What can I do on the 4th?

[rogue_bandit]

What can I do on the 4th?

Stand on the corner and shout, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

Or, maybe better, "Give me back my freedoms!"

Well, unfortunately I can't really do either of these. You see, I have to be a little careful.

I am a newly elected city official. I have an agenda to increase citizen participation. My agenda can only be furthered with the support of the other officials (elected and salaried). So for at least the next year I have to keep a clean profile. I can certainly express myself (they all know I'm a Democrat and they know I'm progressive). What I can't do is come off like a crackpot.

So, I ask you, "What can I do on the 4th?"

[AllyCat]

1. Freeway Blogger has an action going that weekend.

www.freewayblogger.com

[pnorman]

2. I'm temporarily "apartment-bound".

What I plan on doing on that date, is posting the following on my union BBS and listserves: http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1600
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JFK Reads the Declaration of Independence
John F. Kennedy, former Senator (D-MA)

Listen to an archival recording of Senator John F. Kennedy reading the Declaration of Independence in its entirety, which was made exclusively for New York radio station WQXR's 1957 July 4th observance.
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Most will appreciate it, but there are a few RW-Whackos in my union who will no doubt get their snout out of joint over that.

pnorman

[Journeyman]

3. Thanks for the link, pnorman. . .

I've made it a point to read the Declaration of Independence each July 4 for the past 30 years. I look forward to listening to one of my favored presidents read it to me this year.

[DiverDave]

4. Is .php a linux program?

I cant listen as I have no decoder for a .php program.

[pnorman]

5. I have no idea, as I'm running Win XP at this end.

But when I hit the "listen" button, I'm asked if I want to save it or open with Real Audio. I have NO Linux "smarts", but I imagine plenty here do. Hit that audio button yourself, and you may be surprised. If it DOESN'T work, let others here know what flavor of Linux you're running.

pnorman

[DiverDave]

6. I'm running Win ME and cannot locate a codec for this...

.php seems to be a script writing tool, and I cant figure out how to play the file...any ideas?

[pnorman]

7. I'm out of my league tech-wise,

but I got the impression that if you have Real Player installed, it should handle that file with no further action on your part. And I'm pretty sure that free versions of Real Player are available.

If all else fails, why not email that website? It's hard to imagine them making all that good stuff available ... but ONLY by jumping through a lot of hoops. That's not a geek site where that sort of thing is considered 'cool'.

pnorman

[MsTryska]

10. php is a forum file script of sorts

if you look at the address for this DU forum it includes php.

copy and paste the entire link into your browser, you might be missing the end bit.

[DiverDave]

12. SUCCESS!

I should have googled it 1st...doh
I had to install real player.
It gives me chills to listen to it...awesome.

Oh, linky to real audio:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/pr_declaration_2005.html

[LuCifer]

8. Burn a flag maybe!?

Make sure you drop it on the ground ACCIDENTLY first, that way as we all know, the proper flag disposal eitquite (sic?) is...TO BURN IT!

Oh goddamn, if this doesn't stir the shit, I don't know what will!

Hey any freepertards reading this: eat me!

Lu Cifer

PS Edit: I got another great idea: Make sure you wrap the dropped flag around a rethugliKKKon first!!!!!!

[MsTryska]

9. Go to a Democratic Group barbecue?

Go out to your Town Square and shake hands with as many people as you can with a "proud to be a democrat" t-shirt and thank them for their vote? March in the Parade?

[rogue_bandit]

11. Great ideas

Thank you for your feedback. Lots of great ideas.