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He’s definitely something else.

He’s definitely something else.

Building ice roads. The joy in my heart is strong to hear from you guys.

Kingston

They build roads and drill pads over the very fragile tundra. The lakes are just like rock pits as a source for the ice. Summer comes, don't even know they were there. Really something to see. Security up there is something else. You are checked out really well before you get on the plane. Slight screw-up and you are out of there on the next plane.

I'd say that, by in large, in so many small ways and so many big ways, the Nazi's were absolutely on the wrong tack.

Hindsight is 20-20, but there is so much there that could have gone right for that country after WWI and the Nazi's made it go bad.

At the top of the list is the National Socialist way of running an economy. Yes, it worked well enough to get them in the thick of WWII. However, the idea that all large factory orders had to be run through a hierarchy of central oversight boards made it highly inefficient. Up against a modern capitalist economy, like the US, it was doomed.

The biggest blunder of WWII was the planning and execution of Barbarossa. Hitler asked for a plan for the invasion of Russia. The generals gave it to Hitler. Hitler said he thought the logistics were overblown and sent it back. The generals went ahead and knocked everything down by 2/3. Hitler gave his approval. The plan went ahead and sputtered and fell apart at the gates of Moscow and Stanlingrad. Why? Because Germany went into Russia with only 1/3 of what was needed.

The other big blunder was spending so much valuable resources on extermination. Nevermind the fact that Germany lost so many of its great minds, and also gassed countless doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and engineers needlessly. When Germany should have been trying to defend itself in 44 and 45, it spent its treasure gassing Jews.

I could run down a list all day. About the only thing they really got right were the cool uniforms-- second only to the Italians. Of course, look at the Italians and you'll see what an emphasis on fashion will get you.

So tempted to make a joke about feeding foxes pepperonis, but it just didn’t feel right.

Was this thread started to distract from Kobe news?

In any case, lots of boomer education on display.

Yes the Nazis were on the right track. They’d nationalized their central bank, effectively outlawed usury, denied the franchise to ethnic Jews, and built a strong central government that discouraged several forms of degeneracy.

1939 Germany had the most powerful economy and military in the history of Europe. GDP had doubled in 6 years. Unemployment had gone from over 30% to nearly 0%. The standard of living enjoyed by Germans was the highest in the world at the time.

In expelling Jews, the Nazis were doing what roughly 100 countries had done before them. There is a pattern there, obviously, which does not revolve around the NSDAP.

The Nazis made a number of blunders during WWII. That doesn’t erode the economic and social improvements that accrued to the German people while they were in power.

So tempted to make a joke about feeding foxes pepperonis, but it just didn’t feel right.

Every pick up or any vehicle has to carry a "kiddy pool" to put under the engine when you're stopped so they don't drip oily snow on the ground. Don't even think about taking a leak into a snow bank!

I’d feed the fox a large pizza just to get my ass off that icicle...😬😎

I’d feed the fox a large pizza just to get my ass off that icicle...😬😎

Its not that bad. The company gives us our own rooms. They feed us huge buffets. The work is easy. We are payed pretty well and I work three weeks on, then three weeks off. Its awesome for planning trips and hunts. Plus the company flys us back and forth.

Remsen of course...Duh!

Kingston ain’t white...I have it on good insider information he’s actually something else. 😎

Boomer! I'm with ASRC in Alpine right now. I bet we are real close if your west of Prudhoe. Im shuffling Vac trucks and hauling nitrogen. Give me a shout!