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The_vagabond7 on 04 October 2008

It just hit me, I didn't notice until just now, and correct me if I'm wrong.

 

In the US red states are the right leaning states, blue states are left leaning states. Isn't it the exact opposite color differentiation everywhere else in the world? Isn't Red generally considered the color of the left and blue the color of the right? The Hell US?? First the soccer and football thing, then the metric system, now this? My country is just bass ackwards. I just looked outside and a guy was wearing hats on his feet and a shoe on his head, and was being eaten by a hamburger.



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d21lewis on 04 October 2008

We also kill people who kill people to teach people that it wrong to kill people!

*sheds tear*

God bless America!!



MontanaHatchet on 04 October 2008

Perhaps no one wants to have the party that supports bigger government being the one with red as their official color?

Face it, we're innovators. Paranoid, but innovators nonetheless.



 

 

Soleron on 04 October 2008

My favourite things about the USA (Texas specifically):

- Being arrested for walking on the pavement/sidewalk (nothing suspicious, just because it is unheard of to walk long distances)

- Having politically coloured judges (WTF is a Republican judge? The law is meant to be fair and nonpartisan...)

- Electoral college - people are OK with a candidate gaining a majority of the popular vote but losing.

- School buses stopping ouside people's houses - it was a 5min. journey to school but it took an hour and a half because of this, often in 100 degrees Fahrenheit with no air conditioning.

- It being possible to buy guns in a supermarket (Walmart) - the video games were better protected by security and locks than the guns were.

- Apparent separation of church and state but schoolchildren must say Pledge of Allegiance.

- Drive-through ATMs. They're funny all by themselves.



MontanaHatchet on 04 October 2008
Soleron said:

My favourite things about the USA (Texas specifically):

- Being arrested for walking on the pavement/sidewalk (nothing suspicious, just because it is unheard of to walk long distances)

- Having politically coloured judges (WTF is a Republican judge? The law is meant to be fair and nonpartisan...)

- Electoral college - people are OK with a candidate gaining a majority of the popular vote but losing.

- School buses stopping ouside people's houses - it was a 5min. journey to school but it took an hour and a half because of this, often in 100 degrees Fahrenheit with no air conditioning.

- It being possible to buy guns in a supermarket (Walmart) - the video games were better protected by security and locks than the guns were.

- Apparent separation of church and state but schoolchildren must say Pledge of Allegiance.

- Drive-through ATMs. They're funny all by themselves.

This is the only one I disagree with. Who really cares?

 



 

 

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akuma587 on 04 October 2008

It may have to do with the parties kind of flip-flopping some in the 40's, 50's, and 60's, and 70's because of civil rights and whatnot.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

The_vagabond7 on 04 October 2008

I don't get the ATM thing, why is that funny?



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The Ghost of RubangB on 04 October 2008

We swapped colors in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_and_blue_states#Origins_of_current_color_scheme

Supposedly the term "red and blue states" was coined by Russert.



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bouzane on 04 October 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
Perhaps no one wants to have the party that supports bigger government being the one with red as their official color?

Face it, we're innovators. Paranoid, but innovators nonetheless.

But the Republicans already are red.

akuma587 on 04 October 2008
bouzane said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Perhaps no one wants to have the party that supports bigger government being the one with red as their official color?

Face it, we're innovators. Paranoid, but innovators nonetheless.

 

But the Republicans already are red.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson