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Not long after the United States entered World War II in December 1941, Allied leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt — along with commanding Allied general Dwight D. Eisenhower —  began to plan an invasion of Nazi-occupied France. Opening a new front was vital to defeating the Nazis, so plans were set in place for Operation Overlord — the codename for the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. The massive operation began the liberation of France and other parts of Western Europe, ultimately turning the tide of World War II and bringing about the end of Nazi Germany. Here are five facts about that fateful day, now commonly known as D-Day. 

D-Day Was Supposed to Happen a Day Earlier

Allied leaders originally set a date of June 5, 1944, for D-Day. But something very British managed to delay the invasion: the weather. Foul weather over the English Channel meant that it was too rough for ships to sail, so the invasion was postponed until the day after. It was a nervous, pensive wait for everyone involved, not least for the soldiers waiting to cross the Channel. Then came news from the meteorologists, who forecast a brief window of calmer weather for June 6. There were a limited number of dates with the right tidal conditions for an invasion, so if the operation didn’t go forward during the break in the weather on June 6, it would have had to wait until June 19-21 (when, as it turned out, there was a storm that would have made invasion impossible). The green light was finally given, and D-Day took place on June 6. 

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The Germans Weren’t Expecting the Invasion to Be at Normandy 

The Germans knew that an Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France could turn the tide of war, and had planned to counter such an invasion. But they didn’t consider Normandy as a particularly likely landing point. Instead, they believed the Allies would invade further north, at the French port city of Calais, which sat just a little more than 20 miles across the English Channel from Dover. The German army installed three massive gun batteries along the Calais coast in order to counter this threat. That’s not to say that Normandy was an easy target. It was defended by the Atlantic Wall, a 2,000-mile-long chain of fortresses, mines, gun emplacements, tank traps, and obstacles. It was an impressive piece of defensive engineering, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Allied invasion. 

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Spies and Misinformation Played a Major Part in the Success of D-Day

The Allies did all they could to convince the Nazis that an invasion would not take place at Normandy. Leading up to D-Day, nearly every German spy in England had been captured or turned into a double agent, and the double agents were told to inform their Nazi handlers that the invasion was indeed planned for Calais. At the same time, the Allies sent out fake radio traffic to further convince the Germans that Calais was the plan. This deception was all part of Operation Fortitude, which aimed to dupe the Nazis with misinformation, including creating an entirely fake army. This fictitious force, known as the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG), was made up of thousands of fake tanks and airplanes, as well as decoy buildings, all placed on England’s southeast coast and supposedly commanded by General George S. Patton. The Allies let German reconnaissance planes photograph the site of the dummy army, further convincing the enemy that a military buildup was being made for an invasion of Calais. What’s more, the Allies by this time had cracked the Nazis’ Enigma code, so they could monitor the success of their misinformation campaign by tapping into German communications. 

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D-Day Was the Largest Amphibious Invasion in History

The Allied invasion of Normandy was the largest single-day amphibious invasion in history. The scale of the assault is hard to even imagine, as the numbers are mind-boggling. In the months and days leading up to the invasion, 7 million tons of supplies, including 450,000 tons of ammunition, were brought into Britain from the United States, and war planners created around 17 million maps to support the operation. In the hours prior to the beach landings, 11,590 Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties to support the invasion, and 15,500 American and 7,900 British airborne troops parachuted into France behind enemy lines. Then came the beach assault by 132,715 Allied troops, consisting of 75,215 British and Canadian forces and 57,500 Americans. Between them, they stormed the beaches of Normandy, the Americans fighting their way ashore at Utah Beach and Omaha Beach, the British at Gold and Sword beaches, and the Canadians at Juno Beach. 

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Eisenhower Wrote a Secret “In Case of Failure” Message

The success of D-Day was in no way assured. In the days before the invasion, General Eisenhower secretly wrote a statement now known as the “In Case of Failure” message, to be released if the invasion failed. In the letter, Eisenhower took full blame for any such failure. “My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available,” he wrote. “The troops, the air, and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do.” 

But D-Day was a military success that paved  the way for a German surrender less than a year later. The invasion, however, came at a terrible cost. Historians are still investigating the actual number of deaths that resulted from the chaos of D-Day, but we know that at least 4,414 Allied soldiers, sailors, airmen, and coast guardsmen lost their lives, with at least 10,000 total casualties. On the German side, meanwhile, estimates suggest between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded, or missing, with around 200,000 Germans captured as prisoners of war. Today, just a few thousand D-Day veterans may still be alive, the youngest now in their late 90s. On June 6, 2023, around 40 World War II veterans gathered at Normandy to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day and pay tribute to the lives lost that day. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

 The Supreme Court has refused to have a hearing about the immunity issue with the idiot. Just goes to show the cowardice that resides on the court. They will play this tune for long enough to keep from having a trial before the next election and if Trump wins, God forbid, then he will pardon himself and that will be the end of trying him for insurrection. If he loses then Biden should take up having the justices removed and possibly tried for failure to do their duty.

  If they are afraid that the mob will come after them if they do the right thing by the Constitution then they need to be removed today. They are probably looking for a loophole to let him off the hook as he appointed ⅓ of them and they do not want to be on the wrong end of his temper.

  The people who are so stupid as to convene threats, especially death threats need to be arrested and jailed. Get around to a trial in 5 or 6 years from now and let them rot. It should not matter who is threatened if someone’s life is put in danger then that should be considered a criminal act. 

  An article in the paper claims that Colorado’s action is wrong because Trump has not been found guilty of insurrection yet. So let’s take a look at the facts.

  The situation on Jan 6 at the Capitol was created by Trump because he summoned people to be there and told them to arm themselves. This is not a protest, this is going to be a fight. At the moment he told them to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell” his involvement went from being the leader of a peaceful gathering to being an insurrectionist. His actions prove his guilt and no further evidence should have been needed to take him into custody and jail him on that day, He was no longer the President he had made himself into an anarchist.

  If he had called for intervention they would have gone to protect the proceedings and the Capitol and he could not have them fighting his rebel troops as they attempted to stop the vote. In any other country in the world he would have been at a minimum jailed before the day was over and in some he would have been dead so that his followers knew they were being hung out to dry. 

  Justice still needs to be administered in this case. If the protests cause one death then that charge should also appear on the docket as part of his crimes. He should already have the deaths that did occur on the current charges. Is that excessive? No not really as this individual has the hope of turning this nation into to his private litter box so he can shit on everything and everyone that doesn’t give him what he wants and make him feel like he is some sort of God.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  One of the most overlooked issues with people and why they do or say certain things about events or situations that occur is that they judge everything by their own moral standards. When we look at the attempt to overturn the ballot in 2020 is the fact that most if not all of these people believed the lie about the steal because given the chance they would have done that very deed. They were in fact, engaged in stealing the election because they were convinced that the opposing side had no better morals than themselves. 

  It is never hard to convince a cheater to cheat, a liar to lie, or a thief to steal, they are convinced when they start that is what everyone else would. None of them have enough honor or honesty to understand either of those words let alone the concept behind those words. To do those things, lie, cheat, steal are all power grabs and the people behind that effort in DC in 06 as well as the people who fell for the bs were looking to gain power over others even though everything showed they had lost before they got started. Once caught in the deed they all wanted to point fingers or plead ignorance to get out of being punished for their crimes. Taking responsibility for one’s actions is not permitted. We always have to be the one that is picked on even when we are the bully. 

  Now that this entire mess is being pushed to the Supreme Court we all have to wonder if that body will do their duty and follow the simple clear language used in the Constitution or figure out a way to side step and pass the buck or give in to Trump’s demands. Keep in mind that if Presidential immunity is granted then Biden could order that the competition be gone and there is nothing that could be done about it. The other possible ramification is that the election is held, Trump gets to be dictator and the members of the court are expendable as they are seen as a liability not an asset. 

  The rich and all mighty seem to get away with one hell of a lot that the rest of us could not begin to try let alone be forgiven of, so we can only hope that justice does matter and that this episode in politics closes without further drama. Civil War has been mentioned and that is rather stupid because by the time the smoke clears we will no longer be able to call the shots no matter who comes out on top. For forever there have been people on this earth that want to dominate the US and a war with ourselves is the perfect opportunity for someone to get the upper hand.  None of the people that want to get that hand will want to deal with Trump so a Civil War is not going to get him what he wants either.

  He needs to put his big boy pants on and get used to being known as the loser that he really is.

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The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is widely considered one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Built continuously from the third century BCE to the 17th century CE, this series of walls and natural barriers stretches for around 13,000 miles. (Still, despite a persistent myth, it is not visible from the moon or space, at least not with the naked eye.) The Great Wall was originally the idea of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China, who wished to protect the country from barbarian attacks from the north. 

Under his orders, many older, unconnected state walls and fortifications were removed and a number of existing walls were joined into a single system stretching from the eastern Hebei province to Gansu province in the west. The wall itself was 15 to 30 feet high, topped with ramparts of at least 12 feet, with guard towers distributed at regular intervals. Much of the Great Wall that we now see was constructed during the powerful Ming dynasty, starting from around 1474. Today, the most famous and iconic section of the Great Wall of China is located 43 miles northwest of Beijing. This section was rebuilt in the late 1950s and now attracts thousands of tourists every day.

Do you think they will do the right thing?

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  The Colorado Supreme Court has made the decision that Trump engaged in an insurrection and can not be on the ballot to be elected to any office according to the Constitution. Many other states have the issue waiting for a decision by their courts but have not gone forward with it. What next?

  So the Supreme Court should now take up the issue. Will they follow the plain language of the Constitution or follow the guidance of who put them on the bench and not pay the law any attention? If they find that he cannot be on the ballot it will no doubt cause some sort of problems for the weaker minded folks that were willing to vote for him. If they find in his favor then they have effectively put themselves out of business. He wants to be a dictator and the last thing he needs is a branch of government that acts as a conscience getting in his way. Even if they do vote to allow him on the ballot it is no guarantee that he will win, but the years of nonsense we will be put through while he contests will be ridiculous just like everything else that has to do with Trump.

  We keep hearing about the deep state and how the government has been weaponized and all this other scare tactic crap. The DOJ is doing what they are doing because the law of the nation demands that it be done, not because of the President. As far as deep state goes the only person or group that is involved in secret, dark efforts in reference to the election is Donald Trump and the GOP. If they can preach that nonsense enough times then the lemmings will follow and believe the crap.When someone has taken our politics and election efforts and invited or accepted interference by a foreign power then they are the ones guilty of dark state crimes, and the person that did that is Trump, no one else but him. He has sold his soul and our liberty for the sake of personal power and to keep his ego from suffering the truth which is that most don’t want him and we all wish he would just go away.

  The need of the nation is to put common sense laws in place in all states. The re-establishment of the term “All Created Equal” and separate our politics from all religious doctrine. The Constitution calls for a separation of church and state and we need that to happen to be able to make reasonable laws for all to follow. Each religion has some point of view that is incompatible with logic and that means religion cannot and should not be allowed into the business of running a nation. The idea of having religion govern is nonsense and makes as much sense and having rectal octomosis which is when your optic nerve and your rectum get crossed up and it gives you a shitty outlook on life. 

In the early years of the French Revolution, a revolutionary named Henri Grégoire conducted a survey of language throughout the fledgling republic and discovered a concerning truth: Most people living in France at the time didn’t actually speak French. On June 4, 1794, Grégoire reported the results of his survey to the revolutionary assembly, stating that there were no more than 3 million French speakers (11% of the population), and even fewer who were able to write it. In fact, the language was spoken more in the Netherlands and German states than it was in some parts of France.

Instead, a majority of French people spoke local dialects — for instance, a large southern population spoke Occitan, a Romance language influenced by Latin. This was seen as particularly embarrassing for the revolutionary cause, as three years earlier, diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand declared that “the multitude of corrupt dialects, the last remnants of feudalism, will be forced to disappear: necessity dictates so.” Grégoire’s survey only added fuel to the fire. Little more than a month after the survey, the revolutionary administration declared that “no public act may be written (or registered) other than in the French language, in any part of the territory of the Republic.” Luckily, France’s linguistic multiculturalism survived the prescriptive onslaught, and regional languages such as Occitan and Basque flourish to this day. 

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

 Saw an item about a boy in Mississippi that was with his mother at an appointment in a legal office when the urge to relieve himself hit. This office had no public restrooms, the boy’s mother was a client, does that not change your status? At any rate he could not be allowed to use the restroom so he went outside and tried to hide behind his mothers car and take care of business. Unfortunately he was seen by a Police Officer that arrested him and he was taken to court and put on probation for urinating in public. If you have not guessed it yet, the boy is black. Jim Crow lives. 

  Viewed a podcast about investing in AI. The basic story is that if you do not invest you will miss out and if you miss out then you will become one of the millions that will be on welfare. The reason, of course, is that AI is going to take over all the tasks that the rest of us have been making a living doing and we will all be out of work. 

  Great idea for the owners of businesses to project that they can put robots in to do the work, make the products, drive the trucks and all that and that the robots will require no breaks, medical insurance, vacation time, etc etc etc. The part of the equation I fail to understand is who is going to buy these products if we are all on welfare and only getting enough to survive? Maybe the people that are going to get rich from this will become benevolent and disperse some of their wealth to the rest of society so that we can at least enjoy all our leisure time, a little anyway.

  It may be a bit far fetched but AI will have a purpose when we begin leaving this planet to colonize other planets in other systems. That will be the job of the AI’s to send forward as much as possible to help mankind get established in our new homes and they will be expendable to remain on earth no matter how bad things get until the end. That is counting on a great many things going in very specific directions but the idea is at least a useful purpose for robots that need very little or no human intervention. 

  The idea that AI can supplant humans and we are all going to become redundant and there is still a fortune to be made in this environment leaves some very large holes in the thought process. AI assistance I can understand but full on replacement seems unrealistic. Hopefully one of the uses for this technology will not be to wage war but I am guessing waging war will be one of the first uses. 

  All this machine takeover will provide lots of time for mankind to do what? Will we have the ability and intelligence to spend that time getting educated for our next leap forward or will we be so poverty stricken that we spend our time doing as we do today, waging war to claim others riches, blaming others for our misfortunes and shortfalls, and taking our frustrations out on any and all that are not strong enough to defend themselves, like children.

  This advancement of technology is going to cause a great deal of discomfort among those that do not have the presents to realize that all the problems of the world are not answered in a book that was written 2000 years ago and that has not addressed any issue dealing with mechanized society.