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Independence Day
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.

Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!"

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
Yeah, and I bet the United Nations would be all like, "You can't make everyone celebrate your holiday!" And we'd be like "The fuck we can't, Frenchy!" And then Will Smith would fire a nuclear bomb into the alien command center after Jeff Goldblum wrote a security exploit for the alien computer system (it was running Windows '95) and it would be awesome.

I'll post the video but it looks like Twentieth Century Fox has been pulling them down every chance they get because it's clearly stealing to post a 110 second clip of Bill Pullman's finest work. So if you're trudging through my archives in 2643 AD this embed will be blank, my sentient iPod friend. Popout

Bill Pullman as the President of the United States in Independence Day (1996).



In other patriotism news, I was at Trader Joe's today with Julian. We were both wearing red and blue shorts with a white shirt. I strapped an American flag to his stroller for good measure. A worker at TJ's complimented us. A customer right next to her commented that she didn't like the flag because she didn't support war. I sighed, told her the flag didn't represent war, and paid for my organic bananas. American 1, that lady 0.
She
doesn't like the flag because she doesn't like war? My answer would've
been "You should worship it because in any other country your blatant
stupidity would be reason enough for you to be imprisoned or
euthanized."

Moron.

Posted at 7/4/2010 7:38:00 PM by Vinny


 
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