History Forum / General / British History / December 2005

As is his penchant, Pogue Brannigan is posting gibberish again.
Of course demonstrators need permits.
The police need to know how many demonstrators there will be, who is
responsible for them, and what they plan to do -- how they will demonstrate

Hilarious!
After having dug a VERY deep hole for himself, Satterfield has now gone as
quiet as a secular Shi'ite mouse in a fundamentalist Shi'ite mosque.
How Sweet It Is!

Nonsense!
Igor Weller didn't provide any URL to the PDF file in any post that appeared
on my server.
Nor did he supply a URL to the Seaver comments.

"First of all, the Founding Fathers knew from experience that Congress could
not keep secrets.  In 1776, Benjamin Franklin and his four colleagues on the
Committee of Secret Correspondence unanimously concluded that they could not
tell the Continental Congress about covert ...

The Reds, including those in Academia, unable to peddle straight
Marxism-Leninism anymore -- because they get laughed at -- have turned to
Environmentalism as their New Grand Cause.
And boy are they Ignorant, Arrogant & Zealous --  the worst possible

"Grey Satterfield" <grey.satterfield@oscn.net> wrote in message
news:BFD83F83.21568%grey.satterfield@oscn.net...
"Despite having written one of the great 20th Century novels, Harper Lee
has never published anything else."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-garbus/impeachment-is-now-real_b_12972.html
12.28.2005
Impeachment is Now Real
By Martin Garbus

The 1914 Christmas Truce
On Christmas Day 1914 a never repeated ceasefire took place in some
sections of the British front-line.
Here is an exerpt from an article concerning the event by members of The

From Sig-Sauer comes the news the US Army has recently contracted for 1000
of their P228 pistols in .45 ACP to be known as the M11. I did tell y'all
the .45 ACP was back some months ago. The P228 is one of the most accurate
out-of-the-box pistols on the market and withstood ...

i thought this was a British history newsgroup, but all I see are political
posts

What are privileges of peers punished for treason?
Peers and peeresses are normally beheaded for treason in England.
Commoner males in England are hanged, drawn and quartered, females
burnt.

Dean: US Won't Win in Iraq
(SAN ANTONIO) -- Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is
an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean
predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal

I noticed there was some damage to the statue's base .   The pitted
natured of the damage reminds me of bomb damage. Is that correct?  If
so, when did it happen?
TIA,

It's 3.15 AM here at the moment. The last guest is out of the house. Under
the influence of much rum punch and the spirit of the season I wish each and
every one of you a blessed Christmas Day. -the Troll

I heard he likes to wear Mickey Mouse underpants and Donald Duck socks.
Is that true ?