How are you celebrating Americas 250th birthday?

[Grizzlymi]

I'll fly the flag upside down when poor people don't have I-phones, and are not fat. When "they" start to go door to door taking our guns, arresting people for expressing their 1st Amendment rights on social media or banning gas engines!!! Until then, I'll proudly fly my USA Flag upright and proudly!!!! There are other country's to move to, but we are one of the only ones that people are fighting to get into. So I'm going to fly my USA flag upright, and thank God everyday for what I have and everything he has blessed us with. Politicians come and go, but this idea of America has evolved over the last 249 years and on July 4th 2026, I'm celebrating my a$$ off and hoping for better days to come!!

 

[Grizzlymi]

I think the upside down flag is an insult to the country and what it stands for. I know, we all have the right to our own opinions, but as a disabled veteran, I respectfully object to the improper display of the flag I fought for. You do whatever you think is correct, though.

Thank you for your service!

 

[Functional Artist]

Too soon? Too “wrong”? Unpatriotic perhaps? Don’t care, as I think this is real patriotism.

Real patriotism??
...more like brainwashed

Take that SHIP" somewhere else
...as this thread is about how folks are celebratin' Americas 250th birthday
&
Robert wouldn't be impressed with ya makin' this political
* NO Politics, NO Religion & no jerks...it's not that complicated

IMO The United States of America is the GREASTEST place to live/be on the entire planet

I personally feel that "If you don't love it...leave it"

Canada accepts unappreciative "sorry azzez"
...as they are pretty WOKE up there (should "fit right in")

 

[Edwin Spangler]

I think were just gonna grill some burgers and watch the town set off fireworks. Guys are OBSSESSED with them around here. Lol Ive mentioned it before but these people will set off fireworks to celebrate taking a healthy dump!

 

[Denny]

Sometimes with a good healthy dump you just have to celebrate. You’ll appreciate it more when you get older. Sometimes I want to throw a parade!

 

[Grizzlymi]

I would like to think we can all agree that this is the greatest country in all humanity. We are not celebrating our government, but this country as and idea and a living evolvement. So forget our government, and celebrate "Merica next weekend!!!!!!! Long live the USA!!!!!!

 

[TrinityR]

I'm heading upnorth hopefully to Boyne Mountain. My parents have a place up there. It's is beautiful up there. My mom has been battling cancer since April 2025, and she's off the radiation till August, so I think they are going up. Rest of the family as well. My family knows how to party, so should be a blast! Fly fishing, gun's, fireworks, beer, bourbon and just plain old 'Merica stuff in northern Michigan!!!!!!!!!!!!


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AMERICA. I am also drinking a lot of beer currently and 2 bottles of Jameson with my wife and friends

 

[TrinityR]

Here is my Summer Pasta Salad recipe.
Notice everything is in one pound increments so we can do it again. (some cannot be one pound, but I hope we are all smart enough to finger it out)
Bowtie pasta, cooked
mayonnaise
Kraft creamy poppyseed dressing
canned Mandarin oranges
One pound fresh strawberries, topped and sliced
Sliced green onions, about 1/4-3/8 inch (one bunch, not one pound)
Mix it up, put it in the refrigerator overnight
Add blueberries for color, but not necessary at all. It gets colorful on its own.
Let me know how you like it.


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I have tried it and I enjoyed! Thx my friend

 

[Functional Artist]

More enjoyin' the "bounties" of America

Over the weekend, we grilled some
...Chicken (puttin' 'em on a stick, makes 'em easier to "deal with")
...Kielbasa
...roasted some potatoes
...& some beans too (who says ya can't cook beans on a grill?)

 

[Functional Artist]

I even found some patriotic STAR shaped Tater Tots
...& they are a "proud partner of America 250"

 

[Sparkwizard]

Burgers and dogs under the oak trees with the neighbors I barely know, picnic tables and waiting for the fireworks from about a mile down the road. Sunday picking up the trash and finding whose these tables belong to.

250 years is a big deal. Without stating anything political, I want to stay that we need to uphold the wishes of our founding fathers who wrote the constitution to protect out Christian beliefs. This is the greatest nation ever created and it was created for freedom and truth.
God bless America!

 

[Master Hack]

May the Fourth be with all you sukkas!

 

[Hellion]

I personally feel that "If you don't love it...leave it"

Yeah yeah, sure. If you love it, you’re allowed to hate it or hate the state it is in and fly the flag upside down because of the current state. I used to like that "love it or leave it” saying, but it is so cliché now and needs some caveats and yeah-buts. This isn’t really an emotional feeling, I don’t personally FEEL this -- it is in line with LIBERTY and the Founders. There’s many who are pleased with the status quo and are clapping for less freedumbs, less privacy and more surveillance. If this were the 21st century version of April 19, 1775, there’s no doubt many, again that would be Loyalists to the Redcoats (that we now have in Washington).

Not attacking you personally, just speaking in general.

...but we are one of the only ones that people are fighting to get into.

They’re invited in, for THE GIBS! Free free free (gives). There is no “fighting to get in”. Sure, maybe a little teensy bit of fighting, but they’re here on a state sponsored red carpet ride for the bennies, bro!

By the way, I will be grilling and 'doing the traditional' but keeping an eye on the honored dead of our Revolutionary War.

 

[Denny]

Merry Christmas Happy 4th of July!

 

[Functional Artist]

Ragged Old Flag

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench, an old man was sittin' there.
I said, "Your old court house is kinda run down,
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town".
I said, "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit,
And that's a ragged old flag you got hangin' on it".
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down,
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town"
I said, "I think it is"
He said "I don't like to brag, but we're kinda proud of that ragged old flag"
You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
And It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it
Writing "Say Can You See"
It got a bad rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson
Tugging at it's seams.
And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag,
But she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag
On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp, and low, a time or two
She was in Korea, Vietnam, she went where she was sent
By her Uncle Sam
She waved from our ships upon the briny foam
And now they've about quit wavin' back here at home
In her own good land here She's been abused
She's been burned, dishonored, denied an' refused
And the government for which she stands
Has scandalized throughout out the land
And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearin' thin
But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in
Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more
So we raise her up every morning
And we take her down every night,
We don't let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On a second thought
I do like to brag
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag (Jonny Cash 1974)

 

[Sparkwizard]

Thanks for posting that, Patriot!