What do you just LOVE about America?

Freedom of religion, the right to assemble peaceably, the right to vote, our veterans, our flag, something else?

The fact that it's not Canada? JUST KIDDING! Canada is also a great place.

So, what DO you like about the good ol' US of A?

I like everything listed above, except the Canada part.

Specifically, I like the fact that if we don't like the way we're being led, we can just vote 'em out. We aren't ruled by a king or queen; besides, even Presidents may only serve for two terms. What if Dubya were king? He can only be President (or act as President) until January 20, 2009... and that's if he is 're-elected' next year, which in itself is up in the air.

Is America perfect? Of course not, but who is? I love America, and Bush/PNAC can't change that!

lol j/k....



I just wish it wasn't such a big lie. I do love that we are still in a sense pursuing that path.

We have a prime minister...and he's voted in. So is parliament.

The queen is a figurehead...she waves a lot while opening bridges etc.

It's a constitutional monarchy.

We never see her except on stamps. :D

and I promise to move to Winnipeg, no questions asked.

It seems that no matter what the country there is a waiting list of people who think America is better then their own.

I've been all over and it's the best I've found...and that's important!:)

and based on what I have seen, yes, American plumbing is great! Where I was in Mexico, you couldn't flush the paper because it would block up the sewer system. Every restroom I went into, there were wads and wads of disgusting, used TP. I guess I was fortunate there was paper. My grandparents are from Mexico, and they would tell stories about the poor sanitation. My grandfather used to swim in the Rio Grande, and he would tell me there would be turds floating by as they swam.

that doesn't look and feel like 1/4" plyboard.

Americans created rock 'n' roll. That's reason enough to love this here country!

Dizzy, Duke, Miles. :-)

I dig be-bop myself.

....that so long as I keep my cell phone bill paid, no matter where I am, if I'm in trouble, I can dial 911 and a large man with a gun will come charging to my rescue.

That might not be true all over America, but in Alabama, it's true. And I am grateful.

Oh yeah, that freedom of the press thing rocks, too. :-)

US makes the best ketchup in the world.

A nation that produced Mark Twain and Robert Crumb and John Coltrane and Charles Ives and the Eameses and Frank Lloyd Wright and Merce Cunningham and William Faulkner and John Cage and Jackson Pollock and Duke Ellington and Andy Warhol and Captain Beefheart and Tennessee Williams can't be all bad, now can it?

so I won't

This country pioneered adult education and (voluntary) mid-life career changes. My own career change was greatly assisted by the availability of content courses on computers and semiconductors at the local community college.

In many countries, your future is set in stone sometime between age 10 and 18 by a series of academic tests.

The Sonoran Desert, Colorado Plateau, Alaskan Coast, Rocky Mountains, North Dakota Badlands and on and on....

You could spend a lifetime and never see it all.

:)

You really can spend a lifetime and not see it all.

Some of my favorites: Grand Canyon,Zion,Sierra Nevadas,Lost Coast of California( hell, make that from Monterey to Vancouver),the Cascades of Oregon and Washington,Wallowa Mountains of Oregon(little travelled treasure),Great Basin Park in Nevada,San Juan Mountains of Colorado,San Juan Islands of Washington.Mount Rainier.

There are many others but these stick out for now.Many other places I'd love to visit and may or may not have the chance.

GOD BLESS MURKA!


ALL THE REST OF YOU ARE JUST GOD-HATING, SADDAM-LOVING, COMMUNISTS!

:evilgrin:

I've heard that somewhere.....

:-)

of the people. This is my adopted home, (originally from Sweden). I first came here as a 6 year old, right in the middle of the VietNam war. There were protests everywhere, riots, banners and crazy things happening all the time. I wasn't sure where I had ended up.

Within a couple of years, however, the people finally put a stop to the VietNam war. There was simply too much pressure on an administration which was hell bent (just like the current one) on waging war, for the "freedom" of the South Vietnamese.

However, the protesters had other ideas, and they finally had their way. It's important to remember this. We can put a stop to this insane war.

I believe that the Americans themselves can put a stop to this. It won't be done by any other countries. The solution is here.

the world's largest and occasionally missing-in-action military, on it's paychecks.

Freedom to indirectly pay $750 for an emergency room visit where you get crutches and and advil after a four hour wait.

four lane highways to the most remote environments in the country.

Those malt sugar lollipops shaped like lobsters.

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We love it for the same reason.

used to be at least.

the original, unabridged version...the "director's cut"

in the middle of the night, whisked away to "Camp Reagan" out in southern Nevada.

Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago.

Long Island Sound, especially Short Beach (Branford, Ct).

New England in the autumn.

The fact that the fake Mexican Restaurants make better food thsn the real ones (at least in my opinion).

Rock and Roll, Free Jazz, the electric guitar.

The fact that mandatory military service is not the law.

The panda bears in Atlanta.

That feeling you get at just the right moment around Christams time (you know the one.)

David Foster Wallace.

Fantastic marijuana...if you know the right people.

Jimmy Carter.

The fact that porn is legal.

The fact that we can fight back against encroaching fascism.

knowing we can throw the bastards out every four years.