I heard that tnhey would just drop NY and California so no new stars are needed... Scott

no. we're going to drop Southern California. (doesn't help with the number of stars, but it does as far as water is concerned ). and we are going to combine the South into one stat…

hey i'd vote for that, elzinat...

woohoo!(sp?) my thread has gone orange!! I feel more specialer than other people, though still less specialerer than otherer people.

California and Texas should secede from the Union, as that's what seems to happen anyway in most futuristic novels about the US.

This is where it's at.

I see the american flag every day that I use my mac... I gota little icon for it in the menu bar in the upper right hand portion of the screen (ya know, the keyboard menu)... …

.........yeah and I have one flying from my bedroom window. Talking about flags I like the Marine Corps flag. I was also going to insult the US ambassador to NZ by flying a Confed…

that damned confederate flag makes me see a very deep and nasty shade of red... gawd i despise that flag... definitely kindling material

I'm originally Cuban--although having come to the US when I was 8, back in 1960, I guess that "originally" makes as much sense as saying that Windozes is a better OS Anyway, my …

yoyo52 for Prez, word to yer mom!

Gee wlonh, you shouldn't have Anyway, I'm not native born, nor nutty enough to want the job

a Constitutional amendment is in order... you shall be pressed into service!

From memory: If drafted I will not run. If elected I will not serve. Don't you wish some current politicians would say that?

Ahhh, where have you gone, Silent Cal......

That the Stars and Stripes doesn't necessarily mean all happiness and apple pie to everyone may be best illustrated by drawing a parallel to the British Empire. If everything wasn'…

what do people think of the ideas of right and wrong interpretations of stuff? Specifically, to me the US flag is a symbol for the values of liberty, equality, justice, etc. on whi…

Unless you're brown, black, yellow or red.

??? I don't understand.

Add user name (Equality) plus post (Unless you're brown, black, yellow or red.) Result: Equality, unless you're brown, black, yellow or red. Which I have to disagree with being …

yes indeed, disecta, you're completely right (and well put, too!). I had understood that part. what I was having trouble with was that nobody here said (and certainly I would Never…

I believe HTML has been shut off in these forums. Although you can still use the UBB code to accent your posts.

ahh, thanks for the link. IMHO that UBB instead of HTML is exceptionally dumb. brackets better than standards?! what crappy forum sw! (although I do like the smilies ) --------…

Ya know, I don't hate the confderate flag. I hate every racist asshoIe that feels the need to fly it and wax nastolgic about the glory of the rebel south. That flag wasn't a banner…

"wanted the right to do what was best for themselves" ???? sorry bud, ya done fell off the earth on this one... the rat bastards wanted their slave labor, wanted to maintain the…