Blog number 280 **** 17 February 2009
Charles Dickens wrote twenty books and none of them were ever out of print.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
EXCITING TIMES
Blog number 279 **** 16 February 2009
I don't remember which book I got this from. I copied it onto a piece of paper, stuck it in my billfold and forgot it until yesterday when I went out from a restaurant to get my lost billfold out of the car and all my loose papers fell out and this was in there.
The above explanations reminds me of something else I read. It went; "Don't explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies don't care."
So ... the item I found yesterday when I went out to the car from the restaurant and it fell out of my billfold along with some other loose papers... "A large [Japanese] ammunition freighter got hit and exploded in a blinding flash. When the ship blew up, the pilot house was blown onto another ship, which exploded and the debris rained down on us almost a mile away from the blast."
I don't remember which book I got this from. I copied it onto a piece of paper, stuck it in my billfold and forgot it until yesterday when I went out from a restaurant to get my lost billfold out of the car and all my loose papers fell out and this was in there.
The above explanations reminds me of something else I read. It went; "Don't explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies don't care."
So ... the item I found yesterday when I went out to the car from the restaurant and it fell out of my billfold along with some other loose papers... "A large [Japanese] ammunition freighter got hit and exploded in a blinding flash. When the ship blew up, the pilot house was blown onto another ship, which exploded and the debris rained down on us almost a mile away from the blast."
Monday, February 9, 2009
THE BRAD CONNECTION
Blog number 278 **** 09 February 2009
We - my favorite wife and myself, went to see the movie, "Burn After Reading." I had read not too good a thing about Brad Pitt's acting in this, and my wife said he acted like a fool, but I got to tell you, I loved that character of his!
Every time he came on the screen I was especially happy to see him. Don't get me wrong, all the other characters were excellent, it was a well crafted funny movie, but for some reason I was really taken by Brad's (I call him "Brad") character. What a nut. He seemed to me, a real nut - like someone you might know that everyone makes fun of behind their back.
We - my favorite wife and myself, went to see the movie, "Burn After Reading." I had read not too good a thing about Brad Pitt's acting in this, and my wife said he acted like a fool, but I got to tell you, I loved that character of his!
Every time he came on the screen I was especially happy to see him. Don't get me wrong, all the other characters were excellent, it was a well crafted funny movie, but for some reason I was really taken by Brad's (I call him "Brad") character. What a nut. He seemed to me, a real nut - like someone you might know that everyone makes fun of behind their back.
KARMIC, I GUESS
Blog number 277 **** 09 February 2009
This marine who fought at Iwo Jima said, "And the Japanese seemed like they were never, ever taught not to say anything. Once they get captured, they just talk. They just talk, talk, talk. They'll tell you almost anything. And then you question them and they'll tell you about the tunnels and everything."
I think it is probably true that the Japanese soldiers and seamen were never taught not to talk when captured, because it was assumed that none of them ever would be captured, so why waste training time on nonsense?
This marine who fought at Iwo Jima said, "And the Japanese seemed like they were never, ever taught not to say anything. Once they get captured, they just talk. They just talk, talk, talk. They'll tell you almost anything. And then you question them and they'll tell you about the tunnels and everything."
I think it is probably true that the Japanese soldiers and seamen were never taught not to talk when captured, because it was assumed that none of them ever would be captured, so why waste training time on nonsense?
THIS IS NEWS TO MOI
Blog number 276 **** 09 February 2009
There were three shock waves from the Hiroshima weapon. The first one was a good jolt... There was, and I was quite aware of, a brilliance in the airplane ... simultaneously with that, I tasted it... I tasted that thing (the bomb) just as clear as could be.
- Colonel Paul W. Tibbets
[Pilot of the Enola Gay]
There were three shock waves from the Hiroshima weapon. The first one was a good jolt... There was, and I was quite aware of, a brilliance in the airplane ... simultaneously with that, I tasted it... I tasted that thing (the bomb) just as clear as could be.
- Colonel Paul W. Tibbets
[Pilot of the Enola Gay]
Monday, February 2, 2009
WAS ABU GHRAIB REALLY THAT MUCH OF A SURPRISE?
Blog number 274 **** 02 February 2009
A very interesting tome called, "A World At Arms" by Gerhard L. Weinberg delves into the discrete workings behind the machinations of the eventually warring peoples before and during WW II. One of the items it reveals was something that had only before been hinted at or mentioned in passing in other books about WW II.
With the cooperation of important segments of the SS and the MEDICAL profession, thousands of GERMANS were taken out of hospitals, mental institutions and old folks homes and transferred to what can only be called murder factories and killed and cremated there.
By August 1941, the "factory" at Hadamar held a special party for its employees to celebrate the cremation of the ten-thousandth body.
Germany is a Western culture, as is the American culture a Western culture. One should be very careful of just how "patriotic" one should be, shouldn't one, with a warning of hidden inclinations inherent in Western cultures such as was shown to us by the Nazis?
Friday, January 30, 2009
FISH GOTTA SWIM, BIRDS GOTTA FLY
Blog number 273 **** 30 January 2009
A year or so ago much hoopdedoo was made about a film called, "March of the Penguins. "Groundbreaking, breathtaking" etc.
We went to see it and since I watch a lot of animal programs on the telly, I was able to discern that I had already seen much more interesting, informative and exciting films on penguins already, so as you might assume, I was not impressed with "March of the Penguins." I thought it rather mundane and predictable. Penguins do what they showed the penguins doing. I had already seen all that that film showed, on television, plus some other things the movie didn't show. I think this film had a great PR connection, that's all.
I once saw a film of a species of penguins that were so round and fat and so well protected by their fat that they jumped from cliffs onto sharp rocks, bouncing when they hit. The thick layer of fat acted as a shock absorber, preventing their bodies from receiving any serious injury.
Plop. Plop. Plop. One after the other, bouncing on large sharp boulders. None of them ever hesitated to jump. Walk to the cliff, jump. Fantastic!
This Blog entry was brought to mind because it seems that Disney has produced another great animal movie - not out yet. I forget the name. Sorry. The very best animal movie I ever saw was a Disney one called, "The Living Desert." Produced in late fifties, I think.
I'm pretty sure.
Which doesn't mean all that much.
A year or so ago much hoopdedoo was made about a film called, "March of the Penguins. "Groundbreaking, breathtaking" etc.
We went to see it and since I watch a lot of animal programs on the telly, I was able to discern that I had already seen much more interesting, informative and exciting films on penguins already, so as you might assume, I was not impressed with "March of the Penguins." I thought it rather mundane and predictable. Penguins do what they showed the penguins doing. I had already seen all that that film showed, on television, plus some other things the movie didn't show. I think this film had a great PR connection, that's all.
I once saw a film of a species of penguins that were so round and fat and so well protected by their fat that they jumped from cliffs onto sharp rocks, bouncing when they hit. The thick layer of fat acted as a shock absorber, preventing their bodies from receiving any serious injury.
Plop. Plop. Plop. One after the other, bouncing on large sharp boulders. None of them ever hesitated to jump. Walk to the cliff, jump. Fantastic!
This Blog entry was brought to mind because it seems that Disney has produced another great animal movie - not out yet. I forget the name. Sorry. The very best animal movie I ever saw was a Disney one called, "The Living Desert." Produced in late fifties, I think.
I'm pretty sure.
Which doesn't mean all that much.
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