4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

Pretty much most people have given in and said the hell with the fireworks - they've been so harrassed about them on "public service" commercials, laws, etc and when they go to a fireworks stand they see the prices for cheap crap that spits some sparks and just say the hell with it. It's quiet here in rural KY too and the local displays really suck. No more of the aerial "booms" that used to be part of the aerial displays - our wonderful city and county governments have restricted their use to just at dusk, so as not to piss off any of the people that don't give a rat's behind and want to go to sleep at 8pm and not be bothered. I have a little surprise for my neighbors...my last trip into Tennessee yielded a large box of very loud fireworks and they won't be lit until I am. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis -> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:00 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: RE: 4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration) -> -> -> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote: -> > Imagine having a neighbor kid hear "Star Spangled Banner" and -> ask "what song -> > is that?" - and he went to a PRIVATE school. -> -> Wow! It sounds as though that boy's parents need to get him enrolled -> in a tour of Ft. McHenry! ...if they know what that is, of course. -> -> It seems so strange for it to be so quiet on the 4th these days. -> I wonder -> if other parts of the US are as quiet as it is here in this suburb of -> Maryland. -> -> Back when I was a kid, kids used to be running around shooting off cap -> guns (I guess they're illegal now, thanks to the blasted tyranical -> politically correct politicians) and lighting firecrackersd and M80s, -> then, have we'd a cook-out followed by some marshmallow roasting and a -> watermellon seed-spitting contest/battle, which was followed later on -> in the evening with our own fireworks... fountains, exploding tanks, -> bottle-rockets, whistling rockets, and other small pyrotechnic -> displays such as pin-wheels, etc. :-) -> -> Of course, even back then it was marginally illegal here in Maryland; -> we had to either have fireworks brought back from someplace like South -> Carolina or else drive out west to where Maryland, Virgiana and West -> Virginia meet and look for small stores in Virginia just over the -> border that were selling the fireworks. -> -> Did you ever think about what the real reason for the personal -> fireworks bans might be? Most likely it's not about safety---after -> all sparklers, which are legal, are rather dangerous; the real reason -> for the bans being as follows: anything that goes boom might give -> people bad ideas as to what they can do, and thus make them think more -> vividly about the revolution, tyrannical, tax-hungry and corrupt -> politicians, and certain words of Thomas Jefferson about an uprising -> every so often to keep this a free nation. Such thoughts ought not be -> thunk by good little citizens, what? -> -> -- -> Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & -> other animals: -> All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're -> above Nature & -> rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma -> to justify such -> http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty. ->