1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution.” Guess who’s got the next ride on “Mr. Guillotine”. Way to go there, Pierre!
1866 – The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time. It only lasts a couple of months before failing, but it cut communication from Europe to North America from a couple of weeks to seconds. You could ask a question and get an answer the same day!
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. Mickey Mouse is a wimp!
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. What were the French gonna do? They’d ALREADY surrendered to Germany.
1944 – First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor). It isn’t allowed over German-held territory because of secrecy. Of course, the Germans had beat the Brits into jet combat with the Me-262 already.
1945 – US Communist Party forms. In 2009, with the inauguration of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, they are rendered superfluous.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 – Korean War ends: The United States, People’s Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. To this day, that’s all we have with North Korea: an armistice. Like they honor any written agreement anyway… I spent a year on that DMZ or just south of it myself: 1969-70
1964 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. Curse those war-mongering Republican presidents. Wait! What? That was Lyndon Baines “Lyin’ my ass off!” Johnson, a DIMMOCRAT?!?!?! Ain’t nothing like a dimmocrat getting all feisty.
1866 – If only one could get a response that quickly from one’s own government! Last July, Congressman Gus Bilirakis asked for an accounting of Operation Castaway from the Tampa Field Division of BATFE. They were allegedly running guns to supporters of former President Zelaya in Honduras. You know, the guy who wanted to turn Honduras into another Venezuela, a la Hugo Chavez. With the support of the Chimp in Chief, of course, because he DO love him some Commies. Almost as much as he loves him some ragheads.
Anyway, BATFE was running those guns with help from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Osceola County Sheriff’s office, and the Miami-Dade Police Department. Yet NOT ONE “Law Enforcement” officer from ANY of those organizations has been honorable enough to tell Congressman Bilirakis the details of what they did.
What? You thought that Fast and Furious was the ONLY such operation this country’s pigs were doing? No. It was the only one where at least one US “Law Enforcement” agent was murdered with the weapons, and where at least SOME of the officers involved have been honorable enough to come forward. The stench is overwhelming.
1964 – You omitted the name of robert mcnamara which should not be done whenever pointing out the debacle of Viet Nam.
Regards,
T D