The Alaska Chat Thread (rent, lease, health)

[Rance]

Or you could come to Alaska and soak in the hot springs and ski and ride snowmachines and ice fish!

[Sweden]

Originally Posted by Karla with a K

Sweden after a couple daya with us, you know tact and hinting is not one of my strong assets

RANCE SWEDEN WANTS TO COME TO FLORIDA IN FEBURARY !!!!


there think that hint will work

Hahahaha! Thanks, I'll know that now! (I'm very good at hints, my problem is just that people in general don't understand them, sigh...)

Please, please mighty Floridian princess (or do you want to be queen?), please let a poor Swede in on the magical secret of getting the message through!
Please? *blink, blink*

vpcats dear, don't let the 6 month disapearance of sunlight keep you from enjoying the world's true wonder: winter.
Unfortunately, I have none since Siberia doesn't feel like cooling down and the North Atlantic keeps bringing us those dreadful warm winds. So... Can we nuke Siberia, please? Or drop a huge ice block on it? No? Was it too drastic? It was, huh? Ok...

Xa'at, congratulations! Hey, I know the perfect thing for you A... language course! Did I hear a yay?
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Awesome! Maybe something for you? They even got French

Karla, was that bold enough? *blink, blink*

(Yes, Rance, I AM going to bed. Soon, atleast...)

[Karla with a K]

Originally Posted by Rance

Or you could come to Alaska and soak in the hot springs and ski and ride snowmachines and ice fish!

Don't tempt me rance I could be packed in 10 minutes

Originally Posted by Sweden

Please, please mighty Floridian princess (or do you want to be queen?), please
Karla, was that bold enough? *blink, blink*

Sewden that was very good

hey BTW thanks Rance & Sweden for my wonderful surprises
The hats were a hit and I love the t-shirt I am going to wear it tomorrow

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Ray, the timeline that you posted disproves your assertions that U.S. involvement in Vietnam began in 1965. And about a page or so ago you were crediting John Kennedy with beginning it. He was killed before '65, you know.

It was a good link though, and thanks for posting it.

You are correct. John Kennedy, which by the way I liked very much as a President, didn't have much time to get fully involved in the Vietnam War before his death. He only authorized the military advisors, and provided helicopters-to be piloted by US military pilots-to the South Vietnam military. Johnson, when he temporarily took office upon Kennedy's death, could not do much either, until 1964 after he won the presidential election. That's when he got Congress to back him on his plan for the War in Vietnam.

The Internet is full of timetables relating to the Vietnam War, and some date back to long before the French were in Vietnam. We entered the War with the role of military advisors, which numbered 12 members. By 1964 the number had increased to 12,000 or more. These military advisors were CIA, special forces, etc., but not foot soldiers such as infantry and such. Their job, at the beginning, was to disrupt any possibility (s) of the election of a communist leader in South Vietnam, intelligence gathering, military training of the South Vietnamese forces, dropping "political" leafless from the air, and such. They were prohibited from doing the fighting with the North, but backed the South's military forces in numerous ways.

[Metlakatla]

Yeah, Johnson is widely credited with "starting" the Vietnam War. It's been interesting to read the history of it from something more than a U.S. viewpoint. I know there has been controversy over how this subject has been taught in public school history courses.

What's much more interesting to me than the history of war et al is the history of how people went about their daily lives...off subject I realize...and probably even boring to most people, but I've always been fascinated with the normal household lives of people in different eras.

[GoddessofRandomThoughts]

[mal_flisk]

My favorite Irish toast!

[travelmate38]

My goodness, look what I started. But hey I think this debate is healthy.

[vpcats]

Originally Posted by Sweden

Hahahaha! Thanks, I'll know that now! (I'm very good at hints, my problem is just that people in general don't understand them, sigh...)

Please, please mighty Floridian princess (or do you want to be queen?), please let a poor Swede in on the magical secret of getting the message through!
Please? *blink, blink*

vpcats dear, don't let the 6 month disapearance of sunlight keep you from enjoying the world's true wonder: winter.
Unfortunately, I have none since Siberia doesn't feel like cooling down and the North Atlantic keeps bringing us those dreadful warm winds. So... Can we nuke Siberia, please? Or drop a huge ice block on it? No? Was it too drastic? It was, huh? Ok...

Xa'at, congratulations! Hey, I know the perfect thing for you A... language course! Did I hear a yay?
Pimsleur Approach - Learn any language in 10 days with Pimsleur

Awesome! Maybe something for you? They even got French

Karla, was that bold enough? *blink, blink*

(Yes, Rance, I AM going to bed. Soon, atleast...)

Thanks Sweden but I disagree. The TRUE wonder is the sun! (and the heat)

Wait till your bones get a little older - not that I know that personally mind you.

[User 2]

Originally Posted by travelmate38

My goodness, look what I started. But hey I think this debate is healthy.

Debate is healthy, ....misinformation and myth is unproductive and unconstructive,

....revisionist history is unhealthy.
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