Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:00:05 -0400
My tradition for the Glorious Fourth is to watch the movie version of "1776". This was true for John Adams, true in the 1970s when the libretto was written and is still true today; I share the following verse - (John Adams, directing himself to the Creator):
"I do believe you've laid a curse on North America
A curse that we now here rehearse in Philadelphia
A second flood, a simple famine
Plagues of locusts everywhere
Or a cataclysmic earthquake
I'd accept with some despair
But, no, you sent us Congress.
Good God, sir, was that fair?"
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and one to hear." - Henry David Thoreau
from the same song sung by John Adams -- this is his feeling about the City of Brotherly Love...
"...foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia..."
The alliteration is wonderful!
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and one to hear." - Henry David Thoreau
is still the most worrisome place, even if North Korea is shooting off missiles. AQ is pushing forward on getting their hands on the Pakistan nukes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/asia/05pstan.html?hpw
War on Iraq...talk about taking our eye off the ball.