Thursday, March 01, 2007
RANDOM THOUGHTS POST
as mentioned in comments. did ANYBODY learn in history class that west virginia was created so they could stay in the union while the rest would secceed to join the confederacy? and looking back now, would it have been so bad to have an america and a confederate states?
and was watching trhe 'secrets of the dead thing last night. which didn't seem to be connected with WW2 technically, but still interesting because it had more brit stuff with those fancy tanks to defeat Rommel's defences. and watching those 3 old soldier's meet and from reading my EBs and frankly all war is looking very bad to me. sure WW2 is celebrated because the right side won. civil war because the north and anti-slavery won. but all war seems to be is population control and the ego of leaders going amok. all war is looking extremely sad to me. a waste of money and lives. and tribalism and just stupid and uncivilized ways of ending things. just stupid. and georgie gets his jollies from it. just sick. fucking sick. we can just forget the semi-utopia of star trek. just liberal wishful thinking.
bah humbug.
but those brit tanks were cool. if only i had known, i would have grabbed different british patent books at the library when they sold them. i did get some post WW1 ones that had war related improvments.i didn't have much time to look through them. just grabbed as many as i could carry. jeez. how did i haul oll of them to my car??? i got about 6 or 7 big fuckers.
as mentioned in comments. did ANYBODY learn in history class that west virginia was created so they could stay in the union while the rest would secceed to join the confederacy? and looking back now, would it have been so bad to have an america and a confederate states?
and was watching trhe 'secrets of the dead thing last night. which didn't seem to be connected with WW2 technically, but still interesting because it had more brit stuff with those fancy tanks to defeat Rommel's defences. and watching those 3 old soldier's meet and from reading my EBs and frankly all war is looking very bad to me. sure WW2 is celebrated because the right side won. civil war because the north and anti-slavery won. but all war seems to be is population control and the ego of leaders going amok. all war is looking extremely sad to me. a waste of money and lives. and tribalism and just stupid and uncivilized ways of ending things. just stupid. and georgie gets his jollies from it. just sick. fucking sick. we can just forget the semi-utopia of star trek. just liberal wishful thinking.
bah humbug.
but those brit tanks were cool. if only i had known, i would have grabbed different british patent books at the library when they sold them. i did get some post WW1 ones that had war related improvments.i didn't have much time to look through them. just grabbed as many as i could carry. jeez. how did i haul oll of them to my car??? i got about 6 or 7 big fuckers.
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I learned about West Virginia just a few years ago, purely by accident. I had to take one year of American History in HS and don't remember learning anything specific -- that doesn't mean I didn't learn anything. I do remember things from Political Science and Russian History (one semester each, electives, same teacher). Actually, the Russ.Hist. was an audit; didn't need the credit to graduate, no way in hell was I going to work as hard as I thought PolySci was.
I can see no constitutional/legal reason why the South should not have been allowed to secede. That I have lived in NC for the last 15 years has nothing to do with my opinion. I've never discussed the subject with anyone.
Whether the quality of life would be better or worse is a different matter.
I can see no constitutional/legal reason why the South should not have been allowed to secede. That I have lived in NC for the last 15 years has nothing to do with my opinion. I've never discussed the subject with anyone.
Whether the quality of life would be better or worse is a different matter.
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: 3:42 PM
i really am beginning to think stupid humans are predisposed to sacrifice themselves in war. as population control. napoleon, hitler and georgie types arew recycled. just so humanity is kept in check. plus plagues and such.
i suppose they had to keep the union together on principle. bah.and the stupid human part. of course the south did attack ft. sumpter.
ahh, it would have been interesting to see the parallel universe versions wouldn't it.
gonna be a long time before i hit russia.
pansypoo
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i suppose they had to keep the union together on principle. bah.and the stupid human part. of course the south did attack ft. sumpter.
ahh, it would have been interesting to see the parallel universe versions wouldn't it.
gonna be a long time before i hit russia.
pansypoo
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