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************************************************* *************************************************  *************** WARNING ! ! ! ***************  This dangerously illegal and highly immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronics Reconnaissance (i.e., "B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.") as part of a coordinated clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., "N.A.Z.I.") and the Commission on Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., "C.O.M.M.I.E."). Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined!  ************************************************* Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, Independence Day is almost here! Aye, but therein lies the rub.  WHICH day IS the real Independence Day? According to a letter that John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail Adams, "The Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with Shews Games Sports Guns Bells Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction even altho We should rue it which I trust in God We shall not." By the way, those are not misspellings or grammatical errors in that quote. Way back in those days, when people were more literate, pedantic, erudite, educated, intelligent, cultured, courteous, chivalrous, moral, pious, religious, and yes, even downright smarter than we are today, folks really did write that way, as our native English language was still evolving. Well, Tuesday is also payday (!) for me, so I'm hoping I can go visit the local fireworks stand and get my grubby, sweaty, clumsy paws on a couple of tons of high explosives, so I can celebrate by blowing something up. It's sort of a "guy" thing, kind of like baying at the moon. What? Don't YOU go out and bay at the full moon? I would never miss a chance to do that! Here in Mississippi, exploding fireworks are legal, and everybody goes to the beach to set them off. Also, many of the casinos located along the beach put on a fireworks display, and I can watch the whole show from the balcony of my private quarters here on the Seventh Floor of Tower "C" at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. On Monday, the new law takes effect, legalizing the open display of loaded firearms. Under the new law (which is actually the old law that's merely been slightly amended for clarification), no license or permit is necessary when openly wearing a properly holstered pistol or revolver. A Mississippi Firearms Permit is only required if wearing a concealed firearm. Alas, but, we STILL need a federal judge to rule that residents at the Armed Forces Retirement Home can legally possess and carry loaded firearms on this property. In three (03) previous cases, in other states, federal judges ruled that managers of federal housing units could not prohibit residents from owning, possessing, and/or carrying loaded firearms, when their state laws permitted it. And, of all the residents in all the federally operated housing units, which group, other than the Armed Forces Retirement Home, has more extensive and specialized training, plus actual experience, in the safe and proper handling of firearms than us, huh? So, where's that federal judge at? Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Armed Forces Retirement Home  1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311  Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 ************************************************* *************************************************