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  • September 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm in reply to: The perception of Charlemagne after his death #27535
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    The Germans referrred to Charlemagne's empire as the First Reich, brief and shakey as it was by the end of his reign both internally and extenally.

    September 12, 2012 at 1:25 am in reply to: Strange deaths of historical rulers #27106
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    Herod the Great also died from the maggoted genetalia disease.

    Well echoed.  ;D

    September 10, 2012 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Top Seven "Coolest" presidents in U.S. history #27515
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    Cool is a lazy word no different though less offensive than a swear word.By NPR and dem standards they should have included Cleveland and Harding.  ;D

    August 31, 2012 at 8:18 pm in reply to: The phrases you are using are probably "wrong" #27483
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    A four flushin' flash in the pan.  ;D

    August 30, 2012 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Election 2012 – The discussion #25892
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    The media/dems will keep Palin “alive” for she is the one GOP female they love to hate. I went through the “minority” hell treatment inflicted by the spurned dems when I supported Eisenhower in '52 and '56, same as Latino and Black conservatives today. All venom, no substance in their arguments.

    August 30, 2012 at 7:38 pm in reply to: The moral case for the British Empire #27471
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    Better postage stamps too during the Empire. Yes, they may not have been perfect, but the Brits generally kept things under control. Interesting factoid. After WWI, the actor Victor McLaglen was a captain and Provost Marshal for Baghdad.

    August 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Election 2012 – The discussion #25890
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    Am I the first to pundit that the lady governors have rendered Sara Palin irrelevant for the GOP? Each is less shrill and has more gravitas and substance. Condi is still my favorite female politician, and she did wow the audience.

    August 27, 2012 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Why the people went along with Hitler #27435
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    A confluence of reasons:For young males, easily brainwashed otherwise, and females as well, he lathered his speeches with “blood of our blood, flesh of our flesh” and became their surrogate father. Many had lost theirs in WWI. As Eric Hoffer wrote in his once acclaimed The True Believer, the mediocre and failures find strength by identifying with a group ( or team as it may be here in the USA).An oath sworn by a German culturally is never to be broken. Hitler had the military swear a personal oath to him not to Germany.Greed — confiscation of property.Social Darwinism and latent antisemitism.Cowardice. You see a half dozen brownshirts beating a single person, what can one do. I remember as a 9 year old boy no one protested in liberal San Francisco the internment of the Japanese.Put thugs in charge of prisoners.

    August 19, 2012 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Had Edward VII lived could he have prevented WWI? #27437
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    The pot was boiling — forgive the cliche –by the time of the assasination with Ententes, Triple Alliances, national aspirations of subject minorities, potential revolt in Russia, French passion for revanche, militarism, colonial rivalries . At best Edward VII might have influenced a delay.How about if TR won in 1912? He might have mediated a delay as well, and one may ask would the Germans have sunk our ships had he been President? Look at the wimpster signals the overrated (by dems) WW sent. “America is too proud to fight” and He kept us out of war.”

    August 6, 2012 at 2:55 pm in reply to: London Olympics #27357
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    I was not thinking Gabby was black, colored, or A-A, when Costas made those inane and unnecessary racial remarks. He would have been a better man if he said Gabby inspired all short people — like himself. The leftist media will never allow a post-racial society to exist.

    August 2, 2012 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Elizabeth Warren is a psycho #27424
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    Shrill, hysterical, a liar, but for most dems politics is a religion in which one may be embarrassed by the sins of their candidate or elected official but always forgive the sinner because they hate/fear the opposition as the Devil incarnate. Or, they rationalize “everyone does it.”  Her speech at the dem convention might create more votes for the reps if independents do not fall asleep watching before she mounts the podium.

    August 1, 2012 at 1:10 am in reply to: First article accepted #27416
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    Congratulations. May it be the first of many.

    July 30, 2012 at 2:55 pm in reply to: What is the relationship between technology and victory? #27391
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    So Homer Lea wrote in 1908 when referring to native Americans and the colonies taken by the Brits and others during the 19th century.

    July 20, 2012 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Who Knew? #27327
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    I thought there was a Great Western Bra — Head 'em up and move 'em out!  😀 Attributed to female comic Rusty Warren.

    July 20, 2012 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Election 2012 – The discussion #25852
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    My wife and I do not answer polls — and we ain't voting for BHO.

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