Posted on 03/28/2005 9:45:36 PM PST by SAMWolf
Good morning Mayor.
Prayers offered for your wife.
I made it just in time for Treadhead Tuesday so I thought I'd post a(n)(anti) Treadhead related memorial photo from home.
This monument is over at Fort Hood, not far from my house. My daughter and dad go over here and shoot skeet a couple or 3 times a week.
Consider prayers in queue. My spouse just went through 3 hernia surgeries in the past four months. Not only will I say a prayer for your loved one, but for the doctor(s) and staff who are working with her, as well.
It was Hell on Earth.
That's a real purdy picture!
Morning P.E.
Federal Spending (excluding Social Security) as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product has ranged from 21.4% in '76, up to 23.5 in '83 (yep...Reagan), then down to 18.4 % in 2000, then up to 20.3 in 2005. The OMB is estimating that it will drop to 19.0 by 2010.
Now, as Conservatives, can we all agree that the Federal Spending must go down for America to prosper to its fullest potential?! And how better to measure Federal Spending than as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product? Well, Dubyuh came into office with Federal Spending accounting fer 18.4% of GDP and he is estimated to leave office in 2008 with the Fed siphoning off 19.2% of GDP. Shouldn't Conservatives DEMAND that Federal Spending be cut as required to decrease the percentage below 18.4% by the time Bush leaves office?! Heck, we've got a GOP Congress and a GOP White House and spending goes UP over eight years?!
That's worth fighting fer if you ask me...MUD
Good morning, hope everyone had a Happy Easter.
Thanks for the pings, always good reading.
Cheers!
Agreed. But do you have the numbers if you take military/defense (i.e. war on terror) out of the picture?
I'm not saying we don't need to watch the spending there as well. But I think we need to consider those numbers separately.
Whoa, way cool Flag-o-gram today, PE. Thank You.
Good Morning, Foxhole - Incredible tread today. Great pictures and great equipment.
Thought I'd share a little tread with the Foxhole.
The little tread pic above is from a gizmo site that has the plans and specs for making a mobile 1/5 Sherman Tank for kids based on the T4 model. This thing is made out of plywood and is operable via an X-Arcade Joystick. When I ran into this site I thought this might be a fun project for a kid of any age. (If I were more of a craftsman, I'd make one for myself.)
Have a great sunny day everyone.
Can I buy one of theese?
Vacuum Tube Lifting Systems with Bag and Sack Lifting Attachment
What bag. I just see an attendant.
They're talking about the WWII T-70
A Soviet Light tank with a 20mm gun.
Morning alfa6.
I read Hans Rudel's "Stuka Pilot" in High School
Hans Ulrich Rudel began his amazing career as a Stuka pilot in Poland in 1939, and was one of the few pilots to survive six years of combat flying. Shot down more than a dozen times, he finished the war flying an FW190 - with one leg amputated and the other in a cast! Rudel's fame as the "indestructible" pilot - and his record of 2530 operational flights, 519 Russian tanks, and the Soviet battleship Murat destroyed brought his to the attention of the Fuehrer. Rudel won eleven decorations - the last a new medal specifically designed for him by Hitler. Rudel's Fire Brigade shows him in one of his low level support roles using his 37mm anti-tank weapons mounted under the wings of his Stuka.
Morning!
Thanks for the added insight and info.
The Germans were also using the Hs-129 Tank Buster.
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