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What Has America Become?
Land of the special interest and double standard
Has America become the land of the special interest and
home of the double standard?
"Let's see: if we lie to the Congress, it's a felony and if the Congress lies to us its just politics; if we dislike a black person, we're racist and if a black dislikes whites, it's their 1st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but its wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don't burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama's policies you're a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st Amendment right.
You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it's wrong to use an animal.
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don't want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who's at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their reelection campaign.
What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?" - Ken Huber, Tawas City
"Let's see: if we lie to the Congress, it's a felony and if the Congress lies to us its just politics; if we dislike a black person, we're racist and if a black dislikes whites, it's their 1st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but its wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don't burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama's policies you're a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st Amendment right.
You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it's wrong to use an animal.
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don't want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who's at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their reelection campaign.
What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?" - Ken Huber, Tawas City
History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
America can't beat anyone anymore. - George Clooney
History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins
Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx
America is addicted to wars of distraction. - Barbara Ehrenreich
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde
Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer
The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson
Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy
If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. - Jacques Barzun
Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish. - Herbert Hoover
The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan
There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
One third of the people in the United States promote while the other two thirds provide. - Will Rogers
In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find you. - Yakov Smirnoff
Texas could exist without the United States but the United States cannot exist without Texas. - Sam Houston
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. - Jon Stewart
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare
In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce
Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley
America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. - Unknown
How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard
Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking
America can't beat anyone anymore. - George Clooney
History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins
Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx
America is addicted to wars of distraction. - Barbara Ehrenreich
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde
Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer
The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson
Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy
If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. - Jacques Barzun
Any lack of confidence in the economic future of the United States is foolish. - Herbert Hoover
The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan
There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
One third of the people in the United States promote while the other two thirds provide. - Will Rogers
In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find you. - Yakov Smirnoff
Texas could exist without the United States but the United States cannot exist without Texas. - Sam Houston
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. - Jon Stewart
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare
In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce
Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley
America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. - Unknown
How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard
Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking
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