Bad Website: http://www.bobjones.org/
Good:http://www.masterschool.org/
Interesting:http://gobarbra.com/
Shazam: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Assignment # 11
This i believe:
That there was a time when men were men. When you could go to a barber and get a five dollar haircut and good company. When you could trust someone when they gave you their word. When if someone said something you didn't like you could punch them in the face without getting sued. I believe that people have given up on fighting for things like honor and freedom and dying for the love of their woman. I believe that we can learn from the past because history is bound to repeat itself, and that progress stopped somewhere in the last forty years. I believe that even if the world turns into some 1984ish horrible hellhole that as long as men die, freedom never will. That personal freedom begins with economic freedom. I believe that you can judge a person's worth by how they treat their mother. That ninety percent of my problems have been my fault. That the thing that happens while you're listening to a song and makes you laugh or cry really is magic. That I'll beat up the first person who breaks my sister's heart even though we fight all the time. That old people are the best people. That noone will ever be cooler than Clint Eastwood. I believe that noone can ever ever ever change what you think without your permission, they can change how you act, and how you dress, and how you behave, but noone can ever make you love them, and noone can ever make you respect them without you choosing to on your own. I wish that i believed in altruism, but i don't.
That there was a time when men were men. When you could go to a barber and get a five dollar haircut and good company. When you could trust someone when they gave you their word. When if someone said something you didn't like you could punch them in the face without getting sued. I believe that people have given up on fighting for things like honor and freedom and dying for the love of their woman. I believe that we can learn from the past because history is bound to repeat itself, and that progress stopped somewhere in the last forty years. I believe that even if the world turns into some 1984ish horrible hellhole that as long as men die, freedom never will. That personal freedom begins with economic freedom. I believe that you can judge a person's worth by how they treat their mother. That ninety percent of my problems have been my fault. That the thing that happens while you're listening to a song and makes you laugh or cry really is magic. That I'll beat up the first person who breaks my sister's heart even though we fight all the time. That old people are the best people. That noone will ever be cooler than Clint Eastwood. I believe that noone can ever ever ever change what you think without your permission, they can change how you act, and how you dress, and how you behave, but noone can ever make you love them, and noone can ever make you respect them without you choosing to on your own. I wish that i believed in altruism, but i don't.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Great Captains #2
Erwin Rommel (Dessert Fox): 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
He was a highly decorated officer in World War I, and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his exploits on the Italian front. In World War II, he further distinguished himself as the commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the 1940 invasion of France. However, it was his leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign that established the legend of the Desert Fox. He is considered to have been one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare in the conflict He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion in Normandy.
As one of the few generals who consistently fought the Western Allies (he was never assigned to the Eastern Front), Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.
Late in the war, Rommel was linked to the conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler Because Rommel was widely renowned, Hitler chose to eliminate him quietly; in trade for assurances his family would be spared, Rommel agreed to commit suicide.
As one of the few generals who consistently fought the Western Allies (he was never assigned to the Eastern Front), Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.
Late in the war, Rommel was linked to the conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler Because Rommel was widely renowned, Hitler chose to eliminate him quietly; in trade for assurances his family would be spared, Rommel agreed to commit suicide.
Great Captains #1
Patton: November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. "
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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