the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air...guns everywhere: tragically, weatherman loses eye in American Fireworks Fetish ritual
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-rockets-red-glare-bombs-bursting-in.html
I once had detached retinas. They ended my softball career, and threatened me with blindness. Thanks to the doctors ! They saved my eyes through surgery. The whole experience made me soberly consider how life might be being blind.
Tragically, a local weatherman in the Detroit area, lost one eye to some kind of fireworks while vacationing in Kansas over the Fourth of July weekend, as I understand it from news reports.
https://www.facebook.com/wxyzdetroit/photos/a.461583946134.248530.80221381134/10152145349206135/?type=1&theater
May medical research discover a way to make new eyes !
The American national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner" ,of course, has the words
O say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
So, the official song of the Nation is about the American flag, spangled with stars, flying in a battle of war lit up by deadly projectiles full of GUNPOWDER exploding. There may even be a poetic suggestion that the stars on the flag are themselves bombs full of gunpowder bursting in the air as well as stars in the sky.
Well, as we all know, thus the FIREWORKS on the Fourth of July symbolize a war zone battle with exploding deadly bombs in the air.
So, this is a perfect ritual to what I call the AMERICAN NATIONAL GUN FETISH OR GUNPOWDER FETISH.
the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air...guns everywhere.
Take it from me . I'm an anthropologist. I know a fetish when I see one. (smiles)
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton
17 hrs · .@theRevAl: ‘We’ve got to stop the violence’ Rev. Al Sharpton discusses the violent 4th of July weekend in Chicago, and why all Americans have a responsibility to help rid the country of senseless gun violence. http://on.msnbc.com/1vWFpd8 #PoliticsNation what do you think can be done to stop the violence in Chicago?
Sharpton: ‘All hands on deck’ to stop gun violence Rev. Al Sharpton discusses the violent 4th of July weekend in the city of Chicago, and why all Americans have a responsibility to help rid the country of the scourge of gun violence. msnbc.com
Researchers have developed a device shaped like a giant ring that can read to people who are visually impaired.
New Finger Device Reads Books To The Blind | IFLScience Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed a device shaped like a... iflscience.com
msnbc Democrats / Elections / Republicans U.S. Senate candidate West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant marches with her musket in the Ripley 4th of July Parade in Ripley, W. Va., on July 4, 2014. U.S. Senate candidate West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant marches with her musket in the Ripley 4th of July Parade in Ripley, W. Va., on July 4, 2014. Bill Clark/Getty
http://www.liberalamerica.org/…/is-the-being-conservative-…/
Is The 'Being Conservative' Facebook Page Inciting Fans To Violence? I took my weekly stroll amongst the nutjobs on Facebook and was shocked to see Being Conservative selling a t-shirt that appears to incite violence.
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Charles Brown Violence against minorities = liberty for white people/////// That was the original true purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Arm the white populace to annihilate Indigenous Peoples and repress slave revolts, thereby liberating the land and agriculture cash-crop wealth exclusively for white people. Just now · Edited · Like
American gun fetish Suzette says : "I grew up with guns.
Hell, even my grandmother had a hunting rifle.
My grandfather slept with a pearl handled revolver under his pillow.
My uncles and grandfather had cabinets full of hunting rifles ...
My father had a shotgun mounted on the wall over his bed, plus handguns. He'd been a part time cop for some years.
All the neighbors had guns and nobody even thought about it.
But nobody thought guns made them in any way special, either.
I never once growing up heard of anybody having an accident with a gun much less ever shooting anybody.
No murders in my town or family.
Guns were simply guns.
Not dicks.
To be blunt.
I'm so old that I remember when "open carry " meant putting your shotgun or hunting rifle on a rack in the cab of your pick up to go hunting or target shooting.
NOT fancy prancing around stores at the mall or restaurant wearing a gun like a fashion accessory.
I am so old that I remember when the NRA focused on teaching gun safety, not ramping up gun sales.
! Don't blame the guns. Guns don't make decisions.
Too many Americans have changed.
Into a bunch of rabid nut jobs.
What seriously pisses me off now is that we are the ONLY developed nation that puts up with this crap of mass shootings and big annual death tolls from shootings and constant cases of children "getting their hands on their parents guns" and shooting other kids, etc.
Nightmares!
What nobody talks about is what it's costing us in medical treatment for gun shot wounds, either! Very expensive emergency treatment and surgeries!
WTF.
How stupid can a country BE?
What is wrong with Americans, psychologically, that we live this way, while civilized people around the world look on in horror and wonder why we're so damn stupid?
I keep asking myself, what's different about us?
Why are Americans so casual about gun violence, as though it's a natural disaster, like floods and windstorms?
It's not natural.
It's just us.
Just us, among ALL developed countries.
ONLY America.
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