Celebrate Constitution Day!!

[lastlib]

On September 17, 1787, the Founding Fathers signed the most influential document in American history, the U.S. Constitution.

"WE THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

https://constitutioncenter.org/

Today is the day we celebrate the sigining of our national charter, the oldest and most enduring written constitution in the world.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

[Boomerproud]

2. Celebrate while we can. The POTUS and his AG

think it's quite the bothersome thing to have to adhere to this little old piece of paper.

[lastlib]

3. Or, as GWB referred to it,,,,,

"a G-- D----- piece of paper."

We'd better celebrate this one--if Shitgibbon steals the election, it'll be the last one we have anything to celebrate!

Celebrate it by VOTING!

[frazzled]

4. But do it kind of quietly, please

I support all valid celebrations, but we are recovering from shell shock today. For the last 4 nights, beginning around 10:30 pm, we’ve heard loud honking and bursts of bangs (was it firecrackers, gun shots, flash bangs). We could see some parked police cars with lights on, but wondered what was happening. No news.

The, last night, from 10:30 pm to 2 am, it escalated: unbearably loud honking of horns, shouting, cars revving and doing burnouts, huge explosions of firecrackers. I sent my spouse out to the roof at around midnight to see what was going on. He said lots of cars racing with Mexican flags.

Of course ... it was finally Mexican Independence Day! (But why 4 days?). Since parades and festivals are banned in our state for the pandemic, this was the alternative. But really? Till 2 o’clock in the morning? With the police just sitting there to block off streets to allow it?

I am so fried this morning. So please, a gentle celebration.