And the cops are everywhere.
Whether you’re having burgers, tofu dogs or some good old fashioned redneck seafood, take a moment to enjoy the 4th of July musings of other Humboldt County bloggers.
- Carson Park Ranger goes for the meat.
- Eric Kirk goes for the pound cake.
- Doggerelface goes for a Bronx cheer.
- Ekovox goes for the memories.
- Kim forgoes the fireworks.
- Bob goes for the Declaration of Independence now that YouTube will be feeding the feds your video watching history.
- Carol and Greg go for unity.
- Boy goes for the pancakes.
- Hucktunes does Old Town.
July 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm
A Fourth of July message from an American patriot.
July 4, 2008 at 8:27 pm
That was a mighty fine encapsulated synopsis on the United States birthday as told by your friends and neighbors in the Humboldt Blogdom.
July 5, 2008 at 12:19 am
I watched the fireworks at Alton-Baker Park in Eugene this year. Thousands of people along the riverwalk, on the foot bridge, lounging on the grass, across the duck pond there was live rock music. Temp upper 60’s at 10:00 pm. Wonderful fireworks display, the best I have seen. As we were leaving, walking across the foot bridge firetrucks were racing up the butte and we could see the fire, probably started by fireworks. In Oregon it is illegal to buy rockets but not illegal to use them.
July 5, 2008 at 7:24 am
Isn’t the moniker “redneck” kind of like spic, kike, nigger, dyke, gook, fag et al?
July 5, 2008 at 7:31 am
Although I find myself angry enough to poke some eyes out sometimes, I must urge all of us to consider the opposites of power and force.
The powers that be are using force of several kinds and it would be far more effective for us to respond with POWER.
POWER is what Gandhi used to drive the British from India after 300 years or so of occupation. The details have been well documented so I won’t bore you with all the details. If you don’t know how he achieved this remarkable feat, Please take a minute and look it up. Mohandis also united the Hindu’s and Moslem’s, undoubtedly an even greater feat.
Violence usually comes from a place of PERSONAL insecurity.
Only the uneducated and most fearful among us resort to petty violence.
Let us be better than that people. We have the numbers by a huge margin.
We can unite. We can win. We can create a future without fear of using the best sacrament and medicine on the planet.
Spread the word to all you can. Be bold in asserting your rights for are we not we the people? Are we not the owners of this GREAT republic.
Let freedom RING! You must ring the bell, you must sound the alarm. To arms my fellow Americans. Arm yourself with the power of knowledge. Spout facts about our sacred plants to everyone you contact for the next 30 days.
This family of plants is far to valuable to be deemed harmful or evil.
Tell the people who don’t want to listen at first that we could be growing the best bio-diesel fuel there is for about a buck a gallon, see the Department of Agriculture report on this subject. They said a few decades ago that it would take 6 to 12 percent of our farmland to provide enough fuel for this whole country using HEMP SEED OIL!
Arm yourself with the fact that the Cannabis Sativa family of plants has 2000 varieties and thousands of subspecies. Only 20 percent of which contain any medical properties.
Let the people know the government has patents based on this amazing plant for medicine.
Let the people know we could stop cutting down trees and use HEMP plants to make paper, plastics, building materials of all sorts.
Tell them about Henry Ford’s plastic car.
The video is on U TUBE, go que it up on your parents and grand parents computer. We don’t have a second to lose people. The planet is melting and it’s our planet.
How bout acting like your life depends on it?
Let’s be willing to take a week off.
Every one of us. Only the sick, dying and young need be taken care of for a week.
Let the 7-elevens and wal marts sit idle.
Pump no gas for one week. Buy no pills from the overlords of this GREAT nation.
I call a national sit down.
We are the people. We are the LAWS. We will win.
The time is now, the place is here.
I say let us begin this non-violent overthrow at the end of this summer.
Join me at the last day of August this year.
If you have vacation time coming, take it at this time.
Prepare now in your pantry, your bank. Slowly, fill a few gas cans, store them safe.
Be with family and friends for a week catch up on what’s going on with whom. Relax, breathe, and be.
Find a way to spread the word. If you are on TV, spread the word.
If you write for anything spread the word.
If you blog spread the word!
We cannot afford to let the FAT CATS get any fatter.
Its time to trim the fat people!
The mighty will fall and our voices will be heard if it is spoken by all of us at once!
We cannot fail united. We cannot fail united. We cannot fail UNITED.
It is impossible to fail UNITED!
Join me, our children’s future rests in the hazy distance.
Let us not falter at this critical time in our history.
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Let’s take it back, we can, we must, we shall.
Who will sit down with me? Make your decision this Independence Day to get independent this last day of August 2008.
The only thing these overlords understand is money.
Their puppets in politics will be mostly useless to our cause.
We must directly speak to these greedy overlords through our withholding of their profits for a meaningful period.
Let us hold back their obscene profits for one full week.
We will get their attention, I guarantee it.
Let freedom ring loudly this day!
So let it be written, so let it be done,
Steve Selebration
July 5, 2008 at 7:43 am
oh, okay.
July 5, 2008 at 7:48 am
I don’t think I’ver seen a hispanic person call another hispanic person a spick, or a Jewish person call another Jew a kike, or an Asian call another Asian a gook.
But we’ve all seen or heard African Americans call each other nigger.
Why?
July 5, 2008 at 8:28 am
Troll (Internet)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
Etymology
The contemporary use of the term first appeared on Usenet groups in the late 1980s. It is thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the fishing technique known as trolling.[3] The word likely gained currency because of its apt second meaning, drawn from the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children’s tales; they are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.
July 5, 2008 at 8:52 am
So… anyway, who is the idiot driving on the beach? Didn’t get a photo with his license plate number?
July 5, 2008 at 8:52 am
(Because I can see it’s a law enforcement vehicle. Surely he was trying to catch a speeder on the beach.)
July 5, 2008 at 9:02 am
I think anonymous trolls and hateful people in general don’t get laid enough.
July 5, 2008 at 9:30 am
Seriously you have to question the wisdom of shooting fireworks up into a fogbank.
What if there had been a ufo hovering up there?
Can you imagine the repercussions if a saucer with a smoking hole in it had plopped right down in Humboldt Bay?
GWB: “We don’t negotiate with aliens.”
LOL.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
July 5, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Redneck is perfectly acceptable, nigger is not.
The motion passes.
July 5, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I think most people don’t get laid enough but maybe I am projecting
July 5, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I axe you, Why is it so easy to discern a person’s race from the way their voice sounds?
July 5, 2008 at 10:44 pm
“Why is it so easy to discern a person’s race from the way their voice sounds?”
It’s not, you dunce.
July 5, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Please don’t feed the troll, CPR.
You may look at him, but don’t get close to the cage.
July 6, 2008 at 6:56 am
dont believe the hype…The Gov. made us(poor middleclass) hate each other so we dont get together and realize we have more in common than not and our numbers are WAY stronger than those in power, and then join sides and kick the GOV ’s ass…HATE IS POPULATION CONTROL, CULTIVATED LONG AGO AND SWALLOWED BY US HOOK, LINE , SINKER..
July 6, 2008 at 9:42 am
Thank you, Heraldo, for including us for the Foggy Fourth.
We had a quiet holiday at home puttering around the house. Stayvacation!