Can’t think of a better declaration before you put your life on the line:

“Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

John Parker

But happened anyway. No one really knows who fired the first shot….1 British soldier and 8 colonists were shot in ensuing melee.

(You can find lots of links in Google so I am not gonna provide one)

Thus began the opening skirmish that led to our country being born.

250 years ago:

Paul Revere and William Dawes  and Samuel Prescott set out to warn the colonists about the approaching British and their plans to confiscate the colonists ability to defend themselves by taking all the powder. They warned the colonists and set other messengers to spread out over the countryside to do the same.

Listen my Children, and you shall hear….of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. (William Dawes and Samuel Prescott kinda got screwed, but their rides were no less heroic)

Take a moment this evening and raise a glass to the three men who warned the colonists that the British were coming, and gave them time to prepare. Things may well have turned out differently were it not for the warning they gave.

As it is, realize that those in power have been trying to take our guns (and thus our ability to resist tyranny) for two and a half centuries.

 

Mark Twain on Government:

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

– Mark Twain

An interesting point.

Pretty much spot on too

 

Pathological femininity refers to a disordered, unhealthy expression of feminine traits that prioritizes emotional validation, denial of conflict, and compulsive caretaking at the expense of truth, justice, and responsibility. It is not true femininity, which is rooted in nurturing, beauty, receptivity, and moral strength, but rather a distorted counterfeit that leads to social, moral, and spiritual breakdown.

One thing I’ve noticed is that the higher IQ they seem to be, the worse they are.