Old :?I know.Still worth it.Trying to get some NA-Drama going here...
Because America is North and South America and isn't actually just the USAYou're such a dumbass, North and South America were reunited in the American Civil War in 1865.
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I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the crashing waves ofI lol'd. :DFREEDOM!!!
visitors can't see pics , please register or loginBe careful Molly, or USA will bring Fredom & Democracy to your country !
Be careful Molly, or USA will bring Fredom & Democracy to your country !
They tried in '45. Now guess if they made it or not.But wait, you do not have oil/fuel... No oil no democracy !
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Wednesday to sue President Barack Obama for allegedly overstepping his powers, a move swiftly denounced by his Democratic allies as a cynical election-year stunt.
By a party-line vote of 225 to 201, the House voted to resort to the unprecedented move of taking the president to court for not having stringently followed the letter of the law while implementing his signature "Obamacare" health care reform bill.
The measure, which would empower House Speaker John Boehner to start the legal proceedings, is meant to rein in a president besotted by power, the top House Republican said from the floor of the chamber.
Couldn't watch the video, but US power has been declining since the end of WWII where it had literally half the world's wealth, security unheard of before in history, virtual control of both oceans, every other competitor either destroyed or seriously damaged in the war.
WWII's subsequent destruction of Europe and much of Asia was a blessing for the US and brought it out of the depression. US production, already the world's largest, had doubled at the end of the war, and gave way to the 50s, the peak of US self-image. It took over most of the old British Empire possesions abroad, kicking France out of most of the rest, and devised a 'grand strategy' for what is called 'the grand area', basically world domination.
Though direct control is fading, there's still no serious contenders, China is a poor, backwards mostly rural country for a good time yet, and mostly an assembly plant for Western corporations. US power may be declining but still has the world's largest economy, by far the biggest army expenditure (always a main point of US power and exercised as such), and natural advantages that no other state or collection of states comes even close to.
Comparing the US to most other states is not entirely fair, of course, it's a collection of rather large states, in total sizing up to some of the biggest Asian countries, combined with mostly Anglo-European culture and levels of industrial and technological sophistication.
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our “borders.” Act fast!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
The fact that we are taking the Ebola patients, while others from the area are fleeing to the United States, is absolutely CRAZY-Stupid pols
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
You are right about the Ebola patients. It’s a deadly virus, and they shouldn’t bring them to the US.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Yes !! The government is bringing them back here so the outbreak can start here too !!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
He seems to be doing the right thing. He’s taking a stand for America and asking 4 some common sense about Ebola.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
USA #1 fer sure!
That's just as true as this:
Just Like Thomas Jefferson was advocating for Freedom of Religion, Religion here being synonym to any kind of Christianity some might include Judaism.
NOT "Freedom" from religion like being ATHEIST!
Oh and more thing for those atheists... it says god something on our moneys and you believe in money don't you? It says on the money that we trust in god!
And this cute evolution story... that's just some euro-elitist fairytale to make it harder for good christians to get nobel prize in biology, pricks!
We should create a proper american prize for real-young earth creationist evangelist(not those softy catholics!) and we're gonna call it the...
REAGAN PATRIOT PRIZE
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I'm American in spirit but, not on paper, the opposite of that Barack Hussein Osama
An Anaheim couple was sentenced to prison for keeping their two young daughters locked inside their filthy mobile home for years without adequate food or basic care while they obsessively played the online computer game World of Warcraft.
American quality buildings. Made by wood as thick as quality photo paper :lol:
And then being surprised how a hurricane can wreck a whole state. Start building properly instead of cheap!(click to show/hide)
dont worry about Molly Anders, they still build their houses out of mud n shit in Germany, they look like the fuckin teletubbies house. He's just jelly.
how come america claims to be the richest country in the world but 80 to 0% of the population live in homes made of wood and cardboard. In most countries,people live in concrete cement houses made of cement..bricks/blocks and wood is by far an inferior material to cement especially in building,its way cheaper too...why is this?
First of all, America doesn't "claim" to be anything. This was probably a case where the news media took a very complex subject like GNP, world economy, etc. and boiled it down to a 10 second sound-bite. Okay, now that I've got that off my chest.
As in most parts of the world, construction of homes is based mostly on the availablilty of building materials. If you live in a country that has an abundance of wood, you will typically build houses using wood. If you live in a country that lacks forests that can harvested readily for lumber you will build houses out of stone, rocks, mud, bricks or whatever you can cost effectively get.
Second, there are plenty of houses in the US that are constructed of brick or stone. It's all a matter of affordability and personal choice as well as what part of the country you live in and when your house was built. In the US, brick is more expensive but not so much that only the rich can afford it. However, if given a choice, most in the US would rather own a home even if they are not willing to pay a 15-20% premium for brick.
Lastly, I'm not sure I would agree that stone construction is far superior to wood. You have to consider things such as energy efficiency, speed in which you can produce homes, protection from the elements, performance in natural disasters (earthquakes, fires, etc.) Also, if you're referring to construction in Europe, you have to consider when the houses were built. The science of home construction has changed dramatically in the last few hundred years so comparing houses built to in the US where most are built in the last century to houses that are 2- 3 hundered years old is not a good comparison. There's way too much to go into here.
To sum it up, on average people no matter what country they live in will do what is the most convenient and cost effective to do. In the US that includes that houses are framed-in with wood.
wooden houses can sway in an earthquake instead of falling down and crushing you. In California, anyone would be insane to build a brick or concrete house. I was actually wondering why people in India build houses out of concrete when prisons use concrete in hot areas to punish people as they work like an oven. Wood houses have concrete slabs under and all the pluming/electrical hookups built in so its easy and cheap to rebuild a stick house on concrete slab. The largest earthquake we had, no one died, and im talking about an earthquake larger then ones that kill thousands in other countries.
Very simple. When this country came to be settled by Europeans, It had vast forests. The immigrants were, for the most part, not rich and most had only their own hands for building. Wood was the logical and affordable choice. It became nornal or habit to build this way. Stone, being harder to get to here (usually) and requiring more money and labor, became a rich mans' material, until lately. The country, as a whole could be considered rich, but as for the people, maybe 10-20% are. If you are poor, you can get food, clothing shelter and medical care, but it is of the poorest quality. True, In much of the world, even that much is being rich, but the poor would live in better quality homes, if they could. The rich have bound us with 'building codes', high prices for land and materials and have so many requirements (especially if you have children) that the poor are forced to follow their rules. If a poor man manages to obtain land, somehow, he MUST NOT take his children to live in what is termed 'sub-standard housing' while he builds. He MUST get so many permits, so many inspections and so on and the prices for most materials are so high. He MUST also have 'certified experts' in the fields of electricity, heating and plumbing. There are REQUIRED things like 1) No outhouses- it must be city sewer or a septic field, the latter requiring professional maintenance. 2) No wells, in some paces. It has to be city-provided water....As you can see, while many of us WOULD have progressed to the logical choices of better building materials, it is usually not possible. To build 'green' (or, to put it better, to build ecologically soundly) is prohibitively expensive. The rest of the world has its' problems and some places don't treat their people right, but the US is expert on being subtle about it.
We ran out of brick trees back in the early 50s.
Prohibition/war on drugs (which spread near-globally and made the perceived "problem" worse), over militarization of police force, shitty healthcare compared to other developed nations, shitty education (especially college/fee-based) compared to other developed nations, science budgets compared to overspending on military endeavors, erosion of civil liberties out of backwards fear, lack of high-tech infrastructure for travel on national scale (still using same old freeway system). Those are my gripes with the place, though I have a large deal of privilege and comfort here, it comes at the expense of other people around the world, and I don't want that- I'd rather live in a yurt and have everyone be taken care of then live in excess at the expense of others.