Why We Currently Have Fewer Horses in the Military -

stretchl

They just can't take a punch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws

DaveHo

By far my favorite movie. RIP Alex Karras.

tonyb

One of the greats, always liked the guy.

Blazing Saddles was one of the funniest ever. Made my kids watch it one time and they just didn't get the humor in it, go figure. By todays standards, you couldn't make that movie in this day and age without some backlash.

zingo

A quote from that youtube page:

The Hell is wrong with Mongo..thats no way to treat one of the cast members of Sex in the City!

mhardy6647

... and bayonets? Whatcha got on those?

dkr919

mhardy6647 wrote: »

... and bayonets? Whatcha got on those?

cnh

Thanks for the corrections above guys. But all this endless and pointless campaigning will be over soon. Better to return to the OP video.

RIP Alex, a nice guy, a fine athlete and one of my people?

cnh

dkr919

cnh wrote: »

Thanks for the corrections above guys. But all this endless and pointless campaigning will be over soon. Better to return to the OP video.

RIP Alex, a nice guy, a fine athlete and one of my people?

cnh

I believe the original post was a humerus retort to the Obama quote from the last debate... “You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets,”...and not the death of Alex Karras

agreed on Alex

rooftop59

tonyb wrote: »

One of the greats, always liked the guy.

Blazing Saddles was one of the funniest ever. Made my kids watch it one time and they just didn't get the humor in it, go figure. By todays standards, you couldn't make that movie in this day and age without some backlash.

Seriously Tony? Do you watch any of the current stuff like Family Guy, Team America World Police, heck, even the Simpsons or Colbert. Lots of people offend EVERYONE and are very un-pc without any real backlash. Come out form under the rock old man:cheesygrin:

dkr919

Keiko wrote: »

"The nature of our military has changed."

Yeah, who needs horses? Our Navy is badass and got these now.

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That's funny.

I did read this the other day.... 9:34PM EDT October 22. 2012 - The Navy's chief of research says U.S. ships may be outfitted with laser weapons in two years, much sooner than technicians estimated in the spring. Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the head of the Office of Naval Research, "We're well past physics. We're just going through the integration efforts."

cnh

Who needs horses or bayonets? What we really need is a 15 trillion dollar Death Star that can orbit the earth (as a second moon) just above the reach of any enemy and reduce any country to dust in a few seconds! Walk softly and carry a giant Death-ray. lol

cnh

BlueFox

cnh wrote: »

Who needs horses or bayonets? What we really need is a 15 trillion dollar Death Star that can orbit the earth (as a second moon) just above the reach of any enemy and reduce any country to dust in a few seconds! Walk softly and carry a giant Death-ray. lol

That is China's ultimate goal.

cnh

BlueFox wrote: »

That is China's ultimate goal.

I think China would rather just wait until our economy collapses rather than bother to engage the U.S. in a military conflict. For all the blustering of the high communist period China always realized that what the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in would take both countries under in the long run. So it chose not to pursue an arms race. More than two decades after the end of the cold war we still have the following (the Chinese increase their spending in line with what "they" think they can handle, still--while for us, 711 billion is NOT enough?):


I used to work with a Professor of Poli-Sci who wrote a book that pretty much proved that the arms race brought down the U.S.S.R.'s economy and seriously damaged ours as well. The Chinese "know" that! See military spending in terms of billions of dollars below.

cnh

BlueFox

cnh wrote: »

I think China would rather just wait until our economy collapses rather than bother to engage the U.S. in a military conflict. For all the blustering of the high communist period China always realized that what the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in would take both countries under in the long run. So it chose not to pursue an arms race. More than two decades after the end of the cold war we still have the following (the Chinese increase their spending in line with what "they" think they can handle, still--while for us, 711 billion is NOT enough?):


I used to work with a Professor of Poli-Sci who wrote a book that pretty much proved that the arms race brought down the U.S.S.R.'s economy and seriously damaged ours as well. The Chinese "know" that! See military spending in terms of billions of dollars below.

cnh

I am talking about space funding, not military funding. Whoever controls space, controls the planet.

cnh

Space funding in China is more about re-entering the World of Dominant Nations and regaining all the FACE they lost in the last century and a half. I spent a year at CAS so I saw quite a bit of the what and why of Chinese science. Will the Chinese surpass us? Well, it is true that we have a pitiful NASA budget. I'm all for basic research and the benefits of space exploration, military advantages aside. It is also true that China thinks in terms of longer units of TIME than the U.S. After all it's been around forever, almost! lol

cnh

tonyb

rooftop59 wrote: »

Seriously Tony? Do you watch any of the current stuff like Family Guy, Team America World Police, heck, even the Simpsons or Colbert. Lots of people offend EVERYONE and are very un-pc without any real backlash. Come out form under the rock old man:cheesygrin:

You kiddin' bro ? I love family guy, Simpsons.....funny as all hell man. Those are cartoons to me, a regular flick like Blazzing Saddles at the big screen.....not likely in todays world.

Btw.....old age and cunning will overcome youth and vitality any day of the week. :cheesygrin:

tonyb

cnh wrote: »

It is also true that China thinks in terms of longer units of TIME than the U.S. After all it's been around forever, almost! lol

cnh

Absolutely bro. Here we think of time in election cycles while others think of time in centuries, even decades for shorter term goals. We can't look past our own nose to to anything.

sucks2beme

More Jobs overseas, more imports, no real energy policy, falling wages.We could raise military spending and invade China!

sucks2beme

That all depends on what you got orbiting out there.
And other than blowing something big up, you don't get much "control" from space.

tonyb

sucks2beme wrote: »

That all depends on what you got orbiting out there.
And other than blowing something big up, you don't get much "control" from space.

I dunno man, it's not necessarily control per say, but a bargaining chip to be had. Much like the rush right now for many countries to get nuclear weapons. You don't control much but other countries will take notice and tread more softly. Having the ability to take out sats from space could play havoc with any countries communications and dispatch abilities for their military. Let alone launch nuclear missiles from space......may be of concern to a country or two.

sucks2beme

We got lots of nukes, hasn't stopped anyone from messing with us. We have lots of ground forces.
They still mess with us. There lies the problem. Other than dropping the big hammer, what now?
You either have to be willing to show you'll do the big nasty, or it really has no effect.
I nuke on the area with the bad guys in the mid-east would no doubt make them think twice.
But you then are cast as the bad guy and have the whole world angry.

gdb

Yeah well, the minutes following the launching of Iran's first nuke, will see Iran promptly converted to a Large Smoking Hole in the Ground ! Virgins for every one of those nut cases !

bklynNupe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyXf9jgvVH8

I saw this one on Tosh.

tonyb

sucks2beme wrote: »

We got lots of nukes, hasn't stopped anyone from messing with us. We have lots of ground forces.
They still mess with us. .

Not really, who lands on our shores to try and take over the country ? Look around the world, those with nukes get dealt with by way of diplomacy. Those without nukes get invaded, overthrown, and new puppet regimes put in place. The middle east is a perfect example with all previously non nuked countries suddenly looking to gain nuclear weapons after seeing what just happened.

sucks2beme

Why invade, they'll just forclose and move us out.
As far as puppet regimes go, I think that's already happened here.

Strong Bad

bklynNupe wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyXf9jgvVH8

I saw this one on Tosh.

Thats what he gets for wearing purple bike shorts!

gdb

Newsflash; that were no "bite", that was, in fact, a playful "nip". A full fledged bite would've exposed bone............. through copious amounts of bright red blood.

:eek:

mrbigbluelight

cnh wrote: »

Who needs horses or bayonets? What we really need is a 15 trillion dollar Death Star that can orbit the earth (as a second moon) just above the reach of any enemy and reduce any country to dust in a few seconds! Walk softly and carry a giant Death-ray. lol
cnh

I think what our big blue marble needs are THESE GUYS

A little bit of Klaatu backed up by some Gort and now we're talking !

mhardy6647

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

I think what our big blue marble needs are THESE GUYS
...
A little bit of Klaatu backed up by some Gort and now we're talking !

I think that Mitt has a brother named Gort.
And I am pretty sure Barak's got a cousin Klaatu back in the Old Country.

;-)

tonyb

Gort needs a big Polk Audio logo on his chest. Even robots on space ships need good sound.

Polkersince85

Nothing will save us from the 50 foot woman.