In honor of Independence Day…
the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes U.S. citizens.

Let’s savor the freedoms we so much enjoy…
now we must be weary that we may be our worst enemy to endorse over regulation and become prisoners of our own doing.

Pray that ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ have the common sense and integrity to HONOR each other.

Daisy Says: Happy Fourth of July… Our American flag.. Long may you wave!.

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.”

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson’s most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by other philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in “self-evident truths”. Excerpt from: http://www.archives.gov

We must remember and PROTECT our unalienable Rights: that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Daisy Says: Let’s come together under our flag: UNITED WE STAND — God, Bless America.

~~U.S.A. TRIVIA:

~~~How many states are named after U.S. presidents?

Daisy Says: God Bless America, Courage to our Troops over seas and may Freedom Reign!

On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from Britain and Democracy was born. Every day thousands leave their homeland to come to the “land of the free and the home of the brave” so they can begin their American Dream.

Happy 4th of July!

The United States is truly a diverse nation made up of dynamic people. Each year on July 4, we Americans celebrate that freedom and independence with barbecues, picnics, and family gatherings.

Daisy Says: God Bless America!

In July 1776, the number of people living in the colonies was about 2 1/2 million.
In July 2007, the population of the U.S. is almost 301,139,947 million.

HOT DOGS
150 million hot dogs (all varieties) are expected to be consumed by Americans on this holiday in 2006. (That’s one frankfurter for every two people.) There’s more than a 1-in-4 chance that the hot dogs made of pork originated in Iowa, as the Hawkeye State had a total inventory of 15.2 million market hogs and pigs on March 1, 2006. This represents more than one-fourth of the nation’s total. North Carolina (8.5 million) and Minnesota (5.8 million) were the runners-up.

BAKED BEANS AND CORN ON THE COB
The odds are better than 50-50 that the beans in your side dish of baked beans came from North Dakota, Michigan or Nebraska, which produced 60 percent of the nation’s dry, edible beans in 2005. Another popular July 4th side dish is corn on the cob. Florida, California and Georgia together accounted for 51 percent of the sweet corn produced nationally in 2005.

POTATO SALAD & POTATO CHIPS
Potato salad and potato chips are popular food items at July 4th barbecues. One-half of the nation’s spuds are produced in Idaho or Washington.

BEEF
Total production of cattle and calves in Texas in 2005 WAS 7.3 million pounds. Chances are good that the beef hot dogs, steaks and burgers on your backyard grill came from the Lone Star State, which accounted for over one-sixth of the nation’s total production. And if they did not come from Texas, they very well may have come from Nebraska (4.5 billion pounds) or Kansas (4 billion pounds).

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Daisy Says: Sweet Liberty.