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    Fire and Fury - WW II Version

    Oddly enough, that's essentially what happened in the Soviet zone of occupation.  They looted East Germany right down to the ground.
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    Fire and Fury - WW II Version

    Other than defending themselves from a German attack, what did the Soviets do to assist the Western Allies?  Did the Soviets come to England and France's aid in 1939?  No they only entered the war when Hitler attacked them.  From then on it was gimme gimme gimme every time there was a strategy...
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    Fire and Fury - WW II Version

    No compelling reason to drop 2 A Bombs?  How about the tens of thousands of American lives saved by not having to attack over the beaches of Honshu against suicidal opposition?  That doesn't count the normal ratio of three wounded to each death in an assault. How about the millions of Japanese...
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    Fire and Fury - WW II Version

    I don't think that you could ever call the Soviet Union an ally of the Western Powers.  They were co-beligerents.  They never coordinated their strategy with the Western Allies, or provided any support to them.  The Soviets and the Western Allies just had the same enemy in Nazi Germany. ...
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    Fire and Fury - WW II Version

    The Japanese government was prepared to fight to the last man, woman and child to avoid the disgrace of surrender.  The only negotiated peace acceptable to the Japanese government was a return to status quo ante of December 6th 1941, no occupation of Japan,  "disarmament" to be done and...
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    ZAP 26

    I was just giving my experience on the boat. The boat isn't the training fleet anymore. It was fun to sail, but I think it was a bad choice for a training boat.
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    ZAP 26

    The City of Ventura used to have one in it's training fleet. It was a little overpowered for a training boat. We did a couple of Wet Wednesdays with it and a heavy crew and did OK in moderate wind. We were all newbies so I'm sure we didn't sail the boat to it's potential.
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    4 missing as sailing flounders outside the Gate

    From the reports I'm hearing, they didn't have a working GPS on the boat. Crew was man, wife child and nephew. Lack of Working GPS makes me doubt the rest of the life saving gear on the boat. I hope the Coasties find them, but after almost 24 hours in fifty degree water, I'd be amazed at a...
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    Bill Kristol Throws Cold Water On GOP Election Hopes

    That's how Obama got elected. Anyone with a D behind their name could have beaten McCain. Hope and Change was supposed to make things better. At best they only kept things the same, at worst they seriously damaged the economy.
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    WMDs FOUND IN - - - - wait for it - - -

    White Phosphorous is a chemical smoke, not a chemical agent. Napalm is a incendiary, not a chemical agent. Agent Orange is a chemical defoliant, essentially Roundup on steroids, not a chemical agent. The only chemical agents the US used in Vietnam were CN and CS tear gas, and very small...
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    WMDs FOUND IN - - - - wait for it - - -

    The Nazi's did a lot of bad things, but they didn't use chemical agents. Yes they used ZyklonB to kill their Jewish population, but that is just a poison,not a chemical weapon. It has no battlefield utility, it is non-persistant and non-contaminating. Chlorine gas was the same way, that why...
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    WMDs FOUND IN - - - - wait for it - - -

    How exactly do you define Chemical Weapons? To my knowledge the USA has NEVER used chemical weapons. I may be wrong about during WWI when Mustard Gas was routinely used by all sides. But other than that the USA has NEVER used any Nerve, Blood or Inhaled war gas.
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    Mustang and Spitfire

    Yes walking in the front door, and looking up to realize that you are under a B36 is a wierd feeling. Talk about one huge aircraft.
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    Mustang and Spitfire

    The Lightning was there from the very first. They had problems in England due to the poor cockpit heating and leaks in the intercooler ducting. so the Air Corps brass in England opted for the P47 and P51 for reliability. In North Africa the P38s owned the Luftwaffe. At low to medium altitude...
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    anyone else believe a revolution/civil war is inevitable?

    I don't think the antler hats would be all that necessary. Deer hunters manage to kill their fair share of cows and other hunters every year.
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    Interesting poll on Muslim Americans

    The problem with our current immigration wave, is that at a certain point immigrants don't assimilate into the host country's culture, they assimilate the local culture into their's. We have reached that point int he Western border states. When you can have the California legislature pass a...
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    New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom

    The original intent of the framers was that if an idea had the support of a super-majority in the congress and of a super-majority of the states, it deserved to be law. It generally has worked out. The occassional error (read prohibition) has been corrected by the same process. However...
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    New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom

    Chuck, I'm sorry to break this news to you, but a Supreme Court Justice who adheres to the original intent of the men who wrote the Constitution isn't an "activist judge". He is merely doing what a Supreme Court Justice is supposed to do, intrepret law based on the written Constitution, not...
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    Dream Act fail..........

    The only workable solutions are 1. go after the employers, strong sanctions includinf large fines and jail time for repeat offenders. 2) Deny illegal aliens all services other than EMERGENCY medical care and the K-12 education that the Supreme Court says they are entitled to (I disagree) 3) This...
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    Tiny Island To Take 17 Guantanamo Detainees

    You entirely missed the point. They remained at Gitmo while we were trying to find someone other than the PRC who would take them. Returning them to the PRC would be equivilent to returning a German Jew to Nazi Germany. The result would be a quick execution without due process.


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