Coke's "America The Beautiful" Commercial
No one is singing this beautiful, uniquely and distinctly american song in other languages. Heck, I'm not sure children even learn it in school anymore.
Coke is an american company who no longer supports the United States, and this is just one more example.
They are agenda driven with crony capitalist arrangements that are anything but american in spirit.
1. that polar bear nonsense and global warming
2. openly supporting Obama
3. During WWII the US paid to build Coke plants all over Europe. Pepsi wasn't given sugar rations during that period-so they had to use molasses. (Pepsi isn't pure-under Nixon got some special deal we paid for to go into China).
Slick and pretty, but no one is singing America the Beautiful in other languages.
Coke is an american company who no longer supports the United States, and this is just one more example.
They are agenda driven with crony capitalist arrangements that are anything but american in spirit.
1. that polar bear nonsense and global warming
2. openly supporting Obama
3. During WWII the US paid to build Coke plants all over Europe. Pepsi wasn't given sugar rations during that period-so they had to use molasses. (Pepsi isn't pure-under Nixon got some special deal we paid for to go into China).
Slick and pretty, but no one is singing America the Beautiful in other languages.
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\o/ is arms upraised over the head in a cheer.
More simply... yea!
Did you know why dogs are smarter than cats?
Dogs are social animals.
just fyi.
You're the first person other than me that I've found willing to admit this.
I would try to convince her why it shouldn't, and why the Star Spangled Banner should, be our national anthem.
I'm neither for or against national anthems; like anything, they can be abused, but they do serve a purpose in a society to use Man's natural tribal tendency to promote cultural cohesion as a counter-balance to multiculturalism.
I like the Star Spangled Banner because, unlike ATB, it celebrates the nation, but more importantly, it makes the flag of the United States a symbol of freedom, akin to Atlantis' sign of the dollar. $
And not "freedom" as some abstract concept:
"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
Freedom... as something that is under incessant bombardment;
as something besieged;
as something that must be defended.
It condemns those who would choose appeasement to liberty.
"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!"
Again, at the end, it reiterates that the tree of liberty must be renewed afresh with the blood of patriots and tyrants:
"Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!"
Not initiating force, but responding with force.
The Star Spangled Banner is an affirmation of what the Founding Fathers believed, and what the country is all about.
And I don't see ATB, as pretty as it may be, performing the same service.
As for my loathing of Holmes... he wasn't alive before the Confederate War; he made his famous "fire in a crowded theater" decision, curse him for it, in 1919.
I never could handle the idea that hunter-gatherers in a stone-age level of civilization could teach iron-age people who invented the plowshare and used steel tools how to grow crops.
I'd like to do some research on pre-Columbian tribes and find out the forms of their society. I wouldn't be surprised to find a strong collectivist culture among many of them. I never otherwise can account for them, even though the Americas have been populated long before the first civilizations got their start in Africa and Mesopotamia, being stuck in the stone age, and never rising beyond it.
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