Originally Posted by ian-mstm

No, most wouldn't. Most Americans don't care to learn anything that doesn't concern them.

Ian

Originally Posted by ian-mstm

No, most wouldn't. Most Americans don't care to learn anything that doesn't concern them.

Ian

Originally Posted by mikelincs

for those wondering the US anthem is..

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Originally Posted by FlaviusAetius

Amen to that. One little piece of news is that one-quarter of the federal prison population consists of illegal aliens. Probably not very many of them are illegal alien Canadians, I suspect.

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Er, no.

Over three-fourths of the federal prison population is comprised of US citizens. That doesn't mean that every other person who is a noncitizen is illegal.

And violators of immigration laws are held in federal prison, so it should not be surprising that facilities that are designed to hold illegals are holding...illegals.

I can see why you're a conservative: You are addicted to getting everything wrong.

Originally Posted by jkeller

Same thing happened at a Toronto Maple Leafs game. The old saying-good fences make good neighbors is wrong, Canadiens make good neighbors.