SHROOMS!!!!

Zoomers here in Canada.

I started a news thread for european news stories and noone will visit

Is it that they just dont care, or the depressive content???

I just dont know!

I have been reading this drivel and have posted a few times about some of the posts. I am sure I will jump to the top of the popularity polls over this but who cares. I am glad to be an American, I have been to about half of our 50 states east to west. It is true there are many thing wrong here but not as many as other countries. I will take the U.S.A over any country. A country this size (bigger then the ones whining about us with a heck of a lot more people) is bound to have a lot of problems and lots of corruption. By the way I didn’t look up facts and figures for the last statement, don’t need to it is common knowledge, and I feel no need to prove anything to the non-believers. This country has deep roots, and many cultures. As I have traveled I have seen the diversity from state to state, it is what makes this land great. And make no mistake it is great. I have seen it. Not just read about it in a newspaper or watched television news about it from thousands of miles away. I have seen it and lived it!!
I have never been out of the country except to the Caribbean on vacation. I have no desire to travel over seas, why? Because ill stay here and spend my money in my country, why help some ungrateful nation with my money when I can help my own. That is very selfish of me, but maybe it is time to take care of home first and forget the rest or the world, I could never see all of what the U.S.A. has to offer in my lifetime anyway.

I am sure that this type of attitude will make me out to be a bad person but as Alan Jackson sings “ I Don’t Care, its 5:00 somewhere” Maybe I am brainwashed or a commie as 1 poster claims about anything he disagrees with, so be it I love my country, if you live here and do not love it then leave it. I will buy you a ticket to go.
I am glad that most of the anti- American posters or anti-American government posters do not live here. I and many others here don’t want you here. Please stay where you are and help your country, we don’t need that kind of help here. I have noticed that many have the duel address on this site so I am sure there is a lot that they do like here. Maybe that is part of the problem, a little jealous of what the red white and blue has to offer versus what’s available at home? I have read posts on this thread about wanting things from this country because of cost and availability. I take that it’s not a bad country when you want something it has?
Yes there are many ignorant people here. (Better to be ignorant than illiterate) So what, not every one feels the need or can afford an education. (that might make a good thread for later) I have seen the same ignorance on TV Interviews with people from many nations, please try to get a grip, not everyone is graced with genius. I wonder how many people know the address of their nation’s highest office, not many I bet.

I mean no disrespect to anyone or any nation, what started as a simple question has steamrolled. I like most people of the world and wish no ill on anyone, but I am an American and will defend my land. I own guns (many) I would not be afraid to use them. I do not hunt animals (4 legged) Yes I seem aggressive, but I believe being passive is what has screwed this world up. (More ammo for you all peace seekers) now if you wish please fell free to send me hate mail, and send a lot; I want to know what George Bush feels like. To the rest have a wonderful day or night which ever applies

nu2topcat,
If you have visited 25 States, which I have no doubt you have, and lived in Europe then you could say you visited 25 countries! Thats a world traveler!

Last night I was argueing over education, and Europeans are quick to jump on this even though with a #46 ranking the point difference on test scores are really minimal! If Europe combined and averaged all their states scores, as we do, I wonder how the whole would rate in comparison!

In an off hand way you point out something I said earlier. Americans have always argued with each other and our differences are many, but when attacked we all defend this great country and our way of life!

i know fanta, some people like to compare apples to peaches, not apples to apples.

fanta, nothing to defend here. no real threat.

I don't really know whether to take any of this serioiusly.

I know,,,

Its kinda a distraction from my favorite subject!!!!

*****ing at my neighbors and discussing the annexation of Canada!!!

Oh shame, shame I left Bush bashing out of that!!!

((Sshhhhh!!! Not here....don't remind anyone..))

We call em mushy's here..

Fanta...using your logic...Australia has 8 countries within it, and a few neighbouring smaller countries...Grut Ayland, Norfolk Is, Rottsnest Is, Christmas Is...

that makes no sense...and only creates a separationist outlook..

and like we as humans dont have enough of one already?

A land mass with many diverse countries..is just that...

and in your logic, and suggestions, the Middle East is part of Europe, so therefore, your country is at war with part of Europe..hmmm

You can't have it both ways Fanta...you want to lump the whole of Europe into one...and yet you fragment the US into 50 different counries. Europe has always been smaller countries, and most of the US's ancestral heritage is from there...I suspect the step-child comments were way off the mark...

the US in that mindset is actually the ADD defiant runaway child, and frowns upon it's grandparents..

No Jess the only thing I said concerning the ME and Europe was one of distance. London-Tel Aviv, NC-California.

When I compared the 50 States to countries of the EU, it is a just comparaison. The EU countries are small and the issues concerning America can not be justified unless you incorporate all the EU countries together or separate the States and compare them individually!

For example, if 5 US states score low on education scores and 5 score in the top ten of the world it is not fair to average those scores as one and keep the EU scores separate!

Some of their scores were not very good either and if you avg them as a whole they would score well below the whole of the US!

If you say, 15% of Americans have a passport you must understand that at 58 million that 15% is enough to double the population of many EU countries! ETC, ETC!

Lets keep all this American bashing, facts, and figures in perspective. If not then all you are doing is comparing grapes to watermelons.

Which has more seeds?

A passionfruit!!! What was the question?

what the heck has happened to comparing apples to peaches??? that is much more germane!! grapes to watermelons what hogwash!!!

My street has 50 homes on it.

It is a veritable melting pot of cultures from everywhere on the planet.

One of my neighbor is British and married to a beautiful and very articulate (colorful accent) Australian lady.
Right in front lives an Argentinian-Québécois couple.
Next to them is a mainland China (Bejing) couple with their parents and 7 children. The grand-parents only speak Mandarin. It makes for fascinating 'soirées'!!!
There are two South-Asian families, one from Cambodia, and the other from Vietnam.
Boris, a few houses down, is an ex KGB, married to an American ex CIA (a blond, from Connecticut, whom swears she won't ever go back to the US!!! Wonder why?!?!?).
Then of course there are the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French Connection, they took over the croissant, and always liven-up the center of the croissant with neighborhood parties.

Almost forgot, to the south, we have the African contingent, 5 families from Nigeria, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. I swear we could cut a best selling record of some of the neighbourhood music fests they have staged over the years.
Did I forget to mention my Thaï neighbors to the north??? Phenomenal culinary feasts, and such elegance and finesse.

Anyhow, I visit each household regularly, and organize at least two 'street parties' a year, which nobody wants to miss, men, women and children. I'm known as the 'partymeister'!!!

As you can probably appreciate Fanta, I never have to leave my street. It's a bit like travelling the world, without the hassle of post 9/11 travel.
Not put down the US 50 states (which I love visiting on a regular basis in spite of the 9/11 travel aggravation tax)), but the 50 houselholds on my street are much more interesting, diverse and rich than anything the 50 states have to offer IMO.

In spite of all that, a good friend of mine reminded me the other day that this extraordinary environment I lived in, so peacefull, colorful, lacking nothing: safe, fun, confortable, was probably that way because it was a DEAD-END STREET!!!

:)

The step-child comments were meant for what they are! From before Chris Columbus discovered America, and in direct relation, European countries were involved in the process of Empire building. They invaded, conquered and redrew the borders of many regions.

In fact many of the worlds trouble areas are trouble areas for this reason! Check the history, I am very good with history and Geography!

The US inherited the problems as European countries withdrew after the Two World Wars had weakened them, and the US was forced to fill the power vacuum or Russia would have!

The problems weren't caused by us, we just never addressed them properly! Perhaps too concerned with the expansion of communism, thirst for oil, naivety to world affairs, or a little of all the above, but we inherited the problems, we did not start them!

bully for you, voileazur, keep it in the neighborhood, as far as the cia gal. she probably is on a hit list for crimes against the usa. that travel tax? from your country or mine?

Fanta, I agree in part, but we have another crash test dummy...

Australia...not all of our population was from Great Britain, vast amounts of immigrants chose this wacky country from all through Europe, and the world for that matter, from way back in our early days too...

What happened to us?

Voil, we have that diversity here as well! I have a friend who married a Russian girl, Koreans that are married to others. Of course we have the European population and influence running several generations deep. Vietnamese, Cambodians etc, etc,, We are known as the melting pot of the world you know!

These nationalities and mixing of cultures are nothing new to us! Michigan has a very large population of Iraqis, and everywhere are Indians (from India) Chinese, and of course Hispanics from every country in Middle and South America!

They are all welcome. All we ask is that they come legally! I just saw a report the other day that there are now 37.5 immigrants living in The US legally. Another 12-24 million illegally!