I have a couple updates to post but I will have to get them in a little later.
“Says He Got $2 For His Vote”
Same as it ever was.
It was Rochester!
The cost of purchasing democratic votes ranged from $.25 to $1.00 except for the guy who claimed he got $2.00.
Couldn’t help but not the little piece on the Democrat tradition of buying votes, this time in Philadelphia.
It’s time to stop this ridiculous “War on Jewelry.” Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it.
bump for later
ML/NJ
I have a copy of the transcript of Jack Benny’s bail hearing:
The Court: Mr. Benny, I’m setting your bail at $1,000.00. You must either post that bond, or remain in custody until your trial date. Will you post the bond or remain incarcerated?
Mr. Benny: [pause]
The Court: Well?
Mr. Benny: I’m thinking...I’m thinking!!!
Is there a price for our naval pact with Germany? - Jan 12, 1939
Danger in Consenting to Limit Air Strength as a Return Gesture.
By the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P. Last Updated: 9:28PM GMT 11 Jan 2009
There is much talk about the Anglo-German Naval Agreement now that the Germans have announced their intention of building to a 100 per cent parity with British submarine tonnage. There is no doubt that Germany has a right to do this under the Treaty. The question arises whether the British Government of 1935 acted rightly or wrongly in making the agreement.
The official view in Whitehall is that it was a master-stroke of policy, the first great step in the process of “appeasement” and an example to prove to all the world how easy it is to have working arrangements between democratic Parliamentary nations and Totalitarian dictatorships.
It is not possible to judge such matters without looking back to their origins.
We have to remind ourselves of the situation in the summer of 1935. The process is not pleasant because it shows us how hideously our affairs have deteriorated since then.
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Try as it might to please Hitler, the new pro-German government of Czechoslovakia began to realize as the new year began that the country’s goose was cooked. Just before Christmas, 1938, the Czech cabinet, in order to further appease the Fuehrer, had dissolved the Communist Party and suspended all Jewish teachers in German schools. On January 12, 1939 Foreign Minister Chvalkovsky, in a message to the German Foreign Office, stressed that his government “will endeavor to prove its loyalty and good will by far-reaching fulfillments of Germany’s wishes.” On the same day he brought to the attention of the German charge in Prague the spreading rumors “that the incorporation of Czechoslovakia into the Reich was imminent.”
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
He was accused and convicted of smuggling? Wow never heard of that.
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