History classes are a joke in school these days! My niece was in the 2nd grade, didn't know who George Washington was but had heard all about Harriet Tubman. I've never heard of Harriet Tubman. I know something about George Washington. I as a European am more well versed in American history than your c
Sabrina insists my comment about the boy was terribly inappropriate. Attribute it to an over-abundance of schadenfreude and my evil humor at work. Not something Americans find terribly appealing, I know. I might have said he was ugly, as I did when confronted by a gallery of photographs at my friend Pinky's house. Turned out they were his nieces and nephews. He put it down to my being English and was far more amused than offended. "Damn" I said as I looked at this gallery of infants and
Couldn't agree more with both comments. We don't want to teach our children to THINK! Dear me no. A population that thinks and bears arms regularly is a dreadful thing for any government to have to contemplate.
( Link ) The link is to one of several stories detailing Smith's faux-pas in relation to Hitler. He said, in essence, that Hitler didn't wake up mornings thinking to himself 'What evil can I do today?' but instead woke up and by using "twisted, reverse logic" decided
Why is he so pink? You've sired some sort of lobster-boy hybrid, I think. And you're right, the girl would certainly make anything male look twice - and quite possibly a third time.
We should age backwards. We should appear as wrinkled cadavers at the edge of the grave, grow backwatds into maturity and youth, and finally evaporate from existence as we sever ourselves into the original sperm and egg. Because that way we'd be young while having wit and self-control enough to do something other than a) create sweaty angst-ridden rants like these; and b) shoot fellow teenagers in our schools.
Husband argued that the dog would just stand around and bark. Your husband doesn't know much about dogs.
I saw 'Legend' on its release date. And. It. Truly. Sucked. Smith is a congenial sort of actor, but the role he plays is an utter travesty of the character depicted in the original novella. In the original story, the character Smith plays is not looking for a cure, because tere is none. He's engaged in exterminating the creatures that the rest of humanity has become. He kills them any way he can, in the largest numbers possible. He's engaged in genocid
To: foreverserenity All faiths are a form of Magick. Most 'magickians', in this sense, have no idea that their faith is an act of will which, when joined to the wills of their fellow-believers over time, create a spiritual reality that has an existence which is independent of their own existence. For two thousand or so years, Christians have believed in, worshipped, and sometimes died for, their 'Jesus Christ'. That makes 'Jesus Christ' a god-
Thank you for your reply, fs. I posted this at the wrong time, really. Added to which, I'm now afflicted with whatever foul disease Sabrina brought back with her from her parents in Ohio, so I'm not feeling up to my best. I am, in fact, sick as a dog and shall be going back to bed (where I've spent most of the day) very shortly.
This is not a rant about the materialism of the Christmas season - even though there's need of such a rant, since this supposedly 'holy' season has become nothing but one more holiday and an excuse for the grossest and most pathetic manifestations of greed. However, I'm not inclined to write it, not today. Instead it's a meditation relating to some of the similarities
Only one race? That makes you a racist. Actually, I doubt the existence of anything that could be remotely called human. Let alone a 'human race'.
It's not an impossbility. The tools exist and are to hand. It would take no more than each American citizen demanding that his or her representatives be true to the Constitution, and for each American citizen to... Ahhh what am I saying? American immigrants become aware of the Constitution, their rights and obligations under it, because they have to. They're tested, their knowledge and understanding is examined, and if they wish to become full citizens they must pass that examination. I
[quote]so go ahead now and let me have it for not having my facts before beginning this thread. [/quote] How about we just let you have it for ruining the movie for anyone else who may have wanted to watch it without knowing the ending?
( Link ) Bush is a bit like an unhinged iconoclast who has arbitrarily decided he doesn't believe in cows, and loudly and repeatedly denies their existence until you get so annoyed you drive him to a farm and show him a cow, and he shakes his head and continues to insi
The final solution? Treat every citizen as a citizen without regard to skin color, ethnic heritage, sexual orientation or practice, gender orientation - or any other of the various designations used to seperate Americans into their respective ghettoes. Treat religion as a matter of private conscience - which means removing every trace of religious practice or
If I may humbly ask, do you think as the “last great hope of the world” we should enlighten others by force of arms? And if so, is that not like a monarchy telling every one what’s good for them? Personally, and as a way of putting an end to the outrageous demands of the rest of the world for American
To: Artysim I take less exception to your post now I know you're not an American (neither am I technically - merely a permanent resident on my way to citizenship). Nothing annoys me more than the attitude of certain Americans which regards their country as the font of all evil in the world. There is a contradiction between the word 'Inalienable rights' and the clear implication of the statement that these rights belong to all men. Whe
I don't believe there is a 'worship to a holy nigger' as you put it. If there were, there wouldn't be as many blacks as there are no in jail. Some there rightfully, some not. If there was a worship I wouldn't have little old ladies or others giving me the look when they see me coming towards them. So there is no worship
It occurred to me not long after I arrived in the USA (in August of 2003) that there is very little difference between the fundamentalism of American life and the fundamentalism of the lives of Islamist extremists. Americans, like the Islamist fanatics, have their shibboleths, their idols, their sacred cows. And to threaten them in America yields the same results as d
Try to tell this to the perpetually outraged, however, (who remind me more and more of the very same Muslims they complain about) and you're likely to be branded as an agent of the enemy (ie: the government) or a garden variety fascist. What's ironic is that most of the name callers have no idea what fascism is in the first place
Are you aware of the military commisions act of 2006? Basically it states that the U.S government does not have to provide legal rights to anyone they deem to be a terrorist. Sounds great right? Well, how do they determine if you're a terrorist? Basically this act makes it so that all they have to do is say you're a terrorist, no
[quote]I, for instance, am African-American. I'm also Native American. I'm also Jewish American. Because of my ancestry, all of those labels could apply, and none of them would be misleading [/quote] They are, all of them, utterly misleading - because none of the above mentioned categories take precedence over the fact that you are an American citizen. They're useful categories only in the sense that they can provide information as to how you label yourself. Other than that all such lab
Excellent and positive, Darling. Too bad far too many Americans fail to grasp some of these basic but crucial ideas. Awww... Thank you - and I couldn't agree more. It's n
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