26th April 1937: Guernica and the Condor Legion make the news

@Mallery29:

We made some news out on deployment. Good reading for all.  Also, Navy just promoted its first female to 4-star Admiral.

Thanks for the article and congratulations to Admiral Michelle J. Howard.  She’s apparently been appointed to a prestigious job too: Vice-Chief of Naval Operations, which I think is the second-highest position in the Navy.

Normandy Invasion was in first, but in the end could only muster fourth place at the Kentucky Derby.  The owners of said horse had feelings very similar to those of us who ever dare to play Allies in G40.  We, too, always feel like we could have won but instead finish in fourth place.  Just sayin.  ;)

Or maybe this one…

http://www.butiamletired.com/

Sorry EM, I was avoiding this thread as long as possible, but did have to do the correction when I saw it.

Oh, one final comment on the DJIA…

The past 8ish years:  DJIA is down about 4%
The previous 8ish years, the DJIA TRIPLED in value

I’ll let everyone decide how they want to evaluate that; but I do of course have my own opinions on it (unfortunately they are political and relate to true Fiscal Conservatives controlling Congress and a President more concerned with Fracking his interns instead of Fracking the rest of us)

Traffic parts for Jack Bauer.

I noticed that the report showing the Iraq war was increasing terrorism was closely trailed by the “but…if we lose, it will be worse.”

My first impression was that the “rider” to that report was released later to show why Iraq is necessary, and we can’t be done with it.

However, I find it difficult to understand how they know an Iraq pullout would increase terrorism.  How is it possible?  Furthermore, that doesn’t excuse why we got into it in the first place.

I watch Fox, CNN, BBC and ABC when I can. I figure between the four of them, I get the vast majority of the actual facts and they’ll contradict each other on their spin. Kinda like white noise filtering out the spin while the facts slip through.

Agencies I avoid like the plague:

CBS (can we say Dan Rather? Can we say 3 instances of falsified reports either purposly or because of ineptitude in their reporting ability during the elections? Can we say spin???)

I also tend to avoid NBC/MSNBC mainly because it’s owned by Microsoft and I don’t trust corporations that sell products or services to protray the news correctly.

While I have tons of reasons to distrust Spanish, French, German and Canadian news agencies, from their actual papers, I’ll refrain from specifics because I don’t have enough time to sit around scanning articles into PDF form and posting them right now. Suffice it to say, the fiction they print in their daily periodicals is humorous at best, evil at worst.

As long as FOX News doesn’t get “liberalized” it’s all kosher… :wink: