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Author: TriSec    Date: 07/05/2008 13:25:04

Morning, folks. Running late this Saturday....'twas "Festival" last night.

Last night was the 35th annual Boston Pops concert at the Hatch Shell along the Charles River in this city.

Apologies to everyone outside the local area that got the canned 'national broadcast', apparently beginning with the 1812 Overture. Here, that's the finale, with the "Stars and Stripes Forever" as the encore...the same way we've done it since 1972. The entire concert used to be carried nationally, but now it seems that only the last few minutes are worth showing to everyone.

You see, we highbrow liberal elitists love our classical music, but the rest of the country can only stomach the bizarreness that is a Russian piece of music to celebrate a victory over Napoleon in a war we weren't even involved in, but I digress.

I didn't watch too much of it last night; we were out at our local celebration at the nearby football field...fireworks in the middle of a residential neighborhood make for some great viewing.

Although he didn't post it on his blog, local wag John Keller was musing last night over how blue this commonwealth is...and yet us liberal, fancy-pants, elitist, cheese-eating, gay-marryin', America-hating, godless, terrorist-sympathizers celebrate the 4th better than anyone else.

How is it that the Boston Pops (America's Orchestra, as they have been called) seem to be the semi-official "National Birthday Party", where obviously more patriotic places like Alabama, Texas, or Iowa are given short shrift?

Who hates America now?

 

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Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 13:29:21
Happy July 5th!



Good morning!

Comment by trojanrabbit on 07/05/2008 13:57:37
Oh, is THAT what it is....



Morning capt!

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 14:05:22
He who goes forth with a Fifth on the Fourth

May not for forth on the fifth.



(from a friends email)

Comment by trojanrabbit on 07/05/2008 14:05:28
I was rather surprised (actually given how bad the quality of the broadcast was last year maybe not) that the national show wasn't in HD. I don't know if the local telecast was in HD, my elderly neighbor called just before the show and she asked us to bring her husband to the emergency room (it was an infection, so he got admitted), but I got to see most of it in the waiting room.



Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 14:08:39
Our Government: Powerless to Outlaw Guns, Able to Outlaw Sexual Expression



The Supreme Court recently ruled that the government has virtually no right to regulate guns in Washington, D.C.



You may also have read about yet another obscenity bust in Florida, which ended in a deal that puts more people in jail for selling videos of adults having (consensual, enthusiastic) sex with adults.



If you expect logic from America about sex, the juxtaposition is bewildering. If you're more realistic, it's simply enraging.





Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 14:22:48
What really baffles me is why the CBS broadcast wasn't in HD when both the Macy's and Capitol Fourth shows were in HD. HDNet even ran their own 4th of July Fireworks show last night.

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 14:24:51
CBS was in HD here? (NM)

Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 14:32:17
Quote by capt:

CBS was in HD here? (NM)


Then that makes it even odder that you couldn't see it in HD in New York or Boston.

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 14:38:56
Quote by livingonli:

Quote by capt:

CBS was in HD here? (NM)


Then that makes it even odder that you couldn't see it in HD in New York or Boston.




Could be the provider or maybe it was time delyed? We have Dishnet FWIW.







Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 14:43:11
The very odd thing here was . . . .



The evap cooler on the roof pulled in the odor of fireworks so I had the effect of smell-a-vision when watching the DC and Pops!



Almost like being there . . . just out of the sliding glass door was a local show - not huge but pretty active.

Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 14:50:00
Good morning!!! Happy fifth!

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 15:50:26
Howdy all.

Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 16:01:20
Quote by capt:

Quote by livingonli:

Quote by capt:

CBS was in HD here? (NM)


Then that makes it even odder that you couldn't see it in HD in New York or Boston.




Could be the provider or maybe it was time delyed? We have Dishnet FWIW.







Unless they had a problem with doing HD live but were able to send it in HD on delay to Mountain and Pacific time affiliates.

Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 16:15:51
Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 17:59:45
Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 18:03:35
Condoleezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision’ To Invade Iraq













Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 18:22:27
I love the smell of chlorophyll in the afternoon... it smells of victory!

Comment by velveeta jones on 07/05/2008 18:52:29
Hey! Be glad ya got the Pops! Down 'round here, we shoot our fireworks to the likes of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and of course the song that makes me do this:



http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/fc/wallbash.gif




Lee Greenwood - I'm proud to be an American. Ugh!



Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 18:59:30
Quote by velveeta jones:

Hey! Be glad ya got the Pops! Down 'round here, we shoot our fireworks to the likes of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and of course the song that makes me do this:



http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/fc/wallbash.gif




Lee Greenwood - I'm proud to be an American. Ugh!





Where is "Down 'round here?"





Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 19:04:06
Quote by capt:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Hey! Be glad ya got the Pops! Down 'round here, we shoot our fireworks to the likes of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and of course the song that makes me do this:



http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/fc/wallbash.gif




Lee Greenwood - I'm proud to be an American. Ugh!





Where is "Down 'round here?"





Velveeta lives in Asheville, NC.

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 19:10:20
Quote by livingonli:

Quote by capt:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Hey! Be glad ya got the Pops! Down 'round here, we shoot our fireworks to the likes of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and of course the song that makes me do this:



http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/fc/wallbash.gif




Lee Greenwood - I'm proud to be an American. Ugh!





Where is "Down 'round here?"





Velveeta lives in Asheville, NC.




Cool! I lived in Winston-Salem for a few years.







Comment by velveeta jones on 07/05/2008 19:18:40
Velveeta rarely ever crosses "the line". Only on a "as need to" basis (i.e. see Broadway shows).



:D

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 19:30:38
Quote by velveeta jones:

Hey! Be glad ya got the Pops! Down 'round here, we shoot our fireworks to the likes of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and of course the song that makes me do this:



http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/fc/wallbash.gif




Lee Greenwood - I'm proud to be an American. Ugh!







: shudder: :Lurch groan:

Comment by Will in Chicago on 07/05/2008 19:41:21
Hi, everyone!



I hope everybody is doing well today.

Comment by Random on 07/05/2008 20:02:05




Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 20:09:28
And hope you are well today, Random.



And now it's time for me to ditch off and hit the salt mine.

Comment by Random on 07/05/2008 20:13:00
good-bye Liv.

Comment by IzzyBitz on 07/05/2008 20:18:02
Watching fireworks on the TV machine.

Comment by velveeta jones on 07/05/2008 20:25:18
Quote by IzzyBitz:

Watching fireworks on the TV machine.


Yes, as exciting as watching drag racing on TV.





Comment by Random on 07/05/2008 20:36:58
Hm....

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 20:40:23
Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by IzzyBitz:

Watching fireworks on the TV machine.


Yes, as exciting as watching drag racing on TV.









I dunno VJ, when there is fiery crash and the driver needs to be put out, that's kind of exciting.



Watching "Globe Trekker" they are in Scotland and the host asked some brawny Scotsman who had tattooed on his back. He said it was William Wallace, but it looked more like Mel Gibson to me.

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 21:19:13
Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by IzzyBitz:

Watching fireworks on the TV machine.


Yes, as exciting as watching drag racing on TV.









I dunno VJ, when there is fiery crash and the driver needs to be put out, that's kind of exciting.



Watching "Globe Trekker" they are in Scotland and the host asked some brawny Scotsman who had tattooed on his back. He said it was William Wallace, but it looked more like Mel Gibson to me.




We are new to HDTV so the 46" HD picture still knocks our socks off. The fireworks were amazing, as is any kind of racing. I am easily entertained.











Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 21:25:28
Hello again everyone. We are back from the Museum. What a Louvre-ly afternoon it was!

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 21:28:30
He said it was William Wallace, but it looked more like Mel Gibson to me.




All the old heros try to look like Mel. They are such posers.





Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 21:29:20
The Guardian Obit to Jesse Helms.

Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat.



There was never a comparable risk for Helms, who maintained an old-world courtesy in his personal contacts. But that was only on the surface. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.



In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.



----- there is more, but damn.





Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 21:34:32
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.



~ Henry Kissinger




Comment by Random on 07/05/2008 21:53:14
*sniff*

Comment by Random on 07/05/2008 21:55:19


Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 22:17:59
Quote by capt:

Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by IzzyBitz:

Watching fireworks on the TV machine.


Yes, as exciting as watching drag racing on TV.









I dunno VJ, when there is fiery crash and the driver needs to be put out, that's kind of exciting.



Watching "Globe Trekker" they are in Scotland and the host asked some brawny Scotsman who had tattooed on his back. He said it was William Wallace, but it looked more like Mel Gibson to me.




We are new to HDTV so the 46" HD picture still knocks our socks off. The fireworks were amazing, as is any kind of racing. I am easily entertained.















I agree with Raine, greatest.audiocon.ever.

Comment by Mondobubba on 07/05/2008 22:27:54
Quote by Raine:

The Guardian Obit to Jesse Helms.

Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat.



There was never a comparable risk for Helms, who maintained an old-world courtesy in his personal contacts. But that was only on the surface. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.



In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.



----- ther eis more, but damn.









Nice to see that somebody is willing to tell the truth about the evil old bastard!

Comment by capt on 07/05/2008 22:37:53
Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by capt:

Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by velveeta jones:

Quote by IzzyBitz:

Watching fireworks on the TV machine.


Yes, as exciting as watching drag racing on TV.









I dunno VJ, when there is fiery crash and the driver needs to be put out, that's kind of exciting.



Watching "Globe Trekker" they are in Scotland and the host asked some brawny Scotsman who had tattooed on his back. He said it was William Wallace, but it looked more like Mel Gibson to me.




We are new to HDTV so the 46" HD picture still knocks our socks off. The fireworks were amazing, as is any kind of racing. I am easily entertained.















I agree with Raine, greatest.audiocon.ever.






Thanks to Shane-O (the sound genius!)

Comment by clintster on 07/05/2008 23:04:15
BTW, in case you haven't noticed, the 1/20/09 countdown is under 200 days.





Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 23:43:06
Quote by clintster:

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, the 1/20/09 countdown is under 200 days.





:party:



Hello Clinster's!

Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 23:44:12
Quote by Random:



:hug:



Why the tears?

Comment by livingonli on 07/05/2008 23:47:12
Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by Raine:

The Guardian Obit to Jesse Helms.

Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat.



There was never a comparable risk for Helms, who maintained an old-world courtesy in his personal contacts. But that was only on the surface. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.



In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.



----- ther eis more, but damn.









Nice to see that somebody is willing to tell the truth about the evil old bastard!


I'm just wondering if satan gave him his own special place in hell probably with the Nazis and Prescott Bush.

Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 23:48:02
This is what patriotism looks like!






Comment by Raine on 07/05/2008 23:55:00
Comment by Raine on 07/06/2008 00:08:39
Another effing lie from Rove. This man should NEVER try to discuss the Constitution. HE doesn't even have an undergraduate degree... does he? Does anyone know where this peice of stinky turd graduated? Anyway. I digress...



My point being Alan Colmes gets a pair and does a bit of a smackdown on Rove. I say a bit because Rove tells Colmes, "This is the first time in American history we've extended Habeas Corpus rights to non-citizens".



Uhm... No. American History actually has Habeas Corpus used for the British (The Red Coats) in America. Jeepers... That gaffe aside... Good on Alan. Maybe one day it will called Colmes and Hannity?









Comment by Raine on 07/06/2008 00:10:07
Quote by livingonli:

Quote by Mondobubba:

Quote by Raine:

The Guardian Obit to Jesse Helms.

Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat.



There was never a comparable risk for Helms, who maintained an old-world courtesy in his personal contacts. But that was only on the surface. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.



In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.



----- ther eis more, but damn.









Nice to see that somebody is willing to tell the truth about the evil old bastard!


I'm just wondering if satan gave him his own special place in hell probably with the Nazis and Prescott Bush.
What if he was in heaven in the Rainbow room?



Wouldn't that be a twist on the concept of heaven and hell?



Comment by capt on 07/06/2008 00:13:50
This is what patriotism looks like!




And this whole time I thought it was a flag pin for the lapel.



Thank all that is good in this world for true patriots.