GOD BLESS AMERICA!

unclebruce

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

This saying has annoyed the crap outta me for years with it's jingoistic myopia and presumptious aire. (It presumes too much about God, extolling America's apparent inate goodness. For me I guess it reduces the beautiful eternal mysteries of life and the unknowable mind of 'God' to little more than some device for rallying unthinking emotional support for America to the exclusion of all others. (not that I want any recognition from America .. it just makes me cring to see America promoted like soap .. or should that read soup? Alas a soup to cleanse the world has not been invented yet)

anyway I digress ..

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

This subject has probably been done to death here .. but when I first heard of the tragic events in New York and Washington (living in my caravan under the peace inducing gum trees of south eastern australia) .. I was astonished and went to fitfull sleep with dreams of CIA chickens comming home to roost.

Days wore on and I heard people were being traumatised from the television pictures alone! (being in a television free zone I haven't seen the pictures yet but wow that guy piloting the second plane must have been on the worlds greatest high, seeing one tower on fire and knowing his debauched place in history was assured .. this is gonna shake the world!)

Shake the world it has. September 11 is a date we won't forget. GOD BLESS AMERICA! After a lifetime of cringing everytime I hear that saying I can for the first time, conscience free, say America I love ya! After seeing the horrors of Vietnam writ large in the lives of many of my relatives and friends, digesting enough anti-NSA CIA FBI material to sink a small boat and being taken for a long tortorous ride by an American Backstabbing and Clockwatching Society I can truly for the first time in my life say 'America I stand with you'. After meeting and befriending so many wonderful yanks on the internet my heart truly goes out to the American people like never before. When I say GOD BLESS AMERICA! it is the ordinary American people my salute goes out to. You can keep your leaders, they're no better or worse than the homegrown scum that keeps floating to the top over here. This little piece seems self indulgant but I just had to say something. It seems the events of September 11th were a watershed in the way we see America .. I have felt a profound change come over me with the shockwaves rumbling around the world. I hope the sentiment is universal and longlasting. I could prattle along for hours about Gods being commanded to bless things but when I think of wassa, Tina Doug, Dannyboy, Tally, Scallywagger, Lindy, Focus and all my other warmhearted friends of freedom all I can really think of is:

GOD BLESS AMERICANS!

unclebruce, registering his emotional baggage and preparing to fly off the handle

think41self

Thanks UB

I didn't think what you wrote was self-serving at all. We love you too

And while I don't think America or Americans are any better than anyone or anything else, it is nice to hear the words of support and friendship from our friends all over the world.

think41self

"Not believing is not the same as not knowing."

Tina

gODDESS Bless Australia!!!
Unc and all the cheeky Galahs FOREVER!! It's nice to hear a good word once in a while,rather than all the US bashing....Kangaroo kisses to yas! luv,T

Carl Sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones."

unclebruce

G'day Think4yerSelfish,

Now how did that thing go? ..

Wrapping cloth around yor head and calling it a hat might be outta fashion but groap hugs are always in style. Please give my regards to that bloke you're shacking up with and that wicked surfing pianoist otherwise known as .. the farkelmeister :)

cheers unc.

DannyBear

Uncle,

Just the voice I was wanting to hear! I was on a sort of a downer today, popped on the board, and there you were saying a few words that stuck in my throat.

I know we yanks sound very self centered and arrogant when mouthing those words. But somehow the anthom melody, tied to the words brings some sort of solace. But when someone like you/Englishman, overlook our sometimes blatant, in your face patriotisim, and cheer along with us...well my dear friend...you make our heart's lightup with appreciation. Appreciation that not everyone living outside our boarder's see's us as fit for dog fodder...as some Norwegians would have you believe.

Good God man it was a pleasure to hear you speak!

Danny

wasasister

Uncle, with blokes like you in our corner, we can't loose.

I've always had trouble with that expression, too. Even upon my departure from the Borg, I had trouble dealing with my newfound patriotism. Like one of my dear friends has said, I consider myself a citizen of the world. I became an American by an accident of birth. However, I remain one out of choice.

Yes, our leaders are just as corrupt and inept as any in the world (and if you want to argue that point, we will be here all night), but the American people - by and large - are generous, warm-hearted, loyal, and hard working. I still think this is a fine place to live and the lyrics of the song put it beautifully.

Whether God blesses it or not (didn't look like it from where I sat on Sept. 11), we seem to have found out who our friends are.

Thanks, UB. With friends like you, our enemies should be nervous.

(Miss ya!)

think41self

Why UncleBruce

You cheeky devil

Can I give my regards to the Farkelmeister( he always has them anyway) and save my groping for the hunk I'm shacked up with?

Ohhhhh, I feel a grope attack comin' on!!!

Unc

Tracy

Esmeralda

UB, you've been missed. Happy to have you here, man!!!

Love you! *hugs*
essie
peeking out of the phone box to say hello :)

ozziepost

unc, you're awake, you old bastard!

Are you up in the big smoke? For how long? E-mail me (in the words of our great American friends)

Now you're up, don't forget that cappucino you owe me!

Cheers,
Ozzie

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Anonymous

Thirdson

God Bless Uncle Bruce,

or at least God say "Good on ya mate!"

Welcome back, we've missed you. Thanks for your warm words.

Thirdson

'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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