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Apr 8, 2018 20:34:03   #
rumitoid
 
TexaCan wrote:
Walls have been used by individuals all over the world! Google it yourself!!!!!!!


I asked you about walls in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Name them.

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Apr 8, 2018 20:43:20   #
rumitoid
 
TexaCan wrote:
I do appreciate your service even though you saw no combat! Crypto clerks were also necessary!


I saw combat indirectly. Guys I knew, had meals with, joked with, argued with, that never returned to eat, joke, or argue. I got very lucky. Very. But not in my heart. Safe and air-conditioned and eating well may seem like perks to someone in a war-zone.

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Apr 8, 2018 21:04:19   #
TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!
 
rumitoid wrote:
I asked you about walls in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Name them.


If you're going to ask a question, at least make an intelligent one? You know good and well that individuals have been using walls for centuries! I don't know them personally! Do you?

What the heck are you drinking or using tonight? You are totally out of control! You're making a complete fool of yourself! Or should I say J A!

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Apr 8, 2018 21:12:10   #
TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!
 
rumitoid wrote:
I saw combat indirectly. Guys I knew, had meals with, joked with, argued with, that never returned to eat, joke, or argue. I got very lucky. Very. But not in my heart. Safe and air-conditioned and eating well may seem like perks to someone in a war-zone.


Yes, my husband said that coming out of the jungle with you guys where it was cool, good food and safe could well be considered a perk and then a couple of other words that I can't repeat!

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Apr 8, 2018 21:16:29   #
rumitoid
 
TexaCan wrote:
If you're going to ask a question, at least make an intelligent one? You know good and well that individuals have been using walls for centuries! I don't know them personally! Do you?

What the heck are you drinking or using tonight? You are totally out of control! You're making a complete fool of yourself! Or should I say J A!


That's a stupid answer. And trying to insult me does not make you wiser. The topic is Trump's Wall. Name the countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia that did the same. (Hint: China.) Rome with Hadrian's Wall. Gave you a head start. Name the rest of the nations that built walls to keep out immigrants.

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Apr 8, 2018 21:24:04   #
youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart
 
rumitoid wrote:
Deep thoughts. Nice.


Yes deep thoughts, now you think about it.

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Apr 8, 2018 21:43:35   #
TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!
 
rumitoid wrote:
That's a stupid answer. And trying to insult me does not make you wiser. The topic is Trump's Wall. Name the countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia that did the same. (Hint: China.) Rome with Hadrian's Wall. Gave you a head start. Name the rest of the nations that built walls to keep out immigrants.


As my beloved Daddy would have said, Rumi, "You would argue with a fence post!"

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Apr 8, 2018 22:04:34   #
rumitoid
 
TexaCan wrote:
If you're going to ask a question, at least make an intelligent one? You know good and well that individuals have been using walls for centuries! I don't know them personally! Do you?

What the heck are you drinking or using tonight? You are totally out of control! You're making a complete fool of yourself! Or should I say J A!


Fine, do not answer my reasonable question.

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Apr 8, 2018 22:06:16   #
rumitoid
 
TexaCan wrote:
As my beloved Daddy would have said, Rumi, "You would argue with a fence post!"


Maybe. Depends on what that fence post had to say.

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Apr 8, 2018 23:07:52   #
ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa
 
rumitoid wrote:
Hadrian's Wall had a stone base and a stone wall. There were milecastles with two turrets in between. There was a fort about every five Roman miles. From north to south, the wall comprised a ditch, wall, military way and vallum, another ditch with adjoining mounds. It is thought the milecastles were staffed with static garrisons, whereas the forts had fighting garrisons of infantry and cavalry. In addition to the wall's defensive military role, its gates may have been customs posts, where huge tariffs on burritos and gorditos and pinatas could be made today. It was constantly patrolled day and night, yet now we can have the benefit of spotlights and surveillance cameras. Give those lazy National Guard Units some honest work and a chance to gain some military medals.

"Scholars disagree over how much of a threat the inhabitants of northern Britain really presented and whether there was any economic advantage in defending and garrisoning a fixed line of defences like the Wall, rather than conquering and annexing what has become the Scottish Lowlands and defending the territory with a loose arrangement of forts." Like that assessment of then, for true security now, Trump should just conquer Mexico. After all, according to him, they are mostly "criminals and rapists." The honest Mexican accepts his life in a Drug Cartel and will not cross our border.

Building Trump's Wall by Hadrian design has an unexpected benefit: tourism. Billions of dollars each year could be realized, to offset costs, from "snowbirds" in their RVs and other Americans visiting and traveling the length of The Wall. Government sponsored gift shops, restaurants (selling real American fare), Paintball concessions offering "Hunt an Illegal" games, and so forth, could be a bonanza. Maybe even staged re-enactments of desperate Mexicans drowning trying to cross the Rio Grande for a chance at a better life or ICE raids seizing DACAs at school or jobs. Endless possibilities.
Hadrian's Wall had a stone base and a stone wall. ... (show quote)


rumi: You're in antiquated mode again: Technology today can detect you peeing in your pants; not to mention detection of tunnels etc! MAGA MAGA!

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Apr 8, 2018 23:08:30   #
ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa
 
rumitoid wrote:
Maybe. Depends on what that fence post had to say.


yep you're good at hearing voices!

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Apr 9, 2018 09:01:00   #
goch1
 
rumitoid wrote:
The battle for the Alamo lasted about eight minutes. All therein died there, or later. 246 Combatants. They had a wall, several actually. Walls do not work.


rumitoid needs a history lesson.... try this: http://www.american-historama.org/1829-1841-jacksonian-era/battle-of-alamo.htm

The battle at the Alamo lasted 13 days, and those 140 American rebels seeking independence from Mexico allowed time for an American army to eventually build enough forces to defeat Santa Ana.

BTW - some posting here are absolutely right, a wall does not work. Oh, yes, it may discourage some from entering illegally, but the greatest wall ever built was the great wall of China. You couldn't get over it, you couldn't dig under it, and you couldn't break through it.....but it still didn't work mainly due to the fact that guards could be bribed and undesirables could just come on in.

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Apr 9, 2018 21:00:41   #
rumitoid
 
BigMike wrote:
Screw it! Let's go Great Wall of China or Bust! We could make it impressive enough to be seen from space and man it with National Guard personnel.

We could make it a work of art!


My thoughts exactly.

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Apr 9, 2018 21:05:45   #
rumitoid
 
BigMike wrote:
I have a better idea. We could make them pay thousands of dollars to get here rather than the coyotes! Ka ching!


Hmmm, could work.

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Apr 9, 2018 21:10:50   #
rumitoid
 
youngwilliam wrote:
I say to you what I said to bad Bob, you are one sick f**k.
I see your split personality is poking its head out.


How many Irishmen are schizophrenic? Two out of every one. True.

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