You're really trying to stretch the facts to fit your views here aren't you Ram?
Au Contraire' is not the reverse more accurate?
Were not North America and South America connected by Panama (formerly part of Columbia until we encourged the separation so we could dig our ditch) until we dug a ditch which now separates them by a few feet?
The Continents were refered to as the America's [note plural] long before the canal was there.
Were not both continents named after an obscure Italian mapmaker?
I think Amerigo Vespucci was a bit more than a "map maker" [it is interesting to note that in your arguement to prove "one land mass/one continent" you used the term "both continents", I'm sure you didn't intend to shoot yourself in the foot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />]
Was not the North and South designation simply a convience to enable one to more accurately express which portion of the land mass one was refering to?
And your point is <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Are not the continents of Europe and Asia parts of the same land mass?
Yet seperate continents. Again, your point is? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Are citizens of Mexico and Canada any less Americans than citizens of France, Germany or Italy Europeans; citizens of China and Japan Asians and citizens of Chad and the Congo Africans?
Yes they would be. For you used an ambiguous term, and mixed terminology. While both would be inhabitants of NORTH America, they would not be AMERICAN citizens. [see U.S. code for definitions, handy link provide in prior post]
While it has become popular to refer to ourselves as Americans we are more properly citizens of the United States.
BZZZZZZ WRONG! This is where the swidle takes place, there were no U.S. Citizens prior to the 14th amendment. Have you never heard the phrase "the 13th amendment freed the slaves, and the 14th enslaved the free" ? If not, too bad. If so, have you ever thought about it? What the 14th did legally, through an adhesion contract system of commercial law, was strip you of your status of free born native American, [presuming you were born here] and made you a U.S. Citizen how did this happen? You, or your parents , (birth certificate, SSI #) did it for you. "Voluntarily". By accepting the "entitlements" of being a U.S. Citizen, (SSI) [There is a way, and it is in the Code to re-establish yourself as a free born American sovereign [see Expatriation] but I really feel that your head is too far in the sand [and that's not entirely your fault - thank you very much "public education" - What was that Hitler quote? "Give me the mind of a child till he's 6...." but I digress] to even fathom the concept right now.]
The words United and States are the pertinent ones in the name of our country. America is just a discriptor to give foreigners some idea of where on the globe our country is located.
How convienient. Says who? Rand MacNally??
And bye the bye, if I had rewritten something it would be geography. I don't think which minerals these land masses are made up of is germain to the discussion. As for the rest, it appears to be bluster, pap and misinformed misinterpretation. Next you'll be trying to lecture me on the Articles of Confederation. Or perhaps you'll move on to the Bill of Rights which, while it doesn't enumerate them, protects our right to be poor, our right to go hungry and our right to remain ignorant. Should you wish to discuss the Oceans and Seas I hope you can do it in a more convincing and substantive manner.
????? [your really caught up on the "land mass" thing huh?]I don't know what more I can do for you. I provided citations and links to verify points. You provided nothing but rhetoric and personal opinion with a sarcastic slant. Que sara sara.
Erratum: The original emphasis was placed on United rather than an equal emphasis on United and States to signify States which had been joined in a Union
Again, could you provide a cite here? Or is this just your opinion?
