BY JORG TOTSGI, CLALLAM TRIBE, Editor of the Real American, Hoquiam Washington.
The story was then picked up by the Associated Press.
US flyers flew from Paris to London.
The London Conference opened to address the Dawes Plan.
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Democrats don't lose elections, they throw them away.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw. We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, whom we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.
The compassion owed to someone apparently in the cruel grip of an inexorably advancing disease that destroys selfhood should not obscure this fact: Biden’s malady is not robbing the nation of either an impressive political talent or a singularly public-spirited official. Biden was a mediocrity in his 1980s prime, when his first lunge for the presidency quickly collapsed, as his second would in 2008, and as his third almost did after he finished fifth in New Hampshire’s primary in 2020. In the office he eventually attained, he has chosen his defining legacy: the self-absorption of his refusal to leave the public stage gracefully.
Biden was only elected in 2020 as he seemed to be a safe, one term, President when it was assumed that Donald Trump would go away. Not gracefully, but still away. That's proven false. Biden is four years older and no longer the hope that he once was. Democrats have had four years to find a replacement for the aging Biden, but Biden is standing in the way, just as Trump refuses to go away and allow his party to form into something stable.
Also blistering was the article from the slightly left of center Atlantic, which noted, in an article using a Biden line as its title C'mon Man!:
Never underestimate the destructive power of a stubborn old narcissist with something to prove.
Ideally no one gets hurt along the way: Maybe grandpop refuses to give up his license, drives into an oak tree, and only the car gets totaled. But sometimes there are casualties: Maybe a pedestrian gets hit.
President Joe Biden, 81, is acting like one of history’s most negligent and pigheaded leaders at a crucial moment, and right now, we are all pedestrians.
In contrast to this you have those Democrats boldy saying "nothing to see here". An interesting example of that is the most recent post of Robert Reich which insists its only Democratic donors who want Biden out.
Not hardly, Bob.
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The editorial board of The New York Times has declared Donald Trump "unfit to lead".
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The GOP has released its platform:
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Last night, I spoke with Donald Trump. I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering. And we had a short but good conversation.Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers.We also extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim who was killed. He was a father. He was protecting his family from the bullets that were being fired, and he lost his life. God love him.We’re also praying for the full recovery of those who were injured. And we’re grateful to the Secret Service agents and other law enforcement agencies who — and individuals who risked their lives, literally, for our nation.As I said last night, there is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence for that matter.An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a na- — as a nation. Everything. It’s not who we are as a nation. It’s not America, and we cannot allow this to happen.Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is important than that right now — unity.We’ll debate, and we’ll disagree. That’s not — that’s not going to change. But it’s going to — we’re going to not lose sight of the fact of who we are as Americans.Look, Vice President Harris and I were just briefed in the Situation Room by my homeland security team, including the director of the FBI, the secretary of Homeland Security, the attorney general, the director of the Secret Service, my homeland security advisor, the national security advisor. And we’re going to continue to be briefed.The FBI is leading this investigation, which is still in its early stages. We don’t yet have any information about the motive of the shooter. We know who he is. I urge everyone — everyone, please, don’t make assumptions about his motives or his affiliations.Let the FBI do their job, and their partner agencies do their job. I’ve instructed that this investigation be thorough and swift. And the investigators will have every resource they need to get this done.Look, as this investigation continues, here’s what we’re going to do.First, Mr. Trump, as a former president and nominee of the Republican Party already receives a heightened level of security, and I have been consistent in my direction to the Secret Service to provide him with every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to ensure his continued safety.Second, I’ve directed the head of the Secret Service to review all security measures for the — all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to start tomorrow.And third, I’ve directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday’s rally to assess exactly what happened. And we’ll share the results of that independent review with the American people as well.And, finally, I’ll be speaking more about this tonight at greater length from the Oval Office: We must unite as one nation. We must unite as one nation to demonstrate who we are.And so, may God bless you all. And may God protect our troops.Thank you very much.
A really interesting look at Jewish marriages in the time of Jesus, and before:
508. Fr Joe Krupp QC: Weddings, marriage and divorce in the time of Jesus | March 22, 2023
Claus von Stauffenberg attempted an assassination attempt on Hitler for the second time, this time at the Wolf's Lair, but Hitler left the meeting that was targeted early and von Stauffenberg hurriedly recovered the bomb.
After this attempt, the only criteria on going forward with the plan was that Hitler be present.
The Second Battle of Odon began with a British offensive in their sector of Normandy.
The French took Poggibonsi in Italy.
The Battle of Nietjärvi began with a Red Army attack on Finnish positions.
The SAS raid on Symi ended in an Allied victory, achieving more than it had set out to do, including the wasteful deployment of German resources.
Japanese troops commenced atrocities on Guam, killing 16 out of 30 people of the village of Merizo. They herded them into a cave and threw in hand grenades.
Task Force 74 bombarded Japanese positions near Aitape, New Guinea.
The U-319 was sunk by a B-24 of the RAF in the North Sea.
Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, 53, famous French aviator, died from the after effects of Gestapo torture while he was held by the Germans.
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The Irish Free State freed prisoners associated with the Irish Civil War, including Éamon de Valera.
The British and Italian governments signed an agreement ceding certain Somilian territory to Italy as a reward for the country's participation in World War One.
The U.S. Army, having exceeded the number of troops allowed under the law at the time, 120,000, suspended recruiting.
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President Roosevelt addressed the French people on it being Bastille Day:
July 14, 1944
Once again I salute, on Bastille Day, the heroic people of France.
July 14 this year is different, for we hope that it is the last fourteenth of July that France will suffer under German occupation. With full confidence, I look forward that the French people on July 14, 1945, will celebrate their great national fete on French soil, liberated alike from the invader and from the puppets of Vichy.
For the great battle of liberation is now engaged. It is a battle resolutely waged by the American, British, and Canadian forces, together with the valiant fighters of the home French, who have already contributed so greatly to the success of the operations. At the same time gallant French fighting forces are carrying on the victorious struggle in Italy, joined in traditional unity with their comrades of the American Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army.
Here, on this side o.[ the Atlantic, the fourteenth of July, 1944, offers an equally great spectacle of the indissoluble unity and the deep friendship of the American and French peoples.
Together, the French and American peoples stand today, united as they have always been when the cause of freedom was endangered.
Together, we shall win, and France shall be free!
U.S. Navy frogman began to recon Guam.
The Red Army captured Pinsk. Vilnius was fully occupied, and Operation Ostra Brama by the Polish Home Army concluded. Internment of the Polish partisans would start on July 15.
Sarah Sundin's blog has some interesting entries today, including that Japan started conscripting women and girls down to age 12 for war work.
The funeral of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. occured in France.
The 10th was still training in the US at the time.
Druze actress and singer Amal al-Atrash (آمال الأطرش) known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان) died in a tragic car wreck when the car in which she was a passenger crashed into the Suez Canal. Her professional life had been spent in Egypt.
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Forest fires in Washington, California, Idaho and British Columbia killed 35 people.
The Tungus Republic was declared within the Khabarovsk Krai and part of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union in Siberia. Armed rebels against the Soviet state had been in action since May 10.
Alvey A. Adee, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State from 1886 until June 30, 1924, died at age 81. He was the model for the fictional detective, Nero Wolfe.
On Bastille Day for 1924, a monument to French African soldiers who served in World War One was dedicated in Reims. The Germans destroyed it during World War Two.
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The best posts of the politically dramatic week of July 7, 2024.
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Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.
T. K. Whipple
The Red Army's Vilnius Offensive ended in a Red Army victory. Polish Home Army troops that had staged a rebellion in Vilnius itself against the Germans were arrested by the Soviets.
The Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive began.
The Germans burned down the Kovno Ghetto's hospital.
Sarah Sundin reports on a number of interesting items:
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U.S. administration of the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1916, ended with the inauguration of Horacio Vásquez.
Indeed, if I had power for some thirty years I would see to it that people should be allowed to follow their inbred instincts in these matters, and should hunt, drink, sing, dance, sail, and dig, and those that would not should be compelled by force.
Hillaire Belloc
