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mike_the_wino

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  1. Guys,

    While I can certainly understand your reaction, given that REICH OF THE BLACK SUN shattered my entire model of atomic weapon history, including college courses on the history of science & technology, the case Joseph Farrell makes is persuasive, however upsetting.

    Again, Albert Speer himself said those weapons didn't exist. At his trial. Where we were hanging Nazis like Christmas lights. If anyone ever had more reason to come clean about a secret I would be surprised. His claims that such a project never existed, he would have known. Ockham's razor dictates we scale back the wide-eye dreaming a bit here, kids.

    It becomes even more credible when you look at some of the supporting evidence, such as overhead WW II imagery of a sprawling I.G. Farben "Buna" plant at Monowice, Poland whose own directors said at Nuremberg it never produced so much as a kilo of Buna. It matches, in every key particular, the same site criteria used at Oak Ridge, with the added twist of slave labor from Auschwitz.

    Really? Those rotten Nazis misled us? They didn't produce 'Buna' at Auschwitz? Or is it possible that 'Massive Extermination Plant for Unwanted People, mostly Jews, Gypsies, Gays and Russians' would A) not fit on the sign out front or B) call too much attention to what was going on? Seriously.

    As I said, I know this is hard to accept. Indeed, I found grokking this concept to be intellectually shattering--and that was before I had to deal with what the Japanese did!

    Even so, once I picked up my brains, dusted them off and carried on, I found the weight of evidence impossible to ignore and a giant chasm between official history and what the newly discovered and declassified evidence showed. Nor did it help that I was born and bred in a country whose very sense of self and its place in history was based on getting the Bomb first.

    meh

    There definitely are technological evidences for German interest in and work to field dirty bombs.

    Long way off from a nuclear bomb, if it's true.

  2. Oh, I think we did well in not pointing out how incredibly behind the times our pet wino was. Except for you.

    I am actually disappointed I didn't know that there was a 6.8 round. Guess I haven't been gun shopping enough lately.

  3. Hrrrrummpppffff. Neat concept in the XM8 but if the M16/M4 is still chugging along why develop something new?

    LT Mike, is 6.5 or 6.8 a cartridge that is in use or would it have to be developed? Is .223 too small? How much weight would that add with an average ammo load?

  4. In any event, speaking as someone with no military experience and moderate civilian firearms experience, I'd prefer to have an AK-47, AR-15, or even a good high-capacity 9mm semiauto in an interior gunfight over a shotgun.

    Same background, different take. I like the AK-47 and the AR-15 but don't think that inside of a structure they would be all that great. Gimme a 9mm pistol, or, if money is no object, a MP5. Even on full auto that beauty is easily handled. My ex, who had no firearm experience, had no problem with that little gem.

  5. Last update of any substance revealed the following:

    -calender 2009 release

    -CM:N (shortened CM:Normady, for a lack of a real title) and follow on modules cover Normady landing through the fall.

    -CM:? (second family of games) will pick up the winter months to war's end.

    -Likely that the two families will be stand alones, so no campaigns from Normady to Berlin. But not entirely ruled out either. Just very unlikely.

    -Water but no amphibous vehicles. Too specific and very limited use not worthwhile for this scope.

    -No horses or motorcycles. And definitely no horses ON motorcycles!

    -New terrain features and doo-dads to dazzle your senses.

    Hhhhhmmmm, I think that about sums it up. Sure I have forgotten 9 or 10 items that others can bring up.

  6. hhhhmmm, interesting. Have to try the roots in something. Got some going in the garden this year. I have used the some of the stem when cooking but I normally use the fresh bits as a finishing touch on tacos and such. In this way the stems are less desirable because you get woodsy bits in your teeth.

    To be honest, here in California there is 'cilantro' year round in the fresh cut display but the only 'coriander' I had seen was in the spice section.

    I did wiki after my response and was suprised by how wide spread this herb is used around the globe. Learn something new every day.

  7. RVES,

    That list sounds like a damn good reason to go to Sydney! But I am thinking a pure 'sausage run' may not pencil out. Perhaps bundled with a vacation......hhhhhmmmmmmmm.

    coriander (cilantro to you)

    Um, if we are picking nits.....cilantro to you, IS cilantro to me. Cilantro is the fresh leaves of the herb and coriander is the seed of said herb.

  8. A co-worker happens to have the same last name as a sausage company back East, Cichocki (pronounced sigh-hockey). As such, he ordered a ham from them and reported back that it was pretty tasty. So I go and check out the website. To my joy and amazement.....Buffalo Wing Sausage. The shipping is killing me....$45 bucks on a $40 dollar order for a grand total of damn near $90 bucks all in.

    Expect an update soon after the grilling!*

    Anyone else have a favorite sausage purveyor?

    *as I was typing this I got an email that they are out of the Chicken Italian Sausage because they are focusing on the Buffalo Wing Sausage. I take this is a positive sign and therefore anxiously await it's sausagey goodness to arrive...all 4 lbs of it.

  9. sfhand, very important consideration. Would we, the customer, be willing to wait longer for each family to allow BFC the time to complete a 'bridging patch/ module".

    My vote would be "No" unless the work could be done in parallel with new game development.....but that's just because I would much rather be done with the whole desert thing and get into CM:Temperate (or whatever it's being called). That being said, if I could then import all the work/ units from the CM:SF family into a CM:Temperate......hhhhhhmmmm, that would be pretty sweet!

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