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Guns or Butter?
Topic Started: Apr 5 2009, 06:22 PM (171 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
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
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HOLY CARP!!!
Good!
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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
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MAMIL
'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
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HOLY CARP!!!
You can't eat a gun.
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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
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Mark
Apr 5 2009, 07:11 PM
You can't eat a gun.
You can't kill a deer with a tub of margarine. (well, I'd bet Frank or Jolly could, but not us mere mortals).
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
No need to kill anything for butter.
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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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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Mark
Apr 5 2009, 07:11 PM
You can't eat a gun.
Ernest Hemmingway I'm sure would beg to differ.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
He ate a bullet. :P

But even then one could argue that he didn't actually "eat" the bullet.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
Beating our swords into food stamps.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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.
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
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This is from the Democratic Party Playbook. The Democrats nearly always cut the defense budget. :shrug:
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
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Geaux Tigers!
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
HOLY CARP!!!
WWII turned out okay. :wink:

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
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MAMIL
Frank_W
Apr 6 2009, 05:24 AM
This is from the Democratic Party Playbook. The Democrats nearly always cut the defense budget. :shrug:
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
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Hopefully, it is being spent in places that commanders in the field have recommended.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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