(Pinging a few Michiganders)
Posted on 04/14/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Enter Our Matrix of Milestones, Music, and Memories
(Pinging a few Michiganders)
Tigers are looking good this year too. I read that their batting line up has forced changes all across the major league.
Al Gore and his wife at the time, Tipper, were busy burning records so they could avert the looming Ice Age.
Synthesizers.
Drum synthesizers.
Keyboard synthesizers.
Casio synthesizers.
And the aging 60s artists who were using them to sound contemporary.
Worst music ever.
The Soviet Communists almost launched a Mutually Assured Destruction missile attack on the West the month prior to this event (September 1983).
The Russians had a false signal that we'd launched. The man who was supposed to launch the MAD attack refused the order, nothing in the geopolitical situation indicated that we were at war. He was punished. He was later celebrated I think in the 1990s.
Communism kills. And the Red Dupes of the 1980s don't like to admit they were wrong.
"“The one event from the 1980’s that I especially remember is the invasion of Granada on October 25, 1983.”"
Had they launched a nuclear attack on the US, the Soviets would have been out to win it. They had no use for Western concepts like mutual assured destruction (MAD)
MAD was developed by American "defense intellectuals" beginning in the late 1950's. At first, John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara rejected the concept. In a commencement address at the University of Michigan in 1962, he called for a nuclear war strategy that avoided targeting cities. However, he eventually bought into MAD. The best expression of his views on the subject are found in his Sentinel Statement of September 18, 1967.
Incidentally, the armed forces never adopted MAD as a military strategy, as is commonly believed. It was used by the Pentagon as a budgeting strategy.
In any case, the Soviets never accepted MAD. They believed that a nuclear war could be won and planned accordingly. For more information, read Richard Pipes' article "Why the Soviet Union Thinks it can Fight and Win a Nuclear War" (Commentary, July, 1977).
A Soviet nuclear attack on the US would not be aimed primarily at population centers, as called for by MAD. Rather, it would first target our command, control, communication and intelligence (C3I) capabilities, then our intercontinental nuclear forces--missile silos, B-52 bases, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, etc., then theater and conventional forces.
Greatest team ever.
The island of Grenada was apparently named by Spanish conquistadores who then sailed away, leaving it for others to claim.
Smoking cigs in highschool. Try that now...
Did Carter do anything good for anyone or anything?
Air Supply - because two dudes singing romantic duets isn’t the slightest bit gay. :)
Exacccttlllly.
I can’t believe I forgot Aliens.
Yes he did. He showed us what a failure big government and incompetent leadership really is all about.
I’ve only been to one concert in my life. It was a John Denver at the Cap Center in March 1980. I liked John Denver.
I left the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Baghdad around 10 Oct. I was at Mass in Crofton, MD the Sunday morning when the priest announced the slaughter during the sermon.
What happened to your script? It doesn’t seem to be available any longer.
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