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On Fri, 31 May 2002 at 2:12pm Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Like I said, one foot in each camp. There are things to
> love about it, and things to hate. It's too big and
> complicated to have a single dominant feeling about it.
> That said, though, I doubt I could live anywhere else. I
> have to admit that on the morning of 9/11, I thought,
> "No one would ever fly a plane into a skyscraper in
> Melbourne." But that's not a very practical thought. I
> feel so much a part of U.S. culture that I don't think I
> could live anywhere else.

[with apologies to doug and farmelent and all the others
that find my taste in music too boring]

I am a patriot and I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
With people who understand me
I got nowhere else to go
I am a patriot

[...]

And I ain't no communist, and I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
and I sure ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
And I ain't no republican either
And I only know one party
and it's name is freedom
I am a patriot

And the river opens for the righteous, someday

_I Am A Patriot_

 -- Steven Van Zandt

--
no Onan

Undefeated, everybody goes home