Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You pretty much express my sentiments Bob. My Great Pyrenees, Frost, has been gone since Jan of '07. Yet last evening, as the "bombs burst in air," I still flinched and felt a bit of that old worry? In a time of down sizing corporations and dwindling community services it's astounding that people continue to "blow up" resources. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Bob Shaw wrote: > We live a Seattle suburb near the border with King County where > yahoos still start blasting off m-80's a week before, and the rest > of their neighbors join in a crescendo of mind numbing racket until > after midnight on the 4th. > > I have very strong doubts that "Patriotism" overshadows alcohol. > It's all about buying illegal fireworks on Native American > Reservations and showing their neighbors how cool and daring they are. > > Each year, we (and most dog owners we know) have to sedate our > border collies, close all doors and windows and crank up the TV or > FM until past midnight, staying close to our shivering dogs. What > a great way to spend the evening. > > I don't fault the Native Americans for selling fireworks; it's > their land and lord knows they need the money. > > But it really disturbs me that Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturers > make hundreds of millions of US dollars while we blow off fingers, > start range fires, create a huge racket and pollute the air. I > wonder, is this the "American Way"?.