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Original poem (1893)America. A Poem for July 4.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife,
When once or twice, for man's avail,
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain,
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

You notice the statist additions in the 1913 version of the original poem.  Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life???

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Lyrics 1913 version
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains' majesty
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

Cissy forgot the 1904 version:

Lyrics 1904 version

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains' majesty
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for glorious tale
Of liberating strife,
When valiantly for man's avail
Men lavish precious life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

moral lessons from corporate america because a corporation is a personhood?

WOW!!!

wake up people

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The outrage over the foreign languages may prove to be quite short-lived. Based on a social media
sampling, the outrage at those who were outraged appears to be much greater.
And as conservative pundit Erick Erickson wrote, "People, the Coke ad was well done.
This is so crazy that there is outrage over it. E Pluribus Unum isn't in English either."

LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/enterta......story#axzz2sN8rYi9I

E Pluribus Unum vs In God We Trust

hahahahahahahahahahaha

gold standard vs oil standard

hahahahahahahahahahaha

virtual currency will bring the world together and your virtual value is written on the '10 commandments'

It's state propaganda in different languages.  

Quoted from CICERO

It's state propaganda in different languages.  

Cissy's favorite song:
"America The Ugly!"  
(Only to be sung in English and only when Angry)

I wonder what would happen if you sung 'La Marseillaise' in English at a French soccer match.

I'm going to go with clubbed to near death.

Quoted from BuckStrider

I wonder what would happen if you sung 'La Marseillaise' in English at a French soccer match.

I'm going to go with clubbed to near death.

if you bring a good NY wine they might like you

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/18/leisure.obrien.reut/

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Conan O'Brien apologizes to Canadians


LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien sought to defuse a flap over a recent segment poking fun at the French-Canadian province of Quebec by issuing a self-deprecating "apology" on Tuesday in French.


<<snip>>The controversial segment came during O'Brien's highly publicized road trip last week for a series of shows taped in and around Toronto to help boost that city's profile in the wake of last year's deadly SARS outbreak.

But members of the federal government in Ottawa said O'Brien's jokes about Quebec, a province which has had separatist governments for much of the last 20 years and is a delicate political topic in Canada, went too far.

Alexa McDonough, a legislator for the left-leaning New Democratic Party, described the program as "racist filth" and "utterly vile." She demanded the government seek the return of the C$1 million ($760,000) subsidy paid by Ontario, the province of which Toronto is the capital, to General Electric Co.'s NBC network to help bring O'Brien's show to Canada. <</snip>>

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if you bring a good NY wine they might like you

Even the French don't like the taste of pisswater

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......just heard from a 'person in the media', from another state (a good friend of ours)......that most of those anti-coke folks were in fact the liberal nut job wackos establishment. It was planned all along to blame the so called conservatives.(like there really are any)

kinda like a false flag....yes?

and the sheople fell for it yet again!!!

Quoted from BuckStrider

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/18/leisure.obrien.reut/

GE No longer owns NBC.