The FReeper Foxhole Presents the Saturday Symposium - WWII Propaganda Films - June 4th, 2005

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[Iris7]

Didn't see Bergman and Bogie in "Casablanca". The greatest propaganda film of all time.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

[E.G.C.]

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[GailA]

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On this Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on June 04:
1694 Francois Quesnay France, economist, leader of the Physiocrats
1738 George III English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
1867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Finland, military hero, Pres (1944-46)
1877 Heinrich Wieland German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
1908 Rosalind Russell actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
1917 Charles Collingwood Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917 Robert Merrill Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 Dennis Weaver Joplin Mo, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
1926 Robert Earl Hughes became heaviest known human (486 kg)
1932 John Barrymore Jr Beverly Hills Calif, actor (Pantomine Quiz)
1936 Bruce Dern Winnetka Ill, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, The Cowboys)
1937 Freddie Fender (Baldemar Huerta) Mexico, country singer (Wasted Days and Wasted Nights)
1944 Michelle Phillips singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
1945 Gordon Waller Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1952 Parker Stevenson Phila Pa, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
1965 Andrea Jaeger Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)

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Deaths which occurred on June 04:
1039 Konrad II, King of Germany (1024-39), dies
1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies
1792 John (Gentleman Johnny) Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
1798 Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Ital Adventure/spy/librarian, dies
1941 Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), died.
1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), assassinated
1954 Harold Hoffman (Gov-NJ), dies at 58
1973 Murray Wilson father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55

1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini of Iran, dies at 86 of internal bleeding

1990 Jack Gilford comedic actor, dies at 82 of stomach cancer
1991 The government of China announces the death of Jiang Qing (77), the widow of Mao Tse-tung, saying she had committed suicide on May 14th
2003 Delmar E. Brown (84), (renowned fly fisherman, inventor of the Del Brown Crab Fly) died

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GWOT Casualties

Iraq
04-Jun-2004 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US 1st Lieutenant Erik S. McCrae Baghdad (Palestine St. nr. Sadr City) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Justin W. Linden Baghdad (Palestine St. nr. Sadr City) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Justin L. Eyerly Baghdad (Palestine St. nr. Sadr City) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Frank T. Carvill Baghdad (Palestine St. nr. Sadr City) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Christopher M. Duffy Baghdad (Palestine St. nr. Sadr City) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack


Afghanistan
A Good Day

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White

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On this day...
0780 BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1391 A mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounded and set fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville, Spain. The surviving Jews were sold into slavery.
1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
1717 Freemasons establish their Grand Lodge in London. They had begun in the 13th century as a guild of masons, who worked in soft stone called freestone
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)


1789 - US constitution goes into effect


1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1805 The US signed a Treaty of Peace and Amity at Tripoli. The US agreed to pay Tripoli $60,000 in war reparations and was in turn absolved of tribute demands. The treaty was ratified by the US on Apr 17, 1806
1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tenn
1864 With Gen. Sherman again flanking them, Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreated to the mountains before Marietta, Georgia
1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #456 Abnoba
1911 Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek
1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1927 1st Ryders Cup (Golf), US beats England 9-2
1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #2066 Palala
1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940 German forces enter Paris
1941 Republic of Croatia ordered all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II

1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
1943 Race riots took place in LA. (Zoot Suit Riots)
1943 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1960 The Taiwan island of Quemoy was hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1967 Emmy Awards-Monkees win for comedy series
1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1972 Angela Davis, communist/college professor, acquitted of killing a white guard
1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, went on sale
1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2494 Inge, #2797 Teucer, #2870 Haupt, #3169 Ostro & #3726
1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
1992 U.S. Postal officials announced that the young, 1950s-era Elvis Presley portrait was chosen overwhelmingly over the older, Las Vegas-style Elvis
1998 Terry Nichols sentenced to life in prison without parole for conspiring in 1995 to bomb the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1998 A team of physicists from Japan reported that they had established that the subnuclear neutrino particles had mass
(Maybe they should go on a diet)
1998 In Britain the House of Commons decided to get rid of its collapsible top hats, a tradition that dated from 19th century
2004 In southern Afghanistan U.S. troops and warplanes attacked Taliban rebels besieging a remote checkpoint. Eight scumsucking murderous slimball terrorist were killed

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Botswana : Commonwealth Day
Finland : Flag Day (1867)
International : Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Tonga : Independence Day
Massachusetts : Teachers' Day (Sunday)
Ireland : Bank Day (Monday)
Bahamas : Labour Day (Friday)
New Zealand : Queen's Birthday (Monday)
Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838)(Monday)
National Frozen Yogurt Week (Day 5)
Public Relations Week (Day 6)
National Applesauce Cake Day

US : Donut Day (All Hail the mighty Donut!)
Donuts will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no donuts.

Dairy Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of SS Quirinus & Optatus
Christian : Feast of St Saturnine
Unification Church : Day of all things
RC : Commemoration of St Francis Caracciolo, confessor
Ang, RC : Ember Day

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Religious History
1820 Birth of Elvina M. Hall, American Methodist poet who authored the hymn, 'Jesus Paid It All' (a.k.a. 'I Hear the Savior Say').
1873 Birth of Charles F. Parham, American charismatic church pioneer. In 1898 he founded a Bible training school in Topeka, Kansas, where the modern Pentecostal movement began in 1901.
1878 Birth of Frank N. Buchman, American exponent of the social gospel. He founded the First Century Christian Movement (1921), the Oxford Group (1929) and the Moral Re-Armament Movement (1938).
1900 Birth of Nelson Glueck, American Jewish archaeologist. Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, he explored and dated over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near East.
1948 In Manilla, the first missionary radio station built in the Philippines by the Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) first went on the air.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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COLONY OF SUPER-EVOLVED MICROBES HAS TINY KINGDOM IN TED KENNEDY'S BUTT


By MICHAEL CHIRON

AGING Sen. Ted Kennedy's droopy "geezer butt" is NOT just the object of crude and ribald jokes on the floor of the U.S. Senate -- it houses a colony of superevolved microbes that have developed a high level of civilization!

That's the way-out theory of a scientist who says it's "imperative" that researchers get to the bottom of the matter.

"These intelligent microorganisms are infinitesimally small, but their tiny kingdom rivals anything mankind has created," declares Dr. Werner Hauptman of New York City. "We must extensively probe Mr. Kennedy's buttocks and alimentary canal."

Dr. Hauptman, a staunch supporter of President George Bush's conservative social and political agendas -- is eager to examine the ultra liberal senator personally.

"CAT scans are essential, but I'd like to begin with a thorough manual exam," he says, snapping the fingers of what his colleagues call "the ever-present rubber glove" that the expert keeps in his shirt pocket.

Dr. Hauptman's pioneering work in mitochondrial DNA in the 1980s established him as one of the world's premiere microbiologists. But for the last two years, his obsession has been Kennedy's ample but saggy caboose -- leading peers to label him "a crackpot."

While the scientist concedes he has no proof that super intelligent bugs reside within the senator's booty, he describes the circumstantial evidence as overwhelming.

"It's a little-known fact that in the early 1990s, researchers affiliated with Columbia University conducted a government funded experiment aimed at accelerating a microbe's evolution," he reveals.

"They had remarkable success -- each generation of the strain, dubbed AN-167 -- was more sophisticated than the last. "Within eight months, the microbes were reportedly using tools, constructing microscopic aqueducts and even beginning to communicate with the researchers using telepathy. "Unfortunately, the microbes were evolving so fast, the National Science Foundation feared they might someday conquer the world and ordered the sample destroyed." Later, NSF investigators discovered that the microbes had contaminated an adjoining lab where new silicone butt implants were being developed, Dr. Hauptman claims.

"According to investigators, one pair of the experimental implants were placed in the rear end of an liberal senator from Massachusetts who was convinced that a younger-looking heinie would make him more attractive to the ladies," says the expert.

"The investigators' notes don't identify the senator by name, but the only other liberal senator from Massachusetts is John Kerry, and as far as I know, the only cosmetic surgery he's ever had was all those Botox injections that paralyzed his face while he was running for president.

"On the other hand, Sen. Kennedy's butt implants are the worst-kept secret in Washington," says Hauptmann. "They didn't do much for his physique, but everybody knows he got them."

Dr. Hauptman has written Kennedy, requesting permission to examine his scientifically-important rump.

"The microbes have been evolving for a decade -- we can only imagine how advanced they are now," he says. "I wish to begin by attempting to establish telepathic contact."

Beltway insiders doubt that Kennedy would sit still for a probe of his fanny, let alone a bizarre "mind-meld."

"This nut belongs in a loony bin," snorts a highly-placed Kennedy aide. "There's no way Teddy's going to drop his boxers and bend over for any Republican, much less an egghead with an ax to grind."

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Thought for the day :
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it."

[The Mayor]

June 4, 2005

Have A Great Day!

Read:
Psalm 118

This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. -Psalm 118:24

Bible In One Year: Proverbs 12-14

I was in a convenience store one day, standing in line behind a man paying for his groceries. When he was finished, the clerk sent him off with a cheery "Have a great day!"

To the clerk's surprise (and mine) the man exploded in anger. "This is one of the worst days of my life," he shouted. "How can I have a great day?" And with that he stormed out of the store.

I understand the man's frustration; I too have "bad" days over which I have no control. How can I have a great day, I ask myself, when it's beyond my control? Then I remember these words: "This is the day the Lord has made" (Psalm 118:24).

The Lord has made every day, and my Father will show Himself strong on my behalf today. He has control over everything in it-even the hard things that will come my way. All events have been screened through His wisdom and love, and they are opportunities for me to grow in faith. "His mercy endures forever" (v.1). "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear" (v.6).

Now, when people give me the parting admonition to have a great day, I reply, "That's beyond my control, but I can be grateful for whatever comes my way, and rejoice-for this is the day the Lord has made." -David Roper

When dawn announces each new day,
Before you rise up out of bed,
Rejoice-be glad and give God praise,
And thank Him for what lies ahead. -Sper

A smile is a curve that can set things straight.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
How Much Does God Control?
When Hope Is Lost

[SAMWolf]

Morning Snippy.

See you at the Lions Meeting in a bit.

Saw most of the movies mentioned, Best Years of Our Lives" is excellent and a tear jerker.

Two more for the list are:

"Wake Island" (1942)

In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull together day by day; but how long can they hold out?

and

"The Fighting Sullivans" (1944)

The wartime forerunner of the story told in Saving Private Ryan (1998) is this emotionally gripping depiction of the Sullivan boys of Waterloo, Iowa. Amid all the tales of personal tragedy in WW II, this one stands out. The five inseparable brothers enlisted together after Pearl Harbor and were all assigned to a battleship that ended up at Guadalcanal--where all five brothers died in action. A moving tribute to those who gave their lives in the last world war.

I dare you to not shed a tear at the end.

[snippy_about_it]

Since we will close on the 4th of July we should check out about 5 or 6 of these and have our own WWII movie marathon for our day off!

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Didn't see Bergman and Bogie in "Casablanca". The greatest propaganda film of all time.

Ah, Casablanca. We've used that film so much at the Foxhole who could ever forget. A true classic.

Despite the good times had in Paris, happily-ever-after was not meant to be just yet. The Nazis march into Paris, and Rick and Ilsa make plans to flee.

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Good morning. We have to work today too. Have to speak to the Lion's club this morning,early. Free breakfast!

[Soaring Feather]

Morning everyone.

[SAMWolf]

"Desparate Journey" (1942)

Five Allied airmen shot down in Germany fight their way back to England. Reagan kicks some butt in this propoganda-studded war flick. Academy Award Nominations: Best Special Effects.

This one is a "fun" one, Reagan is good.

[Samwise]

You forgot the movie that saved my uncle's life.

As bad as it is, we love that movie.

[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Folks~

I . . . yi . . . yi! I've never seen nor heard of any of these movies. But here are some suggestions on propaganda favorites . . .

Best Film for Fighter Pilot Recruitment:

Best Film for Tank Commander Recruitment:

Best Film for Submarine Captain Recruitment:

Best film for infantry recruitment:

Best film for College Football Recruitment:

Best Film for recruiting your husband to finish painting the exterior of the damn house:

Well I'm off to finish the front porch and then this sucker is done!!!!

[Wneighbor]

Morning!

Everybody awake? :-)

Gee, I was surprised as I read the list that I've actually seen about half those films. A good surprise. Lots I haven't seen though and I think I'll have to make it a point to see the rest when I have an opportunity.

I liked Back to Bataan, The Flying Tigers and They Were Expendable I guess the best. Like John Wayne. Seems like there were some other good WW2 films too. Maybe they weren't "propaganda." But, Casablanca did it for me!

Rick to Ilsa: ...I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. ...

[Wneighbor]

Didn't see Bergman and Bogie in "Casablanca". The greatest propaganda film of all time.

heh. It's that "we are related" moment again! :-) Morning Iris!