HAPPY HIGH TREASON DAY, AMERICA!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

WOOOOOT THAT LIMEY OLD QUEEN CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO!

OTOH, people in Canada seem perfectly happy. 

[Doktor Howl]

WOOOOOT THAT LIMEY OLD QUEEN CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO!

OTOH, people in Canada seem perfectly happy. 

DERE KWEEN ALIZABITH:

WE WERE ONLY JOKING.  CAN WE COME HOME NOW?

YERS TRULLY,
JAMES MADISON

[Bruno]

Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!

I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.

I found nothing and went home empty handed.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!

I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.

I found nothing and went home empty handed.

Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.

[Bruno]

Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!

I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.

I found nothing and went home empty handed.

Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.

Yeah, I know. That doesn't stop it from ruining it for me.

It's not the "in China" part that bothers me so much as the "by severely underpaid peasants with no rights in probably horrible working conditions with little concern for safety other than that needed to keep the facilities and inventory from exploding... maybe" part.

In celebration of "Freedom", of course.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Celebrate the creation of an empire by sitting out in the sun all day and using fire to cook food and drink beer. In the hot sun. For several hours.
Happy wake up with severe dehydration day!

I went shopping for fireworks today determined to find something that was, if not made in the U.S., at least not Made in China.

I found nothing and went home empty handed.

Fireworks have always been made in China. They INVENTED fireworks.

Yeah, I know. That doesn't stop it from ruining it for me.

It's not the "in China" part that bothers me so much as the "by severely underpaid peasants with no rights in probably horrible working conditions with little concern for safety other than that needed to keep the facilities and inventory from exploding... maybe" part.

In celebration of "Freedom", of course.

That's nonsense. Just because fireworks are made in conditions that diametrically oppose to the conditions they have come to symbolize in America is no reason to point fingers at people who use them to symbolize freedom. I mean, you have to have some kind of symbol for freedom, and no matter what you do that symbol is going to be mass-manufactured by people who have no access to that freedom. The idea is more important than the reality anyway. In fact, maybe if you buy enough fireworks and display them prominently enough, that idea of freedom will spread all the way to the fireworks factory where it can be appreciated by those workers. Through the window, of course.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I was just thinking more along the lines of it being one of the few heritage industries in China that's been located there since its invention and is highly unlikely to take off anywhere else, both due to secrecy of the formulas and methods and due to the fact that no one else is going to be able to compete price-wise.

Sort of like Italian glass.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.

That, and all the cheap Chinese-made shit in WalMart and Dollar General. You know, the JERB CREEATERS.

Oh, and Dok:

[Bruno]

I was just thinking more along the lines of it being one of the few heritage industries in China that's been located there since its invention and is highly unlikely to take off anywhere else, both due to secrecy of the formulas and methods and due to the fact that no one else is going to be able to compete price-wise.

Sort of like Italian glass.

They are authentic. I'll give them that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I do wish that the True Patriots of 'MERICA had the capacity to sense dilemmas. They might think twice about the weird paradox of buying fireworks from foreign companies (or domestic ones who outsource all their labor) to celebrate the greatness of America. Sadly their brains are overpowered by shiny objects as it is, so things that shine AND explode? The poor saps have no chance.

[Left]

Just thought I'd look this up...
http://www.fmaa-usa.com/resources_links/usflag_statistics.php

$3.8 million
In 2012, the dollar value of U.S. imports of American flags. The vast majority of this amount ($3.6 million) was for U.S. flags made in China.

We are so screwed.