Here is an interesting article proposing that we become a part of the United Kingdom, replacing Scotland with Stateland. The author (a college professor) lists the benefits of such a move.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/opinion/wheeler-scotland-referendum/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
GDP per capita according to the World Bank (2013)
ReplyDeleteUSA $ 53,143
United Kingdom $ 36,209
That would be about a 33% haircut on your pension poorfessor.
It was humor William.
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Delete(1) The Scots never tip
(2) You both mangle the English language to the extent you cannot even understand yourselves
(3) I can never imagine Americans driving on the correct side of the road
(4) How would Americans celebrate Burns Night?
(5) Can you imagine William touching his forelock to the Queen?
(6) The final problem, the Brits would not have you. Over 200 years ago they walked out of the field at Yorktown well pleased to get rid of you.!!
If you really want to get away from your own mess, come to Aussie, we like cold beer, we too like bullshit, we do not like the Scots or the English and we tolerate Yanks
Cheers from Aussie
Light up the grill. I'll bring the steaks and shrimp!
DeleteAnd that’s another thing stormy, we don’t bother with shrimp. They are considered to be beneath contempt as a foodstuff. We eat prawns, some of them five inches long.Geeze mate, get yourself over here, Paul Hogan has a lot to answer for and the rest of us cannot understand how that Linda sheila fell for him. Hogan could wrestle crocodiles, the rest of us do that on a daily basis with our wives and they are far more dangerous. When they cannot bite, they talk us to death.
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King my good friend Andy is from England. He has just about the same opinion of us heathen yanks. I especially like #6. Exactly what Andy would say. We didn't beat the Brits they just got tired of the war and the taxes back home so packed up and left. Too funny the way you were taught about the North American British fiasco. Now that's revisionist history!
DeleteWould we get a discount on lawn fertilizer? The Scots would have to become familiar with our new mottto: FEED US!
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Obama might consider an offer of Statehood for the golf alone. I might reconsider for that reason also.
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Of course their has been speculation that the US could absorb the UK as another state and by Obama's count that would a 58th state, not counting Alaska and Hawaii, he would need to campaign in...or would it be the 59th....
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DeleteBarack Obama Said He Was Campaigning in "57 States"---and There are 57 Islamic States!-Truth! &
Summary of the eRumor:
Presidential candidate senator Barack Obama stated that he was going to campaign in all 57 states. The writer of the email says that "organization of the Islamic conference" represents 57 Islamic states. In other words, there are 57 Islamic states and perhaps Obama's slip of the tongue was a telling one.The Truth:
The part about Obama referencing "57 states" is true, but the quote is slightly different than presented in the eRumor.
He did not say he was going to campaign in 57 states but that he already had.
It was at a campaign appearance in Beaverton, Oregon, on May 9, 2008. Obama said, "It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon. And over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states; I think one left to go." His campaign said it was obviously a mistake. Nobody believed that he really thought there were 57 states.
It's a stretch to say that he was referring to "57" Islamic states, but it may not be relevant because it depends on what the definition is of an Islamic state. There are countries where Islam is not only the official religion but the rule of law as well. There are others that are secular states but where Islam has a strong presence. The eRumor references the Organization of The Islamic Conference, which, as of this writing, does have a membership of 57 countries who have enough of a presence of Islam in them to want their interests represented. For example, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Central African Republic, and the Turkish Cypriot state are not members of the Organization of The Islamic Conference, but are listed as "observers."
Lordy, lordy, lordy William. There are in fact 49 majority Muslim states in the world. Like Christianity you can find adherents to Islam in every country on earth. Did you know that only 20% of Muslims are Arabs? The largest Muslim countries by adherents in the middle east are the non-arab countries of Iran (Persians) and Turkey (Turks). There are more Muslims in Great Britain then there is in Lebanon. There are more Muslims in China then in Syria. Islam is the second largest religion in Europe behind Christianity. Egypt and Nigeria have the largest Muslim following in Africa and neither are considered an Arab country. Egypt is inhabited by Egyptians (yes they are an original ethnic group), Nubians, Greeks, and Turks and a minority Arab Bedouin population. Nigeria is inhabited by the Yoruba, the Hausa, the Igbo, and the Falani with lesser populations of other tribes.
DeleteThe organization of Islamic conference and co-operation actually only has 56 states. They include the State of Palestine which does not exist.
If Obama had been in 57 states and had one to go he was then planning to visit 58 states not 57. So the math of this myth doesn't add up.
The question is do we have a Muslim in our White House.
DeleteThe question is can he be a Muslim and an adherent to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright a preacher in the church of black victimhood aka the United Church of Christ one of the whitest congregation in America. You choose. But ya can't have both.
DeleteThe question is does our president have a duel personality?
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