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Some prominent Republicans who hated President Clinton now realize they were wrong. Turns out he wasn't a secret socialist sleeper agent determined to take over the country by force. Oops! Now we can wait for the same admission about President Obama in 2026.
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Their editorial captures well the bizarre dynamic of morons successfully challenging incumbents. Sen. Russ Feingold—a brilliant centrist—is back on his heels in a race against some dope who decided to run a few months, one Ron Johnson, who appears to know little to nothing about government. People will get the government they deserve.
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This is surprisingly interesting. By the time you get to the United States, our motto looks pretty lame; it's not so much as a motto as punting on coming up with a motto.
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This was on the New York Times homepage. Why?
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You’re going to have to explain yourself on the national motto thing. What’s your logic? I can’t figure it out.
Oops! Now we can wait for the same admission about President Obama in 2026.
Dammit, I’ll never get all the beer out of my keyboard.
My biggest objection is that it does nothing to discriminate the U.S. from any other country. I mean, there’s no country with the motto “God’s Not Particularly Reliable.” Every country thinks God is (or Gods are) on their side. A subset of that is that it doesn’t say anything about the country. Compare it to France’s rightly famed motto: “Liberty, equality, fraternity.” Or Gibraltar’s brilliantly descriptive motto: “Conquered by no enemy.” Luxembourg’s smug motto says it all about them: “We wish to remain what we are.”
I much prefer the US’s unofficial motto: “E pluribus unum.” That’s descriptive, capturing the federalist concept that binds the nation together, reminding one of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and the very nature of our country now. “In God we trust”? Meh.
The Jamaican’s saw value in E pluribus unum. Their national motto – Out of Many, One People.
Here’s what Ron Johnson was doing in the early 80s.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ron%20Johnson%2C%20Audio%20Consultant