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

Nuh uh, you do!

If anyone needs help falling asleep tonight, may I recommend my latest video on the Panzer II.
 
 

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.  

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.  

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

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.

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

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

And it makes me question those cheering for the Leopard.

Here is the patent for the Kegresse track system used in pre-WWII French Half-tracks.
 
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1980276A/en?inventor=Kegresse+Adolphe&page=1
 

And it makes me question those cheering for the Leopard.

Every time I think about this election, I just keep quoting Shortround in my head.  "Hang on Lady, we going for a ride."
 

I just think it's funny that we had a tank transporter big enough to haul a Jagdtiger and the German's didn't.

Donward and I probably disagree on just about everything in regards to politics.  However, I think we both would be on board a Kirk for President campaign.  Just as long as it was Shatner Kirk and not that new guy.  

Mars 15
 

Here is the patent for the Kegresse track system used in pre-WWII French Half-tracks.
 
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1980276A/en?inventor=Kegresse+Adolphe&page=1
 

Fixed that for you.

I just think it's funny that we had a tank transporter big enough to haul a Jagdtiger and the German's didn't.

I just think it's funny that we had a tank transporter big enough to haul a Jagdtiger and the German's didn't.

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.