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I really want the Knicks to sweep.

It was to me anyway. I guess I hadn't been paying much attention, and didn't realize Virginia Beach was a candidate for an NBA team.

Well that's... unexpected.

The Marlins are a small market team with 2 championships in the last 15 years. They've done great. The franchise formerly known as the Sonics is looking phenomenal right now. Just sucks to be in Seattle :p

Thankfully I've always been a Yankees fan. Growing up, basketball was 4th on my sports priority list, though I did get somewhat excited in 99 when we lost to San Antonio in the finals. I will have no allegiance to a Dolan-owned franchise. He's as despisable an owner as there is in...

Hey, I'll root for the Nets if/when I want to. I'm practically in the shadow of the Barclays Center

Hey how bout' them Knicks guys. Suck it Azale.

Ah, missed it :p

You didn't ask about naval warfare, but I think you might still find the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal interesting. Actually the second battle was also fought at night. If you find the first one interesting you'll probably like the second one. (Summary on the same wiki page)

Or more simply the original estimates were too high. I'm highly suspicious of "output gaps." There are 20, 30, 40 year periods where growth can be measured to high, and alternative periods of roughly the same length where growth can be measured to be "lower." Taking a farily arbitrary...

They carry some planes as well. Technically they're not aircraft carriers though, they're "amphibious assault ships."

Maybe. The mostly exclusively singular thing could just be American. Our major elections are the "presidential election," and then the "mid-term election," halfway through the president's term. Any other election, say someone dies in office, is a "special election." Although we do...

It's "the election," the vast majority of the time. It's just a few weeks. November 6th :D

Uh, the bars are rotated 90 degrees on the French flag, so it looks basically nothing like a French flag. Looks much more like the Dutch flag, though with the red and blue bars reversed:

Just compare the orders of battle. The only slight advantages the Americans may have had was in number of aircraft, due to the airbase at Midway, and submarines. Although the ground-based aircraft weren't all that great at bombing ships, they still played a very significant role in absorbing...

You can continue to equate the two actions, if you would like. If you can't see why you are wrong, you are helpless.

Midway was mostly unlucky, really. More than avoiding a "Midway type event" (A battle in which the IJN, on paper, completely out-classed the USN in many ways), the IJN would do well to not get their naval codes broken, though I'm not sure how they do that. Well, we certainly did all of the...

Shhh, don't let the facts get in the way of your own self-delusion.

I'm pretty sure we have supply ships that carry cruise missiles and stockpiles in overseas bases, not to mention allies all over the world which ostensibly have their own (although we quickly realized in the Libyan War how ill-prepared most of our European allies were for any kind of sustained...