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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
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Thanks, Beach.
She brought down the house back then, didn't she.
Bobby just "jacked" her all up. sad.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
"For god's sake you're a bishop!"
"There is no god....."
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Bump. :)
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:)
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God Bless America.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
OMG THAT WAS INCREDIBLE, I WAS JUST REMINDED OF HOW AWESOME THAT WAS.
Thanks for posting that!
The crowd there must have known at that point (with the extremely loud cheering) they heard the greatest version ever sung.
AMAZING!
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OMG THAT WAS INCREDIBLE, I WAS JUST REMINDED OF HOW AWESOME THAT WAS.
Thanks for posting that!
The crowd there must have known at that point (with the extremely loud cheering) they heard the greatest version ever sung.
AMAZING!
:) No problem mang. Happy 4th.
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I posted this before but I thougth it was kind of a neat letter so I post it again here. Cool bit of history, if anyone has anything else that puts a cool historical perspective on today, please post away.
To Abigail:
Had a declaration of independence been made seven months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious effects. We might, before this hour, have formed alliance with foreign states. We should have mastered Quebec, and been in possession of Canada. . . . . . . . . But, on the other hand, the delay of this declaration to this time has many great advantages attending it. The hopes of reconciliation which were fondly entertained by multitudes of honest an well meaning, though shortsighted and mistaken people, have been gradually, and at last totally, extinguished. Time has been given for the whole people maturely to consider the great question of independence, and to ripen their judgment, dissipate their fears, and allure their hopes, by discussing it in newspapers and pamphlets – by debating it in assemblies, conventions, committees of safety and inspection – in town and country meetings, as well as in private conversations; so that the whole people, in every colony, have now adopted it as their own act. This will cement the union, and avoid those heats, and perhaps convulsions, which might have been occasioned by such a declaration six months ago.
But the day is past. The second day of July, 1776, will be memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the great Anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever.
You will think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.
John Adams
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I posted this before but I thougth it was kind of a neat letter so I post it again here. Cool bit of history, if anyone has anything else that puts a cool historical perspective on today, please post away.
To Abigail:
Had a declaration of independence been made seven months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious effects. We might, before this hour, have formed alliance with foreign states. We should have mastered Quebec, and been in possession of Canada. . . . . . . . . But, on the other hand, the delay of this declaration to this time has many great advantages attending it. The hopes of reconciliation which were fondly entertained by multitudes of honest an well meaning, though shortsighted and mistaken people, have been gradually, and at last totally, extinguished. Time has been given for the whole people maturely to consider the great question of independence, and to ripen their judgment, dissipate their fears, and allure their hopes, by discussing it in newspapers and pamphlets – by debating it in assemblies, conventions, committees of safety and inspection – in town and country meetings, as well as in private conversations; so that the whole people, in every colony, have now adopted it as their own act. This will cement the union, and avoid those heats, and perhaps convulsions, which might have been occasioned by such a declaration six months ago.
But the day is past. The second day of July, 1776, will be memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations, as the great Anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever.
You will think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not.
John Adams
Hugo, you think John Adams would be proud of America today?
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Happy 4th bitches, I dont care whether you agree with where the country is as a whole right now or not set it aside and appreciate it for what it is. Happy 4th brothers I hope you had as good a day as I did and are as thankful as I am.
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Beautiful day. Good food. Great country. :)
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I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend. I'm still celebrating. :)
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I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend. I'm still celebrating. :)
Love that song. Thanks for posting. :)
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Bump! Happy Fourth! :)
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Happy Fourth gents.....say a prayer for our marines who are conducting combat operations right now.
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Bless America! 8)
<for obvious reason..i leave out the word God>
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Allah be praised.....
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Allah be praised.....
No Allah either...
hi my "pakistani" Marine friends say hi! ;)
one of em teaches some kinda combate= training...i think ..or something like that...i zone him out when he starts on his marine talk
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Tony: 10
Jag: -100
Jag, you truly are an ignorant bitch. Don't come onto this board and say that that flag is just a piece of cloth. That flag means more to me than you ever could...it's the flag that was the inspiration for our national anthem since I obviously have to educate you. That flag actually stands for something unlike you.
For my fellow patriots:
If it doesn't work just copy and paste.
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smile guys.. i love this country :D
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:) Reminds of the boot camp scenes from Full Metal Jacket.
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God bless all those brave men and women, past and present, who have served and are serving this great country.
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To all of our getbiggers, including the one(s) I continually butt heads with, thanks for your service to our country!
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Bump. :)
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yes yes happy 4th brohams...eat some bbq and drink some beer and enjoy living in the greatest country in the world
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Bump. :)
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Bump. :)
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Bump. :)
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Bump. :)
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
From right around 1900, when globalists started to envision and plot.
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Get out and vote ladies and gents. Exercise one of the important rights this great country has to offer.
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Bump. Happy Fourth. :)
Gallup: 9 in 10 Americans 'Proud' of Their Country
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Friday, 03 Jul 2015
Americans are mostly quite happy to call the United States their home, but the number of people who are "extremely proud" dropped a bit this year, according to a new Gallup poll.
The annual survey, conducted in June and released this week, shows that the number of Americans who are "extremely proud" dropped to 54 percent from 57 percent in 2013, reports Politico.
Still, "patriotism is still very alive in the United States," the poll revealed, as more than nine in 10 people are at least reasonably proud of their country. In addition to the 54 percent mentioned above, 27 percent of those surveyed said they are "very proud" and 14 percent said they are "moderately proud" — compared to just 4 percent saying they are "only a little proud," and just 1 percent saying they are "not proud at all."
Southerners, Republicans and people 65 and older were the ones who felt more extreme pride at being American, the poll said, showing that 68 percent of Republicans are extremely proud, compared to 47 percent of Democrats. Further, 61 percent of those in Southern states were shown to feel extreme pride, in comparison with 55 percent in the Midwest, 50 percent in the East, and 46 percent in the West.
The pride levels peaked in the United States in 2003, when 70 percent of Americans said they were extremely proud.
According to Gallup, the numbers of "extremely proud" Americans are at about where they were in early 2001, before the 9/11 terror attacks.
The current numbers are almost about the same as the 55 percent recorded 15 years ago as Bill Clinton's presidency was coming to an end.
"This indicates that patriotism is not necessarily a fixed characteristic, but can vary depending on circumstances — most notably when the U.S. is under duress, as was the case after the events of 9/11 and the build-up to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq," Gallup reported.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gallup-poll-patriotism-july-4/2015/07/03/id/653378/#ixzz3eqvA7F4h
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I think more politicians should sing american songs and break into tears. Totally believable.
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Bump. :)
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When 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 harrass 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 benefits 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 Brittish 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.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
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
Column 4
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
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
&guy Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
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:o Outstanding.
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Bump. :) Happy Independence Day.
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Happy Independence Day - or, as some may call it, the original Brexit! I'll pass on the God bit.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
Bump. God Bless America.
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Happy Independence Day everyone
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Bump. Thank you to all of those who have served, past and present.
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Great post and details about the first declaration and the list who signed it.
As most here know, I'm proud of being a US Marine.
BUT, never having served in combat, makes me humble .
I think of men like my dear ol' dad, who served in WWII as a Gunners Mate in the Navy.
His crew actually served under fire against desperate kama-kazi pilots. He also served in Korera.
I was just plain lucky and enlisted at the right time period .
For those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice, I have the deepest respect.
You did more than Trump or any of his kids ever did
Compare that to someone like McCain or I don't know, lets say Robert Mueller
Both were decorated combat vets
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Great post and details about the first declaration and the list who signed it.
As most here know, I'm proud of being a US Marine.
BUT, never having served in combat, makes me humble .
I think of men like my dear ol' dad, who served in WWII as a Gunners Mate in the Navy.
His crew actually served under fire against desperate kama-kazi pilots. He also served in Korera.
I was just plain lucky and enlisted at the right time period .
For those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice, I have the deepest respect.
Doesn't matter.
You enlisted, and THAT is admirable.
I respect you for that...
but, I'll still give you shit about other things!
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You did more than Trump or any of his kids ever did
Compare that to someone like McCain or I don't know, lets say Robert Mueller
Both were decorated combat vets
Straw, all due respect:
Obama never served, either.
I'm not claiming that means anything either way.
But, I suspect we will see more instances of this as we move into future generations.
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Doesn't matter.
You enlisted, and THAT is admirable.
I respect you for that...
but, I'll still give you shit about other things!
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Exactly. He volunteered to make the sacrifice if he was called for it
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Exactly. He volunteered to make the sacrifice if he was called for it
Correct.
Chaos, YOU know how I feel about Veterans...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RD89FJ8uync/UaOKcnGfzsI/AAAAAAAAEsE/cQwJavECqSc/s1600/294752_580120098688597_1488789336_n.jpg)
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Yessir 8)
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Straw, all due respect:
Obama never served, either.
I'm not claiming that means anything either way.
But, I suspect we will see more instances of this as we move into future generations.
Neither did Bill or Hillary Clinton.
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Neither did Bill or Hillary Clinton.
That is correct.
It's okay to point out Trump's lack of service, but - if you do - you must also acknowledge the others' as well.
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Neither did Bill or Hillary Clinton.
And they are the real warmungers, unlike Trump who is fighting for America's interests peacefully via tariffs, reaching out to N. Korea, strengthening the US military (a war deterrent), getting out of one-sided deals with other nations, etc.
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Howard, thank you for your service!
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Howard, thank you for your service!
YES!!!
GOD BLESS ALL OF OUR VETERANS!!!!
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Is it true that Whitney Houston lip-synced the anthem?
A great rendition nevertheless.
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Is it true that Whitney Houston lip-synced the anthem?
A great rendition nevertheless.
I'm okay with that.
Why chance a botch?
Regardless of her motives, at least she appeared for the event.
I still couldn't care less about her, though.
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I'm okay with that.
Why chance a botch?
Regardless of her motives, at least she appeared for the event.
I still couldn't care less about her, though.
She hasn't put out a CD in years.
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She hasn't put out a CD in years.
That bitch.
:D
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Word. Chicken skin. God Bless America.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
Bump. :) Happy Independence Day and God Bless America.
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GOD BLESS AMERICA & Donald TRUMP
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God bless America, those who love it, and God bless President Donald Trump!!!!
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
Bump. God Bless the Greatest Country on Earth. Happy Belated Independence Day.
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Bob, how is The Demented doin' in Afghanistan,Syria/Libya :P :-[ :-\
In the good old days, USA use to be #.1 !.
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Bob, how is The Demented doin' in Afghanistan,Syria/Libya :P :-[ :-\
In the good old days, USA use to be #.1 !.
for you short attention span types scroll to the 30 second mark and tell me if you don't keep watching
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for you short attention span types scroll to the 30 second mark and tell me if you don't keep watching
Why should I watched some stupid videos posted by you or funk , BoB people in other countries don't give a piss about CNN shit !.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
Bump. God Bless America.
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God Bless America. I've been listening to the pre-crack version of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner. It is the greatest version of all time IMO. I get chicken skin every single time I listen to it. Thank you men and women in uniform for your service.
Enjoy: :)
Bump. God Bless America. :)
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I'm baked! God bless all you faggits.
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StrawBob still banned?? He must have done some weird PEDO shit or something.
He and Prime ass-fucking each other while crying about TDS??
Dems do some twisted/perverted shit. (Like suck a cock while your wife is on her death bed)...