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How would history be differnt if the people who want us out of Afghanistan…

Posted: September 25, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Were in charge during other wars:

1776: We would be celebrating Boxing Day on December 26 and John Adams and George Washington would be buried in Unmarked graves

1813: The Ohio river bounds the boarder between the US and Canada (The British negotiates as a Sine qua non demanded an establishment of a buffer state in the Northwest See Pratt’s Preble’s boys 1950 p 393 GREAT book. My review here.)

1846: Sorry this war was one of almost continual victory, even these guys couldn’t stop it.

1863: The US’ Southern Border would be Kentucky and Missouri and Maryland and Southern Americans live under the stars and bars and St. Andrew’s cross.

1877: Montana would belong to the Sioux (assuming the treaty was kept, that’d be a first”)

1898: Yup too Much success couldn’t have stopped that.

1905: Philippine independence in 1905, Japanese occupation of same before WWI (this was remember during the height of the age of Imperialism)

1918: Germany owns large chunks of present day France and Belgium. The imperial German empire grows and a permanent rivalry exists between the British & German empires. (Preventing Indian Independence) Positive side effects: Soviet Russia shares a border with a very powerful Imperial Germany and a certain Austrian Corporal joins the Austrian VFW, goes back to his job hanging paper, sharpening his Dancing skills.

1942: England falls or makes peace with Germany. Vichy France IS modern France. Russia either falls or makes peace with Germany. The Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) is Japanese , China is Japanese, the Philippines are Japanese. Siberia is Japanese. Ethiopia is Italian.

1948: Korea is united under the Dear Leader

1962: Russian Missiles are permanently based in Cuba

1973: We’ve already seen it

1982: Grenada is a Marxist dictatorship

1989: The Berlin wall is still up and the Cold war is still on

1991: Saddam’s 19th province Kuwait is placed under the tutelage of his sons

2002: The Taliban never loses power in Afganistran

2003: Saddam is still in power

2006: Al Qaeda controls Iraq

2009: We will soon see. God help us.

Mika good, Mika bad, Mika clever?

Posted: September 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Today on Morning Joe Mika is the focus of attention and not just because she seems to be wearing and evening dress that is really attractive on her.

First she continued to stress the contractor story with unabashed irony. I just cant get over the comparison with this and last week.

Secondly they are hitting Chris Brown again the irony meter is just ready to burst.

Mika however is also shining in two ways today; on the Chris Brown story she pointed out the danger of the woman deciding to take him back, it is something that should be said and I’m glad she said it.

She is said she wants to skip the Levi Johnson nonsense and instead talk about the Chuck Hagel and his Afghanistan opinions. I likely won’t agree with them but they are likely much more relevant than Johnson’s tripe. Shades of her famous Paris Hilton moment. Whatever you may think on the war it is definitely a more newsworthy topic.

And By God she DID skip him and the team backed her up. Every time they drive me nuts they do something like this to remind me why I liked them so much.

And did anyone notice that she went straight to the Chappaquiddick stuff from the Afghanistan “party boys” story this morning? I don’t think that was an accident.

Could she be doing this on purpose? She is a lot more than just a handsome woman.

Update: What hath Mika wrought? MSNBC other guys don’t seem to like Johnston either. If we get to Matthews, Maddow and old Olby and they don’t pick up the slack then his 15 min will be up for good.

The private contractors in afghanistan

Posted: September 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Again Mika is shocked SHOCKED.

Again she wasn’t shocked SHOCKED by Kennedy.

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