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  1. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Ahh yes.  It's hard to keep all of Dotard's cases straight.

    But in the end, none of it matters.  He is our future king, and you best get right with the lord (because that's who anoints kings).

    wait wut?  I thought the naming rights for the ceremony would be sold off.   President Trump brought to you by Carl's Jr!

    I bet they smear old frialator grease across his chest instead of Whale Oil

  2. 2 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

    Now I'm confused. I thought there was an announcement last week that some bank was putting up the bond for him. Did that fall through?

    Different case different amount   $98m vs $560m or so

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  3. 26 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    They've done the Army (BOB), the Marines (The Pacific) and the Army Air Corp (MOTA). The next one should be focused on the Naval campaign in the Pacific including the fighter battles. 

    ETA they could probably just make a 9 part series about the USS Enterprise and call it a day. 

    I say this with affection, but an accurate portrayal of the Battle of Leyte Gulf would show both bravery and stupidity on a grand scale.  Fantastic that we won, but man oh man did we get lucky.   Scenes could include pilots in unarmed planes buzzing Japanese ships.  In one case resorting to throwing a clipboard at the stunned Japanese commanders on the bridge.  WTF! Did he just throw a clipboard?  

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  4. 1 hour ago, Texzilla588 said:

    So if you want a barely related movie on postwar Germany that is actually very funny watch One Two Three with James Cagney as a CocaCola exec in 50’s Berlin with his family.

    During wwII Coke had engineers imbedded with combat troops.  They had some sort of sweetheart deal to set up bottling plants as the army advanced.  After all you need good sources of clean water.   The French dubbed it Coca-colonization.  It lead to some of De Gaulle's pushback against American cultural spread after the war and France's resistance to all things English & American.

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    Coca-Cola in World War II
    During World War II, Coca-Cola ran a series of ads which expressed Coca-Cola as a patriotic brand which greeted Americans wherever they went, ‘reminding them of home’.

    In 1941, America entered World War II and thousands of US citizens were sent overseas. To show support for those brave men and women, Coca-Cola President Robert Woodruff ordered that “every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for five cents, wherever he is and whatever it costs the company.”

    When U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower saw the early success of bottling plants, he sent a pressing telegram addressed to Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta. Dated June 29, 1943, his request included 10 portable factories, 6 million filled bottles of Coke a month, and the materials and resources to provide American GIs with refreshingly cool Cokes.

    Vital equipment, gear, and food for survival packed the cargo decks and rooms aboard supply ships. Anything that wasn’t used for survival was viewed as nonessential, and that included crates of Coke. When Eisenhower’s plea was received by high-level executives from Coca-Cola, they started devising a plan to bring distribution of Cokes to combat areas.

    Six months following the message, a Coca-Cola representative flew to the capital of Algeria to implement the paper plans into actionable construction of the first bottling plant. Eisenhower anticipated only 10 would be sufficient but, to his surprise, 64 bottling lines were by the war’s end.

    Soon, 148 representatives from Coke filled the ranks with an official title of “Technical Observers,” or TOs. The TOs were given army fatigues, treated like commissioned officers, and had one responsibility: to serve Coke to every American GI, no matter where they were located. Americans welcomed the TOs without prejudice. Their inclusion into these units earned them the nickname “Coca-Cola Colonels,” and they worked tireless days, two returning home in flag-draped caskets.

    The “Have A Coke” promotions featured ads with unique art accompanied by underlying meanings of the expression. All featuring people smiling with bottles of Coke, the ads used a message to appease civilians and armies alike. By the end of World War II, over 5 billion bottles were distributed to those in uniform, and Coca-Cola transformed the experimental war-time plants into fully operational facilities.

     

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  5. On 3/13/2024 at 10:40 PM, Parliament said:

    Zeihan says Russia has 25 years worth of dumb bombs to strap guidance fins onto.  That's a stretch, but still.  Not encouraging.

     

    Good thing he's a joke and prone making outlandish prognostications and presenting erroneous information like it's the gospel.  If you take this guy seriously, you need to look for better analysis. 

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  6. 15 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

    On the other hand - I'm getting very tired of the "oh well, we lost another Starship" casualness.  You are eventually going to run out of taxpayer money (funneled through Elon).

     

    I agree with your sentiment.  It's helpful to consider that other Aerospace Cos just lose that money without launching a thing. 

    They just burn that money in the waterfall design process.  Starliner?  When will it fly in production?  

    I think that Space X has shown that they can deliver, and perhaps more importantly can capture the public's attention and therefore government cash.   Maybe think of these flights as 75% development 25% marketing

    Disclosure:  Fuck Space Elmo

  7. 11 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Dat hairstyle doe.

    Agreed. Standing up for Blackthorne took guts, and the gift exchange was quite touching. 

    She's not scared of death...  she's hoping for it.  It's been 30yrs since I read the book, but IIRC it was some Japanese 5d chess.  Women ran the home and she was within her right to ask him to leave.  So he had leave or risk losing face.

    If she died protecting the guns, she has served Toranaga, protected her family honor, done her duty to the Gaijin, and gotten a quick death.  

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  8. On 3/11/2024 at 6:05 PM, MissingInAction said:

    90% subtitles is just too much to keep straight for my booze addled brain.

    I can do a show in Spanish because I speak the language..sort of. Enough to at least not have to stare at the subtitles the entire viewing.

    Well on Hulu you can go into episodes and choose the english dub version.  I normally hate dubs, but it's been pretty good so far (there are still some sub titles though)

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