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  1. Walter_Sobchak
    Not sure if this has been posted before. It's one of the tanks used in the filming of Kelly's Heroes.
  2. Walter_Sobchak
    If anyone needs help falling asleep tonight, may I recommend my latest video on the Panzer II.
  3. Walter_Sobchak
    No idea on this one. The track looks like rubber bands with steel cleats, like on a M56 Scorpion?
  4. Walter_Sobchak
    Nuh uh, you do!
  5. Walter_Sobchak
    I think you very much misunderstand the religious right.
  6. Walter_Sobchak
    That looks like a different branch of L-3 that is located in Toronto. From what I can tell from poking around online, it looks like they were researching active suspension systems, which is a bit more sophisticated than the old Teledyne stuff L-3 inherited when they bought the tank engine plant in Muskegon MI.
  7. Walter_Sobchak
    Hostman made the hydrogas suspensions for Challenger. Did they license this from Mitsubishi then?
  8. Walter_Sobchak
    It's been on the market forever. Back in the 19790's, Teledyne Continental had a hydro suspension unit they tried marketing as part of the "Super M60" program. I think this system is still available from L-3 Combat Propulsions, the current owner of the old Teledyne tank engine plant. General Dynamics owned it for a while, so I was wondering if they were marketing the old system now owned by L-3 or something from someone else. https://www2.l3t.com/cps/cps/Suspensions.htm
  9. Walter_Sobchak
    It will be interesting to see how the evangelical base reacts if Roe vs Wade is not overturned in a couple years now that they have the court they wanted. As far as I can tell, many of them were willing to overlook Trump's lack of propriety in order to get a conservative court.
  10. Walter_Sobchak
    Regardless, the Democrats are gearing up for a fight (Kavanaugh nomination) that they have almost no chance to win. I guess they are hoping to use it as a mobilizing tool for November.
  11. Walter_Sobchak
    On a totally different note, it really annoys me how Chuck Schumer keeps his reading glasses on his face all the time, half way down his nose. I don't know why, but it does.
  12. Walter_Sobchak
    It certainly does raise some questions as to why Kennedy would bother to do this. Perhaps he thinks Kavanaugh will continue his tradition of being the SCOTUS swing vote? Perhaps he didn't trust Trump to nominate someone he thought would be qualified so he decided to work out a deal? Or maybe Kennedy owes Kavanaugh a big favor? Or the story could be bunk for all we know.
  13. Walter_Sobchak
    Colli, these are what we call "lies." Politicians make them all the time to appeal to their base for the sake of winning election. Do you really think W was all like "I want a humble foreign policy" and the state department was like, "NO!, you must invade the axis of evil!" Or perhaps W got his dander up after that whole 9/11 thing and then listened too much to the likes of Dick Cheney and John Bolton. As to Obama and Guantanamo Bay, he made lots of promises to his progressive base back in 2008. And once he was in office, he showed that he was a pretty typical politician in that he shit-canned most of his promises if they appeared to be too costly politically. I do not doubt that the State Department is a giant bureaucracy that has a very great deal of institutional inertia built into it. Which actually proves my point in regards to this whole UN delegation on breastfeeding. If policy under the previous administration was to vote in favor of the resolution, then it stands to reason that the bureaucratic inertia would continue on in that direction. The fact that an abrupt change in policy was made would indicate that those in charge of the institution decided to change course. And since I haven't seen any statements from the current administration denouncing their own delegation to the UN for voting in this manner, I am going to, like a rational person, assume that the current administration is cool with this idiotic stance against breast feeding.
  14. Walter_Sobchak
    According to one story, Kennedy actually negotiated with Trump to get his former clerck named as the nominee. No idea if the story is true of course. https://www.alternet.org/bombshell-supreme-court-justice-anthony-kennedy-agreed-retire-if-trump-promised-replace-him-brett
  15. Walter_Sobchak
    I'd be really curious to know who designed that hydro suspension unit.
  16. Walter_Sobchak
    So you are trying to say that a UN delegation made up of State Department and Health and Human resources representatives suddenly shifted policy completely on their own with no input from the President or his appointed Cabinet heads? By that logic, nothing is Trump's fault if you don't want it to be. Just blame it all on "deep state."
  17. Walter_Sobchak
    Either Trump is in charge, or he isn't. To quote Harry Truman... Anyhow, I have a hard time imagining that issues pertaining to UN resolutions are left to people below the "serve at the pleasure of the President" level. Also, the NYT's article notes that "The intensity of the administration’s opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which largely supported W.H.O.’s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding." If foreign diplomats are noting that this marks a change in policy, then it is clearly a directive from the Trump administration and not some lasting legacy from the previous administration.
  18. Walter_Sobchak
    Considering that the State Department is part of the Executive Branch, and Trump is the head of the Executive Branch, I find this argument to be somewhat unconvincing.
  19. Walter_Sobchak
    This thing would be really convenient in rush hour traffic.
  20. Walter_Sobchak
    Sorry, couldn't help myself.
  21. Walter_Sobchak
    Looks like the hull has been stretched. I assume this was done to fit a Continental AVDS-1790 in there?
  22. Walter_Sobchak
    Yep, pretty much. Although, I found the first half of the film somewhat boring to be honest. It was the first time I caught myself checking my watch during a Tarantino film.
  23. Walter_Sobchak
    Check out this stupid crap.
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  25. Walter_Sobchak
    In case anyone is wondering, bookza.org is now http://b-ok.org/. I went there the other day and found that some new Panzer Tracts titles had been added. http://b-ok.org/s/?q=panzer+tracts&yearFrom=&yearTo=&language=&extension=&t=0
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