Also, I agree with your "stupid people" comment but that's what happens
(IMO) with an affluent growing population. There's less pressure to weed out
the dumb ones.
"Larry Smith" > wrote in message
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>
> Anti-American? Do I sound anti-american? I am not.
> I am, however, anti-stupid people, and frankly, having
> been born in the US, raised in the US, lived in the US,
> and in all probability soon to die in the US - I'm here
> to tell you we are collar-bone deep in stupid people and
> it's getting deeper. Kindly do recall that this _is_ the
> country that convicted Martha Stewart of lying about
> something she wasn't charged with. The one that failed
> to convict "The Juice". The same one that elected Bill
> Clinton president. Twice. The one that has more lawyers
> than it has engineering students - by an order of magnitude.
> The country that just a few months ago announced a
> new space initiative to expand the international space
> station, build a base on the moon, and fly to Mars -
> right before it cut Nasa's budget - again. The one
> where the Democrats still claim the Republicans "stole"
> the Presidential election, even though not even the
> rabidly liberal Miami Herald was able to find enough
> votes in the ballot box to save Gore's sorry ass when
> the court granted them access to the ballots under FOIA.
> The country that elected Ronald Reagan to the Presidency
> - twice. The one where people can't figure out a butterfly
> ballot. The same country that doesn't seem to understand
> that a closed-source electronic voting system will go
> into service just _after_ the last free election we ever
> have. The one that covered up the gov't murder of 85
> men, women and children in Waco and then couldn't under-
> stand how we managed to create a home-grown terrorist.
> The one that showed said terrorist that murder was wrong
> by killing him on TV while a bunch of ghouls watched.
> The one that built the school system that so alienated
> some of its students that it hatched a pair of lunatics
> loaded up with guns and bombs who killed 13 people - and
> then the next day responded by rounding up every student
> in the country who wore a black trench coat and alienated
> them even further...and whose most enduring lesson from
> the whole affair was to ban people from wearing black
> trench coats or carrying pocket knives. A country where
> we cannot legally carry pocket knives near schools or on
> planes but where we are routinely provided food and goods
> so tightly sealed in tough plastic "for our protection"
> that no human nails can open them. The country that had
> four airliners stolen and flown into major landmarks with
> horrific loss of life who then created an entire new federal
> bureaucracy whose first action was to ban nail clippers
> from airplanes. The one that protects the Constitution
> by gutting the civil rights it was founded to protect.
> That one. "Leader of the Free World?" "Home of the
> Brave?" How brave can we be when we have proven _in_court_
> that we are not competent to put cream in our own coffee?
> And how did that one get solved? Now McDonald's writes
> "careful, coffee may be hot" on their mugs and won't let
> us put our own cream in them. Ohhhhh - I feel so much
> safer now...
>
> Don't lecture me about anti-Americanism. I came by
> mine the honest way, I'm an American _citizen_, and
> I damned sick and tired of my whining, miserable,
> cowardly fellow Americans. The ones who are so
> against the "unnecessary" war - but who really do
> support the troops. How patronizing can you get?
> The troops may very well be the only ones smart
> enough to realize how badly they _are_ being
> patronized.
>
> And guess what? Bad as my opinion is of my fellow
> citizens, my opinion of non-Americans is even poorer.
> Americans are merely stupid. The French are actively
> evil.
>
>
>
> Jeff Russell wrote:
> > I agree with your initial point but the anti-American rhetoric is very
thick
> > and not true.
> >
> > "Larry Smith" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> >>Anthony Ewell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Dude! She did not commit fraud (insider trading). Those charges
> >>>were thrown out of court. She was convicted of lying to
> >>>investigators.
> >>
> >>Yes. She was (I am not kidding) convicted of lying about
> >>not committing inside trading. Only in America could some-
> >>one not even be charged, let alone tried, for some crime,
> >>but convicted and sentenced to prison for denying she
> >>committed the crime she wasn't charged with. And then
> >>we wonder why the rest of the world worries that we have
> >>nuclear weapons...
> >>
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