1 Once again....well done (for a Texan).

He was the greatest statesman of the 20th century, rivaled only by Ronald Reagan.

2 Somebody needs to play Churchill today a sound the alarm in ways that every LiV can understand.

3 What was that, Clint? He wasn't loading up on those punches!

4 That wasn't the Iron Curtain to die on.

5 My poem for Winston Churchill

Into the looming dark
My old friend Winston gazed
Come hither friend and see the light!
He said with finger raised

So straining hard and squinting then
I saw a glimmer spare
By and by it closer came
Soon it would be here

It seemed so much a phantom
Floating there upon the mist
But as its bearing yielded not
I saw his satÂ’ric twist

The light was firm embedded
Upon a giant of wrath
And there on either side of me
Were rails that bound its path

I turned to see my world of love
In peril dire and dread
And wondered why I tarried so
When IÂ’d much warning had

Dear Winston tried to make a point
He did so as a Tao
That sometimes perils come as light
And recognize it now

For soon your group enlightenment
May be your abrogation
ThereÂ’s never peace where justice fails
And giants presage your nation

6 Churchill was clueless regarding economics.  A good War-time PM though.

7

wasn't he busted for wood in the White House? I'm confoozed

8 Goodnight all. A glass to toast Chavez' passing. That's all.

9

"He just couldn't see far enough past that, to our present dilemma."

Bet he could have if you let him think about for a while. Don't forget, Obamacare came to England c 1948

10 by the way, Churchill smoked, so his opinions no longer count. Yeah, I know, Stalin smoked but only because of the many job pressures he had to face every day. Ditto Che and Fidel

11 re 10: Mary Cloggenstein would agree with me about this.

12 There were many fond references to hopes of the United Nations, sprinkled with fops about an"international armed force"

I think you mean 'sops.'

A fop is a dandy.

/pedant_off

13 ...came to England c 1948 They kept the beds to commemorate that event.

14 re 13: but I believe they changed the sheets for the Queen's 75th birthday

15 Oh, you Capitalists! All you want to do is transfer wealth to the rich and keep everyone else poor! I keep on compromising and yet you still keep on moving the goal posts! Enjoy it while you can, because I'll make sure that we will steal your youths away from you, and even elect a communist who claims to want "Hope & Change"

16

an"international armed force" based on Anglo-American dominance.

 

Sounds pretty sweet right   about now.

17 Rick Perry on Greta.

This is the man (off pain meds) I wanted as President.

18 YAWN!  WHY DOES EVERY NEOCON WORSHIP DEAD WHITE MEN?!

*SPIT*

19 Caps make me feel important. So does letting Cousin Johnny put it in me.

20 this little nothing post got insane Kay worked up? I can sleep happy.

21 Reading Churchill's WWII memoirs right now. I'm on The Hinge of Fate, presently.


Stalin was quite the ungrateful, pushy dick. As Hitler's ally, the Brits and others warned him of the imminent betrayal, which ignored. After Hitler invaded Russia and the situation made him England's ally, they volunteered to send material aid to their former enemy. It was never enough.


He reminds me of someone...

22

Churchill's speech as taught in progressive schools:

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic... lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie... in one form or another... and, in some cases, ... free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation... on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place... which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control... and so far,.. there is no true democracy.

23 Kay, are you white? Is that, ouchy?

24 Posted by: mallfly at March 05, 2013 10:14 PM (jDjlM) Okay, give over, which MFM outlet do you work for?

25

Rick Perry on Greta. This is the man (off pain meds) I wanted as President.

 

I was pumped for him in 2012 too. But "It was the pain pills, baby, you know I loves you" ain't gonna work.

 

When the right candidate comes along, we'll know it. We won't have to make excuses  for their behavior.

 

 

26 Posted by: fluffy at March 05,2013 10:14 PM(z9HTb) I only got about half way through "Gathering Storm". It took more focus to get through than I had to give while reading during John's radiation treatments, but the eerie sense of living though what he was writing about was pretty hard to handle too.

27 re 27: just a gift.

28 Churchill was the greatest statesman of the last 1000 years.  He stood alone against Hitler and he saw the Soviet Union for the evil it was.

29

Winston Churchill, the most brilliant and accomplished statesman ever to walk the earth. His memoirs grace my bookshelves and his portrait graces my living room wall. The man was absolute greatness.

 

30

@fluffy:

I've read through the six volume cycle twice, once twenty years ago and again last year.  Churchill gets smarter as I get older. 

He is understandably biased and overstates British contributions in the later parts of the war when it was US dominance that prevailed in two theaters, but there is no overstating the resolve it took to stand alone as the last free rock in Europe when the rest of the world fell to Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito. 

One of the few truly indispensable men of history.