America, you keep using that word

[mimitabby]

America: You Keep Using That Word…
http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/03/america-you-keeping-using-that-word.html
by Jim Wright
… I don’t think it means what you think it means.



"
So, I’m driving into Anchorage this morning.

Along with the usual herd of jackasses who, despite living in Alaska still don’t seem to know how to drive in snow, one vehicle in particular caught my eye.

It was one of those enormous black pickup trucks, with the huge knobby tires and smoked glass windows and chrome roll bar complete with half a dozen giant chrome halogen lights and a ten foot high antenna whipping about in the slipstream and pipe organ-like exhaust pipes jutting up from behind the cab belching thick plumes of white diesel smoke like the twin contrails of a fighter jet on full afterburner."

"What I really wanted to ask is this: Proud American? Really? What is it exactly that you’re proud of? You say you love your country? You say you love the United States? Really? Which part? What is it that you love about it? Specifically, what exactly do you love about America?

Because, see, so far as I can tell, people like you seem to hate just about everything that makes the United States what it is. "

http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/03/america-you-keeping-using-that-word.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[Scuba]

2. Loving your Country and supporting the troops has to be more...

...than a little yellow sticker on the back of your Escalade.


Are you an informed citizen? If not, then show me you love your Country by becoming one.

[barbtries]

3. big old rant

it's posted on the mudflats too

[mimitabby]

4. yes, and when i didn't see it here...

i figured there'd be lots here that appreciated it.

[underseasurveyor]

8. And you were correct.

Thanks I appreciate it :hi:

[BeFree]

5. freedom

Anyone here can be king.

At least they can imagine they are.

[crickets]

6. Wow.

I got lost in that blog for almost two happy hours. I had to tear myself away to get started on the laundry, dangit. Thanks for the new playground to read. Bookmarked!

[Amonester]

7. K & R

For the truth be told as it is!
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