HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FOR USA

[Rumba Rue]

Smile and enjoy the holiday!

[Tartan Jack]

It's the first.

A bit early? :angry:

BUT, on this day, 1 July in 1782, the 1746 act banning the wearing of tartan clothing and belted plaid was repealed. It was part of the 1746 Act of Proscription, following the last Jacobite Rebellion. :angry:

On July 4th, I'll celebrate the passage and signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when the American Colonies went "renegade" . . . :angry:

(I'll wear my American Bicentennial tartan kilt to remember both events.)

[Red-Handed Jill]

Canada Day is today - so happy Canada Day, eh?

[hurricane]

This is our 4th of July. Mannie here will be enduring several rounds of 62 caliber lead this weekend. We will post shots of him after we blast him into oblivion (but not the hat Stynky sent to Diosa, which he is wearing).

-- Hurricane

Edited July 1, 2009 by hurricane

[CaptainSatan]

He must be British. Here in the States we have the right to bear arms (lol)!

Edited July 1, 2009 by CaptainSatan

[Kian McBrian]

WoW...that was pretty good lol

So what does everyone have planned for this upcoming 4th?

I know I am plannign on having a mini event with me crew...PC encampment...with some modern day fun thrown in...like fireworks...although i am hoping that we should have some black powder going off as well!! Its almost like a test run for the lockhouse nextweekend...should be fun :angry:

[hurricane]

He must be British. Here in the States we have the right to bear arms (lol)!

Danged funny. Wish I would have thought of it. Good show!!!!

-- Hurricane

[LadyBrower]

Happy Canada Day!

As Kian said, we are having a mini encampment at someone's house... And celebrating me and hubby's 2 year anniversary! (yes, ironic I know... to be married on Independence day!)

I think someone mentioned cake....

[Kian McBrian]

The Cake is a Lie!!!!!

[Commodore Swab]

Im laid up but hope to be on my feet and hobbling around by the fourth. Ive got a couple charges rolled and plan on rolling quite a few more. I plan on taking my cannon out and making some noise, if Im on land maybe I can convince my buddy who has the same piece to join me. Both are little bronze guns using the Viceroy's pattern with a 1 inch bore and make a nice bang.

[Tartan Jack]

I think someone mentioned cake....

The Cake is a Lie!!!!!

Rum cake?

- With rum on the side, rather than WASTED in cooking . . .

[Joe Pyrat]

Well, a belated happy Canada day!

With luck, I'll be visiting Lulu's in Gulf Port (Jimmy Buffett's sisters place on my way back to Saint Augustine on the 4th.

[Ransom]

Gosh, I'm doing something so mundane...

Pot luck BBQ at a friend's house, who lives on the Rogue River, probably some swimming in their pool, maybe a mad game of water volley ball, and fireworks. We also stand on their terrace, wine glasses in hand, and wave at the jet boat tours as they go by. Very funny to have 45 people in a big jet boat waving back at you as they whiz down the river.

[Graydog]

I see BBQ's and such for a traditional 4th. However, if you are in So Cal and looking for a non-traditional 4th, there is a Fourth of July Pirate event.

From the No Quarter Given website events page:

July 4th & 5th, 2009: PIRATE FEST IN THE CANYON

The San Fernando Valley, Chatsworth, CALIFORNIA

This is a benefit for Browns Canyon in Chatsworth CA. It is at the top of Desoto Ave and was heavily damaged by the Season Fire. Celebrate & experience the days of yore when, Swashbucklers, Rogues, & Pirates sailed The Seven Seas & roamed the world in search of Treasure & Grand Adventure. A Brand new Pirate Fest Located in the San Fernando Valley in Browns Creek Park.

SLIGHT ADDRESS CHANGE: New Address is 10897 Old Santa Susana Rd., Chatsworth, CA 91311. Take the 118 Fwy., off ramp exit is Topanga Canyon (NOT De Soto). Follow the signs.

10am - 7pm

ADMISSION One Day $15.00 Two Days $25.00. Kids 5-13yrs $5.00 Infants free.

Tent City Camping (new Price Coming Soon) or you can volunteer and get in for free, for more info call Dagger at 818-385-7014. We still need volunteers, food venders, & guilds.

Edited July 2, 2009 by Graydog

[CaptainSatan]

Damn the British (except for Peroshka, Nazi Steve, Chris B., Pete Townsend, and John Boorman) !

BANNED IN CHINA!

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 establishmen​t 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 accommodatio​n of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representati​on in the Legislature,​ a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortabl​e, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representati​ve 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 Naturalizati​on of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriatio​ns of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administrati​on 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 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 unacknowledg​ed 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 benefit 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 fundamentall​y 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 circumstance​s 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 insurrection​s amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguis​hed 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 British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantabl​e jurisdiction​ over us. We have reminded them of the circumstance​s 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 corresponden​ce. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinit​y. 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 Representati​ves 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.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusett​s:

John Hancock, Samuel 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

Edited July 4, 2009 by CaptainSatan

[Tartan Jack]

NOW, it is the correct day!

Happy Day of the American Colonies Declaring Independence!

(Even if it is post-GAOP and not PC . . . )

[Tartan Jack]

Damn the British (except for Peroshka, Nazi Steve, Chris B., Cat Carlton, Pete Townsend, and John Boorman) !

What about Foxe and the other Brits and Scots on here . . . ?

[LadyBarbossa]

HUZZAH!!!!!

:::Fires off carbine in a salute::::

Fabulous posting of the Declaration, Satan. Doth m' eyes see right? T'day be yo'r Birthday? Original beloved son of Uncle Sam ye be, aye?

To all m' fellow Rev War reenactors out there... Huzzah and kudos to ye for keepin' alive the war that created this nation.

May all ye have a blessed and fabulous 4th.

~Lady B

[CaptainSatan]

Damn the British (except for Peroshka, Nazi Steve, Chris B., Cat Carlton, Pete Townsend, and John Boorman) !

What about Foxe and the other Brits and Scots on here . . . ?

Well......as long as they are not trying to tax us. I'm OK with the rest of the Brits on this board

Edited July 4, 2009 by CaptainSatan

[hurricane]

It's nice to see my 7th Great Grandfather honored -- Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire.

Now for some nonsense -- my overly complex but cool looking Pop Bottle Rocket Launcher in action.

Victory is Ours!

-- Hurricane

[Capn Bob]

I shall now...sing!

Lift up your hearts, my heroes,

And swear with proud disdain,

The wretch that would ensnare you

Shall spread his net in vain;

Should Europe empty all her force,

We'd meet them in array,

And shout huzza, huzza, huzza

For brave America.

And a toast of rum to Benjamin Curtiss, my very own Rev War ancestor

[ThomasBlackthorne]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!

I love today.

I'm not a huge patriot or anything, but this is a special day!

I love the boom-booms!

[oderlesseye]

We did the parade today In Mira Mesa San Diego Ca.. The Klingons and the Pirates..Eye were pulling along the mermaids.

A Ton of fun! We made for a great spectacle!

Happy 4th of July Mateys!

Edited July 5, 2009 by oderlesseye

[Sjöröveren]

Red Bess & I had one of the best Fourths that we've ever had. Nothing special - unless perfect weather, great food and watching the sky above one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes erupt in fireworks, with powder smoke swirling across the water, almost driving away the mosquitos - counts as something special. In my book, it certainly does! We are at RB's mother's place, our peaceful and beautiful home away from home.

Hope everyone had as perfect a holiday as we did!

[hurricane]

As promised, here's there results of our 4th of July. Mannie took about a dozen shots of lead from the crewe. Scary to think what these things would do against a real person. Mannie didn't look so good after eating that much lead.

-- Hurricane

Edited July 6, 2009 by hurricane