Electric Light Parade treks on despite rain

I tried to call the local radio stations last night to see if the parade had been canceled...No answers...I tried to call the Sun-News to see about the parade being canceled because of the rain..No answer...Had to call Central Dispatch to get a final answer ...

Thanks for your public service Central Dispatch ... A big BOO to the radio stations and Sun News!!

I have lived in las cruces for 10 years now and about half of these years these concerts have been rained out. Come on people find a new way of celebrating this thing I know I'm not the only one who is sick of my taxes going to a concert that might be rained out. The bands still get paid even though they do not perform. Every year we have this threat of rain. When you pay for someone to perform make sure it will happen!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the coverage. I am from a big city in the East and am taken back as to why it is necessary to list the peoples age when it has nothing to to do with the theme of the story being reported. If it has no relavence to the story,what it the point? I have only seen this done
in very small towns with no big news to report. I see this all the time in the style of reporting in this newspaper. Come on Las Cruces, you are growing up........ STEP IT UP!!!

Ivan,

Why couldn't you physically go out and see if the parade was still on?

Las Crucen wrote:

Ivan,
Why couldn't you physically go out and see if the parade was still on?

Because I live all the way across town and driving in this city where others do not slow down for flooded streets was something I did not want to have to contend with!

Wow what a bunch of whiners. I had fun last night.

Well on a more positive note. We loved the parade! We drove down from Anthony in the rain. I was hoping the Sun News had a picture of my favorite part. I loved the opening of the parade when the military came by holding and lighting up the flags and marching in the rain! It's what the 4th of July is all about. I couldn't believe watching them actually brought a tear to my eyes. THANK YOU!

Wow, I guess I'll have to remember to get up at dawn next 4th of July so I can go and CHAIN a lawn chair to something. Or maybe I will just go and we we in a circle around where I want to sit that night.

I've honestly never heard of such a thing.

Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!!

"what if this is as good as it gets"

Ruth Rodriguez wrote:

Thank you for the coverage. I am from a big city in the East and am taken back as to why it is necessary to list the peoples age when it has nothing to to do with the theme of the story being reported. If it has no relavence to the story,what it the point? I have only seen this done
in very small towns with no big news to report. I see this all the time in the style of reporting in this newspaper. Come on Las Cruces, you are growing up........ STEP IT UP!!!

Get a life.

vanity wrote:

"what if this is as good as it gets"

if that's the case then the hokey pokey is really what it's all about

How about all of you that had a good time at the parade last night to go back and pick up your trash? I just drove the parade route and was discusted by the lack of pride you parade watchers have. Take your trash home with you!

CiE wrote:

How about all of you that had a good time at the parade last night to go back and pick up your trash? I just drove the parade route and was discusted by the lack of pride you parade watchers have. Take your trash home with you!

But if I had to take trash home, then half of the people watching the parade would have to go home with me.

las cruces wrote:

Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!! Yea fireworks!! Yea! Yea! I can't wait!!

Im with ya,, but our commie city council banned the good ones, These babies around here, who moved in from somewhere else just don't get it, We here in Las Cruces have very few pleasures, Fireworks that go BOOM is one of em that we get 2 time a year, our leaders ruined that.

These commies really have no business attending a celebration of the birth of our nation , while trying to kill it in the process, Mayor Ken is one of em, and the city council is in on it too, remember the traffic cameras? Go Home Mayor Ken.

Cagedodgeman wrote:

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Im with ya,, but our commie city council banned the good ones, These babies around here, who moved in from somewhere else just don't get it, We here in Las Cruces have very few pleasures, Fireworks that go BOOM is one of em that we get 2 time a year, our leaders ruined that.
These commies really have no business attending a celebration of the birth of our nation , while trying to kill it in the process, Mayor Ken is one of em, and the city council is in on it too, remember the traffic cameras? Go Home Mayor Ken.

Man..Get a grip...You need help

Gizmo wrote:

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Man..Get a grip...You need help

I have a plenty firm grip, its not my fault that the majority of our population is a bunch of panty waists, you must not be from around here either.

Here ya go Gizschmo Maybe this will help you.(I doubt it but I am willing to try)
Ah, the glorious Fourth of July. The best possible time for a national day of mourning.
I mean, really … what better day could you choose to lament the loss of what this nation once was? We led the world in nearly everything: independence, liberty, freedom, industry, wealth. We rose beyond the stain of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We embraced all nationalities of legal immigrants with remarkable smoothness and out of many, became one.
But no more.
Now we are fragmenting. We are reversing the motto of our country and out of one, becoming many.
Some feel this persistent destruction of America is intentional. Whether or not you concur, the one thing you must agree is that the Nancy Pelosi's and the Harry Reid's (and the Mayor Kens) of our government loath and despite everything Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ever stood for. That's because our Founding Fathers "removed the shackles from the people and placed them on the government," to quote Joseph Farah. Government hates that. In the past 70 years or so, it's been dismantling those shackles with increasing speed and placing them back on the citizens.
Walter Williams wisely noted, "Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights." He points out that specific rights – freedom of speech and press, the right to own firearms, our rights to property, the right to a fair trial – could and would be usurped by a greedy and power-hungry government unless specifically told not to. "The Bill of Rights should serve as a constant reminder of the deep distrust our founders had of government … they rightfully saw government as the enemy of the people...." And sure enough, the fears of the Founding Fathers are coming to pass with sickening speed. "Americans have developed a level of naive trust for Congress, the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court that would have astonished the founders, a trust that will lead to our undoing as a great nation."
Part of our collective problem is the two extremes of how people think our country should be run.
On the right extreme are those (like me) who think our Founding Fathers were pretty smart guys, and we should keep our government within the constraints they so brilliantly laid out.
On the left extreme are those who think the Founding Fathers were a quaint bunch of pansies in funny wigs whose writing no longer applies to us, and that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are "living documents" that should be modified whenever they wish.
And never the twain shall meet.
It's becoming illegal to do the things that once brought this country to greatness. Industry is handicapped by extraordinarily detailed regulations and, soon, cap-and-trade. Big businesses are now "too big to fail" and thus must be taken over by the government with the laughable idea that it can do a better job running them. Your food, your water, your home, your transportation, your education, your money, your children, your health care, and other private and individual concerns are now dictated to a startling degree by the government. Our economy is being ruled, taxed, policied, czared and regulated to death … much of it without input from the citizens.(many of these communist anti American votes happen while I am at work)
The government seeks to destroy freedom of speech by the "Fairness" Doctrine. It seeks to keeps its citizens horribly ignorant through public education. It seeks to destroy the Second Amendment by regulating the types of guns you can buy and increasing taxes on ammunition. It seeks to limit our abilities to gather peacefully in tea parties. Those who question the government are belittled, ridiculed, probed, audited and sometimes jailed.(You have heard about the DHS reports which falsely label nearly half of Americans as Domestic terrorists have you not?)

Is this what Jefferson and Adams predicted? You betcha. That's why they wrote those pesky restrictions into those annoying documents. Darn those men. If only our modern-day government could deny those historical papers ever existed.
Few are willing to see the eerie parallels between King George III and our current federal government because no one reads the Declaration of Independence anymore. There was a time when every schoolchild had that document memorized (remember your Laura Ingalls Wilder books?). Because the citizens knew their non-revisionist history – and knew it well – they could avoid repeating it. Now our government-run schools keep kids steeped in ignorance, preferring to focus on gay rights and imaginary environmental catastrophes to distract us from the government's goal of utter takeover. And hey, presto, it's working. We're becoming the land of the shackled and the home of the oppressed.
When the government – not just the present administration, but most past administrations as well – willfully ignore and happily trod upon the restrictions placed on them by the founding documents, I can only conclude it's purposeful. It's about power and riches, not freedom and liberty.
And that's why I think the Fourth of July is the best time for a Day of Mourning.
What will happen in the end? Will we split into two (or more) countries? Will we become the Progressive States of America and the Traditional States of America? I don't know.(You seem to lean to the Progressive side? Please look up the term -Progressive-)
Someone far greater than I once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." It seems the division among us is deeper and wider than any time since prior to the Civil War.
So on this glorious Fourth, I will attend a tea party, I will join my neighbors for a barbecue, I will light some "Safe and Lame" fireworks … and I will wonder what the future will bring.
It's no longer Independence Day. It's Dependence Day.
And I don't like it.

Gee..You sure don't like lots of things..The only thing I think we could possibly agree upon is the day of the week. With that thought, I will say no more.