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Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:14 am to Radio One
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another fine day on the Rant
Posted on 5/9/25 at 9:44 pm to Armymann50
Evening All I hope you all have a Great weekend. 
Posted on 5/10/25 at 6:04 am to OK Roughneck
Morning all from CVG
Posted on 5/10/25 at 7:11 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 5/10/25 at 11:17 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: May 10
1285 Philip III of Spain is succeeded by Philip IV ("the Fair").
1503 Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.
1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.
1775 American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and issues paper currency for 1st time
1840 Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri.
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president.
1933 Nazis begin burning books by "unGerman" writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
1940 German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.
1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.
2008 Philippine court acquits Imelda Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts
2020 Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 rise above 4 million with death toll above 270,000, according to Johns Hopkins
2021 World Health Organization classifies the Indian COVID-19 variant B.1.617 as a variant of global concern
Born on May 10
1730 George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
1899 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer and actor.
JOTD
I’m posing nude for an art class this evening.
Nobody asked me to.
Posted on 5/10/25 at 3:41 pm to kywildcatfanone
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CVG
What where is that?
Afternoon All
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:22 am to OK Roughneck
Good morning
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:23 am to Rockbrc
Oops, forgot-Happy Mother’s Day
Posted on 5/11/25 at 6:25 am to Rockbrc
Morning all from the Caribbean sea
Posted on 5/11/25 at 7:35 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning!
Posted on 5/11/25 at 7:39 am to kywildcatfanone
niiiiiice, good morning!
where at in the Caribbean ??
where at in the Caribbean ??
Posted on 5/11/25 at 8:57 am to Armymann50
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1940 German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.
The danger of assuming the war will go exactly like you planned... see Russia invading the Ukraine as a modern example.
The French did not want to fight the second World War on their turf merci beaucoup. So they would wall off most of their border and lure the Germans into fighting them... in Belgium.
The problem is that the French were so blatantly obvious about what they were going to do the Nazis had plenty of time to develop a plan to capitalize on the French movie.
Lure the French (and the small BEF, almost all the ground units Britain had in the European theater) into Belgium, and then cut through the Ardennes Forest and "pocket" the cream of the French Army and all of Britain's.
Which is exactly what they did. To make matters worse the French generals were past their prime. By which I mean they made Biden and Trump seem like 30 year olds. They were unable to adapt to new German tactics... until younger French generals were elevated to replace them. By then it was too late, even though the tactics the French developed then were the ones the Soviets, US, and British would use to maul the Nazis later on.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 9:13 am to teamjackson
Headed to cozumel, then Roatan
Posted on 5/11/25 at 2:34 pm to kywildcatfanone
Nice! We're hitting up Puerto Vallarta in November, heard it's amazing (even though that's not the Caribbean)
Posted on 5/11/25 at 4:54 pm to BlindedMeWithScience
Happy mothers day to all you mother frickers.
Posted on 5/11/25 at 8:54 pm to kywildcatfanone
Have a Great trip !!
Posted on 5/12/25 at 3:03 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: May 12
1588 King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city.
1863 With a victory at the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, Union General Ulysses S. Grant closes in on Vicksburg.
1865 The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory.
1932 The body of Charles Lindbergh's baby is found.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by "Bill W.," a stockbroker, and "Dr. Bob S.," a heart surgeon.
1940 The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Musee River.
1949 The Berlin Blockade ends.
1969 Viet Cong sappers try unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam.
2020 Russia's confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 232,000, 2nd highest in the world, a day after President Vladimir Putin eased the country's lockdown
2020 Wuhan, epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, draws up plans to test all 11 million residents after it records a new cluster of 6 cases
2022 North Korea orders a national lockdown after confirming its first COVID-19 cases with the Omicron variant. International experts doubt these the first, express concern for its unvaccinated 25 million population
2023 US pandemic-era expulsion policy Title 42, which expelled most migrants, expires
Born on May 12
1820 Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer.
1907 Katherine Hepburn, actress (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen).
1925 Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter Berra), baseball player and coach.
Joke of the Day
A police officer pulls over a speeding car...
The officer says, I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir.” The driver says, “Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.” Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: “Now don’t be silly, dear, you know that this car doesn’t have cruise control.”
As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, “Can’t you please keep your mouth shut for once?”
The wife smiles demurely and says, “You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.”
As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, “Darn it, woman, can’t you keep your mouth shut?”
The officer frowns and says, “And I notice that you’re not wearing your seat belt, sir. That’s an automatic $75 fine.”
The driver says, “Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.”
The wife says, “Now, dear, you know very well that you didn’t have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you’re driving.”
And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, “WHY DON’T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??”
The officer looks over at the woman and asks, “Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma’am?”
“Only when he’s been drinking.”
Posted on 5/12/25 at 4:15 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Big Thank You to Army
Big Thank You to Army
Posted on 5/12/25 at 6:36 am to Rockbrc
Gooooood morning
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