Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Prelude to the Guns

On August 3rd, 1914, Germany declared war on France.

Other than a skirmish the day before, things got going when the Germans invaded Belgium on August 4th as part of their Aufmarsch West II plan. The British had a treaty with Belgium, so they demanded that the Germans march the hell back out. Which the Germans declined to do, so the British Empire entered the war.

Imperial Germany had declared war on Imperial Russia on August 1st. The monarchs of the German, British and Russian empires were all related, which made the First World War a very bloody family fight (except for the French and the Americans, which were republics, and the Japanese Empire, whose monarch was likely not related to anyone outside of Japan).

2 comments:

Vannevar said...

and on Aug.3 1981, Ronald Reagan declared war on the American middle class.

LRod said...

Yes he did (saint ronnie). I was there. I spent twenty months on the street. I was also one of the very fortunate and very few who won reinstatement due, to management incompetence. Imagine that.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired