Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
Okay I am going to rain (piss) on your parades-but why can't American gays be in the military or get married ?
Sorry
Johnny
Okay I am going to rain (piss) on your parades-but why can't American gays be in the military or get married ?Johnny gays can be in the military. We have the, don't ask, don't tell and don't be fucking in the fox hole(s) rules. As for marrage, I see no reason for it. Who needs a damn piece of paper to show that you love someone? Hell, we can't get straight folks to stay married, let alone some of us gays. I like the single swingin life to be ruled and tied down. We do have quite a few guys and gals that have been with their lovers for many years.
Sorry
Johnny
The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed.
I think you may want to check out snopes and then edit your postWell, EXCUSE ME! I received the referenced piece in an email and simply cut and pasted it. Actually, I couldn't care WHO wrote it. It still gets the point across, albeit it's not the point that everyone would believe.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/america2.htm
I was only sharing the fact that there are SOME people in other countries that know the majority of this countrymen for what they truly are.Since this was written by an American what you say doesn't make sense.
NO Hyphenated bullshit labels to further isolate its citizenry.You need to look more closely on how Canada handles itself with the native population-
And, another aside: EVERY citizen in Canada is Canadian.not to mention the fact that Quebec is always planning to leave.
It would take too much money away from special interests and turkeys from lifers in the government.You don't think the Canadian gov't has special interest groups too?
Johnny gays can be in the military. We have the, don't ask, don't tell and don't be fucking in the fox hole(s) rules. As for marriage, I see no reason for it. Who needs a damn piece of paper to show that you love someone?
This is an absolutely beautiful tribute to the United States of AmericaMy mom aways said blowing your own horn is not much to listen to, then again she was from Europe.
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their countryThis is how the mess culminated into 9/11 and by Ronald Reagan who couldn't utter HIV or AIDS.
Yea America sucks big time! We should all move to Haiti... or some other equally great country! We suck we don't give anything AWAY FOR FREE!
If you hate it here so so much and you are being done so so wrong then get the fuck out!!!
Everyone's got their problems, quit pointing fingers at everyone else like it's their fault......
Last I heard Zaire is giving away free meds for HIV.... ooops sorry it was bayer apsirin..
If you hate it here so so much and you are being done so so wrong then get the fuck out!!!
I find this post totally ironic and a bit hypocritical from someone who is in the very midst of "fleeing" from America in an effort to find more equality and rights in another country???
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence,
which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
We prefer to eat our young. Patriotism is not a bumper sticker...war is not the answer.
We prefer to eat our young. Patriotism is not a bumper sticker...war is not the answer.
My apologies if I offended anyone. We glorify war and post pictures of soaring eagles from the safety of our sofas. We fill up our cars while deceased young men and women are flown into Dover Air Force Base and we are not allowed to see it. We should be forced to see on a daily basis just what war is really like...it is not a plastic,yellow,support our troops ribbon on your car...it is the young with their faces blown off. Too bad the young man who lost his face will never have the opportunity to see your pretty pictures.
I don't buy, for one moment, that folks who sit behind their computer in the comfort of their developed nation, suburbian, cookie-cutter home searching Google or Yahoo for disgusting and grotesque photos of dead soldiers can claim to know more about the realities of war than anyone else.
You guys should do a 18 month tour in Fallujah or Al Basra and then maybe you can come back and stand on your soap box preaching to the world, with some semblance of credibility, about the realities of war. Posting dead photos of soldiers in an HIV forum doesn't cut it. Not by a long-shot.
It's not the political statement that I objected to or the nationality of the person, it was the graphic nature of the photo. I believe the photo was in poor taste.
Cliff, you got what you wanted......what does this picture do?
There are no US citizens rights being violated. The recent fight over Geneva convention was dealing with terrorists who are not US citizens. This is idiocy to think it is violating our rights.
Dems and their big supporters, the trial lawyers, are threatening to sue US servicemen for violations of Geneva Convention. Bush wanted Congress to define what was acceptable treatment and torture.
We know we cant dress them as women or parade them around naked, even though they behead us.
The monitoring of US phone calls to people of interest or terrorists OVERSEAS is crucial in our war on these killers. In no way is any US citizens rights being violated. IF you are in communication with a terrorist, you should be in prison.
there are no inter US calls being monitored.
Cliff, my comments are all relevent so maybe you are the one who needs to reread what you posted. You said that only people who experience war know the true cost and that is false.Joe, One last try. You are misreading what I wrote. The point I was making is that Hal posted a picture of a guy's head blown out and an eye missing and when defending the photo, he and others made the point that those who disagreed with that photo being posted in the forums don't want to see or know the realities of the war. MY POINT was that finding a photo on the internet and posting it in the forums does not mean you know more about the realities of war than someone who found the posting of that picture in the forum in poor taste. My statement was specifically saying that if you had served in Iraq then maybe I can see how you can claim to have some superior claim to the realities of war, but just finding a picture over the internet doesn't count for much. It is dismissive to suggest that just because you find a pic of a mutilated body disgusting that you must be a) for the war and b) don't understand the true nature of war. That was my point Joe. All the other stuff you are bringing up are irrelevant tangets. But if it makes you guys sleep better at night to label me the censor-loving, anti-democratic, self-righteous, conservative, judgmental, Bush-loving, Iraq war lover, Iraqi hater, liar (did I get everything?).....then be my guest.