Comments on: I plan to watch some local fireworks tonight…

By: sparkee

sparkee — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 22:17:47 +0000

Local weather forecast warned of severe thunderstorms and hail and the fireworks scheduled for 9:30 pm were cancelled – storms didn’t show up until midnight.
Got mostly small hail with a few marble sized.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:20:09 +0000

While looking for something else I ran into this clip of Fred Astaire, not in tux and tails, but the 1940s version of Dockers, improvising a tap dance for a 4th of July celebration, using firecrackers for props.

–“Holiday Inn (1942) – Fred Astaire’s 4th of July Dance Scene”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DaFR3_2p90

Quite charming!

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:11:45 +0000

Watched the Seattle fireworks display at Lake Union on the telly.. The fireworks were wonderful. Twenty-five minutes of creative patterns, colors, and booms.

The accompanying music – Hip hop, grunge, and bits of Obama and other black leaders’ speeches. Ugh! And that’s the way patriotism goes in the People’s Republic of Puget Sound. The local TV broadcast personality acclaimed it as the best fireworks show EVER. 🙂

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:27:53 +0000

Fireworks…?
“IRS Whistleblowers Exposed DOJ’s Biden Family Cover-Up. Who Will Expose the Crimes?
“Or, how Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal triggered a bomb of epic proportions that may have blown the facade off the corrupt, national security-imperiling influence peddling scheme once and for all “—
https://weingarten.substack.com/p/irs-whistleblowers-exposed-dojs-biden
H/T Powerline blog.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:39:42 +0000

Remembrance of Times Past.
LA 2020, with aerial footage and the National Anthem.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/07/04/july-4-2020-la-residents-told-authorities-dont-tread-on-me-lit-up-sky-in-spectacular-defiant-celebration-n771201

As a commenter at Sarah Hoyt’s said, in bringing this story to the discussion:
“When Los Angeles, Commiefornia explosively tells people where to stick their fireworks bans? It gives one a small dose of hope.”

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:11:35 +0000

I did my fireworks-watching last night while on vacation in a place far removed from the usual shenanigans. It was a nice show and the first one I’d been to in a very long time. People were streaming in from all over the area for hours to get to it.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:10:11 +0000

As I sit here there are a lot of fireworks going off. Seems to be more this year.
The city had theirs last night, which was fortunate since we had a thunderstorm about an hour ago, and supposedly more to come.
As a kid, my Brother and I would shoot off a lot of fireworks. This was in Hawaii. Always a good show there, and Chinese New Year is amazing (or was). My Brother would hold Roman Candles in his hand and shoot them off. We had Cherry Bombs, Black Cats, and others. A Very Good Childhood in the early 1950’s

By: charles

charles — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:29:20 +0000

In my neighborhood we have been putting up with fireworks for the past week; and will have them for another week.

This was the first year that we also had them for Juneteenth, starting about a week before.

We also have them for Memorial Day, Veterans’ Day, Labor Day, and a few other holidays. I think Easter and Christmas are the only holidays that we don’t have to put up with them.

And I say “put up with” not because I don’t like the fireworks; but they will go on until way past midnight despite the fact that a lot of us have to be up early to go to work in the morning. They also set them off starting about a week before the holiday and a week after.

The culprit? a guy a few doors up from me. It bothers the heck out of most of us in the neighborhood except we know it doesn’t do any good to say anything as he will just make sure he sets them off later then. Oh, it doesn’t do any good to call the police about a noise complaint because he is a cop and his “buddies” won’t do much about it anyway.

On another, unrelated, note the White House said that some white powder was found inside the White House – Maybe it was from Hunter staying the night and he left his “bag of goodies” there?

By: IrishOtter49

IrishOtter49 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:47:03 +0000

Good movie to watch on the Fourth: “Drums Along the Mohawk.” Especially the final scene, when the defenders of their frontier fort raise the new American flag, signaling victory over attacking Brits and Indians.

Yeah, I know it stars Henry Fonda. But it’s a John Ford movie, with all the wonderful (and patriotic) flourishes that typify his films.

That final scene: Ward Bond (naturally) grabs the flag from a Continental Army soldier, shouting in that gruff voice of his: “Gimme that flag, soldier, we’ve been doing a little fighting of our own.” And then he climbs to the roof of the tallest structure in the fort and raises the flag. Shot of flag steaming in the breeze. A wholesomely radiant Claudette Colbert turning to her husband (Fonda) and saying, sweetly and earnestly: “It’s a pretty flag.”

Music swells, up and out.

Always get a lump in my throat when I watch that.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:25:52 +0000

No fireworks out at our Historic Site, but after our celebration lunch today we had a flag retirement ceremony.
We fly several US flags all summer long and replace them each year, as Wyoming apparently has only two seasons: hot and windy, and cold and windy.
They tend to get badly frayed.
At least we always know which way the wind is blowing!

I’ve never seen an official burning of retired banners, although I knew how it is supposed to be done (my Cub Scouts had to learn flag protocol, and even folded them at Day Camp — good experiences for them all).

AesopSpouse sang the National Anthem, and I got kind of misty-eyed.