As always, I always put up a reminder for Americans to fly your flag on national holidays that are honoring our nation and those who served. Today is no exception.
Yes, that’s my electric car in the driveway.
In comments, some folks think the car is ugly or small, it is actually larger than a SmartCar. I’ll let you be the judge.
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Happy 4th July to all our US friends from here in the UK 🙂
Freedom of speech…
(Thanks, and happy 4th to you and your family, Anthony.)
At first glance I thought that was a SR 71 Blackbird in the background doing a fly by. Then I realized it was a different kind of bird taking off from your gutter.
Happy Independence Day to our American neighbours.
And might I suggest we pool our resources to buy Anthony the back end of that car?
Anthony!
Someone stole the rear end of your car!
………Happy Fourth to you and all 😉
Happy Independence Day to our great American neighbours to the south. As a Canadian, I can’t think of anyone I’d rather live next to. 🙂
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
– Winston Churchill
Look at the long bill on that UFO, hummingbird?
REPLY: Barn swallow, nested in my porch. I haven’t the heart to dislodge them – Anthony
So you are happy to live in a police state ? This is the land of the brave and the free.
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwvcpS5iLjI ]
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4 ]
Flying flags and pledging allegiance is one of those things I as a Brit never quite get….
Nice to see some comic relief. Paint the tires blue on the car, add a couple of stars, call it the Patriot or some other catchy name (that one has been used, I think) and sell a million of them. I might even buy one if it can get me to town and back to the country on a single charge.
Thanks, Anthony, mods, and all.
Flags are up at the end of the lane.
Happy 4th of July! I have to agree with jason twice over, though, as a German 😉
Happy Independence Day to Anthony and all our American friends from one of your many readers and admirers here in the UK.
What happened to the back half of that car? heh,heh
Saw 8 of your “birds” flyby me today. The Thunderbirds on their way south after performing at Waddington Airshow over the weekend and what a performance it was!
“Yes, that’s my electric car in the driveway.”
Wear a helmet, Anthony.
Do you take that thing to a bike shop to get new tires? My vehicular contribution to saving the planet is that my V8 can downgrade to a V4 when not in heavy use. Strangely..they dont give you the option to manually set it which makes no sense.
I was once asked by a young American lass, with whom I was on a date one summer’s eve two long decades ago, why we Canadians celebrate the 4th of July three days early.
If you are reading this Joelle, I hope you have a great BBQ, even if it is three days late!
Happy Fourth of July everyone. I know some of you aren’t Americans, but happy Independence Day anyway. It is my belief that America has been a huge positive force for good in the world, not perfect but clearly a net good.
Anthony don’t you feel squashed in that car? If not aren’t you afraid you will be squashed in that car?
I’m all for patriotism. In proper doses, it’s healthy. But I feel less and less proud of our once great country. I’m not so sure what we stand for anymore, except perhaps the almighty buck. Between the republicans absurd and transparent stand on refusing to raise taxes on those who can truly afford it, and the democrats laughable attachment to global warming and green jobs, I’m about ready to move to Canada.
Flag flying sir, in 104 degree measured ambient (as indictated on 2 different thermo’s here in N central Tejas) and a Happy 4th to all.
BTW, driving a WVO* powered 1981 MB 300TD (in-line 5 cylinder, turbo-charged) wagon for xportation these days …
WVO = waste veggio oil; filtered, de-sedimented and de-watered to be sure …
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There’s a video and mp3 circulating giving the detail behind the wording of the US anthem. Seems Key was negotiating a prisoner swap, but then was informed it was moot because the fleet approaching on the horizon was going to level the fort unless it struck its flag. After hours of bombardment, the ragged cloth was still up, and all guns were redirected at the pole itself. By morning, it was still up, albeit somewhat shorter and leaning dangerously.
Each time it was blown down, men had held it up by hand. As they were killed, more replaced them. In the morning, it was supported by their piled corpses.
All through the night, Key reported the flag’s persistence to the prisoners chained below decks in the British ships, as they prayed non-stop for it not to be struck. It’s their words that start the anthem.
I’ve heard Americans deplore the anthem because it’s so militaristic.
Fools.
Happy Independence Day, all!
Nothing personal, Anthony, but that one ugly car. How many people does it hold – 1/2? ;-p
IT holds two, quite comfortably I might add, and I’m six feet in shoes – Anthony
We across the Pond often envy you, our former Colonies, for your fortitude in drawing up what is probably one of the most important documents in the history of mankind so far. The excerpt which resonates most strongly is given hereunder:-
“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.”
Unfortunately we in what was once known as Great Britain, but which is already being subsumed by the EUSSR, have no such right. We have to live under a government which is selling us out, day by day. We can see it but we have no power to stop it.
Happy Independence Day, America. You have fought for and attained that which mankind has sought since the days of ancient Greece and that is Freedom. Please guard your privilege jealously. We in Europe have forsaken ours. And we are suffering from that loss.
P.S.
The people in the fort were civilian refugees from the fighting, predominantly. It was them supporting the flagpole, not soldiers under orders.
Anthony, did you ever get your “Powered by Coal” bumper sticker?