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I Love This Country
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| 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: NFHale
Funny thing about cowards... they aren’t content to just do it alone. They seem to need approval, or affirmation, as if that will somehow expiate what’s going on in their minds. That's exactly it. They seek to assuage their personal guilt for abandoning their countrymen by encouraging others to also turn and run. It's a sick mindset that can't be fixed, except through an honest admission of guilt and the making of amends to their country. Few, if any of them, are capable of such honest self assessment.
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posted on
09/29/2013 2:55:59 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Marcella
Caliban, has become zot. Well, there's a bit of good news for a Sunday afternoon! Thank you, Marcella.
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posted on
09/29/2013 2:57:06 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: dragnet2
Though your points are valid, I'll bet that gettin' laid prolly wouldn't do you any harm.
/.02
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:02:13 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Caliban; wku man; DuncanWaring; Marcella; NFHale; Windflier; 50mm; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952; ...
“I COMMAND THEE TO FORNICATE THYSELF, AND THINE EQUINE CONVEYANCE!!”
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:04:59 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Marcella
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:06:16 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: NFHale
The Return of AlexW... this time, he turned chickensh*t and ran away to Nicaragua??? There's a small band of turncoat expats on FR who like to sit by their beach sipping mai tais, telling us poor saps how stupid we are for sticking by our beloved country.
Lest anyone get the wrong idea, we also have a lot of expats here who remain stalwart patriots who love their country. I'd share a foxhole with any one of them.
AlexW.....is that America-hating, mai tai sipping weasel still here?
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:07:50 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:08:47 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: virgil283
Virgil, welcome home!
I can’t say we tidied the place up for you, but we’ll break out the sweet tea for ya.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:09:21 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Marcella; NFHale; DuncanWaring; AllAmericanGirl44; bobby.223; Windflier; Jim Robinson
Outstanding! We'll never get rid of all the cowards, but maybe we'll encourage those who like to shove their cowardice in our faces to shut up. Thank all y'all for your hard work. Prayers for you, Jim Rob.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:11:48 PM PDT
by
wku man
(It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
To: Windflier
AlexW.....is that America-hating, mai tai sipping weasel still here? Yes, and still just as smug.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:11:51 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Caliban
And another “oh so clever” one is heard from.
Bye bye.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:41:05 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Marcella
Agreed, it was way out of line.
Thank you for the bright spot of the day :)
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:44:20 PM PDT
by
AllAmericanGirl44
('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
To: Darksheare
I just wish he had blogged about it.
“The BLatting One” is getting hungry again.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:49:17 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Marcella; Caliban; DuncanWaring; Windflier; AllAmericanGirl44; bobby.223; wku man; TheOldLady; ...
Dear Caliban:
Buh-bye... and don’t think it hasn’t been a little slice of Heaven.. because it HASN’T...
Enjoy yer commie buddies in Nicaragua...
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:52:41 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: shibumi
Sadly we were denied that awesome.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:56:17 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Windflier
“...bandoning their countrymen...”
Personally... if someone leaves the country and their citizenship behind, they can go to Hell. I could care less what happens to them.
May posterity forget they were EVER our countrymen.
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:56:52 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Old Sarge; wku man; DuncanWaring; Marcella; Windflier; 50mm; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952
Ya know, Sarge... there’s something about blonde-haired Sword-wielding Valkyrie women leaping off flying horses that I find amazingly attractive...
It’s sorta like love at first flight... sumpin’ like that...
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posted on
09/29/2013 3:58:56 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Windflier
RE still here:
I dunno. Haven’t heard anything from him since I tried to be civil to him and he went all whiny-ass punk bitchy on me.
Par for the course.
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posted on
09/29/2013 4:00:38 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Old Sarge
from the Class of 1998 too, damn... wonder it it was really him or his kid shooting it's mouth off?
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posted on
09/29/2013 4:14:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: NFHale
THOU DOST SAYETH THE SWEETEST THINGS, O FREEPER...
NOW, PREPAREST ME A SAMMICH!
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posted on
09/29/2013 4:26:54 PM 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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