they are bicyclists. tour de france.
lommond reminded me of the sig below your avatar.
do americans possess more oomph than the rest of the world. is our special case of freedom make it more likely that an american will be the best at most anything. both the positive and the negative examples in life.
for example:
we have the greatest mass murderers
and
we have the greatest innovation.
do you agree with that statement? if so why? in not then cite specific examples.
Although the US had a brief golden age of innovation, it's now becoming increasingly incapable of invention. The US patent system has become bloated and pathological to the point where many companies now exist soely to file patents and sue for infringement when another company independently invents an infringing technology. It's become easier to sue than to invent, and inventors are increasingly at risk of falling foul of stealth-patents that steal all their gains just as the business they've built on their invention starts raking in the big money, and the greatest area of innovation is in how to unfairly screw people out of their money.
More generally, while the US used to be a place that tested the limits of human endurance and ingenuity, it's now become a sheep-pasture where people blindly follow the aristocracy and where flag-worship has replaced critical thought for much of the population. People are mostly content as long as they have their air conditioning, gas for their SUV's and a constant stream of mind-numbing crap on their TV's. It's becoming a place where people buy massages from each other on credit rather than doing anything worth a damn. The American spirit is dying.
(In true internet style; written from my comfy chair, on my laptop, in my mum's house, after having eaten a meal for which the ingredients were paid for by my benefits.)
