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Decisive Versus Dithering - McCain Wins First Face-to-Face
The differences are stark between the two apparent presidential nominees.
John McCain was on his game and decisive while Barack Obama was not during the SADDLEBACK CHURCH CIVIL FORUM in Orange County, California on Sunday evening.
Most did not expect such a decivive win and domination by McCain who ran away with the evening leaving Obama in the distant dust.
If this can be judged an indication it is no wonder that Obama refuses to confront McCain face-to-face in a Lincoln-Douglas free wheeling debate - he can only loose ground.
This event was clearly the first event of the general Election and could turn out to be a decisive moment.
Georgian Crisis : Stalin’s First Break
Until Lenin chose Stalin out of the ranks of mid level insignificance, he had been a successful train robber and, reportedly an agent for the English.
A humorous bar bet asks what major background item was common to Mao, Fidel, and Joseph Dzhugashvili [Stalin-steel] ? The answer is that all three attended Jesuit Seminaries. Stalin’s father was a violent drunk bootmaker in Georgia. Mom sent him to the Jesuits for his safety, where he learned not religious piety, but the Jesuit penchant for extremely efficient organization. He also picked up the habit of elimination every second layer of subordinates each 3 years or so to relieve himself of the burden of a successor. Recall that when he died, a troika was required to fill his boots.
How did Lenin hear of Stalin? It was what Soviets called the “nationalities question”. Lenin was attracted to Stalin’s severe repressive measures. they worked. Later, the entire Politburo learned of his greater intentions—total domination. The top leaders in Russia were predominately ethnic Jews with Russifed names [eg. Kamenev, Zinoviev]. Their preoccupation was making brilliant theoretical oratory, disdaining the mundane. Stalin quietly accepted the hated duties of party regulation and police affairs—and killed them all.
Serge Ordzhonikidze was Stalin’s proxy in Georgia. His instruction to Serge, according to Colonel General Dmitri Volkogonov [chief historian of the red army] in his book “Triumph And Tragedy” was : “when disciplining locals use boots, you kick a man and he will find his teeth next week” [IR's paraphrase].
It appears that Putin has similar methods. By the way, punishing NATO for having separated Bosnia from their genocidal pals the Serbs.
NOTE: This 1943 poster reads “forward to the destruction of the German occupiers and driving them from the boundaries of our motherland”.
39th Anniversary of First Man on Moon
U. S. Plans 2012 Return to Moon.
On July 20, 1969 Commander Neil Alden Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried, Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon.
When he stepped onto the moon’s surface Armstrong uttered the now famous words,
“One small step for man; one giant step for mankind.”
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he expressed during a 1961 speech:
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
The United States is planning the next moon landing in 2012 and China plans to be the second country to put a man on the moon with its own mission in 2013.