A DIFFERENT AMERICA (MOTHER OF ALL BARF ALERTS!)

Baltimore Sun ^ | August 10, 2004 | Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas

[LongsforReagan]

A different America

By Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas

August 10, 2004

THE FIRST CLUE I had that today's America is different from the America I grew up in came shortly after my son and I flew in from England to attend a funeral. I was trying to drive my normal-sized rental car carefully because I hadn't taken out collision insurance, and I was surrounded by enormous vehicles larger than run-of-the-mill SUVs. My little car was overwhelmed by these monsters. I had trouble pulling out of places as they blocked my vision the way skyscrapers steal sunshine from city dwellers.

[LongsforReagan]

This is just horrible. Read it in my local paper today in CT, I just thought I would share the misery. What a bunch of crap!!

Use www.bugmenot.com to bypass the mandatory registration.

[steplock]

The article was a load of liberal diaper poo!

BUT .....

Use http://www.bugmenot.com to bypass the mandatory registration.

Now THAT was good news!

[buzzyboop]

Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is an American who has lived in England for 15 years.

Go home to England and good riddance!

[Wonder Warthog]

"Am I British or American?" he keeps asking me."

If he has to ask, he's British.

[Spok]

We need to take up a collection and get this poor lady a Yugo. Maybe instead a barf alert, this article should have a 'humor' alert. Can these people really expect to be taken seriously?

[Publius6961]

A self-styled girgly girl ex-patriate come back to criticize America?
Just slink back to your new home, your socialist and sandmaggot paradise,honey, and let the real women continue with their normal lives unmolested.

[kenth]

She sees F9/11, she hates SUVs, she thinks people on the right who defend their point of view are close-minded, she quotes Jimmy Carter and she uses FNC as an example of biased media in the United States.

She sees a couple of Humvees and she loses her freaking mind. Well, I'm sure there wasn't much to lose in the first place. She's just completely irrational in her thoughts of SUVs.

"Is it true that no one in Europe likes President Bush or the war?"

How do you like that line? Throws out a question by an unnamed cousin, but doesn't answer it. Just leaves it as a line to grab one and keep them thinking there must be some truth since it seems to be rhetorical.

You know, you really did share a little misery. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

;-)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Send her home on the Queen.

[martin_fierro]

I realized that all the big military-type vehicles on the road make it look as if America is at war. But at war with whom?

Pssst. Someone forgot to send her the memo.

[nathanbedford]

Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas is an American

The biggest barf line of them all.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

"Mommy, am I British or American?"

"That's a funny question ... why do you ask?"

"Because at school a kid stole my lunch money, and I couldn't decide whether to kiss his ass or kick it."

[arly]

Go Back to England and ride the double decker bus and stay the H out of the US that should solve your problem and solve one of ours!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I was trying to drive my normal-sized rental car carefully because I hadn't taken out collision insurance, and I was surrounded by enormous vehicles larger than run-of-the-mill SUVs. My little car was overwhelmed by these monsters.

Awwwwwwww. Diddle widdums actually had to share her road with those big, mean, scary SUVs, did she, mmmmmmmm...?

Cripes. I've owned spaniel puppies that didn't whine this much.

[Gunrunner2]

>>My 10-year-old son, born and growing up in England, although a U.S. citizen, is awestruck by the wonder of America as we drive through the South.

"Am I British or American?" he keeps asking me.<<

If his kid has to ask that question. . .

[El Gran Salseron]

What a load of BS! Within the first few sentences I quit reading.

No rental car company is going to let you rent a car without collision.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Because at school a kid stole my lunch money, and I couldn't decide whether to kiss his ass or kick it."

Ah, but if that was the answer, then the question would have been whether he was FRENCH or American.

[RJL]

I apologize to our friends in Great Britain for them having to deal with Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas.

I would suggest tightening your immigration requirement to eliminate idiots.