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100 great things about America

guyver01

guyver01

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http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/01/100-great-things-about-america/

100 great things about America

Though our affection for America is a year-round phenomenon, summer seems to make the heart and mind grow even fonder. Holidays contribute to this: Memorial Day ushers in the season, followed soon after by our Uncle Sam's favorite, July Fourth. Getting out into the great outdoors also kindles nation-love, as only a visit to national parks like Yellowstone or the Great Smoky Mountains can do. So, too, does the food of summer: grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, corn on the cob, and blueberry pie on a brimming picnic table. So we think it only fitting to present to you our second annual list of 100 Great Things About America right as we head into the summer solstice.
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Just read the list.

I posted it in OT, because i don't want it to turn into a shit-fest that P&N is known for...

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14: Detroit.

I thought that place was a shit hole?

Meh, read through it, 40% of them I've never heard of and I disagree with another 20%...

Edit: turns out to be 16% I've never heard of...

20. Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon
24. GEICO commercials
30. Warren Buffett
31. Summer Friday hours
33. LeBron James
40. Louisville Slugger bats
42. Zappos
44. SEC football
45. TMZ
48. Hank Aaron
49. James Taylor
50. Tom Brady
59. Clif Bars
67. Jonathan Franzen
71. Morton Salt
85. Coppertone sunblock
 
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As a LEGAL immigrant that moved to the US LEGALLY, I want to say even with all the flaws and problems, the US is still one of the best nations on Earth.

Why?

Freedom and Opportunity (if you are willing to work hard).

Let freedom ring.
 
Svnla said:
As a LEGAL immigrant that moved to the US LEGALLY, I want to say even with all the flaws and problems, the US is still one of the best nations on Earth.

Why?

Freedom and Opportunity (if you are willing to work hard).

Let freedom ring.
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Yep that's fair, it's definitely in my top 10.
 
Wait, Steve Jobs is number 8? Out of all the great inventors, innovators, and great thinkers in the US, the guy that wrote this article decided Jobs should be at the top of the list?

🙁 this is depressing. What is even more depressing is that ESPN is number 6..... This thing reads more like a giant advertisement than a list of things to be actually proud of. The fact that things like TMZ and the ford F150 are on the list is pretty stupid.
 
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Cogman said:
Wait, Steve Jobs is number 8? Out of all the great inventors, innovators, and great thinkers in the US, the guy that wrote this article decided Jobs should be at the top of the list?

🙁 this is depressing. What is even more depressing is that ESPN is number 6..... This thing reads more like a giant advertisement than a list of things to be actually proud of. The fact that things like TMZ and the ford F150 are on the list is pretty stupid.
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Yeah, I stopped reading the list when I saw him.
 
Cogman said:
Wait, Steve Jobs is number 8? Out of all the great inventors, innovators, and great thinkers in the US, the guy that wrote this article decided Jobs should be at the top of the list?

🙁 this is depressing. What is even more depressing is that ESPN is number 6..... This thing reads more like a giant advertisement than a list of things to be actually proud of. The fact that things like TMZ and the ford F150 are on the list is pretty stupid.
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This list is full of fail. They put men and women of the armed forces way down somewhere in the 60s, and then put Navy Seals in the top 10??? Just put armed forces in the top 10! And they have Santana on the list but not Edison or Einstein?
 
guyver01 said:
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didn't realize 30 was "old"

and the Boston Tea Party was not a dispute about high taxes.
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I know, I was trying to quote Dazed and Confused. real quote
"Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes."
 
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