Happy Bill of Rights Day, everyone!

[Blue_In_AK]

Woo-hoo. Party party!


(Oh, the irony.)

[Me.]

1. OFF TO THE GREATEST WITH YOU

Oh wait, is it occupied too? :evilgrin:

[dbt]

2. Yeah. They get the rights,

we get the bill.

:freak:

[femrap]

3. does anyone know

how the passage of the Defense Authorization Bill in the Senate leaves our so-called 'rights?' Do we have any left?

[Blue_In_AK]

4. I see a lot of support for it

from all the usual suspects at DU3 with all the usual condescension and insults toward anyone who dares question. I just don't get it. We all used to be against this sort of thing when Bush was president.

[mod mom]

5. I guess there are the "walk lockstep" types in both parties.

I made excuses at first (like rahm was placed to diffuse his power) but I'm way beyond that. I can't believe I worked so hard to get these guys elected.

[femrap]

7. I really don't care

much for obama any more. The publisher/editor of Harper's Magazine wants to 'dump Obama' and get someone who is a real dem to run....as happened in 1967/1968 against Johnson. It was then that RFK entered the race.

Now there are too many sheeple, I guess.

But the sheeple seem to not like anyone in this 2012 campaign. Of course, we don't have paper ballots so it's not the people/sheeple who decide anyway.

[JoeyT]

8. Yes, you have some left.

You can't be forced to quarter troops in your home.

Uh. That's all I can come up with. Ok, you have one left. Course that's mostly because building barracks lets them funnel more money to contractors. So it's one they can't even be bothered to take.

[Huey P. Long]

6. Surprise – it’s Bill of Rights Day

Surprise – It’s Bill of Rights Day
Two hundred twenty years ago today, on December 15, 1791, something happened that changed history forever. Virginia ratified the Bill of Rights, becoming the 10th state to do so, and thus making it part of the Constitution.
Link to today’s op-ed from the Arizona Republic.
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The ways this changed history were myriad, foremost among them by preserving the fledgling new country called the United States of America, after the Articles of Confederation had failed. Most Americans don’t realize that without ratification of the Bill of Rights, the deal between the states on the new Constitution would have fallen apart, and with it quite possibly the United States itself.

Today, 220 years later, the Bill of Rights remains the heart and soul of who we are as a people, and why America remains an inspiration to those everywhere seeking their liberty. Its ingenious balance of personal freedoms and political principles has proven both dynamic and durable, becoming one of history’s most important and influential documents as the global road map for basic human rights.

It’s a remarkable story. All the more remarkable when you consider that, as a high school history teacher from Nogales, Arizona pointed out to me, the provisions of the Bill of Rights only applied to roughly 5% of the human beings living within the United States when it was ratified in 1791. They didn’t apply to slaves. They didn’t apply to Native Americans. They didn’t apply in large part to women, and only in full to white males of a certain amount of property and position.

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http://www.mybillofrights.org/live/2011/12/surprise-its-bill-of-rights-day/

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The Bill of Rights Plaza: Austin, Texas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtmBWjc1AU&feature=player_embedded

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[iamthebandfanman]

9. time for a second set! n/t

[ellisonz]

10. Happy Bill of Rights Day to you too!

:hi:

[countryjake]

11. And obvious, just like 220 yr ago, those rights were never meant for...

everyone!

:hi: