been working 88+ hours a week
I have 3 days off
this is Independance from my work being dependant on me
To one and all
enjoy
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I am seeing fireworks tonight.
Attached FilesA lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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