Happy Birthday, You CRAZY Fucking Yanks!
"So, George, you're going to take on the Brits, eh? I mean, you know, as in the British Empire, the most powerful force on Earth? And what do you have, George? Oh, farmers, eh? Some boys with muskets, you say? Well, good luck with that!" (Clearly delusional.)
"So, Wilbur, you and your brother are going to build a machine, a machine that a man can get into, and fly off the ground? Um, you know, I could suggest a doctor---he's really good---to help you with that." (Immediate psychiatric intervention needed!)
"So, Mr. President, you intend to land a man on the Moon? Before 1970? Even though the Russians are way ahead right now? Um.....okay." (Obviously, the pills he's taking for back pain are having a deleterious affect on his mind."
See, that's the wonderful part of your country's insanity!
But you know what I'm going to say next, don't you? Yeah, I figured you'd figure.
Science is bad?
The Bible trumps the Constitution?
Women don't own their own bodies?
It's perfectly okay to carry loaded guns into churches, schools, and (!) bars?
Providing a modicum of care to poor people is socialism?
Taxing the uber-rich is Naziism?
Corporations are people?
Christianity should be taught in public schools? Am I reading this right?
Climate change is a hoax?
Republicans seek election to government so they can refuse to govern?
Rupert Murdoch's "news" network is given press accreditation when it's clearly agitprop?
Cliven Bundy isn't in jail? But Greenwald and Snowden are traitors? Seriously?
Sending youngsters off to unnecessary wars is A-OK?
And it's equally okay to not take care of them when they come home???
These, obviously, represent the horrible side of your country's insanity.
Now, I'm gonna say something here, and you can call the headquarters of the Mounties (613-993-7267) and tell them to arrest me for Rudeness in the First Degree, but I am gonna be unCanadian and insist that you not destroy yourselves. (Oh shit, that sounds really demanding, doesn't it? Sorry!)
You can do better than this, America! Come on! You've already done impossible things. Don't tell me you can't put the Republicans and Tea Party racists in their place! I won't hear of it! Should you fail to do so, then I, as a Canadian, shall have no choice but to write a strongly-worded letter of protest to the White House!
Now, all kidding aside, bottom line: The United States has a checkered history. Yeah, you've done some really rotten things. But I believe in mathematics, and, by my own personal calculations, America has done a lot more good in this world than it has done ill, and remains capable of nobility. My wish for you on this day is that you overcome the hateful minority, who claim to be "Real Americans," but whom, in fact, are the very definition of un-American.
Now go gorge yourselves on hot dogs and beer! (Hey, we do it here on July 1st.)
Happy 238th! 
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Many of us are trying. 
Happy birthday to us! 
I agree with the poster above; One of the nicest 'get your shit together' rants ever!
How very kind of you!
thanks, Personal Damon
Of course, we Yanks are so dumb and ignorant we didn't even know (or maybe remember) that July 1st is YOUR birthday !
So a belated Happy Birthday to you, too..eh !
But I somtimes forget my sister's birthday, and that is July 2, the day the American Continental Congress actually voted for the idea of independence.
Beautiful post. I agree with everything you said. I wish I could go gorge myself on hot dogs and beer today, instead of working. 
When it comes to the horrible side - please don't forget that the people responsible for most of that are severely in the minority, that they do not represent the American people as a whole. There are far more of us who are reasonable, intelligent, decent people, then there are who are absolute assholes and idiots. We've got our problems, absolutely - but there's a whole lot of us still in it, fighting the good fight for the right reasons.
When I was in college, (I only lasted a year, due to affordability) there were some people in one of my classes one day, joking about Canadians. A young Canadian woman just rolled her eyes and replied, "Did you just diss Canada? I'm gonna go cry into my free healthcare!" She soooo won that little battle.
A belated happy birthday as well, to our Canadian brothers and sisters. Hope you have an awesome day! And, you know, you don't have to be American to celebrate the fourth. Have a beer or two for me! I have to be at work, but I'll be with you in spirit.
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right. Tell that lot more good than bad shit to the million Iraqis killed and wounded during II's reign, we won't go into I, will we? This patting on the back BS is..........
America is a putrid swamp of racism, class warfare, economic inequality, gender warfare perpetrated because some powerful males don't want to allow woman to claim ownership of their own bodies, homophobia, although some states are finally beginning to address that issue, Limbaugh, Beck, Handwipe, Coulter, Issa, Cruz, "blacks don't need the vote" Santorum, Sterling, Snyder, tea party, libertarians, blue dogs, republican party obstructionist, of which they are legion, out of control, militarized police force(s) beating and killing unarmed citizens in the streets, usually black or minority, hungry, homeless people in the hundreds of thousands, millions?, denied the basics, by republicans. MSM totally bought by the RW. SCOTUS out of control, bundyites, white militias, white male 'open carry' fear of the brown tyrant living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...........oh there is plenty more. No! There can no more of this BS, "have done more good than bad". Talk about the fox news dumbed down sector of the populace that laps every drop up. Dumbed down is not strong enough a term...geez
Oh yeah, happy birthday, america.
but canada does have problems of it's own. Been gut checking and aware since the early 60's. Can never stop being aware of the people around one in this country. Just common sense. Still staying aware of the 'gut feelings'.
and as to insults, america, canada and another so called 'free' nation, britain also, ect, did enough insult to the world starting in 2003 and ending 2011, for the whole population of the world to be insulted. Oh wait! Most still were and still are. All the back slapping is BS. The only pride for america happened in 2008, look what insult the RW here brought to that position for the last 6 years. Nothing to be proud of. You're entitled to be the 'good' canadian but................
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false equivalency. It's true what you say about other countries. So what. I'm talking about ONE country in particular. I'm not singing, I'm not dancing, neither are the homeless and hungry. 501 verse. You'll not get me into any discussion on the 'usual suspects' that frequent this site. The zimmerman trial told me all I needed to know about the type of people you referred to in your query. Sure a lot of people want to move here and I have spoken to a lot of them who have, and a lot have said that they didn't know the things I mentioned were so bad. Yeah a lot stay, can't blame them, yet EVERY word I have written stands on it's on merit and I stand by EVERY word. Never said it wasn't my country just don't like some of it's policies all the time and some of it's people most all the time. Your pax-americana BS goes in the round file as far as I'm concerned. 
Pollyanna thinking? Doesn't work with me.
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to an exceedingly simple one. Have fun. You can't learn and that is part of your problem. Buh bye. on edit: no comments about people in Ferguson? Doesn't surprise me.
or do you lack the capacity? yeah, or is it integrity? Just simple questions. You've been missing from Ferguson. I wonder why?
Where are you? Having to eat crow is a bitter meal indeed, isn't it? If you respond with your typical BS, won't surprise. I might answer you, but my point has been proven in spades and I probably won't waste time with you any more.
and............???????? you asked? total denial is always a way to sweep one's inability to shake off ignorance and a way to cover ones abnegation. Look it up, I'm sure you have to and you are what is 'needed' by the racist base to prove that they aren't racist. Good job, keep up the good work.
for dumping their Riff-Raff in North America.
We left the Riff-Raff back in Jolly Olde...
who spoke truth to power and kept sticking fingers in their eye all the way to the end. I respected him, highly.
We're not all self absorbed selfish mean scumbags. That's only the bullies that run everything now.
The rest of us are pretty normal and have been responding well to the corporate conditioning we're swimming in designed to make us all believe we are all utterly powerless.
So we are.
In spite of what the great Chris Hedges has said, something like; "It only takes engagement of ONE PERCENT of the population to trigger a revolution." Chris should know, he's covered such revolutions in Eastern Europe before he got canned by the NY Times cuz he was anti-2003-Iraq-invasion.
-90% Jimmy
Today's Tea Party/Repuke Pigs = Tomorrow's BBQ
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~ pinto, grandson of an Irish/Canadian immigrant.
Unfortunately, I couldn't agree with you more. I love my country, but it's not a blind love. We have a lot of problems. The most dangerous of which is a demented hoard of psychotics who insist that they love America, too. And that the best expression of that love is a desire to see the entire country fall apart into mutually hostile fractured states with no governing authority, and an anarchic public demeanor consisting of violent gun-play over petty grievances, and a Guns-N-Roses "Welcome To The Jungle" outlook.
I take great comfort in Bill Clinton's adage that there is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America. But he said that over twenty years ago, before 9/11 and the advent of the national-security police state, and before the rise of the Tea Party, which is effectively described in the paragraph above.
There are still millions of people in this country who still view us as a national community, and that any thing great we may achieve will only be attained if we work together. But we are being opposed by a small group of very wealthy people who owe no allegiance to anything but their own rapidly increasing riches. And they are cheered on by a larger group of people who own no wealth, but possess broken spirits embittered by ignorance, provincialism, pettiness, hatred, suspicion, bigotry, racism, and a taste for meaningless violence.
We've weathered storms in the past, and survived. I hope we will weather this current, awful tempest.
There are still people who love this country, and I'm one of them.
Thanks for the wishes, and happy belated birthday to our friends in the north. 
sometimes I look around and I wonder what country I am in, and long for us get back on track - yes indeed
Hope you and yours had a happy Canada Day as well.
and I dont mean that shale shit.
And a belated Canada Day to you all! 
Never a problem when a good friend lays it all out for their buddy who is not flying straight.
Yankee! 
I preferred to be called a "Fucking Crazy Yank."
