I’m scared of the white man, that drives a white cargo van.
Gotta racial profile sometime :scared:
i swear to god there’s a short bus out there with your name scrawled in crayon all over it…
i’m scared of fbody’s, all that aqua net hairspray the girls riding shotgun carry could be used to make a bomba!!! oh noes :greddy:
hahahaa, thats fucked up.
Damn, you are right on the money… I’m a huge WW2 buff as well. There were alot of inklings in the summer of 41 that the US was seriously considering entering the way because of intelligence that said that Germany had the capabilities and manpower to attack the United States. As far as I have read and know, we had no idea the power that rose from the Orient, aka Japan.
Another reason that WW2 really went down hill for the Axis powers after Pearl Harbor was because the relationship between Germany and Japan was severly strained. Hitler was an asshole, yes, but he was also supremely intelligent. He had warned a number of his colleagues as well as others involved such as Moussolini and the Japanese leaders that the US was a sleeping giant, and that they were best left that way. When Japan attacked, Hitler had no prior knowledge and he was PISSED b/c he knew it was the beginning of the end.
His attack on Russia was severly underestimated. The russians were dug in and could withstand the weather. If there is one thing that did the Germans in, it was the Russian weather and its effect on their very limited number of troops.
I could go on and on, just like VWCabby… But once again, he’s right. We knew who we were fighting, we had objectives, targets, etc… In this war, we don’t… We’re fighting an ideology here, not really fighting “people”.
word… i can go on forever about american history. i am big into all the wars, as well as labor history/labor unions/immigration/social issue history (like 20 years at hull house/ how the other half lives—shit like that)
my sr paper was actually on how VW exploited labor during ww2. touches upon slave labor/ indentured labor and how nazi germany broke down the labor unions that were setup. i wanted to do my paper on the big german car compaines and the japanese companies who were around during the “axis power” days-- but i would have to research for ever as the japanese history is somewhat obscure due to japan almost completely blocking out ww2 and still to this day admit no wrong doings in ww2, and would have ended up w/ probably 500-700 pages-- which if i ever get tiem i may start researching again to make a book of.
my sr paper was condensed to 35 pages, as that was the limit allowed. i had a good 50+ pages and could have went more.
it was my literature back ground that drew me to history, as they both go hand in hand. only history shit i dont get into is classical asian studies-- mostly b/c it is boring as fuck outside of the religious aspects and turning of the economic systems throughout various dynasties. Literature wise, i cant think of any old asian books outside of “art of war” that coincide w/ asian history-- so makes it harder for me to grasp maybe…
only war i dont get into is the civil war as alot of people make it out to be this grand war, and miss the point that it was the deadliest war we were ever in, and we were killing each other. From a history perspective, i study it. yet too many multi-tasking hisgh school football coaches/teachers glamourize this war more than it needs to be.
also into south east asian/ middle east affairs, and post colonial affairs. this is brought upon form my studies while i was editor for the scholarly journal “south asian review”. i get into authors like rushdie and narayan (sp?)
yet despite all that lit experince, i still type like ass on the web 
:booty:
it’s the only war that historians don’t have to speculate on… we definitely knew the reasons on both sides and have record of what everyone was up to. i just love how public schools gloss over the economic aspects both causing and ending the war. slavery bad lincoln good :booty:
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The fact about the Civil war, or ANY civil war, is that you are fighting against your own countrymen. That’s rediculous. There were economic aspects, there were social aspects, there were alot of aspects. But the fact remains that the war was fought because the South did not want those “damn yankees” to impose on them what they could or could not do on their own land. They had the choice to do whatever they wanted, no matter what, it was their “god given right” :rolleyes: