HAPPY 4th of JULY!

[tangoalpha]

Hello Guys and Gals!

As I sit here on the couch on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and my dog, Barkley lying next to me, as I read the latest forum posts, I began to reflect on how fortunate we are to be living in the USA; where we are free to pursue our dreams and live out our passions, like riding motorcycles all over this fruited land.

I’m so glad to be a part of this community with all of you and grateful for the friendships and collective knowledge that is shared on a regular basis. A special shout-out to all the Oilheads out there former and current, who have offered advice, tips, tricks and guidance along the way on keeping my bike on the road. You guys truly are special.

Well, I just wanted to say hello to you all and to wish you and your families a safe and fun 4th of July!

Wishing you all the best!


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[Omega Man]

Hello Guys and Gals!

As I sit here on the couch on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and my dog, Barkley lying next to me, as I read the latest forum posts, I began to reflect on how fortunate we are to be living in the USA; where we are free to pursue our dreams and live out our passions, like riding motorcycles all over this fruited land.

I’m so glad to be a part of this community with all of you and grateful for the friendships and collective knowledge that is shared on a regular basis. A special shout-out to all the Oilheads out there former and current, who have offered advice, tips, tricks and guidance along the way on keeping my bike on the road. You guys truly are special.

Well, I just wanted to say hello to you all and to wish you and your families a safe and fun 4th of July!

Wishing you all the best!


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Nice to see another that doesn't forget-

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?102588-Happy-4th-of-July



OM

 

[easy]

Nice to see another that doesn't forget-

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?102588-Happy-4th-of-July



OM

I agree. And it would be nice to see all of us, conservative and progressive, put our differences aside for at least one day, and remember that we are "One Nation" – Americans.

However, and ironically, it is not July 4th.

E.

 

[tangoalpha]

Nice to see another that doesn't forget-

https://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?102588-Happy-4th-of-July



OM

Truly! Let us never forget that our freedom was’t free. It was bought and paid for by the blood of Patriots who fought for our freedom. I’m forever grateful to be an American and to live in the greatest country which has been a beacon of freedom throughout the world. We are far from perfect, but pretty darn good overall.


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[Omega Man]

I agree. And it would be nice to see all of us, conservative and progressive, put our differences aside for at least one day, and remember that we are "One Nation" – Americans.

However, and ironically, it is not July 4th.

E.

Why wait until tomorrow to celebrate and remind all of the contents of the first post, or the second? I guess you could have waited until tomorrow to post?
Be safe with the fireworks no matter what day you light them!
OM

 

[tangoalpha]

I agree. And it would be nice to see all of us, conservative and progressive, put our differences aside for at least one day, and remember that we are "One Nation" – Americans.

However, and ironically, it is not July 4th.

E.

Speaking of conservative and progressives, wouldn’t it be amazing if we could get back to finding common ground? Something that could bring us together, rather than dividing us? I dunno, if only there were something fun, an activity of some kind that we could mutually participate that could bring us closer together. Hmmm….I know, MOTORCYCLES! Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Yeah, I know July 4th is tomorrow, but hopefully this finds you well and enjoying the holiday weekend, however you choose to spend it.


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[dennypink]

Why wait until tomorrow to celebrate and remind all of the contents of the first post, or the second? I guess you could have waited until tomorrow to post?
Be safe with the fireworks no matter what day you light them!
OM

And remember .... The guys with three fingers and an eye patch sell the best fireworks!
DP

 

[easy]

Speaking of conservative and progressives, wouldn’t it be amazing if we could get back to finding common ground? Something that could bring us together, rather than dividing us? I dunno, if only there were something fun, an activity of some kind that we could mutually participate that could bring us closer together. Hmmm….I know, MOTORCYCLES! Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Yeah, I know July 4th is tomorrow, but hopefully this finds you well and enjoying the holiday weekend, however you choose to spend it.


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Thanks for asking. We're doing fine, and having a great holiday weekend. I've already had way too much ice cream. And, thanks for the thread. I'm a big believer in honoring the 4th, and this country.

Here's to hoping everyone has a happy, and safe 4th!!

I'd like to leave you with John Adams thoughts about the Boston Tea Party.

John Adams wrote:

"Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails. This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History."

May God bless our founding fathers...

E.

 

[dennisdarrow]

God Blessed THESE UNITED STATES

This is what it is all about:

On the 4th of July 1776, signed and read at what is now, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Country's Capital

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

 

[Wkoppa]

Last sentence in the Declaration of Independence always got me. Sounds to me if your in, your really in.

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."


Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
#71,449 Life

 

[TracerBullet]

Best country on this planet to live and thrive.

 

[HSVPhil]

Lt. Gen. Bruce Wright, USAF (Ret.), President, Air & Space Forces Association writes:

America remains a bright beacon of freedom and opportunity. Tyrants abscond with citizens’ wealth; dictators intimidate and overrun neighbors; rogue states prioritize weapons of mass destruction over the health and safety of their people. Against those threats, Americans rely on a small but ready force of volunteer Airmen, Guardians, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines. Like our founders, these modern-day Patriots have pledged their lives and sacred honor to preserve peace, deter war, and, if necessary, fight and win. Tonight, as you share the joy of the fireworks with your families and friends, think of them: Young men and women, in the spring of their lives, who put nation before self. Let us be grateful.

God bless America!

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HSV-Karen & HSV-Phil
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