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  1. Maguire

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Very nice- yeah the early 90s really saw the end of those big land yachts, Cadillac changed its look even before Lincoln did. I try to avoid anything on the road but in NYC the most you clip are raccoons or squirrels.. no damage done. I hit a raccoon once, thing ran right out infront of a...
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    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    Hemos pasado :p
  3. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    Anthony Beevor's The Spanish Civil War is a popular book on the topic in general. From memory i found it to be objective and pretty fair to the goings on in the war.
  4. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    You are correct! i forgot about the siege of Alcazar- and yes it was militarily insignificant but its value as a moral/political victory was substantial- something the way the Tet offensive failed utterly yet succeeded as a propaganda /political victory. But even the other two generals (Mola i...
  5. Maguire

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Im watching Vanillla sky. A friend saw it and was talking about it so i figured what the heck.. I never understood why cruise became a big star- not because he's a poor actor but because he just doesn't stand out to me. He's serviceable in most roles, the only one that really stood out for me...
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    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    Fatsuni - i don't believe franco's campaign was slow on purpose- his two fellow generals Mola and Sanjuro tried the fast approach and lost, so the only thing to do was hunker down and take piece by piece. Civil wars are always ugly. The reprisals one suffered for being associated side X when...
  8. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    This is correct.
  9. Maguire

    Graffiti on a church.

    On the point of sharia law and such- Saudi arabia's Wahabism is notoriously hypocritical, its a strict, literal interpretation, but approached in such a legalistic way that one can always find holes to take advantage. That said the whole idea that people are regularly chopped up and the like...
  10. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    OH i'm aware of that- but before Franco condensed the various factions into his FET y de las JONS, they came from somewhere- for example in the early days officers rebelled from their barracks and endured sieges where they were supported by elements of the Falangist party, in those spur of the...
  11. Maguire

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I appreciate the suggestions, and will take them all into account once i am ready to approach these two problems. This site has proven extremely useful to me, both in terms of hat and such knowledge, and now mechanics as well...
  13. Maguire

    Before and After Vintage -- Gentlemen

    I kind of always dressed this way, as long as i could afford to- before i bought my own clothing all my clothing was children's clothes, hand me downs from my older cousins so when i was a child in the late 80s /early 90s i was unwittingly vintage .. wearing childrens clothes from the 70s and...
  14. Maguire

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Mechanic said it is on its last legs, same for the radiator which has a slight leak. Now dont get me wrong, i know autoshops like to play up issues, they see a car like this roll in and they figure they've got a Goose that lays golden eggs, but i took my father who knows cars far better than i...
  15. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    where did you get that info? I'm not doubting it, i'm just curious as i find it very hard to come by information on them, save for the fact that Vasile Marin and Ion Mota both died there in 1937.
  16. Maguire

    are we becoming too self-centered?

    College is a business, we all know- and while there are more of us now than before, this generation is proportionally smaller than the ones preceeding it (the baby boomer generation) so what we should have is a lack of manpower. The fact is our education standards have seriously declined, and...
  17. Maguire

    The Age of Entitlement

    i've worked for the richest of the rich and i can tell you from personal experience money can't buy you class, these people may have limitless income but they still dress as sloppy and in clothes as unflattering as anything you'd see at walmart. sure they can spend more on it, but its still ugly...
  19. Maguire

    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    To my knowledge the irish army's uniforms until WWII were german surplus to begin with, stalhelm and all, green. I suppose it makes sense- i'm not talking about the Spanish Foreign Legion, i'm talking about foreign contigents that fought, i know for example, several leaders of the iron guard...
  20. Maguire

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The parts should be more widely available, but i'm not particularly handy (yet) with cars, so i've sunk money into this one already. I don't mind since i'd prefer this to virtually any more expensive car on the road, but the transmission is the next thing that needs to go and thats one job i'm...
  21. Maguire

    Graffiti on a church.

    Amen! I agree with Mr. Brunswick on hate crime laws, i think its insane that someone can get some minor punishment for a heinnous crime, then a tremendous punishment for the same crime under the guise of "violating civil rights" or "hate crime." Any and every crime is a "hate crime" insofar...
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    Great portraits of the International Brigade in Spain

    I'd be curious to see how the Nationalist rebels' non army components and allies dressed- not germans and italians, naturally they wore their military uniforms, but the actual foreign volunteer units, falangist units, etc. I imagine they probably used party uniforms, (ie the blue shirt) but...
  23. Maguire

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Nice cars, you especially don't see that wood panel siding anymore, that just screams 1980s family car. Not a complaint, of course. i personally lose interest in the 90s + models, they start getting that rounded look, i mean some of them still look nice (the ones you just posted certainly do)...

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