what does the confederate flag mean to you?
just wondering what americans think of both the confederate and american flag
i'd tattoo the confederate flag on the back of my head and walk around the ghetto
i am far more concerned with people soft on crime yet want to make criminals out of legal gun owners. i am more concerned about people who think any loser should be allowed in america. if anyone has hid out for so many years they should be allowed to stayand if they breed a litter of kids on our tax dollars they should stay. hi debra, my son is also a webelos cub scout, so i can totally understand your eagerness for him to participate in such a special ceremony. the flag retreat at magic kingdom does involve them choosing a special guest to participate. however, it is completely random and often involves someone in the armed forces or a veteran. this does not mean that he can't witness this moving ceremony first hand. it typically takes place at 5:00 pm. i hope you all have a magical trip full of memorable experiences. ~allison l hdavid57: 
the ugly truth is that we are not the same. the goal should be to better accept and appreciate our differences instead of trying to make everyone else into carbon copies of ourselves.
yes, and these differences are called culture. when i lived in spain, i often wondered how countries like germany and austria entered into a political and economic union with countries like spain and greece. they are simply too different.
i think the fact that american's are able to celebrate differences is one of the reasons why our country is so successful. people do vote, regardless if they cast a ballot. silence can be thought of as a vote. the reason i say this is that i chose not to vote out of no confidence for the ballot. i would either have voted for something in which i did not believe, or i couldn't "thrown away" with a 3rd party vote, in which i still didn't believe.there is no write in option for "no confidence," and interestingly, if enough people voted this way, the way american voting works, would require either the candidates to all be thrown out, and a new set of candidates, or the government would make their own choice, at which point democracy would be dead. if we look at voting in this manner, it most certainly is compulsory. however, america has an odd obsession of thinking that the common man's vote for president actually matters. local votes will influence politics for a person far more than a presidential vote ever will. this is why many localities have gerrymandering, in order to control the constituency and votes.i personally do not believe my vote will ever make a difference, as it never has in any political election. besides, perpetuating the idea that the common man isn't controlled by our plutocratic corporatist "democracy" is silly, but people will keep on voting and believing that they matter, or are heard. perhaps my view is cynical and pessimistic. i see no reason to change it.c'est la vie. depends on what you consider to be a productive conversation. but i see no such thing unless there are clear results.another case like this is yet more bait for the media to relish and exacerbate, and yet more opportunities for the cynics to come out saying it's about race or that nothing will ever change.it doesn't seem productive with the attitudes we display in our national conversation. all the while, another family suffers to the backdrop of societal indifference or name-blaming.it strikes me that no one brings up the most prevailing theme amongst all of these cases: fear, and the permeating insecurity that's deeply rooted in the american psyche.all i see is the continued pattern of fear rearing its ugly face in case after case, be it inadequate training, racial & cultural differences, vendettas, or the proliferation of gun ownership.and here, a foreigner gets caught in the middle of this american phenomenon. and while the details are incredibly vague, i feel it could very well have been simply this woman innocently knocking in the vehicle to get the officers attention; something likely innocuous back in australia, but certainly something most americans wouldn't dare attempt. and she suffered the ultimate price for it.culture and mentality takes a long time to change. and the more we continue to be equal-but-separate, i can't even imagine a productive conversation, let alone a result.i'm sorry, but no matter how much the cry for justice, or even the delivery of such, that alone will not be enough to alter the course of history and our future. you aren't obligated to like or dislike anything. i suggest you figure out whether or not you like it, and tell her how you feel. either way, there's nothing weird about it british english pronounces it with an /f/. american english doesn't. what does these graphs tell us? nothing. just that the proportion of races were mostly maintained. asians might have deserved 100% of the seats and yet, are kept within proportion. they might have deserved no seats and yet kept within the proportion. there is no really useful info there. yeah and that's most of the same time but sometimes their little indeciveness mind gets the better of their mind making them confused if you are or aren't here is a list of the symbols by their names: ampersand & apostrophe or single quote ' asterisk * at @ back quote ` back slash \ braces or curly braces {} brackets [] carat ^ close brace } close bracket ] close parenthesis ) colon : comma , dollar $ equal = exclamation point ! greater than > less than < minus or hyphen - open brace { open bracket [ open parenthesis ( parenthesis () percent % pipe or bar | plus + octothorpe # quote " semi-colon ; slash or forward slash / tilde ~ underscore \_