Facets of the American Spirit – Appreciating 250 Years of the United States of America

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Free speech apparently isn’t free. Some people say what they think and pay for it with their lives. We are born with brains and vocal chords. People should have the liberty to say what they want. Words don’t hurt people.

However, words may feel like they hurt our hearts or make us feel happy & grateful in conversations with those dear to us, and generally, they may (or may not) affect our moods or thoughts in tremendous ways, but they don’t hurt. When it comes to politics or beliefs, actions hurt people, not words. What are your thoughts?

Lil’ Murph – the lizard with ancestry in Australia, but possessing strong American spirit.

Murph was born here in the United States, and he is a fighter for his life and a rebel against conformity, or, at least the norm. If this boy wanted to do something, he fought with all his might to get his way… and he, more often than not, got his way. He’d work and wiggle against my grasp to stay outside in the sun, he was determined to cuddle with who he wanted, or climb into the neighbor’s yard & so much more! Love this rebel forevermore.

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I love our rights, and freedom of speech is just one special one. I’d like to share an example of the beauty of free speech. If you don’t know who Afroman is, allow me to introduce you. The sheriff’s department raided his home on suspicion of illegal activities. They damaged his gate at his driveway, damaged his entry door, and ruined his security system (these estimating to about 20,000 USD). They seized his cash & he didn’t get it all back. So, this proud-to-be-an-American wrote and performed songs about the event. He had the unfolding captured on his private home security system, until they cut it, and he added the footage to his music videos. The seven deputies involved, in turn, sued Afroman… and lost! Afroman knew his rights and used his talents and freedom of speech to cope or make light of an unfair experience. He wasn’t entirely powerless, he had a great idea, and on a positive note – more people know about him and his music than before.

Song set to the tune of “Under the Boardwalk.”

Before the trial, he released this next video AND WORE THIS OUTFIT IN THE COURTROOM – LOVE IT!! Check out the name of the song😁:

Song set to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

I’d like to share someone else if you don’t know of him already. His name is Charlie Kirk, and he was murdered at the young age of 31 – – – – for talking.

It doesn’t matter whether or not you believe all he has spoken, but was this man actually hurting anyone or anything? My dad used to say “Moderation is key.” Dad had a lot of short & logical statements. I think that extremes are exhausting and extremists can be unfair, even deadly.

On another topic, I want you to see Diamond. I’ve not shown her before today. The local shelter posted a photo of her last year and they were pleading for someone to adopt or foster her because she was so thin. Now, she is pampered at her permanent home here:

A house divided will fall, united we stand. If you do nothing but complain about the United States, and you live here, please, by all means, move on. Perhaps you truly do not grasp what you have and will lose if you don’t know and stand up for or fight for what we have always had to fight for from the beginning. Are you comfy cozy & complacent in your home with your rights?  Go live in a 3rd world country for a month, no, not at a resort, oh no no no, in the depths of what it means to be somewhere where other people are fleeing from to be here, in the UK, and elsewhere, and then come back to your country & take a good look – if you are alive and able, we’ll then see how you feel.

What do those who leave poor countries often bring to a country they move to – themselves as great engineers, medical specialists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists… or are a great many actually leaches who think entirely differently than we in the realm of morals and logic and who benefit from our capitalistic republic (not democracy – democracy sounds great, but boiled down, it’s mob rule, and when has that worked out well for an individual)? Statistically, what do you think?

Of course, there are well-meaning people in every land who don’t want anyone to suffer, some do want life, liberty, and the ability to pursue happiness – you know, what you/we actually do have the ability to obtain – for now. Don’t woke up, wake up, & think about the generations who will lead our country. Should they be crybabies or strong men and women capable of keeping on with the bada**ness of those before us, you know, such as the men fighting wars in the US in winter, where George Washington lost a lot of his men to death and desertion & paid who he could what he could with his own money to fight in something larger than themselves as they faced freezing to death, frostbite, hunger, & fear for their wives & childrens’ well-being at their homestead all alone.

Raise Americans, not purse-carrying men who drink lattes and women who don’t know there’s life outside of social media and pretty nails… what the? Who are these people? Oh yeah, I think they’re called snowflakes (look it up).

Happy semiquincentennial Independence Day to my fellow Americans, and have a fantastic day our faraway friends and everyone!

7 responses to “Facets of the American Spirit – Appreciating 250 Years of the United States of America”

  1. Supposedly the CIA hit Kirk. I think our freedom is hanging on by a thread. Forced reading the bible in public schools, forced pregnancy for 10 old rape victims. I could go on but blue and red states, unless something incredible happens, will never come together. We are a country founded on a division between church and state, but they now want to make this a “christian” country. Not freedom, as far as I’m concerned. We took the land, destroyed the people who lived here, kidnapped people and tuned them into slaves, refused to let women have a voice, own land or their own children…it seems weird to just forget about what we are and where we started. I think Murph would have made a great president and he had style as well. And wings.

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  2. Murph was certainly the bearded dragon lizard 🦎 fulfillment of the American rebel and American dream.
    A number of countries of Western Europe – France 🇫🇷, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and Germany 🇩🇪- their people have basically lost the right to free speech.
    And here in Canada, Marx Blarney and his gang of thugs are trying to end free speech here.
    Happy 250th Anniversary of Independence Day 🎆.

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  3. My thoughts are that too many people take freedom for granted until it’s slowly chipped away. We need to be more tolerant of others, in general, regardless of their political preferences. I have friends from all beliefs, as it should be. We’re far more alike than different, and who am I to judge?

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  4. Indeed, who knows who did this awful act with a convenient bullet discrepancy.
    A search of if the Bible is forced reading pulled up some discrepancies for me.
    I found this about a 10 year old victim, How the rape of a young girl in Ohio became a flashpoint on the abortion debate | PBS News https://share.google/o0AEvBUE43D4rDolk
    That’s an option about the states, she could have a procedure in one state, yet not another. This stinks for some, but in today’s age, one can travel in any direction & have different results per state. The states are united, but have the freedom to make their own rules. If we don’t like it, we can move or travel to get what we determine is right.
    I and my kids were never forced to read the Bible. However, I sent my son to a Christian school for just 3 years before homeschooling him for 3, to keep him from the shit public school system I grew up in because we had to move back to the old hood. I created curriculum & bought some, I did everything by the law, I took attendance, & I worked my butt off. I had to reteach myself basic 5th grade knowledge & so on. He later went back to school in a safer, smaller city. I don’t know about today, but Christians founded this country, ya know, after it was taken. So I looked it up if kids are forced to read the Bible in public schools, & I found that no, it’s not forced, it’s a side option, to simplify it. Please send facts if my research is incorrect. Muslims can pray on their cloths, someone can read a Bible, who gives a sh** who does what? If people aren’t killing each other, I say let the kids do what they’ve been programmed to do until they wisen up & be friends regardless of politics & religious institutions. I was bussed to a majority all black school, & guess what, I recall no racial issues at all. We were all just kids. I learned Dutch rope, & everyone got along for the 3 years that I recall. I say media is turning everyone against each other, we are the psyops experiment. Isn’t it odd that people are more tolerant of interracial relationships, gay whatever, & Trans weirdos imposing themselves onto children than ever before, yet people cry & complain like never before?

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  5. Slavery has been in every land that I know of, not just the U.S. Some of our forefathers were strongly against slavery, yet they had them (& some freed them), They were products of their time. What are we products of in our times today? Africans sold other Africans. Slavery has been wrong all through the eons. As for the Indians, well, that’s a damn shame as well, I have blood there & so do many others, but our ancestors did nothing that hasn’t been done elsewhere. Our country may not be uniquely evil as one is programmed to believe. but who am I to type these things. Thank you for your comment and what you said of our Murph.

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  6. Dear Dawn, I like everything you are saying. I would sign it.
    Well, free speech.. I think it’s a wish.. People have to die or lose their jobs for thinking and telling different to the governments or the catholic church. This is from the beginning of earth, isn’t it? I am wondering if we all are living in a Matrix or when did evil take over the world?
    I am happy for Afroman. Watched the video with his nice outfit. Great.
    I love Poppy and Diamond. It is so beautiful to know Diamond has a permanent home with you.
    Kind regards.

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  7. I apologize for not replying sooner. I have so much going on that I’m not keeping up with blogging. I agree with your words on our precious freedom. We need more chip stoppers, so to speak.
    It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that based on friends and the friends of people I know, that in the real world (not on the news & social media) a large number of people don’t care so deeply about someone’s interpersonal preferences or beliefs, but that people like others based on their character, whether their heart is in a good place, and that they aren’t hurting anyone & are good company. That’s been my experience, but I’m sure it’s not everyone’s. Thank you for such a good comment.

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