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"We're the greatest, strongest country in the world. The greatest, strongest country in the world. We may not have good health care but we love our jerry curls. The greatest, strongest, country in the world!"
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“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
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Our healthcare is the best in the world. That's why people come here for it.Comment
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Our education system is also the best in the world. That's why people come here for it. We don't send our American college students off to India to go to school!"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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If you think for a moment why you treat it so warily, it should be obvious that this kind of nationalism isn't unique...Originally posted by MikeH View PostComment
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People also go to Thailand for healthcare.Originally posted by DriXnaK View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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3rd world people build 3rd world ****holes. One can only throw that much money at them before giving up.Originally posted by MOBIUS View PostYou mean to see all the 3rd world **** hole parts of the US, that are all too prevalent if you detour off the beaten track even slightly...?
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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You know, that's highly debatable. It's a fact that there are no countries in the world that have a strict interpretation of freedom of speech the way we do. Even Canada and Britain ban some kinds of "offensive speech". In some ways, some countries are more liberal (in the classical Thomas Jefferson sense) but in other ways we are clearly on top. I'm not going to pretend that our system is perfect and we don't have places that could be improved, but when you get down to it, America's pretty damn good.Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
I just flat out disagree with this. Yes I go to that high school but look at our college education--people from all over the world go to study in the United States because we have hundreds of really good universities. Education is a major US export. And at the upper levels the US is way in the lead, when you consider things like how many Nobel Prize winners are American and such. And it varies tremendously by state--Virginia is considered to have excellent public education, while Washington DC's is absolutely abysmal. But ultimately, even though some statistics show our high school graduation rate declining or college performance decreasing, I think a lot of this is a function of the fact that more and more people are getting an education at all which tends to lower the average. But look at all the things that are invented in the United States.Our education system is outmoded and our educational performance is rapidly declining.
I hear this a lot but I've never actually seen any evidence. I'm not denying the existence of any evidence, it's just that no one who's told me this has been able to provide any and I haven't really done research on it myself, so can you cite something?The gap between rich and poor is widening at what seems to be a geometric rate, the true middle class disappearing before our very eyes.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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And to CubaOriginally posted by Lorizael View PostSocrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"Comment
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America is the greatest country on Earth... because you have the biggest penetration of genetically modified food in the food chain? This is clearly great scientific progress in the USOriginally posted by Guynemer View Post
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"Comment
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Don't forget our big American penises.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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QFT. What else does the term "great" mean? This isn't a "warm-fuzzy-feeling-inside-est country on Earth" contest...Originally posted by Solomwi View PostComment
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"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"Comment
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People with means go to the USA for healthcare.Originally posted by Lorizael View Post
People who want cheap operations may go to Thailand...more for the sex.Comment
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