Speaking of the British Empire: Is it true, "God save the Queen", has something to do with her children?

>>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> 08/07 1:56 PM >>>
Bob writes:

> But!! What does it matter The true Country is the British Republic,
>  susposedly "The sun nevers sets on the British Republic." let us see if
>  America can brag about something as big as that!!!

Harummph! Revisionist history poppycock, I say old chap!

When that saying was popular, the phrase that was used was the "The sun never
sets on the British Empire." Other than a few misadventures in China and to
some degree in the Phillipines, the United States has never tried very hard
to become an empire and certainly isn't one now. What few territories the US
now possesses were mostly given to the US in trust after World War I, with
Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico slight exceptions to that
comment.

However, Jerry Brown, former governor of California and current mayor of
Oakland, has suggested in the past that we annex Canada :-), especially when
it looked like in the oil-starved 1970's that they had unlimited resources in
the Albertian tar sands and shale deposits.

Wirt Atmar