To Kill an American...

[sbskico1]

It's the job of the parents to change the way things are in their country for their children.
That's why illegals bug me so much rather than standing up and changing things they abandon their country and then break laws and steal(services paid for by Americans) from us.

[benagain]

I don't care for the illeagles only because it's making soo much harder for people to get here legitly. Remember the old if you marry an american, you're american? Well that's gone. My wifes uncle married a british lady and it took them something like 4 years to get her over here. Another friend married a girl from like ecuador I think. Again, it was a huge deal to get here here, and once they did it was even harder for her to get work legally. A paper trail a mile long and you still can't come over. It allways seems that the ones that come here that have something to provide to society have the hardest time doing it.

[sbskico1]

That's to bad...if they married Americans it should take 5 minutes to get them into this country

[benagain]

you would think

[sbskico1]

1st he says

"american are Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish etc,"

and then he says

Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan

and

"The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America."

sort of contradictory


i am not american and i totally agree with hidden beauty

I don't have a bad word to say about Americans but I do have to comment on your big ego's.It personally makes me feel like you think you are somewhat better then us when I am sure England and some other countries deserve recognition too.

I AM PROUD TO BE MALTESE AND NOT TO BE AMERICAN!!!

The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (to give their full name) were formed long before their reign on Malta. The Order was originally established in 1085 as a community of monks responsible for looking after the sick at the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem. They later became a military order, defending crusader territory in the Holy Lands and safeguarding the perilous routes taken by medieval pilgrims. The Knights were drawn exclusively from noble families and the Order acquired vast wealth from those it recruited and later from the ill-gotten gains of their privateering.

The Order of the Hospital was not only the first military-religious order of chivalry, but indeed the first order of knighthood of any kind. Previously, knights did not serve in corporate bodies other than the armies of particular sovereigns. The Order of the Temple, the Teutonic Order and the Order of Saint Lazarus were founded soon after the Order of the Hospital. Each of these orders had its own purposes, of which military defence was but one. Until this time, most knights had been minor feudatories obliged, as part of the feudal system, to undertake military service for a prescribed number of days each year; some were full time soldiers who served in garrisons.

The Order was ruled by a Grand Master who was answerable only to the Pope. Knights were chosen from the aristocratic families of France, Italy, Spain, England and Portugal. On acceptance into the Order they were sworn to celibacy, poverty and obedience. Few lived up to these ideals; many were very wealthy and the Knights' standoffish attitude towards the locals does not always seem to have applied when it came to temptations of the flesh.

In 1343, the Order conquered Smyrna, which it held for six decades. The knights of Malta took part in battles in Egypt and Syria, and supported the Armenians' in their valiant defence against the Muslims.

http://privateer.omena.org/knightsofmalta.htm

************almost sounds like America************

[kornbread]

what the FUCK did you have to do with ANY of it?

See man, when I was a kid the President was coming to town, so we made a big Macaroni collage of the United States. It made him so very happy that he allowed a couple of countries to start a small little scurmish in the Falkland Islands.

So me glueing a piece of macaroni to some construction paper had something to do with the whole Falkland Island war.

No telling what kind of power I could have weilded if it would have been around Thanksgiving time & we would have given him a bunch of Turkey Hand puppet's.

[tadaa]

Your a complete idiot.

Actually, it's spelled you're.

Now that's funny.

[beachguy in thongs]

Countries are invisible lines drawn on a map.

That's complete bullshit. The thick bold lines indicate borders of countries and the thin ones are the borders of states. Are you gonna say that the dots, that indicate major cities, are invisible, too?

Anyone who knows the background of the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall can say that we know how to get to the other side.

Don't take offense, Deloused, I have indigestion.

What's next, an invisible Randall-McNally ensignia?

[Synthesizer Man]

America is the greatest country in the world because God loves us more...........

And because you have more freedom than anyone else, right?

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE FUCKING COFFEE!

[dirty raider]

Ok so tell me exactly what the Queen does except take expensive holidays and sit her ass talking to her corgi's.Maybe if I understood her whole purpose I could accept why the royals are so damn loaded.

I just believe we don't need a royal family.Buckingham palace could be turned into a half-way house then we could get all these homeless people off the streets :thumbsup:

Firstly she's a figure head, a symbol of the countrys past and a reminder that Britain is still a country which is deeply rooted in tradition.

Secondly she's a diplomat, she welcomes foreign vistors and makes visits to the commonwealth to help keep up relations with other countrys.

Shes acts as a check against the Government and actually alot of power however it is an unwritten rule that she never uses it.

Finally she generates a massive revenue for the country, think of all the tourists who go to Buckingham Palace.

Without the Queen we would probably just need to vote in someone to fill her shoes, like a President however this position would be relativly powerless. I think few would agree to the job to be honest, she has all that money but what can she spend it on? She can't exactly buy a Ferrari or revovate the castle etc.