Things Like This Make Me Feel Good About Being An American

[Dino Velvet]

Coming to America: 30 take oath to become new citizens
http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49853269#49853269
http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49853269#49852921

I'm proud of them too. Congratulations.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/tdy-121116-immigrants-03.TdyDouble.jpg

[danthepoetman]

Going through the immigration process is not a piece of cake. You have to really want it. And at the end of it, you deserve to be called a citizen. When you have such a desire to start a new life, this must be an incredibly exciting moment.

[nina_lisa]

Oath, that is not fun.

They should be able instead to do the following:
1) eat 5 cheese burger under a 60seconds
2) put 3others into a mixer and make a burger smoothie.
3) have some wrestling contest in a ketchup/mustard sauce, the loser need to leave the US in 30days.

[Dino Velvet]

Oath, that is not fun.

They should be able instead to do the following:
1) eat 5 cheese burger under a 60seconds
2) put 3others into a mixer and make a burger smoothie.
3) have some wrestling contest in a ketchup/mustard sauce, the loser need to leave the US in 30days.

They can get a lesson in our culture too. Let's add that to the oath. I'll show up and have fun with it too.

How are you doing, Nina? Any great vegetarian food concoctions lately?

[nina_lisa]

i am good, made a grilled cheese wrap for dinner today

[Dino Velvet]

i am good, made a grilled cheese wrap for dinner today

I'm sure your grilled cheese is way more elegant than the slop I make in a frying pan.

[nina_lisa]

i looked into google image what a slop is, and i am happy to be vegetarian

[Dino Velvet]

i looked into google image what a slop is, and i am happy to be vegetarian

Just a saying, not a recipe. I use it a lot to describe my cooking. "How's yer slop over there?"

[danthepoetman]

I know I couldn't possibly live without this once in a while...

[Dino Velvet]

I know I couldn't possibly live without this once in a while...

I ate burgers 3 days in a row last week. Went to Fatburger, In 'n' Out, then Carl's Jr to switch things up and have variety.

[danthepoetman]

Nothing like a fat, juicy burger and fries. I love Italian cuisine, but this is the one food I wouldn't live without, the one I'd carry on a desert island... lol

[danthepoetman]

Don't want to highjack, Dino, but since this one is still quiet, let me put here a few of my favourite American heroes.
Woody Guthrie (love this guy)
http://www.beck.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/woody.jpeg
http://www.popspotsnyc.com/woody_guthrie/cd_cover.jpg
Joe Louis
http://jerseygirlsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Joe-Louis.jpg
Jack Kerouac
http://indianapublicmedia.org/arts/files/2012/05/Jack_Kerouac2.jpg
Ernest Hemingway
http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/images/heming.jpg
Henry Miller
http://faustroll.net/soutine/pics/doc15.jpg
President Roosevelt
http://www.presidentprofiles.com/images/prh_01_img0065.jpg
Charlie Parker
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/62529935/Charlie+Parker+PNG.png
Billie Holliday
http://classmatesmemorylane.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/apr-7_billie-holiday.jpg
Walth Withman
http://ethanrussell.com/americanstory/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/walt_whitman.jpg
Alfred Kinsey
http://www.jillstanek.com/kinsey%202.jpg
...and of course many, many more. Many reasons to be proud being an American!