Posted on 09/24/2014 4:19:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
She certainly worked for it.
Lucille Ball was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. Too bad that beauty was wasted on a drunken wife-beater.
I missed that item - While upstate New York gets subfreezing temps. Clear evidence of climate disruption.
I should read Hayek some time, but I fear it would be too depressing.
Unfortunately, under Common Core this book would not only not be required reading, it would be burned.
She picked him. Maureen O’Hara, too. (They were costars in “Dance, Girl, Dance.”
Monty’s “We’ve Already Won” Operation Bridge Too Farce has now apparently turned into a rescue mission. I know it was 70 years ago, but I feel a certain anger about this as though it just happened.
This and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations should be required reading for every school child/young adult and every freedom-loving American.
It's too much, I suppose, to expect commanding generals like Montgomery to actually accompany their troops into the attacks they have designed and ordered--or is it? Wouldn't it focus their thinking and planning extraordinarily well? Anyway, I suspect Old Blood and Guts Patton never hung back too far.
Ironically, the one time Monty threw his well-known caution to the wind seems rather to have demonstrated the personal qualities which had forced him to learn to be so cautious in the first place.
Market-Garden is the one enigma in Monty’s career. It was an ill-conceived operation hastily thrown together on the fly. It was in disregard of the actual priorities facing the Allied armies. He never ran such a risky haphazard show before or afterwards. I think colorado tanker had the answer for why. Monty was insecure about being shown up by Patton, his old rival, and was desperate to regain his status as top dog.
It’s a pity so many fine British paratroopers were sacrificed on the altar of his ego.
Yeah, a positive review in the NYT(?)
Your post reminded me of something similar during the days of topside operated catapults on aircraft carriers.
It was a procedure when a problem occurred that required throttling back of aircraft engines, even when they were in afterburner. The catapult officer stood directly in front of the aircraft when he directed the aircraft to reduce power to idle.
The standard dichotomy in employment is that entrepreneurs risk their fortunes, families, and health while protected civil servants (Montys and Lois Lerners) risk little.
I'm of the (theological) opinion that we will always on this earth be practically overwhelmed by their kind, but that there is another world to come whose benevolent Leader already gave all and lives now to love and provide for those who have given up their independence and self-determination in favor of trusting themselves to Him.
It seems it was only a couple of weeks ago Ike approved the plan. I agree it was reckless. You can't plan an operation this complex in two weeks and the intelligence was inadequate. The plan to drop the 1st eight miles from Arnhem doomed it to failure. Thorough photo reconnaissance would have revealed the panzers recently moved into the area. The idea that a single narrow road could support a rapid advance of this length over that many bridges was folly. You are right, henkster, so uncharacteristic of Monty who was usually meticulous in his planning.
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