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This 4th of July: Requiem for Freedoms Long Gone?

Guest Post by Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt

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Marinate those ribs, ice the beer, and get the fireworks ready so we can revel in the red, white, and blue. Let’s raise our collective glasses today to the bold few who spoke on our behalf more than 200 years ago.

Thomas Jefferson’s inspired words live on: “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.”

Can you imagine how electric the atmosphere must have been on that steamy summer day when the Founders, having agreed to the brave separation from the British Crown on July 4, 1776 – committed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to each other as 51 of the 56 signers executed the Declaration of Independence.

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Remembering Our Independence

Guest Post by Eric Peters

This weekend marks another 4th of July, the day marking the announcement by representatives of the American states that they were seceding from the British empire. It is impolitic to mention that fact nowadays.

It does not make it less a fact, of course.

Nor less sound, as an idea.

Secession is nothing more than parting ways – peacefully, ideally – from those who do not share your point of view. We secede in this manner, on an individual basis, in everyday life all the time. We hang out with, date and even marry people with whom we have common interests and goals. Because we like them – and because we want to.

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LATER TODAY

After all of the anarchist TBPers have assembled at Hardscrabble’s farm today to celebrate our right to freedom of expression, drink some beer and eat a newly slaughtered pig, will our friendly neighborhood totalitarian government enforcers join us? Serving and protecting is what they do. The great July 4th  barbecue insurrection could be as bad as the January 6th Selfie insurrection. Happy Independence Day!!!!

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HERD IMMUNITY

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

We just wrapped up the sugaring season, our tenth one. Now that all the syrup is made, we’ll start to pull taps and flush lines, clean up the evaporator and restock wood for next year. There will be a couple of days of power washing and scrubbing, hiking back up into the maple orchard and walking back out again at the end of the day. We’ll have to work with the weather to catch the right mix of the warm sunny days to wash and dry hundreds of buckets, lids, and spiles and scrub the out the totes before we put them back in storage until next year.

It was a so-so year for production but the quality was as good as anything we have ever made. The time up in the sugarbush between the end of January when we started clearing out the deadwood and repairing broken lines and first run in early March was an opportunity to reflect on the past year. That’s one of the advantages of living in tune with the seasons, the ability to apprehend both the passage of time outside of man-made means. I watched as my sons took on ever more responsibility this season, carrying the tool bags slung over their shoulders, both of them taller than they were last year, their hair down to their shoulders now.

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FUCK BIDEN

INDEPENDENCE

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

For most of June the weather was hot and dry. All of the gains we’d made with the hayfields slowly dissipated until the grass was gold and brittle. We had to bring the herds in from pasture and put them back on bales much to their disappointment. We continued to irrigate the gardens, rotate the turkeys and chickens onto new grass twice a day and make do with the circumstances that Nature provided. We dug the water lines for the new greenhouse, a two-day affair to get down below the frost line through a maze of buried boulders and into the space where we’d soon be able to grow our own food during the Winter as well.

With the 4th of July rapidly approaching we spent every extra hour trying to make order out of the piles of accumulated materials, the ricks of firewood and stacks of pallets, the 3/4 crushed gravel for the new road, fence palings and windrows of compost so that the farm looked good for the shindig we’d planned. My son’s friends came up and helped with the slaughter and the harvest, my neighbors prepared side dishes, and we built the pit to roast the meats and stacked the wood for the bonfire in the center of the paddock. Then, with only a few days to go, the skies darkened and the rain returned once again to green up the fields in the nick of time.

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With Fireworks Canceled, Americans Celebrate By Firing Their Many, Many Guns In The Air

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S.—With fireworks displays around the country canceled due to COVID, millions of Americans have resorted to celebrating American independence by firing their obscene numbers of firearms into the sky in defiance of tyranny.

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How to Celebrate July 4 Without Getting Canceled for Glorifying White Supremacy

Submitted by RiNS

Via The Washington Free Beacon

The United States of America turns 244 this weekend. Normally that would be cause for celebration, but not anymore, now that the prevailing cultural sentiment demands that athletes issue statements to explain why they didn’t take a knee during the national anthem.

If you plan on celebrating—or even acknowledging—the signing of the Declaration of Independence, an archaic and confusing document that promotes violence, please be mindful not to invite cancellation by “glorifying white supremacy.”

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Ghosts of the Fourth

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Here in the Battenkill Valley in far upstate New York, the bones of the small towns are still visible while the flesh of the economy that built the towns is now long gone. The Battenkill River runs from the other side of the Vermont line across Washington County to the Hudson River. It’s a swift, clear stream, and back-in-the-day it powered dozens of little factories along its winding way. They made men’s shirts, women’s lingerie, tea trays, ploughs, rye thrashers, boots, paper, and lots more. In a few places you can still find the ruins of these once-grand buildings.

Ruins of the Baxter Marble Mill, later the Bartlett All-Steel Scythe Company

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The Campus Social Justice Warrior’s Guide To Celebrating The Fouth Of July

Authored by Daniel Payne via TheCollegeFix.com,

First of all, don’t actually ‘celebrate’ it…

If you’re woke, then the Fourth of July can be a very triggering “holiday.” After all, it’s the celebration of the founding of the United States of America—a genocidal, colonialist, imperialist warmongering nation that, to this day, doesn’t even guarantee free health care and free condoms for everyone.

It’s possible that you’re marking this year’s Fourth all alone: Many of you may have chosen to remain on campus over the summer rather than return home to your close-minded, ultra-right-wing fascist families, the ones who drink nonorganic dairy milk and who can’t even be bothered to attend any anti-sweatshop protests throughout the year. If that’s the case, then here is a handy guide for “celebrating” the Fourth on your own:

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