[Rhodes22-list] Political: Red vs. Blue States

[Hank]

When I was stationed in Korea we had these huge exercises called "Team
Spirit" Where units from the states would come over and play the orange
forces while we were the blue forces.  At that time I was in an Attack
Helicopter unit and one of the pilots realized that the Emergency marker
strips in the emergency kits were the same shade of orange as the panels
that the other guys taped to the inside of their side windows.  Well, a well
folded emergency marker taped to the inside of OUR helicopters allowed us to
due some easy reconnaissance before the battles began.  Hey, all's fair in
love and war!

Hank

On 11/7/06, Joseph Hadzima <josef508 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> RED & BLUE states?
>
> I thought this was still about the Blue & Grey!  I have
> seen the bumper snickers! "forget hell!", "The South Shall
> Raise Again", "I'd rather be shooting Yankees", and the
> ever popular "I'd rather my daughter working in a whore
> house than my son playig for the Yankees" Oppps Sorry that
> one is from Boston Baseball fan.
>
> Many moons ago the US Militrary did training with the Blue
> Army vs the Red Army, but that was NOT very PC at the time,
> so it was changed to Blue Army vs Orange Army.  Everybody
> looked a like to me (dressed like a tree).
>
> It's a shame we can't all get along like the rest of the
> colors in the crayola box.
>
> Sorry work is a little nutty today ... I need to escape!
> so I came straight to this list!
>
> I did have a lot of fun yesterday ... got calls from Ruddy,
> Hillery, Bill, and even a few live humans telling me to get
> out an vote today - I had a grand time telling them I was
> voiting for the other party ... Got some of those poor
> college kids sounding so depressed, others were just
> pissed!  I hope they pass their mid-terms if their
> acandidate doesn't win today.
>
>
>
> --- "KUHN, LELAND" <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>
> > Please help.  Within the last few weeks someone posted an
> > e-mail about
> > the differences between red and blue states in the 2004
> > presidential
> > election.  I think the e-mail may have also included an
> > analysis of why
> > democracies are doomed for failure.  It was an excellent
> > post but I just
> > can't find it.  I've searched the archives every which
> > way imaginable,
> > but then I lack imagination.
> >
> >
> > If someone could resend the post or let me know the date,
> > title or
> > author; it would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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