I am American
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hkellickI am American.
I am not responsible for my own actions. I am not responsible for my own stupidity. It is not my fault that I'm fat, lazy and unable to understand a simply butterfly ballot. When things don't go my way, I absolve myself of any personal liability and seek instead to sue others.
I am American.
I am uneducated, intolerant and stupid.
I don't even know basic American History.
We can afford to bail out Amtrak 4 times and keep subsidizing American business
But, somehow, the money still can't be found to afford most of our children decent education.
I am American.
Pettiness runs deeply in my veins.
I'll go on rants and rant for days at a time on how it's OK to pirate music, movie and software, despite the fact that I know it's wrong as I do it. Or, on the other side, I'll go on for days at a time explaining how it makes perfect sense for me to sell a CD for $20 that any yokel with the internet can burn for $1.
Compromise is above and beyond me.
I am American.
Evil is my middle name.
Whole laws are created year after year to govern the way I act, I think and I behave.
I can't follow the Golden Rule, do unto others as ye would have done unto yourself.
After all, why bother to follow the Golden Rule when I can get money and power at the expense of others?
I am American.
Cruelty comes easily to me.
From the casual cruelty of hating fat people and gay people and all the people who are not like me
to the cruelty I cause in the name of being right.
I support the killing of 10 innocent afghans for every one Al-Qaeda or Taliban we get.
After all, this is war.
And you started it.
I am American.
I'll wave my flag in your face and accuse anyone who doesn't think like me of being unamerican.
I care deeply for anything that affects me, personally.
But I can't bother to find out what's going on overseas.
I don't even know the name of the Prime Minister of Canada.
I am American.
Please nuke the hell out of me.
I deserve it.
I am not responsible for my own actions. I am not responsible for my own stupidity. It is not my fault that I'm fat, lazy and unable to understand a simply butterfly ballot. When things don't go my way, I absolve myself of any personal liability and seek instead to sue others.
I am American.
I am uneducated, intolerant and stupid.
I don't even know basic American History.
We can afford to bail out Amtrak 4 times and keep subsidizing American business
But, somehow, the money still can't be found to afford most of our children decent education.
I am American.
Pettiness runs deeply in my veins.
I'll go on rants and rant for days at a time on how it's OK to pirate music, movie and software, despite the fact that I know it's wrong as I do it. Or, on the other side, I'll go on for days at a time explaining how it makes perfect sense for me to sell a CD for $20 that any yokel with the internet can burn for $1.
Compromise is above and beyond me.
I am American.
Evil is my middle name.
Whole laws are created year after year to govern the way I act, I think and I behave.
I can't follow the Golden Rule, do unto others as ye would have done unto yourself.
After all, why bother to follow the Golden Rule when I can get money and power at the expense of others?
I am American.
Cruelty comes easily to me.
From the casual cruelty of hating fat people and gay people and all the people who are not like me
to the cruelty I cause in the name of being right.
I support the killing of 10 innocent afghans for every one Al-Qaeda or Taliban we get.
After all, this is war.
And you started it.
I am American.
I'll wave my flag in your face and accuse anyone who doesn't think like me of being unamerican.
I care deeply for anything that affects me, personally.
But I can't bother to find out what's going on overseas.
I don't even know the name of the Prime Minister of Canada.
I am American.
Please nuke the hell out of me.
I deserve it.
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Date: 2002-07-31 07:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-07-31 07:40 am (UTC)I suppose I'm not making this sound like an awfully attractive proposition, am I?
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Date: 2002-07-31 07:59 am (UTC)Nyerr (http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/26/fast.food.lawsuit.ap/index.html)
I'd really hoped the day would never come when this could happen.
And... I'll tell you... if he wins this case. If it becomes McDonald's fault that he's obese.
I just give up on the whole system.
*smiles*
Date: 2002-07-31 08:31 am (UTC)If ever I reach a point where I'm allowed to vote in this country, though, I know I'll be voting for the first person who promises to reform the judicial system to get rid of these frivolous lawsuits. I said this about the last one like this, 'cept it was cheese puffs rather than hamburgers.
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Date: 2002-07-31 09:05 am (UTC)Jean Chretien. :)
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Date: 2002-07-31 09:42 am (UTC)But ask your typical AMERICAN if they know the name of your Prime Minister.
Go ahead, try it...
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Date: 2002-07-31 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-07-31 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-08-01 03:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-08-01 06:26 am (UTC)You scare me.
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Date: 2002-08-05 11:38 am (UTC)See, 'Americans' are just 'people' in disguise. Same as the French. Same as the Canadians, same as the Brazillians, same as everybody else on the globe.
In our places, would anyone else *really* do any better?
If the answer is yes, your words are valid.
If the answer is no... you might as well edit out 'American,' put in 'human being,' and repost.