Psst, Hi Snippy.
Posted on 05/23/2006 3:50:36 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
Psst, Hi Snippy.
Aloha.
BTW, both of my sisters were born in Honolulu.
Perhaps the Foxhole can help. Some tabloid stole milblogger Michael Yon's award-winning photo to use for an anti-war smear article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1638348/posts?page=1
Let's FReep 'em.
In a glass case next to it was the only Merlin I have ever seen close up. The engine is tiny.
You can see this when you compare the engine to the tires. I wonder what the fellow used for a transmission? Some old bike, I guess, maybe from a non-unit Triumph, a Brough, something like that.
Speaking of Brough motorcycles, a 1939 Superior:
One must forget the Vincent nor Phil Irving it's design engineer. I read his book. Irving knew his stuff.
A 1948 (about) series B Rapide:
On War does make more sense the second time around. Indeed logistics is scarcely mentioned.
Clausewitz was a Scharnhorst protege, as I recollect, and it was Gneisenau, not Scharnhorst, who was the logistician.
I just now checked, and Gneisenau was chief of logistics (amongst other things Chief of Staff) for the great Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the victor of Waterloo and defeater of Napoleon. (Napoleon was a Left disaster.) Gneisenau had very valuable experience in the American War of Independence but on the British side.
Small world, eh? Speaking of which you two are real close to Cowpens. Worth study. General Daniel Morgan really suckered Colonel Banastre Tarleton (excellent soldier, 26 years old, who nearly destroyed the American Rebellion for King and Country). Tarleton hotly pursued Green's forces and would have annihilated them except for Morgan's brilliant (too weak a word) counter attack at Cowpens.
The counter attack is indeed the soul of the defense. Iraq war, for instance. Normandy invasion. Stalingrad. Guadalcanal. Inchon. The counter attack never done in the Viet Nam war, lost because the American Left were not militarily counter attacked. (The operation was all set up, had my oar in the water about one thousandths of an inch, but was just a kid. Ready to go, though. Early 1970. Nixon pulled the plug. If McGovern had won I think we would have done it. The Left should idolize Nixon instead of despising him. Morons.)
May 26, 2006
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Morning Feather.
Thanks.
You having a rainy morning, Mayor?? Tis here.
Psst, Snippy. What's taters precious?
I got to caress one in a Confederate Air Force hanger in Hobbs, NM 20 years ago. I have pictures somewhere. Not much different than a big block Chevy IIRC.
Little bit, clouds are breaking up and sun is trying to come thru.
The weekend is supposed to be beautiful. 70's and 80's
suhweet!
Thanks for the ping.
You're right Iris7. Cowpens looks to be about an hour and a half away and the road goes right by Kings Mountain. We must plan to make a full day of it soon!
PO-TA-TOES!
boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!
Aw, you remembered.
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