Gaius Octavius

I think that the government had the tools, but not the wits to use them. Avarice, particularly that of the 'better people', was their primary mover.

The Admiral gave Japan three months. He was educated in America (I forget the college) and knew our economic system. Lo and behold, he was right. It might have been Yamamoto. Maybe Harvard. He liked America and loved to play poker. Lost his last hand.

Very, very important point. Then, as we all know, Caesar, The Darling of Venus, lost the war and committed suicide.

WISDOM - FROM THE MILITARY MANUAL "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance. ------------------------------------------------------ "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher ------------------------------------------------------ "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. -U.S.Marine Corps ------------------------------------------------------ "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------ "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal ----------------------------------------------------- "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed" -U.S.Air Force Manual ------------------------------------------------------ "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur ----------------------------------------------------- "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------ "You, you, and you . Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt. ------------------------------------------------------ "Tracers work both ways." -U.S.Army Ordnance ----------------------------------------------------- "Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------- "Don't ever be the first, ! don't ev er be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything." -U.S.Navy Swabbie --------------------------------------------------- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth ------------------------------------------------------- "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal -------------------------------------------------------- "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." - Joe Gay ------------------------------------------------------ "Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once." ------------------------------------------------------ "Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do." - Unknown Marine Recruit ------------------------------------------------------- "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies ------------------------------------------------------- "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------- "Though I Fly Through theValleyof Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating baseKadena, Japan ------------------------------------------------------- "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." ------------------------------------------------------- "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - >From an old carrier sailor ------------------------------------------------------ "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe." ----------! -------- ------------------------------------- "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash." ------------------------------------------------------- "Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club." ------------------------------------------------------- "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies." ------------------------------------------------------- "Never trade luck for skill." ------------------------------------------------------- The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" And "Oh S...!" ------------------------------------------------------ "Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers." ------------------------------------------------------- "Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant" ------------------------------------------------------- "Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight." ------------------------------------------------------- "A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication." ------------------------------------------------------- "I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous." --------------------------------------------------------- "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!" ------------------------------------------------------- "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries." ------------------------------------------------------- "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it." --------------------------------! -------- ---------------- "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) -------------------------------------------------------- "A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum." - Jon McBride, astronaut -------------------------------------------------------- "If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." - Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot) -------------------------------------------------------- "Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you." ------------------------------------------------------- "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970 --------------------------------------------------------- "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to." --------------------------------------------------------- Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there." ------------------------------------------------------- "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal." -------------------------------------------------------------- As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?". The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)

Reverend? Who? some dung moon. -- Nephele

CEB, perhaps you might have said state or oligarchic or monopolistic capitalism vs state communism. 'Pure Capitalism' neither stifles enterprise nor competition. Nor does voluntary communism.

I don't know the names of the last German tanks, but they were superior to the American Shermans in fire power and armor. The German tanks could reach the Shermans before the Shermans could get a shot off and their shells would bounce off the German tanks. The problem for the Germans was their inability to build enough tanks fast enough. The Axis economies could never really support a war against the U.S. Once the U.S. geared up for war, the Axis was finished. After Pearl Harbor, a Japanese admiral said that he feared that they had 'awakened a sleeping giant'. Rommel said that so long as the U.S. had a toe hold in Africa, the Germans could never win. The Soviets conducted a 'scorched earth' policy and removed all of their war production to the Urals. The Germans, Italians, etc., would probably never have defeated the USSR. The Japanese feared a Soviet entry into the Asian mainland war. Please do not understand the above as in any way demeaning the efforts of the other Allies and their valiant people.

:wub: As in 'IDIOT'. Didn't rev. some :horse: support him?

G.O. to MPC: And this, my good man, is Alcatraz. MPC to G.O.: Damn, I picked the wrong side - again!

The 'Bad' in his name told the whole story of himself and his party.

I hope that this isn't a ploy by Furgo to search for oil.

How many times did his men mutiny? At least twice. Did the Darling of Venus' legions ever leave the field? How did they respond when they were addressed as 'quirites'?

Well, I did. I think the person you are referring to is General Joseph Gallieni. I googled him and this is what I got: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gallieni I was right - he was a First World War general that died in 1916. He did not live to see the Second World War. If it's the incompetence of the French High Command that you were talking about earlier, the man you want is Maurice Gamelin. I am the one surprised. I may also be wrong about von Moltke. :wheelchair: taking its toll!

Do these responses apply to the legions of the eastern Emperor?

But this just isn't true. Labor-intensive products (e.g., health services) are rising in prices, whereas capital-intensive products (e.g., laptops) are falling. [Are the menial workers in the health care system getting their pagan share?] Now you're engaging in hyperbole. Let's look at what's happening from the customer perspective, since that's where the money comes from. Realistically, products from Delphi have been less valuable to customers for some time. Personally, I've ripped out the stereo from every American car I've owned because it was so substandard (never had to for a Japanese car, btw). Recently, when the iPod swept the market, Delphi missed an opportunity to add an auxiliary jack (and their mp3 stereo still doesn't have one), whereas auto manufacturers who use other component suppliers do. (As I recall, BMW was first to market on this, quickly followed by Volkswagen et al). Again, Delphi workers can't get guarantees from their customer (Delphi) because Delphi itself can't get guarantees from their customers (what's left of them). Living near Detroit (and Mrs Cato growing up in Sterling Heights), and with several family members employed by GM, Delphi, and Ford, I'm plenty familiar with the sob story of American auto manufacturing, and frankly my sympathy only goes so far. Union greed, lousy corporate leadership, and government meddling destroyed a great American industry. [May not both views be correct at the same time?] No--they might raise wages to get more talent so they can stay competitive. This, in three words is called 'exceptionally bad management'.

Once upon a time, the great Nosy Parker, Henry Ford, had the wits to hold that if he didn't pay his workers a decent wage, who would buy his cars? (Think of the cost-profit-selling price continuum here.) Outsourcing is not trade - free or otherwise. Trade occurs when one nation's own production is traded for another's. When we made our own shoes, they lasted; now that we 'import' them, they fall apart at once. They are 'cheap' because they are cheap, and thus very expensive. When a nation uses its own land, labor, capital and management in a True Capitalist fashion, i.e., without constraints on labor, it then has real growth for the many. The USA had its greatest real growth during the period from the Revolution (without Capitalism allowed to workers and protectionism applied for producers) until the emergence of Reegonomics. From the 'top down' was really from the 'bottom up'. This was a Chicago School joke that Stockman admitted to, but bobble head's wife's astrologer was too dumb to understand. One of the reasons for outsourcing is that it provides another profit center for a company, as it need not repatriate its profits and thus their being taxed as earned (as the average joker must). If the accounting of American companies is a fraud perpetrated by management, CPA's and scheisters, then Asiatic accounting is a felonious ethereal crock. The outsourced worker ant pays more, percentage wise, in income taxes than the average corporation does. I can't help but feel pity for that poor family (cited earlier) that pays 70% in all of its income taxes. That rate wouldn't come within a country mile of the total percent paid by a NYC resident earning millions, even if he filed Form 1040EZ in NYC. Perhaps they are adding up their percentages or are using a 1949 tax form [even then, the highest rate (95%?) would only be applied to the last marginal income. The total paid would be about 50%.]. NAFTA helps all three countries, right? Except for Mexico. Note the increase in the number of wetbacks working for poverty wages since NAFTA's inception. I can't help a little dig here. Remember that the speed reader, the then Sen. Dole, could read the 8,000 pages of NAFTA over a weekend and the 28-30 thousand pages of WTO in two weeks, but not Mrs. Clinton's 1,400 page health care reform in a month of Sundays.

Something wrong with that? Not everyone suffers from SFB. Not everyone is a sycophantic acolyte of the pot smocking, draft dodging, pill popping, SFB, serial polygynist, and dissimulating, racist flush rimflour. More than ever before, the nation needs Patriots who are true to the Constitution and not to some Bible thumper or radio trash talker or neo-con-job-artist burglar. Are you suiting up for Our Gang Tragedy's next war?

After the peasants lose their jobs and rampant inflation drives them into penury, who will be left to buy the Chinese junk?

Gladius xx, Check out Galliani. One of us will be surprised.

My Dearest Lady of the North :notworthy: : Dr. Xaviera Hollander of Amsterdam House has proposed such an investigation. Presently, she is soliciting competent investigators. Fees for these investigators will be commensurate with experience and ability in the field. Four years of on the job experience is the minimum requirement. All applications should be submitted to the Coyote Union.

You sound like a red neck yahoo whacko from the corn fields. I'll bet that you kick pumpkins , knock apples and have a piece of straw hanging from your cake hole. And have a collection of fermented road apples. :horse: And you're probably a devote of Rocky Mountain Oysters. Not to mention that you suffer from SFB.

The specimens are still being worked.

It will probably still be a little chilly there now. Enjoy yourself and don't worry about the bad guys. They will have spotted you, so use your head with your valuables. Keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't sling things on your back. Its probably not going to be very crowded. ENJOY YOURSELF! That's an order from the god-Consul.

Nice work and welcome to UNRV.

McCain is a contemptuous contemptible screamer. He was also on the take during the S&L scandals. As for Senator Clinton, unlike republik neo-con-job artists, she has a brain and puts it to use. Nor does she need a vast always wrong wing purse to be filled by the masters of republikdom.