Now that's another fine mess you got me into....

Started by Boggit, March 11, 2013, 07:58:05 PM

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Boggit

From the fine showing of the Sikhs, to the somewhat less illustrious, nay awful showing of the English and Dutch at Cadiz... :-[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz_Expedition_(1625)
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

Boggit

Sorry. This link is a bit dodgy. Try clicking on the link for the Cadiz Expedition in this link. It worked for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1625%E2%80%931630)
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat