Well said, Mrrz! Brava!

I always wondered how you could ally yourself with a flag.

Where the flag flaps, there flap I?

What I can't understand are people who seem to actively despise the USA, loudly, and yet stay here. (Not meaning anybody on this thread (really!) but thinking specifically of a person from a mailing list I'm on...).

The great thing about this country is that you can complain about it, out loud, without being carted off to the gulags or the Donskoi Monastery. And you can leave whenever you want, if only you can find someone willing to let you into THEIR country.

Alex