It’s 9pm on the East Coast, America 2011.. The light of day still hovers in the evening sky.. Illegal fireworks explode in the distance.. This, indeed, is how summer is meant to be ..
Monday, July 4, 2011
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America, for all its flaws and mistakes, is still the best place to live. Because after all, where else in the world can you point out your country’s flaws and mistakes and not go to jail or be killed..?
Enjoy all.. Cook out. Light fireworks. Be safe. And sing a song of American pride.
Goodnight America. Just don’t say goodbye to America.
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*Another* new study suggests that autism may be triggered in the womb
The latest in a number of theories as to what causes the distressing ailment to children..This theory is according a study by Stanford University.. They compared cases of autism in identical and fraternal twins and found that fraternal twins — who share only half of the same genes — have unusually high rates of autism. Reuters reports further:
"In another, researchers at health insurer Kaiser Permanente found mothers of children with autism were twice as likely to have been prescribed a common antidepressant during the year before their pregnancy than mothers of healthy children.
And the risk was even greater — a threefold increase — when the drug was taken in the first trimester of pregnancy.
*Another* new study suggests that autism may be triggered in the womb
Coal region bites: For the fourth time in just two weeks, a person was bitten by a pit bull in Pottsville, PA
…it’s the home of Yuengling brewery, and now dangerous dog bites.. Four times in 2 weeks!? Is there something in the water, or is it just that the SPCA doesn’t take pit bulls anymore!?
Coal region bites: For the fourth time in just two weeks, a person was bitten by a pit bull in Pottsville, PA
Black cloud over Florida..
There is currently drenching rain in Florida as reporters await a verdict in the Casey Anthony trial… Expect full scale media feeding frenzy when the half hour warning comes from the judge..
Just remembered
Fourth of July marathon of the Twilight Zone on SyFy.. watch the last remaining hours of it, if you can..
Just when the Kahn man thought he could get away with it.. enter a new woman: French writer Tristane Banon will file a criminal complaint against Dominique Strauss-Kahn for an alleged 2002 rape attempt..
The United States of gloom? UK TELEGRAPH says maybe
Author Tony Harnden puts forward an interesting proposition: The United States is gloomier this year than it was in1980. In the argument, pollster and ever-growing Frank Luntz and his hair were used as source code for numbers.. Thanks UK TELEGRAPH, 235 years later you’re rubbing in the fact we declared independence, and using Frank Luntz for some help.
The United States of gloom? UK TELEGRAPH says maybe
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One of the most moving and epic songs at one of the most moving and epic times in our nation’s history. On September 14, 2001, the United States Navy performed a stirring rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic while the nation mourned thousands of deaths on 9/11/01.
It’s easy to forget.. it’s simple to turn the page. But these days are ingrained in whoever lived through them. Regardless of what happened since, this time, this moment, that very song at that very second, filled the American people with courage and a thriving sense of patriotism.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
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The story of the STAR SPANGLED BANNER
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The second video of two I promised today.. This one to me best exemplifies the spirit of America—as told by one of the greatest voices in American history: Johnny Cash.. The Ragged Old Flag.. Enjoy.
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The first video I promised for today.. This is on the Fourth of July in a little suburban town. It’s the finale of the Wonders Years, the final 5 minutes namely..
Things have been a little rushed this year with some family ailments, a new son, and just life whizzing by.. Thanks for a friend who posted this video on my Facebook page yesterday, I realized how every Fourth of July I take a few minutes to watch this and .. sure, cry now and then too. It was a great show and it ended with a great proposition: The American dream, in a suburban American town, with fireworks blazing and life just going on.. Amazing.
I offer this up to you now.. hope you’ll take as much “Americana” as you can from it like I do ..
America seemingly is living in the wonder years.. confusing times of arguments, war, violence.. But since 9/11 things have been different. People are on edge.. People are watching over their shoulders for suspicious anythings..
I’d love to go back to a time when the American soul wasn’t perverted by color coded terror alerts and instead just wanted a grilled burger with a cold beer. I want to go back to a time when the United States wasn’t a bastion of political rhetoric—all of which means nothing in the end—and instead just work together for the betterment of all..
In some small measure, this show ending grounds me in a way. And I wish I can explain better why but I tried by best here.
And I knew they’d never have Winnie and Kevin get together..
Reblogging this image from asylums- because of just how much it creeped me out..:
Harrisburg State Hospital beds
The thought of these old sanitariums and ‘nut houses’ as they once were called freak me out, to my core.. Maybe too many stories of abuse or ghost haunts.. But this image is lonely, sad, and chilling.
Shock storm hits Wisconsin and kills a child…. the storm rolled in out of nowhere, moved across Minnesota and Wisconsin on Friday, packing winds approaching 80 mph and hail as large as softballs..
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