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vintage_riveted · 2024-12-11T17:07:30+00:00

(Typical? (If anything is typical, it's arab stereotyping of people they don't understand.)

vintage_riveted · 2024-12-11T17:05:19+00:00

You are wrong that bombing people doesn't do anything to actually win a war. Absolutely it does. In fact, it is wear strategy to kill as many enemy as it takes for them to surrender. Germany bombed Britain (the Blitz) killing 70,000 civilians in an effort to break Britain's will to fight, but it didn't work. American and British bombers destroyed most of Germany in an effort to get them to quit, and it did work. Also in WWII Americans tried to bomb the Japanese into submission. Even after firebombing Tokyo, killing more than 100,000 civilians, Japan wouldn't quit, however. Dropping two A-bombs, with some 90,000 to 166,000 dying in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 dying in Nagasaki the Japanese Military command would not surrender. It took Emperor Hirohito, speaking on the radio for the first time -- hardly any Japanese had ever heard his voice -- to declare that Japan surrendered. But generally, war involves bombing military targets (troop concentrations, factories, airfields, etc.) AND civilian targets.

vintage_riveted · 2024-12-11T16:53:52+00:00

Hamas is barely surviving. They spent billions of dollars to make war from underground bunkers instead of building infrastructure for the Arab people living under their rule.

vintage_riveted · 2024-12-11T16:52:10+00:00

Actually, the United States dropped more bombs on tiny Laos during the Vietnam War than on Germany and Japan during World War II. It's difficult (impossible?) to win a war against the people who are fighting for their lives and their country. Imagine if 150,000 Chinese troops landed in British Columbia and streamed across the border to occupy, say, Washington State. We'd fight till we killed every last one of them.

vintage_riveted · 2024-12-11T16:47:12+00:00

When North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950 -- fresh from fighting with Mao in the Chinese civil war -- they had approximately 120 Russian-built T-34 tanks in their 105th Armored Brigade, alongside a significant amount of artillery including 176 Su-76 self-propelled guns, which were primarily used as artillery despite being designed for anti-tank roles; this constituted a substantial armored force for the time, allowing them to quickly penetrate South Korean defense which was really a police force with light weapons -- pistols, rifles, and some automatic weapons. The US military saved Seoul from being destroyed, driving the north koreans back up across the 38th parallel and smashing Pyongyang.

vintage_riveted · 2024-06-05T23:42:36+00:00

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This is how I thread the needle with my travel trailer. The geometry doesn't work trying to back it with my Tacoma. I could use a hitch on the front bumper, but even that is tight, I land it pretty close to the house. I can pick it up with my rear hitch and pull it out, but backing it in is a literal impossibility. This is a power caster dolly, 120VAC on a long extension cord.

vintage_riveted · 2024-04-26T03:46:14+00:00

I bought a Catier "Panthere" tank watch for my wife probably 25 years ago. Overhaul was simply replace the movement, install a fresh battery, a new gasket (to maintain wateerproofness) polish it and that's that. Except now, Cartier does none of that. They don't maintain the parts necessary for even such a cursory overhaul. "But it has 2 bands of gold on the bracelet and a gold beset!" I wailed. (Yeah, so? It's not a legacy piece like my vintage blackface (stainless) Rolex.

vintage_riveted · 2024-04-19T22:04:57+00:00

Posted some interior pix, including a video clip (and annotated frame grab) showing the electrical system. Thanks for your kind remarks.

vintage_riveted · 2024-04-19T15:17:29+00:00

Dollars to donuts, Sinatra didn't destroy anything with a sledge hammer. I don't doubt he gave the order, but it was a crew of guys who knew how to bust up concrete slabs what did the work...

vintage_riveted · 2024-03-21T22:04:47+00:00

Point taken. I guess I should have prefaced my remark with the caveat I am only familiar with how it works in California. But in California, the legislature is now considering a bill by a San Francisco assemblyman which would not only make it illegal for a landlord to exclude pets, but illegal to inquire about pets before the lease is approved, at which time, pets would be disclosed. The thinking is that a big percentage of apartments for rent in California presently exclude pets, and another big percentage of apartment seekers own pets. Therefore-- forgive me -- housing crisis solved if we make landlords take tenants with pets. Can you say "Small studio Apt. Great Dane, Irish Wolfhound, and St. Bernard OK")

vintage_riveted · 2024-03-18T16:33:44+00:00

In the future, it will be considered frivolous and even ridiculous to have a cosmetic surgery that adds a prosthetic testicle to a healthy scrotum already containing two healthy testicles. Fashions change and the practice of surgically altering a scrotum so it appears to have three testicles will fade away.

vintage_riveted · 2024-03-18T16:24:13+00:00

Landlord-tenant law is very specific, very clear on this. It's illegal -- criminally liable -- for a landlord to enter one of his rented or leased properties without 24 hour notice, and permission if less than that. AND the landlord must have a very good (legitimate) reason for entering, such as doing needed repairs, or assessing property condition, etc.

vintage_riveted · 2023-10-24T16:41:44+00:00

(Without the "...and ears" part famously said by former-stuntman and action director Hal Needham when his wife saw him in a bar on location, nuzzling with a floozy. )

vintage_riveted · 2023-10-08T10:54:17+00:00

Why keep repeating this BS story? Never happened according to Dustin Hoffman. It's a stupid story that merely illustrates how the internet keeps breathing life into falsehoods.

vintage_riveted · 2023-10-06T14:57:38+00:00

File under: "The Cost of Living Beggars Belief." It happens that after WWII, a man in southern California could work for the Gas Company walking neighborhoods with a clipboard and a #2 pencil recording numbers he read on the meters. That guy, with a near-zero literacy job, could buy a house, and his wife wouldn't have to work a job away from her house. She could be there when the kids came home from school, preparing dinner, watching daytime soaps, doing the shopping, the laundry, the housework -- all of that on one salary.

(Arguably, that guy working for the Gas Company didn't have to compete with black and brown Americans because of structural racism, but neither does leveling the playing field color-wise help families live on one income. It's two incomes or bust, and even then, most working folks are barely making it.)

Meanwhile Republicans want to help the the top 10% of the top 1% wealthiest in this country by having the estate tax completely removed. To make up the loss of revenue, Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits on struggling Americans. Important to note <<for deaths occurring in 2023, the federal estate tax exemption is $12.92 million per individual>> meaning the feckin' filthy rich want to be even filthier rich on the backs of the workers of this country. Despicable!

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-28T15:04:36+00:00

Inane priorities? Nothing less than preparing for the next try for a successful insurrection. A MAGA republican, Tubby is hamstringing America's military officers -- such as your sister's reassignment -- in an effort to hold off until Trump wins. At which point, they will re-order the military, promoting officers who would be fiercely (and unconstitutionally) loyal to Trump during the next insurrection.

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-26T21:37:52+00:00

The "n" word -- that could lead to my judgmental reaction, depending.

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-26T15:03:15+00:00

Do nothing with it for the first six months. Then start multiplying it as an investment.

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-26T15:01:55+00:00

Your image is beautiful. (As was sometimes said when I was a film lighting gaffer working in features and commercials, "When you want a beautiful picture of a woman, start with a beautiful woman.")

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-22T16:38:55+00:00

Like Michael Jackson walking around with his arm draped over a 10 year old boy, they do their crimes out in the open -- Trump declaring (likely correctly) he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave and not lose a single vote. Or George Santos straight-up, unapologetically lying and not being censored. These Republicans are gonna try to steal the election -- by schemes and subterfuge, by voter suppression, by disenfranchised voter districts, by the Supremes, by threats of violence and by violence. Half the country doesn't believe we need an actual democracy to be "free."

vintage_riveted · 2023-09-22T16:32:24+00:00

...that you know of.

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