Posts

Showing posts with the label Biographies

Navy Veteran Taking On Maxine Waters For House Seat: ‘She’s Lost A Lot Of Trust’ Of Her Constituents

Image
Navy veteran Joe E. Collins is a pro-President Donald Trump Republican and he has raised more than $3 million to rid the nation of the political career of Waters, Fox News reported. “You would think that when you are a Black leader in the Black community, your primary responsibility is to ensure that the people that are in your district have what they need in order to survive during times like COVID-19, but, unfortunately, that has not been the case,” he said. “We have tons of black-owned businesses here in Los Angeles that have not been able to receive any type of business. Not from the state, not from the city, not from the federal government. The majority of the reason is because of Maxine Waters,” he added. “People want to see Maxine Waters gone,” Collins said. “Coming back home and seeing things considerably worse, especially with the homeless pandemic, the lack of quality jobs, and our education being among dead last in our country,” Collins said. “The ...

The Granddaddy of Blitzkrieg

Image
Bird's eye view of a Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg ("Lightning War") was the doctrine that secured Nazi Germany's stunning and totally lopsided victories early in WW2 against opponents with a significant to huge numerical superiority, namely France and the USSR. It was a sophisticated system that used modern technology across the board, when many armies around the world still were more-or-less unchanged since the time of Napoleon. Hard training, good weapons, reliable radios, and most important, outstanding leadership by generals such as Guderian, Rommel, and von Manstein made the German army irresistible. While these officers were master practitioners of Blitzkrieg and among the most famous of the panzer generals, they owed it all to a petite, trim, owlish-looking man named Hans von Seeckt.

Stanley Kubrick: A Flawed Genius

Image
Stanley Kubrick trying his best...to look like a camera In between the Golden Age of Hollywood that ended in the late 50's and the New Hollywood that began in the early 70's, to me, one director stands out: Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was the creative force behind many of the most significant and iconic films ever made, and to this day, his work is closely studied in film schools and discussed elsewhere worldwide. A jack-of-all-trades and a master of most, Kubrick directed, wrote or co-wrote, and produced the majority of his films, most of which even the most casual movie-goer has seen, or at least heard of. Kid Kubrick into his work NYC hot dog gobblers A showgirl shows her shoe Kubrick always liked a good mask Although never having a formal education in his chosen profession, Kubrick demonstrated his innate talents at an early age as an amateur and then professional photographer, and his photographer's eye remained with him for ...

General George S. Patton

Image
George S. Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following D-Day: the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Patton Speech Patton - A Genius for War