6.1%, the lowest since before the Bush Administration's financial armageddon.
Here in Beantown, we celebrated Independence Day on Thursday, July 3, because of the coming tropical storm/Hurricane Arthur due here in Boston on July 4th. (the actual day of the completed signing of the Declaration of Independence was July 2):
"Officially, the Continental Congress declared its freedom from Britain on July 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution and delegates from New York were given permission to make it a unanimous vote. John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come.
“The most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”--John Adams
After voting on independence on July 2, the Continental Congress needed to draft a document explaining the move to the public. It had been proposed in draft form by the Committee of Five (John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson) and it took two days for the Congress to agree on the edits.
Once the Congress approved the actual Declaration on Independence document on July 4, it ordered that it be sent to a printer named John Dunlap. About 200 copies of the Dunlap Broadside were printed, with John Hancock’s name printed at the bottom. Today, 26 copies remain." --Constitution Daily
The Declaration of Independence was read from the east balcony of Boston's Old State House on July 18, 1776, by Col. Thomas Crafts (one of the Sons of Liberty). Every year since, the D.o.I. is read by a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.
7 comments:
Happy 4th Shaw! Have a very liberal Independence Day! Thanks to our LIBERAL FOUNDING FATHERS we have an independent country. Be well and enjoy the day!
To be specific, Classical Liberal Founding Fathers. Not to be confused with today's current crop of liberal progressives.
Happy Fourth to all, conservative, centrist, and liberal. We share a common heritage as Americans.
That "Holier Than Thou" Old Bitty allows her posters to call you a "bitch" while her rules for commenting say she does not allow personal invective?
No personal invective against her illiterate friends, but for liberals it is open season.
They are the dregs, and she's the biggest hypocrite of all the illiterates who post on her blog.
Disgusting malcontents.
AoJ4th,
I allowed this comment because it appears to be trying to inform me of something. I don't know who the "old bitty" is, but if it is who I think it is, I don't care.
People have the right to conduct their blogs in any way they wish. If the "old bitty," whoever that is, likes to see her visitors call people names, those are her values, and possibly typical of that crowd. Besides she doesn't allow any dissent on her blog anymore and it is open only to those views that agree with her.
Harmless nonsense. It makes powerless folks feel powerful to call people names.
I remember that from the school yard when I was in kindergarden.
SYKW,
Thanks for stopping in today! Great to hear from you.
And yes, RN, we all share a common heritage. Happy 4th to you and yours.
Happy Fourth, Shaw!
Happy 4th, Shaw!
Hugs and Kisses ...
KP
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