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From watching the news I feel like I emigrated without going anywhere...
What happened? Same here. Generations of bad parenting coming home to roost.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I have one of those grandparents that came over to the New World in the late 1800s as a small child. He was the one at family gatherings that would only speak English, telling the rest of the family "This is America, how are you going to do business with the Irish Iceman, German baker, Jewish deli owner, Armenian cigar shop owner if everyone speaks their native tongue."
The other grandparents were from places that already spoke English and therefor did not have that issue.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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It's funny, from my experience most times those that where not born here are greater Americans than the spoiled little brats that were born here.
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One of the greatest Patriots on this site wasn't born here.
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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If I was from anywhere that was not the United States, I'd never admit it.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Me, an' kaywoody met the Mayflower at the beach! You two were INjuns? Well I shoulda known that.... Those guys who got off the boat at Plymouth Rock were busy looking for my ancestors, who were down the coast, turn into Chesapeake Bay and then go up the James River say 70 miles or so....who had been there 13 years already.. or what was left of them.....
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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I was six when we moved from Ireland to England, and nine when we came to America in 1973. One thing I remember most in the beginning was the Raquel Welch fur bikini movie on the plane. Didn't know what exactly I wanted her for but I did want her. When we landed in New York the summer heat was oppressive, had never experienced anything like it. Also the funny accents.
We went back to Ireland four years later for ten months but moved back here. Once you live here it is hard to accept the BS you once thought was normal. I am an American now and my relatives stopped asking me when I am "moving home" a few years ago.
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If I was from anywhere that was not the United States, I'd never admit it.
They wouldn't bring it up either.
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When we landed in New York the summer heat was oppressive, had never experienced anything like it. I remember when my buddy’s German in-laws came over to visit him and his wife in Lawton, Oklahoma in freakin August. I don’t think that they ever came back after that. They nearly died.
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I have one of those grandparents that came over to the New World in the late 1800s as a small child. He was the one at family gatherings that would only speak English, telling the rest of the family "This is America, how are you going to do business with the Irish Iceman, German baker, Jewish deli owner, Armenian cigar shop owner if everyone speaks their native tongue."
The other grandparents were from places that already spoke English and therefor did not have that issue. I had an Uncle that moved here from Germany in the 1940's, Uncle Amil. He learned English by going to the movies, I always got a kick out of what he'd call some things, like a handkerchief he'd call an anchor. He was very well spoken for being self taught and he was damn proud to be part of America. An American in the truest sense. I made several Christmas cards for him in German and he always looked forward to getting them.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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