Things I KNOW about America

[datasuspect]

1. we are number 1 (in your face! USA! USA! USA!)
2. Great Britain owes us their ass for WWII
3. we kick ass and take names
4. we invented freedom
5. if you don't love america, leave it.


(thanks lee greenwood for giving me the inspiration for this post)

[KitchenWitch]

1. did freak repugnant just take over your brain?

j/k

[datasuspect]

3. i wanted to try that (freak rethug) hat on

it fits over the eyes and it is made of wool.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. we are also the stupid n/t.

[datasuspect]

5. dood, murka has the bes skools in the eart

aks anybuddy

[Deja Q]

13. Like Oprah?

:yoiks:

[datasuspect]

14. orpah gots a skool nowe?

whoa

[billyskank]

4. I thought we just stopped paying you the other week

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4757181.stm

There, that's it. We paid up.

[crispini]

7. Bwahahaha!

That's wild! Who knew?

[hfojvt]

23. But not for WWI

I had a grade school teacher way back in 1970 who said that the whole world owes us a ton of money, and there it is -

"And while the UK dutifully pays off its World War II debts, those from World War I remain resolutely unpaid. And are by no means trifling. In 1934, Britain owed the US $4.4bn of World War I debt (about £866m at 1934 exchange rates). Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn.

"We just sort of gave up around 1932 when the interwar economy was in turmoil, currencies were collapsing," says Prof Harrison.

Nor were we alone. In 1931, US President Herbert Hoover announced a one-year moratorium on war loan repayments from all nations so the international community could properly discuss what it was going to do."

225 billion pounds, and that's a British billion too, not a mere thousand million!!! Plus interest!

[billyskank]

27. Well, why don't we just pay it to China?

'Cause that's where it's all going anyhow. :P

[MissHoneychurch]

6. Wasn't it France who invented Freedom??

at least they kicked the asses of their king to get freedom. OK, then Napoleon came and kicked their ass but the "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" talk was started in France

:P

[billyskank]

Shhhhhh

that's actual history. ;)

[MissHoneychurch]

11. Ooops

:blush:

You mean they can't handle that??


















:rofl:

[datasuspect]

9. america was made before france

that's why america rules the earth

[hfojvt]

20. French revolution was in 1789, American in 1776

It was actually the Swiss who invented freedom in 1100 or so.

[datasuspect]

22. what about them pesky greeks with their "demos," representative governments,

and stuff like that . . .

[hfojvt]

24. a slave society? Freedom for some, perhaps.

Not like CH at all.

[datasuspect]

26. well it was "free" for most men.

kinda like our own setup here was way back when.

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Ah yes, I forgot Wilhelm Tell

*Slaps forhead*

[datasuspect]

29. ah, but our so called "founding fathers"

were children of the enlightenment. and the best enlightenment thinkers were french (condillac, voltaire, rousseau, etc.)

i think that was before they became a nation of cowards with bad hygiene.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

8. Thanks datasuspect, I needed a good laugh today...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[datasuspect]

10. at least you get it

thanks for being a light hearted type. i was hoping someone would think it was funny.

[Deja Q]

12. And if you listen to coworkers who vote for the bunch in power:

They whine about not getting enough pay and benefits and say consultants get more (so quit and become a consultant you cretins... why not? Nothing out there? Can't blame Dems for that either, though we appreciate your attempt to spin things to your warped POV. Except NAFTA, but that was nothing by comparison.)

[johnnie]

15. And of course...

When Jesus comes back, he will be coming back as an American. Probably will be born in Memphis or maybe Toledo. :shrug:

[datasuspect]

16. in a golden 4X4 of heavenly glory

with angels coming out the glass pack tail pipes.

skynyrd will playing in the background.

[terrya]

17. Charlie Daniels taught me some stuff about America yesterday.

Apparently, we're walkin' real proud and talking real loud agin' in America. I learned this while at breakfast yesterday morning at the diner down the street.

Who knew? :shrug:

[datasuspect]

19. and we're haulin ass and gettin paid

puttin the hammer down!!!!!!

10-4!

[hfojvt]

18. Lee Greenwood never actually said those things in a song, did he?

Just because I protest the war and vote Democratic does not mean I do not love America.

[datasuspect]

21. i'm a citizen of two countries (UK & US)

i really don't have any nationalistic sentiment toward any country. i'm a citizen of the universe and all men are my brothers and all women are my sisters in the universal community of love.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. I thought that in the UK, people are subjects...

not citizens.

[datasuspect]

31. not actually

there are multiple british nationality laws and i think the british nationality law of 1981 has the most current definition of "subject."

before 1949 any person who owed allegiance to the British Crown born in a british commonwealth or within the empire became a citizen after jan. 1 1949. but this barely scratches the surface.

read through the UK Home Office website. if you are connected to a person born in britain (like mom/dad/granparents) you can in some cases obtain uk citizenship and avail yourself of british passport facilities.

[hfojvt]

30. Now you are just being silly

Only my brother is my brother. The rest are just cousins, more or less distant.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/?az=archives&j=1963&page=1

[datasuspect]

32. he ain't heavy, he's my brother, brother