What do you love about the U.S.A?

[Deep13]

Right wing blow-hards always accuse liberals of hating America or blaming America first. Previously, I posted a rhetorical poll asking why we supposedly hate America. Answers ranged from "They killed my Dad" to obligatory references to the Ventura Highway song.

Now, the poll is, what do you love about America?

[AlecBGreen]

1. you forgot one

gun racks on our automobiles :) Eat lead squirrel!

[Deep13]

2. Superman and Batman's pretend cities both located in USA.

[ohiosmith]

3. Corn dogs. I love the corn dogs.

[Left Is Write]

19. Pronto Pups, Tom Thumb donuts, salt water taffy and state fairs!

[Orrin_73]

4. Im not american but I love the US

because its so beautiful and big. It is a continent on its own. I hope to visit the US sometime in the future.

[Fenris]

5. Freedom from want

Not because all our needs or desires are satisfied, but because when we have a need or desire that is too inconvenient (lower gas prices, health care) the government and the media do all they can to convince us that we don't want it.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Mullets, tube tops and camel toes at the county fair.

Doesn't get much more 'Murikan than that! :thumbsup:

[Deep13]

7. How we always git-er-done. nm

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Three words: porn, porn, porn

[Deep13]

9. don't forget porn!

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Oh, and PS: porn

[NoPasaran]

11. Don't forget chicken

Porn'n'chicken just wouldn't be the same without it!

[dolo amber]

12. Chicken porn

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHICKENS?! :o

[progmom]

13. i'm so tired of people telling me to think of the chickens

:eyes:

[Arugula Latte]

42. Is that like Chicken 'n' Waffles?

:shrug:

[Ariana Celeste]

39. Definitely the porn

:thumbsup:

[ghostsofgiants]

43. ...

:patriot:

[anarch]

14. I love nearly everything about the United States of America

They were great, and such an inspiration to so many of my current favorite bands!

Biography by Jason Ankeny
Despite releasing only one LP, the United States of America was among the most revolutionary bands of the late '60s — grounded equally in psychedelia and the avant-garde, their music eschewed guitars in favor of strings, keyboards and haunting electronics, predating the ambient pop of the modern era by several decades. The United States of America was led by composer and keyboardist Joseph Byrd, a Kentucky native raised in Tucson, Arizona; there he appeared with a series of rock and country bands while attending high school, subsequently playing vibes in a jazz outfit as a student at the University of Arizona. Despite winning a fellowship to study music at Stanford, Byrd instead relocated to New York, intrigued by the avant-garde experiments emerging from the city's downtown music scene; there he began earning international notoriety for his own compositions, at the same time working as a conductor, arranger, associate producer and assistant to critic Virgil Thomson.

Byrd eventually returned to the west coast, accepting an assistant teaching position at UCLA and moving into a beachfront commune populated by a group of grad students, artists and Indian musicians. He soon began studying acoustics, psychology and Indian music, but quickly turned back to experimental composition, leaving the university in the summer of 1967 to write music full-time and produce "happenings." To perform his new songs — material inspired in no small part by the psychedelic sounds produced during the Summer of Love — Byrd recruited a group of UCLA students (vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz, bassist Rand Forbes, electric violinist Gordon Marron and drummer Craig Woodson) to form the United States of America; the group's lone self-titled LP, produced by David Rubinson, was recorded for CBS in 1968, its unique ambience due largely to their pioneering use of the ring modulator, a primitive synthesizer later popularized by the Krautrock sound.

The subject of critical acclaim, the album spent over two months in the lower regions of the Billboard charts; still, the United States of America disbanded soon after, with Byrd resurfacing in 1969 with The American Metaphysical Circus, credited to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, a group of a dozen musicians including vocalists Susan de Lange, Victoria Bond and Christie Thompson. A critical and commercial failure, the LP was his last until 1975, at which time he released Yankee Transcendoodle, a collection of synthesizer pieces. Three years later Byrd also produced Ry Cooder's Jazz album, and in 1980 he issued another synthesizer record, Christmas Yet to Come. He additionally wrote for films, television and advertising jingles. Fellow United States of America alum Dorothy Moskowitz, meanwhile, later resurfaced in Country Joe McDonald's All-Star Band, with the remaining members of the group essentially disappearing from the contemporary music scene.

[swimboy]

27. Somehow

I still always picture you in a hammock . . .

with a gun.


:stoat:

[anarch]

28. this is, indeed, as it should be

my preferred state of being...very relaxed, yet heavily armed. :D


:stoat: !

[Deep13]

15. The skill Americans have making fart noises with their armpits.

[HughBeaumont]

16. RIBS!!

[Left Is Write]

17. What do I love most about the US? Minnesota.

:D

This is my country, my home. I disagree with the current adminstration and many of its policies, but the Bush Adminstration IS NOT America. I love the foundation of this country. I love the spirit of freedom the founding fathers put forth.

Less lofty, I love the things that are uniquely American - Kitschy Americana, I guess. Like the roadside diner serving meatloaf sandwiches, or any of the roadside attractions, summer vacations, and the possibilities inherent in exploring from coast to coast.

[underpants]

18. BIG ...AMERICAN .....BREASTS

Those are hilarious. Well done.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. The lØveli lakes

the WØnderful telephØne system,

and mani interesting furry animals,

including the majestic MØØse.







No, wait. That's Sweden. :crazy:

[HughBeaumont]

22. The adminstrators of this site wish to

apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those
responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked
have been sacked.

[Deep13]

25. I'm pining for the fjords.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Mynd you, MØØse bytes Kan be pretty nasti...

:hide:

[henslee]

21. California Girls..... pic.

[Orrin_73]

31. After seeing this pic Im not sure

I want to go to California! :silly:

[henslee]

36. ...

[Orrin_73]

37. This is much better, it is more to my liking

hehehehehehe

[YankeyMCC]

23. It's where I keep all my stuff

[Deep13]

29. Nice avatar. I know that skyline and the ship.

I'm building a model and referencing photos I made in Boston. The colors and some details on the actual ship do not match the instructions for the commercial model.

[YankeyMCC]

30. Thanks and that sounds like an excellent project

I'd be intereted in photos when you're done.

I do models with my son from time to time but ... well lets just say it's just for fun and quality time together :) they're not going to win any contests.

[Initech]

24. Two words: Breast implants

[Orrin_73]

32. Can I say that the americans have a boob fetish?

:shrug:

[Initech]

34. Boob implans, boobs in magazines, boobs on Fox News... yeah!

[Deep13]

33. In case you have not heard of O'Reilly's book Those Who Trespass...

...here is an excerpt. Once you read it you will know that O'Reilly is a poet and comes from a literary tradition that includes Hawthorn, Melville, Mark Twain and Crane.
* * * * * *

Robo used his “product” only occasionally, but tonight was special. He had two fifteen-year-old girls who would do anything for the drug, and he was determined to exploit the situation.

“Say, baby, put that pipe down and get my pipe up,” Robo said to one of the girls. She was so intoxicated she had trouble standing, but Robo was her sugar daddy, and as he sat in a filthy, imitation, leather couch, there in the living room of a run-down three-bedroom apartment, she obediently performed oral sex on him.

Five feet away, the other teenage girl sat on a mattress on the floor and watched, greedily sucking on the crack pipe Robo had passed to her. Edgar looked over and grinned, showing yellow, decaying teeth. Obviously, he preferred oral sex to oral hygiene.

“You’re next, girl, and I want you to do her too,” he ordered. As Robo took the crack pipe back the girl groggily nodded her consent. Inhaling deeply, Robo blew the cocaine smoke out through his nose and mouth. The bitter taste left him feeling powerful, energized, and free of worry. He was bad and he was flush.
* * * * * * *

In the audio version, O'Reilly reads this himself and selections are sometimes played on the Stephanie Miller Show.

[underpants]

35. God Bless America

That is too funny.

[JohnKleeb]

40. He should have won a peabody for that

It's as American as Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

[Aristus]

38. Hamburgers.

Hot dogs.
Corn dogs.
State fairs.
New York City.
The Chrysler PT Cruiser.
Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rainier.
Native American culture.
The best toilet paper in the world.
California wines.
Texas beef.
Wisconsin cheese.
Washington apples.
George Washington.
Ben Franklin.
Seattle.
The ACLU.
General U.S. Grant.
Laying in a hammock after mowing the lawn.
Yosemite National Park.
Glacier National Park.
Clarence Darrow.
Abraham Lincoln.
Susan B. Anthony.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Southern Poverty Law Center.
Stephanie Miller.
Alexander Graham Bell.
The Interstate Highway System.
Woody Guthrie.
The Super Bowl.
Jackie Robinson.
Luther Burbank.
The Oregon coast.
The Columbia River.
The Berlin Airlift.
The Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall.
FDR.
JFK.
LBJ.
The New Deal.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
"Common Sense".
The 9th Amendment.
Billie Jean King.
Jesse Owens.
Audie Murphy.
Apple pie a la mode.
Hand-cranked, home-made ice cream.
Mark Twain.
Thomas Jefferson.
Abigail Adams.
Charles Addams.
Jane Addams.

That's just off the top of my head.

:patriot:

I love America.

[Reverend_Smitty]

45. What he said...

Yeah our "leaders" in Washington suck and our standing in the world is at an all time low but there is so much to love about this country that it angers me even more that we are being represented by that Idiot in Chief.

and what a great American Bill Clinton once said “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”

[Deep13]

41. That "milkshake" rap song.

[Deep13]

44. This is greatest stolen country in the world!