Via @alexthechick, this is a true story: Monopoly really did smuggle escape supplies in to POWs.
The most amazing part? They actually kept their mouths shut about this for sixty years. Even after the war ended! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen a bunch of articles confirming that.
#commissionearned
Interesting article here on the Battle of Britain (via RealClearHistory). Short version: the RAF won not least because Nazis sucked at getting around the poor decision-making skills of its leadership, starting with Adolf Hitler and going all the way down the org chart. In fact, totalitarian genocidal regimes largely suck at adaptation and mental flexibility, period. Go figure…
Every time I look at the WWII Memorial story, it gets worse.
It’s bad that the Obama administration closed down national monuments and museums, because it thinks that attacking DC tourism will give the Democratic party leverage over the Republican party.
It’s bad that the Obama administration tried to keep WWII veterans away from the monument that honors them. It failed, of course, but they shouldn’t have tried.
It’s bad that the Obama administration deliberately – deliberately – targeted the WWII monument for special restrictions after a veterans’ group made the mistake of thinking that Barack Obama is a reasonable man who runs a reasonable executive branch, and thus would treat that group’s request for assistance with the respect that it deserved.
But this is the nasty part. This is the part where the spite comes into play. Continue reading Barack Obama spitefully *chose* to make WWII Memorial inaccessible to veterans.
The short one in the middle.
She’s just got that look.
Moe Lane
PS: My wife liked this one the best, though.
PPS: The things you learn of when researching these things. Did you know that England was invaded by the French in 1797? Neither did I: Britain’s Last Invasion: Fishguard,1797
