Recent content by Delusional

Definitely. It tastes better and it's better for you. TPBM is shocked that President Bush admitted in a live speech today that America is losing the war in Iraq.

Yes, and like Lanc, I'm wondering what the opposite of having a chip on your shoulder is. TPBM understands Matt well enough to decipher his posts.

Nope; it's been 7 days ... had to celebrate New Year's, after all. TPBM has a secret obsession with different types of soil.

This is largely untrue. The first Red Scare in the United States occurred in the 1920s precisely because of the formation of the Soviet Union. True, it was more a fear of socialism or communism taking over the nation than a fear of expansionism on part of the Soviet Union, but still ... Look...

I am a member of the current crop of kids, and I fully understand the concerns of the older generations. However, it is an age-old thing for the elders to wonder about the youngsters, and I don't imagine that my generation will do the world too much harm. TPBM had a speech impediment as a child.

A very limited amount, such as Rascal Flatts. TPBM made a New Year's resolution to spend less money.

They came to power through illegal electoral means, just like any other dictator did. Hitler never received any majority vote, and neither did Mussolini or Stalin. Perhaps Britain could not have stopped the implementation of the Nazi Party, but we all know that all of the Allies could have...

As you yourself have stated, plan_D, Great Britain and France used mostly diplomacy and their political influence to become involved with the events on the continent between the two world wars. Although it is hardly their fault, this was not enough. The actions of the two nations did little to...

Superpower status has more involved with it than military strength. WWI led to an industrial rise in our nation, which in itself led to a military rise. I never argued that Britain waited until WWII to begin widespread implementation of socialist programs and policies. My argument...

U.S. society tends to have a bias in thinking that WWII was far worse than WWI, because for the U.S., it probably was. However, for Europe, WWI was just as hard a hit as WWII, if not harder, considering the continent was completely unprepared for modern warfare and for a war which both sides...

Britain's population was certainly war-torn after World War I as well as after World War II, don't you think? Although the U.S. had not completed its replacement of Britain until after WWII, we were certainly on the rise while Britain was certainly on the decline beginning at the end of WWI...

I never said that Britain implemented its Socialist programs after World War II. My post concerned both world wars. The difference between Socialist/Communist nations like China and the former U.S.S.R. and Great Britain is that China and the U.S.S.R. spend/spent billions of dollars on...

"They kepted the empire for so long because of military might, when that might began to weaken they lost their grip on on control of the empire." Britain did not lose her empire because her military was failing. She lost it because she gave everything she had to World War I and World War II...

See, here's the thing. There was a hand involved ... and superglue ... and the rest is just too horrible to articulate. TPBM once tipped a good-looking waiter/waitress more than 50%.

Does it come out earlier in Britain? It doesn't come out here until tomorrow. I'm sad to hear that it's not as good as the first two, though.