Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Kamala's elephant in the room
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Happy # 80 Graig Nettles
In 1973, he became a Yankee and that's where he had some wonderful years: 250 HR & 834 RBI in 1,539 games.
Nettles was also a superb third baseman winning a couple of Gold Gloves Awards and a key part of the New York teams that played in the 1976, 1977, 1978 & 1981 World Series.
He retired with 390 HR & 1,314 RBI.
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Hank Aaron and Eddie Matthews hit 863 homeruns as teammates
On this day in 1965, Eddie Mathews hit # 28 to lead the Braves to a win 4-3 at Pittsburgh.
Matthew's home run gave the Matthews-Aaron duo (1954-66) a total of 772 home runs as teammates. They passed Ruth and Gehrig that day.
Aaron & Matthews ended up with 863 home runs in their 13 years together with the Braves. Matthews retired in 1968 and Aaron played until 1976.
Matthews came up with the Boston Braves but enjoyed his biggest years in Milwaukee. He led the National League with 47 home runs in 1953, the team's first year in Milwaukee. Aaron came up in 1954 and hit 755 career home runs.
Aaron & Matthews played in the World Series in 1957 & 1958. It was Matthews who caught the last out to beat the Yankees in 1957.
Great teammates!
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DNC thoughts, Inflation is a factor plus more stories
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Prague 1968: Cuban regime supports the USSR as Soviet Tanks crush freedom
The USSR and The Warsaw Pact are now history. It all collapsed at the end of 1991. In other words, most young people younger than 35 have no emotional involvement with what we grew up with. They’ve probably never heard of the Berlin Wall or the 1956 Hungarian revolution or the atrocities of communism. Prague is now the capital of the Czech Republic and Slovakia is another country. It all seems like a past so long ago.
Some of us are old enough to remember this week when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring.”
It was a dark day for freedom. Like the Hungarians in 1956, the people of Czechoslovakia were given a taste of Soviet “tolerance.” The “Prague Spring” was all about freedom and reforms but the Kremlin did not accept it and sent the tanks in.
A sad day for those of us who were watching from the West, especially when Fidel Castro defended the USSR. by saying among many things that the country was “…..heading toward a counter-revolutionary situation, toward capitalism and into the arms of imperialism.”
We remember today all the people who stood up to Soviet tanks in Prague. And we remember more victims of communism.
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August 1968: Tanks head to Prague
(My new American Thinker post)
The USSR and the Warsaw Pact are now history. It all collapsed at the end of 1991. In other words, most people younger than 35 have no emotional involvement with what we grew up with. They’ve probably never heard of the Berlin Wall or the 1956 Hungarian revolution or the atrocities of communism. Prague is now the capital of the Czech Republic and Slovakia is another country. It all seems like a past so long ago.
Some of us are old enough to remember this week when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring.”
My father had a friend from Prague who escaped a few months later. He was often at our home listening to news reports on my dad's Telefunken short-wave radio. That's what we used to do before the internet and cable news.
The invasion was a dark day for freedom. Like the Hungarians in 1956, the people of Czechoslovakia were given a taste of Soviet “tolerance.” The “Prague Spring” was all about freedom and reforms, but the Kremlin did not accept it and sent the tanks in.
A sad day for those of us who were watching from the West, especially when Fidel Castro defended the USSR by saying among many things that the country was “….heading toward a counter-revolutionary situation, toward capitalism and into the arms of imperialism.”
We remember today all the people who stood up to Soviet tanks in Prague. And all the other victims of communism.
1940: Leon Trotsky killed in Mexico
Like others of his generation, he embraced Marxism as a teenager and became a political activist. Later, he opposed Stalin and was banished from the USSR forever.
After four years in Turkey, Trotsky lived in France, Norway and was granted asylum in Mexico in 1936. During this time in exile, he was found guilty of treason in absentia during Stalin’s purges.
On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was killed in Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist. The USSR denied responsibility, and Mercader was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Mexico.
Did Stalin have Trotsky killed? We can't prove it but it's very likely in my opinion.