Keep your powder and your socks dry, troops.

I'll be eating dead bovine and thinking how great it is that you are there, instead of me.

Stay strong, and live long.

This is a beautiful version, as well. (new window)

This one sends chills down my spine (new window)

Yeah that should go down well with the Iraqis. Reminding them that they are still not a free nation.

Not sure why subby felt the need to tell us his name is Dusty right in the middle of the headline.

Nevah forgit.

Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?

Happy Independence Day to you too, Patriotmitter.

/and the rest of you too
//Thank you Troops!

Apeleutheros: Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?

Yeah, because calling corrupt politicians on their murderous sh*t is as un-American as it gets.

//unless the politician being so called out is a Democrat, of course. Then it's patriotic.

It started a bit rough, but thank God Maurice Cheeks was there to help.

Apeleutheros: Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?

i don't know about all that noise, but those people are mostly horrible singers.

Apeleutheros: Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?

FARK is essentially a hard-core conservative site. Take off your masks: we know you.

An occupation army celebrating it's own country's "independence" is so....patriotic. Go USA.

Probably coming in later. Either way, the Public Affairs Office put a lot of work into this video and it's a fun concept. Happy 4th, try and enjoy it wherever you happen to be!

Rufus Lee King: Apeleutheros: Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?

FARK is essentially a hard-core conservative site. Take off your masks: we know you.

wat

Iron Felix: An occupation army celebrating it's own country's "independence" is so....patriotic. Go USA.

Ah, here we go. That's the FARK we know.

I thought I had stumbled onto some strange new online forum of common opinions and civility.

/carry on

Apeleutheros: Wait, this is Fark, where are the hate spewing posts about baby killers and Bush's war and the 4th of July is for conservatives so it should be derided and America was generally a bad idea?

/WHAR?


The potheads and unemployed Farktards aren't all awake yet. It's still pretty early for losers to be awake. Give them time and this thread will fill with the weekday afternoon derpers that make this website unbearable during my lunch hour and other days off.

flyarmy: The potheads and unemployed Farktards aren't all awake yet. It's still pretty early for losers to be awake.

We've already had the obligatory comparison of the US to Nazi Germany. How much worse can it get?

Glad to see US troops do something over there other than suck and die for a change. That adequate?

/Just woke up
//Ugh....Never drinking again until this afternoon
///Really doesn't support the troops but I prefer to use this day to celebrate a lack of productivity for our corporate overlords.

Don't dare say anything. Just don't.

Rufus Lee King: Don't dare say anything. Just don't.

Funny how you have to reach back 40 years for pictures to prove that today's US is emblematic of the Fourth Reich.

/the Guardsmen panicked, by the way

Well... no one else has said it...


America, fark yeah!

alltandubh: Rufus Lee King: Don't dare say anything. Just don't.

Funny how you have to reach back 40 years for pictures to prove that today's US is emblematic of the Fourth Reich.

/the Guardsmen panicked, by the way

yeah that whole death thing just expires after 40 years or so

Subby here. Not that I'm trying to impinge on anyone's rights, but is it really that hard to not turn this into a herp-derp threader or baby killer thing? The courage required for standing up in front of a camera and singing for strangers (without alcohol) isn't something all of us have. Can we agree on that, at least, then go back to enjoying a federal holiday?

Iron Felix: An occupation army celebrating it's own country's "independence" is so....patriotic. Go USA.

So, Canada is not involved in any sort of war in a foreign country?

alltandubh: Rufus Lee King: Don't dare say anything. Just don't.

Funny how you have to reach back 40 years for pictures to prove that today's US is emblematic of the Fourth Reich.

/the Guardsmen panicked, by the way

It all relates, my friend. Our government doesn't like dissent, and will meet it in its own way.

Don't see how the guardsmen "panicked", either.

Rufus Lee King: Don't dare say anything. Just don't.

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And to think people act like "planking" is some kind of new fad.

That song always makes me cry. We were lucky enough to see the original star-spangled banner in DC this March, the one that flew over Baltimore and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. It's huge!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3qak3a9

Here's a great rendition from Super Bowl XXXIX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE

Already seen clips on Fox and CNN. This is why America invented the Internet, and Fark all you haters.

/SALUTE!

Dammit...I almost forgot -4.

Fun part is the tune for the Star-Spangled Banner is an old British navy drinking ditty -- which is why singing off key is pretty much required.

/Let the drinkin' commence!

nburghmatt: yeah that whole death thing just expires after 40 years or so

OK, listen carefully now. Panicky Guardsmen killing four students on a campus 40 years ago does not magically establish that the US is similar to Nazi Germany (as Rufus Lee King suggested upthread), nor does it invalidate the 4th of July celebration. You shouldn't need a foreigner to point out something so blindingly obvious.

National celebrations are not attempts to whitewash history and prove that your country is perfect; they are the expression of the ideal of what your country should be -- and what, at its best moments, it already is.

HobblingContractor: Subby here. Not that I'm trying to impinge on anyone's rights, but is it really that hard to not turn this into a herp-derp threader or baby killer thing? The courage required for standing up in front of a camera and singing for strangers (without alcohol) isn't something all of us have. Can we agree on that, at least, then go back to enjoying a federal holiday?

Probably not.

Prank Call of Cthulhu: And to think people act like "planking" is some kind of new fad.

Ow. Jesus. You're going to Hell. I'll buy you a drink when we get there.

alltandubh: nburghmatt: yeah that whole death thing just expires after 40 years or so

OK, listen carefully now. Panicky Guardsmen killing four students on a campus 40 years ago does not magically establish that the US is similar to Nazi Germany (as Rufus Lee King suggested upthread), nor does it invalidate the 4th of July celebration. You shouldn't need a foreigner to point out something so blindingly obvious.

National celebrations are not attempts to whitewash history and prove that your country is perfect; they are the expression of the ideal of what your country should be -- and what, at its best moments, it already is.

i do not think the US is comparable to Nazi Germany. i'm not sure where you got that. you suggested however that the murders at Kent State have lost relevance over time, and i say that's a load of shiat.

Rufus Lee King: It all relates, my friend. Our government doesn't like dissent, and will meet it in its own way.

OK, you've dissented on this thread. So what actual danger are you in from the government? Nothing vague, now: I want to hear actual details of the persecution you're going to face because you just stuck it to the Man on Fark.

Don't see how the guardsmen "panicked", either.

They heard, or thought they heard, shots being fired at them before they opened fire. Although neither you nor I were there and really know what happened, we can at least reasonably eliminate the theory that the killings were ordered by the US government, as you've been suggesting -- if there had been a centrally coordinated campaign to massacre students, it would have been far more effective and widespread than Kent State, something more on the order of Tiananmen Square.

Old, but necessary given all the bickering.

The Sun Kings (new window)

HobblingContractor: Subby here. Not that I'm trying to impinge on anyone's rights, but is it really that hard to not turn this into a herp-derp threader or baby killer thing? The courage required for standing up in front of a camera and singing for strangers (without alcohol) isn't something all of us have. Can we agree on that, at least, then go back to enjoying a federal holiday?

Sorry, but as a newly converted Tea Partier, I don't celebrate FEDERAL holidays. Government is too large already and we don't need to continue indoctrinating young, impressionable minds with the fallacy that our excessively large Federal government should be celebrated. Also, it is a waste of taxpayers money to put on public displays of fireworks and all governments (local, state, and federal) should not be sponsoring these events. There are plenty of theme parks and other private companies that put on pyrotechic displays for a small fee. Anyone can go to these displays and watch. Just don't steal from hardworking taxpayers to provide free entertainment - it is not a core government function!

alltandubh Panicky Guardsmen

You keep using that word. One wonders how some unarmed college students half a football field away would cause a bunch of men with automatic weapons to panic. Regardless the Guard officer caught on tape shouting, "Right here! Get Set! Point! Fire!" doesn't sound too panicked.

Winston Smith '84: HobblingContractor: Subby here. Not that I'm trying to impinge on anyone's rights, but is it really that hard to not turn this into a herp-derp threader or baby killer thing? The courage required for standing up in front of a camera and singing for strangers (without alcohol) isn't something all of us have. Can we agree on that, at least, then go back to enjoying a federal holiday?

Sorry, but as a newly converted Tea Partier, I don't celebrate FEDERAL holidays. Government is too large already and we don't need to continue indoctrinating young, impressionable minds with the fallacy that our excessively large Federal government should be celebrated. Also, it is a waste of taxpayers money to put on public displays of fireworks and all governments (local, state, and federal) should not be sponsoring these events. There are plenty of theme parks and other private companies that put on pyrotechic displays for a small fee. Anyone can go to these displays and watch. Just don't steal from hardworking taxpayers to provide free entertainment - it is not a core government function!

i'm gonna call that 7/10

Once again, don't dare say anything.

Shouldn't they follow it up by singing the Iraqi national anthem? After all, that's why we're there: to promote an Iraqi democracy, right?

kmoser: Shouldn't they follow it up by singing the Iraqi national anthem? After all, that's why we're there: to promote an Iraqi democracy, right?

-1

/either that or your suffer from skewed logicitis.

"Jingoism" leads to bad things.

Rufus Lee King: Once again, don't dare say anything.

no u