miked10270

Good lad.

Hmmm.... Not quite so sure. There was a very strong isolationist belief in The US, Look at what happened to Woodrow WIlson & THe League of Nations. It was one thing to send salesmen to Britain and quite another to send yer actual troops to actually fight & actually get killed in what was perceived as a European war, NOT an American one! - Remember the saying in Britain at the time was: "America will fight on to the last drop of British Blood & British Money!" Remember that the attack on Pearl Harbour was an attack on American Soil and thus discredited isolationism as far as the Japanese were concerned. Teh Axis was (correctly) judged incapable of launching any similar attack on The US Atlantic Fleet. Even the earlier attack & sinking of a US warship (forget the name) by a U-Boat didn't draw America into the war. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Wouldn't it be easier & quicker to submit such posts to me & Kallend for editing BEFORE posting? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

One wonders what MAY have happenedhad Hitler & Mussolini Not declared war on the US. Would the US ever have come into the European war? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Ya know... It's strange! After 24 hours, and judging from the number of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Heroinists Etc... I'd have expected rather more than one fellow B(.)(.)bie worshipper. After all... This is a very tolerant religion making no discrimination on race, colour, creed, other religion etc... Our ideas of Heaven & Hell (for those who don't follow the Way of The B(.)(.)bie ) are fairly straightforward and are illustrated below for those considering becoming fellow worshippers. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

If we're gonna have threads about how proud we are of what we are... B(.)(.)bies have played a massive part in my life almost from the moment I was born. Although I must admit to ignoring them for a period of my life, I returned to The "Way of The B(.)(.)bies" and have remained faithful ever since puberty! Perhaps others share my beliefs? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Nope! I am a B(.)(.)BIES poster and I'm damn proud of it! In fact... I think I'll go and start a thread about this very subject and maybe find people who share my beliefs! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... OK... But I reserve the right for my b(.)(.)bie post to start an argument! Tschuess, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

So... By Your reasoning US Forces in Iraq are "Aggressive Capitalist Invaders Exterminating Muslims"? Yeah... I know that isn't their motivation. It's not WHY they're there... But they DID invade. They ARE from a Capitalist nation. They ARE aggressive. They HAVE exterminated Muslims. It is a FACT that the US in Iraq is an invading army... Should we look at facts or motivation? Tschuess, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The rioters were French Colonial descendants (Ethnic Algerian, Senegalese, Etc...) who, while being Muslim, have a hell of a lot more to complain about than religion! Saying that they were Muslims would be akin to an American city having it's (legal) native hispanics rioting and accusing Mexico of invading! Mike. Edited to add: that I find the Green / Red / Black discriminatory abuse & racism levelled against ReBirth's complexion deeply offensive. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Very valid point... However.... "You want to bet the farm that Iran will Stalin would operate according to the rational actor model in the event that country acquires atomic weapons?" (if you were looking at this 60 years ago) "To date no theocracy has possessed atomic weapons ... Fundamentalist religion injects an element of irrationality into the decision making process" But nuclear weapons have been held by fundamentalist political regimes or extreme dictatorships with a significant religious or political hatred of their immediate enemies. India & Pakistan, or North Korea for example. Strangely, their possession is announced (commonly by means of a test) yet they are NOT used in anger. In fact, the only use of atomic weapons was the use by the US in very singular circumstances - viz: Historically, any newly developed weapon had always been immediately passed to the military for use and was used. Truman was by his own admission almost completely unaware & singularly ill-informed of the nature of the weapon. Upon becoming aware of the nature of the (nuclear) weapon and despite having a monopoly on such weapons, Truman began attempts to vacate this monopoly and to place all nuclear weapons under international control. Nuclear weapons bring a whole new totality to waging war... One that fails Clausewitz's test in that the war should not destroy the very thing that you are trying to defend (or promote)! Let's play a (very short) war game. I am Iran. I have nuclear weapons. What are the consequences of me using them against The Great Satan and his Iraqi, Israeli or British lackeys? Will I win or will I enter what was once called "Mutual Assured Destruction" and thus lose? I suspect that Ahmadinejad would do no more than rattle that particular sabre while keeping it very firmly in it's scabbard just as Stalin & Eisenhower (for example) did. Actually using the weapon, even torough a third party would fail the Clausewitz test in that it's possible to identify the reactor that atomic materials originated from. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

such nonsense that it doesn't even deserve a response. QED. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I wonder if he's going to become a man who we CAN deal with once he does acquire atomic weapons and comes to terms with them. The reason I say this is that I'm just starting to look at the cold war from a historical view (rather than as a participant) and what's shaking me from my readings of Gaddis (John Lewis -Yale) is how successive leaders from Stalin through Kruschev and Truman through Eisenhower & Kennedy's attitudes ALL became distinctly Claisewitzian as they actually "got their fingers on the nuclear trigger" regardless of whether they'd actually read Clauswitz or not. It appears, strangely, that actual possession & control of nuclear weapons is a very moderating influence! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

OK. Here goes. George W Bush is a complete and utter dangerous idiot. His administration has caused more harm to Americas place in World Politics than any other in living memory. He is both evasive and incompetent is those evasions. Nathan Bedford Forrest would have made a better President! Proof can be found on any impartial news agency to the left of Genghis Khan / Fox. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

It's Tequila Time +1 Bottle (3hrs) here! Tschuess, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Err... No Offence, but WorldNetDaily isn't exactly my first choice of reliable & unbiased news coverage. To be honest I spent the first 3 months thinking it was a spinoff from the "Landover Baptist" website which IS satire... Isn't it? Anyway, as far as this particularly story goes; The pic of "Prince Mustapha-Cuppa"... Are you SURE it isn't Rowan Atkinson wearing a fake moustache & Tea-Towel? (This is an obvious disguise to those aware of "British Humour but may escape the notice of colonials) The reason I ask is that WorldNetDaily does tend to blindly publish what fits it's prejudices! Tscheuss, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hmmm... I'd really love to see the comercial in question before making an informed comment. Wait a minute!!! This is Speakers Corner! It seems from the post that the advert claims a CAUSAL link between drug abuse and Aids, rather than (correctly) warning of an increased risk of contracting HIV as a result of differing behaviour and associations as a consequence of being within the Drugs subculture. Then again, maybe they had to get the message across in a way that the MEDIAN American (Homer Simpson) would understand. Hence...: If You Do it, then BITS OF YOUR BODY WILL FALL OFF!!! Tscheuss, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Or even What's the point?" There you go John... Fixed it for you! Tscheuss, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hi Speedy, have a look through: http://www.joric.com/saddam/ It's quite weighty & lengthy but it does hit on the "Ba'thism or Communism" dilemma faced by The US at the time. Tscheuss, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hey! Relax. Getting Martha Stewart & Carol Thatcher as your suggested celebrities isn't neccessarily failure! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

That aphorism is true but the comparison is lousy. No ambiguity NOW! But would you admit to a time between when "Slighted" meant utter destruction and now when it means a minor insult? Is it possible or even likely that the word "WAR" is in a similar period of change? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I've just been guided to this!

Yep! Welcome the the "New English"! Words change. Take "SLIGHTED" as an example; Now it means a small insult or being ignored. It used to mean destroyed or rendered useless back in medieval times whan castles were "Slighted". Languages change. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

'Kay... I just Googled her... I'm not really into blondes, and her legs are frankly a bit skinny lookin'... Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Err... Couple of small questions... Who the FECK is Ann Coulter?... &... Should I care? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.