Titus Ultor
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Saddam wouldn't be bombing us. Pay attention to the facts in Iraq for one second, and you'll discover that Saddam's regime had no capability of causing lasting damage to Iran, and maybe even Kuwait. Much less so a superpower a Mediterranean Sea and an ocean away. Honestly. This isn't a insult (to you, because you've been tricked and lied to, apparently), but this is something that must be noted: "Hall of Intellectuals" doesn't tend to imply "what Hannity is saying".
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There are seasons, but they're cosmetic, I think. Or maybe that's weather.
Moreover, most of Europe, especially in Northern Europe, was coated in trees. Blazing down forests wasn't a very good option at the time.
By Napoleon's time, however, population growth and modernizing technology had drastically lowered the amount of forests. Sort of like South America and Central American today.
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Those dastardly barbarians.
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Another astounding list of things accomplished by the 0 A.D.
Truly top notch stuff.
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Destorying forests, unless you wipe out an entire forest, isn't really a kosher strategy in the first place. Trees are more useful for hiding in this game, as I've heard. Most infantry can walk and hide in them.
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I have no skills, though. I might be able to make a blob that slides from place to place.
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Actually, the nation-state is a relatively new idea in modern times, and the cantons of Switzerland have existed just a long as any German state has, if not longer.
If we were to go by language and cultural barriers... In the Middle East, there'd be three always warring states: Israel, Arabia, and Kurd(ia?). South American would be New Spain and Brazil, Central American would be Mexico, North America would be New England and Quebec. Africa would be divided into individual tribes, still.
Cultural divides don't necessarily need to make states.
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Clearly, neither side is blemishless, and neither side is one that I would choose, as an objective viewer having not even known of the conflict until it was brought up here.
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About 48 percent of Unitedstaters are in pain because George W. Bush was re-elected/elected in the first place, but you don't see any noteable number of Californians attempting to break away from the Union.
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Except for the part where two languages are required just because the province won't give up their weak regional patois that's like American is to English.
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I understand that there's the direct cultural divide. However, if you'll recall, the United States was owned by many different groups over different parts. England, Holland, France, Spain, Russia, and the Native Americans all controlled various parts of America. However, the point that brought it all together was this: there are common values among all people. Even the disparity among the Flemish people and the Belgian people doesn't remove the fact that there are common values.
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Aw. Towers with ten insect legs would be cool.
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Hn. I just came across an interesting idea... Get over your "national identity". Sure, keep some traditions, and the basis of your culture. But don't attempt to push your nationalist agenda on others just because you can't compromise. If there's to be an example of cultures getting together with farther flung roots than simple "Germanic" and "Latin" (both Caucasian), it's the United States. Granted, we only recently got over segregation, and there's pockets of racism here and there across the South. By and large, however, integration has been nearly completed. Certainly among different divisions of Caucasians, and most Asians. And yet, you can still find various cultural identities. There has been no white-washing. It's a "melting pot", or more modernly, a "salad".
Perhaps worrying about betraying your Aryan (Aryan as in a turn of phrase denoting uniculturalism) bloodline and culture with foreign impurities isn't really worth it.
I'm not calling anyone racist; I'm just saying it's farderall.
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Beyond that, there is also the capacity for higher profits, if clever businessmen can figure out how the exploit the tax systems given to them.
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CEOs and their families are the American monarchy. The Hilton twins are receiving billions of dollars simply for existing. And, honestly, multi-billionaires in the United States wield more power, both indirect and direct, than any Belgian.
But on the actual authority of monarchy: of course I dislike the concept of a hereditary ruler. Most philosophers have reasoned out some sort of meritocratic way of meting out the position of king (Plato especially).
However, regarding the seperationist movements; I agree with this foppish Prince fellow. A section of the United States tried to break off and , if you'll recall, a very large number of Americans were lost in the attempt. Cultural differences aside, a state must remain as one.
Oh, and Klaas: why must the monarchy remain non-partisan?
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Charge of the Possesed Towers! Sounds more like a TLA thing.
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Geez, Paul. Your writing isn't -that- great.
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Wow! Origins. To think those were the ideas that spawned this project.
Pretty awesome.
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Seems like a lot of haberdash for such a small region. That's probably because I didn't even know that the Flanders was still a region until I saw Klaas writing of it. I assumed it was the Medieval name for Belgium (stupid, crappy textbooks).
Anyway, a lot (well, a select few) of Americans have entertained that America be divided into two parts: The Coasts, Hawaii and some Great Lakes states, and the rest of the states. While the actual rehashing would be more difficult, I just thought I'd throw it out.
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I don't even know what this angel business is.
Perhaps it involves pretty harp music?
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-Generally abused.- Just joshin', yo'. It probably came off a bit harsher than I intended. Or maybe I was in a bad mood. Not sure.
Either way, I apologize for any misunderestimastanding I may have caused.
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Thanks for the steadfast support, jerk. >.>
Even though I'm not really involved with the program. It's more like professional sports teams, I guess. But without wasting untold millions.
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I believe it was a common practice for leaders who had had catastrophic campaigns to lose blame, and, as in this case, be charged with crime for such an outstanding failure.
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Forest could possibly be destroyed. But you can't really destroy gold deposits. The most you can do is destroy mines.
State of the Union
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If he wants to reform Social Security, then he will never be able to cut the deficit in half. The projected (which means its lowballed) cost will be over two trillion.
There is nothing wrong with Social Security. The "Omg! Omg! It's going to die in 2047" is given that the economy will never, ever turn upwards again, and will continue just as it is at the moment he stated it.
Has Social Security ever said "Sorry, grandpa, but you're not getting your retirement money?" No.
And that comment about how there were 8 to pay for Social Security at its inception, and shortly there will be 2? That's actually a true fact, as opposed to a political fact. When Social Security was formed, it was during the Great Depression. People today make well over four times, relatively and directly, more than they did in the mid-30s. Besides, this is only a "bubble" of retired people. By 2047, the Baby Boomers will have ceased to tax the system they paid into.
Also, I hope that Bush will be the one to have the nerve to increase the retirement age, so that the Democrats won't have to do it once people come back around (like after Bush I). So maybe I do have hope for at least one of Bush's possible policies.