Happy 4Th July, America

[WELSHYORKIE]

Happy 4th July to all our American cousins - y'all have a good day now -

[Dee Sa]

oh dear welshie saw this thread and by mistake have sent someone in the USA a thanksgiving card by mistake ! what a prat !

[cupid04]

I might celebrate...can't make up my mind between Macdonald's or Kentucky...

[whirlyhurly]

It's time to get some Mississippi mud pie, or perhaps a New York cheesecake, both delicious.

[Clanad]

Personally, I'm thanking "Mother England", since she was the source of most of the laws and customs that gave rise to our early country. Too bad she didn't listen to the complaints from the colonists, ("Taxation without representation", comes to mind) else we would be thinking about what's for tea this afternoon rather than looking to which fireworks display would be most entertaining… after stuffing ones self at the BBQ table…

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...

[WELSHYORKIE]

Give Dee best answer because she made me laugh for ages. Quite fancied a Kentucky followed by a New York but that would leave me in a state....

[Dee Sa]

thank you welshie x