Happy 4th everyone

[peternap]

Since our land is incorporated and all the stockholders are family, we have our annual Corporate meeting on the 4th. We also have the family reunion after. So all the kids and grandkids will be at the farm tomorrow.

BAR B Q chicken, burgers, watermelon, corn, a shooting match and ATV trips.

Since the Grandkids will be there, I'll even run the diesel generator so they can have AC.

Have fun everyone!

[ScottA]

We'll be going over to my best freinds house for his anual forth party. Swimming BBQ and fireworks fun.

[Redoverfarm]

Heading up to the top of the mountain to a friends house ( off grid) for BBQ ribs, sweet and white baked potato's, broccoli salad, water mellon and what ever else shows up.  Might even get in the wood fired hot tub when it gets dark.

[Sassy]

Interesting article  http://www.newswithviews.com/Veon/joan53.htm
IS THE FOURTH OF JULY A RUSE FOR "WE THE PEOPLE"?
If that were not enough, I have long suspected that when all the countries of the world signed on and became part of the international infrastructure: the United Nations, the World Bank, etc. that they were also signing on to some form of allegiance to the Crown. Providing me with a major link is a book I recently came across a book, Dispute Settlement in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by Natalie Klein, published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press. To my shock, Ms. Klein writes,

    "The Jay Treaty was a precedent for the settlement of the Alabama claims."

I recently became acquainted with the never discussed and somehow forgotten Jay Treaty which every red-blooded American should know about. During the Civil War, ships owned by the state of Alabama were damaged by a British frigate. A Commission of Inquiry was set up so England could settle the damage dispute with Alabama. Interestingly enough, the procedure for the formation for International Commission of Inquiry go back to the Jay Treaty of 1794. It appears that all U.S. foreign policy comes out of the Jay Treaty and that all UN legal policy goes back to it. From www.yale.edu, we find,

    The Jay Treaty. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and navigation, signed at London November 19, 1794, with additional article Original in English. Submitted to the Senate June 8, Resolution of advice and consent, on condition, June 24, 1795. Ratified by the United States August 14, 1795. Ratified by Great Britain October 28, 1795. Ratifications exchanged at London October 28, 1795. Proclaimed [only kings proclaim] February 29, 1796.
    Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannick Majesty; and the United States of America, by Their President, with the advice and consent of Their Senate. (Emphasis added)

Furthermore, the Jay Treaty incorporates the concept of the Commission of Inquiry which evolved out of the negotiating framework that established the 1794 Jay Treaty negotiations. According to historian Pitman B. Potter who wrote An Introduction to the Study of International Organizations, published in 1922,

    The commission of inquiry originated in the 'mixed commission,' which had bee extensively used since 1794, when the institution was adopted by Great Britain and the United States for conducting certain arbitrations provided in the Jay Treaty.

He further states on page 206, that a Commission of Inquiry is "[A] body of persons acting as a unified international governmental institution." What?? That then means anytime we discuss or have a meeting on the international level that a Commission of Inquiry is being set up. He goes on to explain,

    "A great improvement has since been made by the United States in this regard in concluding some thirty-five treaties with different nations providing for commissions of inquiry to be appointed in advance of the occurrence of any dispute between parties." (Potter, p.209)

Potter goes on to explain that the 1794 Jay Treaty established the world's first recognized international government,

    "The year 1794 is frequently taken as a date from which the history of modern international arbitration is to be traced. In a sense this is accurate, for the Jay Treaty of that year, between Great Britain and the United States, made provision for three arbitrations and thus inaugurated that Anglo-American practice of arbitration which has been the leading factor in promoting the development of arbitration since that time." (Page 225)

[muldoon]

I BBQ'd today, some nice ribs and grilled onions.  Drank some cold beer all day, brewed up 5 gallons of a fat tire clone for next months consumption.  about to kick off some fireworks, (including some homemade fireworks)...  happy 4th everyone.

[glenn kangiser]

After the 4th good time celebration a look at reality from the other side of the world.

Don't look if you don't want to see.   I warned you.   

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/04-07-2008/105704-fourthjuly-0

I worked today--- getting a head start on the future.

Don't get me wrong -- I love and respect the founding fathers and the Constitution. 

It's the criminals destroying the country that I can't stomach.