Fairweather

I'll just sit it out if either Hukabee or Romney are the nominee. (I think Hukabee is the Howard Dean of the Republican field this round.) I'll plug my nose and vote Guliani if I have to, but I stand by my month's old belief that the finalist will be my favorite; McCain. Under no circumstances will I vote for one of the kook/whack-job Democrats.

Actually, it was written by 5 Frenchmen and later translated into English. It's a pretty committing read - on the order of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" in size and detail.

I would say the economic tenets of communism are at least as repulsive as its death toll. And it's utter destruction of the human spirit and individuality is more repulsive still. Like I've taught my kids: Better dead than red. ...and if Tvashy were physically able to reproduce, he could teach his kids as he saw fit too.

Worth a repost. Goddamn!!!!!!!! The Tvash has yet another career! In addition to entomologist, soldier, Cheif Technology Officer of an IT firm, battery/circuit designer, Literary Critic, ACLU attorney, speed climber, virologist, day-trading world traveler, husband, self-proclaimed great lover, and religious scholar, the Tvashman hath yet another page to share on his resume!! This is just toooooooooooooooooooo incredible. Now, tell us about your secret nuclear training...I want to hear all about it. I mean, I know there's stuff you're not allowed to say n'all, but, really, I want to hear what it was like out there man! Did they make you wear goggles and shit? How did you ever find time to do all of that financial, high tech, medical, literary stuff? You are one busy dude. And totally full of fucking shit. Seriously. Your lies and fantasies are getting out of control. By the way champ, it wasn't called the "Baker" test. It was called Crossroads. Baker - "B" - simply denotes the second test of the series. See also, Castle, Ivy series, etc. But, of course, you already knew this. You can now run back, correct the errors in your post, and act like you knew all along what the fuck you were talking about.

Whatever your opinion of the bomb, you've gotta admit this is a pretty spectacular video: ...can't get it to embed for some reason. Just use the link.

Silly me, I thought we one it because we didn't annihilate each other. Well that and our leader wasn't deposed because of losing it. Um. I believe he was "deposed" about one year later. By a self-described communist recently back from a trip to The Soviet Union. Curious, eh?

We quietly gave up those missiles in Turkey after the Soviets withdrew theirs from Cuba. We also issued a public promise to never invade Cuba. Kennedy/we did not win the famous Cuban Missile Crisis.

C'mon, Justin. I've never actually seen Sodium ionically bond to Chloride. But I don't leave open the possibility the bond is covalent just because I can't see it happen. There are things we'll never know about history, but we can reach sound conclusions and test our hypotheses through journals, photos, interviews - all the while allowing for reasonable dissent. OK - maybe my salt parallel was not so good - but I never claimed to be a chemist.

How do you know that fear over our apparent plan of nuclear-backed domination of the world didn't sour the deal? Please share hard evidence of this master plan for nuclear backed domination. I haven't read about it. I believe that Soviet aggression toward Iran was the only instance where it is alleged we back-channel threatened the use of nukes. I'm not even sure about that. I'll see if I can find it. Meanwhile, please show evidence of our master plan. Just a little factoid: Harry S Truman was the last American President not in possession of a college degree. Now ya know.

True, that. I don't envy Roosevelt's position one bit. We made a deal with the devil when we buddied up with Stalin. I'm not sure I would have done it - but what was the alternative?

I think I'd like to play on that little round outcrop of pink granite - just above the north end of the valley.

You do realize of course, that up until late 1945 the Soviets were, for all intents, our allies?

Young enough not to have been brainwashed by what was apparently highly effective cold-war era U.S. propaganda. Since you bring it up, here's just one idea from scientific theory that is highly relevant to world politics. That is the idea of symmetry, specifically as expressed by Newton's third law. All actions have repercussions... Our possession of atomic weapons didn't force Stalin to loosen his iron grip on his new "possessions" in eastern and central Europe. Ever heard of Poland? Yugoslavia? Hungary? Bulgaria? Romania? Czechoslovakia? Etc? Etc? Are you old enough to remember "East" Germany? How about his grab of The Kuril Islands after we defeated Japan? Do you really think he was all that scared of our weapons? Have you even heard of these places? As a leader (and butcher) of his people, yes, he was likely obligated to seek nuclear parity, and thanks to some good old fashioned espionage, "aquired" German technical know-how, and damn good scientists of his own, he did just that. Would he have done it without US pressure? Hell yes. Communism was - and still is - even worse that those proselytizing religions you hear so much about around here. Its true adherents demand its spread - by "workers revolution" or any means necessary. Hence Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Nicaragua, etc. We did right to make every effort to stop that scourge. When I was in high school, there was a book that was required reading. The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Please read it if you can find the time.

Goddamn!!!!!!!! The Tvash has yet another career! In addition to entomologist, soldier, Cheif Technology Officer of an IT firm, battery/circuit designer, Literary Critic, ACLU attorney, speed climber, virologist, day-trading world traveler, husband, self-proclaimed great lover, and religious scholar, the Tvashman hath yet another page to share on his resume!! This is just toooooooooooooooooooo incredible. Now, tell us about your secret nuclear training...I want to hear all about it. I mean, I know there's stuff you're not allowed to say n'all, but, really, I want to hear what it was like out there man! Did they make you wear goggles and shit? How did you ever find time to do all of that financial, high tech, medical, literary stuff? You are one busy dude. And totally full of fucking shit. Seriously. Your lies and fantasies are getting out of control. By the way champ, it wasn't called the "Baker" test. It was called Crossroads. Baker - "B" - simply denotes the second test of the series. See also, Castle, Ivy series, etc. But, of course, you already knew this. You can now run back, correct the errors in your post, and act like you knew all along what the fuck you were talking about.

Here's a guy who's dedicated his life to documenting "Death by Government". I have the book too - long out of print. Enjoy. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WSJ.ART.HTM To view this double standard from another perspective, both World Wars cost twenty-four million battle deaths. But from 1918 to 1953, the Soviet government executed, slaughtered, starved, beat or tortured to death, or otherwise killed 39,500,000 of its own people (my best estimate among figures ranging from a minimum of twenty million killed by Stalin to a total over the whole communist period of eighty-three million). For China under Mao Tse-tung, the communist government eliminated, as an average figure between estimates, 45,000,000 Chinese. The number killed for just these two nations is about 84,500,000 human beings, or a lethality of 252 percent more than both World Wars together. Yet, have the world community and intellectuals generally shown anything like the same horror, the same outrage, the same out pouring of anti-killing literature, over these Soviet and Chinese megakillings as has been directed at the much less deadly World Wars? As can be seen from Table 1, communist governments are overall almost four times more lethal to their citizens than non-communist ones, and in per capita terms nearly twice as lethal (even considering the huge populations of the USSR and China). Just a note of my own on the nuke thing: I always find it amusing that scientists tinker and build with such zeal - and all too quickly try to wash their hands when what they knew all along comes to fruition.

Seriously. How old are you? And from what pap did you digest this fiction? Here's one for you: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=21&Number=726515&Searchpage=1&Main=54547&Words=communist+TREETOAD&topic=0&Search=true#Post726515 Are you serious? For all the ugliness, the entire Cold War advanced science. The particular nuke-test in question here only proved that underwater nuclear weapons were NOT very effective against a potentially threatening naval flotilla. Only 14 of 130 ships sunk or seriously damaged. Is it possible you should stick to chemistry and leave history/politics alone?

It's place is actually much, much lower - if you're simply going by the body count - unless you consider innocent men, women, and children being worked or starved to death somehow better than the Nazi methodism. If you would care to pick up a book on twentieth century history .... oh, never mind.

On three occasions I have felt compelled to contact my state reps on the personal level. On all three of these occasions I received a reply letter or email directly from them in short order. (Then Rep - now Senator Mike Carrell, former Rep Gigi Talcott, and former Senator Shirley Winsley) I can assure you that every state rep I've dealt with was concerned with anything happening in their district regardless of their ability to affect change. If a representative of the people is willing to get bogged down in legal minutia in lieu of good old fashioned persuasion, then maybe they deserve replacement at the next election. Not trying to bash on your post or your employer, but I was just taken aback by your comment.

I'm curious who he works for. I've known several state reps, and my now-retired state senator lives just a few houses down the street. I can assure you that none of them would dismiss a citizen issue within their district simply because it wasn't tied directly to a "state agency". That;s just plain ridiculous. IMO, what jfree is referring to is called l-a-z-y government. The very least a state rep could do is pick up the phone and ask a few questions.

????Are you serious????

As such all communist references by the tighty-whitey-righty bunch are declared null and void. The fact that legitimate historical contextual connections cannot be made between Nazis and Bush does not mean that connections between communists and certain modern leftist ideals are invalid. In fact, a few posters here on this site proudly proclaim just such an affiliation.

Both are funny and benign. And unlike the juvenile No.13, you've never struck me as a member of the Excessively Obsessed With Bushrage cadre. For the record, any death threat against GW - implied or overt - is in poor taste, if not illegal. Nazi associations or reference is in very poor taste - and just plain wrong historically. And the whole chimp thing is just getting older by the day. But I do like that doll! Know where I can get one?

Is it now two thousand eight? Or twenty-o-eight?

All you have to do is shut down your computer, go outside, and hit yourself on the head with a really big rock until you are no longer able to speak - dipshit.