Let’s work very hard for the next few months to make sure that it isn’t.
5 thoughts on “The Last Fourth Of July”
John Wayne used to have a ranch near this town of Springerville and ate at our restaurants. In some ways he defined exceptionalism. He was a big picture guy and not because he made big pictures. He knew we had our flaws but he knew what we aspired to.
My stepson came from the Ukraine when he was twelve. That first year I spent hundreds of dollars on fireworks. Not something I would normally do. When he started setting them off in our little cul-de-sac, the neighbors came out with their fireworks and grills and people that hardly knew each other were sharing hot dogs and hamburgers with each other. We do the same for the world except they don’t all appreciate it.
I was worried about another four years of Obama. Not anymore. We always seem to need a whack off the side of the head, this sleeping giant, but we got it.
After the landslide (no I’m not cocky) we need to stay awake, for at least a little while. Every person that donated in the justice department sent their money to Obama and cronies. Fire them. Let them yell litmus. I DO NOT CARE. Our future is too important.
We’re not falling into the pit. We are already there. We need to climb out while we still can.
There won’t be a last fourth of July for around four billion years.
Why do you think that the Gregorian calendar will be in use that long?
“Do they have the Fourth of July in England?”
“Yes, but there they call it Good Riddance Day.”
Akatsukami, I don’t. I could have said something like “the time of year currently called the fourth of July” but that’s too long. In fact, it’s an incorrect statement anyway; at that far future date the length of the day will be different Just making a point.
And finally, though the Earth will still rotate on its axis and revolve around the sun, there won’t be any people on Earth then. Best estimate I’ve seen is that Earth will become uninhabitable by multicellular life in about 500 million years.
Not that whatever inhabits the Solar System that far in the future would even be recognisable to us as people, anyway.
But all of that is beside the point. The real point is that the USA will not last for ever. No other human society, or empire, or country, ever has – why should the USA be any different? The Romans of the 1st century AD probably thought their empire would last forever, too.
John Wayne used to have a ranch near this town of Springerville and ate at our restaurants. In some ways he defined exceptionalism. He was a big picture guy and not because he made big pictures. He knew we had our flaws but he knew what we aspired to.
My stepson came from the Ukraine when he was twelve. That first year I spent hundreds of dollars on fireworks. Not something I would normally do. When he started setting them off in our little cul-de-sac, the neighbors came out with their fireworks and grills and people that hardly knew each other were sharing hot dogs and hamburgers with each other. We do the same for the world except they don’t all appreciate it.
I was worried about another four years of Obama. Not anymore. We always seem to need a whack off the side of the head, this sleeping giant, but we got it.
After the landslide (no I’m not cocky) we need to stay awake, for at least a little while. Every person that donated in the justice department sent their money to Obama and cronies. Fire them. Let them yell litmus. I DO NOT CARE. Our future is too important.
We’re not falling into the pit. We are already there. We need to climb out while we still can.
There won’t be a last fourth of July for around four billion years.
Why do you think that the Gregorian calendar will be in use that long?
“Do they have the Fourth of July in England?”
“Yes, but there they call it Good Riddance Day.”
Akatsukami, I don’t. I could have said something like “the time of year currently called the fourth of July” but that’s too long. In fact, it’s an incorrect statement anyway; at that far future date the length of the day will be different Just making a point.
And finally, though the Earth will still rotate on its axis and revolve around the sun, there won’t be any people on Earth then. Best estimate I’ve seen is that Earth will become uninhabitable by multicellular life in about 500 million years.
Not that whatever inhabits the Solar System that far in the future would even be recognisable to us as people, anyway.
But all of that is beside the point. The real point is that the USA will not last for ever. No other human society, or empire, or country, ever has – why should the USA be any different? The Romans of the 1st century AD probably thought their empire would last forever, too.