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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
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Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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- View From The Porch
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- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
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- Insert Title Here
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- As Seen Near TV!
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- Interplanetary Tramline: The Aldrin Cycler
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- Roku/Kindle Fire/Prime
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- A Modicum Of Success
- But I Didn't Talk Bad About Your Job...!
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"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
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5 comments:
I've always thought it ironic that Lt. Tyler wound up (IIRC) as a colonel in NORAD.
On the other hand, if there was ever a man on the planet who would know about "paying attention to the radar", it would be him.
Some of us still remember that it's a "Day which will live in Infamy."
Good point.
From what I can make out, the problem of ignoring the RADAR was mostly a problem with Command&Control not knowing how to use the tool.
Yep. RADAR was shiny-new at the time (it was still an acronym!) and the guy in the best position to know thought the incoming pips were a training (IIRC) flight returning or something equally innocuous.
Better-integrated and more suspicious Traffic Control might have shortened the war in the Pacific -- I think it still would have played out very much along Hector Bywater's predictions.
The problem is that the people of this country wanted peace so badly that they didn't believe that they would ever be attacked. Once attacked, they went into a frenzy and demanded all sorts of ridiculous things that stripped people of their civil rights, like the internment camps.
Same thing happened in 2001. Funny how nothing changes. We are simply doomed to repeat history.
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