>>>>As soon as the USA is indoctrinated :) and we have them speaking Dragan English things will be better.
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>>>"Dragan English" -- you're on a roll!
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>>>Actually I understand Dragan English just fine. It's Dragan Serbian that mystifies me.
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>>I treba.
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>That's easy for you to say.

Of course. It's far shorter than "and so it should" (that it means).

>It became a staple of Chicago Bulls championship rallies in Grant Park that Toni Kukoc (Croatian, sorry)

That's Kukoč (coo-coch). And I don't mind - I feel the runaway republics as phantom limbs.

>Jovan is probably about 16 now and a regular American kid. I hope so. And it's kids like him I think of when people from other countries dis the USA. Yeah, we have our flaws and our arrogance. I am not in denial about that. But this is still a pretty damned good country. Jovan's story has been told countless millions of times in our history. Somewhat ironically, it's what makes us a great nation -- almost all of us came here from somewhere else.

I agree. When I count the sons-in-law (or is it son-in-laws?), and their wider origins, we now span four continents. Can't happen elsewhere but here.

Now if only the guys who are trumpeting what should be done to them immigrants would hear you.