Happy Fourth Of July!!!!!

[Senses Fail]

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Fires Fireworks)
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BaD hat but bear with me its been attacked by a bear

You can only ssee the words "Fourth Of" when highliting it. Who knew white wouldnt show good. LoL

Post your 4th of july plans here

[Spartan]

Got an interesting history lesson for us Ryan? :D

[FeralKitty]

Have a happy and safe 4th, everyone!

[LBueno]

Happy 4th!

[SomeRandomGuy]

happy 4th of July. It's gonna be awesome. I like the eagle effect on the gamer cards.

[Ryan44]

(Actually, yes I do Spartan.)

My Fourth of July plans pretty much boil down to enjoying the local fireworks show.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Fourth_of_July_fireworks_behind_the_Washington_Mon ument%2C_1986.jpg/215px-Fourth_of_July_fireworks_behind_the_Washington_Mon ument%2C_1986.jpg

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I'd like to wish all our American members a happy (and safe) Fourth of July!

Furthermore, I’d like to ask members that, while enjoying their vacations and firework shows, they should also try to remember what this day means.

History Professor Walter A. McDougall (the University of Pennsylvania) had these words (http://www.fpri.org/ww/0504.200407.mcdougall.july4holyday.html) to say in an essay about July 4th,

…the highest of all holy days is still the Fourth of July. After the Civil War it gained even more prominence because Independence Day called Southerners and Northerners alike back to what unified them in the first place: their faith in themselves, in God’s special providence, in their ancestors’ courage and sacrifice, in the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness a unified federal republic made possible. Should the Fourth of July ever cease to be a day “set apart” for joy, pride, and community, then the text approved on that day will turn as cold as the body in Lenin’s tomb. But so, too, may it perish if the Fourth of July becomes nothing but a day of self-congratulation and pride. It is a day when Americans, especially young ones, must reflect on how absurdly implausible the birth of this nation was, how its survival hung by a thread on many occasions, and how its Founders were emboldened because—be they Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Deists, or Freemasons — they believed the Author of History meant this to happen.


It's a good time to reflect on America, its founding, and its future.

P.S. Here’s the introduction and Preamble of the Declaration of Independence (http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1), adopted July 4, 1776,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Us_declaration_independence.jpg/200px-Us_declaration_independence.jpg

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain Inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


Lastly, let us give thanks to our armed forces stateside and abroad, who continue to fight for our liberty, to which our founding fathers pledged "[their] Lives, [their] Fortunes and [their] sacred Honor."

[Senses Fail]

Sadly fireworks have become illegal here in california. Well not illegal for disney land to use them because I saw some onf riday but for people like ourselves to sue them. HAPPY FOURTH!

[walter the whirlm]

the only plans i have are possibly going to a skateboarding competition haha its not really 4th of july related, though. i dont really celebrate this holiday

[Senses Fail]

^ Your crazy! I celebrate. Im going to my cousins house for a huge party at their new mini mansion with a pool, jacuzzi, and more! Its gonna rock! Then on july 5th, me and my family are going to san diego for a week! Rock on!!!!!!

[mcnugget13]

At the strip there is going to be a huge firework dispaly their it takes like half of the stip it is so cool

[An Insane Guy]

LOL @ Ryan. I read one paragraph and almost fell asleep... >.>

Anyways, happy 4th of July!

[mcnugget13]

LOL @ Ryan. I read one paragraph and almost fell asleep... >.>



I read the first sentence and fell asleep!

[schedar]

You guys fail.

Because I read 3 paragraphs and I fell asleep.

HAHA Just kidding, I read it all, interesting.

[geo12301]

Happy 4th of July,look at everyones XBL Gamertag,it looks cool.

[D3V0N]

Happy July 4th, and yes, these Gamercards are cool.

[ctk777]

Everyone on PinataIsland Forum, I wish you all a Great 4th of July. Im gonna see Transformers today. Are u guys too?

[your_silly]

Luckily, I live by an indian reservation so I can go stock up on fireworks, no its not legal, but the cops are doing it too! =P.

[SomeRandomGuy]

can we actually get backgrounds like these for our cards on XBL that would be so awesome