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Friday, August 24. 2007

Friday Mid-day Links

Maliki: Scapegoat of the week? I would not want his job: herding cats.

Willisms said it first, but I was getting ready to note that when Bill Clinton wags his finger, it means he is lying. Calif. Yank has the same thought.

Beating a dead horse. It's sadistic fun to beat up on Edwards. Bainbridge pitches in.

"Two wops who got in a jam." Sacco and Vanzetti, revisited once again.

The Battle of Britain. Great photo.

"Black men have abandoned their children." LaShawn

More on gun control in the UK. Why not control the criminals? Guns are harmless.

Gen Bui Tin, on Vietnam Iraq

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The Battle of Britain, Churchill, Steve McQueen, V for victory and Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt

On 20 Aug. 1940, when the Battle of Britain was nearly over but decisively in Britains favor Winston Churchill uttered that famous line, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." His famous "V" symbol appeared and for victory it stood, or did it?
Churchill was a great student of history and author of many books on history, not the least of which is "A History of the English Speaking People" He aslo knew of Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt , one of the most famous battles in history.

Before that battle Henry V, immortalized by Shakespeares', St Crispins Day Speech in Henry V, remined his men of this.

He warned the archers that the French had sworn to cut three fingers off the right hand of every English bowman captured. "Sirs and fellows," he promised his army, "as I am true king and knight, for me this day shall never England ransom pay." When he had finished they shouted back, "Sir, we pray God give you a good life and the victory over your enemies!"

Ah, there's the rub. The three cut off fingers amounted to permanently disabling an archer, for if you remove the middle three fingers it is not possible to shoot an arrow.

Winston Churchill was signalling to the Germans, not victory, for he knew that England was still in mortal peril, but rather he was signalling that the English still had their archers fingers and would fight on.
Steve McQueen, in his movie "Lemans" signals his chief rival in the same manner, with the "V", backhanded, not because he had won the race , for he had not but that he was still "in the race". McQueen explained his signal in that manner. Churchill likewise used the back handed "V" originally although he did open palm it on occasion.

Compare these two photos for some fun

Steve McQueen: http://stvmcqueen.tripod.com/salute.jpg

W. Churchill:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g306/eurogibbon/churchill.jpg
#1 Habu on 2007-08-24 13:10 (Reply)
China searches for 8 kg of "missing" uranium

yeah ..... 17 pounds ..pick 17 spots in the USA & Europe
NYC
SFO
LAX
CHI
MIA
Seattle
Wash,DC
5 main US power grids
add your favorites
Pearl Harbor

dirty bombs,inc.

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnPEK208148.html
#2 Habu on 2007-08-24 23:46 (Reply)

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