The Bombs Bursting In Air, ... Not So Much, Please!

Ah, how wonderful. Some loyal capitalists but summer patriots who have made a fair buck in this great land are taking exception to a tradition linked to the very thing that has preserved our system and kept them safe and free to do it. But they enjoy a little wine with their whine, so it's all good. Let's hope little lord Obama doesn't schedule a parade for himself in the area anytime soon. I can only imagine what a fit they'd throw then.

Miffed residents of a posh condo complex have invited the commanding officer of the USS Constitution over for a glass of wine so he can hear for himself that the frigate’s twice-daily cannon blasts - a tradition dating to 1798 - are “more disruptive to the neighborhood than you might have imagined.”

Comments

[w3bgrrl]

I can't imagine the suffering they've experience lo' these 211 years.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

This sounds all too familiar. "New Comers" complained when a battery of guns fired a traditional salute for SSN North Carolina here (as they do every time guns are fired) Ironic though that yankees complain even in yankeedom about such things.

[templar knight]

Willie, liberals hate it when I fire my guns, too. One liberal who lives two miles from the firing range is complaining that bullets are going over her house and endangering her children. But she can't come up with any evidence, we're just supposed to take her word for it.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Two miles? What the heck are you peeples shooting?

[Philip McDaniel]

LOL, That must be some cannon.