@kirkdonkadonk@SketchesbyBoze And no one reading at a 3rd grade level has enough of an understanding to be able to do those things. They have the basics, which are helpful, but they certainly are not enough.
@kirkdonkadonk@SketchesbyBoze Part of being literate is being able to use your brain and your knowledge of words to surmise the meaning of a word from its context. If you don't have a basic understanding of your language and how it is put together, then you are not a literate person.
@SketchesbyBoze My 11 year old son read it last year for school. We are beginning the Lord of the Rings trilogy this year in school. Oh wait.....I also homeschool my kids....so there's that.
@JoshuaBarzon My paternal Germans 3 generations. My paternal Scottish have been here 10. My maternal British came in the 1600s. When I say my family built this country, I am not lying.
On the red card scandal, I don’t think Europeans understand American mindset: we do not accept a wrong not being righted. In Europe, the customer is always wrong, and they accept bad things happen sometimes through no fault of one’s own. This is an impossibility to an American.
@buffys Then......LEAVE. I can tell you, from experience, there is nowhere else I would rather live. But go ahead, try living your life somewhere else. You'll be back. Trust me.
The World Cup is exposing the truth:
1. The U.S. is awesome, just like we keep saying
2. Mexico is a terrifying, violent cartel-state
3. Canada and Australia suck
4. Japan is beloved
5. Europe is in decline
Once again, it’s a reality TV star who rises to the occasion and shows a better understanding of the moment than any product of the Republican establishment over the last 40 years.
I can’t stop watching this.
The World Cup is exposing these absolute truths:
1. The U.S. is awesome. Everybody else is figuring that out.
2. Mexico is a cartel state.
3. Canada and Australia suck.
4. Japan is really nice.
5. Norway is fun.
6. Egyptians are jihadists.
7. Germany has Freddy.
8. Europe is in decline.
Spencer Pratt cut the greatest American Independence message of the last 20 years and inadvertently spoke to Canadians, Europeans and all lovers of the free world.
Fuck you communists. This is our home and you can't take it.
Let me gather up all the English who spent America’s 250th birthday in my mentions, and send you home in one trip.
We need to talk about your track record.
You fought us for this country and lost. You came back in 1812 and burned our capital, and you love telling that part.
Here is the part you leave out.
We had already burned yours. York, the capital of your Canada, torched the year before. That is why you came for Washington in the first place.
And after Washington you sailed to Baltimore feeling brave, and we stopped you dead at Fort McHenry and wrote a national anthem while you rowed away.
We even picked up Florida before that decade was done, which, full disclosure, is exactly where I am moving.
That is not a rivalry. That is a man who keeps losing the same bar fight and calling it heritage.
Then twice the world caught fire, and both times you held on until the Americans crossed the ocean to help you finish it. You are welcome for the Germans. Twice.
And the excuses. Oh, the excuses.
“The French fleet kept our navy busy at Yorktown.” You were the most powerful navy that had ever floated, and your official story is that the French distracted you. That is not the flex you think it is.
Then came the birthday flexes, and I wrote them all down.
We are older. Congratulations, so is a tortoise.
Our smartest people left and did amazing things in America. Yes. They did. Nobody ever fled Boston to go invent something in Birmingham. Talent only runs one direction.
We invented the lightbulb, the telephone, the atom. A Brit who dabbled, a Scot who left, and a New Zealander. Every one of them finished the job here.
So here we are. To the victor go the spoils.
We got a continent, the moon, and the reserve currency of Earth.
You got a Royal Family you cannot afford and a soap opera you cannot switch off.
Even King Arthur bailed. The once and future king, promised to return in Britain’s darkest hour. He woke up, took one look around modern England, and caught the first boat to America he could find. The man wanted a round table and you handed him a reality show.
A small personal note, since you keep speaking for the whole island.
We prefer the Scots. They gave us Carnegie, the telephone, and better whisky, and they did it without whining.
Now. About that navy.
The fleet that once ruled every ocean is down to about 62 ships. Five working frigates. Your own First Sea Lord admits you will not be ready for a war until 2030.
And let us pray that war is against someone with no navy and no guns, because at this point I am fairly sure Panama could take you, and
Panama does not even have an army.
This spring you had to borrow a frigate. From Germany.
The country you needed us to help you beat is now loaning you boats.
Sit with that one, and enjoy our birthday.
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