Happy Great Tax Revolt Day!

by Robert Koehler on July 4, 2008

in Completely Random Crap

Giving King George III the Saddam Treatment, since 1776.

Oh, and when I need to feel proud, both as an American and as a Long Islander, I can always watch this.

{ 28 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Wedge July 4, 2008 at 4:52 pm: Happy Fourth, Boys!
2 Fred2 July 4, 2008 at 4:54 pm: Of all the certain things in life… “Let’s have a tea party.”
Perhaps a soiree.
3 globalvillageidiot July 4, 2008 at 4:59 pm: Happy Fourth of July.
4 Fred2 July 4, 2008 at 5:02 pm: .. time will tell.
5 Cloying_odor July 4, 2008 at 5:07 pm: I will spend my Independance Day lamenting the legacy of George W. Bush and what he has done to our once great nation. It’s just sad.
6 Robert Koehler July 4, 2008 at 5:29 pm: Buzzkill.
7 seoulmilk July 4, 2008 at 5:34 pm: Buzzkill. The US is still a great nation.
8 Robert Koehler July 4, 2008 at 5:42 pm: Damn straight. Where else can a man create fine works of neo-traditional architecture and bang two Long Island bimbos at the same time*?

*That is to say, he was designing buildings and banging Long Island bimbos at the same time, not that he was banging both bimbos simultaneously.
9 Fred2 July 4, 2008 at 5:52 pm: Sir, you are “damn straight” in saying so.
Which ammendment was that… now?
10 keith July 4, 2008 at 5:54 pm: Have a good one, you revolting Americans!
11 Arghaeri July 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm: Ah well, now us english are resigned to being the 51st State. How times change!
12 Fred2 July 4, 2008 at 6:31 pm: Yeah, I’m free. Tonight, “I’ll be at the harbor.”
Priceless! Was it, “1 by land or 2 by sea?”.
13 Craig July 4, 2008 at 6:38 pm: The Glorious Fourth. Happy Holiday!
14 Western Confucian July 4, 2008 at 9:59 pm: Hey Long Islander, Happy Independence Day from a Western New Yorker!
15 r.rac July 4, 2008 at 10:18 pm: now to get texas to succeed again we dont need you yankees
16 Robert Koehler July 4, 2008 at 10:21 pm: Western New York? Isn’t that like in Canada?
17 R. Elgin July 4, 2008 at 10:34 pm: . . . lamenting the legacy of George W. Bush and what he has done to our once great nation.

Rather, consider how much greater would our country be if it were not for people like G.W. and his entourage of ignorant, mediocre, corrupt ideologues who have too often made a virtue out of failure.

America will recover but not without a better effort and a reaffirmation of our founding fathers’ vision.
18 Maekchu July 4, 2008 at 10:34 pm: I thought Texas was part of Mexico now?
19 jag July 4, 2008 at 10:53 pm: How’s about one more revolution? What kind of economic/military/social powerhouse could be created if Canada/USA/Mexico merged into one country? Fuck the colors. Go humanity!
20 jag July 4, 2008 at 10:54 pm: It’s time to grow, and nationalism ain’t fertilizer.
21 Robert Koehler July 4, 2008 at 11:29 pm: That’s nice.
22 NewYorkTom July 5, 2008 at 10:55 am: Happy fourth! However, I can’t help having a jjip-jjip-han feeling that our Prez is named George out of all names AND he’s also an incapable piece of shit.
23 Linkd July 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm: Dear America:

please take note: Toyota Motors is worth 150 billion dollars.

GM is worth 6 billion, Ford 10 billion.

Enjoy your weekend.
24 Linkd July 5, 2008 at 1:40 pm: …and vote for the smart guy this time…
25 gbnhj July 5, 2008 at 2:02 pm: Wot, you mean Katsuaki Watanabe? Crikey, that bloke’s from Japan, in’e?

(Note: I’ll be testing out British English during the day, to see if it really is a more polished form of communication than American English.)
26 R. Elgin July 5, 2008 at 7:24 pm: #24 “Linkd”, in 2001 the election was pretty much co-opted by a bunch of judges. Bush did not win, rather we as a nation lost.
27 jag July 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm: #21. Forget what time of year this is. Fireworks are nice. I like them, too. But what is holding humanity back? Could it be flags and all the baggage that comes with them? Do you honestly think in 1000 years there will be a United States Of Earth? I’m not religious, but I think pride, and all its mutations, is the root of most evil.
28 Linkd July 5, 2008 at 11:22 pm: So, jag, ask the question then: What does “Go humanity!” mean? Where will we be in 1K years? You want to erase borders, but scoff at a United States of Earth? So, what is our proper state?

The neocon ideologue Francis Fukuyama tackled that question in his exceedingly ill-timed book The End of History (see the wiki).

“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”

Yep, he actually proposed that the Western model was the ultimate society. And just in time to help convince Bush’s entire team of the idea’s truth, to the extent that they felt it became their right to impose it on the rest of the world, even through preemptive war, if that’s what it took.

Is your idea that the whole of north america, if conjoined, could somehow fare better in their foolish and futile mission than the US could alone? Because that’s just the current play with a slightly modified cast.

Or that humanity will somehow transcend tribal identity, and all our race will accept ‘human’ as their sole label? Because that’s been tried by KJI, Castro, Mau and others of their ilk. That experiment has been done. The results were far, far worse than the necon takeover of Washington in 2001.