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2021-08-29 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Thank you for warning Karl, I do apologize but I won't stand by for insults against America when our soldiers are dying overseas on an impossible mission due to incompetent leadership. Max Dillon Charleston SC Aug 29, 2021 10:08:44 AM dan penoff.com via Mercedes : > Stop. Not appropriate for

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2021-08-29 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Stop. Not appropriate for this list and you know it. No more warnings. -D/ListMom > On Aug 29, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Kind of like the current tyrants forcing "woke" down our thoughts. > - > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at

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2021-08-29 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Kind of like the current tyrants forcing "woke" down our thoughts. - Max Charleston SC On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:07 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Kind of like the original settlers here in the US. > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 8:57 AM OK Don via

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2021-08-22 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-08-22 11:56, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: They aren't just willing to die to protect their home, they are willing to die to inflict their religion on everyone. Unfortunately, the Taliban leaders have been making their list and checking it twice for over 19 years. Now Butcher Clause is

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2021-08-22 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Kind of like the original settlers here in the US. On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 8:57 AM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > They aren't just willing to die to protect their home, they are willing to > die to inflict their religion on everyone. > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 9:58 PM Clay via Mercedes > wrote:

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2021-08-22 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
I think we had them pretty handily beat on the financing front. At least that is what my tax return said. K On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:23 AM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > It also helps to totally own the largest opium production poppy fields in > the world, just to finance those necessary war

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2021-08-22 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
They aren't just willing to die to protect their home, they are willing to die to inflict their religion on everyone. On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 9:58 PM Clay via Mercedes wrote: > Helps much more that it is YOUR place and you will die for your home. The > invaders have no investment in success.

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2021-08-21 Thread Clay via Mercedes
Helps much more that it is YOUR place and you will die for your home. The invaders have no investment in success. Maybe the pretty boys do, but not the grunts who would rather be home with his honey, sucking down a beer, and wrenching on his vehicle of choice. Tally Wacker Man cares deeply,

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2021-08-21 Thread Frederick Moir via Mercedes
Alexander the Great could not conquer them. He paid for passage through their country. His general had to fight his way through with heavy losses. Ain't history great? Fred. On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 5:24 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Don't forget the British! >

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2021-08-21 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Don't forget the British! Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 5:04 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: The USSR tried and failed. The USA tried and failed. What will China do differently? On Sat, Aug 21, 2021, at 4:51 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >

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2021-08-21 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
is best addressed on Okie talk. Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: August 21, 2021 4:04 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: astr...@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: [MBZ] Toyota disgusts me. The USSR tried and failed. The USA tried and failed. What will China do

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2021-08-21 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
China will have met its match on individual corruption with Afghanistan. It would be a great partnership. Mutual destruction assured. I lived in Afghanistan and the Northern Tribal Territories [Northern Pakistan tribal area] among the tribes for 7 years during the "Russia era". I gained a rather

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2021-08-21 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
The USSR tried and failed. The USA tried and failed. What will China do differently? On Sat, Aug 21, 2021, at 4:51 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Anyone want to place a bet on which country will try to conquer Afghanistan > next? Lots of mineral wealth in addition to the opium trade,

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2021-08-21 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Anyone want to place a bet on which country will try to conquer Afghanistan next? Lots of mineral wealth in addition to the opium trade, might be tempting to China. - Max Charleston SC On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 3:21 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >

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2021-08-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Huh. I thought they were Asiatic roses... On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 1:23 PM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > It also helps to totally own the largest opium production poppy fields in > the world, just to finance those necessary war items, while being ruthless. > Just for your reading pleasure: >

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2021-08-21 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
It also helps to totally own the largest opium production poppy fields in the world, just to finance those necessary war items, while being ruthless. Just for your reading pleasure: https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/resources/taliban_opium_1.pdf and:

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2021-08-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
It helps to be ruthless, conscience-free, and well organized. On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 12:53 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Funny how they seem to have won the 20 year war despite their lack of top > dollar equipment. I bet their budget was a lot lower than ours.

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2021-08-21 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Funny how they seem to have won the 20 year war despite their lack of top dollar equipment. I bet their budget was a lot lower than ours. Perhaps we should take a few notes from their procurement guys. Ww2 was won with similarly dirt simple tech IIRC. On Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 9:26 AM Andrew

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2021-08-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
This is a great selling point for Tesla: WE DO NOT SELL TO THE TALIBAN. On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:09 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The vehicle of choice for the hajis, mujis, skinnies, and all other forms > of brave freedom fighters against the Great Satan.

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2021-08-20 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
The vehicle of choice for the hajis, mujis, skinnies, and all other forms of brave freedom fighters against the Great Satan. Mount your .50 in the back and you’re an instant Technical! --FT Sent from iPhone > On Aug 20, 2021, at 2:54 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: >

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2021-08-20 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Yeah, I saw one of those on the national news tonight, too. -D > On Aug 20, 2021, at 9:23 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > But wait --- what's this?? > > https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/2daf4e4b531542e0bb7487b0aa2ab183/800.jpeg > > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at

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2021-08-20 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
But wait --- what's this?? https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/2daf4e4b531542e0bb7487b0aa2ab183/800.jpeg On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > They can't really control who buys them though. What can they do, not sell to > the middle east? So Nissan

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2021-08-20 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Speaking of which, has anyone watched the last episode of whatever they call their show now? The one where they all drive big American land yachts across northern Scotland? It’s pretty entertaining. -D > On Aug 20, 2021, at 5:35 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > There's a Top Gear

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2021-08-20 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
There's a Top Gear episode where they try to destroy a Toyota truck. Of course it's all contrived for the show but it's still fun. Allan On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 5:32 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Buddy of the youngest son has the domestic equivalent of the HiLux from the > early

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2021-08-20 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Buddy of the youngest son has the domestic equivalent of the HiLux from the early 80s. He’s a water treatment guy at the Grand Canyon. The truck has over 400k on it and looks like it, but it still runs like new. He maintains it well and says it’s never left him stranded. Youngest son got to

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2021-08-20 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I had an '87 Toyota pickup, 4WD, 22RE engine. Engine and drivetrain was bulletproof. The body sheet metal on the other had was extremely rust-prone. Probably would have held up well in a desert though. Allan On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 4:31 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: > I had a 1970

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2021-08-20 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I rented an Atos in Greece. Had 5 speeds and 5 hp. On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 4:32 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I had a 1970 Toyota Hilux back in about 1974-75. It was a beater but it > didn't cause a whole lot of trouble. A good little truck but little was > the

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2021-08-20 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I had a 1970 Toyota Hilux back in about 1974-75. It was a beater but it didn't cause a whole lot of trouble. A good little truck but little was the word. Small cab and small box. It was the one with the turn signals mounted on top of the front fenders and was essentially avocado green. Some

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2021-08-20 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
When I grew up in Greece, the lowlife gypsies who would rent their children out to beg in the streets and pick pocket the tourists drove the nasty hilux and Datsun pickup trucks. Now it’s the taliban. Either way the trucks seem to appeal to the lowest form of human garbage. Sent from my iPhone

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2021-08-20 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
"So reliable even the Taliban drives them!” -D > On Aug 20, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > They can't really control who buys them though. What can they do, not sell to > the middle east? So Nissan becomes the Taliban truck of choice, or Ford or > whoever.Or they

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2021-08-20 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
The massive King of Tonga - which had 8 miles of road at the time - purchased a 600 Grosser back in 1969. The car was delivered but somehow the key was lost. It sat on the dock for 3 weeks awaiting a replacement so his rolypoly Highness could travel in Style. On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:43 AM

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2021-08-20 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 20, 2021, at 11:21 AM, Dimitri Seretakis wrote: > > I realize they can’t control it but the image is the image. Toyota truck = > terrorist. EV = emasculated liberal pussy. > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Aug 20, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: >>> >>

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2021-08-20 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
They can't really control who buys them though. What can they do, not sell to the middle east? So Nissan becomes the Taliban truck of choice, or Ford or whoever.Or they just import them from outside of the region, they already know how to smuggle. It's just a thing, that gets used by people,