This is a random way to start your morning, but it is also something I bet you did not know.
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent across Europe with the cease fire concluding the hostilities of World War I.
But Germany has continued pay for First World War under its obligations of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
This coming Sunday, Germany will make it last payment under the terms of the war reparations thus fully and finally closing the books on the War to End All Wars.
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
Will Obama take credit?
jsanzone (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 5:51AM EDT (link)“Under my presidency, the most vicious war in all history has come to an end.”
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Good one
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 6:27AM EDT (link)I’m sure the thought actually crossed the mind of our Narcissist-in-Chief. He probably only rejected the idea of taking credit because it wouldn’t fit with the overall theme of his World Apology Tour.
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Erm... this was supposed to be a "Reply To" message for jsanzone
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 6:30AM EDT (link)Need more coffee, plus edit/delete buttons.
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Don't give up, November 11th
ihateliberals Thursday, September 30th at 7:29AM EDT (link)isn’t here yet. He may just make an announcement on November 1st that under his regime the WW I is finally over.
We, on the other hand, are still paying .......
holystone Wednesday, September 29th at 6:33AM EDT (link)for Woodrow Wilson.
Perfect!
edintexas Thursday, September 30th at 10:02AM EDT (link)And I don’t think that cost will end in the foreseeable future either.
Maybe...
neoavatara (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 7:24AM EDT (link)He will apologize to Germany for making them pay restitution. You never know.
www.neoavatara.com/blog
This makes sense
Darin_H (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 8:26AM EDT (link)It was only a couple of years ago that we stopped taxing for the Spanish-American War.
Up next, WWII…
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
World War II Ended in 1990
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:24AM EDT (link)IIRC, that was when the USSR and Japan formally concluded a treaty ending hostilities.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
As a student of both World Wars I must confess
throwback59 Wednesday, September 29th at 8:35AM EDT (link)I never knew Germany was still paying after all these years. I learn something on Red State every day.
I believe the figure that Germany owed was 30 Billion.If it took approx. 90 years to pay off that debt, how long will it take for the US to pay off the
10 trillion Obama is giving us?
Exactly the thought that ran through my mind, Throwback
zollistar (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 9:39AM EDT (link)<>
And I assume that the WWI debt was repaid in what is, in effect, depreciated currency (which is what inflation truly is: currency depreciation).
Curious question.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 8:58AM EDT (link)Where’s the money been going ?
Would love to see the accounting on all this, especially what’s what from the time after ‘The Wall’ came down.
Belgium, France and all the other countries
deano64 (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 12:22PM EDT (link)they reduced to rubble.
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Many people forget
indyjohn Wednesday, September 29th at 9:15AM EDT (link)that the Korean War is not officially over. Open hostilities ceased with an armistice, but neither side was able to claim victory and a serious threat of resumption still exists. The psychopathic North Korean leadership has never given up the dream of conquering the rest of the peninsula. So the zone between the two Koreas remains the most heavily fortified border in the world.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Link to the original Der Spiegel article (in English).
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 9:55AM EDT (link)The German government will pay the last installment of interest on foreign bonds it issued in 1924 and 1930 to raise cash to fulfill the enormous reparations demands the victorious Allies made after World War I.
France and Britain needed the reparations to repay their own debts. Both countries had borrowed vast sums from the US during the war.
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The interest is being paid….. Now what about the bonds themselves, or am I just missing something ?
From further down in the Spiegel article
gregory1972hunt Thursday, September 30th at 12:58PM EDT (link)“But in 1953, West Germany agreed at an international conference in London to service its international bond obligations from before World War II. In the years that followed it repaid the principal on the bonds, which had been issued to private and institutional investors in countries including the United States.”
They paid off the principal long ago.
The Seminoles are still technically at war with the United States
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 10:13AM EDT (link)Even though a “peace” accord was done with Florida’s governor 40 years ago, the U,S. government has never done so. The opportunities for The One to use this as part of his stagecraft are endless, including apologies, bowing, claiming success in the Great Seminole Wars, etc.
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Yet Another Reason to Root Against FSU
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:39AM EDT (link)First they fire Bowden, now this!
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Add to that list of possibilities the fact that Osceola
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 10:44AM EDT (link)was a flamboyant showman of mixed blood who renounced his Caucasian heritage with a vengeance.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
I paid reparations to the Seminoles this past weekend
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 11:23AM EDT (link)Dropped a double sawbuck in the Seminole Hard Rock Casino.
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No sweet tea there either, I bet (nt)
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 11:54AM EDT (link)“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
As long as you're lightening your wallet, they will make tea any way you like (nt)
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The True Cost
lifeofthemind Wednesday, September 29th at 10:28AM EDT (link)Europeans are still paying for WW I. Everyone is still paying for it.
For the destruction of faith and loyalty to God and tradition and nation.
For the destruction of the loyal patriotic decent leadership of England at the Somme.
For the rise of controlling organizing technocratic governments.
We will never stop paying.
As Silent Cal was reported to have said circa 1925,
mikerazar (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:58AM EDT (link)“They hired the money , didn’t they”.
How do you say that in Chinese?
We have a nation to save, people.
And the Civil War didn't really end until 1991
johnconradarens (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:39AM EDT (link)…When a Southern (formerly Democrat) Senator (Strom Thurmond) cast a deciding vote to confirm Clarence Thomas (a black Southerner from Pinpoint, Georgia) for the United States Supreme Court.
It is laughable that our Nancy-boy president thinks by waving his majestic hand the war in Iraq is over. Actually, the War in Iraq is a convoluted continuation of Woodrow Wilson’s policies, and our involvement there won’t end in this generation, or the next. These things, as noted in this tidbit by Erick, take many generations to resolve. If even then.
Rude yankee owners of sports bars in Atlanta routinely refuse to put Braves games on
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:42AM EDT (link)It ain’t over yet….smile
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Or sell sweet tea.
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 10:53AM EDT (link)Not that anybody drinks much tea in a sports bar.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
kowalski
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 11:04AM EDT (link)Of course, there’s always Cocola…or maybe in your case Pepsi. I first fought the cola wars with my SC cousins forty years ago. That war’s not over, either.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
no pepsi fuels this rooster - Coke adds Life! - nt
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I like my Coke with some lemon juice sometimes,
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 1:49PM EDT (link)but I suppose that’s just sissy, too. Now this’ll flip your wig: I like salt on my watermelon..you ever heard of that? My Chinese wife thinks I’m crazy…but then again, she puts sugar on tomatoes…sheer insanity there.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Yes, many folks salt their watermelon - nt
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I certainly do
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:33AM EDT (link)And my drink of choice is Nehi grape with salted peanuts poured in the bottle.
Pepsi is a liberal drink, nuff said. -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 4:05PM EDT (link)Molon Labe!
Pepsi a liberal drink?
timchgo9 (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 8:13AM EDT (link)I think not!… I am so conservative, I make Rush look like a leftie…. FOFL… (that’s what the g/f said last night)
Libs wouldn’t be caught dead with a Pepsi, or a Coke in their hands…Besides, PepsiMax is a great wake up in the morning…
“Chairman of the Awkward Squad”
I have always thought of Pepsi as liberal, counter culture, etc
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:28AM EDT (link)The guy who made this over the top video must agree.
Molon Labe!
Coke is a commie drink!
azaeroprof (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:24AM EDT (link)Coke was the official soft drink of the Carter White House.
Pepsi was the official sot drink of the Reagan White House
(Haven’t check this lately, but as of the 80′s:)
Coke was a long-time contributor to the Democrat party.
Pepsi was a long-time contributor to the Republican party.
Coke comes in a red and white can, not coincidentally the colors of the Soviet empire, and the curl from the ‘C’ in Cola passing through the letter ‘L’ in the Coca-Cola logo bears an uncanny resemblance to the hammer and sickle!
Pepsi comes in a good ol’ red white and blue can.
Coke stands for:
Communist
Order of the
Kremlin
Elite
Need I say more?
’nuff said!
listen to the lefty music in this Pepsi ad
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:40AM EDT (link)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMo6o0BtFG8
by the way, Coke is RED, aka RED STATE. Pepsi is BLUE…..
Molon Labe!
LOL, Doc!
azaeroprof (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 11:25AM EDT (link)I hadn’t seen that ad in years!
But I should point out that the message of the ad was that Pepsi is worth fighting for, they were almost mocking the song. Seriously, what’s more lefty than “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony”?
I can’t rebut the red/blue thing, except to say that when Reagan was running, GOP=blue, Dem=red. The country was a sea of blue in ’80 and ’84. The only reason we are red now is because the lefties at the networks didn’t want to constantly remind the viewers that Dem=Commie! Imagine if we were www.bluestate.com! (I’m sure Erick would agree that “RedState Uprising” sounds much better than “BlueState Uprising”!)
"Temper Tantrum? I'll Show You A Stinking Temper Tantrum This November 2."
myron_j_poltroonian Thursday, September 30th at 9:09PM EDT (link)I’m so glad I’m not thew only one who’s caught on the the “Red Shift”. Your reasoning as to why it happened is “spot on”, as our British cousins would say. I believe it all started with Peter Jennings’ petulantly and churlishly saying the “The American People had a temper tantrum tonight”, on election eve, in 1994.
Seriously? Pepsi's from the Carolinas!
acat (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 10:24AM EDT (link)Why drink that crap from ‘lanta?
Mew
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Hey, acat, we have common ground!
azaeroprof (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 11:31AM EDT (link)After our disagreement over Palin and the fact that I can’t stand cats, it’s nice to see that we agree on Pepsi >> Coke.
(Of course, my most favorite soft drink is Diet Dr. Pepper, which coincidentally also happens to be Sarah Palin’s favorite, but that’s another topic!)
Hey, it's a start...
acat (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 12:52PM EDT (link)And Dr. Pepper is also better than what passes for coca-cola today.. on par with Mexican-formula imported coca-cola, made the old fashioned way with actual sugar. (no, not the *very* old fashioned way, that would be illegal…)
For more common ground, we both like to breathe air, and we both disagree with liberals on many, many points… (grin)
Mew
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Yes...
azaeroprof (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 1:58PM EDT (link)it’s too easy to take the obvious commonalities for granted!
Sweet tea is a sissy drink
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 11:20AM EDT (link)Real men drink it straight.
We need a pot-stirring smilie face.
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LOL and real mean don't get stuck
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 11:44AM EDT (link)with being the DD at a sports bar, either.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Drink it straight? "Straight" would be to eat the tea leaves, real man...nt
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Ha!
RedBeard Wednesday, September 29th at 2:53PM EDT (link)True story. When I stopped for lunch at the New Perry Hotel in Georgia some years ago, I asked the waitress for iced tea, no sugar.
She innocently said, “Oh, you want artificial sweetener?”
I said, “No, I like it with no sweetener at all.”
She looked at me hard, like she had just encountered a space alien, put her hands on her hips, and said with mock outrage, “You’re not from around here, ARE YOU?”
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good one, and btw, what planet are you from...smile - true confession
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 8:45AM EDT (link)One of my roommates makes unsweetended all the time and I get fussed at for drinking it by my part-time girlfriend . The main factor to me is temp. I like thinks cold or hot…never lukewarm!
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well, come on GC
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:58AM EDT (link)Ted Turner, the tomahawk chop thing stolen from FSU, those Yankees do have a point
Molon Labe!
Dion brought it with him to Atlanta, just saying and btw, Muslims don't own the Crescent Moon either
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 1:33PM EDT (link)see SC flag.
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Best State flag evah (nt)
blooch Wednesday, September 29th at 1:50PM EDT (link)“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
I vote for VA's state flag
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:36AM EDT (link)A warrior with his foot on a dead body, and the logo “Thus Always To Tyrants” in latin.
EPA ring a bell?
walter Thursday, September 30th at 9:39AM EDT (link)Blooch/ muggedbyrealism, Do you have any idea how much funding the EPA received in the last 34 years?
denying climate policy-
1st: policy – someone’s idea of the rules regarding an issue. Who’s in charge?
2nd: climate – in a nutshell – the weather. (fact, the earth has been around for how many bilion years ? ? The policy wonks are using a pin prick of information to creat policy – example: make a line from NY to LA and put a pin prick on that line at Casper WY. there’s your information).
3rd: denying. Who’s in charge?
Note, the more enviornmental control the gov. has, the more likely for it’s people to live in forced regulated policy. There’s a communist saying that goes, “Capture the enviornment of the people, and you capture the people”
Why are there no politicians speaking about firing 25% of the extremely overpaid government workforce that produces NO value what-so-ever?
yeah, but it made me think about Muslims until I finally looked it up
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:45AM EDT (link)even then, it is all a bit confusing lol. Also, I could bring up Jane Fonda but I will drop it, its your team, that’s cool..for you
Molon Labe!
That's Not All:
myron_j_poltroonian Thursday, September 30th at 9:13PM EDT (link)The Nazis didn’t create the Swastika either. They just got it backwards.
Oh Really...
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 11:07AM EDT (link)Have you ever asked the local chapter of The Black and Gold Club to turn off the Gawddam Stillers so you could see the Atlanta Falcons on the big-screen? I haven’t. I don’t trust ObamaCare.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Oh Really...
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 11:07AM EDT (link)Have you ever asked the local chapter of The Black and Gold Club to turn off the Gawddam Stillers so you could see the Atlanta Falcons on the big-screen? I haven’t. I don’t trust ObamaCare.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Given that the Pittsburgh guy is poor and has only one TV, no...but
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 1:36PM EDT (link)I do favor private property rights, but if I operated a bar up north, I would not be rude about the games. Many yankees are rude in this regard and others, but I guess that’s being redundant! smile
PS There are some nice yankees down here, and I have had heterosexual relations with all of them.
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As Long As You Don't Get married
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 1:53PM EDT (link)you avoid recreating the whole Civil War thing
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Kowalski...
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 1:54PM EDT (link)It stops with The South Shall Rise Again…
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
555 - lol - nt
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Uh, no -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 10:57AM EDT (link).
Molon Labe!
Far be it for me to Mention This...
johnconradarens (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 3:35PM EDT (link)…BUT- (speaking of The Great War) Woodrow Wilson was the first Southerner elected President after the Civil War, and we all know what an unmitigated disaster he was for the country, and the world. And I won’t even go into Jimmuh.
Now, I LOVE the south and all (my parents retired to Tennessee, which I never would have guessed, circa 1968– And it is gorgeous)… Some of our most Patriotic warriors are from the South (Mom and Dad’s place is just down the road, in fact, from Alvin York’s birthplace). But, if there is one thing I cannot comprehend: What’s up with Boiled Peanuts?
I am not a peanut fan
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 4:04PM EDT (link)I prefer the fancy ones with no peanuts. I know a lot of Texans at least to put peanuts in their Dr. Pepper, that is kinda weird.
Molon Labe!
You Ain't Lived
edintexas Thursday, September 30th at 10:17AM EDT (link)Until you mix peanuts and crunched up Fritos and chase the mixture down with a good cold beer (I’ll stay out of the beer wars).
As for the Cola War (seein as how Dr. Pepper isn’t a cola), I have one Southern addition: Royal Crown Cola.
Between Pepsi and Coke, being a Conservative I opted for Pepsi when those were the only two choices. There is a logical reason for that (I did say I was Conservative – no “feeling” involved). When I was a youngster I could buy a bottle of Coke, some pieces of bubble gum and pay the deposit for the bottle – all with a dime. Or I could buy a bottle of Pepsi, etc. for that same dime. Now since that bottle of Coke was 7 ounces and that bottle of Pepsi was 10 ounces, it was only logical to buy the Pepsi.
I hear ya
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 11:38AM EDT (link)I like Dr. P and RC too.
Molon Labe!
try the Red Bull Cola, it uses real Kola nut -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 1:27PM EDT (link)Molon Labe!
If we're getting into the obscure.. always liked Jolt Cola. [nt]
acat (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 2:18PM EDT (link)——

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good stuff, I think the new kind is different than the old version
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 2:30PM EDT (link)the old kind was very sugary, we used to down a few prior to becoming of age to drink other things lol.
want obscure? who likes Cheerwine? It is a Carolina/Southern VA thing I think, it might be sold in other areas too that I don’t know about. I had an aunt in FL once who told me about this great local Italian place they always went to, called The Olive Garden lol.
Molon Labe!
Never found Cheerwine outside the Carolinas, but it's good stuff. [nt]
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MMM, Cheerwine
jpshinn Thursday, September 30th at 5:47PM EDT (link)I grew up on the west coast but Dad was raised in China Grove, NC. Whenever we’d go back to visit, we’d drink as much Cheerwine as possible. Boy, I loved that stuff…
Never heard of it
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 5:55PM EDT (link)but I’ll look it up.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Never heard of it
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 5:55PM EDT (link)but I’ll look it up.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
NC original, great stuff
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 8:23PM EDT (link)I like to buy local, and it is a winner.
Molon Labe!
cheerwine
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 8:30PM EDT (link)I was right about the Carolinas and Virginia, didn’t know about Norway lol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerwine
Molon Labe!
this cheerwine site is crazy
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:19PM EDT (link)click the videos. I hope this is not sponsored by the company, these guys are stoners.
http://www.itsasoftdrink.com/#/beach
Molon Labe!
Had my parents bring it to me in MI
PowerToThePeople (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 10:11PM EDT (link)every time they visited, so I understand the Cheerwine withdraw.
Now back in the south and can get it when I want it. If the withdraws get too bad, drop me a line and I can ship your a case or two. Always have to keep fellow republicans in the West Coast filled with a southern delicacy like Cheerwine.
MMM, Cheerwine
denisethemenace Friday, October 1st at 12:37AM EDT (link)Hey, jpshinn, you just made a liar out of me! When I tell people that my daughter and grandchildren live in North Carolina, they always ask where. I invariably respond with, “Oh, a little whistle-stop no one’s ever heard of: China Grove”!!! (And, my grandson can drink his weight in Cheerwine!)
Mmmm, Cheerwine. We bring a few bottles back every time we go to NC.
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:24PM EDT (link)Love the stuff.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
what's up? The taste! use lots of salt while boiling - best served
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 9:23AM EDT (link)during cold weather…
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you know the peanut is not even a nut, its a legume
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 2:33PM EDT (link)and they said I couldn’t learn anything watching tv sticoms all day. H/T Seinfeld.
Molon Labe!
I never realized the link to World War II either.
deano64 (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 12:31PM EDT (link)The massive debt Germany was suffering helped spark WWII. Never let a crisis go to waste……
Precinct Committeeman before it was cool.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
It was not only
timchgo9 (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 8:26AM EDT (link)the massive debt, it was the political and civil unrest. From 1919 through Hitler’s ascension to power Germany was in a constant crisis. There were several battles, between the German Freikorps and Socialist/Communist insurgents. Essen was one of the battle grounds. In fact, in the 1920′s the French occupied the Ruhr, and that only made the crisis worse, and that led to the “Massacre at Krupp” where a squad of French soldiers opened fire on a crowd of Kruppianer that had cornered them in a garage, 8 were killed and many others wounded.
Germany was not a fun place to be back then. Inflation was out of control, unemployment was high, and food was hard to come by. Hitler, during his rise to power, sparked the intense nationalism that the Germans were known for. Hitler’s rise to power wasn’t easy (he started in 1925) but, he managed to capture the imagination of the people, as well as disabling, bullying, or killing his political opponents. He appealed to something in the German people, and they responded. Unfortunately for millions his party was elected to power, and through deception and out right treachery, he became dictator…..
“Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” is, in my opinion, the seminal work on the subject. There are several others, but, never before has the world been subject to a force as dark and as evil as Nazism… until Radical Islam came along…… The two are strikingly similar.
“Chairman of the Awkward Squad”
As My Grandmother Always Said
edintexas Thursday, September 30th at 10:33AM EDT (link)Her thought on the matter was simple: “If they hadn’t deposed the Kaiser, that man Hitler would never have gotten in!” She didn’t think much of Aldolph, and she may well have been correct about whether retaining the Kaiser may have helped prevent WW II.
I would take issue about “…never before has the world…”. Yes there have been others, and in the sheer number of deaths of their own population (certainly as good, or better, a measure of “dark and evil” than wartime deaths), nothing holds a candle to Communism. Stalin or Mau (or the Kims to a lesser degree only because of total population available), either one killed more of their own people than the Fascists and National Socialists combined. You could even add all the victims of the Holocaust (most not “their own people”) and still would come up short of the number for either of the Communist dictators considering only their own people.
I stand corrected
timchgo9 (Diary) Thursday, September 30th at 11:32AM EDT (link)Ed… you are right about Stalin, Mao, and the Kims… I don’t know why I left them out…probably because I haven’t had my morning caffeine yet…
Cheers..
“Chairman of the Awkward Squad”
Wasn't that railway car in the linked picture
The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, September 29th at 1:04PM EDT (link)the same one that Hitler blew up after taking the French surrender? I always thought he blew it up in 1940, but I understand that he didn’t blow it up until near the end of the war so that the victorious allies couldn’t use it for a German surrender.
Burned
edintexas Thursday, September 30th at 10:43AM EDT (link)Actually the car was moved from France to Berlin. It was moved from Berlin to Thuringia sometime in either late 43 or early 44. And then later in the war, with the Allied forces advancing on Germany, the car was set afire and destroyed. There is a similar car emplaced today, with original exhibit materials inside.
Obviously, the Biblical:
myron_j_poltroonian Thursday, September 30th at 8:52PM EDT (link)“Unto the seventh generation” is not nearly long enough.