NATIONAL BUFFOON: State Mottos »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 9 months, 2 weeks ago in HumorA few words on the looting of America and how it's related, at least symbolically, to New Hampshire's State Stamp! Followed by humorous State Mottos like:
Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist Extremism
Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money)
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes...Well Okay, It's A Lie, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good (even if we elect senators who like to tap their toes in men's room stalls)
Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa: We Aren't Guam!
Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States!
Florida: We Are America's Wang!
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA-Can we reconstruct the noble aspects of what existed before the great looting? Maybe. I think there is a chance, and the new U.S. President is just the man to do it if it's possible. But let us not forget that many of those who created the erosion are still chipping away at the foundation from entrenched positions on capitol hill and K street even as rebuilding begins. They and their easily manipulated feeble minded supporters want the efforts to fail. They don't care much for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or even the very concepts of equality, truth, justice, and liberty.
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Theirs is a cult of personality, and codifications.
Even now as they grandstand, pontificate, and obstruct - pretending the last 8 years did not even occur, they promote the same failed tired nonsense that ultimately results in the rich getting richer, taking that last sliver of the pie not already absconded.
Yet still we can take comfort in the fact that Florida is America's wang. -
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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The great looting I am referring to is illustrated in this chart which shows the depth of the problem.
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http://speaker.gov/img/jobsrecessionsSM.jpg
For every single job loss there are thousands of capital exchanges that will not take place, for each of those, thousands more like dominoes falling. We need a massive employment program merely to stabilize or manage the losses and private industry is too weak to do it. Frankly, last year a trillion dollars of GNP was lost, another trillion is expected this year. The economic model most economists adhere to would suggest that 2 trillion was needed to merely stabilize the system, let alone return to growth.
You have a choice and there are merits to both approaches, let it crash and burn and hope we can reconstruct a new economy from scratch in perhaps 25 - 50 years, or invest in America now and attempt to salvage what we have and retool for the future. If that should fail, and the whole thing collapses, how is that any different than just allowing it to collapse. Nothing will be worth anything as an end result anyway...at least investing MAY work. There is literally nothing to lose.
Why did the "bad bank" get removed in the Senate? It really addressed the core issue.
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Perhaps in one of the derivations of the quantum universe, in a parallel dimension, Ohio has prosperous industry and their workers are happy. The U.S. used it's good fortune to improve the human condition instead of undermining it. And the moon really is green cheese!
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Perhaps...
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Bkumm9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Nebraska has a state motto:
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"See, we're not square like F'ing Kansas!"
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"So what if we haven't voted for a Democrat since Johnson?" (Now, not technically true since President Obama won the 2nd)
and our real motto:
"Equality before the law"-
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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The N.J. state motto is actually "Liberty & Prosperity". It was adapted in 1777.
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However we are officially also "The Garden State". I wonder if the person who came up with that was ever actually ever here. " The toll booth state", or perhaps "The shopping mall state" ...yes. I fear the vast majority of gardens and farms were paved or turned into overpriced McMansions long long ago.
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Mdiar9 months, 2 weeks ago
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I don't think the people who pronounce Missouri as "Missoura" will understand the motto :S
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Though the real motto is probably even more confusing to people:
Salus populi suprema lex esto.
Am I the only one who thinks this has a distinct socialist sound to it? -
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
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One thing that US citizens & residents should never complain about is that the US is all the same!
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Its true that they all do attempt to speak the same language, more or less successfully, but to foreign ears the variants between CA, TX, NYawk, NJoysey, - let alone Cajun country or Borston, to mention just a few, sometimes challenge that assumption profoundly.
For us Europeans with each country having an individual recorded history back to the prehistoric cave-dwellers of the Dordogne, the Celts who were all over the place but left significant traces in Central Europe, for example, and the Egyptian civilisation feeding the Greek and thence the Roman ones while the British were covering themselves with woad and the Irish were brewing proto-Guinness and communing with the wee people there's a great fascination about the continent across the great water which somehow reinvents itself anew almost every decade and which offers its culture bountifully to the whole of the rest of the world - even when they would very much prefer to continue to manage without it!
Thanks RFE for opening up space for a few irreverent thoughts!
Glad I had the time to visit - its one heck of a work-week right now plus keeping a bitch in heat apart from a lusty young admirer.. -
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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The U.S. indeed is diverse, and indeed has all too often imposed it's sometimes naive notions and to be honest, relatively shallow culture (in the sense that it has very little history to draw from compared to Europe, unless we are talking about the Navajo or Anasazi culture, though we really are not)on others. Most often when it has the least merit at that! I don't think we actually reinvent ourselves every decade or so but rather our political leaders are prone to rewriting history to suit their hungers for power, giving that impression. I suppose our middle class which has been relatively apolitical for some time has been forced to pay attention of late leading to a change in power structure.
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It's a weird place actually in terms of it's citizens... I mean how many Czechs could be lead around by Jim Jones or David Koresh? As much as I do love the place, we do have fringes that defy any description of critical thought that manage to wield influence. Yet like most of the places on Earth I've had the pleasure of visiting, most people are decent.
Attention is seldom given "most people" though...the fringe is, by nature more interesting in a man bites dog sort of way.-
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"How many Czechs could be lead around by Jim Jones or David Koresh?"
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Probably not many.
BUT - to each his own..
Hitler snagged some - especially the greedy ones with rich Jewish neighbours living in that nice villa next door..
Stalin had his admirers too.
Our skinheads launch minor pogroms against the gypsies intermittently and mentally challenged and unprotected people are someimes confined to fenced beds and attached with chains..
And looking MUCH further back there were the Hussites who destroyed as much in the name of religion as the Spanish inquisition or Attila the Hun and battles took place which were literally the turning points of European history, e.g, the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, when a smaller and less well-placed Catholic army of mercenaries from all over Europe - including Descartes, as a foot soldier!, defeated the Protestants and brought the Enlightenment to an abrupt and immediate endarkenment. Nobles executed on the Old Town Square in Prague; Protestants fleeing the country, including the best and the brightest minds, like Jan Amos Komensky who was invited to become the Rector [if that's the right title] of Yale, but declined and eventually died on a beach in the Netherlands, gazing out into the infinite ocean..
Of course I could go on like this for days: 30 Years War, Plague, Witch Burnings, and that's all considered "modern history"..
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