Posted on 11/19/2015 3:38:04 PM PST by conservativejoy
That may very well be true! I belong to a club that was founded by Sherman along with others. He loved theater, lol. I think we Americans look down on him because he burned America. If he had burned down Europe, we’d all be in his pocket. But he was given the enemy he was given. What a sad war.
Nothing to see here, right? The Mehico of the Middle East.
I do too. “Diet Pills” = speed
Yep. I did my first tour of duty in Germany in 1968. Even though it was almost 25 years after the war, we still had to pull a lot of guard duty.
First heard of Captagon from a sergeant who told us it'd help us get through the long boring nights guarding the motor pool (never mind why anyone would want to steal a big smoke-belching OD-green piece-of-junk deuce-and-a-half).
You could get Captagon over the counter from any German pharmacy. It was cheap, about the price of aspirin. I loved it. And not just for guard duty. Anytime you were sleepy and needed to stay awake, just pop a Captagon and you were good to go. While on Captagon you would be wide awake, but without the jitteriness of lots of coffee.
What I didn't know was that the Army was having lots of problems with the troops abusing the stuff, so it was trying to get German authorities to make it prescription only -- and it succeeded, much to my annoyance. Fortunately, around the same time, the Army also did away with guard duty for most of the units on that particular Army base, so I soon forgot all about it.
He didn’t burn ‘America’.
He burned a little part of it, and fortunately America survived the whole thing - because the Union had a great President during that conflict.
A story from my South Carolina ancestors, as told to me by my Grandmother (can’t know if it’s true or not, but here it is):
The Yankees came to the front door of the Plantation house.
My ancestress answered the door, and told them:
“People like you come to my Back Door.”
-JT
Why does anyone continue to pretend that ISIS is anything other than Saudi Arabia?
Jem Haddar
If you watch Star Trek Deep Space 9 you are familiar with the Jem Haddar. They are the warrior race, created by the Dominion to protect them and worship them as Gods. That’s what the religious overlords are doing to their foot soldiers. The Jem Haddar worship death. They don’t want to be dishonored by cowardly loosing in battle. Now the kicker, they need to be given a white powder otherwise they can’t function. Sounds eerily familiar to ISIS warriors of 2015.
.308 is my favorite projectile.
...popular among those Syrian fighters who don't follow strict interpretations of Islamic law...
Of course the side effects make them just as crazy as Daesh:
Doctors report that the drug has dangerous side effects, including psychosis and brain damage, according to the BBC...
So one way or another the psychos and brain damaged find a way.
Yes.
It’s related to caffeine and is in tea and coffee.
WWII the Germans developed and used meth.
but you can't fool mother nature for too long...and shucks, who knows, maybe the speed will make them turn on each other....here's hoping.
Speaking of porous borders....
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