Posted on 12/06/2001 8:10:02 AM PST by StoneColdGOP
20. Your fellow citizens might not agree that farts are funny, but they will defend to the death a magazine full of jokes about them.
19. We have the best Mexican food…and many of the best Mexicans!
18. Cowboys.
17. All superheroes, from Superman to Mighty Mouse to the Thing, are on our side.
16. No other chant at the Olympics has quite the cachet of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
15. The Mob’s already sent a crew to Afghanistan to hand out beatings “Brooklyn style.”
14. The Sears Tower, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and Pizza Hut, to name a few.
13. Our presidents think with their heads.
12. Jack Daniel’s makes barbecue sauce.
11. California girls.
10. We don’t even need a 10th reason.
9. Real-life video game: 800,000 miles of highway and 55,000 state troopers.
8. Arena rock.
7. While every other country’s gene pools dwindle and stagnate, ours continue to thrive.
6. Regardless of your social class, if someone shouts “Tastes great!” you can reply “Less filling!”
5. After decking Britain, Germany, Japan, and Russia, we helped ’em back up. Who’s next?
4. Our GIs assist in alleviating female unemployment wherever they go.
3. We don’t need any other countries to have a World Series. And we always win it!
2. Scott Baio is a millionaire. (Need any more proof that this is the land of opportunity?)
1. $329 billion annual military budget.
To read a list of the 50 Greatest American Heroes, check out Maxim’s December issue on newsstands now!
Almost true. San Antonio has the SECOND best Mexican food in the world (sorry, Mexico DF can't be beat). As far as "best Mexicans" is concerned, we DO have Salma Hayek and Thalia!
Bump!
Well, not exactly. The last one thought with his crotch.
But not THE Cowboys, right?!
"...Still doesn't give a rat's ass what you think about his slapping around malaria-stricken soldiers, or that you don't believe he could've taken Russia with 10 tanks, two baseball bats, and a case of Schlitz."
(Bwahahahaha!)
BUMP for the red white and blue
...and it's dang good. When I don't have time to make my own, it's the only brand I buy.
We are gentle, loving and slow to anger. But if you back us against the wall, we'll come out with two feet full of ass kickins.
And I do take excpetion to #16:
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!, beats by far USA! USA!
Keep posting more reasons, i am yet to be convinced
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there??
Any patriotic chant regardless of what it is actually made up of sounds good to the people of the country it's from i suppose.
We invent more things than all other nations combined.
We have the best healthcare.
Our women can marry at 14, drive at 16, strip for money, own guns, be commercial pilots, and vote at 18. At 21 we even let them buy booze.
We aid more nations and feed more people than all other nations combined.
We have more acres of land in the hands of private citizens than all other nations combined.
We have more legal civilian gun owners than all other nations combined.
We give more total money to charity than any other nation.
Every religion is legal here.
Any person can make her own movie and become rich. Same goes for writing a book. Tell that to Salman Rushdie the next time he visits Iran.
We've got the most powerful military in the history of the world, yet our private, armed citizens outnumber our military by 80 to 1.
We've got more venture capital funds for aspiring entreprenuers than any other nation has banks.
We've been to the Moon and back.
We've sent the only spacecraft to have ever left our Solar System.
We eradicated Polio and Smallpox throughout the world.
We've paved more roads and built more cars than anyone else.
We've built more airports than anyone else.
We have Freedom of Assembly.
We have limits on our government.
We don't have different rights for different classes of Americans.
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