Oh, wow. Check this out.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341/?no-ist

This will put Patrick on a suicide list. Sarah Palin is named one of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time."

Plus, stone fox.

That list is heavy on the pop and weak on industry and warfare.

Chaplin had some flickering gifts, but [A] he was Brit and [B] I'm not certain he meaningfully changed the directions film or humor.

And too many Presidents.

A little light reading to get you in the mood for an announcement from the Ferguson grand jury.

Obama visits Australia for the G20, and acts like a complete fucking arsehole. He got applauded by the usual suspects. Anyone with a brain knows better.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obama-climate-speech-unnecessary-says-trade-minister-20141123-11s6ci.html

There are more girls than boys in school choirs and orchestras. Clearly, Something Must Be Done.

> He got applauded by the usual suspects.

Duzzenmadder. It's Australia.

Also, you spelt "asshole" wrong.

Why do Canadians have to be so cloying?

That list is heavy on the pop and weak on industry and warfare. ~ Posted by: Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at November 23, 2014 10:47 PM

That list wasn't meant to delineate the actual 100 most significant Americans, but to appease the political correctness doyennes and show off that someone read their Time-Life history books.

I won't even go into the fact that Secretariat was a horse.

Or that Critobal Colon was a Genoan serving the Spanish court. Or that Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine serving the Portuguese king. Or that Giovanni da Verrazzano was a Frenchman. Or that all three of them died long before anyone knew what "being an American" meant.

Or that Crazy Horse and Red Cloud had far more impact on history than Sitting Bull.

Or....

Nah.

'nuff said.

Kim Kardashian.

My spelling is almost always accurate (I have to admit to the occasional typo). For once I didn't Americanise like I mostly do here out of courtesy. But especially for a bigot like you Crid, I made an exception. I'm not surprised you fell for the bait.

So you're happy with your President's conduct then?

Woman breaks into exes house, he has a restraining order against her, they fight. She goes out to her car to get a gun comes back in and fires it at him almost hitting two children

Gets less than 2 years for attempted murder, stalking, breaking and entering, and reckless endangerment, because its apparently racist and sexist to hold black women to the same standard as white men

When did 'equality' become so oppressive to women?

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-warning-shot-case-ends-plea-deal-212701648.html

http://news.yahoo.com/robot-sub-finds-surprisingly-thick-antarctic-sea-ice-161703215.html

Seems the ice around Antartica has been expanding by 1% to 2% every decade since they started paying attention to it in the 70's and it appears to be twice as thick as they originally thought.

So much for global warming causing it to shrink

> I'm not surprised you fell
> for the bait.

Lady, are you clever?

> So you're happy with your
> President's conduct then?

Would we know your President's name? Would we be fussing over his/her comments at G20? What percentage of GDP does your nation spend on defense? Would we admire your nation's conduct in matters of integration and "bigotry"?

To answer your questions in order Crid:

You should.
You would.
About the same as yours.
Yes you would, if you had a clue.

You want to answer my one question?

> You should.

              →  Why?  ← 

Well, I don't like most things that the leaders of other countries say, especially those who aren't carrying their weight.

> About the same as yours.

I don't believe it for a moment... Not if you're living in the West. New Zealand? 1.1% (2012), says Wiki, versus 4.1% for the States. Aussies at 1.6%.

So I gotta wonder: Other than meekly pestering those who're doing so very much more to make good things happen on this planet, is your nation earning a voice in world affairs?

> Yes you would, if you had a clue.

And yet we don't; we don't have a clue. The magnificence of your example in deflating bigotry has yet to penetrate the folklore of even our most loquacious, schoolmarm-y, this-is-how-it's-done lefties. And you don't seem to want to offer any cites about it now, when quizzed directly.

> You want to answer my one question?

Not until you show us why it's so important for you... We have no reason to think you care about your own politics this much. You're not merely bashful about them: Your reticence has the odor of shame.

Look, your fascination with America is indecent. It's intrusive, reductive and childishly distracted: Any foreigner (or local) reading this blog as slavishly as you do has read dozens or hundreds of comments from me about my President. Your inquiry begs the question precisely: Why should we care how you feel about our politics? How on Earth could we regard your hen-like clucking as justified?

It was about something your President said that I thought people might not have heard about because he was overseas, and I commented about it on an open link thread. Can't see the problem with that. Sorry, Crid, you don't get to tell me to fuck off.

I can't be bothered responding to the rest of your childish rant.

> I can't be bothered

Oh, you will, probably before sunrise (here). If you were busy, you wouldn't visit so much. You'll always come back. You got nowhere else to go: Nothing's as attractive as the United States of America.

I didn't say I'd never comment here again. It only takes ten minutes a day, and it's so much fun. See you tomorrow.

> I didn't say I'd never comment
> here again.

Nobody said you did.

Y'know, even ten minutes a day is a weird use of time for someone in another country. Imagine what you could make of life in your country if you spent that time working at it.

> it's so much fun.

Yeah. You're the brat at the swimming pool.

Turns out you CAN be bothered.