And awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay we go ......

The bottled water industry likes to portray itself as somehow environmentally friendly. I've never understood that. The bottling of water, no matter how clean the source, does nothing to help the earth. But the bottling itself means lots and lots of PLASTIC. The plastic comes from OIL. More oil is used to transport all those damn bottles. Less than 25% of all water bottles get recycled. Literally billions of pounds of plastic from those bottles end up in landfills each year. 

It's been discovered that many bottlers actually use TAP WATER. Sure, they might filter it some more, but you can do that yourself, nice and cheap. I put a filter on my kitchen tap for less than twenty bucks. I picked up some refillable bottles for less than a buck each. 

Many governmental bodies, cities and counties, have stopped using and supplying bottled water, because of the waste. 

If you're stuck someplace, FINE, buy a freaking bottle of water. Otherwise, fill up at home and bring it with you. Cuz nothing's dumber than paying two bucks or more a shot, for something you can get at home FOR FREE.

Too many people who call themselves patriots are in fact just macho shitheads. They think that patriotism means mindlessly backing our leaders every time they want to BLOW SOMEBODY ELSE UP. They think patriotism means planting stickers on their cars in support of war, then continuing to drive like arrogant assholes, not thinking that maybe patriotism should also have something to do with being a good citizen, mindful of others. They think patriotism means cheering for every dumb redneck song about kicking Saddam Hussein's ass.

Ohio GOP state rep Jean Schmidt called a decorated veteran a coward on the House floor. THIS is how Republicans act. If you disagree with them, you're a traitor, because they claim the mantle of being RIGHT. SCREW these people.

I don't go along like a doggie conformist when an idiot for a president says to jump. I don't listen to Toby Keith. I don't believe in torturing prisoners. I don't believe in chickenhawks who weaseled their way out of service, but are quick to send other people's kids to die in a war they were planning even before the convenient excuse of 9/11.

And I am a patriot.
 

Off-key and outta whack

Okay, this isn't really evil, but it is kinda stupid.  If you hang out in the newsgroup  alt.music.lyrics, you find folks requesting lyrics for songs they like but can't interpret.  And many well-wishers will provide these lyrics.  And they often do it WRONG.  If you don't KNOW, don't OFFER.  Recently, somebody asked for the words to "Walk Away," a great song by Joe Walsh.  I checked in, just for laughs, and saw two misguided souls offer differing (and both wrong) versions of it. Being a Joe scholar, as well as having seen him live four times solo and twice with the Eagles, I know his songs. 

Oh, and the correct answer for the question  "Anybody know the words for this Bon Jovi song?"  is  "Why in the hell do you want THAT?"

Affirmative Over-reAction

August 2000: Lee Alcorn, president of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP, said on a radio show that blacks should be suspicious of VP candidate Joseph Lieberman because he's Jewish, and of course Jews only care about money.  Lee was suspended, then he quit.  I bet I know a whole bunch of people who won't hire him. 
 

For a little kid, he's awfully convenient

As predicted on this site months in advance of the actual event, the feds had to go in to get little Elian Gonzalez at a weird hour to pull it off.  The relatives and their crazy supporters and their collectively crazy antics made this necessary.  Seriously, they were never going to turn that kid over.

There are many swine involved in this story.  Let's list them:

• The Miami relatives.  What incredible assholes !!!  Elian is NOT THEIR KID.  They had no legal, moral, ethical right to keep him.  They had the gall to set conditions under which his dad, the ONLY person who really should have any say, could get him back.  "You have to come to Miami," they said in essence, "you have to navigate the crowd of violent nitwits who stands outside the house everyday, the same boneheads who beat up the one peaceful protester who dared to disagree out on the street, the same bunch of fools who blocked traffic and threatened to shut down the Miami airport, and you have to find your way through them, and THEN you must meet with our hand-picked family representative, to get your own child back. You must meet our demands to regain YOUR CHILD."   They allowed a reporter to listen in on the child's half-hour phone conversation with his dad.  They starred him in an evil videotape in which he repeated his brainwashing sessions.  He's six years old, he'll repeat whatever you tell him.  Screw THEM. 

 
• The Miami relatives, Part II.  After the successful raid to free the kid from their evil clutches, they immediately flew off to Washington,  trying to meet up with the dad and kid at Andrews Air Force base.  Idiot on-again off-again Republican Bob Smith ushered them around, begging for media attention.  Rather undignified.  Well, they had their chance, and they blew it.  They flouted the law, they flouted parental rights, family values, and the opinion of the majority of the people of their adopted country.  They weren't going They can go to hell.

 
• The Miami relatives, Part III.  The incredible fainting woman recently said, all too sanctimoniously, "God, why did you perform only half a miracle?"  Huh?  You mean, reuniting the child with his rightful and loving parent was the work of the devil?  Leaving him with you nincompoops for daily photo ops and speeches would have been the rest of the miracle?  Get the frick off your pulpit, lady.

 
• The Miami relatives, Part IV. These clowns are now suing (as of Sept 2000) the feds over the raid on their house.  They themselves said they were not going to turn the kid over, after initially claiming they would cooperate.  The only way to enforce the legal order to return the child to his rightful father was to go in there.  The violent boobies outside would have been a bigger problem had they gone in in the middle of the day, so they didn't. Screw these people, they're jerks, toss that case, and them, on their collective ass.

 
• The Miami relatives, Part V. These clowns have reopened the house where Elian was held captive as a museum.  They want to memorialize the place where they kept a child against his parent's will.

 
• The Cuban-American community of Miami.  A violent, virulent, selfish bunch.  Al Gore praised them for remaining calm in the hours after the raid.  Al, by the time they woke up, they were in riot mode.  Once again, they selfishly shut down streets, setting fire to piles of garbage and tires, daring the police the come get them.  Over 200 arrested, and three cops hurt.  The one peaceful dissenter in their ranks held up a sign earlier the same week, proclaiming that Elian should go back to his father.  The "peaceful" crowd outside the Miami house beat the man up, even cracking him in the back of the skull as police were leading him away for his own safety.    This is a bunch of thugs and goons.

 
• That same community, Part II.  When a black columnist in the Miami Herald wrote that a poll of Afro-Americans heavily (as in 92%) favored giving the child back to his father where he belonged, a Cuban immigrant wrote in "We shall remember .... We own the majority of businesses in South Florida.  The next time you need a job, don't bother applying."  In other words, you don't agree with our wacky principles, so we'll disciminate against all blacks.  But what about all the Haitians who apply for asylum?  The Cuban-Americans down there don't seem to give a damn about those people.  What's more, this bunch of simpletons has put themselves on the opposite side of the law, and allowed their enemy, Fidel Castro, to take the high road and paint himself as the defender of family values, making them look like the fools they are.

 
• That same community, Part III.  They sure can't say this was a surprise.  They stalled and stonewalled, until the inevitable happened.  And they knew it was coming.  How many pictures and videotapes were made during this whole affair?  There were cameras inside and outside the house, plenty of them.  This was planned. No matter what happened, they were planning to make this difficult.

 
• Chris Matthews, host of "Hardball."  When asked for his worthless opinion on MSNBC, he somehow turned this into a gun-owners' debate, saying that gun-owners in Oklahoma, Idaho, and Michigan (traditional strongholds of those militia weirdos) see these images on TV of the SWAT team going into the Miami home and rescuing the kid, and saying those gun nuts won't be happy.  He says the black helicopters are right around the corner.  How the hell does a bunch of goofballs keeping a child from his father for political purposes equate to a gun debate?  What a maroon.

 
• Al Gore.  He quickly became the biggest suckup in the whole presidential race.  He said the whole thing should have been handled in "family court."  Speaking of family, Al, how about his real family, his FATHER, who wanted him back?  How much longer was this supposed to drag on?  And why commend that community for their "calm and lawful ways" when they rioted and broke windows and burned garbage in the streets?  You wanted to be president, so how about standing up for your attorney general, and for the laws of the land, you dolt?  Go home and count your Buddhist money, Al, and let grownups discuss grownup matters.

 
• Trent Lott and other idiot Congressmen.  He stirred up trouble by saying this was another example of how authoritarian our federal government has become.  Well, screw him too.  The relatives were in violation of the law. Why didn't he bitching at THEM?  Other Republicans showed their ignorance as well.  Majority Whip Tom DeLay, whose sole purpose in life was to bait President Clinton, called the raid a "kidnap."   Hmmmm.  Well, Tom, isn't keeping a child against the will of his legal parent a "kidnap?"  Isn't that just what those fools in Miami did, kidnap him, set conditions for his release, insist that the dad come to their turf to claim the child, insist that the dad meet their terms and their representative?   Isn't THAT a kidnap?   And Sen. Connie Mack of Florida, also compelled to suck up to the locals, said, "There is no justification to put a gun to the head of a 6-year-old boy."  Excuse me, IDIOT, nobody put a gun to the kid's head.  Did you expect federal agents to go in with whoopee cushions?  They were ordering the goofball fisherman who's inserted himself into the story to release the kid.  Speaking of whom......

 
• Donato Dalrymple.  He's one of the two fishermen who pulled the boy from the surf to begin with.  Good job, boys, somebody will send you a thank you card.  Now, go home.  Dalrymple says that since he plucked the kid from the water, he deserves to be part of the kid's life.  Uh, really, thanks much, but beat it.   This birdbrain further endangered the child's life by hiding in, then popping out of, a closet during the raid.  Nothing like surprising federal officers.  With the cameras blazing in the post-raid hours, Dalrymple was whining, crying, screaming like a ninny about what just happened.  On and on and on.    Take a pill, Donato, and stop sounding like a woman.  It doesn't go well with all those tattoos.  June '00 update: he sued the government for violating his civil rights.  Um, how about the rights of the father, Dalrymple?

 
• The mayor of Miami, Joe Carollo.  This pinhead lined up with the relatives. He said it's untrue that the relatives kept "moving the goalposts" during negotiations.  But y'know what?  He's lying.  They DID drag their feet and kept changing the conditions and basically make a raid utterly necessary.  As a public officail, Carollo, how about helping the feds enforce the law, the court orders, the will of the people?  The afternoon after the raid, he held a press conference, and cried crocodile tears, describing how "destroyed" the Miami family was after the raid.  Hey, that's their own damn fault.  This could have been handled nicely.  THEY are the ones who chose to make everybody else bend over backwards.  At this same press conference, he was asking the Cuban-American community to respect the law, saying that in a violent protest, the only winner was Fidel Castro.  Two points about this statement of his:  first, it was the relatives lack of respect for the law that caused the incident in the first place, and second, the Castro reference reveals what this was about all along, namely that the kid was a pawn in their ongoing effort to hurt Castro. Screw this guy too.

 
• The mayor of Miami, Part II.  A week after the raid, Mayor Carollo demanded that city manager  fire the police chief.  The city manager refused, so the mayor fired the manager, with the excuse being that the manager had failed to fill a couple of vacancies in city government.  The fact is, the mayor got ticked that the police chief didn't tip him off to the raid.  The police chief specifically did NOT tip off the mayor, since Carollo had politicized events, and  was openly supporting the idiot relatives, and would likely have tipped them off, leading to an even larger confrontation, with potential casualties, in front of the home.  The mayor, face it, was a pandering dolt.  Their very excellent police chief, who was held up as a model by other cities, quit. 

 
• The mayor of Miami-Dade, Alex Penelas.  Early on, he said that any violence which occurred would be the fault of the feds.  He was basically daring the feds, a clear incitement to riot,  and washing his hands of the consequences in advance.  Screw him too.

I've never cared much for Castro, but these simpletons in Miami may have made me his biggest fan.  They're all whining now that this was a nasty trick by the feds to pull during Holy Week.  Welllll, how nice was it to threaten to keep a child and his father apart during Holy Week?  Not terribly nice.  But then, these people are not very nice.  That, and they're frigging stupid.  Only my opinion, of course, but it's the correct one.  It also happens to be the opinion of a majority of Americans, which is why those whining Republicans screaming for a hearing on the matter put said hearing on hold, then made it disappear altogether.  No sense in beating a dead horse, especially when it conflicts with public opinion, especially in an election year.  Boobs.

May 2005 update: The bystanders, who were less than innocent throughout the whole ordeal, lost their multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the government, in which they claimed permanent injuries from being gassed. Oh gee, too bad.
 

And while you're at it, send lottery tickets

Summer '99, President Clinton visited the Appalachians, and sat down for some Mountain Dew with some of the tooth-impaired  locals.  Everyone frets over the lack of jobs, phones, opportunities, roads, facilities, and industry in the area.  Their local reps have strived for decades to bring pork into the place, sometimes building roads and schools.  BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM: there's nothing there to build for.  The population shrinks, and for a good reason.  There are too many mountains, so building roads is prohibitive.  And without roads, a whole lotta businesses won't locate there.  In the winter, conditions are so harsh, many people won't commute to distant jobs, and therefore they don't work.  Coal mining jobs have largely dried up.  So if the population is leaving, that's just natural selection.  It's like Sam Kinison said of the starving people in the famine-plagued areas of Africa: GO WHERE THE FOOD IS.   If where you're at stinks, we shouldn't pay to bring stuff there.  YOU should move to WHERE THE STUFF IS.  Tossing more money at the Appalachians is a WASTE.
 
 

I guess this makes up for all that land-grabbing

January 2000, the Clinton administration has given four American Indian tribes grants to open "smoke shops" that sell discount cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.  So while the government has been fighting the evil tobacco companies and their obvious attempts to ensnare younger smokers, and as they pay the costs of smokers' medical maladies, they are providing a way to undercut the impact of taxes on those evil products.
 
 

Artistic Asskissers

Summer 2000:  Artist Michele Tuohey of Oak Park IL painted a picture which she says represents her entrance into motherhood.  It depicts one nude woman descending  a staircase and a second naked woman going up the stairs, followed by a baby being pulled up the same stairs by its umbilical cord, which very graphically runs between one woman's legs.  Illinois state officials yanked it from display at the state fair, as a matter of good taste.  Lots of kids at the state fair, you see, since it's considered a family event.  The artist and her exhibit curator/husband objected, claiming censorship.  Tuohey said "I'm being told I can't express myself."  Oh, SURE you can.  In a gallery someplace.  Nobody says you can't put your goofy-ass painting on display SOMEPLACE ELSE. 
 

Fall '99, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has booked a show called "Sensation," which features a large variety of grotesque "art" pieces.   These include a bust made from frozen blood, a number of dissected (and cross-sectioned) animals, and most notoriously, a picture entitled "The Holy Virgin Mary," which is a so-so African version of Mary, decorated with privates snipped from porno mags, and also elephant dung acquired from the London Zoo.  New York mayor Rudy Giuliani   tried to evict the museum from its place, and also tried to deny the museum the millions it gets from the city every year.  The museum won in court on that one, claiming that the mayor was attempting to exercise censorship in violation of the First Amendment.

Hey, they can display anything they want.  But they shouldn't necesssarily be able to do it in a public building.

This is typical of artists who create dumbass things, like the moron Seranno with the crucifix in the jar of urine, or those moronic Mappelthorpe pictures that portray gay men shoving bullwhips up the butts of other gay men.  If you have to create sensationlism in order to attract a following, then it's not really art, it's just another dirty-minded display like an HBO television series or a soap opera cliffhanger.  These "artists" don't make anything that anybody really wants.  No wonder the NEA has been gutted.  It was forced to fund talent-free doofuses for too long.  The surest sign that a piece of "art" sucks is if it's at the center of a First Amendment battle.
 
 
 

Waco whackos

Okay, let's get this straight. There are two ways to interpret what happened in Waco. One, there's this poor fundamentalist slob, with his own views on the Bible, quietly hanging out with his followers, minding his own business, and the government decided to deny him his civil rights and his guns. The other way of looking at it is, there's this loony who's come up with his own take on Scripture such that it allows him to molest girls as young as nine and to deny sleep and food to people who piss him off and he decides to stash a bunch of assault weapons and ammo (not the kind of guy I'd want as a neighbor) and he hid behind a bunch of kids when the Feds came to haul his loony ass away. And all these militia morons made him into a poster boy. Good role model, huh? A messiah child-molester.

The latest revisionist history on this thing (fall '99) has fools once again saying the government thugs (as in FBI) murdered the Branch Davidians.  Ridiculous.  No matter what kind of tear gas they fired, the fires that ate the place up started hours after the tear gas was fired.  And fires started in multiple places simultaneously. The guy running the place, David Koresh, had already predicted his death by fire.  All he did was make it come true.  Unfortunately, he took a lot of other loonies AND their KIDS with him.  Once he started shooting at law enforcement, that's pretty much it.  A lawsuit filed by sympathizers, survivors, and relatives of the dead blamed the government for the fire.  But recordings by electronic bugs in the compound clearly show that the fire was started by and kept going by its occupants, who also fired the first shots.  It was planned by Koresh to self-fulfill their prophecy of doom and gloom.

In other words, THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON TO BLAME FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT WACO, AND HE'S DEAD AND IN HELL.  If he had come out to answer the many gun charges and other complaints, instead of hiding behind the CHILDREN, all those people would still be alive.  All he had to do was come out.  The rest of  them could have stayed in there, for that matter.  He held off the law, at gunpoint, and of course with the implied threat that bad things could happen to the children, if anyone approached.  No one else is to blame.  THE END.
 

Race-baiters

Don't get on my case about racism.  I'm an equal-opportunity curmudgeon.  Check this out below.

In the meantime, there are dummies on all sides of the fence.  Khalid Abdul Muhammad (you know that's not his given name) tried in September '99 to organize a "Million Youth March" in New York City, only to fail two years running.  Last year he attracted 6000 people to hear him insult whites and Jews, and to urge attendees to commit violence against the police.  This year he got barely 2000, although he still managed to sneak in comments about Jews and whites and his perceived enemies.  After several speakers got up and talked about peace and unity, Muhammad just had to preach hate.  No wonder most black community leaders stayed away from this one.  Muhammad used to work for Louis Farrakhan, which explains a lot, but even Louie has cooled his rhetoric just a little.    We don't need this crap.
 

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle

Creationists will tell you there's no proof that evolution occurred.  They like to think that God put this whole place together maybe 5000 years ago.  Actually, there are all manner of duelling creationist calendars about.  In any event, they're correct, there's no proof of either theory.  However, there's a ton of EVIDENCE which seems to indicate that evolution has in fact shaped plant and animal life on this planet over the eons.  Lots and lots of evidence.  While the Bible, which is a great set of stories which all wrap up into one grand story, also has as the basis of the Old Testament a lotta tales which are meant to be nice guides but not taken literally.  And the dates and measurements therein don't make any sense whatsoever.  You have too many people who lived hundreds of years in the Old Testament, and yet they disappear from the stories while their offspring carry on.  Cain kills Abel and runs off, but God puts a mark on him so the people in the city he flees to won't kill him.  Uh, where did those other people and other cities come from, if Abel's one of only two kids of the first couple?  Huh?

In other words, the Garden of Eden's a neat little yarn, but only meant to teach a lesson, and it AIN'T a history lesson.

The Kansas governor and various legislators there are trying to disband or deflate the school board, since they're making a laughingstock of the state.  Maybe a sound beating, or a forced reading of Inherit the Wind, might help.

Even the Vatican thinks that the theory of evolution fits nicely with the idea of a grand plan, God's master scheme.  They are in no way contradictory.  To say that God wouldn't have made men from monkeys (oh, yeah, he just made them from dirt; that's so much nicer) is putting words in God's mouth.  Who's to say how God works?

Well, fundamentalists, that's who.  They claim to have this all figured out.  Hell, they can't even figure out where most of their teeth went.  But now in the state of Kansas, you can't teach evolution any longer.  They'd rather send their children into the world to be ridiculed because they think the world came about only a few thousand years ago, despite the evidence to the contrary, right under their feet.   I think I'd rather send MY kids into the world thinking they were descended from apes rather than from the Kansas school board.

UPDATE : The school board has been backed up, and the ridiculous policy has been nullified.  Chalk one up for logic.

Fall 2005: They're fighting this battle again in Pennsylvania, this time over INTELLIGENT DESIGN, which is how creationists try to package up their beliefs in the veneer of scientific credibility. But it's just for show. Teach religion in church, and leave school for actual science.
 

Tower of babble

In the sixties, Dwight York, of Massachusetts, did three years for felonious assault, weapons possession, and resisting arrest.  A few years later, he passed himself off as a Sudanese-born Muslim cleric.  A bit later, he told people he was an alien from the eighth planet and would carry away 144,000 people in 2003 in a spaceship.  In the early 90's, he went by the name of Isa Muhammad and ran a Muslim sect.  Now 54, York says he is Black Eagle Malachi York, reincarnated chief of the Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation, more succintly known as the Nuwaubian Moors.  Nevermind that the Moors were from the other side of the Pond.  Oh, well.

York and his followers sit on almost 500 acres in eastern Georgia, a place they call Tama-Re, or Egypt of the West. They've built a forty-foot pyramid, own a chain of bookstores, stockpile weapons, and practice a mix of Biblical, Egyptian, Babylonian, and alien-conspiracy "religion."   They call local officials "evil" for desecrating their church with various raids, but those officials say the "church" was actually a social club that served liquor and had quite the crowd on weekends.  Their other buildings are built to look like pyramids on the outside (although many are actually barracks on the inside), and they advertise these as "pyramid malls" selling all sorts of junk.

The Nuwaubians (what in the hell does THAT mean, anyway?) have declared their property a sovereign state, and issue their own passports and license plates, and they've been linked to extortion and welfare fraud in New York City.

Okay, okay, now here is the really interesting item about this group:  York claims that native Americans are descendants of the Moors from Africa, and got here by walking from Africa when the continents were still connected.  Never mind that the Moors were Muslim, which didn't become a religion until  hundreds of years after Christ, while the continents drifted apart hundreds of millions of years ago.

When York's second-in-command was asked about the spaceship, he replied, "Well, some of us believe in the spaceship, and some of us don't."

There's a bunch of correct opinions on this one, and where these people are headed, but I think it's SO frigging obvious, I won't even bother.
 

Dirt peddlers

I'm a big believer in the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I also understand, being not a stone-headed idiot but rather a capable reader and interpreter, that our forefathers could not possibly have anticipated everything that might befall us as a society, and therefore couldn't have possibly coded a set of documents that would cover all the bases. So I don't take the Bill of Rights as I would the Bible. Heck, I don't take the Bible as I would the Bible.

But those swine who would protect their own little kingdoms will take whatever they can get their hands on to justify whatever crap they're trying to pull. Gun-owners, for example, always swing the Second Amendment in our faces to justify having whatever kind of guns they want. "The right to bear arms shall not be infringed." But they always leave out the part about the necessity of a militia. Well, guys, we now havea great police force, a National Guard, and a standing army, none of which we had when the Bill of Rights was put together. You want a handgun for protection, you want a hunting rifle, fine. But you DON'T need assualt weapons and fifty-round clips and armor-piercing shells. Those are for military use, not residential.

And most recently, I received a spam email from some idiot named viagraman, who tries to peddle smut under the guise of free speech. Now, I like nekkid women, especially my wife, but don't tell me that dirty pictures are an example of free and proper political or intellectual expression. They're just dirty pictures.

Oh, hell, here's the spam (the sites have been changed cuz I won't give this bozo free advertising) :

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The dummy can't even spell "illegal" or "porn." Apparently his hands were still too sticky or sweaty when he was typing.
 
 

And some guy calling himself Jeffrey Lisenbee stumbles through the newsgroup alt.magic, not bothering to notice that it's all about performance magic (rabbits from hats, etc.) and tries peddling "readings" and the like.  His spam all goes about the same way:

When I politely suggested to him that he was spamming several groups, at least one of which had nothing todo with his subject matter, he replied in an incredibly vulgar way, belying his so-called "spiritual" studies of African and Native American tribes.  He ended up sending me three vulgar emails, leading to the cancellation of his hotmail account.  A few others also posted Lisenbee's vulgar replies to their requests that he stop spamming the usenet with his offers of spiritual help with people's love lives.

It also appears he was trying to spam four groups all at once (perhaps not the world's biggest spam), but he misspelled the names of two of them, sparing those lucky folks his many redundant bits of garbage.
 

Firecracker Fools

Illinois has wisely banned most kinds of fireworks. People who poo-poo such restrictions have never seen, as have I, the damage inflicted by an errant bottle rocket. There's a guy who travels Illinois showing off his destroyed face to schoolkids, to show them this damage. He was in his own yard when a rocket came for a visit and exploded near his head. I've also noticed, in my current neighborhood and my previous ones, how the biggest rednecks will allow teir own very small children to set these off, even shooting them out of their hands, or play with sparklers which can generate a thousand degrees of heat. 

But our neighboring states are governed by baboons when it comes to this subject. Indiana fireworks vendors are irresponsible goons. Fireworks are only to be sold in Indiana to those who agree to shoot them off in areas designated by a fireworks association. Well guess what? When you purchase your fireworks, for an extra two bucks you can join the association, and then you pack your trunk and head home to bother the living shit out of your neighbors. Personally, I drove around this past Fourth, tracked down the biggest offenders, and called the police. You make a little noise during the day, fine. But if you blow off M-80s or worse, after ten at night, when my kids are in bed, and these things are loud enough to set off car alarms (as they did in my area), then you're screwed. 

Unfortunately, the money raised by this bogus association largely goes to the fireworks lobbyists in Indiana, and they keep fireworks legal there. The damn Hoosiers need to crack down on this egregious practice. Better yet, they should do away with the vendors altogether. Wisconsin also needs to get on the bandwagon. This is my correct opinion on the matter. If you disagree, then you are a redneck boob. This is also my correct opinion. 

July 4th, 1999, an apartment fire in the Pacific Northwest which left several families homeless was caused by a bottle rocket landing on a balcony.