Larry Jaques on Fri, 19 Jul 2013
06:03:39 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 02:15:11 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:35:30 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 18 Jul 2013
12:37:38 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
"Michael A. Terrell" on Wed, 17 Jul 2013
21:28:22 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Ivan Vegvary wrote:
The surest way to dispose of anything not wanted is to leave said item in the back of your pickup.

I tried that a couple times. There was more stuff in the truck's bed
when I came back.

"So much for getting rid of the accordion."

That all depends on accordion to whom you ask.

"weird Al "Polkamania" Yankovich?

Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.

And have read Thucydides.

What did he know about destroyers, fighter jets & nukes?

Just that when you have a hammer, and everything is a nail, don't
just tap, tap, tap on things. Nope, Wham! - one hit, it's done,
you're done, no body is going to ask if you mean to hit any more
nails.
When you go to war, you beat the enemy like a rented step child,
like a blacksmith with 'issues', like Ty Cobb beating the throw to
second; you pound them like pilferin’ percussionist! . Like Gene Krupa
and Buddy Rich in a duet, like Animal on a solo rift on Innagaddavida!
Pound ‘em lad, pound ‘em!
You kick ass, you don't bother taking names, as you'll be issuing
new ones shortly. It worked than as it works now, but the Athenians
forgot, and got their asses handed to them at Syracuse, and shortly
there after, the Spartan's sacked the home city too.

As the Roman's would later do, make a desert, and call it "peace".


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pyotr filipivich

Ayup. Best way to have a war. Makes the onlookers think mighty hard
before ramping one up of their own.

Our methods in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq2 seem to pale in
comparison, don't they? sigh

Wrong modes of fighting.

The problem with Democracies and War, as Gladstone or Disraeli
observed, is that you have to whip the population up to get them to
support it. Which makes it difficult to have a short war, or a war on
short notice, for Reasons of State, which do not have a big hook with
which to catch that fish "Public Support".

War is hell. Do it right or pay the price. (We're doing the latter.)

Politics is war by other means. The Careerists in State don't
have a definitive objective, or time frame to work towards. So there
is time for Yet Another Conference on the Current Crisis. Bring your
staff, and the wife and kids "fun for the whole family."


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pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."