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The rules are simple: You mention an event, headline, make a paragraph that is from an ATL, and the next person states the POD and what line of events lead to this. You can be less detailed or you can be more detailed in how you answer, depending on how difficult the AHC is to pull of...

He always struck me as someone who is an extremist because he is earnest. But don´t let me derail this into a political discussion. I´m not a fan per say.

Not without more domestic animals, they are the key when it comes to that sort of biological warfare. And no matter how you play it, the new world just gets screwed.

I'll take antisoviet marxist in any elections.;)

Impossible. Languages don´t survive intact for so long. You could easily have descendants though.

In defence of overestimated countries Let´s play a game of geographic determinism. A country that consists of a united England and Scotland has an advantage over other European powers: They don´t have to get involved in landwars unless they want and can concentrate on a fleet. China also has...

I´m impressed by Henry VIII reaching that age based on his lifestyle. I think it´s not asking that much to ask for having Edward survive long enough for his son being able to rule on his own.

I was just reading a bit about existentialism. Sartre was in the french army in 1940 after being drafted, but wasn´t in combat. He got arrested for a while, used his arrest to start writing one of his main philosophical treatises and then got pretty famous internationally after the war. If he...

And somehow agent Smith´s speech is turned into anti-semitic rant;)

That´s true. It´d be a painstakingly slow process. And the later it happens the more likely the fauna is to survive, since humans will be closer to understand ecological consequences of their actions. Europe may or may not be recognizable due to butterflies. (Although it might also be nearly...

I was musing earlier today about Rove as Romney campaign manager. It is not as implausible as one´d think. Rove was raised in Utah and went to university there as well. A slightly different career in the republican party could make them cross paths.

It seems no hapsburgs is the essential thing. Not being involved in much continental political struggles is a good thing generally. (See Britain). The only land in Europe worth gaining is unifying Iberia completely with an union with Portugal. Apart from that all gains will involve costly wars.

I think senate seats are often referred to in this manner. I`m not implying any ownership...

Yeah, I guess Obama was really the exception, you`d normally have to spend a few years in the senate at least. If Romney was a VP pick in 1996 then he might not even bother running again for the senate and just focus on a presidential campaign. It`d be a negative campaign of epic proportions...

Do people seriously believe a Truman presidency would have meant WWIII? I mean he`d have to have congress agree to a war to begin with. I think if Truman was a president he might want to go into Korea but he`d have hard time convincing both the congress and senate of going. Churchill was a...

When he ran back in the 90s, think it was 92. (Edit: no it is 94 like was pointed out) Now, it might be impossible, Romney doesn`t have much of a name, he is not a supereffective campaigner and the only way to win would be if something disastrous happened to Ted. (No I don`t mean death... I`m...

I object to that. There might still be revolutions in north africa.

well, how much are we based on the greek ones? I know US takes a lot from Rome in some sense, and I guess we have words like senate and republic from there but can we really say european democracy is based on the greek?

I thought this ad has merit globally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PcQfz0MfU Enjoy.

Yes I recognise the problem of motivation. But you point out, finding the same place again and returning safely over half of the time is an important factor. Lots of people probably ended up accidentally in america. Well... instead of lots, some people probably ended up on the other side. Now...