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Talk about something people
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Originally posted by mongoose767
Yes. I'd had a moving experience that I'd like to share. For the holiday weekend I had custody of my two young sons. In order to strip away the glitzy commercialism of the holiday (they have their mother to provide mindnumbing b.s.) we spent some time learning about what the day really means. We read the Declaration of Independence and parts of the Federalist Papers and then on the afternoon of the 4th we took part in a Support the Troops and the President rally at a local park. To make the civics lesson complete a particularly ungroomed anti-homeland defense ranter confronted my 9 year old son by shouting obscenities and calling him a murderous imperialist dog in the making. Apparently, having absorbed some of the lessons of the day and others from watching the news, my son, without prompting from me, cooly responded, "President Thomas Jefferson once said that timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. We are here to celebrate liberty and you're type is not wanted, why don't you go to France!" Out of the mouths of babes! He got three scoops at Friendlys for that one. With jimmies.
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I learned yesterday that Alexander Hamilton's mother was French, and that he spoke French fluently -- in fact, his French grammar was better that that of the Marquis de Lafayette, with whom he regularly corresponded. And yet Hamilton was a backer of a strong executive branch.
Otherwise, I had a fun weekend. Here in SF, we continued the tradition of lobbing explosives into the clouds to make the clouds glow.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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