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I'm with most everyone else. Voted Other because this is too ASB for a serious discussion.

I'd love to comment, but what the hell does "relegation" mean in this context?

That. An American president who did not respond to 9/11 by invading Afghanistan to both attack and hopefully cripple Al Qaeda and remove the Taliban regime would be a one-termer for sure. Invading Iraq was a mistake probably unique to Bush II and his advisors.

This list is far too short to provide a representative answer, and anyway this is only good for starting arguments. Arguably none of the listed fighters are really the 'best" fighters of their reflective nations and three - the G.50, Yak-1, and A6M Zero - most certainly aren't. For what its...

If the "best" leader for the allies is one who was most aggressive, most committed to the destruction of Nazi Germany, and most popular as a wartime leader, Churchill is obvious, FDR next, and Stalin last. Frankly, I believe if Stalin had died in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, this...

Impossible. Friedrich Wilhelm was sympathetic to the Nazi movement, even more so than his father. Also, Hirohito was retained as a figurehead in Japan after WW2 because this was very much desired by many in Japan and the Allies (the US, basically) knew it would give them needed traction...

Very interesting concept and I really like the short game updates. I also like that you had tied this to the conference championships, which in effect involves more than 16 teams in the chase. As for Notre Dame and any other Independents who are left out, I say tough. Join a conference. There...

This might have been mentioned, but what about USS George Washington, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine capable of launching its missiles while submerged. When built it could probably devastate more cities and kill more people without any risk to itself than any single war...

You are correct about reserved powers. But regarding laws the three Branches were designed to have a specific areas of interest/authority: Congress passes legislation, the Executive enforces legislation, and the Courts interpret laws. Regardless of whether or not the Founders "Intended" the...

Polynesian contact is probably by far the most likely of an unlikely group. Sweet Potatoes did somehow spread to SE before the Columbian expansion (I defer to botanists on that one) and Polynesians are probably the only people who might have had both the ability and desire to reach the...

Actually, some dinosaurs stayed on earth and survived until the Flood, when God finally had enough of them. But as we all know, the most intelligent animals aren't stupid enough to get trapped in tar pits and swamps, anyway. That's why we find relatively few fossilized humans, dolphins, and...

Oh, I forgot about those. But Pacal's spaceship is the most fascinating thing. Probably actually an Atlantean airplane however.

Actually, agriculture is harder than hunting-gathering. Farming requires more work, is harder on the body, and creates a less healthy diet overall than hunting and gathering. People started intensive farming not because they wanted to...they did it because their population densities exceeded...

Pretty much inevitable in areas with constrained environments, suitable domesticates, and increasing population densities.

...and somehow not one Native American thought to depict these amazing people in their pottery, shell engravings, copper gorgets...or even worse didn't even trade for or steal a few useful things like bronze, iron, or steel swords, horses, cattle, wheeled vehicles, glass goblets, Atlantean solar...

Aaaak! Don't get me started on ancient Welsh settlers, Egyptians, wandering Hebrews, or Sumerian explorers creating mounds, earthen ziggurats, fortresses, and golden tablets from New England through the Mississippi Valley. Amazing that all this "evidence" supposedly found in the 1820-1900...

While the focus of this discussion is on World War One, the Versailles Treaty forced Germany to keep the 11" gun as its main heavy caliber gun until the late 1930's, resulting in hopeless compromises like the Deutschlands and the woefully under-gunned Scharnhorsts. One wonders what the...

Me too. I visited several Maya sites in Belize during the "Mayan Calendar Says We Are All Going to Die now" year, and every guide used this to liven up the presentations...and never once presented the actual explanation of Maya calendrics. Tour guides are hired to make things exciting for...

I basically agree with this, but the very fact that Polynesians were such excellent pre-modern seafarers means a loose raft doesn't have to make it all the way to Polynesia for them to discover sweet potatoes. They could have been encountered by Polynesians at sea, perhaps close to South...

Given Germany's geographic location and the fact that it would essentially be starting from scratch creating a modern navy in the early 1930's with or without Nazis driving the boat, I'd put on my Minister of Marine hat and suggest the following. 1. Build a few large panzerschiff to keep the...