*****The God Bless America Thread******

BRMLAW
BRMLAW Posts: 153
edited September 2009 in A Moving Train
If you love this country, right or wrong, chime in what you love about the place. There are so many others who come here just to bitch about what's wrong with it. So name something you love. Or a few things.

Im going with....

Freedom of Speech
Baseball
Jazz
Obama
The men who stormed Normandy Beach
The 4th of July
Hot dogs
New York City
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  • BRMLAW
    BRMLAW Posts: 153
    lest we not forget....Freedom of Religion and Ellis Island. Pearl Jam!
  • Laughofgod
    Laughofgod Posts: 23
    It is an area that is part of an amazing stretch of land that should be explored and appreciated.
    It's people are in transition, culturally, from adolescence to young adulthood. Exciting!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    :cry: :?
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,982
    freedom fries.....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    freedom fries.....
    :lol::lol:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    George Washington
    Hugh Hefner
    Derek Jeter
    The Grand Canyon
    The Northwest
    The Hamburger
    Freedom of Speech
    NERDS!
  • bernmodi
    bernmodi Posts: 631
    Cinnamon rolls
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    Its the simple things that make me happy to live here, even more so after doing some travelling...

    Like being able to post my opinions on here or anywhere else, the whole freedom of speach thing. Other things like clean water and food to eat, electricity, a judicial system and law inforcement, being able to vote, the ability to own a weapon if one should want to, ability to go to school and choosing a career, You know, the simple things...not saying that it doesn't exsist any where else, but 80% of the world doesn't have some or all of those things.
    BRING BACK THE WHALE
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    I HATE 'God bless America.' I hate the saying, the slogan, the stickers, the song, etc etc etc. It's so cheap and tacky.

    That said, I love baseball, Cedar Point, Hollywood blockbusters, and NCAA college football.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Forget *God Bless America*, how about *God bless the World*. Now that's more like it.
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    - our constitution and guaranteed freedoms (even if they are sometimes abused)
    - Thomas Jefferson
    - writers like "The Brahmins" - Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau etc.
    - the music this country has given birth to-especially the blues and rock and roll
    - muscle cars
    - football (NOT the euro version)
    - basketball
    - the natural beauty, and the many variations of it, all across this country
    - PEARL JAM
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    weenie wrote:
    - our constitution and guaranteed freedoms (even if they are sometimes abused)
    - Thomas Jefferson
    - writers like "The Brahmins" - Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau etc.
    - the music this country has given birth to-especially the blues and rock and roll
    - muscle cars
    - football (NOT the euro version)
    - basketball
    - the natural beauty, and the many variations of it, all across this country
    - PEARL JAM

    I like your list alot.
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    jlew24asu wrote:
    weenie wrote:
    - our constitution and guaranteed freedoms (even if they are sometimes abused)
    - Thomas Jefferson
    - writers like "The Brahmins" - Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau etc.
    - the music this country has given birth to-especially the blues and rock and roll
    - muscle cars
    - football (NOT the euro version)
    - basketball
    - the natural beauty, and the many variations of it, all across this country
    - PEARL JAM

    I like your list alot.

    thanks! :D
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Woodchuck Hard Apple Cider
    Smokey Mountains National Park
    Primus
    The writings of Robert E. Howard, Howard Zinn, Robert McCammon
    Alaska
    Dauphin Island, Alabama during Spring or Fall bird migration
    Frosty Root Beer
    My lovely wife
    Grand Teton National Park
    The dance and calls of Sandhill Cranes
    D.C. Comics
    Drive-by Truckers
    Christy Canyon
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    soulsinging wrote:
    I HATE 'God bless America.' I hate the saying, the slogan, the stickers, the song, etc etc etc. It's so cheap and tacky.

    Ditto this.^^^^ I don't say god bless anything, because I don't believe god exists, but...
    its a good place overall and I feel lucky that the accident of my birth occurred in this part of the planet. New York City. Pearl Jam. NIN. Road trips. Benjamin Franklin. The Constitution. The ban on child labor. Martha Graham. Jerome Robbins. Gershwin. So much good art and music - we are so lucky. And it is luck. Most of us didn't earn this - we were just lucky enough to be born here. Feynman. There's more but this is what comes to mind.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    The Constitution and Bill Of Rights.
    The Rock Mountains and Sierra Nevadas.
    The Grand Canyon.
    The Pacific Coastline.
    The Bluesmen that lay at the roots of Rock And Roll.
    Baseball.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • JR8805
    JR8805 Posts: 169
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Forget *God Bless America*, how about *God bless the World*. Now that's more like it.

    If you're going with "God Bless" anything, this is the one to go with. The Whole World.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Forget *God Bless America*, how about *God bless the World*. Now that's more like it.
    God bless ,Pearl Jam..... ;)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    BRMLAW wrote:
    Im going with....


    Obama


    ***groan :roll:
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    soulsinging wrote:
    I HATE 'God bless America.' I hate the saying, the slogan, the stickers, the song, etc etc etc. It's so cheap and tacky.

    That said, I love baseball, Cedar Point, Hollywood blockbusters, and NCAA college football.

    I agree,

    GOD BLESS THE WORLD cause without it we wouldn't be the powerful country we've become.

    That said I love,

    American Sports (especially from BEANTOWN)
    Touring with my favorite band,,MFSD
    Las Vegas
    Florida Keys (snorkeling)
    Bill of Rights + Constitution
    Right to Vote
    Human powered machines (Bicycles)
    My firey red headed GF
    Marvel Comics
    Listener Supported Radio
    Barbecue (a fresh catch from the sea)
    Coaching my daughter in Softball, basketball and swimming
    Sailing the Keys

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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