happy blow shit up day
I'm a huge dork and I downloaded the looong mp3 soundtrack that the City of Vancouver will be playing during the fireworks tonight. It started with something I'm pretty sure is the Olympic theme song, includes some kind of random oldies (Hit the Road, Jack...what?), that FUCKING GOD-AWFUL EMBARASSING PIECE OF SHIT SONG 'Proud to be American', a couple swing songs, old stuff like 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B', stuff like 'R-O-C-K In the U-S-A' and the E.T. theme and the Jurassic Park theme.
I swear to god, NOTHING on this planet makes me want to burn my passport and birth certificate and declare citizenship of Canada/Russia/Iran/France/WHATEVER faster than that fucking 'Proud to be an American' song. I usually plug my ears and start humming Oh Canada (the only other anthem I know) to avoid hitting something. Whoever wrote it should get sent to Iraq with insufficient body armor. It makes me ill.
Some words for you to ponder on this Independence Day:
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
One man with courage is a majority.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything.
-- Napolean Bonaparte
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself.
-- Ken Kesey
I swear to god, NOTHING on this planet makes me want to burn my passport and birth certificate and declare citizenship of Canada/Russia/Iran/France/WHATEVER faster than that fucking 'Proud to be an American' song. I usually plug my ears and start humming Oh Canada (the only other anthem I know) to avoid hitting something. Whoever wrote it should get sent to Iraq with insufficient body armor. It makes me ill.
Some words for you to ponder on this Independence Day:
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
One man with courage is a majority.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything.
-- Napolean Bonaparte
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
-- Edmund Burke
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself.
-- Ken Kesey