"Fact" 1 is actually incorrect. Although it's correct to say raindrops start as spherical, this is actually only in the upper atmosphere. As the drops decend to earth, they pick up dust and other debris which changes their shape. It changes from spherical to more like a dome or the top of a hamburger bun. If you think about it, it actually makes sense that the air pushing up against the drop would change the shape.
I knew most of the rest of the list, but still cool. Thanks!
Given Central and South America are no longer under the control of European imperial states and are free to govern themselves ... they may tend to disagree with you. Given the staggering numbers of those peoples who leap across our border illegally ... indicates to me they tend to like the protection afforded to them by the Monroe Doctrine. I'm just saying. :-)
LOL. Well, just to be clear. I don't watch Fox news. They are nothing but a mouthpiece of the GOP and a hotbed of liars.
@Andy. Grenada's debatable. Vietnam, we were asked by the U.N. to help with containment. We may have exceeded the goal there. Afghanistan? Really? How can you possibly cite that one? Kuwait, Somalia, Darfour, Rwanda, Bosnia ... shall I continue? We are asked on a regular basis for aid throughout the world.
By the way, this issue is way too complex to discuss overall.
I agree the U.S. does tend to have a great deal of getting all up in everyone else's business. However, oftentimes, we are begged to help. Keep in mind it's not often we just roll our Marines into a nation unprovoked or uninvited ... to some greater or lesser degree.
I think you're a little off here. The Monroe Doctrine was created to prevent other imperial powers from settling the western hemisphere. It was specifically designed to protect the soverignty of the United States. It has allowed the U.S. to have the longest unsecured peaceful border in the world. It has allowed other nations in the western hemisphere to declare their independence from other imperial powers who oppressed their colonies. That policy has allowed the U.S. to become a superpower in the world in less than 200 years. The philosophical protection it created for the U.S. allowed Americans to focus on developing a government by the people and for the people proving it unnecessary to rely on either religion or birth to detemine leaders.
I think "good war" is referring more so to the morally just cause of a war rather than just for economic gain of some sort.
FlameHorse, very good list. Very well researched and carefully thought out. I'm hoping you can do the opposite list as well. I actually learned a few things from your list. Thanks much for your hard work on this one. Great job.
"Is this Clarice?" - Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling from Hannibal. If that single question over the phone does not give you chills, you're not human. :-)
Scarface? C'mon. Al rocks.
I completely agree with all the overlooks for an oscar here. In particular, Sean Astin was completely robbed here. Tim Robbins wins for that piece of garbage Mystic River and Sean Astin doesn't even get nominated? WTF Academy!!!!!!! Astin wins essentially every other supporting actor award possible and the academy blows him off. Should be the #1 entry imo, but at least he made the list. Good list FlameHorse.
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