Is that like kindergarten for a country? Seems so to me.

Nah, more like a rebellious teenager if you ask me.

bapu
We're (USofA) 239 tomorrow?
 

I look at 7/4/1776 more as the moment of conception than birth.
 
And from this point of view, the Boston Tea Party counts as foreplay.

People are still going to be people. We can hope and dream and think that things are going to change but they aren't. Things never change. Well, they do but not much and then they change back to what they were because people are people same as it ever was.... same as it ever was.
 
IMO...

yup teenagers