Dan Drake wrote:
Actually, I considered putting a disclaimer in the posting, but thought it would be a waste. Wrong again. I need to be more ultra-patriotic American, and assume that any praise of anything in my country will be taken as an attack on the world, foreigners being quite unable (like all too many Americans) to understand such subtleties.
Ultra-patriotism is one thing that will unite non-Americans of any political stripe anywhere. Praising what is right is perfectly acceptable to many of us foreigners. Just try to avoid gratuitous superlatives; they are not subtle. :-)
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