Ridicules

[liberty]

I am the walrus

You are lawyer are you not? I know that lawyers are taught some history of the law. Google Lycurgus.

[RayThom]

Lycurgus Acid Diethylamide (LSD)

[Joe Guy]

Yes I’m not a lawyer. I do know LSD though. I lived a spartan life when I was young and took drugs for entertainment.

[Lord Jim]

A prophet (metaphorical) is crying in the wilderness but know no one will hear. Lycurgus cried out to his people, but they heard and that made the difference. In the end, they messed it up but it lasted a while and at least they tried.

I can hear it now and the answer is no. It is more complicated than that.

Lib, who is supposed to be the "Lycurgus" in this odd construction that you have presented?

Please please tell me you're not thinking of Trump...

Lycurgus was said to be a man who could lay down the supreme power easily out of respect for justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Sparta

That's pretty much the exact opposite of Il Boobce, who clearly has no respect for justice, and seeks to trample it in his quest for "supreme power"...

[MajGenl.Meade]

A bit like Trump, neh? They both start with a lie....

[Scooter]

Lycurgus also instituted radical wealth and land redistribution to bring about the economic equality of all citizens. For all of the village idiot's ravings about communism, it is richly ironic that he should be an admirer of one of its earliest proponents.

[liberty]

Don’t be stupid I already answered that question or statement. But just to make it clear for Mama little Moron; no I am not calling the US to become Sparta. I am suggesting that we borrow some of their ideas and only for families that volunteer and only for education and not to make the same mistakes the Spartans made.

[ex-khobar Andy]

There are a lot of similarities. The Spartans saw the Iranians under Xerxes as an evil empire. That didn't end well.

[liberty]

A prophet (metaphorical) is crying in the wilderness but know no one will hear. Lycurgus cried out to his people, but they heard and that made the difference. In the end, they messed it up but it lasted a while and at least they tried.

I can hear it now and the answer is no. It is more complicated than that.

Lib, who is supposed to be the "Lycurgus" in this odd construction that you have presented?

Please please tell me you're not thinking of Trump...

Lycurgus was said to be a man who could lay down the supreme power easily out of respect for justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Sparta

That's pretty much the exact opposite of Il Boobce, who clearly has no respect for justice, and seeks to trample it in his quest for "supreme power"...

Jim, you have trump on the brain; sometimes I can go days without even thinking about him. You know Jim; it is not all about trumps there are other things.

[Joe Guy]

What’s your point, libster?

[MajGenl.Meade]

He's bidding No Trumps?

[Scooter]

The village idiot's fascination with the Spartan military could derive from the, er, camaraderie for which Spartan soldiers were known. Would explain a lot...

[Lord Jim]

Jim, you have trump on the brain

Yeah, I know, I've foolishly allowed myself to have my attention drawn to a current President attempting to destroy all of the Constitutional checks on his power, when I should be focusing on more important things...

Like fantasy scenarios for some never-gonna-happen war between the US and Russia in the Arctic Circle...

Actually my purpose in asking about Trump regarding your latest offering was an attempt on my part to try to glean some intelligibility from your post...

What is that post supposed to be lib? Free verse? Word association? Some sort of haiku?

(It's not a palindrome; I checked...)

It reads like a meandering, complete non sequitur with no discernible point...

ETA:

I get the impression that you believe your point in that post was perfectly clear...

If that's the case, I can only conclude that when you look at that post you are seeing a bunch of additional sentences that aren't appearing on anyone elses computer screen...

[Crackpot]

YOu just started getting that impression?

[liberty]

What’s your point, libster?

Which point are you referring to Trump or Russia?

[Joe Guy]

A clear explanation of any point you're trying to make would be fine...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Which point are you referring to Trump or Russia?

Why would Joe refer any point to Trump and who in Russia should it be referred to?

[liberty]

A clear explanation of any point you're trying to make would be fine...

It is the same point I have been making for maybe a couple years now. I would seem that you guys should have it memorized:

We can’t beat the Russians in a long artic war. We just don’t have the warriors. Our professional army maybe the best in the world, but they are just not big enough. And we can’t afford to have a professional army large enough to do the job; it would bankrupt the country. We could put perhaps put a couple hundred thousand killers on the line to take on the Russians, but they could raise it to a couple million. An attempt at conscription would just be a replay of Vietnam.

We don’t have the troops to beat them. We can either try to produce more young people with a warrior mindset or we can adapt to a new situation, negotiate and save what we can.

[Scooter]

The village idiot seems to hold Russians in higher regard than his own countrymen. Perhaps someone should be taking a good look at where his real loyalties lie.

[Long Run]

We can’t beat the Russians in a long artic war.

I doubt they could keep pace with the likes of our Remington, Sargent and Bellows. We'd be playing a Homer, put in a Hopper and never ask Wyeth.