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  1. So What Would You Do If...

    Die. Hopefully in some meaningful way, but more likely fighting over a can of Van de Camp's.:p
  2. No gun control in US

    If they couldn't get ANY weapon they wanted over the U.S./Mexico border or in any large American city they just didn't try. If a 14 year old banger in Oakland or Miami can get an AK (and they can AND DO), I doubt a terrorist organization with money to spend would have the slightest problem...
  3. Jefferson's other dream comes true

    Given the importance of the Buffalo to the Plain's Indian culture, what would the presence of Mammoth/Mastadons, with the likely imact on herd size, cause the Indian population. I am especially curious about the Sioux/Dakota culture which had only arrived in the region in the 15th/16th century...
  4. No gun control in US

    No Prohibition. Prohibition was the trigger that gave the Organized Crime groups the money to expand from little violence needed (mostly a good beating) crimes to fairly large powerful organizations that had every reason to kill. The profits from sales of illegal booze were so great that it made...
  5. Vinland –the bountiful refuge.

    Interesting framework. The POD is different.:) A few points: The population number of 500,000 seems to be remarkably high for such a short period. Quadurpling of the population in under 60 years would be nearly unheard of, particularly in an era of high infant mortality, & more...
  6. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    One thing I didn't think of earlier was the sub attack. That is probably the best bet to butterfly away. The Sara leave a day earlier or later & she never gets attacked. If that happens the loss of the Lady Lex is nullified. Interesting possibility there.
  7. What Was the Most Important Presidential Election?

    I voted for 1864. If Lincoln lost to McClellen there would have been an additional country on the North American Continent. If 1796 had been available I would have selected that election. It was the one that actually demonstrated that America was NOT a Monarchy with George the 1st as King. It...
  8. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    The carrier data I spoke of is part of the historical record (refer to any Jane's published in the immediate post war period). Japan's failure to construct & commission any full sized carriers is also a matter of historical fact. The construction rate of American warships in the war years...
  9. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    Frankly, no. Having quickly reviewed a number of sources on the 'Net no one else seems to be aware of it either, at least as far as I can find in an admittedly brief search. Several sources speak to the anger generated when the Viceroy delared war FOR India without any consultation with the...
  10. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    I have to disagree. Everything the British did in the Med was connected to one thing, The Raj. Protecting the Raj meant protecting the supply lines through Suez and keeping the USSR away from European Turkey. Protecting the supply lines required the negation of the Italian threat & the Balkans...
  11. Left Wing Coup Against Reagan?

    ROFLMAO:D :D :D :D
  12. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    The nice thing about taking Germany is that the Germans, rightly, saw the Red Army as the real threat. If the Western allies can get to the Gernam border by February 1, 1945, it is likely that most of the territory taken by the Allies, excepting the parts of Czechslovokia & Austria reached by...
  13. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    No the U.S. is not God. However, we do understand how Mars did his thing.:p The United States, without the Enterprise & Lexington (all that the Japanese could HOPE to find at Pearl, since Saratoga had a engineering casualty and was in San Diego & Yorktown, Hornet and Wasp were in the...
  14. Pearl Harbor WI

    Actually they had 6 full sized decks (Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Syokaku, Soryu, & Zuikaku). The rest were light carriers (Ryujo, Ruyho, Zuyho) roughly the same size & capacity as the USS Ranger (14-16,000 tons) & the Hoshu which was the Japanese equivalent of USS Langley (7,600 tons, converted...
  15. What if rich move to a counrty with no death taxs ?

    Very true. But that's because HE'LL BE DEAD!:p
  16. The War of Mexican Intervention? (~1995)

    It's Bun-Bun!
  17. Can Hitler get a negotiated peace?

    Withdraw from "Vichy France" & the French coastline. Withdraw from Holland & Belgium. Don't transport all the Jews East. Keep just the Alsace-Lorraine in the West. Give some flavor of home rule to the German half of Poland. DO NOT ATTACK THE USSR!!!!!!!! Of course, since all of these are...
  18. WI the Carriers had been at Pearl

    Very good, concise, worse case analysis. Of course, in the end, it all would make no difference to the Japanese. They still end up a crushed husk of a country by the end of 1945. It might make a noticable difference in the European War. If nothing else the United States would be far less...
  19. WI Hitler

    Hitler was a dead man (if he was lucky). The NKVD would have never stopped looking for him, for that matter neither would the OSS or the Brits (remember where & why the whole "00" thing originated). Stalin had some very special plans for Hitler if he was ever captured alive.:eek:
  20. Left Wing Coup Against Reagan?

    That would probably be just about right.
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