Happy Birthday, America!

We're observing Fourth of July by posting a few photos one of our favorite immigrants, Milla Jovovich, wearing red, white, and blue.

You can see many more pictures of Milla J. over at Shades of Gray, where she's been a fixture (fixation?) for over a decade now. (So far, so good... and no restraining order yet!)

Happy Fourth of July!

AN AMERICAN
By Robert E. Howard

Sing of my ancestors!
   Sing of them with pride!
Sing of fair America,
   Green prairies and blue tide!
One was born in County Cork!
   Hail the shamrock green!
(One was named Abraham
   Simeon Levine.)
One held rule in Dundee,
   Friend of the Montrose.
(One sold nuts and apples
   Where the river Tiber flows.)
One drank ale in Devonshire,
   One scaled Lomond's crags.
(One grew up in Warsaw
   And peddled clothes and rags.)
One sailed out from Liverpool,
   Bold and free and glad.
(One lended cash at high
   Rates in Petrograd.)
Och, oi, oi, and hoot mon!
   Gott sie dank go bragh!
Gevald! Be dommed! Diavoli!
   America iss braw!
Shure, its meself thot loves the land,
   Vy shouldn't I? Oi oi!
Some fellow he no lika diss,
   I'm nae you kind o' boy!
Its aiche mon for his ain, py hell!
   A feller got to stand
An' tella people who he iss
   And brag on his own land!
Vun nation unt vun langvitche!
   Oi! And go for business fine
To Michael Israel Malcolmsky
   Gammettio O'Stein.

It's Too Late to Apologize... again.

I posted a version of this video a couple of years ago. Now, in honor of Independence Day, here's a re-cut version, with the bizarre comedic bits replaced with clips from "The Patriot." (I did not do the edits. I'm just reposting from YouTube.)

Happy Fourth of July to US readers!

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here are lots of pictures in observance of the birthday of the United States of America.