What do you love about America?

That is my question:

What do you love about America?

"turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
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DEFINITELY McDonalds - yum yum - and the French fried at McDonalds are far
better than British "chips".
Scenery - America has some lovely scenery - Yosemite for example.
"Some" American TV is quite good - used to quite like "Friends" for
example - thought Joey was good.
Music - America have some good bands and good music.

On Aug 16, 3:16 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

That question is about 40 years too late........

too bad for those of us who still live here...

Just a thought from someone who lived through what we lost,
K e v

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:16:50 -0700 (PDT), turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

The space program. Though we could do with at least
ten or so times more.
Other than that, not much, other than that it is in general
more lovable than elsewhere.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:16:50 -0700, turtoni wrote:

My friends and family being there and the amazing beauty in most of it's
land.

On Aug 16, 6:37 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

America is the benefactor to whom the 'free world' cries Uncle,
rather than doing for itself!

On Aug 16, 12:16 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

One late Christmas night, I was stopped by a Sheriff's
Deputy while driving home from a friend's place. After
the usual checking of license and registration, he
pretended to be convinced I possessed marijuana. I
did have the long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking
FM-type look Oxycontin Rush used to talk about. Anyway,
I told him I didn't possess any such thing. He asked , "so
can I search your car? If you don't have anything to hide..."
I told him, "I don't have anything to hide, but this is America,
and I don't have anything to prove either."

That's what I love about America: not having anything to
prove to a cop.

"turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
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I divide America into 'pre civil rights' and 'post civil rights'.

The pre civil rights America was a noble experiment in the world that
brought a great moral foundation to it's identity. I use the analogy that
two essential spirits founded this land...on the one hand, the spirit of new
opportunity, while on the other, the search for religious freedom, or what I
call the pilgrim's spirit.

This was a moral society, willing to fight bloody civil wars to 'right
wrong' if need be. Up until civil rights, America was a bright HOPE for
all humans in this world.

"kevirwin" comcast.net> wrote in message
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On Aug 16, 3:16 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

That question is about 40 years too late........

too bad for those of us who still live here...

Just a thought from someone who lived through what we lost,
K e v

Thank ou Kev for remembering. I too remember...and I cry a tear for what we
have lost. No one under, say 30, would understand; they have no way to
understand the decency and wholesomeness that once existed as the framework
of this society [as a rule, there are always exceptions the naysayers will
quote].
There was a time people stood silent while the opposing team made their foul
shots.

On Aug 16, 3:16 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

Took-in my 4 desperate Grandparents from the "Pale," (Warsaw, Brest-
Litovsk) circa 1912--14

Despite its own multiple problems and complex contradictions, I feel
that I am better-off than
elsewhere.

Since I do not adapt well, a small bit ethnocentric-chauvanist, am now
too old and too mono-lingual to change anyhow, I wouldn't become an ex-
patriate, and I really didn't like visits to Paris, London and Italy

However: If I feel the need to emigrate for whatever reason, I
wouldn't be persecuted

And Delta is usually ready (if not bankrupt outa-bizness)

"Love" means emotion & ideas, as do "loyalty" and "patriotism"