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Scheiss Meister

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  1. Vladimir Puto, war criminal.
  2. Not the finish any of us wanted, but a hell of a ride to get here. Thanks for the season, Horns. See you next February.
  3. I love seeing the Quaker tanks and guns wasting Russian ammo and time. Keep it up, guys!
  4. I wonder what would happen if a couple of people in different parts of the crowd at tomorrow's rally would simultaniously light off a string of Black Cats each?
  5. This is what I've been waiting for. Blowing bridges is great, but destroying rolling stock is where the pain really starts.
  6. GB didn't write it. New Grass Revival wrote it and had a minor hit with it. Brooks heard it and wanted to cover it, but do it right, so he asked them to back him on the studio recording. That helped them in their career. His mention of Chris Ledoux in Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old was also calculated to give a boost to an artist that he thought deserved more recognition. Brooks is a good dude.
  7. Counting the little pops as the lid on each of the jars of dewberry jelly you just put up seals. Six half pints, six pops.
  8. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Brat! Live long and prosper.
  9. That video looks a lot like footage from Okinawa in 1945, without the flamethrowers. Corkscrew and blowtorch, minus the blowtorch.
  10. As all of the sediment and pollutants in those flood waters flow into the Black Sea, there is going to be an awful dead zone. I wonder how big it will be, and how many country's fisheries it will affect.
  11. The Germans were prepared to fight companies, battalions, regiments, and divisions with objectives that could be deduced and anticipated. They had no answer for small groups of paratroopers from different units who got together and said, "OK. We don't know where we are, or where our objective is, so until someone gets a handle on the situation, let's just fuck up every German position that we can find."
  12. Two divisions of Marines, including my step grandfather (one of the men for whom I am named), and one Army division landed at Saipan on 15 June 1944. D-Day got most of the press, so Saipan was overshadowed and is largely forgotten, but it was a tough fight in its own right. It lead to the taking of Tinian and other islands from which B-29s could fly to bomb the Japanese home islands. It was an important step in the Pacific War.
  13. The Longest Day is one of my favorite books. Oral histories can be tricky, as memories fade and change, and self-interest is always an issue. Ryan did a fantastic job of sorting through all of that and letting the people who were there tell their little pieces of the big story. One day I would love to tour the invasion area. Pegasus Bridge, Pointe du Hoc, and Sainte Mère Églese are all places on my bucket list
  14. I like the idea of tying the size of the fine to the ability to pay. In the US, huge corporations get away with polluting air and water because the fines are less than the cost to treat, so they chose to pay the fines. Meanwhile a small town with problems at their wastewater plant can be hit with the same size fine, with far, far less ability to pay it.
  15. Blowing a dam and flooding lowlands is a defensive action, meant to impede freedom of offensive movement. Ukraine has no reason to blow the dam, and many reasons not to blow it. Without that water, the economic value of Crimea just fell considerably. Once Ukraine retakes Crimea, they will have to provide drinking and agricultural water, and this makes doing so much more difficult and costly. Ukraine doesn't need that challenge added to the list. Finally, the damage done to the dam was too extensive to be the result of shelling. That came from well placed and coordinated demolition charges. This is Ruzzia doing their raccoon imitation: If they can’t eat it, drink it, fuck it, or steal it, then shit on it and fuck it up.
  16. Schloss' face! Priceless!
  17. Whole Hog barbecue. Smells nice.
  18. There's some great news on a Monday afternoon. Rot in hell, traitorous fucker.
  19. During WW II, the German 88 mm gun was originally an anti aircraft weapon. It was then found to be a fantastic indirect fire artillery piece and the best anti tank gun of the war. But you are correct, here. Russia may find that they need air defense more than they need destroyed apartments in Kiev or Kharkiv.
  20. Sign maker must charge by the letter.
  21. Are you talking pictures or posters?
  22. Damn, I love this place. Sports, politics, tites, music, film, and Classical Greek history. What a well rounded, if somewhat maladjusted, bunch.
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