tekslilbrat wrote: I know that they are, but mormally when you see land of the free, you see teh US flas not eh puerto rican flag so it just puzzled me a bit!!!! Kind of like the whole national anthem thing!!!!
Chelly, on the NAtional Anthem subject. I was lisdtening to the radio this am (sumthin I never do) and they were talking about the issue. They were seriously in a joking manner saying how Buss says "No" to it being sung in spanish as well, but yet while he was campaining, they have live footage of him singing it in spanish in those territories..... I really got a laugh at how he contradicts himself soooo much and gets cought.
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tekslilbrat wrote: Very interesting Mr V....Thank. As I see it, we have spoke English is this country for how long??? so whether there is a bill with the national language passed or not, English IMHO is the natioanal language just because of how long we have spoken it here so if you live here, you should know it.
This am I saw a banner on my way to NYC that said "Land of the Free" and had the Puerto Rican flag on it. I was very puzzled.......anyone????
I couldn't agree more. How can we NOT have a national language? If it was all right to speak 8-10 different languages, how would we communicate with each other. Immigrants sometimes complain that we're "taking away a part of their culture." My opinion is...well, they moved here didn't they? If I moved to France, Italy, of Brazil, I'd sure make a serious attempt to learn the language there. I wouldn't expect to go to a public school a find classes taught in my native language.
Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S. Although not a state, it is a US territory. There has been talk about statehood for P.R. for lots of years. In fact, I think that statehood was offerred, but the population of P.R. rejected it.
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Actually, largest supplier of Oil is Canada http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/crudebycountry.htmMr. Versatile wrote: yannio wrote: hola,perhaps what we should do is make all of mexico,central and south america part of the great united states. these could be other states persay and maybe we could go and make it all productive. we could dig for oil, so that we don't have to pay $3+ per gallon, we could dig for gold so that our currency would be more valuable, methane,diamonds,you name it! all this and more could be found in this vast land.now that , is easier said than done. best of all we could all pay our taxes! that way, when is time for all of us to retire there would be plenty of money,even for our so trusted cheating politicians. sincerely ypdmotorsportsActually, the USA gets most of our oil from Venesuela and Mexico.
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