Posted on 11/20/2017 3:40:01 AM PST by iowamark
Truly wonderful. Churchill was a giant . He had lightning in his eyes and thunderbolts coming out of his arse. I’d follow him anywhere. Mnay of my community at home did, jopimning the Royal Airforce as aircrew, because Lord Beaverbrook was one of our own here in Eastern Canada. He and Churchill finally saw eye to eye in the defeat of fascism.
I deplore our US and Canadian liberal fascists who use Alinsky instead of Mein Kampf. We need to send them all into the oblivion of the dust bin of history. Our nation has become sick because of 8 years of it.Just look at all the crap with Trump and the fabricated dossier, Uranium One , a direct result of liberal fascism. The urge to purge liberal fascists is getting very high.Perhaps the 2020 election will get it done, and so we are getting busy chasing around all of the nubial legal teen aged girls we can find, just so the left gets defeated by their own myopia.
Well, after all, it is a movie. With actors. I hope it gets the big stuff right, and is a stirring and inspiring slice of entertainment.
I took rimorel's words to mean he's an old-enough timer to remember when blue = Republican and red = Communists.
I've long thought we had Tim Russert at NBC's Meet the Press to thank for switching the colors around, circa 2000.
Before WWII, Churchill was the only world leader who read “Mein Kampf” and knew what a nutbar Hitler really was.
My mother was an Englishwoman, and lived through WWII and the Blitz, etc. (My father was a bomber pilot with the USAAF 8th Air Force, based in England, and that is where he met my mother.)
My mother said that Churchill saved England, because he stood defiant against Hitler and stirred the nation, and that his defiance was contagious, and soon the Brits in general embraced his passion and were determined to prevail or die fighting.
If Chamberlain asked for Halifax instead of Churchill on May 10 a deal would have been cut with Hitler.
Yes, historically Missouri was solid democrat for most of its history. But in the last 15-20 years it has been drifting towards the Republicans. Right now Republicans enjoy veto-proof majorities in both houses of the General Assembly. Kind of a reverse of the situation in California.
The democrats’ are still strong in the urban areas, of course, but the life-long democrats who came of age in FDR’s day are a dying breed.
The man who invented Chirstmas.
With your post 100%
Churchill was, by today’s standards, a flawed man (attitudes towards drinking, smoking, women, his opponents, etc).
I contend that those flaws contributed in a major way to his greatness, and I embrace him more fully as a result of them...:)
BroJoeK is right, I am looking at it with a slightly antiquated air...I am gratified to see things change.
If they can change there, they might change here!
But those who deify Churchill err on the other side. He was not perfect and did make some tragic errors in his career. The Dardanelles campaign in WWI and the "Soft Underbelly of The Axis" strategy in WWII are examples.
Exactly. One man changed the course of history by refusing to make a deal with Hitler.
Probably not. Joe Wright made a dumbed-down movie version of “Pride and Prejudice.”
“...In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.””
Winston Churchill
May 13, 1940
First Speech as Prime Minister
Oh, no doubt. And he had the Dardanelles campaign held over his head for the rest of his life.
I don’t deify Churchill (as I said in my post, he had flaws) but he ranks, in my opinion, FAR above many men who unfairly are.
I love the work of Dickens...I hope they do him justice.
I never hold out much hope anymore. All Hollywood wants to do is tear things down...
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