Five Most Annoying Words for 2017; No Offense But I Disagree ...

[the ringo kid]

T.R. had just a little to say about that subject!

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. Theodore Roosevelt

Who would have guessed the relevance of that statement 102 years later?

Ringo, in your case, Confederate-American is as good as saying American-American!

Heh heh, and thank you for all of this. And on the signature, it never occurred to me that way-but makes perfect sense. Texican-American was my other choice.

This happened at WM 2 days ago. A guy claiming to be a Native-Ami-cussed out a lady whose ancestry-was from another continent. Said she wasnt a native-she was born here-therefore-she is a native. That guy was a racist jerk. I went up to him and said I was a quarter Cherokee-was also wearing a new cap I had (courtesy of a Korean War vet/friend of mine) who gave me a US Army Cavalry cap. Gave me this cap as a Christmas gift-this friend has served in the 7th Cav--1st Btn. I had noticed the guy was staring at my cap-but said nothing.

 

[the ringo kid]

There is a local car dealer here who has a bill board advertising "Buy one car and get a second one at full price."

The mike shaw kia dealer here in town has been sluggging us with about 8 ads per hour on TV saying something in Spanish which bugs the hell outta me. Its not the Spanish that bothers me-its HIM. I dont exactly know what hes saying nor how to say it or pronounce it but its something like: E donde con quatro con mucho gusto. I get the jist of it-I just cant stand mike shaw.