Sunday, June 8, 2014
Guess Who ... Thx Marge R!
Guess Who ? A Little Fun
Quiz
Could this be Marilyn before she was famous?Buck nekkid!Nope. This nudie is now in her 90's.It's BETTY WHITELooks like an unhappy little towhead.Actually, he ain't nothin' but a hound dog.ELVIS PRESLEYAn Indian maiden - -but what tribe is she from??She later joined the Kennedy Tribe.JACQUELINE KENNEDYLook very closely. Good Lord -is she wearing a swastika??
Just keep looking at that face -and picture it with a mustache.Sieg heil!ADOLPH HITLERIt's a big game huntera lover of the wildernessand a future president.THEODORE ROOSEVELTHow funny is he?The original Little Trampfamous in silent movies.CHARLIE CHAPLINThere's a silver spoonin her mouth now.....Just a lucky commonerwho happened to snag a prince.KATE MIDDLETONA girl on a swingjust hanging around,waiting to be discovered.ELIZABETH TAYLORB.M.P. (before muscle power)The TerminatorARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERShe was a devout dancerand made silent moviesbefore she became famousasJOAN CRAWFORDThe smartest woman in the world?HILLARY CLINTONThis little troll later contractedSaturday Night Fever.JOHN TRAVOLTAHoly Crap!!A genuine bow-wow.Today he's considered to bea real hunkGEORGE CLOONEYInitially knownas Norma Jean Baker.MARILYN MONROE
Friday, June 6, 2014
Victor Davis Hansen 6/6/2014
About 160,000 troops landed on five Normandy beaches and linked up with airborne troops in a masterful display of planning and courage. Within a month, almost a million Allied troops had landed in France and were heading eastward toward the German border. Within 11 months, the war with Germany was over.
The western front required the diversion of hundreds of thousands of German troops. It weakened Nazi resistance to the Russians while robbing the Third Reich of its valuable occupied European territory.
The impatient and long-suffering Russians had demanded of their allies a second front commensurate with their own sacrifices. Their Herculean efforts by war’s end would account for 2 out of every 3 dead German soldiers — at a cost of 20 million Russian civilian and military casualties.
Yet for all the sacrifices of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin was largely responsible for his war with Nazi Germany. In 1939, he signed a foolish non-aggression pact with Hitler that allowed the Nazis to gobble up Western democracies. Hitler’s Panzers were aided by Russians in Poland and overran Western Europe fueled by supplies from the Soviets.
The Western Allies had hardly been idle before D-Day. They had taken North Africa and Sicily from the Germans and Italians. They were bogged down in brutal fighting in Italy. The Western Allies and China fought the Japanese in the Pacific, Burma and China.
The U.S. and the British Commonwealth fought almost everywhere. They waged a multiform war on and under the seas. They eventually destroyed Japanese and German heavy industry with a costly and controversial strategic bombing campaign.
The Allies sent friends such as the Russians and Chinese billions of dollars worth of food and war materiel.
In sum, while Russia bore the brunt of the German land army, the Western Allies fought all three Axis powers everywhere else and in every conceivable fashion.
Yet if D-Day was brilliantly planned and executed, the follow-up advance through France in June 1944 was not always so. The Allies seemed to know the texture of every beach in Normandy, but nothing about the thick bocage just a few miles inland from Omaha Beach. The result was that the Americans were bogged down in the French hedgerows for almost seven weeks — suffering about 10 times the casualties as were lost from the Normandy landings.
So how did the Allies get from the beaches of Normandy to Germany in less than a year? Largely by overwhelming the Wehrmacht with lots of good soldiers and practical war materiel. If German tanks, mines, machine guns and artillery were superbly crafted, more utilitarian American counterparts were good enough — and about 10 times as numerous. Mechanically intricate German Tiger and Panther tanks could usually knock out durable American Sherman tanks, but the Americans produced almost 50,000 of the latter, and the Germans less than 8,000 of the former.
Over Normandy, British and American fighter aircraft were not only as good or better than German models but were far more numerous. By mid-1944, Germany had produced almost no four-engine bombers. The British and Americans built almost 50,000 that by 1944 were systematically leveling German cities.
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were far more pragmatic supreme commanders than the increasingly delusional and sick Adolf Hitler. American war planners such as George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower and Alan Brooke understood grand strategy better than the more experienced German chief of staff. Allied field generals such as George S. Patton and Bernard Montgomery were comparable to German legends like Gerd von Rundstedt or Erwin Rommel, who were worn out by 1944.
The German soldier was the more disciplined, experienced, armed and deadly warrior of World War II. But his cause was bad, and by 1944 his enemies were far more numerous and far better supplied. No soldiers fought better on their home soil than did the Russians, and none more resourcefully abroad than the British Tommy and the American G.I., when bolstered by ample air, armor and artillery support.
Omaha Beach to central Germany was about the same distance as the Russian Front to Berlin. But the Western Allies covered the same approximate ground in about a quarter of the time as had the beleaguered Russians.
D-Day ushered in the end of the Third Reich. It was the most brilliantly conducted invasion in military history, and probably no one but a unique generation of British, Canadians and Americans could have pulled it off.
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Comments
Normandy- D-Day - Lest we forget ... Thx Ramey H!
POWERFUL See the
figures etched in the sand at Normamdy
Now one can see why the ocean was red with blood. Interesting comment at the end about this being ignored by the press. Obama has not shown any interest in Normandy until this year so no way is the press going to disappoint him by showing interest—except for a photo-op!.
Excellent
history lesson
A large percentage
of our country doesn't know about or care about
Normandy. My guess
is it has been removed from the text in History
Books
A few weekends ago, British artists Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in
A few weekends ago, British artists Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in
hand to etch 9,000
silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand.
Titled The Fallen
9000<http://thefallen9000.
as a stark visual
reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach
landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII.
The original team
consisted of 60
volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional
local residents arrived to help with the temporary
installation that lasted only
a few hours before
being washed away by the tide.
9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day on September 25, 2013
What is surprising to me is that I read or saw nothing about this here in the US.
An
overseas friend sent it to me with a note of gratitude
for what the US started
there.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Dating ads in Fl Nerwspaper ... Thx Lyle S!
The Villages Dating Ads
Dating Ads for Seniors found in a Florida
Newspaper.
You can say what you want about Florida, but you never hear of
anyone retiring and moving north. These are actual ads seen in
''The Villages'' Florida newspaper. (Who
says seniors don't have
a sense of humor?)
Sexy, fashion-conscious blue-haired beauty,
80's, slim, 5'4' (used to be 5'6'),
Searching for sharp-looking, sharp-dressing companion.
Matching white shoes and belt a plus.
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LONG-TERM COMMITMENT :
Recent widow who has just buried fourth husband,
Looking for someone to round out a six-unit plot. Dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath not a problem.
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SERENITY NOW :
I am into solitude, long walks, sunrises, the ocean, yoga and meditation. If you are the silent type, let's get together, take our hearing aids out and enjoy quiet times.
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WINNING SMILE :
Active grandmother with original teeth seeking a dedicated flossier to share rare steaks, corn on the cob and caramel candy.
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BEATLES OR STONES ?
I still like to rock, still like to cruise in my Camaro on
Saturday nights and still like to play the guitar.
If you were a groovy chick, or are now a groovy hen,
let's get together and listen to my eight-track tapes.
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MEMORIES :
I can usually remember Monday through Thursday.
If you can remember Friday, Saturday and Sunday, let's put our two heads together.
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My favorite…
MINT CONDITION :
Male, 1932 model, high mileage, good condition, some hair, many new parts including hip, knee, cornea, valves. Isn't in running condition, but walks well.
Never regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
New cartoons ... Thx Dr. H!
New ones ! !
And boy do they hit home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"In GOD We Trust."
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