tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post3668637350104494050..comments2024-03-29T02:32:07.583-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: The American CrisisOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84305166696445690442016-07-12T06:00:50.266-07:002016-07-12T06:00:50.266-07:00Thanks.Thanks.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-61516136662835582712016-07-12T01:26:12.540-07:002016-07-12T01:26:12.540-07:00Please keep writing. You are better than you give ...Please keep writing. You are better than you give yourself credit.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27284637634196831742016-07-11T13:24:57.270-07:002016-07-11T13:24:57.270-07:00I hope and pray that that is not the case. If you...I hope and pray that that is not the case. If you're right and we're indeed too far gone that an election won't fix the problem, then...<br /><br /><i>"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</i>juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-2125175803716653132016-07-11T13:08:22.028-07:002016-07-11T13:08:22.028-07:00I worry that we're too far gone. When the one...I worry that we're too far gone. When the one person who should unite our country and speak of lofty ideals and hopes as Thomas Paine did, our Chief Executive and Command in Chief, is predominantly our Chief Divisor, pitting the "Us's" against the "Them's", and how so many government agencies seem to be filled with bought-off leaders, our foundations are collapsing as we speak.Tunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-53145391733194384172016-07-11T11:15:00.681-07:002016-07-11T11:15:00.681-07:00Thanks.Thanks.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-23269797300571413092016-07-11T11:14:49.536-07:002016-07-11T11:14:49.536-07:00Thanks, I'm not sure I see much difference be...Thanks, I'm not sure I see much difference between the party with the D and the Russian communist party. Perhaps a little less experience. Hopefully, they won't have the opportunity to gain that experience.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9842917310350466362016-07-11T11:12:16.567-07:002016-07-11T11:12:16.567-07:00Well, I usually refer to my 2001 GMC Sierra with 2...Well, I usually refer to my 2001 GMC Sierra with 216K+ miles on it as a "tank". I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Panther though.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40820446005048913452016-07-11T11:02:57.955-07:002016-07-11T11:02:57.955-07:00Thanks for the post, juvat.
Paul L. QuandtThanks for the post, juvat.<br /><br />Paul L. QuandtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6859952665474084872016-07-11T09:17:54.294-07:002016-07-11T09:17:54.294-07:00Interesting post. Agree with all, but the assessme...Interesting post. Agree with all, but the assessment of our cousin's of the foreign lands. Our cousin's, the Russians, seem to have a deriliction, to, in a quick assessment, the worst of the bunch. Look at the leadership, aggressive, bootlickers of those in power, legal or otherwise, toadies, who emulate our leadership. The parallels are amazing. Their actions are otherwise similar. And horrific. The similarity ends with our founders purpose, and their breakaway. Similarly, what would have happened, if we fought for the old empire, back in 1917, instead of our business leaders supporting the revolution?Jim b.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06586320752813748542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-90624703408967787162016-07-11T08:15:18.725-07:002016-07-11T08:15:18.725-07:00But you did not care, as you were in your Panther?...But you did not care, as you were in your Panther?SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-35890126045823386722016-07-11T07:37:39.707-07:002016-07-11T07:37:39.707-07:00Yeah. Noticed the turret position just as I snappe...Yeah. Noticed the turret position just as I snapped the picture. juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-89570399707970101882016-07-11T07:25:25.417-07:002016-07-11T07:25:25.417-07:00Great post, and yes, Thomas Paine was one accordin...Great post, and yes, Thomas Paine was one according to the history I've read. We as a nation seem to have this tendency to win the big one and then throw it all away by electing feckless lefties (pardon the redundancy). It appears as if P.T. Barnum was right. Nice Stuart tank in the parade photo BTW.Captain Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17297301009511642108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-29085757556260639622016-07-11T06:10:21.187-07:002016-07-11T06:10:21.187-07:00Just what I'd want, someone's dug up body...Just what I'd want, someone's dug up body shipped via sailing ship with my personal baggage when I PCS'd from overseas. Mrs Cobbett probably got fed up and planted him in the back yard, just to get it out of the house. My guess.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63546700485272575632016-07-11T06:08:05.284-07:002016-07-11T06:08:05.284-07:00Last time I saw Enola Gay, she didn't look so ...Last time I saw Enola Gay, she didn't look so good. Bock's Car, however, looked like you could top her off with gas, crank her up and blast off. (Might have been difficult to taxi it out of the hangar though, crowded as it was.)juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-24277769817655348562016-07-11T06:02:50.001-07:002016-07-11T06:02:50.001-07:00A little later in the year at SAMS, the school had...A little later in the year at SAMS, the school had a delegation of Soviet Army officers visit. Each staff group had one officer join them for the daily discussion. (School was half a day. We'd read a classic military, strategy or history book in the afternoon, evening, night, morning, then show up and discuss it 0800-1200, then rinse/repeat. I got pretty talented at speed reading. Anyhoo...)<br />I don't remember much about our guest except that he didn't feel like they had lost the cold war. It seemed to me that he believed they'd suffered a tactical defeat and were regrouping, but the fight wasn't over. When I brought that up with the staff group after he left, I was beaten about the head and shoulders. Clearly, the evil empire would see the error of their ways and become a capitalist democracy just like us. Yeah...Right! History, like reruns and movie remakes, is the same thing over and over. Sometimes the actors change.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-86338538073688530222016-07-11T06:00:57.614-07:002016-07-11T06:00:57.614-07:00Thomas Paine was an interesting guy, seems he was ...Thomas Paine was an interesting guy, seems he was peripherally involved with the French Revolution as well. He was imprisoned for a while by the French. He was really pissed off at George Washington (who had been a lifelong friend) thinking that Washington and Robespierre had conspired to have him jailed.<br /><br />I didn't know, until today, that after Paine died and was buried, this Englishman, William Cobbett, had him disinterred and the remains shipped to England as the guy felt that Paine should have a "heroic" burial in his native soil. I guess he never got around to actually doing that and Paine's remains were found with the Cobbett's personal effect after Cobbett died. Paine's remains went missing not long after. Odd.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-30268875162294277502016-07-11T05:49:43.538-07:002016-07-11T05:49:43.538-07:00Last week, Amazon offered me a free copy of Common... Last week, Amazon offered me a free copy of Common Sense, so I snapped it up! Paine was supposedly a very aptly named man, as he was seemingly a real pain in the neck to have around, being quarrelsome, and often intoxicated. Knew how to drive a pen, though, didn't he? <br /><br />Interesting, and quite proper, that both ENOLA GAY, and BOCK'S CAR survive. What a pity THE GREAT ARTISTE was scrapped after an engine fire. Isn't it odd, that the three most famous B-29s were not Boeings, but Martins? SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-84940515182704057782016-07-11T05:46:29.982-07:002016-07-11T05:46:29.982-07:00You are right . . . with the fall of the Berlin Wa...You are right . . . with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, I suddenly felt myself to be . . . deflated.<br />A lifetime of resolve, strengthened throughout the years, was now of little use. Was a strange feeling.<br />We live in interesting times. We're living the old Chinese curse.<br />snuffynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12843569994073955970noreply@blogger.com