What happens this year with the 4th??

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  • baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    It is just before 4AM and the gunfire continues. Being able to sleep through this is impossible. Magnified only by the holiday opportunity! Lou id cars screaming and yelling is a common thing here.... just magnified by the mood!
    NOT patriotic but inspired by hate and Democrats!
    Y'all come to Illinois, Chicago and points North! A target rich environment. But whimps rule day!
    Funny when I moved to Houston in 82 so much of what I was seeing was new and seemed clean. After a few constructions jobs I went to work ing the grocery store. Replaced old friends with new ones. Did new things everything great.

    Leeding up to selling the house in Houston I had been so done with Houston. Last night the firework just ended at 11:00 pm. Basically just to uptown some fireworks, but not enjoy to have the dog freaking out or the wife get up.

    Mad John you really need to get out of your current location. I heard last year they had a Trump rally of boats on the lake. With the weather looking shoty who knows?
     

    Texas45

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    Not where you are
    Fire works are too expensive.

    BUT

    FIRE
    Works.
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    IndyDave1776

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    Just found out that there will be a fireworks display here. Hasn't been one for several years! It will be abbreviated what ever that means. There will be a fee to be in the viewing area. Face masks will be required for people not fully Vaccinated and you may be required to show your card if asked. The last mayor had cancelled them because of violence and expense. Then the Covid thing. There will NOT be a parade again this year... BUT the City will provide a "virtual" Parade on line. Flags are a problem but solid Black flags, Rainbow Flags, BLM Banners and ANTIFA are acceptable.
    Other fireworks have already started a few days ago, During the day and at night too. Some real "window shakers" make getting some shut-eye a challenge!
    It's Illinois!!!!
    Sounds like you have a mayor who needs his nuts cut off and shoved down his throat.
     

    Axxe55

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    Usually anytime we have a holiday and a three day weekend, there is usually a lot of traffic along our rural county road. With traffic usually starting to pick up around Friday evening or Saturday morning. Usually on the 4th of July, there use to be lots of traffic on our road. It's been actually pretty quiet and not hardly any traffic this weekend so far.
     

    Mad John

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    I have just seen people with our Flag flying upside down!
    I had to go to their door and say something!
    PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT IN FRONT OF ME!
    Flying our National Emblem INVERTED is the ULTIMATE DISGRACE!
    That is a SIGNAL to OUR ENEMIESS that WE GIVE UP!
    REAL Americans NEVER GIVE UP!
    If you want to make a more important display of our nation in peril….. FLY A BIGGER FLAG!
    Then GET LOUD! USE our Freedom of Speech to get in the FACE of Opposition!
    Our Founders did exactly that as PATRIOTS. As Rebels with prices on their HEADS!
    In 1776 those principled, reverent men stood in the face of King George III and answered with .... CANNON FIRE and Musket Balls against the largest military force in the world and defeated them!
    I too am mortified by these current conditions.
    I watched as friends,,, brothers in arms. bleed American Blood, in some cases, die defending Old Glory!
    In Vietnam WE would never consider disgracing her!
    When I came home to be disgraced by people at home ... I DID NOT HATE MY Nation… I reenlisted for six more years!
    John
     

    Mad John

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    Here, The Fourth of July Celebration was amazing with 14 Dead and 74 wounded in Chicago alone by revelers!
    LOVE of country and celebration of We The People was honored by incredible displays of violence.
    The corridor North along the shores of Lake Michigan toward Kenosha and Milwaukee, the night-time skies we lit by what sounded like Artillery barrages. Windows shook and pictures rattled punctuated by flashes until shortly after 4 AM.
    A young boy was playing with friends and Illegal fireworks, two blocks from me had his face literally blown off with other multiple injuries was "Life Flighted" to a larger Hospital near Chicago
    What a Country these Democrats have!
     

    Mad John

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    Funny when I moved to Houston in 82 so much of what I was seeing was new and seemed clean. After a few constructions jobs I went to work ing the grocery store. Replaced old friends with new ones. Did new things everything great.

    Leeding up to selling the house in Houston I had been so done with Houston. Last night the firework just ended at 11:00 pm. Basically just to uptown some fireworks, but not enjoy to have the dog freaking out or the wife get up.

    Mad John you really need to get out of your current location. I heard last year they had a Trump rally of boats on the lake. With the weather looking shoty who knows?
    I have some very dear friends in Houston! And a Sister-in-law in Lubbock. They have been after me to come down for years. My two friends in Houston (known them for well over 20+ years) offered to have me come and work for them. I explained that I couldn't do that because I would never get paid!
    I may have shuffled my feet too long. I am getting too old....
    John
     

    jmohme

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    Every years, my neighbor to the rear of us spends thousands on fireworks and puts on a better show than most small towns.
    The wife and I sit in our air conditioned living room and watch through our picture window that faces his property.
     

    Vaquero

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    Here, I thought a lot about what brought us all here.
    A lot of history. A lot of exploration. I wish the Native American history was better documented.
    tl;dr

    If Sam Houston hadn't won at San Jacinto, I probably wouldn't have celebrated the 4th of July in Abilene Texas yesterday.
     

    Mad John

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    Here, I thought a lot about what brought us all here.
    A lot of history. A lot of exploration. I wish the Native American history was better documented.
    tl;dr

    If Sam Houston hadn't won at San Jacinto, I probably wouldn't have celebrated the 4th of July in Abilene Texas yesterday.
    Unfortunately, our native American History was erased by bureaucrats living hundreds of miles away from realty.
    Not all that different than the elite Democrats erasing our history in an all out effort of control.
    The Bolsheviks did it in Russia with Lenin then Stalin The Red Chinese are masters of it.. and let's not forget the NAZIS. Hitler was a Democrat, FDR was a Socialist!
    The history is there but the big problem is ...Nobody Reads anymore. The information is THERE.
    I have made it a regular thing for me every day to READ and study for FOUR Hours. Source material written THEN by men who did it. Document and ledgers, I WAS born in the wrong century. I collect this stuff because it may be gone in the not too distant future, My purpose and goal is to share with anyone who cares to listen. NO DRAMA... really.
    I enjoy having some of the damnedest things just to hold in my hands, You can FEEL the history......
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    baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    I have some very dear friends in Houston! And a Sister-in-law in Lubbock. They have been after me to come down for years. My two friends in Houston (known them for well over 20+ years) offered to have me come and work for them. I explained that I couldn't do that because I would never get paid!
    I may have shuffled my feet too long. I am getting too old....
    John
    You have a friend out on Lake Limestone too John! I think you have way more people in Texas that would be happy to be friends with you, the you can imagine.
     

    Mad John

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    You have a friend out on Lake Limestone too John! I think you have way more people in Texas that would be happy to be friends with you, the you can imagine.
    Thank You!!!!
    Merely being geographically challenged sucks!
    Friendship has no boundaries!
    I do not get around so well and my health (let's face it} is not good. Packing up and moving this pile of crap is mind boggling. It took decades to bury myself...lol
    I enjoyed the hell out of building my pile! Sharing what I have done is really rewarding. BUT here I go Being "dramatic"... not really, just trying to be transparent an open....
    The VERY ( maybe as many as three ) few people that I allow in here give me that look of Deer caught in the headlights standing with their mouths open.
    I just have to laugh and let them look and touch history as I do everyday. I have relatives that ARE NOT welcome here. Loose lips sink ships.
    Later, John
     
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