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| Guns or Butter? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 5 2009, 06:22 PM (171 Views) | |
| Jolly | Apr 5 2009, 06:22 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5110462/US-to-slash-military-spending.html |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Mark | Apr 5 2009, 07:05 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Good! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 5 2009, 07:08 PM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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'Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat' ~ Hermann Goering, notorious fat bastard. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mark | Apr 5 2009, 07:11 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You can't eat a gun. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 5 2009, 07:37 PM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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You can't kill a deer with a tub of margarine. (well, I'd bet Frank or Jolly could, but not us mere mortals). |
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| Mark | Apr 5 2009, 08:05 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No need to kill anything for butter. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 5 2009, 08:20 PM Post #7 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Ernest Hemmingway I'm sure would beg to differ. |
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| Mark | Apr 5 2009, 08:47 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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He ate a bullet. ![]() But even then one could argue that he didn't actually "eat" the bullet. |
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| JBryan | Apr 6 2009, 12:49 AM Post #9 |
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I am the grey one
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Beating our swords into food stamps. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 6 2009, 02:51 AM Post #10 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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In other circumstances I'd post an LOL smilie for JB's comment. We do this military cutback periodically, and every time we do we're shown that it is a mistake. If you want peace, be ready for war. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 6 2009, 05:24 AM Post #11 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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This is from the Democratic Party Playbook. The Democrats nearly always cut the defense budget.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Jolly | Apr 6 2009, 05:37 PM Post #12 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Does not pay to be in the military during a Dem administration. You get to go to the same diverse places to kill people, only you get to do it with crappy equipment and be paid less money... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 6 2009, 07:16 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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WWII turned out okay. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 7 2009, 04:20 AM Post #14 |
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MAMIL
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The budget is actually 4% higher than that of last years - $534 billion as opposed to $512. The money is going to different places, but is still being spent. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 7 2009, 04:23 AM Post #15 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Hopefully, it is being spent in places that commanders in the field have recommended. |
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