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Posted: Jul 6, 2025 - 9:42pm
oldviolin wrote: For the Bicentennial in 1976 I watched fireworks over the Monterey Bay. One of those timestamp memories. How could that be 49 years ago? Yup, I canât believe it will be 50 years graduating from high school in 76. Iâve become that person who thought those old farts were really old.

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Posted: Jul 6, 2025 - 5:30pm
oldviolin wrote: For the Bicentennial in 1976 I watched fireworks over the Monterey Bay. One of those timestamp memories. How could that be 49 years ago? A couple of friends & I went to a beach at Possum Kingdom Lake west of Fort Worth, dropped some Southern California windowpane, & had ourselves an Electric Bicentennial. Ah, yesâ¦ â®ï¸ ðºð¸ âï¸

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Posted: Jul 5, 2025 - 1:24pm
For the Bicentennial in 1976 I watched fireworks over the Monterey Bay. One of those timestamp memories. How could that be 49 years ago?

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Posted: Jul 4, 2025 - 4:54pm
We have an english guy in the shop. I asked him what he was doing for the weekend. He replied "celebrating ungrateful colonists day".

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Posted: Jul 4, 2025 - 4:40pm

KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

Debbie and I decided not to go to the big show in Palm Desert last night. The first time in a long time.
But at the last minute, we thought let's drive to the neighboring city of Indio.
We parked on the "banks" of the Whitewater Wash to view the show from all the people with their illegal fireworks.
It was a proverbial war zone!
I'm not sure how all those folks can afford just lighting their money on fire like that.

Well, it looks like they're going to crack down on all those illegal fireworks.
The City of Indio will be enforcing the law on people with a $5000 fine for shooting them off.
This will be a good thing.
Those aerial bombs tend to set roofs and landscaping on fire.

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Posted: Jul 4, 2025 - 6:18am

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes

Let America Be America Again

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.

Letit be the pioneer on the plain

Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty

Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,

But opportunity is real, and life is free,

Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,

Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?

And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,

I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.

I am the red man driven from the land,

I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—

And finding only the same old stupid plan

Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,

Tangled in that ancient endless chain

Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!

Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!

Of work the men! Of take the pay!

Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.

I am the worker sold to the machine.

I am the Negro, servant to you all.

I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—

Hungry yet today despite the dream.

Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!

I am the man who never got ahead,

The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream

In the Old World while still a serf of kings,

Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,

That even yet its mighty daring sings

In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned

That's made America the land it has become.

O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas

In search of what I meant to be my home—

For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,

And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,

And torn from Black Africa's strand I came

To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?

Surely not me? The millions on relief today?

The millions shot down when we strike?

The millions who have nothing for our pay?

For all the dreams we've dreamed

And all the songs we've sung

And all the hopes we've held

And all the flags we've hung,

The millions who have nothing for our pay—

Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again—

The land that never has been yet—

And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—

Who made America,

Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,

Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,

Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—

The steel of freedom does not stain.

From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,

We must take back our land again,

America!

O, yes,

I say it plain,

America never was America to me,

And yet I swear this oath—

America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,

The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,

We, the people, must redeem

The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.

The mountains and the endless plain—

All, all the stretch of these great green states—

And make America again!

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Posted: Jul 3, 2025 - 8:55pm
Nationâs Dogs Vow To Keep Their Shit Together During 4th Of July Fireworks

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Posted: Jul 3, 2025 - 6:54pm

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

We're going up to Bozeman to see Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, then camping just up the road from Big Sky resort. Augusta leaves for Ireland next weekend, and Charlie's going to come from work in Yellowstone and dogsit at the campground while three of us go to the show. Olive Browndog gets pretty upset by fireworks so that'll be nice to save her that trauma. So it wasn't organized as such, but it'll be the last weekend that all 4 of us will be playing together in at least 6 months. *snif*

Enjoy it all.

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Posted: Jul 3, 2025 - 6:53pm

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Posted: Jul 5, 2024 - 4:05pm

thisbody wrote:

Americans love fireworks so much:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1808839549033820386

https://twitter.com/i/status/1808854011887636804

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Posted: Jul 5, 2024 - 6:01am
Red_Dragon wrote: Tough to find much to celebrate this time around. take a breath and reflect

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Posted: Jul 5, 2024 - 4:05am
Americans love fireworks so much: https://twitter.com/i/status/1808839549033820386 https://twitter.com/i/status/1808854011887636804

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Posted: Jul 4, 2024 - 6:27am
Go Fourth and prosper!

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Posted: Jul 3, 2024 - 4:02pm
Tough to find much to celebrate this time around.

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Posted: Jul 3, 2024 - 11:48am
miamizsun wrote: the satin ice bbq stay safe and enjoy peeps!

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Posted: Jul 4, 2021 - 10:27am
miamizsun wrote: shameless bump

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Posted: Jul 4, 2021 - 10:25am
miamizsun wrote: shameless bump Just Shameless

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Posted: Jul 4, 2021 - 7:28am
miamizsun wrote: stay safe peeps and enjoy shameless bump

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Posted: Jul 2, 2020 - 6:57am
stay safe peeps and enjoy

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Posted: Jul 6, 2016 - 7:26am
Red_Dragon wrote: I'm thinking the local DA needs to file some sort of criminally irresponsible parents charges... No inkling at all that maybe they should have stepped in and said, maybe, "why don't you rig up a fuse, Junior?" Although that's actually kind of interesting that you can even do that.

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