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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

180px-San_Diego_FireworksHappy Independence Day!

We began our celebrations last night on July 3rd with the Turley fireworks display on our street (Fireworks are legal in Fairfax). We made “cowboy burgers” and my favorite Fourth of July treat (cherry pie). It was an enormous success as I set off roughly the equivalent of the ordinance used at the Battle of Verdun. Putting aside the increase of emphysema following the display, it was pretty cool. Tonight we will go to D.C. to watch that other (less impressive) pyrotechnic display.

I hope all of our bloggers have a great holiday.

45 thoughts on “HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!”

  1. mespo,

    I too am not impressed with John Wayne. Jimmy Stewart was 10x the man and 100x the actor.

  2. Jim Byrne:

    Admittedly no John Wayne fan, I would be more impressed with him had he actually served his Country during wartime when many of his fellow Hollywood Stars were enlisting like James Arness, Jimmy Stewart and John Ford. Wayne always had one more movie to make before making the decision to defend the Country he so calculatingly loved in the video you submitted. Come to think of it given his later support for all manner of wacko Conservative causes,he may have been the first chicken-hawk!

  4. I wish all of you a safe and happy fourth.
    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBp8GyNilI&hl=en&fs=1&]

  5. raff,

    We’ve still got a maturing team and it wasn’t a total blowout despite the score. We had plenty of men on base, but we just couldn’t get them home. I still think Hillman has the team on the right track. Even if we go nowhere this year, if he can keep as good a composition as they’ve got now and work out the kinks, I still see a chance for my Royals next year. And it was at least the Sox we lost to. There are other Chicago teams it’s more embarrassing to lose to. 😉

  6. Happy Fourth To All,
    I’m going to a cookout with friends this afternoon and watching fireworks from the beach tonight. Ribs are on the menu along with a lot of other great things, but fat be damned. I loves me my spareribs.

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    WARNING: THIS LINK GOES TO A WELL KNOWN MERCENARY FIRM. IF YOU CLICK ON IT YOU WILL BE TRACKED.

    http://www.triplecanopy.com/triplecanopy/en/home/

  8. Gyges,

    “The question is am I making a joke or illustrating a point?”

    The two are not mutually exclusive. I think that works as both.

  9. Happy 4th of July to you all!

    It has been a pleasure to read this blog and the thoughts of all those who comment here.

  12. Happy Fourth of July everyone. Remember that nothing says America like blowing up something invented by the Chinese while listening to a song about the Russian victory over French forces and eating food first made by Germans (and unless your beer happens to be Anchor Steam Beer, drinking a beer that style was developed somewhere over the pond).

    The question is am I making a joke or illustrating a point?

  13. rafflaw,

    Careful with those fireworks and “god bless our veterans” is just where I was going!

    “Episode 208: Summer Sucks
    Premiere:
    June 24, 1998
    Plot:
    At the end of the school year, Mr. Garrison has lost Mr. Hat, and must endure without him. Summer doesn’t work out well for the boys, who can’t go sledding or build snowmen anymore, and their only source of summer pleasure, fireworks, have been banned. For South Park’s July 4th celebration, the Mayor gets a giant “snake” instead of fireworks. Jimbo takes matters into his own hands by going to Mexico to get fireworks. On his way back, he is arrested for smuggling explosives. Back in South Park, the snake is lit, but it produces an incredible amount of ash, so much that it carves a path of destruction throughout North America. Ash arrives in New York after Dr. Katz tells Mr. Garrison that he is gay, not Mr. Hat, and then it destroys the Mexican prison holding Jimbo. Jimbo brings the Fireworks back to South Park, and they are fired at the snake, making the ash disintegrate, fall like snow, and extinguish the snake.”

    http://www.filmhead.com/slithy/southpark/spepisodes2.html

    Happy Fourth of Jooewl-I!

  14. Buddha,
    The fact that the surging White Sox smoked your Royals makes this an even better Fourth of July! Happy Fourth of July to all and try to remember your friends and relatives serving in the military today. And be careful with those fireworks!

  16. Happy 4th Everyone!

    We are BBQing here today. Last night we went to watch our Royals apparently forget how to play offense against the White Sox and watched the fireworks afterward. Hot dogs that had been cooking since June. Beer. Laughing at the guy in front of us someone had cut out a huge divot of hair on the back his head (seriously, one of the most egregious notch jobs I’ve ever seen – BZZZZT!). It was quite traditional and the new Kaufman Stadium was pretty swanky.

    Whatever you’re doing, wherever you are, I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday and no one notches your hair.

  19. Thank you sir.

    I do have a question for the literary genius’s here: If the original American Hero’s had not been successful and been tried as traitors, would we have still been a possession of the United Kingdom?

    Would Spain still have Florida and the West Coast? Russia Alaska? The French Louisiana? But most importantly to me would Texas, be a part of Mexico or Spain or an Independent Republic or would the French have taken it over ever so slowly?

    Happy 4th of July, but I read that it was really the 2nd but it made astrological sense to proclaim it on the 4th as most of the original signors were Masons, Free? That is still a question to be resolved.

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