more Americans than realize it have Mexican blood
To persuade more U.S. residents to visit Mexico, AeroMexico offers “DNA discounts” on the airline for Americans with Mexican heritage. Travelers are awarded percentage discounts equal to the percentage of their Mexican ancestry – http://tinyurl.com/yah6swme
Bill Bailey plays the american national anthem in minor rather than major key . . .
while this video is hoping to motivate more young americans to register, and turn up, to vote in elections, the disproportionate percentage of elderly voting in elections compared to that of young folk doing so is not unique to the USA
there’s some weird laws and regulations surrounding food in parts of the USA
today, 4th of July, americans celebrate the anniversary of the day they decided to go it alone . . .
For over seventy years, people have been driving out in their RVs to a remote desert area near the city of Yuma, in the US state of Arizona, to write their names and leave messages on the desert floor. Unlike regular graffiti that is hurtful to the environment, at Valley of Names messages are spelled out by carefully arranging rocks and small boulders in the hard-packed white sand – http://tinyurl.com/ycj6dcne
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hhmmm, perhaps it’s just me but while this graffiti is ‘not hurtful to the environment’, to me it’s an act of vandalism that mars the natural beauty of the area
all these calls for ‘thoughts and prayers’ we keep hearing from ‘pious’ politicians in the pay of the NRA don’t seem to be doing much to curb the slaughter and injury of america’s schoolkids and teachers – http://tinyurl.com/y8yflw3j
