December 19, Monday, presidential electors will meet in their respective state capitols to cast their ballots. The Constitution does not allow them to deliberate, as some of the liberal body have demanded, no they are to cast their votes for the candidate that received the most popular votes in their states. And in states where Trump won only Republican electors will cast a vote. The same is true in those won by Clinton, only Democrat electors will vote.
The all out effort to change the status of the Electoral College has been furious and even threatening in some areas. The NEA, National Education Association, spent a six-figure sum in an all out effort to elect Hillary. That is money from dues collected from teachers who often do not support the NEA position.
Thee 538 electoral ballots will sent to Congress where during a joint session of the 115th Congress the ballots will be opened. On January 6 Speaker Paul Ryan and out-going Vice President Biden will announce that Donald J. Trump has been elected 45th President of the United States by "a majority of the whole number of electors." The final vote!..........Medicineman!
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Germany knew the war was lost. The people, the generals and soldiers all knew the war was lost except.........Hitler!
Hitler launched the offensive on December 16 throwing everything he had into what came to be called, "The battle of the bulge". The intent was to split the American and British forces by recapturing Antwerp.
The Nazis made significant gains taking advantage of the terrible weather that prevented Allied air support from resupplying the entrenched American defenders.
The story is told in dramatic fashion in the television special "Band of Brothers", the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The fighting, the shelling and the cold were always there to one degree or another from December 16 to January 25.
Patton and the Third Army was finally able to break the back of the German offensive and relieve those defenders of Bastogne...........Medicineman!
Hitler launched the offensive on December 16 throwing everything he had into what came to be called, "The battle of the bulge". The intent was to split the American and British forces by recapturing Antwerp.
The Nazis made significant gains taking advantage of the terrible weather that prevented Allied air support from resupplying the entrenched American defenders.
The story is told in dramatic fashion in the television special "Band of Brothers", the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The fighting, the shelling and the cold were always there to one degree or another from December 16 to January 25.
Patton and the Third Army was finally able to break the back of the German offensive and relieve those defenders of Bastogne...........Medicineman!
Monday, December 5, 2016
A DAY OF INFAMY!
"How could this happen?", "Where is Pearl Harbor?". "How could Japan do that to us?"
Americans watched closely the war in Europe and the "Battle of Britain". They were interested in what Hitler was doing and some even watched with a quiet admiration at the man's ability to take so much territory so easily. But enter the war? NO! The "America First" movement, the WWI Vets, the German American Bund (Brown Shirts) all were declaring "Sit this one out"!
But reality has a way of sneaking up on us and "sneak" it did on December 7, 1941 when Japanese planes came with bombs and torpedoes and blazing guns. America was caught flatfooted!
Washington knew that Japan was on rampage in Asia and British and Dutch holdings in the Western Pacific. They were concerned about our bases in the Philippine Islands. We even beefed up our base on Wake Island, just in case??? But Pearl Harbor?
When the Japanese cruised all that way, undetected, in the northern Pacific and launched there bombers and fighters and torpedo planes they could not believe their good fortune. They came in from the north over Hickam and Wheeler Air Fields, shooting up the planes on the ground on their way to Pearl where our Battleships, the pride of the Navy, lay at anchor. No Torpedo nets had been put in place because the harbor was only 45 feet deep and it was thought that air dropped torpedoes would just dive into the mud on the bottom. The Japs had already thought of that and solved that problem.
What happened there will always be remembered and the 2,474 Soldiers and Sailors who died there honored. The USS Arizona remains under the Flag and a Memorial to that "Day of Infamy"!........Medicineman!
Americans watched closely the war in Europe and the "Battle of Britain". They were interested in what Hitler was doing and some even watched with a quiet admiration at the man's ability to take so much territory so easily. But enter the war? NO! The "America First" movement, the WWI Vets, the German American Bund (Brown Shirts) all were declaring "Sit this one out"!
But reality has a way of sneaking up on us and "sneak" it did on December 7, 1941 when Japanese planes came with bombs and torpedoes and blazing guns. America was caught flatfooted!
Washington knew that Japan was on rampage in Asia and British and Dutch holdings in the Western Pacific. They were concerned about our bases in the Philippine Islands. We even beefed up our base on Wake Island, just in case??? But Pearl Harbor?
When the Japanese cruised all that way, undetected, in the northern Pacific and launched there bombers and fighters and torpedo planes they could not believe their good fortune. They came in from the north over Hickam and Wheeler Air Fields, shooting up the planes on the ground on their way to Pearl where our Battleships, the pride of the Navy, lay at anchor. No Torpedo nets had been put in place because the harbor was only 45 feet deep and it was thought that air dropped torpedoes would just dive into the mud on the bottom. The Japs had already thought of that and solved that problem.
What happened there will always be remembered and the 2,474 Soldiers and Sailors who died there honored. The USS Arizona remains under the Flag and a Memorial to that "Day of Infamy"!........Medicineman!
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