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A More Assertive German Foreign Policy

A More Assertive German Foreign Policy

Wise quotes 4U...

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

~Jay Leno~

 

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

~Henry Cate, VII~

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office

~Aesop~

 

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

~Will Rogers~

 

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

~Nikita Khrushchev~

 

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

~Clarence Darrow~

 

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

~Author unknown~

 

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

~John Quinton~

 

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

~Oscar Ameringer~

 

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~

 

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

~ Tex Guinan~

 

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle~

 

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

~Doug Larson~

 

There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Congressmen.

Will Rodgers

 

Here is a story you might not have heard before... Moe Berg -- Catcher / Spy

Moe Berg   What incredible men and women we had among the ranks of our military!  I never heard of Moe Berg, but he had an amazing life and tremendous dedication.  Just a third string catcher for the Yankees, but who made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame.  He was also a highly specialized spy during WWII.         Moe Berg       A second-rate baseball player, but a first-rate spy.  When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg was included.   The answer was simple: Berg was a US spy.  Speaking 15 languages, including Japanese, Moe Berg had two loves: baseball and spying.   In Tokyo, garbed in a kimono, Berg took flowers to the daughter of an American diplomat being treated in St. Luke's Hospital -- the tallest building in the Japanese capital.  He never delivered the flowers.  The ball-player ascended to the hospital roof and filmed key features: the harbor, military installations, railway yards, etc.   Eight years later, General Jimmy Doolittle studied Berg's films in planning his spectacular raid on Tokyo.   Berg's father, Bernard Berg, a pharmacist in Newark, New Jersey, taught his son Hebrew and Yiddish.  Moe, against his wishes, began playing baseball on the street aged four.  His father disapproved and never once watched his son play.    In Barringer High School, Moe learned Latin, Greek, and French.  He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, having added Spanish, Italian, German, and Sanskrit to his linguistic quiver.  During further studies at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and Columbia Law School he picked up Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Arabic, Portuguese and Hungarian.    15 languages in all, plus some regional dialects.  While playing baseball for Princeton University, Moe Berg would describe plays in Latin or Sanskrit.   Tito's partisans   During World War II, he was parachuted into Yugoslavia to assess the value to the war effort of the two groups of partisans there.  He reported back that Marshall Tito's forces were widely supported by the people and Winston Churchill ordered all-out support for the Yugoslav underground fighter, rather than Mihajlovic's Serbians.  The parachute jump at age 41 undoubtedly was a challenge.  But there was more to come in that same year.   Berg penetrated German-held Norway, met with members of the underground and located a secret heavy water plant ”part of the Nazis effort to build an atomic bomb.  His information guided the Royal Air Force in a bombing raid to destroy the plant.   The R.A.F. destroys the Norwegian heavy water plant targeted by Moe Berg.   There still remained the question of how far had the Nazis progressed in the race to build the first Atomic bomb.  If the Nazis were successful, they would win the war.  Berg (under the code name Remus) was sent to Switzerland to hear leading German physicist Werner Heisenberg, a Nobel Laureate, lecture and determine if the Nazis were close to building an A-bomb.    Moe managed to slip past the SS guards at the auditorium, posing as a Swiss graduate student.  The spy carried in his pocket a pistol and a cyanide pill.  If the German indicated the Nazis were close to building a weapon, Berg was to shoot him and then swallow the cyanide pill.  Moe, sitting in the front row, determined that the Germans were nowhere near their goal, so he complimented Heisenberg on his speech and walked him back to his hotel.       Werner Heisenberg: "He blocked the Nazis from acquiring an atomic bomb.”   Moe Berg's report was distributed to Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and key figures in the team developing the Atomic Bomb.  Roosevelt responded, “Give my regards to the catcher.”   Most of Germany's leading physicists had been Jewish and had fled the Nazis mainly to Britain and the United States.  After the war, Moe Berg was awarded the Medal of Merit, America's highest honor for a civilian in wartime.  But Berg refused to accept, as he couldn't tell people about his exploits.   After his death, his sister accepted the Medal and it hangs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown.       Your Freedom Wasn't and Still Isn't Free!

 

GWB vs Zero! No Contest...

There is something about a stint in the military that creates a leader who wants to take care of his troops first. The good ones always do. The others - well - you now have a great example of a poor example.

ANALYSIS/OPINION: 

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s, I think about George W. Bush. 

It was in that week each year for the eight that I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift 
and he knew it. 

I started covering the newly elected president in 2000, when I was in my late 30s. Back then, as a reporter for The Washington Times, we went everywhere the president went. If he went to Charlotte, N.C., to give a 30-minute speech on an airport tarmac, we went. Up at 4 a.m., an hour long commute to Andrews Air Force Base, in place on the ground hours before POTUS landed, and there for hours and hours after he left — sometimes right through the evening news so network reporters could file live from the site. 

We also went with the president to Texas every summer — often for a month — and every winter, too, over the holidays. 

But here’s the thing: In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. 
 
Mr. Bush and his wife Laura would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at the presidential retreat in Maryland, Camp David. After a few years, I asked a low-level White House staffer why. 

I still remember what she said: “So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.” 

Who was “us”? Hundreds and hundreds of people, that’s who. Sure, the reporters who covered the president, but also dozens and dozens on his staff, a hundred Secret Service agents, maybe more, and all of those cops required whenever the president’s on the move in D.C. 

For me, that one-day delay was huge. My kids were 6 and 8 when Bush took office. When he went home to Prairie Chapel that last time in 2009, my girl was driving, the boy was 6 foot 1. But in the meantime, I was home for eight Christmas mornings, playing Santa, stoking the fire, mixing up hot chocolates. 

That was President Bush. And every year for the last five, I’ve thought about what that meant to me. (By the way, some years, I got holiday duty, which meant I was off to Waco, Texas, the day after Christmas. But once again, the Bush White House had us covered: A press plane flew out with the president, and back then, reporters could pay $100 per family member for the plane ride. So sometimes, the family went along. For the kids, it was an adventure; for me, well, we were all together). 

All that has changed with President Obama. No more press plane, for one. Reporters are on their own — so taking family is, say, $1,000 a pop. Not likely. And this president would never delay his trip to his island getaway. He’s off every year well before Christmas. Hundreds and hundreds head off with him, leaving family behind. 

No Christmas at home. Instead, the Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. Nice, but not exactly home. 

Anyway, that’s why I think of George W. Bush every year in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s. 
 
Probably will till I die. Thanks, GWB. 

• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times and is now editor of the Drudge Report. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.

 

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Shocking 2016 Campaign Poster?

Shocking 2016 Campaign Poster?   The attackers took photos to show what they were doing to Ambassador Stephens while bragging to their cohorts.  That is a livestock prod they are using at the time after he was set on fire.   The horrific torture this man had to endure should be a reminder to those who admire/support Hillary.   Perhaps if she had just "some" of those things done to her, she would hear back.........."What Difference Does It Make"   How could anyone ever say "What difference does it make" after seeing what these sick animals did to our people. Some folks may be bored by keeping this story alive, but looking at the crowd doing this and planning for the future (What does it matter?) the memory needs to be kept alive.

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