American Elephants


Boom! by American Elephant
July 4, 2009, 2:57 pm
Filed under: YouTube

Happy Fourth of July! I’m off to celebrate my freedom and independence by watching a government approved fireworks show, since, in this free and independent state, the government prohibits me from lighting off my own. Sigh.



Happy Independence Day! Remember Just What It Is That We Are Celebrating! by The Elephant's Child
July 4, 2009, 12:38 am
Filed under: Freedom, History

“If all men are created equal, that is final.  If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.  If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.  No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.  If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.  Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress.  They are reactionary.  Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”

Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States of America