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On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:02:48 -0500, Poco Loco
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:51:01 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:39:26 -0500, Poco Loco
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:26:00 -0500, Harrold wrote:

On 11/11/2014 5:42 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
http://www.theconcertforvalor.com/

This will be presented live at 7:00 eastern on HBO, free.

--

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who's winning an argument
with a liberal."

...Peter Brimelow (Author)
(Thanks, Luddite!)


Why don't you go see it live.
If you're feeling charitable you could bring Krause as a guest. ;-)

My charity has it's limits. I've been downtown once for a 4 July
concert/fireworks. Never again. Didn't get home until after 3AM.

The trick with the fireworks, if you don't go by boat, is to just plan
to stay downtown a while.
I still remember when Carter was a lame duck and he would have a
monument show for just about any foreign visitor who would go "woo".

You could drive right up to the ellipse, park and watch the show. Then
drive away. Best kept secret in DC at the time.
My federal agent friend knew about it before time, she would call the
gang and we would go for the show.

I just blasted through the recording of the show. I liked Zak Brown,
Carrie Underwear is always the same but Bruce was playing name that
tune.
M&M and Metalica are just noise.
One speech was plenty.

I went by boat once. Took a 15' Boston Whaler up from Ft Belvoir. Nice
trip up, had a super time watching the fireworks and listening to the
National Symphony Orchestra on the boom-box. And then it was over.

The night was very dark. There were a *lot* of boats there. Many of
the boats were in the 30-35' range. Many of the captains were drunk.
Bringing that Whaler down the Potomac back to Ft Belvoir was the
scariest thing I've ever done. Luckily, I didn't have to stay in the
channel.

Never again.

I watched the show for a while. Wasn't too thrilled. Glad they did
something for Veterans' Day. It seemed like the show was tuned more to
the younger veterans, which is fine. Zak was my favorite also.

Don't know if it was my hearing or what, but even with hearing aids I
couldn't understand the words to the songs - especially Bruce. Oh
well.

Probably the most fun "water" trip was in a rented canoe. We paddled
down a ways to watch the fire works, then paddled up to 3 sisters for
a while to relax with our dates and around midnight we returned the
canoes. Traffic was pretty much cleared out by then.
The other times we went out of Ft Washington Marina and it wasn't
horrible on the water. In a small boat you could get away from the
channel and the traffic. We were in something from 17-22' depending on
who we went with.

My ex does it in an official capacity these days with the CG aux.

We used to go to Lake Oroville for 4 July. Great fireworks on the lake.
We stayed across from where all the Houseboats raft up. But we always
stayed a while, to avoid most of the drunks in ski boats going way to fast.
Similar problem with boaters in the ocean and rivers here. We get very
heavy fog at times. 10-15 foot visibility. And you hear boats running up
on plane, when they should be doing at the most 5-8 mph. Or even ocean
boats with radar domes, and they do not seem to pay attention to what is on
the screen. Do not think a boating license would make much difference.
Does not seem to with drivers license.