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July 4th parade

MoxieNox — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:27:36 GMT

4th of July parade on Broward Boulevard, Plantation, South Florida. My family enjoyed sitting and watching the parade go by. Even though it was a scorching and hot morning, it was wonderful to see the patriotic spirit in the air. Happy Birthday, America!

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unclaimed — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:13:44 GMT

Photo of ocracoke island firework explosion. Taken over looking harbor close to the ferry docks by Joseph Chestnut. Alltel has no control over, and is not responsible for, the content or use of this picture or the accompanying personal message.

Happy Birthday and Thanks!

kbrown0419 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:12:26 GMT

Love you pops!

July 4th celebration in Baton Rouge

unclaimed — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:45:44 GMT

July 4th picture of my yellow lab puppy ready for the Star Spangled Celebration on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, LA. Current time in Baton Rouge 9:40 am central time, 85 degrees. Temps expected near 100. http://www.ireport.com/mailto:Ireport@cnn Finding the best videos just got easier. Try the NEW Truveo.com .

A moment in time Sonora, CA July 3 2009

mrtopproduce — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:27:33 GMT

4th of July will be spent being close to home travels with my camera, Sonora, CA. July 4th weekend.

Sonora is located 125 miles East of San Francisco in the California Mother Lode or Gold Country

Independence Day in the Yards of America

ahknaten — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:12:25 GMT

As our neighbours to the north just celebrated their Canada Day a few days ago (see http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-289564 )

, many in the cities and yards of America will celebrate Independence Day today. =)

The photo, taken July 3rd of a family in Saline, Michigan... celebrating July 4th.

-kai

Happy 4th of July and a Reminder

MarieSager — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:12:25 GMT

The Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds 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 to 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 shown 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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration 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 legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to 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 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 benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring 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 in 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, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and 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 endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is 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 attention 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 the 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.

Signed by the following:

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Photo by Marie Sager (downtown LA)

4th of July we started early

ky42 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:12:31 GMT

4th of July we started early here are some pictures.

Sarah Palin RESIGNS!

ReallyRick — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:32:31 GMT

The Republican party continues its collapse as Gov. Sarah Palin resigns in hopes of running for President in 2012. What a JOKE!

Rick Seno

Chicago, Il

http://www.youtube.com/ReallyRick

Palin QUITS!

kbrown0419 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:12:27 GMT

I smell scandal...

GOP:Another One Bites the Dust! Governor Sarah Palin to Step Down From Office!

davidjw — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:57:25 GMT

Is this the same person that asked the American People to trust her with the office of Vice President, placing her a heart beat away from the presidency? Whoa!!!

What is going on with the GOP brand? It seems with every passing week another high profile republican is getting in over his or now, her head in the national media.

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, has decided to step down as governor and not seek re-election for her office... Are we americans missing something here?

What is the impetus behind this decision?

We hope that it is not any health problems.
At the same time, the American people are intrigued...

Who will be next to be annointed perspective leader of the GOP that will not fall flat on their face?

New Colorado Gambling Law

videodoc — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:02:25 GMT

A new law in Colorado is permitting high stakes gambling in the state's casinos. The law went into effect July 2.