What I love about America

[Avery Todd]

Thump,

TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!!!!!! I'M SICK OF YOUR POSTS LIKE THIS!!!!

Avery

At 07:58 PM 03/16/03 -0800, you wrote:
>You forgot whiskers on kittens, warm woolen mittens, bright copper kettles,
>brown paper packages tied up with string.  You know... some of those other
>favorite things.
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV
>
> > What I love about America:
> >      Tree lined streets. Trolley cars. Big Victorian
> > mansions. Rose-covered cottages. The Erie Canal.
> > Jeffersonian Democracy. The Constitution. Edison.
> > Tesla. Westingouse. Penn Station. What was once the
> > finest railroad system on earth.
> > McKim Meade & White. Frederick Law Olmstead. Carnegie.
> > Tiffany. John LaFarge. Whistler. Maxfield Parrish.
> > Howard Pyle. The Palace Theater. Eddie Cantor. Jack
> > Benny. Benny Goodman. Bix. The songs of Kern,
> > Gershwin, Berlin, Porter and most especially Richard
> > Rogers. Gus Kahn. Doris Day. Fletcher Henderson.
> > Bogey. Jimmy Stewart. Buster Keaton. Chaplin.
> > Katherine and Audrey Hepburn. Helen Forrest.
> >     Companies that really cared for their employees,
> > and built them houses, theaters, parks, schools and
> > hospitals. Religious freedom. Freedom of speech and of
> > the press. Indoor plumbing and a propensity for
> > bathing surpassed, possibly, only by the Swiss.
> > Paramahamsa Yogananda ( an authentic Indian saint who
> > was granted audience at the White House by Coolidge )
> >      Mark Twain. Lincoln. And an environment that has
> > spurred the greatest technological advances the world
> > has ever seen.
> >      Sadly, much on this list has passed, and is now
> > replaced with strip malls, asphalt, companies that
> > screw their employees out of life savings and CEO's
> > that "make" 500 times what their entry level guys do.
> > Rap "music", pollution, and a government that is not
> > doing enough to get us free from petroleum dependancy,
> > and may very soon start WWWIII.
> >     I have a right to be sad.
> >     Thump
>
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