Stalins Organ
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SB to post a URL you type text you want to use as a title, then highlight it, then press the "insert link" button - the one that looks like a blue/green circle (the world?) with an infinity symbol below it - then paste the URL into the "URL" line.
Can't play it here at work but am looking forward to it at home - thanks.
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Death of borg spotting will make scouting with small numbers less effective - bang your jeep gets killed ...and no-one can see what did it.....
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That would be the Bill and Ben Party.
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Moybe - but it looks like any surprise comebacks will be in Iraq's war - not the US's.
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I dunno how others read it, but I honestly interpreted that when you said "[Obama] opposed the war in Iraq but offers no solutions of his own aside from leaving Saddam in power", you wanted to argue about that? Otherwise it's a confusing sentence, because Saddam is not in power.
I'm glad someone else noticed that!!
Perhaps he's confused with this point from Obama's Iraq policy:
Obama and Biden will press Iraq's leaders to take responsibility for their future and to substantially spend their oil revenues on their own reconstruction.I can see how he'd think that meant keeping Saddam Hussein in power...pffftt...
But if Iraq is now a peaceful stable democracy, like you say, then isn't pulling out of there the right thing to do? Everything's done that can be done?and apparently this counted agaisnt McCain - he wanted to "stay the course".....but lots of people think exactly what you wrote here - if the surge worked, and violence is down, and the Iraqi's are capable of handling their own security, then why would we want to stay longer?
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There's got to be at least one pre-condition for talking to your enemies.....they have to be your enemies!!
I reckon it's always a good idea to have some ability to communicate - how else are you going to know when they give in?
however any dialogue stands in stark contrast to "We don't talk to evil" that condemned the world to 5 more years of Iranian support for Hezballah et all.....it could have ben finished in 2003 with a little less blinkered ideology from the White House.
Hence almost anything Obama does, or can do, is likely to be rational by comparison.
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Hey, why do you all dismiss Grant? The only US President to have a tank named after him - who else are there with credentials like that, Stalin?
Stalin was a US President?
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Really? Besides sitting down for a chat with no pre-conditions, exactly what is his foreign policy?
sitting down for a chat is already more rational than Bush et al.
nothing else is needed - but he has a few bits & pieces at his webpage - heck - you might even want to go and read it since you're clearly ignorant of it - it would be good if you at least paid some attention to where your next President is going to take you - then you can be informed and dismissive all at the same time
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Yeah - he's going to have a rational foreign policy not based upon neo-con ideology - he's prepared to "talk to evil" for starters!
I for one welcome our new American overlord.
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Yes sadly there's people who wlil believe that and worse - amazing really.
But hey - that's the American Way - it's worked so far.....
The next challenge - can you elect an atheist??
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:confused:Who is Eugene V. Debs??!!:confused:
just had a look on wiki - bit late for him isn't it?! Get with the times Sarge - the war of independance has been over for a while now...
bu whichever way it goes in 'merka......
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I hear it's almost the worst sort of government possible and only the alternative is worse!
New Zealand leading the free world? Now that'd be a giggle!!
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.....vote often....as an acquaintance of mine once advised me.
We're having our own rather insignificant elections down here on Saturday - I got my vote in las weekend as i'll be travelling, but alas I don't think I'll get to vote often:cool:
good luck to all yous 'merkins out there looking to select the leader of the free world - try to remember those of us you want to lead but who don't have the franchise.
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Many years ago I recall seeing something on the box about confederate folks who seemed to have a bit of a grudge....something about how they had machineguns for the next time....
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I expect that a lot of R&D will get slowed down - the US seems to have a pretty substantive technological advantage over any prospective foe, so "stuff" will probably just be kept on "simmer" unless there's a significant threat to that lead identified.
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If you want your conversation to be private then I suggest you don't post on a public forum.
I addressed points that were in your post that were wrong - and easily shown so.
Seems I have plenty of good luck then - filling out tax forms and knowing history are 2 different things - something else I've been albe to edumacate you on.
i'm having a good day here.
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What part of "largely paid for" didn't you understand?
The bit where that wasn't what I was talking about - I was pointing out that there were plenty of internal excise taxes that could not be avoided - specificaly on hooch, which was the example you used of how to avoid taxation by consuming the domestic product.
and the bit where the 16th amendment was a great evil that allowed income taxes to exist where they didn't before.
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All charges dropped against 5 more detainees.....that's 6 out of 24 that have been charged that have had all charges dropped without going to trial.
Charges against 1 have been upheld - "providing material support for terrorism" of course, and "spying on US forces in his homeland"........pathetic
Guantanamo continues to be a carbuncle on the posterior of the moral high ground!
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I haven't played it in about 20 years - back when the guns were pistols that you had to crank each shot into by hand and using soda CO2 cylinders!!
But even then a shot in the butt at 0 range hurt like hell and was precisely aimed so as to not leave a bruise!! :eek::eek::eek:
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My understanding is that the M61 APC and the M61 APCBC are the same round using US and British nomenclature respectively - the US doesn't mention the ballistic cap in their abbreviation.
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I'm willing to at least consider conspiracies where there's a clear goal of making billions - I have faith in greed
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That's a nice myth - there were plenty of excise taxes in the USA on domestic goods before WW1, so not that much choice involved at all. Eg see the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795!
The 16th amendment was not requierd to allow income tax on wages - you could have been taxed jsut as much now on wages without it - there was income tax in the 1860's to pay for the civil war and not repealed until 1872.
Further income tax was proposed in 1894 - but foundered because it was to be on income from property (rent, dividends or interest) as well as wages.
The trouble with this was that the constitution says that a direct tax must be proportioned on the basis of states' census populations - and this made property income impossible to tax, but Congress didn't want to tax only wages - which would be clearly unfair and a major distortion.
So the 16th amendment exempted all income taxes from the apportionment requirement, allowing incoem tax on revenue generated by property. It became part of the constitution in 1913.
Seems like quite a sensible amendment to me as it shares the income tax burden wider.
But it seems you've come around to the realization that we're not headed for bankruptcy, we've just have some hard budgeting decisions to make.nope. You're headed for bankruptcy until those decisions are made - haven't been made yet, so still heading there. sure there's tiem to turn it around.......but I don't see you guys having the collective courage to do what is required any time soon.
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Sounds fair - this chart gives it 100mm penetration at 500m 30 deg slope with an "M61" APCBC - but only 75.3 at same range and slope with another APCBC with no designation.
The Wiki page for the British OQF 75mm (a rebored 6 pdr with new breech) notes that it has a poor AP round, used the US M61 round, but then had a higher velocity APCBC round that matches the figures above.
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nothing much - but being a small country we have to import pretty much everything & so might as well try to make the country of origin sound like a selling point if it has a good reputation for anythign - Germany is probably still associated with "efficient" and "well engineered".