Have any of u read "Stupid White Men"?

“Of course, Germany gets the bigger half” ( referring to the division of the globe between Germany and Japan)- Moe Howard in “You Nazi Spy”

@LHoffman:

@Gargantua:

I found the tiger portion frustrating.�  I felt the Tiger could have easily shifted/braked a single track to maximize it’s turn radius, and that what we observed was just more Brad Pitt has to be a superstar syndrome.

Seconded! I felt a little let down by it. I wanted the Tiger to be more of a drawn out enemy or challenge rather than some non-descript Boss that they get to defeat in 5 min.

I think they did a good Job with BoB and the Tiger Scene (even though it was the same Tiger I on a T34 Chassis like in saving Ryan).
He hidd, striked ,rolled out and cleared the field and retreated with the whole Battalion.
Lot of things BoB showed was well performed.

I like Band of Brothers.

@Gargantua:

Driving excavation machinery, your tracks are independent.

And even so, better to “test/pressure” your track in the dirt, than die.

Yeah with a T34 anytime, not so with a Tiger I&II.
Bad Tiger commander Garg  :-D. Go get me Wittmann!! :-)

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/18/D8H2OUH87.html

Last night I watched House on FOX with my wife and teenager.  DIAGNOSIS : Bubonic Plague

This morning I awaken to the news that a case of Bubonic plague has beeen diagnosed in CA!!

I heard on local radio that this is the second time since the show started that House pulled a “We called it immediately before it happened!” storyline.

I like this show as it has unlikeable characters…House, Wilson, Cutty …

Last nights eppisode also covered different moral outlooks in medical and personal beliefs.
Bravo! Brava!

Last night I mentioned to my wife that House doesn’t have as much of the characters’ social lives as a lot of the other “Medical Center” shows.

Now that was a flashback!  I haven’t thought of that show in 30+ years.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny–clinton-pirro1115nov15,0,5574251,print.story

…and Miss Pirro is guilty of insults?

It will be even messier if Turkey is part of the EU when this takes place.  However I think this should resolve itself before that happens as it doesn’t look like the EU is letting Turkey join anytime soon.

It isn’t certain what will happen with regards to greater Kurdistan (Kurdish areas in Iraq, Turkey, Iran), although it could certainly get ugly there.

Any Kurds in Syria?  I’m not sure, and if so what that would imply as well.

Nevertheless, this goes back a long ways to when the British occupied Iraq (taken from the Ottoman Empire in WWI if I am not mistaken).  It is always a difficult thing to go back to the pre-colonial (and pre Ottoman empire) nations and boundaries as often they were not clearly marked or identifiable.  Besides, there is oil in N. Iraq…and everyone wants a peice of that!

I think most of the backing came due to two facts:
(1) the USSR needed reforms, that was obvious.
Still, they probably wanted a long term leader that could be influenced => a younger one, after the two short reigns of Andropov and what-was-his-name… Probably, the influentials wanted some change, but surely not that much that it would threaten their power-base, one of the reasons for the coup that failed due to Jelzins help for Gorbachev.
(2) The general secretary and all the other positions he fills made him the most powerful man in the USSR. Probably, whoever put Gorbachev into place, underestimated him. Pretty much the same underestimation that Hitler faced when he was appointed Chancellor, but luckily Gorbachev used that to reform positively, and i consider the new freedom of information, the right to ask wether the party is right and that the crucial reform.

So, I don’t think that there was “real” backing, i believe Gorbachev was kind of a compromise candidate, kind of a makeshift. Of course, once he was into power, you ccouldn’t remove instantly, that would have meant that the party made a mistake (which was not “allowed” before Gorbachev). And he was clever enough to stay into power, and use his popularity at the beginning (which soon, after the economy started to collapse openly, was reduced to more or less nothing) to enforece the reforms.

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