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Photos of the Week – August 8, 2020

The 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally opened this week in Sturgis, South Dakota with little regard for the COVID-19 pandemic.  Bike aficionados roared into town, sans masks and social distancing.  I have to concede I have no problem with this.  While I haven’t ridden a motorcycle in almost 30 years – and probably wouldn’t now at my age – I fully support this rally and the attendees’ right to navigate as they please.  If I was on bike, traveling down the highway at 100 mph, my biggest concern wouldn’t be a virus flying into my mouth; it’d be a bug!  Or some idiot coming the other way in their over-sized SUV texting.

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Happy Independence Day 2020!

“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, exploding Christmas.”

Stephen Colbert

“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth…”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

Albert Camus

“I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.”

James Lafferty

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”

Barack Obama

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle.  But with family picnics where kids throws Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

Erma Bombeck

“All people are born alike. Except Republicans and Democrats.”

Groucho Marx

“And one day people will celebrate this day by getting shit-faced and lighting Chinese explosives – Thomas Jefferson 1776.”

Zach Braff

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”

Frederick Douglass

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

John F. Kennedy

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Retro Quote – Morrie Schwartz

“The little things I can obey.  But the big things – how we think what we value – those you must choose yourself.  You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.”

Morrie Schwartz

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