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Some Historical "Revision" questions to ponder.
19 Nov 2015 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 11/19/2015 9:26:06 AM PST by US Navy Vet

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: history
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To: Mollypitcher1

41 posted on 11/19/2015 10:35:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Billthedrill
what would have happened if Frazee hadn't wanted to put on a play named "No No Nanette" and kept that punk kid pitcher named "Babe" in Boston?

1. Some other show would have moved into that theatre.
2 2. Ruth might never have gotten converted into an outfielder, so he'd be the holder of pitching records instead of hitting records.(He was that good a pitcher.)
3. The Yankees would have found another star to acquire. Possibly one of Mack's guys -- Connie was always selling players because he was always short of money.

42 posted on 11/19/2015 10:35:34 AM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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To: defconw

WWI was inevitable, it would have been something else if not for the assassination of the Archduke.


43 posted on 11/19/2015 10:36:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mollypitcher1; Vendome

What ????


44 posted on 11/19/2015 10:40:20 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: dfwgator
I accept that. I do wonder though, what exactly was the lynch pin that sent us hurtling toward our current mess and how will it end?

What if the South had won the war?

45 posted on 11/19/2015 10:41:17 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Not according to Bluto.


46 posted on 11/19/2015 10:42:10 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; US Navy Vet
What would have happened if Kennedy had not gone to Dallas in 1963?

He would have been assassinated in some other city.

Purportedly, there was another plot to assassinate Kennedy in Miami -- several weeks prior to the Dallas trip.

Miami plot

There was also word of an earlier attempt scheduled for Chicago.

47 posted on 11/19/2015 10:49:01 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: TBP

I think Ruth actually did hold the record for most scoreless innings pitched by a lefty in a World Series for a very long time, decades IIRC (I’ll have to look it up). It sort of cuts short any serious discussion of who was the greatest baseball player ever in the game. Wow.


48 posted on 11/19/2015 10:51:43 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Yes, Whitey Ford broke it, I believe. (The one thing that would have pleased Babe is that the guy who broke it was a Yankee.)

I wonder if, under your alternate scenario, we might have given Keuchel and Arrieta the Babe Ruth Award last night instead of the Cy Young Award.

Of course, I think Walter Johnson was better than Cy anyway.


49 posted on 11/19/2015 10:54:04 AM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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To: Purdue77
Not going into Russia would have provided Germany with time and resources to confront the Royal Navy and finish the RAF. After that, Germany would have had 100K extra men to throw at GB. Meanwhile, the V2 would have been perfected and pounded GB. The RAF would not have been able to penetrate to Germany to attack the war factories US entry into the war could have been stalled by the extra attention on GB.

I would disagree...rock paper scissors... land sea air....German advantage was a heavy land army... but the channel is a mote...Germany would of need the same level of Naval and Air superiority to invade successfully across the channel as the Allies needed to invade across the channel on D-day...The German lost the very first part of that..the air superiority in the Battle of Britain ...the never even got to the Sea part of this battle .. the Royal Navy that far outclassen anything the German had or would of had... it tha same issues the US had to deal with in attacking Japan...attacking a self-sustaining Island is a military b****...it it requires not just to have a heavy land force superiority but heavy naval superiority and air superiority alone with and effective amphibious force ... any sides military force is going to face that same problems crossing the channel.... I think you would had a long stalemate...

50 posted on 11/19/2015 11:05:22 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans stPatr a in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: US Navy Vet

Here’s a big, likely one I rarely see discussed. December, 1941. The Japanese bomb Pearl, and the US goes to war with them. A few days later, Hitler decides to join the pile on and declares war on the US himself.
What if Germany hadn’t declared war? The US populace was mad as hell at Japan, and wanted it to be our top war priority. Yea, we’d have likely ended up at war with Hitler eventually, but what if Adolph kept his cool and declared strict neutrality (maybe even offering some back channel intelligence help to the US)?


51 posted on 11/19/2015 11:09:18 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Considering the lack of American History education in our schools today, it is up to those of us who remember Dec. 7, 1941 to be sure it is never treated as a joke. Good men died that day.


52 posted on 11/19/2015 11:15:36 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Boogieman

Add to that the finality of the air war over England. Without control of the air, Hitler’s dreams of invading England were finished.


53 posted on 11/19/2015 11:23:57 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: defconw

My own memory takes issue with Bluto.


54 posted on 11/19/2015 11:34:47 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Leaning Right

Just another example of joking about things that shouldn’t be joked about. Young people get confused. Patriotism is on the decline which is the aim of the New World Order.


55 posted on 11/19/2015 11:36:42 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

There’s a lot of questions as to how much Hitler really wanted to invade England, Von Ribbentrop definitely wanted to invade....but the suggestion was that simply neutralizing Britain was good enough for Hitler, he figured once he won in Russia, the Brits would sue for peace.


56 posted on 11/19/2015 11:37:27 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mollypitcher1

It was a movie that only people, 50 and over would get the reference to. Lighten up.


57 posted on 11/19/2015 11:37:53 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: defconw

I looked it up. 1978. Damn, I’m old...


58 posted on 11/19/2015 11:40:05 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mollypitcher1
Young people don't care. They are not taught it and they won't be taught it. Sad but true. They are being taught that islam had nothing to with 9/11.

They are being taught that this country was founded by old racist white guys. I will not say more. It's sad, but predictable when the left took over the educational system some 30 plus years ago.

59 posted on 11/19/2015 11:41:54 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Billthedrill

Me too! :) In fact my mother banned me from seeing it when it came out.


60 posted on 11/19/2015 11:42:57 AM PST by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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