Wishing all my American friends here a Happy Independence Day!
I know a lot of you will celebrate tonight some place where there will be fireworks. I know some of you will be the ones starting the firework displays. What other things are important there in the celebrations?
Where the weather is good, many of us will gather at a friends place and they cook hamburgers or hot dogs outside on the grill and drink beer and get bitten by mosquitoes. :crackup: In many areas its better to stay inside and drink beer and eat pizza until its time for the fireworks. In some parts of the US fireworks are illegal so people have to go someplace to see a fireworks display, but in many areas fireworks are legal and people buy their own and set them off at home or somewhere nearby as I did for many years when I was young until they were outlawed here. There are always some people injured and some houses/buildings burn down, that's why fireworks have been outlawed in some places, but I am on tribal land now and they are exempt from Washington state laws, almost an independent country, Tulalip tribes (am not native American I just live here) every year it is like a war zone, I have been hearing explosions for a few days now even though I am in the center of a RV park that is 3 miles across and no fireworks are allowed in the park. I will not be going anywhere today though, I will have a reasonably peaceful but not quiet 4th of July.
Maybe there is some discount among some of you feeling that a lot of hard earned freedoms have been taken away?
Whatever you see the day as I do hope that you enjoy it for what it is and also remember to Keep Fighting For Continued Freedom!
I am ashamed of what we are becoming. We will soon be like the former Soviet Union or worse and it looks like there is no stopping it. Homeland security and the militarization of the police is far out of control. We are by far the greatest threat to the peace and security of the rest of the world, but I will fight the good fight until I am gone. All great empires and civilizations eventually fall, often destroyed from within. The US is no different, we can now see the beginning of the end, those who don't see it are fools and idiots and will get what they deserve.
PS: I salute your service Men and Women who serve your country, well done!
Thank you, my father served 21 years and I was born in a military hospital at Fairchild Air force base. He was a WW2 veteran and my sister was born in post WW2 France way back in the mid 1900's. He past away in 1992. Those were different times. I never served, they wouldn't have accepted me, they wouldn't take my brother either, he did 2 or 3 years of ROTC in high school and then tried to enlist when he turned 18 in 1970 during the Vietnam war but his eyesight was too bad, as is mine, today though they take people with bad eyesight and pay for your surgery but that didn't exist back then. I hope very much that our service Men and Women who serve our country will serve our country and not just our Glorious Leader! They should protect us from all enemies both foreign and domestic, but as most of them are young people I fear that most will simply obey orders like in Nazi Germany in WW2, and we all know what happened there.
Happy 4th of July to all of you!
Alan
