According to this report from FoxNews.com, it looks like Asia is on the way to becoming one big sausage fest. Sometimes it seems like the entire world is completely screwed up except for the U.S. of A. We may have many problems of our own, but it’s good to take some time to reflect on how awesome America is:
ADVANTAGES AMERICA HAS OVER ALL OTHER COUNTRIES
* We’re the richest.
* We’re the smartest (we have the smartest people that is; I don’t give a rat ass what our average test scores are as long as we still get the cream of the crop).
* We’re the freest (freedom of speech — we invented the internet — freedom of self-defense, economic freedom, etc.).
* Our military can easily defeat any other military out there.
* We’re the most diverse.
* We respect women’s rights.
* We’re still serious enough a people to kill criminals who need a kill’n.
* We have the best TV shows and movies.
* Despite our wealth, we have lots of yummy cheap food (yay 99 cent menus!).
* Despite all our technological progress, we still have some of the best natural beauty in our national parks.
* We just generally kick ass.
* I live here.
What are your favorite awesome things about America?
THE MOAB.
The Supercarrier.
The Stealth Bomber.
Fred THompson.
The fact that nice, good-looking, well-educated, and cultured Chinese women come here.
Baseball and football instead of soccer (I don’t care whether the Eurotrash call it “football”; it’s still soccer).
Country music.
What are your favorite awesome things about America?
We can go to the range and spray as much lead as we can carry.
We have the best music
We have the best hiways and roads
We have the best 4th of July parades (well, my town does anyway)
We have the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Bob Dylan
We have Fred Thompson.
More microbrew beers than I could ever drink in a lifetime.
Ample parking
The fattest “poor” people on earth.
NFL football
Ted Nugent
Las Vegas!
80s thrash metal on both coasts
Legal to shoot bad guys in your house
That surprisingly delicious nacho cheese found at most convenience stores
Trans Ams, GTOs and Chevelles
Hmmm, can I pick a few things?
Those most American of cartridges
.30-06
.30-30
.45ACP
.44 magnum
And of course, the big daddy of them all
.50BMG
but biggest and best of all, one of the two greatest men (barring Jesus for obvious reasons) to have ever lived
George Washington.
Fred Thompson.
America is sooo awesome we have one of only a few supervolcanos
The rest of the world should tremble, some how someone will figure out how to make it into a weapon.
//…we invented in internet//
What’s this “we” stuff, pal? I think you meant to say “Al (me) invented THE internet. Get it right, or I’ll do a documentary on you called “An Inconvenient Blogger Assassination”.
We’re not Europe.
(is there a limit?)
Ronald Regan, John Wayne, Rush Limbaugh, Albert Einstein (we didn’t create him, but we had him last), (of course) THE BOMB, McCarthy Commie Trials, the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Catskills and Blue Ridge, Washington DC, NY City, Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Orlando, Chicago, hamburgers, pizza, (real) beer, prime rib, Velveeta (well, maybe not), South Beach, South Padre Island, Cape Cod, Ann Coulter, FREE speech, FREE religion, GUNS, voting, a Representative Republic, THE BEST KICK-A** MILITARY IN THE WORLD, (the list is endless – unlike, say, France … uhmmm, a really tall tower with lights on it and a restaurant.)
A woman’s right to vote… and grind on a pole for dollar bills. Generally not at the same time.
We can read and some of us are even literate.
Peace in the midwest.
George “the Man” Washington.
Firearms
people like y’all
Burgers. mmh burgers…
States like Montana
Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey (hot dam that’s good)
That hot girl what lives over yonder
SERPA holsters
being able to own your own land / house etc
the word “yeehaw”
500-yd lanes at the Gun range
and much much more….
Sonic’s double meat, chili cheese burgers.
That’s pretty much the trump card.
Military leaders like Claire Chennault, Jimmy Doolittle, “Wild Bill” Donovan, Curtis LeMay, and David Hackworth.
“Teddy Ballgame” Williams (who was BOTH a military hero AND a sports legend).
American musicians ranging from Ray Charles and James Brown to Johnny Ramone and Rudi Protrudi
American automotive designers who came up with the ’56 Chevy Nomad and the ’58 Buick Roadmaster.
My favorite thing about America is that it is nowhere near Europe.
The awesomeness (is that a word?) of America is self-evident. If this weren’t the coolest, most wonderful country on the planet, millions of people from EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD wouldn’t be continuously flocking here any way they can. Unfortunately they all too often tend to track in the sludge infecting their own countries. Maybe instead of a fence, we just need cultural DECON chambers at the border. Some body-washing, then some brainwashing. Then we could have a bunch of fresh, squeaky-clean new Americans, instead of hordes of dirty illegals.
We are the best because God deemed it.
He took some of the finest folks on earth, threw in a few bad guys to keep us on our toes, planted them here and said go forth and multiply.
Then he told us to watch over the rest of the planet, for they need our help from time to time. Then he told the rest of the planet to work hard get an education and move to God’s little heaven on earth, and abide by her laws.
Seems God forgot to give these dumbasses ears!!
In-N-Out Burger’s Secret Menu (Who doesn’t love it animal Style?)
Doughnuts (from anywhere)
The ability to own a home, vehicle and boat and have the space to store them all.
Freedom of Religion
Baseball (NL)
Hot Dogs (Chicago Style)
Apple Pie (w/vanilla ice cream)
Chevrolet (505hp Corvette)
This is of course to say nothing of legal machineguns, the Indy 500, 60s muscle cars, Bob Uecker, Michelle Malkin, the Wright Bros., the
P-51 Mustang, Les Paul, Jazz, steaks that look like they’re made of meat, Musky fishing, Drag Racing, and of course Brett Favre.
The 2nd Amendment — brilliant!
The fact that (in my state, anyway) I can buy any kind of handgun I want and nobody asks why.
Freedom to criticize government officials.
A MILITARY WE CAN RESPECT RATHER THAN FEAR!!!
We’re not Mexico
We are free
We choose what we will do each day without some prick government official telling us it’s “ok”
We travel from state to state freely
We tell idiot prick Senators that they are idiot prick Senators without getting thrown into a Gulog…at least until Hillary is elected…sigh
We believe in God as a people even though the elite make fun of us over it
All volunteer military…totally awesome people
F-22 Raptor
Bill of Rights
Constitution
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Jefferson
Reagan
We still value life over death
We aren’t ruled by Islam
Our technology
Our medicine
Our great economy
Our great companies
Our great caring people
Fred Thompson (if he adds IMAO to his blog roll)
Jimmy Buffett
Cable TV
Sopranos
The Godfather
Liberty and we really don’t believe that liberal bullshit you see on TV.
All very nice but an important thing has been omitted:
*WE ARE THE ONLY NATION TO ACTUALLY DEPLOY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGAINST AN ENEMY.
…And we’ll do it again when required.
To quote someone else (can’t remember who): “We go on military manuevers for fun and build spaceships for a hobby.”
When the 2006 tsunami devasted Banda Aceh, even the worst of the Islamist extremists there said that “when the Americans arrived, we knew everything would be all right.”
Even our “poor” wear gold on their fingers and eat out.
Nobody’s trying to kill me because of my gender (female) or religion (JOOOO!!!).
That even though all our other superheroes outshine him to an incredible degree, we have graciously allowed Aquaman to live here. Because we’re nice guys like that.
That if I can scrape up a thousand bucks, I can still get a M1 Garand straight from the Springfield armory. And, order it on line, too.
Can I get a woo woo?!
Burningman
UFC
NFL
In-n-Out
Hotties
Mexican Food
Thai Food
Chinese Food
Italian Food
Bud Light to wash it all down.
My Lincoln Town Car
My Ford T-Bird
My Remington 30-06
Eva Longoria (quiver)
Boiled crawfish (done properly)
Rush Limbaugh – pisses off the left daily
Michael Savage – ditto
Bill O’Reilly – ditto again
Annie Coulter – triple ditto
John Bolton (his moustache makes jihadis feel unmanly)
Samuel Adams (always a good choice!)
I could go on all day…but nah.
America is the absence of everything that’s makes the rest of the world suck!
But they are yearning and learning, albeit slowly…
It’s so great that if it didn’t exist, someone would have to invent it.
Fred Thompson.
Coastal Maine
The Adirondacks
Dairy Queen
Big Cars
Daily Showers
US Standard weight and measurements
Normal looking money
Normal way of telling time
And Frank J. lives here.
We don’t have an inferiority complex (rarer than you’d think)
We have a political party that makes a pretense to being rightwing vs. merely being not socialist (again, rarer than you’d think)
South Park
The best movies (yeah I hate Hollywood, but admit it, it’s true)
Not Canada!
Capitalism!
China hates us! (When they don’t, you know we’re doing something wrong.)
Video Games!
Computers!
World heroes! (Perpetually solve the world’s problems without ever demanding or receiving thanks.)
Favorite things about America.
Cassius Clay
Gen. George “Blood and Guts” Patton
Rush Limbaugh
Baseball
Babe Ruth
The Bill of Rights
and just for you Fred Thompson
Simple.
FrankJ, RWD, Harvey, SarahK and others can run blogs without worrying about govmint’ goons. That in itself says it all.
This is a right fought for and maintained by the second amendment.
KeithP — woowoo. There ya go bud. Good choice.
We try Sakthi. Sometimes we do fail. Thank you.
The first amendment that allows y’all to say atrocious things like Brett farve and Bud lite (Everyone knows its all about Romo and Shiner Bock) and the second amendment that provides guns to protect the first. Not to mention Ford Broncos, overpowered engines, lift kits, and large tires.
And Fred Thompson.
The 2nd Amendment.
Hooters
Texas
Jobs that pay shlubs like me scandalous amounts of money while sitting at a desk and posting comments like these.
“A woman’s right to vote… and grind on a pole for dollar bills. Generally not at the same time.”
Man I love it when women go to the poles.
The Weber Grill
The original Charlies Angels
357 Colt Trooper
The Dodge Charger
Video Games!
Well, yeah, America invented them (Atari), though the Japanese perfected them (Nintendo).
However, we invented Japan! (Modern, post-imperial Japan, anyway)
Also, every freakin’ awesome weapons system that wasn’t invented by Israelis (who are also awesome).
Hey Hollis,
Guess where Romo is from? Yup, The Cheesehead Nation. Ask him who his fav QB is if you get the chance.
If there is any doubt about America’s greatness just look at our neighbors. Mexicans are falling all over themselves to get here and 90% of Canada’s population is huddled along our northern border just to bask in our warm glow.
And pizza (yes it comes from somewhere else but we do it best).
America is SO great that I just had to post again:
Charles Ives, Ronald Reagan, J.D. Crowe, Ernest Hemingway, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tony Rice, Richard J. Daley, Sam Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Jerry Douglas, George Washington, Fred Holstein, Abraham Lincoln, Ricky Skaggs, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis Armstrong
Emma Lazarus’s poem at the foot of the Statue of Liberty (yep, my ancestors were wretched refuse)
Wrigley Field
cornfields in Iowa
hot midwestern summer nights
Wild Turkey 101, Red Hook ESB, Mirror Pond and Sierra Nevada pale ales, Bridgeport IPA, California Cabernet Sauvignon
Coca-Cola, too, come to think of it
the Federalist Papers
my bike ride home from work along the shore of the San Francisco Bay and then along Stevens Creek
the fact that somebody whose ancestors came here from Poland, Ireland, and Germany can buy superb andouille sausage at a German delicatessen in a Mexican neighborhood – find THAT in any other country!
Owning a home, a putting a fence around telling others to KEEP OUT!
Flush Toilets and tons of toilet paper.
We can shower 10 times a day if we want.
So many stores of all kinds.
Having good credit!
It really is the land of opportunity…if you are willing to work hard.
Cape Cod, the Bill of Rights, Ben Franklin, the lobster rolls at Brax Landing, New England sunrises, cranberries, John Elway, Mary Katherine Ham, the American flag, CLC kayaks, Phil Bolger, Ragdoll cats, hearing hymns being sung through the windows as you skip church to go to the beach on a summer Sunday morning, flea markets, nice soft toilet paper, mid-west non-accents, Bahstan accents, Dennis Miller, Mitt, Rudy, Fred!, the freedom to say that Hillary sucks without fear of retribution, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, our wonderful military men and women, the list goes on and on and on…
Reagan
John Wayne
SR-71 Blackbird
Apple pie
Harleys
Corvette
Mustang
lol cats
Tom Brady
Dennis Leary
Steak houses that have cuts so big that if you can eat it all in one sitting your meal is free.
Colt
Ford
General Patton
Elvis
Ronald Reagon
Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy
Hugh Heffner
Xbox 360
Star Wars
General Lewis “Chesty” Puller, the man who when surrounded by 8 enemy Panzer companies told his aides “They can’t get away this time”.
George Washington
Yuenglings
Buffalo Wings
Samuel “Mothaf***a” Jackson
The Bomb
Moab (or The Bomb Lite)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Worlds Best Record in Warfare
John Wayne
Recliners with built in butt massagers
The Super Bowl
John Wayne
Red Sox
The Freedom to hate the Yankees
World of Warcraft
Free Internet Porn
And just to drive the point home John Wayne!
DEAN CAIN!!
That…that’s about all the original stuff I got. Everybody else took all the other stuff….OH WAIT!
FAMOUS DAVE’S BARBEQUE PULLED PORK!! HA!
The Navy
The Marines
The Army
The Coasties
Even, I suppose, the Air Force
The personal freedom to be a married woman with three kids, a cat, and a head of thick, unveiled hair.
Fred!
Chesapeake (Maryland) blue crabs
The knowledge that my daughter will have the same opportunities in life that her brothers will have, and that they are growing up in the greatest country on Earth.
CHEERLEADERS!!!!
Yep… Everyone’s comments are hitting the high points… We have the greatest heroes, the deadliest military, the most awesome women, the coolest cars… (a truly endless list.)
Additionally… Americans are a fun-loving, wise, and sometimes too tolerant bunch, but… when we reach our bullshit threshold, we WILL kill the bad guys, punch the hippies, save an ungrateful planet… etc. THEN PARTY OURSELVES BLIND!!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
BlackwaterUSA
All-Volunteer Military
2cnd Amendment
we are not France.
We are so benevolent that we even protect whining nancy-boy countries like those snail eating bastards in France.
Come to think of it, is there anything at all that we are NOT the best at? I honestly can’t think of anything. There has to be something, right? I mean, we can’t be the best at EVERYTHING, can we…..?
The Constitution.
Everything else is just a BONUS.
I like soccer… Ok not as much as Football but still better than hockey or basketball.
Sucking and Surrender, the French have those locked up Paul.
REAL sports, as many of you have mentioned.
UNLIMITED alcohol, unless its halfway through the 3rd quarter
FREEDOM to be young, move away from home, rent your own apartment and read blogs all day at work
Doing what you want, when you want, without fear of the government interferring.
Damn I love this country. I’d probably run through barbed wire to get here, too.
Being the World’s Police because every other nation is too pussified to do it on their own.
Actually having used the Bomb.
Not Signing Kyoto.
IMAO.