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Hi everyone! Me again. So, I just though I would point out a few details about this blog:

It took me about 4-5 days total to type, code and finish it. The top graphic is positioned using a table, and this layout was made entirely by me and a copy of Photoshop Elements 3.0

The coding is loosely based on a template, but mainly coded by me. (I ♥ absolute positioning!) CSS is our main design and structural code here. I like web design. :)

The graphics, (background, top banner) took about 4ish hours to do. The bunny is a stuffed toy of mine. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog. I enjoyed writing this whole thing. Its good to get out of the burrow. Anyways, here's me:

I know, I have the most adorable ears!

Well, anyways the links on the side are my resources and a cool comic named Rob Parvonian doing a rant on some of the music from this era.

(Oh, I had to sneak a Monty Python reference in there somewhere. Gotta love the killer rabbit! POWER TO THE LAGAMORPHS!)

Common Sense

Common Sense. Its what we are taught in first grade. Like, not to walk out in front of moving cars or read the bathroom signs. But this Pamphlet produced in 1776 by a Patriot named Thomas Paine trashed the British Government. It clearly stated that the British were the cause of the Americans economic misfortune. It help guide many Americans to see that Independence was the right way to go. (Oh, by the way, 120,00 copies were printed. Just though you mathematical people would have liked to know.)
Oh! Here's an early Politician! Let's interview him!

Paine: Uh... Hi. Why am I talking to a rabbit? Oh. A Blog? What's a Blog? Is that a new dish? No, oh well, I think my Pamphlet was very helpful to quell doubts within the community. Can I go now....? Thanks.

Well, there you have it. All about Rising Tensions!

Lexington and Concord

Above you see a depiction of the Lexington and Concord Battle. If you have noticed I did not start this post with a stupid comment or anecdote.

Now, since I happen to be writing a story at the same time as typing this, my paws are in PAIN! So, we will sum it up like so:

You're Invited! Read this and Learn!

Who: Paul Revere, King George, William Dawes, General Gage and some Minutemen! (No! You do NOT microwave for one minute to get ready-to-fight perfection! This is not Betty Crocker people.)

When: April 1775. (I can't think of a joke. Sorry. I'm being distracted by some carrots.)

Where: Doesn't the title explain it?

Changes/Outcome: The Brits were sent back to England with their Fish'n Chips. The lobsterback's attempt to seize weapons from the Colonists failed, but they won the Battle and marched to Concord, setting the town on fire. The Brits continued marching and opened fire. The Minutemen stood there ground however, and the Brits soon lost, and continued to be shot at and killed all the way back to Boston. 74 British soldiers died, and another 200 were MIA or hurt, while the colonists' losses were 49 dead and 41 wounded. The Brits learned that day that they has misjudged the Americans, and they were willing to fight to the death.

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Paul Revere: The British are coming! The British are coming! Grab your butter and lemon wedges, the lobsterbacks are coming! What? It's over? Well... okay I guess I could share my feelings. Well, I am so glad that we won this battle! We American are not just helpless little pushovers wait to be... pushed over. Well, what I'm saying is that we are proud and willing to fight as one!

Well, thank you Paul. You and Patrick must give great pep talks.
Stay computing!

The First Continental Congress

I do not think of myself as a Holland Lop, but as a member of the Lagomorphs! Okay, maybe that's not the same as the colonies uniting, but you get the point. If your don't then you should slap yourself with a wet trout. I mean it. Well, diving right into our subject, in September 1774, about 50 leaders from different colonies gathered together in Philadelphia. (The place, not the cream cheese; though it is delicious on carrot cake.)

The delegates pretty much thought that all the colonies were seperate, while Patrick Henry tried to convince them to think otherwise. While this method didn't quite work, they all found common ground with their love of liberty and their hate of tyranny.

The delegates then wrote a polite message to King George asking him to look at their complaints and give them their rights. They also stated that British goods would be boycotted until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. Now, lets talk to a man who jumps onto soapboxes to give pep talks, Patrick Henry! (Henry, henry, henry... echo....)

Patrick Henry: Unlike the starfish character with my name, I am quite intelligent. Together we are strong, and thats the whole idea. We will fight the lobsterbacks until we have our freedom!

Thanks, Patrick. Say hi to Spongebob for me.

The Intolerable Acts

In 1774 Parliament passed new laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. These new Acts became known to the colonists as the 'Intolerable Acts.' The Boston Harbor was closed until all the tea was payed for, any troops accused of murder woud be tried in England and citizens were not allowed to call Town Meeting's until the governer was notified.

Lord North thought this would press the Colonists into submission, but instead angered the colonists even more. Virginians sent food and supplies to the Bostinians and called for a congress.

Some Americans, called Loyalists thought that the Patriots and Sam Adams group called the Sons of Liberty were the cause of all the trouble.

Samuel Adams would have thought that this was an attack on British America and that we must fight back.

See? Wasn't that boring? Yes, I like my totally off topic comments too. Now, we still have a lot of ground to cover, so stay... uh, tuned I guess. (This is not a radio.)

The Boston Tea Party

I WANT CRUMPETS! Okay, for those that do not know, crumpets are a delightfully delicious pastry often eaten at teatime. But, we arn't talking about that kind of tea party. We're talking about the kind that throws 324 chests of tea off a boat. Yep! It was another one of those attemps to rebel against the Governent and their unfair taxes. Lord North must've been reeeeaaaalllllyyyy angry. Mostly because he was losing money. So he couldn't buy his fish'n chips.

Well, the East India Company had 17 million pounds of tea sitting in British warehouses. Well, the company decided to say:
"Hey, lets implement a Tea Act that will let us sell to the colonies cheaper, and let us have a monopoly!"
(Okay, maybe not exactly like that, but you get the picture.)

Well, the businesses were afriad of more monopolies. Poor buisnesses and merchants. Well, the sudden price decrease didn't fool the Patriots. Even though the tea was then cheaper then the smuggled Dutch tea, there was still a tax. That tax cause the incident known as the Boston Tea Party, when 50 men boarded three ships dressed as Mohawk indians. Now, let's here a word from our guest speaker:

John Adams: Well, this act will have dire... consenwuences I must say. As it was bold, daring and rather rude. Oh, and one question for you: if I'm the good guy, and my cousin Sam is the bad guy, why is HIS NAME MORE FAMOUS THEN MINE?! I mean, he's got his name on a bottle!

Well, thats marketing John. Besides, your dead. Now, lets move on to the next topic, shall we?

The Boston Unfortunate Killing

The above title has been changed from 'Boston Massacre' to the 'Boston Unfortunate Killing' because I feel it is more correct. (It also sounds fancier.) Right now, I point my ears in the direction of learning. (Yay! Knowledge!)

Well, do you all remember the Drunken Leader Special? On the very same day the Parliament repealed the Townshend 'Duties' a fist-fight/disagreement/riot/brawl/
argument and or involuntary manslaughter broke out between the Fish'n Chips and the Turkeys. (That would be the British Soldiers and the Colonists, non food savvy people.) Five colonists were killed that day. Let's all have a moment of silence. I'm serious. I know, scary thought.

Well, this was one of the boiling points between our rabbit-eating patriots and the lobsterbacks. In 1768 the government had sent four regiments to keep order in Boston. The red-coats were forbidden to fire on colonists, which in turn, caused general trouble in their direction. The method didn't work, and well, you know the ending. Soldiers shoot, five men die, Sam Adams stirs up a fight, our sponsored hero the Patriot John Adams defends the lobtserbacks and their squid and everyone gets off pretty easy.

The colonists were not happy... Now! This post brought to you by fishsticks and John Adams.

Adams: I remain very proud on my decision to defend the redcoats, even though I hated them. A lot. But if it wasn't for me, who knows what would have happened? But we must ask ourselves this question: If the lobsterbacks wern't aloud to fire on Colonists, why did they have guns EVERYWHERE they went? Thank you.

Hey, he proves a point. Oh! Fun fact! In the medieval times, you pretty much were what you ate. That's why they called Spaniards peacocks!

The Townshend Acts

Hi everyone! Okay, so, to the point, this mostly drunken man named Charles Townshend- Champagne Charlie- decided to tax the colonists for bad behavior. Actually it wasn't a tax, but a "tax". The colonists were to pay for the armies and certain popular goods imported from Britain. They were The Townshend Acts. (If you ask me, this dude had a liitttle tooo much champaannggeee. I hate to see what his liver looked like.) Anyways, this pretty much angered the colonists even more, and even though Townshend died from the flu, (if you ask me, it should have been liver failure), colonists were boycotting Brit's goods by the suggestion of Samuel Adams. (The person, not the beer.)
Well... things still don't get better. Parliament gets a new leader named Lord North, who often fell asleep in Parliament. (Sleep deprivation due to stress or too much champagne? You decide.) Anyways, he had at least half a brain and liver, so he could see the loss the British Merchants were taking. (They couldn't afford their fish'n chips. :( )
Well, he lifted the tax on everything- except tea, which the stubborn king and his pickled liver refused to lift, as he was determined to tax those Americans and their rabbit-eating ways. Now, lets break for a commercial:

Sam Adams: Hello, ye Americans! How art thou? This tax is okay I do believe, but tea should be tax free I say! Tax free! I think I'm going to stir up some anger and false hysteria! Now, remember, don't buy my product if you are under 21!

Good day all, now I am hopping off to organize an AAA 1767.

The Quartering Act

MUTINY! Um... okay I'm done. But, unlike most other compleatly random, yet still relevant comments I make, this one happens to be... compleatly relevent. I know, it's amazing. I'll bow now. Okay, anways, onto the topic: The Quartering Act was used to punish MUTINY and desertion. I like the word MUTINY. Anyways, it would fund the armies; but, why fund a ton of people that do nothithing but sit on their bums and eat rabbit? That was the colonist's point. Of course, it was another stupid tax on random things like vinegar and yummy foods. The colonists wern't really happy about that. Actually, thats the understatement of the century. They were outraged. Like MUTINY! (Fine, fine, I'm done.) Anyways, tempers had begun to rise on both sides, threatening to boil over like a pot of rabbit stew seasoned with herbs on a blazing fire in the middle of winter! Oh yes. Now, a word from our sponsers:

James Madison: Well, I must say, all these random taxes are becoming quite obnoxious. I can't really say anything. I'm dead! I do think the government should give up, so you rabbits can leave us alone. I'll continue decomposing now.

MUTINY! Okay... sorry, sorry. Well, hope you learned something. I sure didn't. (And... if my teacher is reading this, I learned alot! This is the rabbit, not the human!)

(P.S. I said MUTINY five times. MUTINY! MUTINY! Okay, eight if you count these :) )

The Stamp Act (It should've lasted Forever)

Okay, if you didn't get the joke at the top, I don't blame you. It was lame. Darn, my small bunny intelligence/comedic genius. Anyways, steering away from the corrupt system we call Fed Ex, US Postal and Forever Stamps, we shall go back to 1765, ye all! (Get it? Ye all? Y'all? Never mind.)

So, this one dude, decided to ignore all those petitions from Virginia except a few and taxed the colonists into the muddy ground that they call 'farmland'. Anywho, there were about 54 different rules and regulation in this 'Stamp Act', causing a serious threat of revolt. You know why? You wanna know why? No? Oh... well, I'll tell you anyways. There was this Seven Year War that completely decimated the English economy, as they were so far in debt. (No, you cannot mortgage a country.) They taxed even the English in Britain, so you can expect how happy-happy-joy-joy the citizens are feeling. (If you didn't know that was sarcasm, you are stupid.) Anyways, it was the first attempt to stick government on the Colonies in America. Now, its time to interview our very dead, very famous founding father!

Hancock: Well, I say, this is an insult. Just because the government has funding issues, doesn't mean he can tax the pants off the colonists! This is an outrage, the tax is so high. Now, if you excuse me, I need to get back to being dead.

There you have it :)

The Proclamation of 1763

Proclamation. Declaration. Whats the difference? Oh... there is a difference? Sorry... anyways, at the end of the French and Indian War, lots and lots of opportunities opened for colonists. (To hunt more of us rabbits, thats for sure.) Anyways, there was this theory that the proclamation was to keep British settlers and their fish 'n chips on the east coast. In fact, it was sorta true. The Proclamation made it so those Western territories were off-limits to those marrow-eating settlers, including that rich Ohio Valley, and all the land from Ohio to the Mississippi river. Sad.
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Well, on the bright side they got four new colonies, including East and West Florida. (Yay! Well, bunnies like sun too!) There was also Quebec, which was already settled, and the off continent Grenada. (There's a street near my burrow named Grenada, and I almost got run over there when it snowed, 'cause there's a really big hill and... uh, back to the topic.)
Anyways, the Indians, or Native Americans, as it is politicly correct, were now under protection of the crown. Actually, the Proclamation was mainly based around Natives. (On a side note: the king must've had HUGE crown )

Okay, so the founding father's would've been all:

George: WHAT?! Ye must let thou explorith the landith!

Um.... maybe not. But, something like that. Oh, by the way, I ban rabbit stew to be talked about, read about or... smelled about while reading this. Don't even think about it.