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On long boring flights, being able to look out the window as the flight progresses helps to get me through the flight.

Especially when you have interesting terrain below you, like the Rockies, Cascades, and when flying to and from Alaska the majestic Wrangell-St. Elias, and Chugach ranges.

I think I see what you are driving at.

Canada my have contributed greatly helping the Brits defeat Hitler in Europe, but in the Pacific war, different story. It was almost exclusively an American effort, with Britain in Burma a sideshow, Canada making very little contribution helping America defeat the Japs.

Have you actually read my post? On the fight against Hitler, what I posted was similar to what you said.

Since Hitler, however, on defending the free world, there is little comparison of what America has done. I would hope Canada has done more than post 25 has it: two mounties, five canoes, and a flying squirrel.

The USA has been defending them since Hitler or longer.

>True, but not since Hitler.

Canada, as a percentage of their population, probably sacrificed more than America to defeat Hitler. Most Brits who fought against Hitler, will tell you the Canadians were their best and toughest fighters.

If I’m not mistaken, I think Canada fielded an entire Army in Europe. America had many more soldiers on the field, of course, but not as a percentage of each countries population.

I think I read somewhere that Armenia is the oldest Christian nation. If so, a remarkable nation indeed, to have maintained their Christian heritage for almost two thousand years now, including centuries of Turkish attempts to anihlate them (genocide), and anti-God Soviet oppression.

Correction, should have read what I was going to post first. It should have said:

After reading your link, I’m left with the impression, in terms of what strategic targets were destroyed, Gen. LeMay knowing how to effectively use his B-29’s made him one of the greatest warfighters the US, or any other nation, has ever produced. They basically shut down Japan’s war fighting ability.

Some say that midway was the turning point....I tend to disagree with that. Personally, I think the turning point was the struggle for Guadalcanal, and the subsequent loss of their position in the southern Solomons.

>The Marines do not want the Navy to get the credit, so they, of course, try to make Guadalcanal the turning point. Fact is, before Midway we were continually on the defensive, the war was going all Japan’s way; after Midway it was the Japs that were continually on the defensive, the war had tilted our way.

The case is made for the Marine victory at Guadalcanal being the ground war turning point, but not for the war in general. Had not the war at sea already been turned (at Midway) the Marines could not have even been landed to do what they did. The Navy fights for control of the sea, the sea had to first be in our control before Guadalcanal could have been fought.

After reading your link, I’m left with the impression that Gen. In terms of what strategic targets were destroyed, Gen. LeMay knowing how to use his B-29’s made him one of the greatest warfighters the US, or any other nation, has ever produced. They basically shut down Japan’s war fighting ability.

Very informative link. I’d suggest everyone should read it.

Britain is like Canada, why spend billions on defense when you’ve got the US to do that for you.

The map has San Francisco in the Northern California “state.” This means Northern California will be run by San Francisco, with its big city greater population. If I lived in northern Calif. I think I would be wary of this proposal.

Bell couldn’t differentiate between the occult and Christianity. He left me, or I left him by changing the station, when he would expound on Biblical themes, particularly Bible prophecy.

What is amazing to me how people like Zuckerberg...Bill Clinton, Rubenstein, and virtually everybody on the left, can lie with such a blank face.

I don’t think this “professor” is pitting “evil” Christianity over against atheism, more like pitting “evil” Christianity over against the eastern religions of southeast Asia.

The reason he is so against Christianity, is it is “objective.” Well, what does he think he is doing with his southeast Asia religions? He’s very objective about them, he holds them to be the truth, as opposed to Christianity.

If we are surprised at streets in Florida named after confederate hero’s, remember South Carolina was the first state to break away from the union, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida were together the next.

Florida wasn’t always what it is now, controlled by Yankees. It was as much aligned with southern sympathies as its neighboring states, Alabama and Georgia.

If we had somebody besides Mattis, a carry-over from the Obama era at the top, who could care less about how the majority in the military feel, who believe in God, we wouldn’t have this.

John Bolton was a good replacement, along with the others who were replaced, it’s time for a change at the top of the defense dept.

I don’t think the books in the French Revolution period, though subversive, were as effective as TV and today’s media.

From what I have read, back during the time leading up to the French Revolution, it was mostly the elite that read the works of Voltaire and the Enlightenment philosophers. The elite, the Jacobites, etc., in turn, stirred the masses to revolt. Today, its the masses who are subverted directly by visual means.

Who reads books nowadays? A very few. You have to put forth an effort to read a book. They get their daily dose of propaganda from something that requires no effort on their part.

Just one man’s opinion.

The best I’ve ever read on the resurrection on the third day. Clears up a lot of misconceptions people have due to a western way of interpreting the “three days and three nights” in Matthew. Thanks for such an informative post.

I do wish, however, since you dealt with just about everything at length having to do with this issue, you had dealt with why grape juice, instead of wine, was used at the Passover meal. It seems grape juice, representing Christ’s sinless blood, would be more in accord with the unleavened bread that represented his sinless body.

Those who believe it should be wine, have their reasons for doing so - one of which: grapes from the previous fall’s harvest would have fermented and become wine, or new wine, by Passover observance in the springtime. They could hardly have used grape juice, as it would have no longer been grape juice.

Good news from China. We must remember, however, there was a great conversion to Christ in the days also before the communist takeover. Mao had his army slaughter the Christians without mercy. Communists historically consider Christianity the greatest threat to their ideology.

Lets not forget that the present regime in China, now with a dictator for life, are communists. If they begin to feel threatened by too many conversions to Christ, the boot heel will drop.

Rockledge, where in central Florida is that? anybody know?

Ever since they lost the US vs Mexico war. It ended with America taking their Vera Cruz, a very important port city, and their capital city, Mexico City. America could have annexed the entire country of Mexico, at that point. But did not, instead they annexed Mexican territory from New Mexico to California.

Very few Americans know this history, nor even that the war even happened. But not so in Mexico. That war lingers on in their collective bitter memory. So much so, that many of them say they are avenging that war by flooding the US with immigrants. In this way, they intend to yet win that war.