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[Kuros]

[nicholas_chiasson]

the 'eh' thing is Canadian

[Kuros]

[Dome Vans]

[Are they the lemmings]

This thread is giving me deva vu.

[aarontendo]

Wow, another thread bitching about the world's most powerful country. Cool.

[Justin Hale]

The US has a massive underclass � though in my opinion proportional � and anti-Americans focus solely on this rather than its other (more numerically significant) social class.

Everyone loves to take potshots at the Americans and the British for their underclass�s faults, but name me one other country to come close in equalling the advancing effect of our species these countries had.

United States inventions and discoveries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_inventions

English inventions and discoveries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_inventions_and_discoveries

Scottish inventions and discoveries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

Don�t get me started on GDP.

Questions?

[nicholas_chiasson]

-I suppose one can argue the amount of flack a country draws, the greater its influence. We seldom see posts here devoted to "Ugandan education at fault?" or "Laos is hypocritical."
-yes the world does revolve around america in many ways. But a few million soldiers, a top 5 economy, and a reputation for stable government and investment are OBJECTIVE reasons, not emotional.

[rD.NaTas]

[Roch]

[Roch]

[mindmetoo]

[nicholas_chiasson]

criticism of the united states is good. read Harpers (not Hapers Bazzar) or the Economist. random american-bashing is not criticism, anymore than Korea sux is a rational thought.

[luvnpeas]

[jajdude]

LEONARD COHEN LYRICS

"Democracy"

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on ...

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.