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To: henkster
Homer, your public ballot measures are ruining your state.

You should check out our constitution some time if you want to see objective proof of your statement. It is a complete mess. Whenever the permanent majority party wants to advance their socialist agenda without getting their hands dirtier they put a measure on the ballot to restrict freedom or steal more money and call it the Save the Environment/Children/Schools/Women and Minorities act of 200X and it passes in a landslide.

I am curious. Did you reveal the identity of the egagement in your naval battle analogy you posted on an election thread a few days ago?

6 posted on 11/03/2008 8:20:46 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson (Barak Obama: Satan's sock-puppet)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I’m surprised there are any businesses left in California, other than the entertainment “industry.”

As for the naval engagement, yes, I did get around to answering it. I pinged everyone who’d answered but I think your post went up while I was composing my response, so you got missed.

The answer is: The engagement at Surigao Strait as part of the much greater and more complex Battle of Leyte Gulf. That battle has always fascinated me. It had a bit of everything; old WW1 dreadnoughts slugging it out in a night gunnery duel, mass airstrikes on several battle fleets, submarine action, amphibious operation, dawn of the “cruise missle” (guided by a human brain, not an electronic one), the valiant stand of small ships against hopeless odds. I doubt we’ll see anything like that ever again.


7 posted on 11/03/2008 8:29:09 AM PST by henkster (Lawyers will lead the Marxist revolution, armed with subpoenas...)
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