David Bennetts wrote:

I'd want to get back home to Australia after visiting a country with
gun-toting idiots walking the streets carrying $5 specials,

What streets you been hangin' out on? Been watching too much TV?

yellowing out "howdy" all the time,


Huh? Howdy? Been watching old Westerns. I generally just nod,
thank you.

whose ancestors killed off the native American tribes
to push them off their land..

They were damn sure pushed off their land, that's for sure; and, er,
I guess there was a little genocide here and there, but they were
never hunted for sport. And our ancestors never killed any group to
extinction, as did yours with the people of Tasmania...

Deserts full of prickly cactus, rattlesnakes
and sidewinders.

Hey! I love our deserts, and mountains, and seashores, and wildlife.
We did have Bill Clinton as Prez for 8 years, but the ecomony DID boom.
We now have little Caesar as Prez, but we are all suffering through his
*last* term, but hey, nothing's perfect.

Weapons of mass destruction stored all over the country.

Our country is such a jewel on Earth that everybody wants it. It's
called *protection*.

With awful TV shows with canned laughter,

Have to agree here. TV/movies have gone into the crapper, but there's
lots of good stuff from the past to watch.

crap restaurants,

Maybe your choices are just bad.

and oversize gas guzzling pickup trucks.

Have to agree here too about the pig haulers, but at least folks
have that choice if they so desire.

Swell place, America

Indeed it is. I wouldn't shoot a rabid skunkape trying to leave
Australia.

--
Cliff