Happy Fourth of July
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What are you doing reading this on the Fourth of July? You should be out searing some meat, drinking beer and blowing stuff up. Get off the web and get back to being a real American!
Unless you are looking up how to treat burn injuries. If so, check out the Mayo Clinic on this subject.
A Philosopher's Blog 
Even I don’t drink this early in the morning.
Always worth remembering on July 4th:
Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science.
What’s more, according to three authors from the University Chicago, Cornell University and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power.
“A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants’ Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months,” the study found. “These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/07/20/shock-study-us-flag-only-boosts-gop
That;s very interesting actually.
Does waving a Soviet flag make them vote Democrat?
The Republicans are generally better at flag imagery than the Democrats.
Of course. Apparently viewing the American flag makes people want to vote Republican. I guess Obama knew about this study when he refused to wear an American flag lapel pin in order to show he wasn’t a droll American patriot.
With freedom comes responsibility…but not everybody can handle it:
Ok. That was awesome. I actually started to feel guilty because I was laughing so hard at people getting blown up. Pretty sure I woke the kids up.
Natural selection via fireworks.
and then there’s
https://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/happy-fourth-of-july-2/#comment-20516
The 2012 award for superior mammal goes to . . .