Happy Birthday America

 

 

Feel free to leave your birthday wishes

 

Wow - You can be serious? Who would have thought it?
Great Job Rob

We the people of the United States of America Celebrate The Birthday of our Great Land and with that in mind - an awesome video for your digging, sharing and viewing pleasure!

Happy 4th Everyone and Happy Birthday America - The Country I love!
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“My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority…If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!”
— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to William Strahan, August 19, 1784

Found at Presidential Prayer Team

Happy Birthday America!

http://thescroogereport.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/benjamin-franklin-credits-god-for-americas-independence/

Happy Birthday America
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http://kat-com.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday America! I love ya!

www.travisjmorgan.com/blog/

Happy B-Day USA! How old are ya now?

(Canada just celebrated its 141st birthday on July 1st.)

Lee Greenwood huh? LOL … I’ll pass on that one, but I’ll be watching the fireworks on TV … the US knows how to do fireworks.

DrowseyMonkey

Happy Birthday! I got flags, fireworks, Kelly Clarkson singing Star Spangled Banner, and th 1812 overture. Anyone want to bring the junk food

mythoughts-ssb.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-thoughts-independance-day.html

Happy 232nd Birthday America! Take 232 shots to your health and dont worry I got your puke bucket ready. Time to get wasted!!
thefly4176.blogspot.com/

where woulld we be without a strong and free America, God bless America

gentledove

Happy birthday indeed. Just got back from the reenactment of the skirmish of Hanover. I think the horse artillery was a bit much for my 4 year old - he was quite scared when the cannons started booming. http://www.theaspiringhorseplayer.wordpress.com/

Despite your awful crime of wasting a heck of a lot of tea, I wish you a very Happy Birthday, America!
Where may one purchase a cake big enough for the celebrations?
lordlikely.co.uk/2008/07/interval-no-use-crying-over-spilt-tea.html

A Happy Birthday wish from Austria

http://wilbau.blogspot.com

The Birthday of freedom & democracy is a gift to all our citizens, but it’s a gift that carries a responsibility: be a citizen, not a passive consumer. Democracy is something you have to use, or you’ll lose it.Here’s my post on the subject:www.jan4geo-glow.blogspot.com/2008/07/democracy-use-it-or-lose-it.html

 

Happy Birthday America! I’m so thankful for the freedoms I have.

www.myrecycledbags.com

despite this country’s issues, faults, problems….there is no where else i’d rather be!

http://newsblip.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday USA and MANY more! Catch a crook with crimeandcrooks.com .

Crooks don’t deserve happy birthdays.

I say…thought i’d pop in to say “No hard feelings I hope” you little rebels enjoy the day…you earned it I guess.

http://halfdeadanddancing.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday!

After you celebrate, maybe you have time to think about constitutional traditions we share with our European cousins. If so, check out “Why I like the Declaration of Independence”, clioandme.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/why-i-like-the-declaration-of-independen…

Happy Birthday America!!! & Happy Birthday to me…
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Here is offended blogger’s dedicated to all those America haters out there.

www.offendedblogger.com/2008/07/happy-birthday-america-offensive.html

Rob’s Megaphone Wins Second Arte y Pico Award!

Thanks to Kimoto Blogger extraordinaire at CopyWrite for awarding Rob’s Megaphone the ‘Arte y Pico’ Award. Awarded in recognition of support given, comments made and general all-round blogging community spirit, it’s an honor to be recognized

The rules of the Arte y Pico award require me to similarly award five noteworthy blogs, meaning this award is more viral and link-building, which is only a good thing.

I am very pleased to pay the pico forward. The five blogs to which I am awarding the Arte y Pico award, for their wonderful support and genuine blogtastic spirit are, in no particular order;

1. Paul’s World of Funky Stuff  
2. Language For You
3. Outside My Brain   
4. Impeccable Items of Intrest 
5. Ya-ttitude

The Rules thanks to arteypico.blogspot.com:

Rules:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you copnsider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contrubuites to the blogger community, no matter of language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award-winning, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog thathas given her or him the ward itself.

4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y pico”blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.

Eleven Interesting Words

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?

Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.

Upon learning an interesting word, if you’re like me, you’ll be tempted to work it into a conversation to improve your vocabulary or just to see the expression on your friends’ faces. Since this is an online conversation, maybe you’re feeling a little motivated now.

If after reviewing this list of eleven, you feel up for a challenge, please read through to the Word Power Exercise.

 

 

Lamprophony  Loudness and clarity of voice

Floccinaucinihilipilification   Estimation that something is valueless.

Rhinotillexomania  Habitual or obsessive nose-picking  

Honorificabilitudinitatibus  In honor

Deipnosophist   One who excels at conversations at the dinner table 

Sesquipedalian   Using long words 

Farctate  Full (as from eating) to the point of bursting; completely satiated

Onychophagist  Person who bites his fingernails 

Bloviate  To Speak or Discourse at Length in a Pompous or Boastful Manner 

Dextrorotatory Turning Clockwise or to the Right 

Eleemosynary Relating to Charity, Alms, or Almsgiving 

 

Word Power Exercise:

See how many of these Eleven Interesting Words (EIW) you can include in a 50 word (or less) comment. The only two rules are: 1. Your comment must make sense, and 2. You may not use any of the EIWs directly beside another one, such as in a list. Have fun, and add your blog address, so visitors can stop by and say Hi.

 

 

They were told he would not remember them

They were told he would not remember them

Makes you wonder what else They are wrong about.

Rob’s Megaphone hits the big 100,000

Hi everyone,

I’ve got BIG news!

Rob’s Megaphone just reached 100,000 hits - in just three days shy of 100 days.

I really want to show my appreciation for all  of your support with a few signs.

 

 

Sometimes it’s refreshing when the underdog wins

It’s refreshing when the underdog wins

I pull for the underdog. I enjoy seeing the helpless and bullied rise up victoriously over circumstances and individuals that seek to suppress or control them. I want the tortoise to beat the hare, which mocks and jeers at him for being slow.

I don’t like seeing nature taken for granted. I’m not against cities - I was born in a city, and I live in a small one, but I’m against mindless abuses of nature, like clear-cutting forests, polluting our communities’ air and water. I’m against building new buildings, with half a city abandoned, to where wildlife have nowhere to roam but our highways. I’d rather see the pines than billboard signs.

I’ve always related to the Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics in

All I Can Do Is Write About It

(allen collins — ronnie vanzant)

Well this life that Ive lead has took me everywhere
There aint no place I aint never gone
But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well there just aint no plae like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in tennessee
And lord I cant make any changes
All I can do is write em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin
Do you like to see a youngun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin
Well you better listen to my song
And lord I cant make any changes
All I can do is write em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Im not tryin to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ol dixieland
But youll never take ol dixie from a boy
And lord I cant make any changes
All I can do is write em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin
Lord take me and mine before that comes
cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin
Lord take me and mine before that comes

 

I don’t see nature as being defeated though.

Nature, like the toroise is slow and steady,

and in many instances nature wins the race

Dr. Rob receives award from Lander University

Hi friends,  I was notified this evening that an article about me appears on the Lander University homepage. I am very happy to learn of this recognition, and I wanted to share it with all of you. I must admit I debated whether or not to include it on Rob’s Megaphone, but in the end I decided it was relevant. If you don’t agree, well you’re probably not still here  :) The screen capture image could not include the entire article, so if you want, you can click on the picture or HERE to read the article in its entirety.                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul’s Funky Caption Contest

Hey fine folks,

If you enjoy playing the add your caption or headline game with me at Rob’s Megaphone, then you’ll love Paul’s Funky Caption Contest. Have a looksee right

HERE.

Don’t forget to tell him Rob sent you. Have a great day. I’m working on a new post about nature for this evening. So, Ya’ll come back now, ya hear.

Dr. Rob

More magical than Disney, but no amount of money can buy

Did you ever notice that families with little money are more tight nit and happier than wealthy families? I’m sure there are other explanations for this reality, but I’ve stumbled across one epiphany that makes sense to me. Here’s how I reached my conclusion.

My boys and I are a very close, happy family, and we recently arrived home from a week-long trip to Disney and Universal. We had a great time on Space Mountain, Rock’n Roller Coaster and Disco H2O. We also loved the shows. I was even “THAT GUY” on the Monster’s Inc. show - an interactive, animated program that spotlights audience members and makes them characters in the plot. My boys loved that I somehow got to be the costar of the show for which I was presented with this badge. All day long, Disney employees, or cast members as they prefer to be called, said “Hey, you’re THAT GUY, Congratulations!

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program already in progress.

As I said, Orlando was awesome, but the trip - the trip was most excellent. This particular trip reminded me of childhood expeditions, in which memories of the “journey there” conjure up more anticipation and excitement than the destination itself. For me, childhood road trips were a time for laughter, planning, and excitement - almost magical.

My family takes several multi-hour fun trips per year, and it became evident to me this year that while we usually have loads of fun, some magic was missing.  As a college professor in a single parent family, I would not describe my financial status as wealthy, but with budgeting and planning we do fine. And as I looked at my boys gearing up for our 9 hour trip, I thought: when it comes to childhood possessions, one area that kids today often differ from kids of just a generation ago is in technology. As we boarded the car for our trip, this is what I observed: two boys with IPods on, cell phones by their sides, one watching a movie on his portable DVD, and the other playing his Nintendo DS. I had just tuned Sirius radio to hair nation.

For about five minutes I sat frozen with keys in hand - I realized we were being isolated by technology - there was no opportunity to savor the excitement. I realized that our trip would be like Christmas without the Christmas season - no time for anticipation, so I made the unpopular announcement to put away all the gadgets for the first half of the trip.

The first few moments weren’t particularly productive, but that soon changed.

My boys and I talked about what we wanted to do during our vacation. We sang songs and played games. We played the initial game (ie J.D. Male actor; hint: plays a pirate) , the alphabet game (ie, find words on signs that begin with “A”, then “B:  ect), the other alphabet game (I say Apple, one son says Apple, Bear; the next son says: Apple, Bear, Crow, etc), and also 20 questions. We made up our own games: who could find the most red trucks and who could find the license plates from a specified state. We told jokes, we told stories, we  laughed, and we loved it. Before the magic of Disney, we shared the magic of the family road trip. We shared the magic of love and family that no amount of money can buy.

Disney was entertaining:

But the magic did not end there.

As we boarded the car for the trip home, I noticed my boys had their IPods and games by their sides. I smiled and thought maybe the magic of childhood can’t compete with today’s technology. As I started the engine and began to drive, a small but enthusiastic voice from behind me said, “Can we play 20 questions first?”  And so we did . . .

Our vacation is now over; and as always, while we enjoyed the trip, we are happy to be home.  This trip; however, we brought a special souvenir home with us, and we agreed to take it out often - something more magical than Disney. We agreed to limit the electronics and make more time for what really counts - the magic that no money can buy.

Three days in Orlando, now on to Disney

 

So far my boys and I have had a great time at Universal, Islands of Adventure, and Wet ‘n Wild water park. We’re also having a blast at the Disney Condo pool meeting folks from all over the world. Adam from Liverpool became instant friends with my sons. To be honest that’s been the most fun for me besides making great memories with my sons. We also met a real nice family from Maryland today at the water park. The dad said he was going to check out Rob’s Megaphone - so a big Rob’s Megaphone High Five to him. I hope his memory is better than mine because I forgot his name, but I do remember he and his wife just found out they were expecting their third child. Also, he’s getting ready to open up a crab restaurant. 

Tomorrow we’re moving on to Disney World for a little magic fun. So far, the crowds have been manageable and the weather’s been nice with a cool breeze and light rain to cool us off. Plenty of my blogging pals have given me tips and well wishes that have really paid off. I want to thank them for all their help, so here goes. I appreciate your kind thoughts and all your help,

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http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/

http://drowseymonkey.blogspot.com/

http://www.nardeeisms.blogspot.com/

http://globallyminded.com/Blog/index.php

http://swellguy.typepad.com/

http://paulsfunkystuff.com/

http://lordiwanttobewhole.blogspot.com/

http://www.thefearlessblog.blogspot.com/

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