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RE: NS - 7/25/2010 6:11:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

The odd thing is that I thought Allies were supposed to win battles of attrition.


The way the Allies win a battle of attrition is by bringing more of the stuff to be "attrited" to the battle.

So far, I can shuttle in aircraft from Suva or Norfolk or Brisbane and so far the ground forces on NS are well supplied (48,000 tons or so), but I am starting to worry more about this.


*******Situation April 14, 1942*********

The Japs attempted several ineffectual shore bombardments again at NP. I am not sure why the efficacy has declined so much. Perhaps it intel quality. Perhaps they are out of main gun ammo? Thre are fewer CA's now, perhaps the accumulated wear and tear is beginning to show. NE has not been hit for 4 d and is now ready to fly aircraft again. The USN subs have logged many more attacks since I started using patrol/respond instead of remain on station.

A big 35 Zero fighter sweep over NP outgunned the USAAF fighters and 3 were loss to no zeroes. I beefed up fighter strength at NP with 3 "fresh" P-39 and P-40 squadrons. Another demi-squadron and a few SBD's ar at NE. Jap transports are headed SE from NU, either for NP or NE.

A nother full strength Jap attack at NP was repusled at 1:3 odds with 4500 Jap casualties after the timely arrival of Stuarts from NE. The Stuarts are driving from one battle at NE to another battle at NP, kicking Jap ass and still have excellent morale. Clearly, they LYB's will need to use up Allied supply or bring more LYB's to achieve a ground victory either at NP or NE.


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Diversity - 7/26/2010 7:03:01 PM   
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I don't know if it is some kind of inside gag or just cosmically hilarious naivete

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RE: Diversity - 7/26/2010 10:54:58 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The "Diversity Committee" at work handed out packages of Oreos for Diversity Day.

I don't know if it is some kind of inside gag or just cosmically hilarious naivete

Were they brown-ish oreos? If not, doesn't sound too diverse to me.

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RE: Diversity - 7/27/2010 4:25:25 AM   
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The "Diversity Committee" at work handed out packages of Oreos for Diversity Day.

I don't know if it is some kind of inside gag or just cosmically hilarious naivete


Sounds like it should be in a episode of The Office

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Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 6:30:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		*********Aboard IJN destroyer Uruyuke, 17:50, April 14, 1942, Near Belep Is., New Scotland**********


The ship is patroling slowly for mines. On the fantail, two oddly hirsute "lookouts" are having a smoke.

Aype: Rook, a mine. <Both sailors peer downward. A somewhat amateurish device floats on the surface. Block letters read "M&M Enterprises/Hecho en Mexico">

Hapur: No, no! It is Uni! And a good brand too! Come, help me with the grappling hook.

<After several minutes of struggle, the is a sudden blidning flash at the stern of the ship. Despite the destruction, there is a degree of undeniable beauty as golden and ruby-colored trails of incandescent particles fall slowly over the sea>



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RE: Diversity - 7/27/2010 6:31:39 PM   
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Sounds like it should be in a episode of The Office


Yes...you have it exactly!

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RE: Diversity - 7/27/2010 6:32:34 PM   
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Were they brown-ish oreos? If not, doesn't sound too diverse to me.


That would your Hostess Cupcake, brown on the outside, white on the inside.

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RE: Diversity - 7/27/2010 6:56:40 PM   
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We managed 54 fighters in the air over New Perth. A Jap sweep of 25 Zeroes kicked their ass. 2 Zeroes were lost to 6 P-400/40. I am going to have to find a better strategy becuase the LYB's now have their A-team at New Ullapool. Report indicate 47 fighters, 128 bombers and 178 auxillary aircraft at New Ullapool!

Fuso is back. She and 4 CA's bombarded New Perth again with very little damage. Uruyuke blew herself up on a cheap Mexican mine. An S-boat put a torp into Kashima. I wish I had discovered the patrol/react setting for the subs before. I think they explain the sudden decline in Jap bombardment efficacy.

A small transport group began unloading at New Perth and was hit heavily by the CD batteries. This seems sowmehat desperate as it would be much safer to land at New Ullapool and move overland. Allied artillery barages at NP and NE were very effective today but I will have to tone that down to save ammo.

Over 500 miles from New Ullapool, 12 Bettys found Nashvile and 2 DD's near Tanna, putting two torps into Nashville. I think she can make Suva barring a sub attack. This is another example of the power of the bombers at New Uallpool.

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RE: Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 7:05:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*********Aboard IJN destroyer Uruyuke, 17:50, April 14, 1942, Near Belep Is., New Scotland**********


The ship is patroling slowly for mines. On the fantail, two oddly hirsute "lookouts" are having a smoke.

Aype: Rook, a mine. <Both sailors peer downward. A somewhat amateurish device floats on the surface. Block letters read "M&M Enterprises/Hecho en Mexico">

Hapur: No, no! It is Uni! And a good brand too! Come, help me with the grappling hook.

<After several minutes of struggle, the is a sudden blidning flash at the stern of the ship. Despite the destruction, there is a degree of undeniable beauty as golden and ruby-colored trails of incandescent particles fall slowly over the sea>




Let me get this straight...the LYBs mistakenly hauled in a sea mine thinking it was an overgrown sea urchin?

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RE: Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 7:31:50 PM   
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Let me get this straight...the LYBs mistakenly hauled in a sea mine thinking it was an overgrown sea urchin?


You have that partly right. I suspect young Hapur is a veteran of WWII(a).

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Over by Oz - 7/27/2010 7:38:14 PM   
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RE: NS - 7/27/2010 8:39:26 PM   
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Mutsu was hurt pretty badly. Not so sure about Hiei.

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RE: Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 9:02:56 PM   
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Let me get this straight...the LYBs mistakenly hauled in a sea mine thinking it was an overgrown sea urchin?


You have that partly right. I suspect young Hapur is a veteran of WWII(a).

Ah so! The origin of the salted sea urchin delicacy of choice is clear. IIRC, wasn't FDR on some sort of salted sea urchin bender whilest visiting the PTO?

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RE: Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 11:11:52 PM   
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Ah so! The origin of the salted sea urchin delicacy of choice is clear. IIRC, wasn't FDR on some sort of salted sea urchin bender whilest visiting the PTO?


By George (Marshall)! I think you've got it.

I have always had a soft spot for FDR. You marry your own cousin and then it turns out she has teeth like Seabiscuit and bats for the other team. Poor bastard.

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RE: Tragedy at sea - 7/27/2010 11:32:55 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

By George (Marshall)! I think you've got it.

I have always had a soft spot for FDR. You marry your own cousin and then it turns out she has teeth like Seabiscuit and bats for the other team. Poor bastard.



It's General Marshall, Captain Mandrake.


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RE: Tragedy in the Lincoln Bedroom - 7/27/2010 11:38:03 PM   
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Madre de Dios!

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RE: Tragedy in the Lincoln Bedroom - 7/27/2010 11:44:56 PM   
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RE: Tragedy in the Lincoln Bedroom - 7/27/2010 11:58:36 PM   
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The War in the Pacific was fought over.......ermmm...oi?




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RE: Tragedy in the Lincoln Bedroom - 7/28/2010 5:42:43 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Imagine you are half asleep in the Lincoln Bedroom and some idiot Civil Defence functionary has ordered a blackout in Washington. Now further imagine that power is restored. The lights flicker, you grab your bifocals, and just as the light comes back on full you are greeted with this visage, standing there half-naked in golf cleats with a Babe Diedrickson photo anthology.



Madre de Dios!

Crickey! That's enough to get one to volunteer for minefield clearing duty...

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Is that my mine or your mine? - 7/28/2010 11:36:45 PM   
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USS Tambor hit a mine will patroling or laying mines near Belep Is. That is usually curtains for a US sub.

Fuso came back and bombarded NP today, denting the runway and hangars a bit. The Jap AK's disembarking at NP were beat up pretty good by shore batteries. The SBD's from NP finally took off and pounded an AK near NE.

No bombardment of NE, which is repairing nicely. Two more Naval Guard units are debarking at NE and the transports there are just getting slaughtered by shore batteries. I dont think two more Naval Guard units will be enough to turn the tide.

No air to air combat over NS today. We were hiding.



Near New Rorke's Drift, a Dutch sub was hit by two torps from a Jap sub


Wasp is in theater in 49 days. A four carrier relief effort for NS then? Perhaps.

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-0.257 % - 7/29/2010 5:21:34 PM   
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Well, that is bloody generous of them, isn't it? Note that it isn't a 25% adjustment...it is 0.257% or 25 cents on adjustment of valuation for every $100 of previously assessed value.

Note also that the couldnt just round up to 0.26%...oh no....they need the money so they carry it out to 3 significant digits as if they were planning an orbital insertion of the Apollo Command Module or something. Then, just after they poke you in the eye with this idiocy, they give you a swift knee to the jewels by offering a $7,000 "homeowners exemption". Note, this doesnt mean the tax bill is reduced by $7,000...oh no...this means the assessed valuation is reduced by $7,000 (about .6%). Asshats. Where did the $7,000 come from? I looked it up. It was the value of a new Conastoga Mk 12 (with full size spare) in 1872.

I hate government.

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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 6:09:32 PM   
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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 6:21:31 PM   
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Real estate prices have probably declined 30-35% around here over the last 2 1/2 years

I hate government.


OUCH, Cap...not much better up here in NoCal, but we were successful a few years back petitioning the tax board and getting ours dropped by a pretty good chunk...not sure how that would fare down there...


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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 6:42:39 PM   
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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 9:27:54 PM   
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Note, this doesnt mean the tax bill is reduced by $7,000...oh no...this means the assessed valuation is reduced by $7,000 (about .6%).



0.6% of the asssessed value of your house is $7000! Cap, that's some abode...

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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 9:40:06 PM   
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Note, this doesnt mean the tax bill is reduced by $7,000...oh no...this means the assessed valuation is reduced by $7,000 (about .6%).



0.6% of the asssessed value of your house is $7000! Cap, that's some abode...


Ah no. I read it as saying by reducing his valuation by $7000, that represented a 0.6% decline in value. That being so his starting valuation is about $1.16 million. Remember Cap Mandrake is in the medical profession (albeit to the best of my knowledge he has no actual business links with M & M Enterprises, other than perhaps for the importation of his Mayan housekeeper "Hecho en Mexico") and he lives in a presitigious area where his neighbours use their expensive cars to drive down to the mailbox.

Alfred

Edit: sorry Aprezto. I misread your post. If you cross the ditch you will find that our local unimproved land valuations (that is no adding the value of the buildings) are also approaching ridiculous levels.

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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 10:08:23 PM   
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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 10:12:18 PM   
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USD 1.16mill would buy half of NZ


where do i sign up for that? i'm sure the kiwi's could live comfortably in the other half...you want the north or south?

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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 10:21:25 PM   
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RE: -0.257 % - 7/29/2010 10:21:54 PM   
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Either way, I'll send you my (hastily created?) account details and you can cable through the cash, of course that will be after going through a few rounds of 'just a few thousand more to set up the 'insert excuse here' paper work'.

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