so messed up that a in secondary school boy was isolate for throwing a snowball and the same boy was put in detention for being bullied how messed up is that

Thanks for that important information...

Or America is reamed for foreign involvement, but also attacked for not giving enough aid in certain foreign disasters.

Girl in middle school in Bright Indiana was just suspended for coming to school with a blue streak from kool-aid in her hair.

Politicians & Central banks have flooded the world with liquidity, threatening yet another asset bubble--only to see it crash within the next few years (if it even lasts that long), causing untold suffering on populations across the globe. Rinse. Repeat.

And we sit idly by, wondering which Kardashian kritter will do what, next.... >:-\

A teacher at a Texas School was fined and suspended without pay for refusing to take down an American flag in his office when ordered to. The reason he was ordered to remove it: there were a lot of Mexican immigrants in the school and the flag might upset them.

Then why even hang flags in schools?
Can any American answer this: why do you even hang American flags at your schools? To remind them of how many stars there are on them?

To answer your question Moros. We hang flags to remind us of how we got to where we are today; to remind us of our troops over seas fighting to let us hang our flags up; to remind us where we came from.

Must . . . resist . . . urge . . . to . . . argue about America on the internet.

Gotta admire that American patriotism.

I don't see the problem with hanging flags in your schools. We have a Dutch flag at our entrance and I can't imagine any foreigner should feel offended by them. And otherwise it's their problem.
Must admit that the Americans have flags everywhere, though.

What I find troubling is that Rick Santorum, who in a poll turned out to have an actual chance of becoming the most powerful man in the world, lies so blatantly about how we treat our elderly people, basically accusing us of an Elderly Holocaust, and gets away with it. I mean, is that how you treat your allies?

I can imagine that our government doesn't want to get tangled in the electoral hubbub, but you'd imagine they'd at least deny Santorum's outrageous claims.
Instead, they left that to a journalist (Erik Mouthaan) who can now no longer bring credibly objective news.

As for ludicrous detentions, I have been punished dozens of times in primary school for doing bad things in a football game I wasn't even in...

Oi, Ace... you be nice or I'll make fun of Ireland some more!

I'm trying my best here Richard.

And that's not much of a threat, I'd join you in making fun of Ireland, it's a mess!

Hell, I think I'd be hard pressed to name a country that isn't a mess

Well, I haven't heard of any enormous problems in Liechtenstein lately...

Actually, Singapore is doing just fine right now.

Yup, those two countries you named are the tax paradises, all the rich people sit there and watch the economy get worse and worse.

sweden's always great.

You know what they say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ