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20 Only In America Ironies
Townhall.com ^ | April 10, 2012 | John Hawkins

Posted on 04/10/2012 3:59:52 AM PDT by Kaslin

1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an "imperialist nation," but who get offended if you say they're not patriotic.

5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.

7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.

8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.

11) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be "what did we do to make them hate us?"

13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.

14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.

15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it's like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.

16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear....while you're wearing it.

17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.

18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough to money.

19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a "war on women."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: americanflag; christians; liberalmedia; patriotism

1 posted on 04/10/2012 4:00:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Rock ON!

Thanks for posting this, Kaslin.

Cheers!

2 posted on 04/10/2012 4:11:53 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kaslin

21. Only in America would a global warming activist stand in -20 degree weather to film a flare stack on an oil well.

A true story.


3 posted on 04/10/2012 4:13:47 AM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: Kaslin

Only in an America dominated by a leftist Media, that is...


4 posted on 04/10/2012 4:15:25 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: DJ Frisat

Correct


5 posted on 04/10/2012 4:18:22 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Bump for later


6 posted on 04/10/2012 4:19:12 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: grey_whiskers

You’re welcome


7 posted on 04/10/2012 4:19:21 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: South Dakota

I don’t doubt it. You have to expect this from these lunatics


8 posted on 04/10/2012 4:21:04 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Bravo!


9 posted on 04/10/2012 4:23:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Kaslin

Bookmarked!


10 posted on 04/10/2012 4:41:45 AM PDT by Ballygrl
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To: Kaslin

Only 20 “only In America’s?”


11 posted on 04/10/2012 4:43:02 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Kaslin

The vision of America held by the founding fathers is by now, mutilated beyond all belief by decades of subversive and gullible Socialist losers who have been indulged and lionized by a crowd of equally subversive, gullible and UN-AMERICAN ‘journalists’.

I have always known that people with THAT mentality came from a different America than the one I grew up in... even a different reality, altogether.

I don’t ever want to know where that is. I certainly wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

• NOTHING will ever sate their envy, alienation and hatred for the America that much of the world can thank for its actual safety and prosperity.

• Nothing will EVER fill the void in them where wholesome national pride, respect for tradition and understanding of our history and national character ought to be!

• Nothing will make them into worthy citizens of a strong and generous nation

They are pathetic and as citizens of any other nation on earth would NOT be tolerated much less indulged like spoiled children.


12 posted on 04/10/2012 5:10:18 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: SMARTY

Well said


13 posted on 04/10/2012 9:24:14 AM PDT by capt B
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