A Letter to the Tea Party Rebels

[pimpdave]

[Fircoal]

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world.

This sentence – verifiably true as we are about to see – fills me with a burning pride so great I cannot get through the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium without getting misty at the awe-inspiring scope and the terrible cost of it.

Consider this:

Militarily, the United States is not only unmatched on the world stage, but its relative strength is unmatched in history. And without question, this juggernaut is the most benign dominant military force the world has ever seen – and by a very large margin.

Consider modern history, which many consider the time since the end of World War II. At the end of 1945, the only military force of any real substance remaining in the world was that of the Soviet Union, and while they had large numbers of troops and tanks, they had no navy and no strategic air force to speak of. The United States possessed, intact, the most awe-inspiring, battle-hardened navy the world had ever seen. It possessed sky-darkening clouds of B-29 strategic bombers. And it possessed, alone, the atomic bomb and the will to use it.

The United States of America could have planted its flag anywhere it wanted and no one would have been able to do a thing about it.

And what did we do with this arsenal? We scrapped the ships, drove steel bars through the wings of the priceless bombers, and began the largest de-militarization in the history of the world.

And in all of the years since then, despite what Michael Moore may want you to believe from the comfort of his editing room, the United States has deployed in response to aggression – not to cause it. Berlin, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland – all of it Soviet — that is to say Communist – Leftist – aggression. Ask a 17 year old indoctrinated with Hollywood’s portrayal of America as a world-striding bully who started the War in Korea, or Vietnam, or Nicaragua or any of these places, and I will bet you a Xbox 360 Elite that they will not reply that it was in fact worldwide socialism, but rather America. Tell them that communists started Korea and Vietnam and pretty much everything else and they will likely ask “what is a communist?” Actually, come to think of it, they probably do not even care enough to ask.

And for those who feel that such a once-noble America is dead and gone, let’s talk about the last time we heard about “Imperialism” and “a war for oil.” In 1991, after destroying the army that Saddam Hussein sent into Kuwait to steal, rape and murder, the United States sat alone and unchallenged on top of the richest oil field on the planet. What did it do? It put out the fires and went home.

Unlike today’s screenwriters who credit themselves as intellectual and creative giants, some of us remain humble enough to not only read history, but to actually understand it on some fundamental level. And those of us who actually know people in the military, who research weapons and tactics, supply and strategy, can tell you that a war for oil consists of placing an armored cordon around the remote oil fields, providing overwhelming air cover for armed convoys direct to port facilities, and then shipment via US tankers escorted by naval assets until out of the region.

None of this is happening, of course. What has happened is that we have spent 4000 and more lives building schools and hospitals and protecting a people against fellow Muslims who show day in and day out that they will kill as many children as they need to in order to terrorize their own people into submission.

That story, apparently, holds no interest for today’s Hollywood.

Economically, the United States is – and remains – the engine of the world. Much has been made of the recent meltdown, but any impartial look at the rest of the world shows their economies took a proportionally greater hit than we did, and if history is any guide – and it’s the only guide we have – we will recover faster, too. In the last twenty years almost half of the world’s population – India and China – have been lifted from the darkness of stone-age, grinding poverty into almost the same sort of light taken for granted by those who live in Malibu and Pacific Palisades. This was not the result of massive government programs; on the contrary – those had and continue to keep entire populations in a state of mental slavery and dependence. No, this most remarkable advance in the quality of human life on earth was simply due to America channeling some of its stunning wealth into phone banks in India and factories in China.

Much is made on the left about how five percent of the population consumes twenty-five percent of the world’s resources. But that same five percent has produced almost fifty percent of the world’s wealth and prosperity in the years after World War II, and the decline in that percentage is simply a reflection of the economic growth and prosperity of our former enemies and allies, who can now afford a few decades of socialism because they do not have to pay for their own defense.

And yet it is businessmen, and “corporations,” that are endlessly cast as villains and murderers when all they have done is transformed the world from poverty to relative health and prosperity. You don’t have to take my word for this. Statistics on life expectancy, death by disease, and infant mortality do not lie. Free Trade and Free Enterprise – championed by the United States – has brought to billions some small and growing taste of the kind of life enjoyed by Hollywood liberals so blinded by mental cataracts that in the remake of The Manchurian Candidate the villain was remade from being Chinese Communists into The Manchurian Corporation. How unimaginative. How pathetic. How deep in denial.

Scientifically, technologically and medically the remarkable ownership of world-changing ideas produced by the United States is simply astonishing. That five percent of the world population could produce such staggering advances in knowledge, medicine, agriculture, instrumentation and basic research simply boggles any mind open enough to read a page.

Which narrows down the numbers of minds quite a bit.

Each year, scientists all around the world write research papers. These papers produce scientific citations. It’s fair to call these citations “units” of science, that is, a measure of how much ground-breaking science is being performed.

Listed by countries, China comes in sixth, preceeded by France, England, Germany and Japan, which produced, at number 2 on the list, 6,612,826 citations in a ten year period.

During that time the United States produced 39,027,838 – more than six times as many as the runner up.

All of those images of the deep structure of galaxies and nebulae are provided to the world at the expense of the American taxpayer and through the American genius that produced the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes. Every image of the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune was sent to the world by American grad students at Cal Tech. The American university system is the envy of the world. Nowhere is there better science being done, and no where is there anything like the numbers of people receiving advanced scientific and engineering degrees.

But that is not all they are receiving. They are also receiving lethal doses of anti-Americanism and anti-Capitalism, main-lined directly and administered by morally blind charlatans like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky – men who repeatedly acknowledge the “relativity of truth” and who distort and select facts so frequently and shamelessly that I will paraphrase Mark Twain by saying that the omission of the works of Chomsky and Zinn would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

And finally, Culturally it is America that the world watches, that the world listens to, that the world emulates and copies to the degree that suicide bombers wear Lakers t-shirts and the most virulent anti-American Euro kids look and dress and act and talk like kids from Compton or Detroit.

There was a time when America broadcast its virtues to the world. Films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, even Star Wars and Spider-man, were films about common, decent people – Americans, obviously, for we all know that even Luke Skywalker was an Iowa farm boy – who find themselves in dangerous and evil places and whose fundamental decency corrected this wrong in the world and restored a sense of hope and optimism, a sense that we are masters of our own destiny. It is an idea so powerful that even French intellectuals, who seemed then and seem today to be incapable of a single positive or upbeat thought, could watch in wonder and contempt as legions of their countrymen flocked to see them.

Etc.

Congrats, you have introduced me to the dumbest person on earth. And I thought some of the people here were missing quite a bit, but this guy just blows them out of the water.

[Serbia]

And finally, Culturally it is America that the world watches, that the world listens to, that the world emulates and copies to the degree that suicide bombers wear Lakers t-shirts and the most virulent anti-American Euro kids look and dress and act and talk like kids from Compton or Detroit.

I just like this part because it mentions Detroit.

[thegreekdog]

Civilized World
1 Civilized Plaza
Istanbul, Turkey

Re: Your Letter of August 21

Dear CWorld:

In apparent disregard for our first suggestion, you've likened your attention to our uncivilized portion of the world as a loud next door neighbor. I would continue to urge you to take our first suggestion to heart and mind your own damn business. While certainly much of the civilized world has universal healthcare, there are any number of multiple problems on which you can turn your attention other than whether your loud, obnoxious neighbor debates universal healthcare. Perhaps if the Civilized World turns her attention on these types of matters, you can become more civilized. In any event, your analogy is misguided. We are the loud next door neighbor because your people choose to pay attention to us (or perhaps your people are forced to pay attention). If you simply "closed your windows" you would cease to hear us and could go back to being civilized.

Kisses,

Merica.

[xelabale]

Dear Merica,

We are beginning to think you misunderstand us deliberately.

We the Civilized World are trying to mind our own business, as we have repeatedly stated. However, this is becoming more and more difficult as the racket from next door escalates. It appears you are not only having a party, you have put the speakers next to the wall, invited your friend's thrash metal band to play, and are now threatening to set the town on fire. Furthermore when we were walking in the garden we found that you had taken a great big dump in the middle of our lawn, had cut down three of our trees and had hired someone to dig up our rosebush and replant it in your garden.
Being the Civilized World we can understand your youthful high spirits. We are willing to forgive you of course, we just ask that you desist from your party, clean up your shit (your leader has promised this actually, though there appears to be little evidence of it actually happening), plant some trees and give us back our fucking rosebush. If you'd just asked we would have given you a cutting, you know.

We are fully aware of what jobs we have to do and - I don't know how to make this any clearer - we just want some peace and quiet so we can get on with it. Don't you have a DS you can play with, or something?

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

[thegreekdog]

Dear Civilized World,

We would like to say we "feel your pain," but, frankly, we do not. Unlike you, we prefer to concentrate on our own issues rather than turn our attention to our neighbors. That is why we have no idea what music you're playing (presumably Bach or Beethoven). Perhaps you should adopt this tact as well, and we wouldn't have these sorts of neighborly conflicts.

We would honestly like to apologize for the speakers, the band, and the rosebush, but, well, you sort of invited us to do these things. When you insist on opening up your windows and attaching amplifiers to them, you invite this sort of noise in. When you give us your thrash metal bands, we're going to use them. And, well, you gave us access to your rosebushes when you started taking money from us back in the mid 20th century. If you want the noise to stop, we continue to urge you to close your windows and concentrate on your own music. If you want your rosebush back, we urge you to consider not asking us to help you out in your own yard; if you do it yourself, we won't keep taking things from you.

At the risk of incurring your wrath, to the extent you can't mind your own business, come over and do something about it. I caution you, we have guns and aren't afraid to use them.

Peace out,

Merica.

[Martin Ronne]

[GabonX]

That is Awesome

[hecter]

Congrats on editing out your big post on how Europe is a bunch of xenophobes, complete with a picture of a pile of heads.

[Martin Ronne]

Congrats on editing out your big post on how Europe is a bunch of xenophobes, complete with a picture of a pile of heads.

Wasn't Europe. And yeah, I was worried I might get in trouble for the content.

[neanderpaul14]

from wikipedia...

In American English and Canadian English, whilst can be considered pretentious or archaic[2][3]

Some publications on both sides of the Atlantic disapprove of whilst in their style guides (along with "amidst" and "amongst"), for example:

* Times Online Style Guide: "while (not whilst)"[4]
* Guardian Style Guide: "while not whilst"[5]
* Hansard: the Canadian Parliament record: "while not whilst"[6]

Dude, its a dead word, "while" replaced it ages ago.

Holy crap if Wikipedia says so then it must be true.

[HapSmo19]

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

Just wondering.....
Do you turks still wipe your asses with your left hand?

[colton24]

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

Just wondering.....
Do you turks still wipe your asses with your left hand?

[Skittles!]

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

Just wondering.....
Do you turks still wipe your asses with your left hand?

Sadly I doubt you even know what that's meant to mean.

[muy_thaiguy]

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

Just wondering.....
Do you turks still wipe your asses with your left hand?

Sadly I doubt you even know what that's meant to mean.

A reference to how the right hand is symbolic of the right hand of God as well as the hand that you are supposed to greet people with and the what not. The left hand is considered unclean and therefore, for centuries if not millennia, the left hand was used to wipe people's asses. If they lost they're left hand for some reason, then they were SOL.

[Skittles!]

Yours in Quiet Desperation,

The Civilized World

Just wondering.....
Do you turks still wipe your asses with your left hand?

Sadly I doubt you even know what that's meant to mean.

A reference to how the right hand is symbolic of the right hand of God as well as the hand that you are supposed to greet people with and the what not. The left hand is considered unclean and therefore, for centuries if not millennia, the left hand was used to wipe people's asses. If they lost they're left hand for some reason, then they were SOL.

.. No shit?

I was talking to colton.

[jonesthecurl]

That's sinsister.

[notyou2]

If you are caught stealing they chop off your right hand in some countries. So, if you are sharing a meal with others and must eat with your lrft hand, your dining partners know where that left hand has been and is even more disgraceful. Pariah

[Timminz]

That's sinsister.

[muy_thaiguy]

.. No shit?

I was talking to colton.

I am his split personality.

[xelabale]

Dear America,

Oh dear.

The Civilized World

[muy_thaiguy]

Dear Civilized World,

Tsk tsk tsk. My, my, my.

Barbara Ann

[Phatscotty]

Dear Americans,

Whilst we do indeed sympathise with your terrible teething pains (those puberty years can be so trying), we, the disinterested onlookers from round the globe, cordially request that you keep the noise down over there. Of course growing up is difficult, there will be troubles, and healthy, mature debate is to be encouraged. However, simply shouting names at each other really isn't going to achieve anything.
Here in the civilized world we are trying to bring war criminals to justice, improve the standard of living and generally make the world a better place. As you may be aware this is a difficult process with many issues to be resolved. To be honest all this whining and hullabaloo from next door is becoming really tiresome and in some cases seems to have actually diverted the attention of some of our partners away from much more serious business.
Thus we must ask that you desist from this bothersome spectacle immediately or you will be sent to bed without any supper.
Please find below some examples of the drivel we request you immediately desist from:

"Help, the marxist scum are coming with their massive government, taking my money and my rights and giving it to the lazy shits who just want a free lunch. Soon we will be overrun by government officials controlling every aspect of my life - my personal freedoms are being eroded. The constitution, the constitution, guns guns guns."

"Help the fascist scum are fighting back with their controlled media and big business interests. We must shut them down before they assassinate our leaders and give free guns to everyone. They are deliberately destroying our planet for their own capitalist gains. The constitution, the constitution, global warming global warming."

We consider that we have been very patient with you thus far, and would therefore hope that you will show a marked improvement in your behaviour forthwith.

Regards,

The Civilized World

And......just a short year later, how is the world a better place? Perhaps the Tea Party was right about the Economy???

Kool aid 101

[notyou2]

Reported for necro-bumping/trolling dead threads

[Phatscotty]

Reported for necro-bumping/trolling dead threads

It points out that race was not even an issue when this thread was created by a hater.