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  • #91
    Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
    Yeah, even though they shamelessly ripped off the tune.
    wrong song. My country tis of thee is not the national anthem.

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    • #92
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      wrong song. My country tis of thee is not the national anthem.
      We ripped off that one, too.
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      • #93
        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
        We ripped off that one, too.
        The Star Spangled Banner?

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        • #94
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          The Star Spangled Banner?
          The words are from Francis Scott Key's poem whereas the tune was lifted from a song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" written for a "gentlemen's club" in the late 18th century

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          • #95
            Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
            The words are from Francis Scott Key's poem whereas the tune was lifted from a song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" written for a "gentlemen's club" in the late 18th century
            wow. I did not know that. So the National Anthem is a porn song. whodda thunkit?

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            • #96
              Liberals must control all! This could get real evil, real fast...

              European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to be morphed into one' post-Brexit

              EUROPEAN political chiefs are to take advantage of Brexit by unveiling their long-held plan to morph the continent’s countries into one GIANT SUPERSTATE, it has emerged today.

              The foreign ministers of France and Germany are due to reveal a blueprint to effectively do away with individual member states in what is being described as an “ultimatum”.

              Under the radical proposals EU countries will lose the right to have their own army, criminal law, taxation system or central bank, with all those powers being transferred to Brussels.

              http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...erstate-Brexit
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              • #97
                A "superstate" eh. That's conspiracy theory talk. Dispensationalists are going to have giddy fits.

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                • #98
                  UKIP has already exposed itself as dishonest, and seer cites a tabloid newspaper that eats out of its hands?
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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by seer View Post
                    This could get real evil, real fast... European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled
                    Yeah, their states could unite together into one big country comprised of many states, and thus end up like America. Evil.
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                    • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Yeah, their states could unite together into one big country comprised of many states, and thus end up like America. Evil.
                      Assuming this to be the agenda, this couldn't be possible (especially in the current environment) unless the EU elites tighten the screws even more so that the political, economic and social conditions become even more draconian and dictatorial. This will inevitably lead to even more disenchantment, political chaos, and inevitable civil strife (a la the American civil war).

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                      • Originally posted by seanD View Post
                        Assuming this to be the agenda, this couldn't be possible (especially in the current environment) unless the EU elites tighten the screws even more so that the political, economic and social conditions become even more draconian and dictatorial. This will inevitably lead to even more disenchantment, political chaos, and inevitable civil strife (a la the American civil war).
                        Meh, Europe will never be completely united into some superstate, or actual country. The problem is that everyone speaks a different language. Can you imagine if every state in the USA spoke a different language and had an entirely different culture? It would be Chaos. Which is why the EU is and always will be a mess. Not to mention the countries each have a thousand years of history where they hated each other and fought wars against each other. I am amazed the EU has accomplished even getting a common currency much less even lasted as long as it has.

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                        • And now for something completely different. . .
                          Source: https://mises.org/blog/eu-hints-it-may-stop-speaking-english-spite-uk

                          EU Hints It May Stop Speaking English To Spite UK
                          It has now become abundantly clear that the bureaucrats at the EU are doing everything they can to punish the UK for voting to leave the EU.

                          Even before the referendum, German finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble threatened the UK and claimed it could never get single-market access to the EU. In other words, the UK would never be granted the sort of access that non-EU members Norway and Switzerland already have.

                          Following the election, EU Parliament President Martin Schulz raged at the UK declaring he wanted the UK out as soon as possible, claiming that the UK was holding the EU "hostage." Schulz, of course, is the same person who condemned the Poles for daring to elect someone that Schulz doesn't like. Soon after, Brussels launched a probe against the Poles, and other Europhile politicians called for sanctions against Poland for not electing the correct people.

                          This week, the sour grapes reached a new level when Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, declared that English will not be used by the EU once the UK leaves. Hübner apparently was able to keep a straight face when she declared: “'We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,' Hübner said. 'The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English.'"

                          "'If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English,' Hübner said"

                          The EU's lust for revenge against the UK is clear enough, but it's laugh-out-loud funny to suggest that people in the EU-member states of Malta and Ireland will suddenly prefer to conduct business in Maltese and Gaelic.

                          Nearly 90 percent of the Maltese speak English as a second language, and nearly all Irish speak English as a first language. The idea that the Irish would rather do business in the Gaelic language to send a message to English voters is not exactly plausible.

                          So, not only does the EU still have two member states that are essentially English-speaking countries, but the idea that the EU would cut itself off linguistically from many of the world's richest countries is a non-starter. In fact, four of the top-ten largest economies on earth (i.e., USA, UK, Canada, and India) employ English either as the primary language or as the lingua franca of business and science.

                          Moreover, English is apparently already the day-to-day business language in Brussels. Assuming the UK ever actually leaves the EU, there's no danger of English going anywhere.

                          It remains to be seen if this latest threat about English will be about as strong as the threat to cut off trade with the UK. Numerous threats that the UK would be marginalized have already come to naught, and in the case of the US and Germany, both countries have already signaled their desire to maintain close trade ties with the UK following the Brexit vote. This comes after President Obama had threatened to put the UK "at the back of the queue" in trade negotiations. As the Express in the UK reported last week: "Germany has joined the United States and Canada in reaching out to Britain to stress the importance of trade deals with the UK outside of the European Union." A spokesman for Obama, however, has attempted to save face, and maintains that the US is still committed to sticking it to the UK.

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                          • Heck even aliens speak English. Don't they watch Star Trek?

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                            • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              Yeah, their states could unite together into one big country comprised of many states, and thus end up like America. Evil.
                              Short of a civil war (may God can common sense protect us from that), and that's ironically kind of the reason why the EU was formed in the first place, I don't see how you'll unite these countries.

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                              • Originally posted by arnoldo View Post
                                And now for something completely different. . .
                                Source: https://mises.org/blog/eu-hints-it-may-stop-speaking-english-spite-uk

                                EU Hints It May Stop Speaking English To Spite UK
                                It has now become abundantly clear that the bureaucrats at the EU are doing everything they can to punish the UK for voting to leave the EU.

                                Even before the referendum, German finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble threatened the UK and claimed it could never get single-market access to the EU. In other words, the UK would never be granted the sort of access that non-EU members Norway and Switzerland already have.

                                Following the election, EU Parliament President Martin Schulz raged at the UK declaring he wanted the UK out as soon as possible, claiming that the UK was holding the EU "hostage." Schulz, of course, is the same person who condemned the Poles for daring to elect someone that Schulz doesn't like. Soon after, Brussels launched a probe against the Poles, and other Europhile politicians called for sanctions against Poland for not electing the correct people.

                                This week, the sour grapes reached a new level when Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, declared that English will not be used by the EU once the UK leaves. Hübner apparently was able to keep a straight face when she declared: “'We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,' Hübner said. 'The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English.'"

                                "'If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English,' Hübner said"

                                The EU's lust for revenge against the UK is clear enough, but it's laugh-out-loud funny to suggest that people in the EU-member states of Malta and Ireland will suddenly prefer to conduct business in Maltese and Gaelic.

                                Nearly 90 percent of the Maltese speak English as a second language, and nearly all Irish speak English as a first language. The idea that the Irish would rather do business in the Gaelic language to send a message to English voters is not exactly plausible.

                                So, not only does the EU still have two member states that are essentially English-speaking countries, but the idea that the EU would cut itself off linguistically from many of the world's richest countries is a non-starter. In fact, four of the top-ten largest economies on earth (i.e., USA, UK, Canada, and India) employ English either as the primary language or as the lingua franca of business and science.

                                Moreover, English is apparently already the day-to-day business language in Brussels. Assuming the UK ever actually leaves the EU, there's no danger of English going anywhere.

                                It remains to be seen if this latest threat about English will be about as strong as the threat to cut off trade with the UK. Numerous threats that the UK would be marginalized have already come to naught, and in the case of the US and Germany, both countries have already signaled their desire to maintain close trade ties with the UK following the Brexit vote. This comes after President Obama had threatened to put the UK "at the back of the queue" in trade negotiations. As the Express in the UK reported last week: "Germany has joined the United States and Canada in reaching out to Britain to stress the importance of trade deals with the UK outside of the European Union." A spokesman for Obama, however, has attempted to save face, and maintains that the US is still committed to sticking it to the UK.

                                © Copyright Original Source

                                meh that isn't anything new. A frenchman will only speak to you in English if it's plain that you cannot speak any other language (my parents found that breaking off into Zulu would generally make the French finally admit they could speak English when they were touring France in 1994)
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