This sounds to me like a pretty weak attempt to keep the “war record” clean of losses.

Nah, 1812 more or less ended in a draw, and I wouldn’t call Vietnam a total loss.

Sign out a theater? How much would it cost? Too bad, I never saw the series.

it’s a question of standpoint… and as america is so much right-wing, i can understand you see the world as leftish

Question, I don’t know the answer. Is China’s Government Elected?

Yes, most of the positions in the government are based on election, though often these elections are rigged. There hasn’t been once been a successful and smooth transfer of power (usually ending in bloody coups) since it went communist

China is experiencing more economic growth because it has become a combination of Communism and Capitalism.

I wouldn’t exactly call it communist. More like socialist.

SUD - thanks for that insight. I met an interesting guy once - a former executive director-guy with CSIS - he could not tell me about most of his life, which was ok, because the stuff he could tell me about was right out of some novels. Anyway, thank you for serving. I’m always touched by what we owe you people, particularly Nov 11, or when watching a war-movie (Band of Brothers, etc.) or reading about Canadian military history.
Regards,
cc

I’m not saying it is all alarming, I’m just listing the act in it’s entirety.

Oh, my gods! I feel the fat forming as I read this. I can’t even lose weight on a no fat diet. With family, home, vehicle and work, I’ve got no time for exercise. I think I’ll sell the wife and kids to a needy Saudi prince. - Xi
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man
to fish and you get rid of him for the weekend!” - Anonymous

But no exercise, darn! - Xi

[while eatting a mouthful of BLT]: Mmmph Wha-? Mmmph Okay.

@T_6:

. . . the people who had a terrible time?

They are divided into two main groups. First, there are those chosen
to visit and believe they had a bad time. Second there are those who believe they were born there and escaped, visited and were captured/tortured, or visited and saw terrible things. This second group
helps fund the control program. Some of the other groups that fund the
brainwashing are the Christian Children’s Fund, the ACLU. the NRA, and the American Red Cross. Of course the plan is so pervasive I only have clues to part of the plot. :P :wink:

“All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been
effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury
of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons,
Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until
their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist. “Fate,” The Conduct of Life (1860).

Thank you for those words of bias.
We no longer have to ask, “Where’s Waldo?”. - Xi

I relly HATE to say it, but, “I told you so!”
Two day old news on front page of many newspapers across America.

“Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the
world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”

Anonymous U.S. Analyst In 1967.
Quoted in “The Uses of Anticommunism,” vol. 21,
published in The Socialist Register (1985).
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Freedom ain’t free. Ya gotta fight fer it. - Xi

i still find this really amusing. I went back to re-read the original quote, and now i can’t take it seriously at all. Am i the only one with this problem?

Hahaha… as F_alk would say, your German is very bad.

Mind you, i guess Xi and TG’s arguments over quotes belittles the intent of the original post, so i guess that’s appropriate

When I see a quote that I find inappropriate, I will deal with it. Us Americans don’t give up that easy.

“One of the striking differences between Fascism and Communism
is this: Fascism has inspired no great work of art…. No doubt,
Fascism is too vile and scurrilous an ideology to produce those
charities of the imagination which are essential to literate art.
Communism, even when it has gone venomous, is a mythology of the
human future, a vision of human possibility rich in moral demand.
Fascism is the ultimate code of the hoodlum; Communism fails
because it would seek to impose upon the fragile plurality of
human nature and conduct an artificial ideal of self-denial and
human purpose. Fascism tyrannizes through contempt of man;
Communism tyrannizes by exalting man above that sphere of private
error, private ambition, and private love which we call freedom.”

Hahaha, I think DasEwokSS would disagree with you on fascism (thank you for knowing the correct spelling).
Myths don’t come true, Communism will. There is no human purpose under communism? Give me a break. It would seem like it would have a more “humane” purpose. Be careful with human nature - it will surprise you. Also, Communism is freedom - compare that spectrum with fascism to see why.

Well, everyone else has to think about it, but ,
for you, :evil: b_k :evil: , there is no doubt. :P :wink: - Xi
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. . . and apologize in absentia. - Xi

“The consistent anarchist…should be a socialist, but a
socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose
alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the
appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers,
but he will also insist that this appropriation be
direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the
name of the proletariat…Some sort of council communism
is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an
industrial society. It reflects the intuitive under-
standing that democracy is largely a sham when the
industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic
elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a
“vanguard” party, or a State bureaucracy.”

Noam Chomsky, political analyst. “Notes on Anarchism,”
New York Review of Books (May 21, 1970).

reminds me of a funny story:
A friend of mine - an ER and intensive care doctor - occassionally moonlights as a family physician doing locums (i.e. filling in) for other family doc’s. One day an American woman comes in for a regional exam (basically just a run-of-the-mill medical complaint). At this time, the Canadian tariff (or fee) for a regional was around $15.85 Canadian - just around $10.00 US.
You can see it coming, can’t you . . .
He asks her for the $10.00 and she turns and asks him “are you sure you’re a real doctor?”
Since then he routinely bills Americans $100.00 - just so he looks like a legitimate physician.

Kinda said really, but coming from CC, Hahahhahah… :lol:

God promised he wouldn’t flood the earth again, he’s omnipotent, theres no consequences for him breaking his promises.

I’m not blinded by Hate, your just predisposed to your faith. I jeer every Religion with an Omnipotent God, mostly all Monotheisisms.

An M16 Rifle weighs what, 15 pounds? Full combat infantry gear, 40 pounds? Thats 55 pounds on you. Anyone can carry that. Modern Rifles have incredibly little recoil.

The problem isn’t so much with being able to carry 55 pounds (though this is in its own right heavy [ex. lot of girls complain when their backpack weighs more than 10-20 pounds), but carrying it over long distances. I have done a lot of reenacting with such loads (though more like 30 mostly) and after two hours of fighting, sprinting, and marching, it starts to wear on you - A Lot. This is esp. true when your exhausted, under harsh terrian, in fog of war, and under heat - not many people can take that. Besides, I never want someone in my squad covering me who doesn’t want to fight - this often results in two deaths instead of one.

I’m not sure you know what I mean

Yes, the sub was a mini.

Beat ya to it! They already glow in the dark. :P It makes it easier to find them sometimes…just turn out the lights.Got some of my materials from Fernald(nuke plant closing near Cincinnati)[j/k]
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'Tis better to spend for a war that never comes, than to war without spending. - Xi :wink:

SILENCE, LIBERAL! No one is CONSERVATIVE, but ME.
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“Laughter is the shortest distance
between two people.” - Victor Borge
:D - Xi

if higher taxes means that if i broke my arm or cut hand and needed stiches or got sick and needed anti biotics I would not have to pay a cent, i’m for it. i do think taxes are a little too high up here, but canadians are too apathetic to do anything about it.

also it was not called the white house before, it was actully called the presidentel palace, the renamed it after the painted it white to hide all the scorch marks.