Posted on 06/26/2013 12:13:06 PM PDT by golux
Attack me if you will.
Yes, yes - check my profile - I am indeed presently living abroad for work but I have always been a flag-waving American.
At the moment some members of this august forum - which I have adored for many years, long before I was "golux" - believe Sarah can beat Hillary... Believe America will come to its senses on homosexual everything... Believe there will be some "push back," believe that for the first time in history (well, sine Appomatox) the Federal government will stop expending exponentially... Believe that Career Congresscritters will once again deign to "represent" their constituents... Believe that our Moslem president and his minions at the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming can somehow use their out-of-control, unaccountable spy agencies to audit conservatives into regaining, for America, some miniscule thread of respect in this world... Believe that if we try - if we really try - hard enough to teach our kids how to F each other up the A in grade school and on Sesame Street, then Americans might have jobs and hope again.
But I'm just not seeing it. I really do believe that our country is sick. Mortally sick.
Yep, I've read Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You should too. It'll take you many months, but it's worth doing. The similarities are uncanny. Shockingly so.
I guess I still love America and that for which she "stood." I have sacrificed much for my patriotism as so many of us have - and I have been blessed by our wonderful society. I love America. I LOVE America.
But the Founders' message is real. Ayn Rand's message is real. The LORD and His Commandments are real. I am not a Christian, but if America were a Church (in my case a synagogue,) I'd leave it.
If the RNC were a Church I would leave it.
I have a family. I am afraid for my children's brains, their sexuality, their knowledge of good and evil, their morality. I have lived in many places and can assure you ours is no longer the land of the free.
I am tired of arguing with European (Jews, mainly) about how America isn't crime-ridden, filled with bums and fags and pedophiles and drug addicts and perverted teachers and communists and obese, immoral, undereducated welfare zombies.
America is. We are. After 9/11 we elected a freakin' guy named (probably) Barack Hussein Obama, about whom we know less than nothing. We did this. Is Satan in charge of America?
Tonight I told the Aesop fable about the dog and the wolf to my kids. I love to draw these stories out with details, sounds, et cetera.
For the first time I realized I was being a hypocrite comparing Americans to the wild, free wolf rather than the enslaved, fat, stupid dog, and it choked me up.
My hope is dead. Even a revolution seems impossible. We have traded all of our liberties for safety, and delight in the process, sucking on Soma and flocking to Wal Mart for more American flag decals stamped by Chinese preteens.
But what to do? Where to go?
I love Free Republic. Would there were one.
And Mexico has churches. /s
“On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma...”
http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts?page=12
Likely penned by Ted Nugent.
Russians are very cultured educated people just waiting to be set free from the reigns of corruption. They are immune to the PC disease eating away at the West. Heck, Russians also HATE socialism/communism more than anyone. The only people for communism during Soviet times were the party members.
The very word “communism” has been a private joke among Russians since the 60s.
The bottom line is that Russia is going in the right direction while we are on a rocket car going backwards into socialism.
You are entitled to your opinion.
I tried a number of different methods but for me two things worked well:
1.) Pimsleur
2.) Listening to music in the target language (and looking up the lyrics)
I discovered Pimsleur years ago and it is the best method I have found to date - besides moving to a country where the language is spoken and getting into an intimate relationship with one of its locals. (The fastest way to learn is on a pillow they say, and I can confirm this too.)
Later, I read the book, "How to Learn Any Language" by Barry Farber and just before the end of the book, he too discovered Pimsleur and thought that it was like magic. He did speak 25 languages.
A few of my friends are linguists and I introduced them to Pimsleur, they too love it.
If you have a better method that you can learn while driving, walking or without reading along with a manual, please let me know, I would love to try it. I've been meaning to brush up on my lousy Russian.
:)
The hardest sound for us to say is the slavic 'Szcz' as seen in the city name, "Szczecin", or at the end of the word "barszcz" (borscht or beet-root soup).
When I first learned, they said to pronounce it like the sound in 'Danish Charter.
Then the other one people have trouble with is km as in "kminek" (fennel). Think of saying c'mere (come here) in English without a space between the c and m.
>> I am tired of arguing with European (Jews, mainly)
GFY.
Does GFY mean what I think it means? I have no idea what you’re talking about. You and another person on this thread seem to believe I am an Antisemite? The point is that I am a Jew and in Europe I tend to socialize with other Jews, Europeans, unlike myself, but conservatives, like myself, who are staunchly critical of what has become of the “American way of life.” I said I am tired of arguing with them, which is to say, I am tired of defending America all the time.
That’s pretty funny.
“But what to do? Where to go?”
Come back and fight.
” - - - All that’s left for them is the mopping up action against the powerless. - - - “
Gollly Lee! I had no idea that all this was so EASY!
Yup, all yah gotta do is tuck your tail and run whenever a foe of Liberty stands in your way.
BTW m.m., don’t let the door hit yuh where the Good Lord split yuh.
One needs millions to move to Switzerland...or just about anywhere else in the world.
It is very difficult to get into New Zeland. People here are behaving as if one can just pick up and move, like going from New Jersy to Florida.
Other countries don’t want others. Not at all. It is very difficult.
No need for "eeeks" yet.
;^)
I do think, however, that this would certainly qualify one for the 16 May residencia visa. You can very likely find good info on this at sites like sovereignsociety.com and so forth.
If you need the name of a good (and honest!) Panamanian lawyer, I can surely provide one. FReepmail me.
Best, SAJ
Sorry — prev mssg should read “all sorts of benefits”, not “a sorts of benefits”.
Someone get a rope.
The Slavic and other languages have the sound represented by Ж or ż or in English pronounced like the "J" in the French name "Jacques".
The other hard ones to distinguish are Ч, Ц, and Ш (ts, ch, and sh in English...)
But my Russian sucks...
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