D-Day Cafe

ddaylaterinday.jfif

This account, Project '44, features letters and accounts from the men of Normandy, with some illustrative video to accompany their words. I believe their letters are read by actors, because the audio quality is sometimes very high, and sometimes they sound like actors. But the accounts are real.

Pandamonium!

Older dog is very skeptical of new puppy, but the puppy gradually wears him down.

Are you a gray bush?

Who's in charge here?

ICYMI, this dog is floofy and huge.

The rabbit gods are kind today.

Playing catch-the-feather-on-the-stick with a cat. Except it's a lion. Really cool.

Some kind of raptor -- the account says it's a vulture; I don't know myself, and you know how bad I am at Bird Identification -- buzzes a paraglider and then decides, Hey, I think I'll just take a rest and ride your glider for a while if you don't mind. Another very gool one.

Pellican trying to eat a capybara. (He fails.)

Hero saves kid.

As you probably know, Biden failed to make any observance of D-Day for the second straight year in a row.

Here are some real presidents who did think it was worth commemorating:

incredibly important video pic.twitter.com/PvdL1W5EZY
— papa juice man 🦣 (@papajuiceman) June 2, 2022

pic.twitter.com/1AdgqQsXUv
— Ink Blot (@inkblotio) June 6, 2022

Rescued from captivity, these two brothers were separated for treatment in two different locations.

After they recovered, they were reunited.. pic.twitter.com/YalimIdIkp
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 4, 2022

A cow was on the loose on the highway in Oklahoma, so they brought in a Cowboy to take care of it.

Dudes rock. pic.twitter.com/TeczQOoIg1
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 6, 2022

Kid helps reunite a lost lamb with its mother..🐑🧒❤️ pic.twitter.com/NLJ6wViMhh
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) June 6, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 06:57 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 First

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 06, 2022 07:57 PM (/6GbT)

2 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2022 07:57 PM (H+kwn)

3 Thank you for your service and sacrifices. May we live up to your example when time comes.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 06, 2022 07:58 PM (nByzo)

4 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2022 07:58 PM (OX9vb)

5 Dennis Chambers playing Tool's Schism.

https://youtu.be/rVwyAsU4dus

Awesome.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2022 07:58 PM (QhC0J)

6 They only drug Joe up for the important stuff....

Posted by: steevy at June 06, 2022 07:59 PM (g2WCg)

7 That pic below of the two trannies kissing and the real woman holding a real child produced in her real womb solidified some thinking I've been doing about -
The weird compulsion of Men Dressed as Women Competing and Beating Real Women in Sports.

Mindthoughts follow:
We're told a lot that trannies aren't teh ghey. That photo gives lie to that claim. From here on out, I'm just going to assume that guys who dress as women are teh ghey.
Teh gheys(1-3% of the population) want to have sex with men.
Who do normal men (approx. 97-99% of the male population) want to have sex with in overwhelming numbers? Women.
Who must teh gheys see as their main competition for sex with men? Women.
How do men prove their superiority to their competition? Battle or sports.
In their insane, teh ghey minds, they are proving their superiority to women by beating them at sports. In their goofball, teh ghey world that demonstrates their superiority as sex partners.

Hey, you got insanity in my sexuality! Hey, you got sexuality in my insanity?
And now, you know. You're welcome.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2022 07:59 PM (OK0YZ)

8 That's an interesting color on that puppy. Brown and black in front then grey in back.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2022 08:00 PM (0fVbu)

9 Drag queens want to fuck your kids.

This is known!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2022 08:00 PM (yrol0)

10 I have a friend whose kids did youth rodeo. We took our boys to watch when they were young - I highly recommend it. A really, really fun day.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:00 PM (BJKQV)

11 Drag queens will fuck your kids!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2022 08:00 PM (yrol0)

12 God bless all the KIA of WWII, regardless of where or when.
I pray we, the living, can fulfill their sacrifice.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 06, 2022 08:01 PM (jTmQV)

13 Some journalists took that pic from the landing craft. I bet he wouldn't get all worked up about a tweet.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:01 PM (BJKQV)

14 Thanks for mentioning D-Day. Thanks JJ for mentioning Midway earlier.

Thank you to the men who held off communism for so long.

I'm so sorry we failed you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:02 PM (WuwIX)

15 >>> We're told a lot that trannies aren't teh ghey.
osted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2022 07:59 PM (OK0YZ)

I got news for ya

Posted by: Ice T at June 06, 2022 08:02 PM (0fVbu)

16 13 Some journalists took that pic from the landing craft. I bet he wouldn't get all worked up about a tweet.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:01 PM (BJKQV)

You are correct, my man. What a day that was!

Posted by: Brian Williams at June 06, 2022 08:02 PM (PiwSw)

17 It is the process crime of the century!

Lawyers for Attorney General Letitia James said Graff's testimony "cast doubt on the completeness of Mr. Trump's affidavit," which stated his practice was to delegate document handling to his executive assistants. Graff said Trump "generally" left it to them but other departments could make their own decisions. The office is investigating the accuracy of financial statements the Trump Organization provided to lenders and insurers and for tax benefits.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:02 PM (12jgO)

18 Cats can play poker coz they know how to bluff

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2022 08:03 PM (kf6Ak)

19 We should celebrate D-Day, we damn sure couldn't muster that moxie anymore.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 06, 2022 08:03 PM (oWBc3)

20 I caught the last hour of the Eisenhower biopic with Tom Selleck. It dealt with the 90 days leading up to D-Day, and was surprisingly good.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2022 08:04 PM (ZsR3z)

21 18 Cats can play poker coz they know how to bluff
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 06, 2022 08:03 PM (kf6Ak)

cheezburger

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2022 08:04 PM (yrol0)

22 The modern D-Day is Biden using the DPA for solar panels. Utter ridiculousness.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 06, 2022 08:04 PM (oWBc3)

23 ...which stated his practice was to delegate document handling to his executive assistants. Graff said Trump "generally" left it to them but other departments could make their own decisions.

*

Somehow the food shortages, inflation, and gas prices aren't Biden's fault, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:05 PM (WuwIX)

24 Speaking of, did Biden make a statement regarding D-Day this year?

He didn't last year IIRC. *spit*

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:05 PM (WuwIX)

25 The office is investigating the accuracy of financial statements the Trump Organization provided to lenders and insurers and for tax benefits.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I don't think this is going to work out the way they think. Even those who don't care for Trump can see that this is malicious prosecution. If he runs, he'll benefit from their persecution.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2022 08:06 PM (ZsR3z)

26 Speaking of, did Biden make a statement regarding D-Day this year?

Why would I need to make a statement about doughnut day? I think they're self-explanatory.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 06, 2022 08:07 PM (ZsR3z)

27 These men owed a debt
That can never be repaid
And yes, I said MEN.

Posted by: Captain Haiku at June 06, 2022 08:07 PM (rIXF2)

28 did any lenders or insurers question the documents? I'm guessing not.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 06, 2022 08:07 PM (5HBd1)

29 Willowed . . .

Hey Sharkman, if you haven't read the stand-alone Abner Fortis book "Honor Flight", don't. Wait until he's done with the series. Trust me on this.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

I didn't know about it until I'd read the rest of the series, and I was very glad that I hadn't. It is the perfect coda to that series. I think that he's not done writing them, though that remains to be seen.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (3IsaC)

30 Hunter naked with gun!

https://tinyurl.com/yc258tyf

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (yrol0)

31 Start trek is on. It's the one where they go back in time and beam up Top Gun.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (vrz2I)

32 Trump said he delegated. His assistant said he GENERALLY delegated. Boom! You are going the fuck down Mr Trump!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:09 PM (12jgO)

33 This is a site I have poured over many times trying to find hidden information. But just look at it and you will get a satisfaction how much planning went into D-Day
http://www.americandday.org
https://tinyurl.com/4pkpjamp

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2022 08:09 PM (2JoB8)

34 Yep. That's definitely a vulture. The beak is a dead giveaway. From pictures on the interwebz, it looks like a Black Vulture (now that was a creative name).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:09 PM (CAJOC)

35 Are you a gray bush?

Honestly, happiness is more important than color.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (a3Q+t)

36 For anyone curious about the goings on with the Libertarian Party.

Mises Caucus Takes Control.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8wdb5s

I guess this means they've stepped away from the left wing .

This is linked in that same article and it's a year old but it's worth reading, too.

Inside the battle for the LP.

https://tinyurl.com/yhsah4n3

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (QhC0J)

37 Start trek is on. It's the one where they go back in time and beam up Top Gun.
Posted by: fd

That is a Mandella effect right there. I remember them going back to beam up Fartclam.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (12jgO)

38 Hunter naked with gun!

https://tinyurl.com/yc258tyf
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (yrol0)

Yuck. Pass.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (wZUnB)

39 Biden's handlers are afraid that if the let him talk about D-Day he'll claim to have been killed on Omaha Beach.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (BJKQV)

40 Are you a gray bush?

That's a rather personal question dontcha think?

Posted by: Major Werner Pluskat at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (4I/2K)

41 Hey, you got insanity in my sexuality! Hey, you got sexuality in my insanity?

And now, you know. You're welcome.

Posted by: naturalfake

Very good analysis.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:11 PM (3IsaC)

42 Thanks for the D-Day pics, ace. As others are noting, the event was so crucial not just for its own sake, in terms of WWII, but from the perspective of history, as an awe-inspiring illustration of will and genius applied to a practical challenge.

BTW, I believe the vast bulk of still and moving image photography from that day was lost before the film was even developed. Combat Camera (think that's when it actually had that name) consolidated much of the film for one courier run to a ship. The bag was dropped overboard. Seriously.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:12 PM (OTzUX)

43 type-delete on the feckless bastards that comprise this government.

Bribe'em didn't recognize it because he can't insert himself into being a war hero. Fuck you, you joke.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 06, 2022 08:12 PM (Xifi/)

44 Are you the Singing Bush?!!

https://youtu.be/e9vPvHO8Kp4

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2022 08:12 PM (QhC0J)

45
Heh.

Musk says:

"Only thing more remarkable than DOJ not leaking the [Epstein/Maxwell client list] is that no one in the media cares. Doesn't that seem odd?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 08:12 PM (xPIwr)

46 "Are you a gray bush?"

Only her hair dresser knows for sure.

Posted by: Xrs Clairol at June 06, 2022 08:12 PM (vrz2I)

47 Thanks for mentioning D-Day. Thanks JJ for mentioning Midway earlier.

Thank you to the men who held off communism for so long.

I'm so sorry we failed you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency

We haven't failed them. The shooting hasn't started yet. But it will. And then it will be pass/fail.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (3IsaC)

48 The pelican wasn't trying to eat the capybara, he was just trying to expose him to the culture inside his belly.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (BJKQV)

49 That is a black buzzard. Not a turkey vulture. Note the absence of white underwings, and a red face.

That vulture's claws and beak can go right through the shows he is wearing. Just saying.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (u82oZ)

50 There are a lot of varieties of vulture and that definitely looks like one. We have turkey vultures around here and they are some ugly birds and huge.

We ran into 6 of them on the beach a couple months ago and they were as big as Elvis.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (ZLI7S)

51 Somewhat related to the cat playing cards, we have several card games where you have to place down a card based on a theme, and one player judges which best fits the theme. Unfortunately, not much fun playing with just 3 people. So we started setting a bobble-head on the table as a fourth "player". Their submission is chosen randomly.

It was somewhat surprising how often the bobble-head won.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (CAJOC)

52 No One of Consequence

Good catch. I type slower than you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:14 PM (u82oZ)

53 he pelican wasn't trying to eat the capybara, he was just trying to expose him to the culture inside his belly.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (BJKQV)

Love how the capybara just sat there like he was getting a massage.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:14 PM (wZUnB)

54 Thanks for the links, Skip.

I forget the exact name, but there are one or more very good "then and now" sites/channels, some on UToob, that do an amazing job of fading D-Day imagery into identically framed photos of the same places, present day. Amazing. There are several at English embarkation ports where the background/buildings have hardly changed at all.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:14 PM (OTzUX)

55 I I've seen that video of the capybara and the pelican before but it cracks me up every time. Let's eat that, no too big, how about if I turn my mouth this way, no, try the head first, no, maybe the feet first, no, maybe it's gotten smaller, no, did I try the head yet, oh yeah I guess I did... The capybara is the most stoic of animals. I shall name him SPEAK.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2022 08:16 PM (0fVbu)

56 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2022 08:16 PM (arJlL)

57 joe's 26 year old dad (who joe loves to brag about being better than you and yours) found a way to not serve in WW2 so joe isn't about to honor his dad's contemporaries who did have courage.

Posted by: x at June 06, 2022 08:17 PM (uQFwj)

58 Sharkman

We are suckering them into 20 mm range. Right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:17 PM (u82oZ)

59 Are you a gray bush?

How would I know? I've never looked.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (FGbUr)

60 I'll say one thing for covid: for the last several days, i've craved a bacon cheeseburger. The Saturday ONT pic might also have something to do with it.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (KAi1n)

61 Love how the capybara just sat there like he was getting a massage.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:14 PM (wZUnB)

Yeah. He really didn't see the pelican as much of a threat.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (BJKQV)

62 Hiya JT. How have you been?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (wZUnB)

63 I wanna be a cowboy

Posted by: Xrs Clairol at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (vrz2I)

64 rhomboid

Yes, that was a good link. Off to find it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:18 PM (u82oZ)

65 FJB swam ashore at Omaha Beach he found himself staring Hitler directly in the eyes. He could tell Hitler had no soul. He told him, he said "Addie -that is what he referred to Adolf as- Addie, if you have a shred of decency, you would surrender right here, right now!" At that moment, 1000 of Hitler's personal guards swarmed. FJB fought them off hand to hand. By the time he finished, Hitler was in his Blackhawk running full speed back to Berlin.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:19 PM (12jgO)

66 I seem to recall a 'ron posted on an earlier thread (might even have been Sunday's EMT) that they had a bunch of vultures on their porch railing. Forget who, though...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:19 PM (CAJOC)

67 Those chimps were cute!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2022 08:19 PM (R/m4+)

68
The baby formula shortage reminds me of when I stormed Omicron beach on B-Day. They called it B-Day for Biden. Anyway, once I scaled the bluffs at Ham Hock Point, I realized that the "Germans" up there were Nazis! Dirty Russians and their little tricks, as usual. Bout as German as a cabbage-faced bear soldier, jack. Killed 'em all. That's how Democrats used to handle Russian Nazis like General Potato-Pop. Word as a Brandon.

Posted by: Brandon at June 06, 2022 08:20 PM (xPIwr)

69 Leticia James doesn't seem too interested in Hunter's business dealings. Or FJBs lack of income taxes on his book deal. Or millions of undeclared income.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:20 PM (12jgO)

70 Hiya JT. How have you been?
Posted by: Jordan61

Hiya Jordan ! Pretty good; and you ?

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2022 08:20 PM (arJlL)

71 I believe Strom Thurmond was a 42-yr old captain in wave 2 or 3 at Normandy. Just to give some perspective on the longevity of that particular figure.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:21 PM (OTzUX)

72 Thanks for mentioning D-Day. Thanks JJ for mentioning Midway earlier.

Thank you to the men who held off communism for so long.

I'm so sorry we failed you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency

We haven't failed them. The shooting hasn't started yet. But it will. And then it will be pass/fail.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (3IsaC)

Yeah. I don't aim to fail. This line will continue, come what may. And it will follow in the footsteps of greatness.
And that's all I am going to say.

Posted by: RI Red at June 06, 2022 08:21 PM (sbBrH)

73 65 FJB swam ashore at Omaha Beach he found himself staring Hitler directly in the eyes. He could tell Hitler had no soul. He told him, he said "Addie -that is what he referred to Adolf as- Addie, if you have a shred of decency, you would surrender right here, right now!" At that moment, 1000 of Hitler's personal guards swarmed. FJB fought them off hand to hand. By the time he finished, Hitler was in his Blackhawk running full speed back to Berlin.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:19 PM (12jgO)

--------------------------

It was a close one, though, weighed down as he was by his soaking wet uniform. It's why, to this day, he only swims in the nude.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:21 PM (CAJOC)

74 Rhomboid

https://acidcow.com/pics/

3772-normandy_1944_then_and_now_204_pics.html

Mind the gap.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:22 PM (u82oZ)

75 FJB managed to skip the draft, too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:22 PM (12jgO)

76 Ugh, just noticed that the Smithsonian Channel changed their logo to rainbow colored.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:22 PM (wZUnB)

77 The tiny kittens having a slap fight made my day.

Posted by: sal at June 06, 2022 08:22 PM (bJKUl)

78 @65, 68

*golf clap*

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 06, 2022 08:23 PM (nByzo)

79 that they had a bunch of vultures on their porch railing. Forget who, though...
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Not me but it should have been. Wrote my semi-annual property tax assessment today. Bastids. I could pay for a fully tricked out F250 with about three years worth of that.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:23 PM (FGbUr)

80 Some Normandy D-Day now and back-then photos linked in my sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 06, 2022 08:23 PM (yikp0)

81 FJB sacrificed both of his sons in Iraq. They paid the ultimate price so you didn't have to. He doesn't demand gratitude, but it would be the decent thing tondo.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:24 PM (12jgO)

82 naturalfake

I will use your incisive analysis for good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:24 PM (u82oZ)

83 More D-Day stories Daddy! More! More!

Posted by: Hunter at June 06, 2022 08:24 PM (BJKQV)

84 'Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:19 PM'

Hey! Were you there too? Hitler was a bad dude. No kidding. Last time I saw him he came running up to me yelling "Joey Baby!". I thought the SS was going to have to take him out. I am not joking. I took him out behind the bunker and kicked his ass. My word as a Biteum.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at June 06, 2022 08:25 PM (vrz2I)

85 Just wondering: Did those cowboys just happen to be nearby, or is there a Cowboy Response Team to wrangle wayward cows in OK? How did they get there?

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:25 PM (u+Y3T)

86 That second photo is, I think, D+3 or 4. Note all those LSTs beached and disgorging vehicles and materiel. Many of those ships - which had only numbers, not names - were built in the MidWest. On rivers. America's heartland sprouted riverine shipyards, where the ships were launched sideways. Like so many other things in WWII, they were invented and mass produced in short order, and were critical. Many operations were changed or delayed, and there were fights between the Pacific and European theater commands, because there were never enough to go around. There was one still in service, I think with the Philippine Navy, as recently as a few years ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:25 PM (OTzUX)

87 I have no words to waste in disparagement upon a soulless puppet like Bidet.

Let his name be stricken from all tongues and from all history

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:26 PM (k6qJn)

88 Thanks NaCly.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (OTzUX)

89 joe's dad was jerking off punks under the Scranton bridge on 6/6/44 for a nickel a man

Posted by: x at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (uQFwj)

90 We haven't failed them.

*

We're allowing the same people who insisted that black people were livestock and it didn't matter if they lived or died to murder millions of their babies for their "healthcare." We're allowing American doctors to cut off the genitalia of healthy children or chemically castrate them. We shut down schools for a year and destroyed the academic gains of a generation or two, and when parents spoke up to say "Please stop" our government sent the FBI to investigate them.

Yeah, we failed. The problem was that we failed way back before most of us were even born. As another poster wisely pointed out, there are 50 to 100 people in key positions in government, and it doesn't matter who is elected. Government is going to continue according to plan.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (m5zDG)

91 No One of Consequence

Me. Up to five at a time, looking in at my wife eating breakfast.

Last week I saw a turkey vulture mating dance, and turkey vulture sex. Even Hunter Biden would be uninterested.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (u82oZ)

92 Can confirm, that is a vulture. I've done falconry with them before and seen them up close like that.

I also have about 4 that hang out on the roof on the house next door.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (5p7BC)

93 For anyone curious about the goings on with the Libertarian Party.
Mises Caucus Takes Control.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8wdb5s

I guess this means they've stepped away from the left wing .
[ . . . ]
Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (QhC0J)

Reason Magazine sounds really butthurt over this.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (xhaym)

94 Top picture was taken by photographer Robert F. Sargent and is called "Into the Jaws of Death".

The men are from E Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, hitting Omaha beach in the Easy Red sector. 2/3 of E Co.'s men fell wounded or killed that morning, but they captured the exit from the beach they were assigned to capture.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (3IsaC)

95 I hear Milo Y. is working as an intern for Majorie Green...lolololololol!!!! I love it!!

Posted by: lin-duh at June 06, 2022 08:28 PM (UUBmN)

96 I never understood the mini blimps over the ships. Did they act as a defense of some sort? To intercept incoming artillery?

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:28 PM (u+Y3T)

97 Biden's handlers are afraid that if the let him talk about D-Day he'll claim to have been killed on Omaha Beach.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:10 PM (BJKQV)

He will start talking about how losing his son Beau was the worst thing ever, so he knows how everyone felt

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 08:29 PM (xhaym)

98 The other day there was some discussion here about drones and how they might change the face of war because there was no defense against them.

Israel says watch my beer.

https://tinyurl.com/yks9d7cz

Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2022 08:29 PM (ZLI7S)

99 Someone colorized a bunch of D-Day photos back in 2017, including the top photograph:

https://tinyurl.com/D-Day-Colorized

Pretty amazing.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:29 PM (3IsaC)

100 Turkey buzzards will kill calves lying in the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 06, 2022 08:29 PM (Xifi/)

101 That condor (or some kind of buzzard) video was pretty cool. It seems to be munching on a part of that glider. Not sure that is a good idea.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2022 08:30 PM (sAmhv)

102 Hiya Jordan ! Pretty good; and you ?
Posted by: JT at June 06, 2022 08:20 PM (arJlL)

Good! The weather is actually going to make it to the 70s this week.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 08:30 PM (wZUnB)

103 Der Mais Knall es un faul kerl

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:31 PM (m5zDG)

104 rhomboid

The significance of that second picture was the American harbour was wrecked in a storm. We supplied the 1st and 3rd Armies over an open beach for months. The UK said it could not be possible, but the American team found a way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:31 PM (u82oZ)

105 @69

>>Leticia James doesn't seem too interested in Hunter's business dealings.

Or Hunter committing multiple felonies on a hand gun application, straw buy of said gun and subsequent losing the gun, whereby the Secret Service lept to his rescue and made it all go away.

There really are two Americas.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2022 08:31 PM (BC2Y7)

106 Reason Magazine sounds really butthurt over this.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 08:27 PM (xhaym)

Heaven forfend! Someone fetch my fainting couch! And some drugs and boy-ass and some illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Goth Fonzie at June 06, 2022 08:32 PM (xPIwr)

107 31 Start trek is on. It's the one where they go back in time and beam up Top Gun.
Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (vrz2I

That was an F-104, not an F-14. Would have been Red Flag, if it existed in that year, not Top Gun.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 06, 2022 08:32 PM (0rU8g)

108 85 Just wondering: Did those cowboys just happen to be nearby, or is there a Cowboy Response Team to wrangle wayward cows in OK? How did they get there?
Posted by: Mookie

It's Oklahoma.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2022 08:33 PM (sAmhv)

109 Andycanuck I love photos with old and new comparisons

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2022 08:33 PM (2JoB8)

110 Bo was killed storming the bitches at Nordstroms!
- Presdient Joe Biden

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:34 PM (g6ohO)

111 108 85 Just wondering: Did those cowboys just happen to be nearby, or is there a Cowboy Response Team to wrangle wayward cows in OK? How did they get there?
Posted by: Mookie

It's Oklahoma.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2022 08:33 PM (sAmhv)

-----------------------------

Can't swing a dead cat without hitting a cowboy in OK.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:34 PM (CAJOC)

112 @108

>>It's Oklahoma.

You can't swing a dead cat in Oklahoma without hitting a cowboy.

The place is lousy with them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (BC2Y7)

113
That Gomez chick from the last thread is a great mom and gives me a boner.

I hope the cops and marshals in that town feel a searing pain in their little raisin balls every time she roasts their asses on TV.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (xPIwr)

114 NaCly when I put that search term in at the site I first get a shot of German POWs being marched through Leningrad, but there's a link to the D-Day stuff. Those Leningrad shots are also amazing. Know many of the spots pictured - though without war damage OR modern western cars and commercial signs.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (OTzUX)

115 Listening to Reagan, I am both amazed at his greatness and disgusted even more by the clowns (except Trump) that followed him.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (u+Y3T)

116 Ukraine has home made hypersonic drones.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (12jgO)

117 "This land is secure. We are free. This is worth fighting for". So sad that it's no longer free. Conquered from within.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:36 PM (u+Y3T)

118 ||A barrage balloon is a large uncrewed tethered balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft attack, by raising aloft steel cables which pose a severe collision risk to aircraft, making the attacker's approach more difficult. Early barrage balloons were often spherical. The design of the kite balloon, having a shape and cable bridling which stabilise the balloon and reduce drag, meant that it could be operated with more wind than a spherical balloon. Some examples carried small explosive charges that would be pulled up against the aircraft to ensure its destruction. Barrage balloons are not practical against very high altitude flying aircraft, due to the weight of the long cable required.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 06, 2022 08:36 PM (yikp0)

119
Listening to Reagan, I am both amazed at his greatness and disgusted even more by the clowns (except Trump) that followed him.
Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (u+Y3T)

Yup. And don't forget - the GOP hated him as much as they hate Trump. If the Deep State rot was this advanced back then, they would not have hesitated to otterize Reagan just like Trump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 08:36 PM (xPIwr)

120 NaCly I'm not sure but I thought the mulberry harbor/storm was a bit later than that photo. In any case, the LSTs provided key direct offloading capability and were used during that entire period you describe.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:37 PM (OTzUX)

121 @115

>>Listening to Reagan, I am both amazed at his greatness and disgusted even more by the clowns (except Trump) that followed him.

As has been noted there have only been three Republican Presidents worth a Damn in the last years.

60 YEARS!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2022 08:37 PM (BC2Y7)

122 Yeah, we failed.

Don't like collectivism any more when the right does it than the left.

I haven't failed shit. I've been ignored, sure. But if I show you the answer, and you still won't copy, its not my problem.

Posted by: Told You So at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (USJFV)

123 I never understood the mini blimps over the ships. Did they act as a defense of some sort? To intercept incoming artillery?
Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:28 PM (u+Y3T)

Air defense, keeping the fighters up high where they can't do close in strafing and bombing, because of the tether cables.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (xhaym)

124 "That was an F-104, not an F-14. Would have been Red Flag, if it existed in that year, not Top Gun.
Posted by: Fox2! "

It was the Air Force Top Secret Top Gun. Duh.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (vrz2I)

125 Mooki the barrage balloons are generally protection against air attack. Aircraft have to mind the cables, which could bring them down. Makes strafing and low bombing runs very tricky.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (OTzUX)

126 111 Can't swing a dead cat without hitting a cowboy in OK.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:34 PM (CAJOC)

112 You can't swing a dead cat in Oklahoma without hitting a cowboy.

The place is lousy with them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (BC2Y7)
---------------------------------
OK, I know the Horde hive mind is a thing, but that's just downright spooky!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (CAJOC)

127 well, biden is going on Kimmel so he needs 3 days to rest up before his meth shots so he go on air

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (OuH7W)

128 Mookie

To stop their ship from being strafed by enemy aircraft. Normally they are higher, but the barrage ballon was lowered as the ship beached.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (u82oZ)

129 I never understood the mini blimps over the ships. Did they act as a defense of some sort? To intercept incoming artillery?

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:28 PM (u+Y3T)

Barrage balloons raised on steel cables to deter aircraft strafing.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 06, 2022 08:38 PM (nByzo)

130 Fighting over the tit. We've all been there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 06, 2022 08:39 PM (yQpMk)

131 General George Marshall on the victory at Midway -

"the closest squeak and the greatest victory."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:39 PM (k6qJn)

132 Sharkman

We are suckering them into 20 mm range. Right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Claymores and concertina wire.

THEN the 20 mm!

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:39 PM (djv4p)

133 "the GOP hated him as much as they hate Trump. If the Deep State rot was this advanced back then, they would not have hesitated to otterize Reagan just like Trump."

No doubt. Had we had the internet back then, they would have ripped him to shreds for, among others, the "we begin bombing in 5 minutes" quip, which was completely awesome.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:40 PM (u+Y3T)

134 Time to call it a night
Everyone hope it's a pleasant evening for you as it is here again

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2022 08:40 PM (2JoB8)

135 Ukraine has home made hypersonic drones.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2022 08:35 PM (12jgO)

They run on cabbage and potatoes.

Posted by: runner at June 06, 2022 08:41 PM (V13WU)

136 rhomboid

The storm was[/t] later, but we built on the early success of offloading. ISTR this was the 2nd Infantry Division, but I could be wrong.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

137 Yikes. Thank you Pixy.

The Barrel. I hate the Barrel. Been there too many times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

138 107 31 Start trek is on. It's the one where they go back in time and beam up Top Gun.
Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 08:08 PM (vrz2I

That was an F-104, not an F-14. Would have been Red Flag, if it existed in that year, not Top Gun.
Posted by: Fox2!

Kirk and the crew had to get that pilot back in his time so that he could father Elon Musk.

Posted by: x at June 06, 2022 08:42 PM (uQFwj)

139 I wanna be a cowboy

Posted by: Xrs Clairol

Quite possibly the gheyest music video of the 1980s, and I'm even including all of Adam Ant's videos. Still, a great song:

https://youtu.be/s05jcrJw0as

The only thing that redeems the video is the appearance of Lemmy from Motorhead (assume the umlaut).

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (djv4p)

140 Sharkman

But of course!

I need a mold for pouring olive drab plastic into that has round knobs and "Front to Enemy" on it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (u82oZ)

141 Two Mulberry Harbors were built at Normandy.

A Mulberry Harbor was constructed from pre-fab concrete blocks, towed across the Channel, and anchored to provide artificial harbors.

The storms destroyed one of them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (k6qJn)

142 Lemmy's payment for appearing in the video was a single bottle of vodka.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:44 PM (djv4p)

143 But if I show you the answer, and you still won't copy, its not my problem.

*

I'm slightly puzzled at why I need to be involved with your answer, new guy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:44 PM (c6/Hu)

144 Quite possibly the gheyest music video of the 1980s, and I'm even including all of Adam Ant's videos.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (djv4p)

Adam Ant was awesome! He was a Dandy Highwayman. And Culture Clubs videos were way gayer.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 08:45 PM (BJKQV)

145 G'rump928(c)

???

Normally, it is a free will offering.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:45 PM (u82oZ)

146 My old Dad stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day. He and his brothers saved the world. God bless all of those soldiers. I miss him.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at June 06, 2022 08:45 PM (9Afsw)

147 In any case, the LSTs provided key direct offloading capability and were used during that entire period you describe.
Posted by: rhomboid

One of my classmate's Dads was an officer on an LST in WWII (Pacific). He always said that designation stood for Large Slow Target.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:45 PM (FGbUr)

148 And NaCly the "mulberries" were another ingenious WWII invention. No harbor? Just bring your own.

For Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshu, there were plans for enormous artificial harbors far bigger than the mulberries. I believe many of the sections were actually built and towed to the western Pacific, and many more under construction, when the surrender happened.

Apparently over-the-beach was planned for Operation Olympic, Kyushu, at least until Kagoshima could be taken. Not really many other good ports of any size in southern Kyushu at the time time.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:46 PM (OTzUX)

149 Captain Sean Christopher would lead the first manned mission to Saturn so they had to return his father or possibly wreck the timeline.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:46 PM (k6qJn)

150 Still totally in awe and humbled by what took place on those beaches, so long ago.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 06, 2022 08:46 PM (Xrfse)

151 If I had a time machine, I'd transport Drag Queen Boy from the Dallas video into one of those LSTs approaching Omaha Beach. The Germans might be laughing so hard the regular men would have been able to stroll right on the beach.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:46 PM (u+Y3T)

152 I believe Strom Thurmond was a 42-yr old captain in wave 2 or 3 at Normandy. Just to give some perspective on the longevity of that particular figure.

Posted by: rhomboid

Wiki says he went in with the 82nd Airborne glider troops. He was much decorated.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:48 PM (djv4p)

153 Anna Puma

** Waves **

The American harbour was destroyed in that storm. Lots of material damage to ships and small craft as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:48 PM (u82oZ)

154 The only reason southern Japan was going to be Phase One of the invasion was to give the Allies the staging ground to actually land in 1946 on the plain outside Tokyo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:48 PM (k6qJn)

155 I'm slightly puzzled at why I need to be involved with your answer, new guy.

It was the "we failed". It implies a collective guilt. I just don't feel it. Maybe you don't, either, and the "we" was rhetorical. Doesn't matter either way. Just like new guy or old guy.

Posted by: Told You So at June 06, 2022 08:48 PM (USJFV)

156 Quite possibly the gheyest music video of the 1980s, and I'm even including all of Adam Ant's videos.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (djv4p)

Yeah haha look at them ...

Posted by: Billy Squire, Rocking you tonight like a prancing spastic pony at June 06, 2022 08:49 PM (0fVbu)

157 Lemmy's payment for appearing in the video was a single bottle of vodka.

I'm sure it was premium....

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:49 PM (u+Y3T)

158 Strom was in a glider on D-Day. I think a LTC.

Posted by: blaster at June 06, 2022 08:49 PM (9otr5)

159 I'm American and Mexican and Jewish and Injun and Gypsy and Palestinian and I want respect!

Posted by: Sandy Cortez at June 06, 2022 08:49 PM (sWM8x)

160 My Dad went in on D+6weeks and got caught in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. Eventually, he liberated a German winery.

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2022 08:49 PM (X5CsJ)

161 Hey, you got insanity in my sexuality! Hey, you got sexuality in my insanity?
And now, you know. You're welcome.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2022 07:59 PM (OK0YZ)

Trannies and fags, not necessarily the same, but both are perverts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (VHzY7)

162 Adam Ant was awesome! He was a Dandy Highwayman. And Culture Clubs videos were way gayer.
Posted by: 29Victor

Frankie Goes to Hollywood says, Hold my Zima.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (FGbUr)

163 Riding on the range....I've got my hat...on. I've got my boots...dusty.

Ahhh...college!

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (u+Y3T)

164 I believe Strom Thurmond was a 42-yr old captain in wave 2 or 3 at Normandy. Just to give some perspective on the longevity of that particular figure.
Posted by: rhomboid

Actually, I think he was a major on Normandy, on D-Day.

If you ever saw "The Longest Day", Henry Fonda (who is pretty tall) played Theodore Roosevelt Jr. , deputy commander of the 1st Division (the Big Red One). I saw a picture last year, where the real Teddy Roosevelt Jr was talking to George Patton. Patton was tall, 6-3 or 6-4. Teddy Jr was maybe 5'7" tall. Really short next to Patton.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (tjZg/)

165 Thanks Sharkman. Airborne? Wow - well ol' Strom sure had some interesting mileage on him. When I was in the Senate there were also Dole and Inouye, a good sprinkling of actual combat vets (and seriously wounded vets in those two instances).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (OTzUX)

166 Tonypete

They were called that until they left the Naval Service.

One of my Navigation School classmates ran an LST aground, on rocks. Unexpectedly. Relieved for cause, he was.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (u82oZ)

167 Salty Dawg, I am going from memory. So might miss a few bits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (k6qJn)

168 Are we about to make a full circle back to the London Boys?

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (vrz2I)

169 Inside the battle for the LP.

https://tinyurl.com/yhsah4n3

Posted by: Robert

Most excellent Kindltot mentioned at the PNW MoMe a Libertarian Party gent named Dave Smith, who has a podcast called Dave Smith's Part of the Problem, which you can find on Spotify. Haven't listened to him yet.

Kindltot mentioned also that he might list the podcasts he listens to for our benefit.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (djv4p)

170 Joe Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
https://t.co/AZ6mgzGJzF

"I never thought I had a need for that type of a high-capacity automatic weapon," Manchin told CNN on Monday. "I like to shoot, I like to go out and hunt. I like to go out sports shooting. I do all of that. But I've never felt I needed something of that magnitude."
Manchin also said he "wouldn't have a problem on looking at" backing a ban on so-called assault weapons

Pelosi's gun control package defines a high-capacity magazine as 10 rounds
https://t.co/DTMMCbhjun

The gun control package proposed by House Democrats identifies "high-capacity" magazines as holding 10 rounds or more

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (MFZ8i)

171 Just got home from the market. As I was checking out, the cashier says "would you like to round up for literacy?". I'm thinking why do we need to raise money for literacy if we are already paying $15,000 per student per year in Oregon at all grade levels? What do they spend that money on? Then I remembered drag queen story time...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (h1jJh)

172 Salty Dawg, I am going from memory. So might miss a few bits.
Posted by: Anna Puma

YOU ? NEVAH !

Posted by: JT at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (arJlL)

173 Amazing D day pics.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (VwHCD)

174 Seems like Amazon Prime servers just shit the bed. Anyone else seeing this. Corrupted my TV too

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (7ZQe3)

175 T.R. Jr was an interesting character. According to the conventional history, which seems solid, he talked his way into landing on D-Day (against strong misgivings of his superior), was the only general officer to land with the first waves. Paid off, he was able to get somewhat good info and direct changes to the plan on the spot.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (OTzUX)

176 Matthew McConaughey: It's time to act on gun responsibility
https://tinyurl.com/5fmhv378

McConaughey calls for background checks, waiting periods, & more...but don't call it "gun control"
https://t.co/LkD3GLVAPC

McConaughey lays out four new measures he wants to see in place: universal background checks, a ban on sales of modern sporting rifles to adults under the age of 21, the establishment of "red flag" laws in all 50 states, and an undefined waiting period on all sales of semi-automatic rifles.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 06, 2022 08:54 PM (MFZ8i)

177 I believe Strom Thurmond was a 42-yr old captain in wave 2 or 3 at Normandy. Just to give some perspective on the longevity of that particular figure.
Posted by: rhomboid

Wiki says he went in with the 82nd Airborne glider troops. He was much decorated.
Posted by: Sharkman

Sue Logue was sure as hell taken with him.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:54 PM (FGbUr)

178 Eventually, he liberated a German winery.

That's nothing, one time Bill Mauldin got lost and eventually ended up being lead to a monastery where he was gifted two bottles of wine. One of his coworkers about freaked out because that monastery made Chartreuse which is a wine made from flowers. IE very rare and very expensive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:54 PM (k6qJn)

179 rhomboid

The US did not have tactical, operational, or strategic surprise in Operation Olympic. The IJA even figured out the exact time we would have invaded. MacArthur was unclear about this possibility.

Very glad it did not happen. The Atomic Bombs saves Allied and Japanese lives, by the millions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:55 PM (u82oZ)

180 I'm slightly puzzled at why I need to be involved with your answer, new guy.
-
It was the "we failed". It implies a collective guilt. I just don't feel it. Maybe you don't, either, and the "we" was rhetorical. Doesn't matter either way. Just like new guy or old guy.
Posted by: Told You So

**

No, I got that part.

The implied "answer" is what I'm wondering about. That's the sort of thing that is frowned upon at the HQ.

So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:55 PM (c6/Hu)

181 A Mulberry Harbor was constructed from pre-fab concrete blocks, towed across the Channel, and anchored to provide artificial harbors.

The storms destroyed one of them.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The one serving the American sector was put together fast, to get as much equipment ashore as possible.
The British one went more slowly, because they put all the links together that were supposed to join all the blocks.
When the storm of June 24 came (I think it was the 24th), the American Mulberry was wrecked, while the British Mulberry (they were designed and built by the Brits) lasted. But somebody wrote that getting one together right away helped immensely in getting stuff ashore.
My late uncle came ashore on D +3 or D +4.
My late Dad was in the other war, out there in the Pacific.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at June 06, 2022 08:55 PM (tjZg/)

182 "I never thought I had a need for that type of a high-capacity automatic weapon,"

*

Ah yes, the Bill of Needs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 08:56 PM (c6/Hu)

183 I'm in awe of Sean Connery's meteoric rise in the British military. He was a private in June for Overlord and a major general in September for Market Garden.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 08:56 PM (4I/2K)

184 Anna Puma

No worries. Your plane information memory has to be one of the best on the entire planet.

Operation Neptune is a tad outside your pea-patch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 08:57 PM (u82oZ)

185 McConaughey lays out four new measures he wants to see in place: universal background checks, a ban on sales of modern sporting rifles to adults under the age of 21, the establishment of "red flag" laws in all 50 states, and an undefined waiting period on all sales of semi-automatic rifles.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Well, people in hell want ice water too. Tough shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:57 PM (FGbUr)

186 ||Mulberry harbours were temporary portable harbours developed by the United Kingdom during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. After the Allies successfully held beachheads following D-Day, two prefabricated harbours were taken in sections across the English Channel from the UK with the invading army and assembled off Omaha Beach (Mulberry "A") and Gold Beach (Mulberry "B").

The Mulberry harbours were to be used until major French ports could be captured and brought back into use after repair of the inevitable sabotage by German defenders. The Mulberry B harbour at Gold Beach was used for 10 months after D-Day, and over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies were landed before it was fully decommissioned. The still only partially-completed Mulberry A harbour at Omaha Beach was damaged on 19 June by a violent storm that suddenly arrived from the north-east. After three days the storm finally abated and damage was found to be so severe that the harbour had to be abandoned.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 06, 2022 08:57 PM (yikp0)

187 Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 06, 2022 08:54 PM (MFZ8i)

Actors are paid to mouth others words.

He's a good actor.

Now, explain why I should care about HIS opinion?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 06, 2022 08:57 PM (oHd/0)

188 Yep Anna the whole first home island invasion was staging for the main event later. But it would have been one of the biggest operations in history anyway. Intel updates after the plan/schedule was set had many planners sick with worry (Japanese reinforcement and preparation), and post-war intel investigation darkened the picture even more.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 08:57 PM (OTzUX)

189 Trump's speech: Also brilliant. But he was mean, and he tweeted rude things, so he had to go.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 08:58 PM (u+Y3T)

190 183 I'm in awe of Sean Connery's meteoric rise in the British military. He was a private in June for Overlord and a major general in September for Market Garden.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 08:56 PM (4I/2K)

But was later downgraded to Navy Commander... Bond ya know..

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 06, 2022 08:58 PM (oHd/0)

191 McConaughey and Manchin can eat all the high capacity dicks.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 06, 2022 08:59 PM (nByzo)

192 So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?

I don't give a shit if you answer or not. Just keep the "we" to yourself, unless you've got a mouse in your pocket. Or don't. Plenty of others will join in with your "we" Fools every one.

Posted by: Told You So - New Guy at June 06, 2022 08:59 PM (USJFV)

193 The suicide boats that had been gathered at Hiroshima for the expected invasion were used to collect the wounded and dead from the atomic explosion.

Irony does not get more iron than that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:00 PM (k6qJn)

194 Frankie Goes to Hollywood says, Hold my Zima.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (FGbUr)

Absolutely. My brother owned whatever record "Relax" is on. It had the lyrics to all the songs on the liner. I read them one day. It was nauseating. "Relax" was the tamest song on the album.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 09:00 PM (BJKQV)

195 Last week, at the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas, the new exhibits were fascinating.

But they still had a scale-model Mulberry Harbor from the old museum artifacts on display in the D-Day bay of the museum. It is still quite cool.

A great museum.

I asked about the Order of Victory, given by Stalin to Ike, on display. It is the real thing, in rubies, diamonds, all on platinum. And yes, there are special precautions for that, and a camera on it at all times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:00 PM (u82oZ)

196 I need a mold for pouring olive drab plastic into that has round knobs and "Front to Enemy" on it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

You can pick up replica claymore mines pretty easily on the InnerWebz.

No word on if they are easy to convert to the real thing with some creativity and [redacted].

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 09:01 PM (djv4p)

197 I don't give a shit if you answer or not. Just keep the "we" to yourself, unless you've got a mouse in your pocket. Or don't. Plenty of others will join in with your "we" Fools every one.
Posted by: Told You So
--

WTF?

This is what we're talking about:

I haven't failed shit. I've been ignored, sure. But if I show you the answer, and you still won't copy, its not my problem.
Posted by: Told You So

So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:01 PM (c6/Hu)

198 And of course, my Dad never talked about what he went through. He only talked about the Airborne that parachuted in the night before, and the pilots of the amphibious landing boats that dropped him off, and kept going back and forth under enemy fire. The Greatest Generation.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at June 06, 2022 09:01 PM (9Afsw)

199 He was a private in June for Overlord and a major general in September for Market Garden.

Defected to the USSR - before he defected back.

Posted by: Told You So - New Guy at June 06, 2022 09:02 PM (USJFV)

200 NaCly, correct. I didn't put in that detail, but it turned out the Japanese had anticipated almost exactly every key aspect of the operation (not surprising, geography etc allowed fairly straightforward speculation).

And what was the HQ for the regional command responsible for the defense against the precisely anticipated Allied invasion?

Hiroshima. Much of the HQ staff was killed by the bombing, though the commander survived. That city likely was the most "military" of any Japanese city the day the bomb was dropped. This was not a part of the longer term process that led to special mission target selection, but that's how it worked out.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:02 PM (OTzUX)

201
McConaughey lays out four new measures he wants to see in place: universal background checks, a ban on sales of modern sporting rifles to adults under the age of 21, the establishment of "red flag" laws in all 50 states, and an undefined waiting period on all sales of semi-automatic rifles.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

you Extreme MAGA h8ter's waiting time is 99 years. DeMontarius, with 32 violent assaults on his record has a zero waiting time.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 06, 2022 09:03 PM (UgAdJ)

202 You can have my answer now, Mr McConaughey, if you'd like. Nothing. My offer is nothing.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 06, 2022 09:03 PM (u73oe)

203 I wonder what kind of firearms McConaughey's bodyguards carry?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:04 PM (c6/Hu)

204 He was a private in June for Overlord and a major general in September for Market Garden.

Defected to the USSR - before he defected back.
Posted by: Told You So

Michael Caine seemed to be all over the map too.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 09:04 PM (FGbUr)

205 The Great Statesman Matthew McConaughey. Didn't he play a retard in one of his movies... No wait that was just him playing himself in those Lincoln commercials

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 06, 2022 09:04 PM (h1jJh)

206 >>Matthew McConaughey: It's time to act on gun responsibility

Screw you
dance, monkey

Posted by: DB at June 06, 2022 09:04 PM (geLO8)

207 So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?

Do something about that "I got ya" boner you're sprouting. Tom Cruise, you ain't on the cusp of a Code Red.

But you're notional collective "we" is idiotic. As is anyone that buys into it.

Posted by: Told You So - New Guy at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (USJFV)

208 The lights here keep flickering off. Have been flickering for about 20 minutes now.

Fuck You ERCOT!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (4I/2K)

209 NaCly that's very cool, about the Order of Victory (orden pobyedi). Ike, Monty, and the King of Romania (as I recall) were the foreign recipients. Brezhnev's was revoked after he (finally) croaked.

Looks like another reason to visit that museum.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (OTzUX)

210 I'm thinking why do we need to raise money for literacy if we are already paying $15,000 per student per year in Oregon at all grade levels? What do they spend that money on? Then I remembered drag queen story time...
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 06, 2022 08:53 PM (h1jJh)

Your donation will enable a child to tip a drag queen to read them obscene words in the bathroom.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (BJKQV)

211 Maybe old Joe doesn't mention D-Day because his memories of storming the beach are so painful.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (eGTCV)

212 #181 I wrote my #186 before reading your comment. Not trying to correct you etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (yikp0)

213 One of the best ONT pictures was an image of a healthy McConaughey with TRUMP YEARS underneath and a picture of him in his AIDS movie with BIDEN YEARS underneath.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (c6/Hu)

214 There are a lot of varieties of vulture and that definitely looks like one. We have turkey vultures around here and they are some ugly birds and huge.
We ran into 6 of them on the beach a couple months ago and they were as big as Elvis.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 06, 2022 08:13 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

Where I used to live the property backed up to a large muddy field that one of my first Goldens loved to romp around in. One afternoon she was out in that field barking her head off and would not come when called. So I trudged out there to find her in a stand-off with a huge turkey vulture over possession of a ground hog carcass. The dog barking and pacing back and forth and the turkey vulture flapping its massive wings.

Now, she wouldn't have eaten the dead ground hog, she just wanted to roll around in it--one of her favorite activities.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 06, 2022 09:06 PM (VhE0u)

215 Forget June 6th, you seditionists should be more concerned about the hellstorm you unleashed on January 6th.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 06, 2022 09:06 PM (BP3/z)

216 And of course, my Dad never talked about what he went through. He only talked about the Airborne that parachuted in the night before, and the pilots of the amphibious landing boats that dropped him off, and kept going back and forth under enemy fire. The Greatest Generation.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike

Your Dad was a hero.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 09:06 PM (djv4p)

217 Duke, lol!

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:07 PM (OTzUX)

218 It seems early for people to already be drunk but, this is the HQ.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 06, 2022 09:07 PM (yQpMk)

219 So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?

Do something about that "I got ya" boner you're sprouting. Tom Cruise, you ain't on the cusp of a Code Red.
*

Again, I'm just unsure why you need someone else to do what you seem to be suggesting.

Welcome to the HQ, btw.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:07 PM (c6/Hu)

220 Can't we all just get a dong?

Posted by: Sandy Cortez at June 06, 2022 09:07 PM (sWM8x)

221 I like how you can see the buzzard adjust his tail rudders.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (TimFr)

222 Fuck You ERCOT!

The independent TX grid has long been one of the appeals of the place. If main US grid (east or west) was hit with an EMP, the TX grid would likely survive. But they have polluted their generation with unreliable wind and solar, and now it's garbage just like every other area that prioritizes intermittent sources for baseload needs.

Posted by: Mookie at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (u+Y3T)

223 Off to watch "Collateral", which I've never seen before but had several recommendations on the Top Gun Maverick thread earlier.

Be well, Horde.

Lord bless all our military, past and present.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (4VJvE)

224 Back in the 90's,

I became engrossed in the history of WWII. That was in part because I discovered a writer by the name of Stephen E. Ambrose. He wrote one of the most concise observations of the history of the Normandy invasion that ever was. His book "Band of Brothers" was turned into a HUGE HBO mini series that set records for HBO in nightly attendance. Yet way back in 1971, he also wrote "Rise to Globalism" which I now need to read especially since the cliff notes seem to speak exactly to where we are today.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (J00IM)

225 es gibt ein Blogschpatt

Posted by: DB at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (geLO8)

226 Tonypete

Well, he started at Roark's Drift as a leftenant, so Caine's been at it a while.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (u82oZ)

227 Matthew McConaughey got pegged by Amber Heard

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (h1jJh)

228 Go back to skeeving on high school girls, Wooderson.

So fuckin tired of these prima donna assholes pontificating about whatever fucking notion that wanders through their heads like a Lovecraftian spider.

Hey look. it's my Last Nerve. Wondering where that went.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (x8Wzq)

229 One of the best ONT pictures was an image of a healthy McConaughey with TRUMP YEARS underneath and a picture of him in his AIDS movie with BIDEN YEARS underneath.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (c6/Hu)

Heh, I missed that one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (wZUnB)

230 John Wayne, at 54, was twice the age Lt Col Benjamin Vandevoort was on D-Day. Heavier too.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (4I/2K)

231 211 Maybe old Joe doesn't mention D-Day because his memories of storming the beach are so painful.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 06, 2022 09:05 PM (eGTCV)

I thought Joe was the origin for Private Ryan.

Who was saved.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:09 PM (9qSw/)

232 Strom Thurmond was a man in full. He was not all good nor all bad.

Posted by: blaster at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (9otr5)

233 I need a mold for pouring olive drab plastic into that has round knobs and "Front to Enemy" on it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
~~~~~

You can make your own mold using silicone caulk and dish detergent. See YouTube.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (VhE0u)

234
late to the cafe, but the glowie is strong tonight.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (UgAdJ)

235 So we're all clear, what "answer" were you suggesting?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:01 PM (c6/Hu)

Scogg is here to stir shit, not shed light.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (VHzY7)

236 223 Off to watch "Collateral", which I've never seen before but had several recommendations on the Top Gun Maverick thread earlier.

Be well, Horde.

Lord bless all our military, past and present.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 09:08 PM (4VJvE)

Very good movie.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (9qSw/)

237 Can't we all just get a dong?
Posted by: Sandy Cortez

Get it on, bang a dong, get it on!

Posted by: T. Rex at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (FGbUr)

238 Again, I'm just unsure why you need someone else to do what you seem to be suggesting.

I'm not suggesting you do a damn thing. I would suggest nobody ever buy into the notion of "we failed", for whatever value of "we" you're trying to sell in a drippy schmaltz that would do Peggy Noonan proud.

Posted by: Told You So - New Guy at June 06, 2022 09:11 PM (USJFV)

239 Scogg is here to stir shit, not shed light.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (VHzY7)

Yeah well, he failed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 06, 2022 09:12 PM (yQpMk)

240 We are all in this weewee together.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 09:12 PM (vrz2I)

241 Well the P-40E kit has been put on the binnacle list because the decals are so old they are shattering when I try to slide them on. So until I find AVG/23d FG decals, no more work will be done.

But that's okay. I have on the work bench a Hasegawa A-4E and I am still debating which NFWS plane to build. Plus a Monogram A-4E that was supplied to Israel during the Yom Kippur War with exhaust extension and 30mm DEFA cannons installed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:12 PM (k6qJn)

242 rhomboid

Get out my way, and I can host you.

Fort Riley has two good museums, with the Cavalry one being the best. The SAC museum is in Nebraska, the WWI museum in Kansas City, and thewre is an Air Combat Aircraft Museum in Topeka. At two of those (SAC and ACAM) I noticed errors in the display test, and they are supposed to fix the wrong information.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:13 PM (u82oZ)

243 I had an uncle who was a tank driver in WWII and an uncle who fought in the pacific. Tank dude used to say democrats belonged in concentration camps, and pacific dude went to his grave saying the yellow race sucks. No clue what they went through, but it couldn't have been good. They never talked about it. Another died in WWII, but I'm not sure it was combat related, I think it was an accident.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 09:13 PM (VwHCD)

244 Scogg is here to stir shit, not shed light.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*

I refuse to believe that's Scogg. Scogg is bright and, while cantankerous at times, intelligent and insightful.

I'm thinking Banana Splits Guy.

Winona is a skanky whore btw.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:13 PM (c6/Hu)

245 I need a mold for pouring olive drab plastic into that has round knobs and "Front to Enemy" on it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
~~~~~

You can make your own mold using silicone caulk and dish detergent. See YouTube.
Posted by: IrishEi at June 06, 2022 09:10 PM (VhE0u)

Clone-A-Willy for the DIYer?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:14 PM (4I/2K)

246 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 06, 2022 09:15 PM (yQpMk)

247 Nightwatch

Stephen E. Ambrose's best book on WWII was Pegasus Bridge. Not plagiarized, concise, and informative. IMHO.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:15 PM (u82oZ)

248 Joe Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
https://t.co/AZ6mgzGJzF

I would ask Manchin just exactly how does he reconcile that with the exact words of the 2nd Amendment .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:15 PM (TimFr)

249 "like every other area that prioritizes intermittent sources for baseload needs." - Mookie

Nice concise way of putting the essential problem.

And of course then there's the whole question of the point/value of those intermittent sources (narrator: you all know the answer here).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:16 PM (OTzUX)

250 All trolls are Average Joe.

Who sux Lia Thompson's c)ck by choice

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (k6qJn)

251
Well, Joe Manchin can gargle my gnarleys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (xPIwr)

252 All trolls are Average Joe.

*

Ah, this is true.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (c6/Hu)

253 NaCly, Zulu, "introducing Michael Caine".

Same same as Lawrence of Arabia, and Peter O'Toole.

Helluva way to make your debut on the big screen, in both cases.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (OTzUX)

254 Milley celebrated D-Day.

"The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II," Mark Milley said at the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy."

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (AmoqO)

255 248 Joe Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
https://t.co/AZ6mgzGJzF

I would ask Manchin just exactly how does he reconcile that with the exact words of the 2nd Amendment .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:15 PM (TimFr)

That's why they are careful to call them 'weapons of war' and 'assault'. That way they can argue the 2nd says 'arms' not 'military arms'.

Hairs will be split.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (9qSw/)

256 I refuse to believe that's Scogg. Scogg is bright and, while cantankerous at times, intelligent and insightful.

He really isn't. He's just a d***.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2022 09:18 PM (ZsR3z)

257 Mark Milley, you first on the plane to Ukraine.

And take LTC Vindaloomon with you

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:19 PM (k6qJn)

258 That's why they are careful to call them 'weapons of war' and 'assault'. That way they can argue the 2nd says 'arms' not 'military arms'.

Hairs will be split.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (9qSw/)

How do they explain a well regulated militia?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:19 PM (TimFr)

259 Everyone should recall and review Manchin's performance during that Trump SOTU. The one where he instinctively rose to applaud some Trump point that was not only of course excellent policy, but had some specific positive relevance to WV.

He glances over at Schumer and the leadership team, slows his clapping, stops, and awkwardly sits down.

It was, literally and with no exaggeration whatever, something out of a darkly comical Soviet anecdote. THIS is the level of individual now serving in national office.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (OTzUX)

260 Milley celebrated D-Day.

"The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II," Mark Milley said at the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy."

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (AmoqO)

The words of a total jerkoff.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (VwHCD)

261 Frankie Goes to Hollywood says, Hold my Zima.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 08:50 PM (FGbUr)

Hall and Oates, and it was a wine cooler

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (xhaym)

262 Milley celebrated D-Day.

"The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II," Mark Milley said at the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy."

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (AmoqO)

That statement doesn't make any sense.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (4I/2K)

263 How do they explain a well regulated militia?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:19 PM (TimFr

We have a military now. No need for you to have a gun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (9qSw/)

264 "The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II,"

That's pathetic. And embarrassing.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2022 09:21 PM (vrz2I)

265
Fort Riley has two good museums, with the Cavalry one being the best. The SAC museum is in Nebraska, the WWI museum in Kansas City, and thewre is an Air Combat Aircraft Museum in Topeka. At two of those (SAC and ACAM) I noticed errors in the display test, and they are supposed to fix the wrong information.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

i got to see the ww1 museum. it was awesome. i didn't comprehend the scale of primitive conditions until i watched They Shall Never Grow Old.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 06, 2022 09:21 PM (UgAdJ)

266 "Weapons of War" is it?

After the Great War, the US government sold as surplus captured German military equipment to include Mauser rifles, piklehaub helmets, and even field artillery pieces. To help pay off the Liberty Bonds sold.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (k6qJn)

267 ....was hit with an EMP, the TX grid would likely survive. But they have polluted their generation with unreliable wind and solar, and now it's garbage just like every other area that prioritizes intermittent sources for baseload needs.
Posted by: Mookie

A windmill creaked as it slowly turned. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (FGbUr)

268 Look, fat! I didn't mention the storming of China Beach because I always thought MASH was a better war show. I always cracked up when TJ Hooker made all those jokes about Whore Tits Hooligan. She was a looker! Two fingers up and in!

*whispers* (in her hoo-ha)

Posted by: Puddin' pants Biden at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (xfElH)

269 Are you f***king kidding me?

Are you f***king kidding me?

Milley actually said that??

What a repugnant buffoonish disgrace he is. One of theee dumbest, most ignorant, and most repellent things said by a uniform in many years.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (OTzUX)

270 In 1995, I was able to go to France with my family to stay with her aunt and family who lived just outside of Lyon on a farm in the Morvan region which was just freckkin stunning all by itself. But that is how I got to Normandy to walk Utah and Omaha beaches while my kids played in small tidal pools. At one point my shoe dislodged a rusted piece of metal that on inspection looked to be part of a hinge plate for some container of unknown origin..who is to say, yet I brought it home along with a small zip lock bag of sand from Omaha.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (J00IM)

271
That's why they are careful to call them 'weapons of war' and 'assault'. That way they can argue the 2nd says 'arms' not 'military arms'.

Hairs will be split.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:17 PM (9qSw/)

Weapons of war is exactly what the framers had in mind with the 2A. Whatever weapons our govt could and would use against the citizens, and whatever would be used by the enemies of America. Mofos, who marched in snow with no shoes, crossed icy rivers, and fought against the most powerful army at that time were not thinking fucking pop guns.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (VwHCD)

272 The most basic form of cellular life, the paramecium, has multiple defense mechanisms.
But, we, the highest form of life extant, should be denied such?
Fuck that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (jTmQV)

273 "The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II,"

*

We thought we'd fight WITH the Nazis this time!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (CxCEK)

274 I did not know about the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer when I biked over from Bayeux. It was amazing.

Made a deep and lasting impression on me. Just looking at the ages of the dead was emotionally powerful.

Just two months later I entered the Naval Service, as the Falklands War started. Which were not cause and effect, I mind you. Good times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:23 PM (u82oZ)

275 Headline: Abortion activists strip during Joel Osteen church service, chanting, "overturn Roe, hell no!"

Now how are you gonna argue with that?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:23 PM (4I/2K)

276 We have a military now. No need for you to have a gun.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (9qSw/

The second doesn't say that . Bottom line is they can't explain all of the infringements there are now and proposed for the future, it's a direct contradiction. The only reason they don't attempt to repeal the 2nd and replace it with something else is they know it's a loser.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:23 PM (TimFr)

277 I want Sandy Cortez to reengage on the highway to her danger zone, and to quit playing the social media cock tease.

I want to see the bulging eyes, the flaring nostrils and the donkey smile. We can call it a date if you like.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 06, 2022 09:24 PM (BP3/z)

278 Headline: Abortion activists strip during Joel Osteen church service, chanting, "overturn Roe, hell no!"

*

I've got $100 that Osteen isn't really all that hardcore about abortion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:24 PM (CxCEK)

279 ok you all beat me to the Milley quote
all I could do now would be piling on

Posted by: DB at June 06, 2022 09:25 PM (geLO8)

280 i got to see the ww1 museum. it was awesome. i didn't comprehend the scale of primitive conditions until i watched They Shall Never Grow Old.
Posted by: BifBewalsk

I was wowed by the fact most Euro guns were 8 mm.

Posted by: MkY at June 06, 2022 09:25 PM (cPGH3)

281 My Dad joined the Army before Pearl Harbor and was about to ship out with his company to the Philippines when a personal matter delayed him. His company shipped out, most ended up in the Bataan Death March. By the time he got to the West coast, Pearl had happened and he ended up watching Japanese interns until he got shipped out to Iceland. He went into Normandy on D+6weeks, witnessed the Battle of the Bulge close up and eventually liberated a German winery.

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2022 09:25 PM (X5CsJ)

282 >>>Israel says watch my beer.

https://tinyurl.com/yks9d7cz
Posted by: JackStraw
----------------------

Looks like Israel is thinking about something larger than Amazon helicopter drones.

When 1 or 10 thousand mosquito size are drones dropped from from a cruise missile no one will have a defense.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2022 09:25 PM (dNzR8)

283 I will agree to a point but then I would have to throw down with "Citizen Soldiers" in 1997.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (J00IM)

284 How do they explain a well regulated militia?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:19 PM (TimFr

We have a military now. No need for you to have a gun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:20 PM (9qSw/)

The funny thing is if you read the federalist papers they would have never approved a standing army without the 2A as a check. The 2A was to keep a standing army in check should a douchebag like, oh I don't know, biden, or the scumbag who just said he didn't want to hear any bullshit about our constitutional rights, got control over it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (VwHCD)

285 The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II,"

==

And we thought no one would remember us !

Posted by: Reichskommissariat Ukraine at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (V13WU)

286 Anna Puma

From your lips to God's ears. But Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rarely get in range of other's weapons.

Still, it would hopefully make him a better Chairman. He only has to go up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (u82oZ)

287 Hey Miley what about the WW2 Ukrainian SS troops who did the mass killing of Jews?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (TimFr)

288 The fight in Ukraine is about honoring these veterans of World War II,

**

Now give up your guns, white people!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:27 PM (CxCEK)

289 >>> Headline: Abortion activists strip during Joel Osteen church service, chanting, "overturn Roe, hell no!"

Now how are you gonna argue with that?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:23 PM (4I/2K)

I'll wait for the Bee article on this it should be pretty good. They probably have a whole writer pool devoted just to Joel.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2022 09:27 PM (0fVbu)

290 7.98mm for Mauser

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:28 PM (k6qJn)

291 3. Thank you for your service and sacrifices. May we live up to your example when time comes.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

Yes, indeed.

And, thank you for your well said post.

Posted by: Lola at June 06, 2022 09:28 PM (NIYa7)

292 gourmand du jour

ISTR the cannon used at the Alamo were private property. As was the custom of the time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

293 Hollywoud movie that would NEVER be made: variation on The Final Countdown (that's the one where the Nimitz goes in a time warp and ends up at sea for the Pearl Harbor attack, right?)
The D-Day first wave ends up in a time warp and finds itself landing on the shores of the Potomac. They push inland and take DC, thinking (irony) they are fighting the Nazis. Media covers it and the public is so impressed by the 1944 youth they support their actions. Maybe somehow Eisenhower is close to the time warp and ends up along with them and becomes President.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 06, 2022 09:29 PM (3/XaG)

294 Salty Dawg

https://annapuna.blogspot.com/2008/11/veterans-day.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:29 PM (k6qJn)

295 That's why they are careful to call them 'weapons of war' and 'assault'.

When they at least show some intellectual consistency, and ban the same tools from all federal, state, and local law enforcement they'll have my attention.

Posted by: Told You So - New Go at June 06, 2022 09:29 PM (USJFV)

296 George Washington himself was against standing armies. He knew they would eventually be used against the general population.
He was right. Just ask Sitting Bull.
BTW, Sitting Bull was an honest to god, celebrity during his time. A rodeo star. Annie Oakley loved him.
And you think this couldn't happen to DJT?
Spare me...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 06, 2022 09:29 PM (jTmQV)

297 Joel Olsteen Asks Pro Abortion Protestors Whether They Hit The Offering Plate

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:29 PM (TimFr)

298 248 Joe Manchin wants to raise age to 21 for gun purchases, doesn't see need for AR-15s
https://t.co/AZ6mgzGJzF

Tell Joe it's not a matter of need.

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:30 PM (AmoqO)

299 For Anna Puma and other Horde MilHist nuts:

High-level Omaha Beach Landing Plan
https://tinyurl.com/2kdjs4hk

Diagram of the western end of Omaha Beach, 29th Div/116th Inf Regiment assault sector waves, wave timing, units, and numbers and types of landing craft (a bit hard to read even zoomed-in a lot):

https://tinyurl.com/3zhxx7pp
(Note Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion. early in the forces hitting Dog Green, at far right)

Official US Army History of the Omaha Beach Assault:
https://tinyurl.com/2p89ms2x

Posted by: crusader at June 06, 2022 09:30 PM (AMIL/)

300 Anna Puma

Thank you for that link.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:30 PM (u82oZ)

301 Looking at that one photo up top...
That's an ARMADA like none the world had ever seen before. The Persian and Greek fleets paled in comparison. Together.

And it's why lots of German generals started trying to convince the little painter to surrender (without getting whacked). It's why some tried to assassinate him.

Because it's IMPOSSIBLE to see that and not think, "Oh SCHEISSE! We are so totally screwed!" That is the full might of Western Civilization with the unmitigated industrial power of a free nation that has turned its attention to you and just kicked in your front door. And they are all out of bubblegum.

Posted by: GWB at June 06, 2022 09:31 PM (W0i8D)

302 Woof.

Posted by: Elizabeth at June 06, 2022 09:31 PM (XG2Fi)

303 War. War never changes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:31 PM (u82oZ)

304 Posted by: crusader at June 06, 2022 09:30 PM (AMIL/

Very cool links! Grassy ass

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (9qSw/)

305 I just heard a dog baying. Good grief. It sounded like the hound of the Baskerviles.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (eGTCV)

306 I don't know why Hitler didn't have surveillance boats /subs spread out in the English Channel.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (TimFr)

307 Some say Hitler's greatest mistake was invading the USSR.

They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States. And then the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (k6qJn)

308 GWB

General Rommel thought something similar when he saw how much stuff the US Army had at Kasserine Pass in 1943.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

309 The quick boiled down history of WW2 is that the aggressor nations tried to get away with a quick win before the much more powerful adversary nations could get wound up. If they didn't win by 41 or 42 it was just a matter of time after that. In no way belittling the valor of anyone that had to go finish the job. It was always going to end the way it did but that doesn't make it safe for those who had to do it.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 06, 2022 09:36 PM (3/XaG)

310 GWB there was ample evidence from the painter's interactions with his closest advisers, including prior to December 1941, that he understood Germany's prospects would be poor should American industrial might enter the war against him. Various fantasies and comforting assumptions, and over time detachment from reality - plus his basic reckless and fanatical nature - however meant America's entry made little change in his calculations.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:36 PM (OTzUX)

311
They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States. And then the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (k6qJn)

Possibly. He may have bought himself some critical amount of time forgoing that measure... but I think the US eventually declares war on his regime no matter what, and probably in fairly short order.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 09:36 PM (xPIwr)

312 They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States. And then the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (k6qJn)

Sure. In the big picture. But have you gamed out Hitler not invading East and instead committing those troops to the western front?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:37 PM (9qSw/)

313 Have you ever been sort of awake in the morning and thought to your self, it feels like 1am, only to hear the 630 alarm go off? That was me this morning. Felt like crap all day. But on Sunday I felt great, got up early, went around the house being lively, got a pillow thrown at me by a less lively person. Went to bed at 11pm both prior nights. I guess it's just mondays. My body clock has been massively screwed up for months. Really random.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2022 09:37 PM (0fVbu)

314 Mofos, who ... crossed icy rivers,

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2022 09:22 PM (VwHCD)

Crossed an icy river on Christmas Eve, near midnight, outnumbered, and attacked them at their Christmas party.

That is American. And an attitude I try to uphold. (Along with a bunch of other bad-a** moments in American history.)

Posted by: GWB at June 06, 2022 09:38 PM (W0i8D)

315 Some say Hitler's greatest mistake was invading the USSR.

They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States. And then the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (k6qJn)

------------

The odds of German victory had already shifted decisively against them by that time. Barring an incredible run of good luck, the Krauts were sliding toward defeat.

It's remarkable that they held off the inevitable for another 3.5 years.

FIGHT ME

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 06, 2022 09:38 PM (XG2Fi)

316 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:38 PM (Q/6pY)

317 And Hitler was sinking every ship he could in the Atlantic, including many US supply ships.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:38 PM (9qSw/)

318 Anti doesn't matter, I think there were encounters with "E-boats" by some of the invasion force. But skirmishes like this were common, and at night wouldn't easily/necessarily tip off the German side anything special was afoot. And by that time U-boats had been withdrawn from the North Atlantic, and those based in France lived a hunted existence - and again, just encountering an Allied naval force wouldn't by itself tip off the operation.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (OTzUX)

319 Anti doesn't matter

A. The RN had broken the U-Boat code by then.

B. The Channel was shallow water.

C. There were RN barrier ASW Frigate forces guarding both sides of the invasion.

D. The Kriegsmarine did send in smaller subs. They were sunk. They gave up after a while

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

320 The Soviets would've been in Berlin 3 years earlier had Gitler not gone east.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (KAi1n)

321
I guess it's just mondays. My body clock has been massively screwed up for months. Really random.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 06, 2022 09:37 PM (0fVbu)

I feel that. Random nights where I wake up feeling like a freaking zombie after eight hours of sleep. The wife says I've been snoring more lately, so maybe that's related. Apnea kinda thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (xPIwr)

322 They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States.

I've never found a good answer on exactly how much logistic Lend Lease the US gave the USSR. Its a good question.

Posted by: Told You So at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (USJFV)

323 Germany lost the war when they focused on synthetic fuel. They should have tried synthetic beef instead!!!!!

Posted by: Bill Gates at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (3drxe)

324 Headline: Abortion activists strip during Joel Osteen church service, chanting, "overturn Roe, hell no!"

I'm gonna guess these activists aren't the kind you'd like to see strip.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (1TuZk)

325 I don't know why Hitler didn't have surveillance boats /subs spread out in the English Channel.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (TimFr)

Because they got shot down, sunk, sent to the bottom. The Brits *controlled* the Channel for the most part. (They had made it a point since the war with the French a couple of hundred years earlier.)

Posted by: GWB at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (W0i8D)

326 AlaBAMA

Not in 1944. Before March 1943 was the U-Boat high mark. It was all downhill after those critical convoy battles then.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:40 PM (u82oZ)

327 General Rommel thought something similar when he saw how much stuff the US Army had at Kasserine Pass in 1943.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

Yep. And it got him thinking. Which wasn't a safe thing under the little painter. And that got him killed just before he would have been very useful, if not decisive.

Posted by: GWB at June 06, 2022 09:41 PM (W0i8D)

328 141 Two Mulberry Harbors were built at Normandy.

A Mulberry Harbor was constructed from pre-fab concrete blocks, towed across the Channel, and anchored to provide artificial harbors.

The storms destroyed one of them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (k6qJn)

The pre-fab concrete breakwater caissons were only a part of a Mulberry harbor. There were blockships, completing the breakwater, then there were floating piers and floating roadways from the piers to the beaches. Floating so they could go up and down with the tides. The piers and roadways were the parts most seriously damaged, or destroyed.

Posted by: crusader at June 06, 2022 09:42 PM (AMIL/)

329 >>They are wrong. It happened on Dec. 10, 1941 when Germany declared war on the United States. And then the United States declared war on Germany and Italy. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:34 PM (k6qJn)

You're comparing chalk and cheese. Germany had already been at war with Russia for 7 months by the time the United States entered the war.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:42 PM (Q/6pY)

330 Lights are still flickering every so often.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 06, 2022 09:42 PM (4I/2K)

331 indltot mentioned also that he might list the podcasts he listens to for our benefit.
osted by: Sharkman at June 06, 2022 08:51 PM (djv4p)

The Tom Woods Show / Babylon Bee / Your Welcome with Michael Malice / Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson / Verdict w/ Ted Cruz
Huberman Lab / Tim Dillon
Bitcoin Standard with Saifedean Ammous / Part of the Problem with Dave Smith / Mike Rowe The Way I Heard It / The Fat Emperor with Ivor Cummins
The Kevin Jackson Show / The Mises Institute Audio-Video (articles from the website read) / Portraits of Liberty hosted by Paul Meany Andrew Heaton has several podcasts, the ones I listen to are Alienating the Audience (popular Science Fiction) and The Political Orphanage (moderate take on radical politics)
Jordan Peterson / Mikhaila Peterson

sorry the antispam is making lists hard

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 09:42 PM (xhaym)

332
It's remarkable that they held off the inevitable for another 3.5 years.

I don't think it even proves that fascism worked slightly better than communism. What it was wss that the Nazis inherited the Imperial German Army, and the Communists inherited the Czar's army.
And I don't know if I was clear in my movie idea..the D-Day first wave ends up in right now from the time warp.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 06, 2022 09:43 PM (3/XaG)

333 Yeah the big picture of the American public. If FDR kept up his short of war actions in the Atlantic while having a real shooting war in the Pacific. And Germany ramping up the PR decrying all the war crimes FDR is committing to carry out an illegal war of aggression when Germany has nothing against America...

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:43 PM (k6qJn)

334 Red Army was in no condition to be anywhere west of the demarcation line in Poland for years after 1939. Not ready for prime time, and not close. The Red Army that stormed to Berlin didn't exist - in professionalism, organization, judgement, equipment, or personnel - until 1943.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:43 PM (OTzUX)

335 Told You So

There is a web site that has it all. Somewhere.

We gave a lot of supplies, which enabled the Soviets to focus on weaponry (although we gave tanks and warplanes as well).

Our supplies of trucks, radios, and SPAM made it possible for the Soviets to reach Berlin.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:43 PM (u82oZ)

336 ZOD

Greetings.

How are you doing?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

337 Lights are still flickering every so often.
*

It's your own fault for your community not having more electric cars.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at June 06, 2022 09:45 PM (g6ohO)

338 Britain thought they controlled the English Channel when Operation Cerberus kicked off. They had egg on their face after that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:45 PM (k6qJn)

339
Our supplies of trucks, radios, and SPAM made it possible for the Soviets to reach Berlin.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:43 PM (u82oZ)

Commie bastards were still rolling around in Studebakers 20 years later.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2022 09:45 PM (xPIwr)

340 Yes I understand the various failures of setting up surveillance but to not come up with a solution when the Nazis knew an attack was inevitable but didn't know exactly when and where seems like a huge blunder.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (TimFr)

341 >>and those based in France lived a hunted existence - and again, just encountering an Allied naval force wouldn't by itself tip off the operation.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2022 09:39 PM (OTzUX)

Clay Blair's two-volume history is...comprehensive.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (Q/6pY)

342 Poor cow just wanted to take a stroll on a lovely day without interference. Sad.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (rF64X)

343 The D-Day first wave ends up in a time warp and finds itself landing on the shores of the Potomac. They push inland and take DC, thinking (irony) they are fighting the Nazis. Media covers it and the public is so impressed by the 1944 youth they support their actions. Maybe somehow Eisenhower is close to the time warp and ends up along with them and becomes President.
Posted by: azjaeger
___

This should be a Horde-sourced project.

Pronto.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (sg1sy)

344 303 War. War never changes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

https://youtu.be/geLiEiAiQJA

Still one of my favorite openings for a game.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (sAmhv)

345 Lend Lease was something like 4,000 P-39s and 700 B-25s to the USSR. Along with P-40s. Then there is the matter of the tanks, trucks, and food like SPAM.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (k6qJn)

346 >>336 ZOD Greetings. How are you doing?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

Good, thanks for asking. I've lost 25 pounds. My bodybuilding program:

BUILD BACK BETTER.

Zod Imperial.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:48 PM (Q/6pY)

347 And Japan’s neutrality pact with USSR means zero Soviet flagged ships is sunk by Long Lances while in the Pacific.

Posted by: Rex B at June 06, 2022 09:48 PM (3drxe)

348 You're comparing chalk and cheese. Germany had already been at war with Russia for 7 months by the time the United States entered the war.
Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:42 PM (Q/6pY)

And kicking ass.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:48 PM (TimFr)

349 342 Poor cow just wanted to take a stroll on a lovely day without interference. Sad.
Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (rF64X)

---------

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Meghan McCain at June 06, 2022 09:48 PM (XG2Fi)

350 ...and also the heavy-lift of moving Russian industry eastward, with great success.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:49 PM (Q/6pY)

351 Because everyone forgot about it after Pearl Harbor you don't see this much, but remember that at the start of WW2 intercontinental warfare was not the accepted thing. Most of the public didn't like the Nazis and had sympathy for Britain but the general idea was we had a big Navy to keep us safe and it wasn't our business, it was THEIR business. It took the IJN attacking Pearl Harbor to get the public hyped. After that even if Dolfo hadn't done it, we would of just gone ahead and openly got in and the public wouldn't have objected much.

Posted by: azjaeger at June 06, 2022 09:49 PM (3/XaG)

352 Our supplies of trucks, radios, and SPAM made it possible for the Soviets to reach Berlin.

As I see it, yeah. Without that, the USSR has a vast, immobile force. Exactly the kind of problem the Reich can solve - as long as Hitler exercises patience. No small thing for him.

Posted by: Told You So at June 06, 2022 09:49 PM (USJFV)

353 308 GWB
General Rommel thought something similar when he saw how much stuff the US Army had at Kasserine Pass in 1943.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

My Dad was at Kasserine Pass. 13th ACR. Left his smoking M-3 scout tank and walked out. Second of three he lost throughout the war.

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:50 PM (AmoqO)

354 343 The D-Day first wave ends up in a time warp and finds itself landing on the shores of the Potomac. They push inland and take DC, thinking (irony) they are fighting the Nazis. Media covers it and the public is so impressed by the 1944 youth they support their actions. Maybe somehow Eisenhower is close to the time warp and ends up along with them and becomes President.
Posted by: azjaeger
___

This should be a Horde-sourced project.

Pronto.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 06, 2022 09:46 PM (sg1sy

Hunter in his bunker painting. Weird.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 06, 2022 09:50 PM (9qSw/)

355

Ze ONT, she iss NOOD!

Posted by: Zettai at June 06, 2022 09:50 PM (EvuDG)

356 >>And kicking ass. Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:48 PM (TimFr)

Death by a thousand cuts. Enough winters (it took the French one; three was enough for the Germans), and enough Russians, and every invader loses.

Posted by: ZOD at June 06, 2022 09:51 PM (Q/6pY)

357 Holy shit...

Drach was in Buffalo today, live streaming from the re-floated USS Sullivans.

The live stream is up on YouTube.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at June 06, 2022 09:53 PM (BgMrQ)

358 Two Mulberry Harbors were built at Normandy.

A Mulberry Harbor was constructed from pre-fab concrete blocks, towed across the Channel, and anchored to provide artificial harbors.

The storms destroyed one of them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2022 08:43 PM (k6qJn)

You can still see the remains of some of them just offshore Normandy.

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2022 09:54 PM (AmoqO)

359 My maternal grandfather and great uncle were Navy just prior to WWII. My paternal grandfather was a Marine in the South China Sea. I have his leather bound picture album complete with pictures of Japanese beheading Chinese. Graphic as hell. They all got out just as war was breaking out.

My Marine saw the album for the first time last year when he was home. He took a couple hours to go through the album. Very quiet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2022 09:54 PM (PIcCH)

360 Rex B

Mush Morton in the USS Wahoo sank a Soviet freighter. Oops.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:54 PM (u82oZ)

361 247
Sounds like some jealous people wanted to "nit-pick" on his volumes of work which chased him to his grave. Or even worse, they wanted to disgrace him much like the the plantation owners took down Cosby for speaking truth to the Black culture about their collective abysmal failures. Even after his son Ennis was killed (taken out)..he still stood up. How conven 9+ years of previous #me too shit spawn camel toes suddenly came to light for their payday.

Yeah...like that?

Yeah...like that

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 06, 2022 09:54 PM (J00IM)

362 Have a great night, everyone.

May the only beach you have to invade be Virginia Beach at Sandbridge.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 06, 2022 09:56 PM (u82oZ)

363 TY, NaCly

Posted by: Rex B at June 06, 2022 09:57 PM (3drxe)

364 Hey Miley what about the WW2 Ukrainian SS troops who did the mass killing of Jews?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 06, 2022 09:26 PM (TimFr)

I would hate to find out he considers them to have been WWII veterans also.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2022 09:57 PM (xhaym)

365 330 Lights are still flickering every so often.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Not saying its Aliens, but it's Aliens.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2022 09:58 PM (sAmhv)

366 This is that Green New Deal thing, right?

Posted by: Joey at June 06, 2022 09:59 PM (kPbVu)

367 Lend Lease was something like 4,000 P-39s and 700 B-25s to the USSR. Along with P-40s. Then there is the matter of the tanks, trucks, and food like SPAM.
Posted by: Anna Puma
------

We'll try to repay you, when we feel like it...or not.

Posted by: Stalin at June 06, 2022 10:01 PM (RCix1)

368 I still maintain that Hitler's mistake was not declaring war ... on Japan, after Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 06, 2022 10:06 PM (yQpMk)

369 Greetings:

That top D-Day Higgins boat picture was the reason why I hated our Army's Chinook (not that we called it that) helicopters.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 06, 2022 10:33 PM (uuklp)

370 We won't be able to stop a tyrannical government with rifles alone
WE NEED LEGAL RPGs please consider supporting my
NRpgA
National Rifle Propelled Grenade Association

Posted by: Steve at June 07, 2022 09:11 AM (+oG9v)

Processing 0.04, elapsed 0.048 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0185 seconds, 379 records returned.
Page size 190 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.