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4th of July (2013)

I don't think that anything happening in America on this July 4th comes at all close to the huge party happening in Tahrir Square and other parts of Egypt last night.  Boy...what a party.  When I was young, my mental image of Egypt was pyramids.  Now, it's green lasers.  Anyway, who knows how that will turn out. As for the United States, I'm more negative about it than at any point since the Bush administration.  In fact, it might be a new low, because the lesser of the two evils is showing himself to be a pretty pathetic lesser evil. To me, it seems that American rights are under attack.  On top of that, I am absolutely convinced that the whole American and world economy is a Ponzi scheme.  I don't think that we'll even have one more year of this tepid growth.  Ten years from now, we'll look back at  the days of   this poor economy and remember them as the good old days. Some Romans lived through the fall.  If you know about ...
A LESSON IN LOGIC  (Especially useful for the America-haters.) In the aftermath of attacks against innocent people by violent mobs, I have seen as much hatred directed at the victims' group (Americans) as at the perpetrators of the crimes.  This is normal.  There is rampant anti-Americanism throughout the world.  Hatred against Americans is as illogical as hatred against someone born of a certain race.  In both cases, the people had NO CHOICE in the matter.  With religion, assuming people are thinking beings which can theoretically free themselves from brainwashing, faith IS A CHOICE.  This is the thing that so many people (I'm sorry to say, mostly liberals), can't get through their heads. Americans are simply people who were born within certain borders (or moved there).  They have no common ideology which they subscribe to.  They are individuals.  This also applies to the people of every country and race. Religions, on the oth...