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How would you define "hyperpatroitic"?
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Really, really, REALLY patriotic. Possibly in need of medication.
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Just like those Americans who put flags in their gardens or in their schools - and that are "Made in China."
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I'm pretty sure I've never seen a flag in anyone's tomato bushes, although one might go nicely with runner beans and squash.
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To me, it relates to those people who constantly tell me that I am anti-American if I question US foreign and domestic policy even one iota.
Myopic minds.
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Re: "Hyperpatriotic". It's a legitmate word coined from two Greek roots but one of these words which probably means different things to different people. For example, the late Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona (conservative Republican) and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson of Washington (conservative Democrat) were both what you could call "hyperpatriots" but it was not the same kind of hyperpatriotism. Goldwater had the more aggresive, give'em hell, attitudes towards communism and Soviet expansionism shared by General MacArthur while Jackson believed in the more cautious Truman (and even Eisenhower) policy of containment instead.
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>Just like those Americans who put flags in their gardens or in their schools - and that are "Made in China." <
My Mexican penpal gave me a Mexican flag - sad though when I saw the little tag with 'Made in USA' with a printed American flag on it. So ironic.
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Another example is when a expat British hung his 'union jack' on this house. His American neighbors were upset and contacted local authories for their neighbor's 'Anti American' stance he was making.
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How about this:
A man was arrested for placing his state flag above the Stars and strips on the same flag pole by accident. Why is this considered a crime? It's only a flag.
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Meh... anything for a polemical thread.
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>How would you define "hyperpatroitic"? <
Only in America...... only in America
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<Guest Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:42 am GMT
Meh... anything for a polemical thread. >
Do polemical threads make you nervous?
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<Do polemical threads make you nervous?>
Nope, you?
But they are a childish nuisance like a kid brother you have to kick in the nuts to bring him down from his jelly bean high.
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+A man was arrested for placing his state flag above the Stars and strips on the same flag pole by accident. Why is this considered a crime? It's only a flag.+
Asshole how dare he puts our beloved national flag below his state flag. A sign of Anti-American thinking.
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I seriously doubt that's an arrestable offense. But then again, how seriously do we need to take posts made by someone who cops out by posting anonymously?
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