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Normally I would take an oped from this mornings New York Times and the error of their ways but I figured I would look at the one published on our nations birthday to see what they wrote.
This is the second lead OPED from three days ago "Every Ordinary Fourth" is the title.
It begins "Here we are in the high seas of summer, rounding the corner called the Fourth of July. Most years, it seems, we barely get a glimpse of it before changing tack and sailing on toward all those months that end in “ber.” It would be nice to anchor here, to stretch the day into a week or a month, to see what the waves wash up and to learn the tides before the current carries us away.Do we, as a nation, eat more hot dogs on July Fourth than any other day of the year? What about potato salad and deviled eggs? Are there still legions of children hand-cranking ice cream, watching the pale gray slurry of rock salt and ice with appalling impatience while the grown-ups stand by recalling their own apprenticeship at the crank? This is a day for the historical re-enactment of Fourth of Julys past, if only the ones we remember from childhood. In a way, that is the point of fireworks in the dark, to recapture a childlike sense of awe and surprise. We watch with our reflexes, vulnerable to the boom and sizzle in the night sky.
Wow the NYT waxing in a poetic fashion this is a first.
It continues "There is something self-evident about the Fourth of July. We know its origin and its meaning. Its iconography is straightforward, even if the text behind it — the Declaration — is complex. It retains a simplicity that resembles no other major holiday. It celebrates a vital principle, but it is lacking in rites and ritual. We set aside the day, which seems to include a bit of everything — family, patriotism, parades, and simply doing nothing. Yet you could say its significance can be found in the doings of any ordinary American day — something that’s all too easy to forget until July Fourth comes along as a reminder.
Here we go it is not complex the Declaration of Independence you make it that way you morons at the NYT editorial board because you all don't understand or give a dam about what it means.
Again it celebrates a vital principal but it is lacking in rites and ritual because you idiots embrace political liberal/socialism with the far left in this country for so long you dumb asses at the NYT which has nothing whatsoever to do with our nation or it's founding principals and even what our God Blessed founders believed in.
It continues "There is something self-evident about the Fourth of July. We know its origin and its meaning. Its iconography is straightforward, even if the text behind it — the Declaration — is complex. It retains a simplicity that resembles no other major holiday. It celebrates a vital principle, but it is lacking in rites and ritual. We set aside the day, which seems to include a bit of everything — family, patriotism, parades, and simply doing nothing. Yet you could say its significance can be found in the doings of any ordinary American day — something that’s all too easy to forget until July Fourth comes along as a reminder.
Here we go it is not complex the Declaration of Independence you make it that way you morons at the NYT editorial board because you all don't understand or give a dam about what it means.
Again it celebrates a vital principal but it is lacking in rites and ritual because you idiots embrace political liberal/socialism with the far left in this country for so long you dumb asses at the NYT which has nothing whatsoever to do with our nation or it's founding principals and even what our God Blessed founders believed in.
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