From The Mouthes Of Babes

[Campbell]

“Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

Benjamin Franklin, 1784 (could he have foreseen the 101st Airborne Division?)

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Hitt'n the bong a bit early today 'eh?

 

[Campbell]

Hitt'n the bong a bit early today 'eh?

I've gottcher Dong a Schwangin!

 

[Pete7469]

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[Soggy in NOLA]

Hitt'n the bong a bit early today 'eh?

I've gottcher Dong a Schwangin!

Oh, so I am right... well, have another hit and some Twinkies. Enjoy!

 

[yiostheoy]

“Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

Benjamin Franklin, 1784 (could he have foreseen the 101st Airborne Division?)

You have not given us much if any context.

So I can only guess that Franklin was talking about standing armies verses militiamen.

Hot air balloons and airplanes had not been invented yet so he could NOT have been talking about airborne.

Militiamen worked well for them during the Revolutionary War so they (Franklin and friends) probably thought militia was all they would ever need? They were afraid of standing regular armies based on what the British and French kings had used theirs for to suppress civil liberties.

The subsequent Civil War changed all that, and the USA maintained a fairly strong standing army of cavalry to fight the Native American Indians for the next 50 years as well.

Since then the standing army of the USA has always been downsized after a major conflict.

Reagan called it "a peace dividend".

BHO has been doing the same and calling it "re-assimilation" although his anemic economic recovery has not reabsorbed the veterans very well.

Trump has promised to build up the US military like Reagan originally had as well, but then you never know if any of Trump's promises will be kept or not.

So far he has mostly been appointing or nominating bozo's to his cabinet.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

*****SMILE*****

 

[JakeStarkey]

Misquoting Yamamoto - FactCheck.org

Advocates of gun rights often argue that in World War II Japan was deterred from invading the U.S. mainland by a fear of American citizens with guns in their closets. They frequently quote Japan’s Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto as saying: "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."

But this quote is unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.

How do we know? We contacted Donald M. Goldstein, sometimes called "the dean of Pearl Harbor historians." Among his many books are "The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans" (1993) and the best-selling "At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor" (1981). He is a professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He told us the supposed Yamamoto quote is "bogus."

In an exchange of e-mails he said:

Prof. Goldstein: I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it. Some people say that it came from our work but I never said it. … As of today it is bogus until someone can cite when and where.

We included this in an update to an Ask FactCheck item we posted May 10, debunking an error-filled "gun history lesson" circulating by e-mail.

We make no argument either for or against gun ownership. But we do object to fabricating quotes and passing them off as historical fact.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Whether Yamamoto said it or not he would have been telling the truth...

...Except perhaps if those 10,000 troops landed in one of the blue areas in the above map then they might be able to take and hold.

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[JakeStarkey]

DamagedEagle, thanks for admitting you knowingly lied. End of narrative.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Hitt'n the bong a bit early today 'eh?

I've gottcher Dong a Schwangin!

Oh, so I am right... well, have another hit and some Twinkies. Enjoy!

mmmmm, twinkies.

 

[JakeStarkey]

 

[tyroneweaver]

DamagedEagle, thanks for admitting you knowingly lied. End of narrative.

dayum, USU really is located in Ogden.

 

[JakeStarkey]

This, though, is tyrone's kind of twink.

 

[JakeStarkey]

DamagedEagle, thanks for admitting you knowingly lied. End of narrative.

dayum, USU really is located in Ogden.

Even tyrone's buddy below knows better. Main Campus in Logan, Cache County, Utah.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

DamagedEagle, thanks for admitting you knowingly lied. End of narrative.

The problem here is that I admitted nothing while you just admitted to lying about what I stated in post #9.

Thanks for playing.

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[Campbell]

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"moron" (IQ of 51–70)

I've had my IQ measured three times. Once in school, once in the military and finally by Mensa in Knoxville, TN. Results 131 128 and 130. I only have a HS education but I've never had any trouble keeping up.