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I Love This Country
rachellucas.com ^ | Rachel Lucas

Posted on 09/28/2013 10:23:01 AM PDT by virgil283

"One of the most startling revelations of moving back to the U.S. is the ubiquitous friendliness and I’m rolling around in it like a dog in fresh grass....none of which could really explain this truly awesome bit of reverse culture shock for me.

It’s not that Europeans are exactly un-friendly, especially Italians, who are in fact very polite and kind to strangers, and warm to friends and family, but I lived in Texas for 15 years before moving to Europe and being openly friendly to complete strangers was (is) deeply part of my personality,....


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: thiscountry; ursulathevk; zot
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To: TheOldLady; Old Sarge

Love my country.......or leave it, troll! Glad this one got the zot!


81 posted on 09/29/2013 7:18:07 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: GeronL
That is a better Idea than you think Geron.

Like I said, the Asians LOVE to go to Guam and Hawaii to shoot.

They had one at The Japanese War Memorial, because they knew it would get alot of Japanese Visors and the owners make absolute Bank!

You wouldn't want Koreans, Japanese and Chinese to visit your Hunting experience though, Smart, Polite People who are good at math and have great music. Bah! I hear those Somalis are real big into hunting though./SARC

Seriously though if you want to do that you should move to Guam, that industry is huge there.

82 posted on 09/29/2013 7:19:39 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Caliban

Get out, live on your SS in a country where the money still has buying power and enjoy your nestveggbif you had saved one.

__________________

What makes you think that there will be SS especially for expats?


83 posted on 09/29/2013 7:26:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: KC_Lion

I want them to come to Texas. :p


84 posted on 09/29/2013 7:26:42 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: TheOldLady

Thank you, Lady. I knew you’d be along shortly to help us celebrate the demise of that old traitor.


85 posted on 09/29/2013 7:44:16 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: tomkat

Lets see, you suggest sex and then throw kisses to those who speak truth and reality...Fantasize much tom?


86 posted on 09/29/2013 9:24:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Caliban
Buzz off bozo bully...


87 posted on 09/30/2013 5:44:29 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Old Sarge

RE Sammich:
Mayo, or mustard? Cheese? Ham, chicken, or turkey???


88 posted on 09/30/2013 5:45:19 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: TheOldLady

No problemo my friend!!!!


89 posted on 09/30/2013 5:47:52 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: jazusamo

“....Ex-pat troll is a good handle for him....”

“Smacked Ass” is an even better handle... as in “He got his ass smacked right off the forum.”

I’m just sayin’....


90 posted on 09/30/2013 5:50:23 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Knowing Ursula the Viking Kitten, it’ll be wild boar on a stick with mead and ale.


91 posted on 09/30/2013 6:06:54 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: KC_Lion; Marcella; DuncanWaring; Windflier; AllAmericanGirl44; bobby.223; wku man; Jim Robinson; ...

“...But could you imagine it without things like Canned Soup, Toilet Paper and Soap (that doesn’t cost your first born)?...”

How about imagining it without:

Antibiotics to combat even the most minor infections, that can turn lethally septic...

Basic dentistry and real dentists... an abscessed tooth can kill you...

Simple Band-Aids to cover wounds and keep the germs out...

Isopropyl Alcohol, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, etc, to disinfect...

Sterilized water... every day, all the time...

Indoor plumbing and toilets that flush...

Continuous, dependable electricity...

Refrigeration, to keep food fresh...

How about just being able to live in a decent neighborhood without some feral animal tribe in the next valley yelling allhu akbar and waiting to kill you at the slightest provocation or opportunity...

Sure..There’s some things wrong with the country right now... mostly caused by idiot people who take and take, but have no sense of responsibility or Citizenship, because they’ve been conditioned to behave a certain way by equally degenerate morons with a horrible political agenda.

But at the end of the day, the GOOD that America - and the American PEOPLE - has brought to the world outweighs all of our problems... and we as a People, as a Nation, are the MOST generous and compassionate probably in the history of the world.

We’ve sent OUR fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, sons (and now our daughters as well) overseas to liberate other people from whatever oppressive “-ism” happens to be the going fad over the course of our existence - socialism/communism/nazism, and now Islamism... and OUR blood has been spilled, often times for people that have ZERO gratitude.

But for those that DO have gratitude for it... well, it’s literally been the difference between life and death for them. And remember the image of all those purple-dyed fingers of people who were PROUD to be able to actually VOTE for the first time in their lives, in Iraq? How many other countries can say they’ve done the same, or made the same positive impact?

Yeah... we’re a little down right now. We’re hurting, and we’re being kicked about by morons who are too stupid to realize that THIS country is the ONLY place where they would even remotely be put up with. Amateurs who have axes to grind against the very country that gave them an opportunity to rise to where they are.

And the fact that we haven’t stomped them into the dust is a testament to OUR compassion, tolerance, and patience as a people, as a nation.

So, to folks like these ex-pat trolls who come out here and try to denigrate, demoralize, and further degrade us - they’re HELPING those who are already here doing the same... They can go to hell.

We’re Americans here. We don’t run away.

And we’ll STILL be here at the end of the day, long after the other “-isms” and their little toadies and sycophants have faded away as just one more failed experiment at controlling the hearts, minds, souls, and destinies of free people.

The ONLY “-ism” that counts or matters to me is Americanism.

My country, right or wrong... but still My Country.

And the ONLY reason Lady Liberty’s light will EVER fail to shine is if WE forget who we are and why we’re here, if we forget what it COST us and our ancestors to get here, and if we forget the Americans who PAID that price to get us here.

Sound corny in this day and age? Maybe it does, to some ears...

But not to mine. I believe it... and I always will.

P.S.
Sorry for the mega-ping folks... this ex-pat troll crap is getting on my nerves... and I needed to vent.


92 posted on 09/30/2013 6:30:29 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Old Sarge

Wild Boar is good... garnished with a little horseradish, a sprig of parsely, and a flaggon of ale...


93 posted on 09/30/2013 6:32:37 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale
I'd like to join Commander Riker in applauding your most excellent post:


94 posted on 09/30/2013 6:38:55 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: NFHale; MestaMachine; MeganC
Right On Hale.

A Tube of Neosporin and a Basket of Eggs will be the new currency.

95 posted on 09/30/2013 6:42:16 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

God forbid it ever comes to that, my friend.

We live in “the land of plenty” because prior generations MADE it so...

What went wrong is successive generations EXPECTING it to be so without putting in the requisite effort associated with making sure that it continues and a political class intent on making it look like one part of society OWES another part something for nothing...


96 posted on 09/30/2013 7:17:02 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: KC_Lion

Do not need Neosopin if you have some good old Mail Pouch chewin’ tobakki. It’s much cheaper and it works even when neosporin doesn’t.
Reading this thread, I get the distinct impression that I missed something...as usual.


97 posted on 09/30/2013 7:21:48 AM PDT by MestaMachine (--0)
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To: MestaMachine; KC_Lion

Sorry MestaMachine...I thought I had you on my ping list... see #92 above, and KC_Lions post at 76 for reference...


98 posted on 09/30/2013 7:59:35 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale
And a dash of ginger, as well...

SALUD FROM URSULA THE VIKING KITTEN, AND HER
SHIELD-SISTER, BRUNGARD THE GINGER!

99 posted on 09/30/2013 8:09:45 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: dragnet2

With any due respect, I’m sure glad to not be you.


100 posted on 09/30/2013 8:28:30 AM PDT by tomkat
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