American Culture

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Jul 042013
 

American Culture (Happy 4th!)

Though nearly all of his videos are humorous and edgy, conservative comedian Steven Crowder took a drastically different approach with his latest video about the Fourth of July and America’s culture.

“Too many people out there bash our great country, and too many people who are proud of the United States feel the simultaneous need to apologize for it,” Crowder told TheBlaze. ”Stating the obvious – in that America is awesome – should be non-political, non-toxic and uncontroversial. This video was designed to remind all of us just how blessed we are to live in the greatest country the planet has ever known. Bar none.”

In the new video, Crowder focuses on the “unique” and “beautiful” culture that makes the United States the greatest nation in the world. There are no jokes. There is no punchline.

“People come from all different places, from all different cultures and bring the best of it with them while leaving all the baggage behind as they become an American,” Crowder says in the video.

“The United States is not a place based on a people or an origin. It’s not a place defined by its geography or borders. America is a country founded on an ideal, an ideal that attracts people from all different cultures to this day. The ideal that all men were created free and equal with inalienable rights as endowed to us by our creator.”

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Only In America

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Jun 242013
 
  1. Only in America, could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
  2. Only in America, could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black.
  3. Only in America, could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
  4. Only in America, can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
  5. Only in America, would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just ‘magically’ become American citizens.
  6. Only in America, could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”
  7. Only in America, could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
  8. Only in America, could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
  9. Only in America, could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year – for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.
  10. Only in America, could the rich people – who pay 86% of all income taxes – be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.

 

American Preferences: Church Or Beer

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Jun 062013
 

Beer And Church Tweets

A study analyzing Twitter data paints the country by preference for two of its favorite pastimes: beer or church. The study, which was done by geography nerds at Floating Sheep, looks at all geo-tagged tweets from a one week period and extracts tweets containing the words “church” and/or “beer”.

At first glance the map looks as one might expect. The southeast United States glows red with the wholesome, while everyone living in New England, the Rust Belt and just about everyone west of Saint Louis chooses to attend to the the Church of the Almighty Brew. San Franciscans are most verbose in their beery prayers, followed closely by Boston. Which makes sense, because you’d have to be drunk to make it through a Boston winter or listen to a San Franciscan drone endlessly on about how progressive they are.

Upon closer inspection, however, there are a few anomalies. The entirety of the Washington Metro Area tweets piously, with the tiny exception of the District itself— which is populated by a hoard of drunken louts. Which is weird, because I always thought of the D.C. suburbs as soulless places filled with the legions of the damned. Speaking of which, almost all of Maryland goes in the church column, again with the exception of Baltimore.

Still, the whole D.C. area can take solace in not being Dallas, which won the dubious distinction as the “my tweets are holier than thous” twitter hub of the country with a whopping 178 church related tweets. One more reason to never move to Dallas.

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