Fellow Bostonians: How many of us wished we had an assault weapon last night?

I rest my case. (And I really should give back my degrees in law and history)

I rest my case. (And I really should give back my degrees in law and history Wink )

Well the degrees or lack of degrees have zero meaning when the poster in question is posting nonsense and trying to defense that nonsense by not referring to the facts but the numbers of his degrees instead.

In any case the nation we now call Germany was not one political unit until fairly recent times in world history.

Then why bother reading my posts? LOL

The discourse, why Germany didn't become a "national state" after it had been a nation until 1806, well, that's of lessons in political sciences as well.

[...]While in a long process starting in the thirteenth century in other European countries like France, England, and Spain the idea of nation became associated with the emerging ius territoriale (which in France in the seventeenth century became to be called the droit de souveraineteé) , this did not happen in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The dissociation of the German Empire from the process of state formation entailed a concept of the German nation which lacked an inherent connection to the idea of political nationhood associated with statehood and, concomitantly, with a demarcated territory. As a consequence, the idea of a German nation emigrated into the sphere of culture and gave the German ethnos a prominent role in the concept of nationhood. When in 1871 finally Bismarck founded a modern German nation-state, this state was not the body politic of all German-speaking people; the German polity and the German nation were not congruous.[...]

Any of the crazies blown their brains out while loading their weapons yet?