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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:19 PM
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Have you seen this country? I Miss America And I Want To Go Home!
Edited on Thu Aug-10-06 11:25 PM by DistressedAmerican
Has anyone seen my country? It wandered off sometime in 2001 and I have not seen it since.

I'm really worried. It is over 200 years old. I don't think it can take care of itself out there all alone!

Please help!

Description:

It has about 250 million people.

We have a high standard of human rights.

We have a whole list of Constitutionally protected freedoms.

There is a democratically elected government.

Our military fights only when forced to (self-defense).

Our economy is strong.

We value free expression and open debate.

Our leaders are held to account when they get out of line.

We have social safety net for the poor and elderly.

When a disaster hits one of our cities, we evacuate them and do our level best to care for the evacuated as we rebuild.

It answers to the name "America" and/or "Unites States".

It looks something like this:



Please SOMEONE tell me you've seen my country! I feel lost and I want to go home! I'm getting desperate.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:25 PM
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1. I think it was kidnapped by a dangerous religious cult...
...around the time you noticed it missing. Perhaps you can contact one of those 'deprogramming' agencies that specialize in rescuing brainwashed cultists.
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:26 PM
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2. I did see some shifty looking folks with Bibles milling around before
it went missing. Maybe I should check Waco!
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:27 PM
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3. Or maybe a bit further north. Like Crawford. n/t
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:30 PM
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5. I looked around Crawford this time last year.
I saw a bunch of other Americans looking for their country down there too. I have looked all over. I was looking in NYC during the RNC. Americans all over. America? Nowhere to be seen. I was looking with a shitload of people in Washington last Septemeber. Tons of Americans looking. Nothing!

Where could it be?
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:30 PM
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4. It has been lost to
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:34 PM
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6. What would anybody here give
to be proud of America again and to be proud to be an American?
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:48 PM
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7. I used to live there
It was a great country full of compassion, creativity and concern. It had a great pedigree, called the Constitution, which I also can't find anymore.


http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1401215
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:19 AM
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11. I know. Great Place.
If I could just find it again, it would be infinately comforting about now!

Very much dig the bumper sticker!
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 11:49 PM
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8. Reminds me of the people looking for loved ones missing after 9/11
Edited on Thu Aug-10-06 11:50 PM by ReadTomPaine
In a way, that's precisely what happened, tho it's arguable that the USA has been missing since the 2000 election.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 12:21 AM
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9. Hey, I've heard of that place
I watched shows about a place called America from my home in Toronto when I was a kid.

Don't know what happened to it ever since a man named Reighgun (sp?) took it over. There was a brief flash of it during the period of Bill Clinton, the great statesman.

Does it even exist any more?
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Pepper32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 12:30 AM
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10. It has been hijacked by REAL terrorist
They are demanding a very high ransom, they want power, money and oil.

Many have tried to pay their ransom but the more we give the more they take. They refuse to negotiate, I think we may have to fight them to get our country back.


I hear there are some fierce fighters coming this November so hang in there.:)
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:21 AM
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12. I'm more than willing to fight.
This is my country we're talking about. Fuck them.

I refuse to negotiate too. I will not negotiate with terrorists. It just encourages them to do it again.
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formerrepuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:40 AM
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13. I thought the tag line was from a homesick beauty queen with bad grammar.
"I Miss America.. and I want to go home"
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:18 AM
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18. Funny.
I president and I suck!
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:47 AM
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14. Brilliant post!
I think it summarizes what we're all feeling. Thank you.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 07:48 AM
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15. How the mighty have fallen.
America was the light of the world for many, many years. Now, under the "leadership" of a pathetic Monkey Man, we have become THE major source of evil in the world. This is one of the saddest stories in human history.

I must admit to a personal fascination with the decline and fall of great empires like Rome, Byzantium, etc. Little did I think I would get to live through the fastest such fall in history! What a treat.
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i miss america Donating Member (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:02 AM
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16. Me too
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:06 AM
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17. I miss old America
She had her faults but she was home, I'd sure like to go home again. I've tried clicking my heels together while saying there's no place like home, didn't work.
I'm tired of living in fear of my own government, I'm tired of the smell of fear from my neighbors. I wish like hell that we could wake up from this nightmare, but, I tell you I'm so afraid that the games over, we're set on a course that is locked in and can't be changed.
So long boys it's been good to know ya.
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 08:28 AM
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19. this America you remember--it was hijacked
Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 08:32 AM by marions ghost
and is now careening along on a wild joyride with failed human demons at the controls. Cowering hostages swoon in the cheap seats, stripped of their rights and their body products. No response from NORAD which is busy tracking Santa. No heroes are on board. The best we can do is vomit on them.

Fasten your seatbelts.
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