History Forum / General / What If / May 2004

"Unarmed But Dangerous
Sea Lions, Porpoises Deployed to Bahrain to Protect U.S. Military"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/sealions_deployed030130.html
"The Navy's Marine Mammal Program began in 1960 with two goals. First, the

Howdy,
On another thread we've been discussing a hypothetical WWIII that sees
perhaps 85% of the British population killed, and hectomega-deaths in
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China.  Portland

I believe the resident bad guys of that era was libya.  I think Reagan
would have turned Libya into the world's largest parking lot instead
of bothering with an in land Iraq-style capture the leader invasion.

There are those who believe the attack on the USS Liberty was a deliberate
ruse to get the US to attack egypt.
History shows that a small, single, but very nuclear response WAS
considered.

In his 1966 autobiography, the composer-critic Virgil Thomson wrote "To
anyone brought up there, as I was, 'Kansas City' always meant the Missouri
one.... You did not speak of Kansas City, Kansas, often...or go there
unless you had business."  

    POD: Passenger Pigeons taste so awful that people will not
eat them, given a choice. As a result, the myriads of sky-pigs that
once plagued our skies still do. Flocks of a billion or more individuals
taking more than a day to pass by still exist.

I think you are misunderstanding this whole concept of why World War
II was fought. It is indeed true that one of the war's themes was
Saudi Oil but this is not a secret. I was held by the government a few
months before the end of the war in Penn Station. At the time, the

Would the building have fell immediately after the second hit, presuming it hit
in the similar location on the other building?  Would the other twin tower
which was not hit by either plane fall in the collapse of the building which
was hit twice?  It could have created a much higher ...

After 9/11 the USA and Britain invaded Afghanistan.
There wasn't really any doubt that that would happen.
However, what would have happened had this or something similar happened
during the cold war? Either because the Soviet Union continued Breznev Style

WI Jesus Christ said, in one of the Four Gospels:
"And up in the sky, do you not knoweth about the bird?
For it has been proclaimed: the bird is the Word!"

Since thus far we are relying on other people's appraisals of Robert C.
Allen's book *Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial
Revolution*, I think we should at least look at Allen's own summary:  
http://tinyurl.com/2gomj

Suppose that there was no Bill of Rights attached to the
US Constitution.  How did this happen?  Doesn't matter ...
but there is no Bill of Rights and there has never been one.
There are several ways this could go ...

Decades of Darkness #68: Domino Theory
"Those states [Latin America] are like so many dominoes; one has
fallen, and another is tipping.  If we fail to steady it now, the next
shall fall, and ten more after that, until all the dominoes fall into

It was less than twenty years ago that Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old
amateur pilot from West Germany, took off from Helsinki, Finland,
traveled through more than 400 miles of Soviet airspace, and landed
his small Cessna aircraft in Red Square by the Kremlin. The event

Would the Americans now believe in Odin instead of this gay Jesus ?