By GI Korea on July 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Statue of Freedom Cake

• Sonagi
  2:47 pm on July 5th, 2011 1

  I dressed like the Statue of Liberty to march in our town’s annual summer jubilee parade when I was 10 years old. The local daily published a photo of me in the next day’s edition, which I clipped out and still have. The year of the bicentennial, my brothers and I used wire hangers and sheets to transform two Radio Flyer wagons into covered wagons and two bicycles into horses. The two youngest got to sit in the wagons while the rest of us pulled or walked beside them. We won the grand prize that year and used the money to buy a cheap swimming pool with a metal frame and vinyl liner. Ah, memories of growing up in a one-traffic light town…

• Teadrinker
  4:17 pm on July 5th, 2011 2

  It looks like it’s made of margarine.

• Lemmy
  7:58 pm on July 5th, 2011 3

  I don’t know to be embarrassed or ashamed that the author fails to correctly identify the statue as that of “Freedom” – not the Statue of Liberty.

• GI Korea
  8:39 pm on July 5th, 2011 4

  Lemmy you are right, I just thought it was some kind of different version of the Statue of Liberty. Correction made.

• Teadrinker
  9:20 pm on July 5th, 2011 5

  Lemmy, liberty and freedom are synonyms.

• Lemmy
  9:41 pm on July 5th, 2011 6

  FREEDOM
  noun
  the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint : we do have some freedom of choice | he talks of revoking some of the freedoms. See note at liberty .
  • absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government : he was a champion of Irish freedom.
  • the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved : the shark thrashed its way to freedom.
  • the state of being physically unrestricted and able to move easily : the shorts have a side split for freedom of movement.
  • ( freedom from) the state of not being subject to or affected by (a particular undesirable thing) : government policies to achieve freedom from want.
  • the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity.
  • unrestricted use of something : the dog is happy having the freedom of the house when we are out.
  LIBERTY
  noun
  1 the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views : compulsory retirement would interfere with individual liberty.
  • (usu. liberties) an instance of this; a right or privilege, esp. a statutory one : the Bill of Rights was intended to secure basic civil liberties.
  • the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved : people who have lost property or liberty without due process.
  2 the power or scope to act as one pleases : individuals should enjoy the liberty to pursue their own interests and preferences.
  • Philosophy a person’s freedom from control by fate or necessity.

  THE RIGHT WORD
  freedom, independence, liberty
  The Fourth of July is the day on which Americans commemorate their nation’s independence, a word that implies the ability to stand alone, without being sustained by anything else.
  While independence is usually associated with countries or nations, freedom and liberty more often apply to people. But unlike freedom, which implies an absence of restraint or compulsion (: the freedom to speak openly), liberty implies the power to choose among alternatives rather than merely being unrestrained ( | the liberty to select their own form of government). Freedom can also apply to many different types of oppressive influences ( | freedom from interruption; freedom to leave the room at any time), while liberty often connotes deliverance or release ( | he gave the slaves their liberty).

• Lemmy
  10:04 pm on July 5th, 2011 7

  Thanks GI – but it just doesn’t have the same “ring.” We had an immigration ceremony and sheet cakes this year at Camp Phoenix.

• Teadrinker
  10:43 pm on July 5th, 2011 8

  #6,

  Failed remedial English?

  http://thesaurus.com/browse/liberty

• BuryTheSystem
  12:13 am on July 6th, 2011 9

  ….freedom isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me…..

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