Luke.Schleusener
10/25/2009 4:21:00 PM
On Oct 24, 10:46 pm, "Allen W. McDonnell" <tan...@peakoil.com> wrote:
> Maybe I am just a dull person, but what is so hellish about most of these
> WI's?
Well, there's this bloke named Daniel, he ate a lot of lead paint and
posts alot....
> Other than the war related ones their consequences would all be relatively
> small and local, not broad based and widely impacting.
Uh, surely you're joking. Perhaps we should have a talk about the non-
war related ways that history can change; I know you've been
frustrated by trying to turn Timbuktu into Tuscon, but there's plenty
of other, and frequently better, non war stuf.
> Could Hawaii still be a territory instead of a State? Sure, it was really
> admitted more as a balance to the admission of Alaska than for any pressing
> need for it to become a state.
It got admitted because of Pearl Harbor. Unless you're from an
alternate universe where one of those is a slave state.
> Alaska might not have been admitted, or
> conversely some other area could have been admitted instead of Hawaii as the
> counter balance, such as theD.C. or a combination of Puerto Rico and the
> USVI.
DC statehood is unconstitutional. Puerto Rico and the US Virgin
Islands both belong to Insular cases, and are too brown and other to
get statehood. Ah, well.
IIRC, you're Canadian. I understand that it can be a problem to be
from a country with no history, but goin around makin' stuff up about
your awesome neighbor to the south is just stuff and nonsense. C'mon.
Best
L