For all you fellow USofAns, enjoy your 4th of July celebrations and think about what this day means - the beginning of
The Great Experiment. Things may not look so good nowadays but we have weathered worse (eg,
The Civil War (or War Of Northern Aggression, depending on your POV)).
To the rest of the World: keep your fingers crossed for us. We're going through a rough time (most of it our own doing). We're not bad people, we just seem to have lost sight of the goals the Founding Fathers set.
Political talk is forbidden on this site, so I'll leave it at that.