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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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I feel so blessed to be from the USA,
Do you ever realize how good we have it here in old number one?
We have it good, I just wish most conservatives understood it.
I love America
there
fixed it for ya
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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My grandfather N.E. Nay, quite liberal given his roots
My father, Daniel Nay, Marine Capt. Korea and more liberal than me
Like those who came before me, I'm liberal and I served
Chickenhawks and the Republican party are married (NTTAWWT) to each other like Father Nelson on an alterboy lol
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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Hey.... did anyone tell Daniel Nay that you're supposed to land with the wheels facing downwards?.....
Looks like Q-Ball is a pussy, he hasn't responded.
That's 'cause he can't face real patriots....
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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LOL, Sierra Ledge Rat, my father was a mortar platoon commander and was just posing on the Corsair.
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deschamps
Trad climber
Out and about
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Kief - You are making a joke of statistics. We are one of the largest countries in the world so having "the most of..." means nothing. All of those stats need to be on a per capita basis to be meaningful.
America is a great country and I feel blessed to live here. But, a blanket statement that "we are #1" is pretty ignorant. In what? The happiness of our people? Nope, that would be scandinavian countries. GDP per capita? Nope.
So, rather than a blanket "we are #1" it is better to acknowledge that the U.S. is a wonderful country that provides tremendous opportunity to it's citizens, while also acknowledging that other places do some things better.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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I'm aware of all of those problems, but many, not all, are due to the growing liberalism in America
Out of the many many lame or ignorant things you have said, that one just about takes the cake.
Quit putting up your reserve doughnut eating jacket. It's not the same as serving in the military.
Double Plus Good for Sierra Ledge Rat on the fighter!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Quit putting up your reserve doughnut eating jacket. It's not the same as serving in the military.
survival,
It's about the same, I was shot at. Maybe the big difference is you got a paycheck, I voluntered.
If anything that has ever sputtled out of DaftRat's pie hole could have gotten him banned that last POS post should.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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I "voluntered" too!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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I was shot at.
Hey, "friendly fire" from annoyed co-workers only counts if they hit you. lol
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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fatty, the difference is commitment. When you serve in the military, once you commit your life is not yours any longer. Dilettantes have the luxury to opt out when their skirts blow over their heads.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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found this recently on my daughter's i-pod.
pretty good - yea America
"long long time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgHNfKpfEzA
"Rich beyond compare, powerful without equal, a spoiled, drunk, 15-year-old waving a gun in their face" (says it all)
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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We do have it good hurr in America.
Unless you study-abroad-liberal-arts-student-waiter/waitress-theater-majors have joined the Peace Corps and got sent to anywhere else, sh*t the f*ck up.
Sure, you get pepper sprayed hella bad when being a dumba** protester. But you could get shot, blown up, raped, tortured, family murdered... Not in the USA.
You want equality? Where? Good luck finding it. I guess if you're a communist you can find equality.... *lol*
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I respectfully disagree, Michaeld. . .
But you could get shot, blown up, raped, tortured, family murdered... Not in the USA.
You can be shot, tortured, raped, have your family murdered and more in
the USA. . . What about Trayvon Martin, Kenneth Chamberlain in White Plains, NY, being killed (Chamberlain by the White Plains police),
Bradley Manning put in jail for exposing administration wrongs (held in solitary confinement, naked), how many tortured by the Bush and Obama administration, killed by drones -- no trials. . .etc. . .
Yes America is a good place, but it needs a lot of reform too.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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F*#k you. I am a liberal and I LOVE this country. Get a brain.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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It's more sad that people incorporate the world "liberal" with "educated".
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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u meen when thuh british attacked the indians and thu amuricans halped saved the tea from the indians? wait.
The Bush administration lied about that too!
NO MOAR WAR FUR OIL!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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GO CAYMAN ISLANDS!!!!!
(bring your saddlebags).
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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It's a manipulative sales job that some forces have portrayed liberals as "Anti-American" Probably started in the Vietnam era when LIberals protested the dishonest and immoral Vietnam war that was dragging down our country.
Ironically, it's the conservatives that unabashedly hate the US government and wish to get rid of as much of it as possible and want to incarcerate as many fellow americans as possible.
Liberals or sure don't hate the military if our leaders take us to flight real threats. It just happens that the elite has manipulated the government to fight for the rights of big business to engage in economic imperialism across the globe.
Bottom line spelled out my two time medal of Honor winner Smedley Bulter who also thwarted a plot by big business to run a coup on the US President.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
More on the business plot from Wiki (not it wasn't liberals that ever tried to steal the government. )
The Business Plot (also known as the Plot Against FDR, the White House Putsch) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization. In 1934, Butler testified to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Congressional committee (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims.[1] In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible.[2] No one was prosecuted.
A patriot
Karl Baba
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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...once you commit, your life is not yours any longer...
No one at J.C. Penny or Fidelity is going to demand that you go out on a mission that's suicide.
If you've never been sent on a mission that's suicide, let me tell you that it ain't fun. It's easier if you simply accept that this is your last day on Earth and get on with it.
Climbing is like that sometimes, except in climbing you always have the free-will option of bailing, even if in reality you can't bail because of weather, gear, etc.
Similar... but not the same.
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