December 31

406 - Vandals, Alans and Sueves invaded Roman Gaul.

**Time for a history lesson:

The Alans or Alani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian Language
- The Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (the second form is mostly used by early Greek writers, the other by the later Greeks and the Romans) were a people whom Herodotus put on the eastern boundary of Scythia beyond the Tanais (Don River). They were Iranian people akin to the Scythians (Saka).
- Scythia was an area in Eurasia inhabited in ancient times by an Iranian people known as Scythians. The location and extent of Scythia varied over time from the Altai region where Mongolia, China, Russia and Kazakhstan come together to the lower Danube River area and Bulgaria. Saka are Asian Scythians.

The Sueves, Suebi or Suevi were a Germanic people whose origin was near the Baltic Sea.
- The term Germanic peoples or Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. The Germanic tribes spoke mutually intelligible dialectics and shared a common mythology and story telling, for instance Beowulf and the Volsunga Saga.

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who entered the late Roman Empire, and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals probably gave their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia), in Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa.

Needless to say, by this time the Roman Empire was in its death throes, and these were just three of the many barbarian tribes in the process of overrunning it.**
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1775 - George Washington ordered recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army.

**How sad...Blacks were good enough to fight for America's independence, but not to receive it themselves.**
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1946 - President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

**Today they'd call him a publicity hound for this action...The war had been over for a year, but the killing was no where near ended.**
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1964 - Syrian-based al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched their first raid on Israel with the aim of provoking a retaliation and sparking an Arab war against Israel.

**40-years later and nothing has changed...How the Israelis have survived, surrounded by the Islamic horde, is a miracle.

The question is, can they continue. Or, how long can they continue?**
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1987 - Robert Mugabe was sworn in as Zimbabwe's first executive president.

**Mugabe may be called President by the jackasses at the U.N., but here in Peroville he is nothing more than a butcher...But then again, the rest of the world accepted Saddam Hussein as well.

In the eyes of the U.N., Mugabe's and Saddam's are good, but George Bush is bad...Which is why the U.N. is nothing more than a Circle Jerk Group.**
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1998 - Europe's leaders proclaimed a new era when eleven nations merged currencies to create the euro, a shared money they said would boost business, underpin unity and strengthen their role in world affairs.

**Many Americans are worried about how well the Euro has performed against the Dollar, but the Dollar is 'tried & true,' and the Euro is the monetary system of a group of people who will never stay together...Sure the Euro is hot right now, but long term I'd put my money on the Dollar.**
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1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation and handed power over to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

**History will be kind to Yeltsin, it will be interesting to see about Putin...So far he has proven to be a chameleon.**
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2002 - U.S. executions for the year rose from 66 to 71, with 33 in Texas.

**Of course this doesn't include fetal executions: 2001 = over 1,300,00, 2002 = over 1,300,000.

Every one of the 66 and 71 executions noted above was protested against by Leftist idiots, but I doubt if any of the 2,600,000 innocent BABIES were.**

December 30

1460 - The Battle of Wakefield: The English Duke of York was killed by Lancastrians, and Queen Margaret hung his head over the gate of the city.

**This was one of the great battles in the Wars of the Roses...Why did Margaret kill the Duke? To guarantee her son, Edward II, would succeed Henry VI as King of England.

Unfortunately for the Lancasters and Yorks neither survived the civil war, and Henry Tudor eventually won the crown.**
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1853 - The Gadsden Purchase: The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land along the Gila River from Mexico for $10 million.

**Less than 150-years later, Mexicans are attempting a Reconquista through the process of mass migration and breeding.**
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1916 - Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was drowned by the Russian Czar’s henchmen when he was thrown through a hole in the ice of the Neva River. On the night of December 29-30, they poisoned his wine, but he did not die. Then they shot him twice, but when he still refused to die, they drowned him.

**It’s amazing the ‘Mad Monk’ lived as long as he did, because previous Czars would have executed him long before Nicholas did...But in a short time we’ll see how spineless Nikki was.**
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1922 - Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR.

**What a glorious day for all of mankind, with Lenin succeeding in the formation of the worlds first and greatest Hell State.**
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1932 - The USSR barred food handouts for housewives under 36-years of age.

**And here in the U.S. many feminist whack-jobs insist on following in the footsteps of their Soviet heroes, by deriding American housewives as useless to society.**
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1959 - The first ballistic missile submarine, the USS George Washington, was commissioned.

**”Global Reach, Global Power”...By “Sea, Land or Air.”**
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1999 - After 2,000 years of hostile relations between Christians and Jews, the Vatican and Israel approved a document in which the Holy See and the Jewish State recognized each other.

**The two religions are intertwined historically (through the Old Testament), and original geographic location...They are definitely different, but similar in their concepts of ‘good and evil.’

Plus, Jesus was a Jew. As such, I don’t think it is much of a stretch to consider Christianity a Jewish subsect.**
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2006 - Saddam Hussein was executed.

**Far too few evil men have met their death at the hand of justice, and very few men have deserved such justice as Saddam Hussein did...We should be proud in being part of his downfall, and eventual extermination.**

December 29

1778 - British troops, attempting a new strategy to defeat the American Colonials, captured Savannah, capital of Georgia, in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Revolutionary War.

**The British ‘Southern Strategy’ was doomed to failure:

1. Colonial population centers were in the north.
2. France and Spain were neighbors to the south, and would do whatever it took to slap their European foe, helping the Americans by default.**
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1845 - Texas (comprised of the present state of Texas and part of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming) was admitted as the 28th state, with the provision that the area (389,166 square miles) be divided into no more than five states "of convenient size."

**America was getting closer to its 'Manifest Destiny.'**
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1890 - The Battle of Wounded Knee: The last major conflict of the Indian Wars took place at in South Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tried to disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers. Some 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to 'disarm' them.

**The Anglo-Franco-Spanish-American conquest of the American Indian is a sad, but natural occurrence...We can feel bad, and we can reminisce, but the reality of the situation is this: World history is the spread (as a result of military or demographic conquest) of people over space and time.

The American Indians are no different than the Philistines, Lydians, Hittites, Sumerians, etc, etc, etc...People come and people go. Over time, our people will as well.**
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1934 - Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

**Seven years till Pearl Harbor...It’s truly amazing how powerful this tiny island nation became, and unfortunate for itself as well.**
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1940 - In a radio interview, President Roosevelt proclaimed the U.S. as the "arsenal of democracy."

**It's too bad FDR's successors, modern-day Democrats, don’t see it this way.**
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1970 - OSHA was established by an act of Congress.

**OSHA is an enormous drag on American production, which affects everything from household income levels to Gross National Product. Of course, workplace standards are necessary, but nothing is needed with such reach and punitive power as this bureaucratic monstrosity.

What happened to Adam Smith-style economic policy? Sadly, we have allowed a pseudo-socialist economic policy to replace the tried-and-true genius of laissez-faire.**
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1998 - Two top Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the deaths of as many as two million people during their regime in the 1970s, and asked Cambodians to forget the past.

**'Forget the past'? You’ve got to be kidding me...This would be like asking the Jews to ‘forgive the Nazis.'**

December 28

856 - Vikings attacked and burned Paris.

**I wonder if this is when the Franks became French? It was less than 50-years after Charlemagne's death, yet this once mighty group of people had already become a bunch of pansies.**
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1688 - William of Orange made a triumphant march into London as James II fled.

**A bloodless coup occurred and the Glorious Revolution began a new, great, period in English history.**
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1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States.

**I say the Pledge to my flag every day, and there are few things which bring more joy to my life...I will never understand how anyone can have a problem with ‘pledging allegiance’ to this great nation through any of its symbols.**
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1950 - Advancing Chinese troops crossed the 38th Parallel, dividing line between North and South Korea, to help the communist North Koreans.

**Truman flinched...He should have allowed MacArthur do bomb the hell out of the Yalu River region, or he should have dropped a third atomic bomb and put an end to this war as soon as China got involved.

Instead, he pulled back, and allowed all of MacArthur’s gains to be lost. For this decision millions of Koreans have suffered under the Kim family of tyrants, and worldwide-communism (as well as anarchists, Islamists, etc.) was given a boost by showing it has more will than the U.S. has might.**
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1971 - The U.S. Justice Department sued Mississippi officials for ignoring the ballots of blacks.

**The same should be done for election fraud of any kind...Especially in the case of illegal alien or multiple voters.

Never forget any fraudulent ballot accepted is a counter-vote to a legit vote in its opposition...Which is exactly why the Dems push so hard to restrict voter ID card requirements.**
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1995 - President Clinton vetoed a $265 billion defense bill, saying it would waste money on an unneeded missile defense system.

**Just another step in Bubba’s 'reign of destruction against the U.S. Military.'**
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2000 - Iran and Russia announced an expanded military and security partnership.

**We know how things are going to end up in Iran (they're going to get their atomic weapon), but Russia is a wild card. And the Ruskies are really playing with fire, because it is equally as likely for the Iranians to turn on them as they are remain partners.

You would think the Ruskies would have learned the danger of making deals with the Devil after their experience with Hitler...I guess not.**

December 27

1512 - The Laws of Burgos gave New World natives legal protection against abuse, and authorized "Negro slavery."

**How generous. The Spanish knew they could never control the Indians through enslavement, but did a good job of enslaving them without slavery...They had no such problem with the blacks they shipped in, though.**
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1558 - English Queen Elizabeth issued a proclamation forbidding any other kind of worship other that used at the close of the reign of Henry VIII.

**This form of worship was the English version of Protestantism...The Roman Catholic Church picked its allies (led by Spain) and made a historic mistake, because England and the Protestant world was soon much more powerful than Spain.**
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1927 - Joseph Stalin's faction won at the All-Union Congress in the Soviet Union; Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

**What a 'lucky' day for the people of the USSR...Lenin couldn’t have left a more perfect psychopath to perfect his Hell State, and Trotsky was soon to be on the run for his life.

That said, as much of a butcher as Uncle Joe was, it's likely he was also the force which kept Germany from conquering the Ruskies, even though he completely botched the first year of the war.**
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1941 - Japanese war planes bombed Manila in the Philippines, even though it had been declared an "open city."

**An 'open city?' What kind of BS is that?...MacArthur knew it was a long-shot, but felt it was worth trying.**
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1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Army to take temporary possession of all railroads in order to prevent a strike by railway workers. The action was taken under the wartime Labor Disputes Act.

**It’s amazing to think of a union going on strike in the middle of a war, but this just shows they care more about themselves than the good of the country...FDR was absolutely correct in taking this action and should have locked up the union leaders as subversive SOB’s.

The railroads were returned to private management on January 18, 1944.**
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1944 - General George S. Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieved the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium.

**There’s no way the 'Battling Bastards of Bastogne' (101st Airborne Division) should have been able to survive the German onslaught, but they fought long enough for Patton to arrive, and established themselves in the lore of American military tradition.**
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1996 - France said it would no longer participate in Operation Provide Comfort after the end of the year. The operation was a multi-national air reconnaissance effort to safeguard Kurdish civilians in northern Iraq.

**Instead France decided to start participating in ‘Operation Accept Bribes’...Otherwise known as the ‘U.N. Oil-for-Food Program.'**
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1998 - A vaccine for AIDS, by VaxGen Inc., was reported to be in Phase III clinical trials. It was derived from g-120, a genetically engineered protein copied from a protein found in the HIV virus.

**I have a vaccine for AIDS as well; it's much cheaper, and more effective: Don’t be promiscuous, don’t use IV drugs, and don’t have homosexual sex.

Nah! How dare I propose people control themselves for their own good.**
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2000 - President Bill Clinton appointed Roger Gregory as the first black American judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.

**Woopty Doo! President GHW Bush put a black man in the Supreme Court before this event...But that doesn’t count, because Justice Thomas is considered an ‘Uncle Tom’ in Liberalville, which is the only place they are keeping score, anyway.**
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2001 - President George W. Bush granted China permanent normal trade status with the United States.

**It is ugly, but there is no way we can isolate China...And it's likely, furthering trade with China will draw it out of its communist shell anyway.**
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2001 - U.S. officials announced Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

**The ACLU(seless) would rather they be given a ‘time out’ and put in the corner...Thankfully President Bush had the testicular fortitude to stand up to the 'Enemies Within' who seem more than happy to help our ‘Enemies Without’ destroy our nation.**
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2002 - A defiant North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. The U.N. nuclear watchdog said its inspectors were "staying put" for the time being .

**Hans Blix to the rescue...Pull the U.N. morons out, and tell China to take care of Dr. Ill. I’m sure there is something they’d like in exchange**

December 26

1492 - The first Spanish settlement in the New World was founded by Columbus at La Navidad, now Haiti; it was later destroyed by the native Indians.

**This was the first of many, but as always settlement wasn’t easy...This one didn’t last at all.

These Indians understood Pero's 'First Rule of Invasions': Kill the invader on the beach. At the very least, kill them before they get a chance to settle...This should have been an instinct in all the New World populations, but it wasn't meant to be.

Such is the brutal reality of history.**
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1862 - President Lincoln ordered the execution of 39 of the 303 Santee Sioux Indians who had been condemned after a very hasty trial, and a mass hanging of the unlucky ones was conducted.

"the largest official mass execution in American history in which guilt of the executed cannot be positively determined."

**Today we can't even execute those who are definitely guilty. Try to imagine how nuts Liberal nutters would go if an American President ordered the execution of ANY Jihadis.**
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1966 - The first Kwanzaa was celebrated.

**The first? I thought it was practiced in Africa for many centuries prior to this date...What a colossal joke.**
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1982 - The Man of the Year in 'TIME Magazine' was a non-human for the first time. A computer received the honors as 1982’s "greatest influence for good or evil."

**What a bunch of jackasses they must have over at 'TIME.' Picking a machine as the 'man' of the year is just stupid.**

December 25 (A Triple)

1 - The date celebrated as the birth of Jesus Christ.

**Was Christ born on this date? Probably not. Is Christ the son of God? Personally, I'd say no...Neither of these questions is of importance to me, however.

What is important is the life and death of Jesus Christ, and the historical results of his life and death...Results which have been as important as any life and death in history.**
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336 - The first recorded celebration of Christmas on this date took place in Rome. By this year, December 25 was established in the Liturgy of the Roman Church as the birthday of Jesus.

**The ‘birth of Christ’ had been celebrated on various dates for over 200 years, but this is the first sanctioned by the 'Church' on the 25th...Although it is surely false to hold this as Christ’s ‘real’ birthday, it is a grand event which deserves a grand holiday.**
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800 - Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans.

**The Pope crowned Charlemagne emperor in order to pay back the many times Charles saved him from his enemies in the Vatican, and also from his own family...Charlemagne was also a strong defender of the church, and liked to think of himself as the founder of a new Roman Empire.

There are many who consider Charlemagne as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire, and there are others who consider Otto I the founder in 962...I fall in line with those who look at Otto, because it was he who stabilized the 'Germanic nation,' and made the HRE a stable institution.

Either way, I hope you aren't foolish enough to think the Holy Roman Empire was either 'Holy,' 'Roman,' or an 'Empire.'

1. 'Holy': Hahahaha! This was a political entity if there ever was one.
2. 'Roman': Hardly. Remember Charlemagne was a Frank (Germanic), and the HRE was always ruled by Germans/Austrians in the future.
3. 'Empire': The HRE had a brief period as an empire (during the reign of Charles V), but other than that, it was a loose confederation of German States...Nothing more, nothing less.**
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1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned King William I of England.

**A great day in the history of what had previously been a backward nation, and what would eventually became one of the greatest empires in world history.**
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1651 - The General Court of Massachusetts passed a law making the observance of Christmas a penal offense and ordered a fine of five shillings for "observing any such day as Christmas."

**During this time, Christmas in the Americas resembled Mardi Gras, and the Massachusetts Puritans wanted nothing to do with such debauchery...As a result it was a long time before Christmas became a mainstream American holiday.**
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1776 - The Battle of Trenton: General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River in a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.

**A 'surprise attack' on a drunken force...It was a minor tactical battle, but an enormous strategic victory because it provided an important psychological lift for the Colonists.**
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1799 - Napoleon’s new constitution went into effect. It gave him, as First Consul, powers to promulgate laws, nominate senior officials, control finances and conduct negotiations with foreign powers.

**A dictator was born, and France began one of its few periods of true greatness.**
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1868 - President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion which resulted in the Civil War.**

You have to wonder if Lincoln would have done likewise; I tend to think not……Johnson was a Southerner and this pardon was very suspicious.**

December 24

1144 – Muslim forces re-capture much of the territory originally taken by the Christian Crusaders. This resulted in the Pope calling for a second Crusade.

**The Perpetual War...I bet they never thought it would still be going almost 900-years later.**
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1814 - The War of 1812 officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.

**America firmly established its independence in this ‘second Revolutionary War’...Unfortunately for the Brits, word didn’t reach the South before American forces could wipe out their force in New Orleans.

Ok, this is popular mythology...The Brits in New Orleans knew perfectly well of the war's status, but the British government hoped to pull out a victory in the battle, which would have given them a stronger position to bargain or restart the war from.

In my point of view the Battle of New Orleans was a nice little way of saying ‘Don’t return, ya limey bastards.’**
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1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan.

**A terrible organization, but an almost natural offshoot of the period...And my favorite Civil War general (for his skill, not viewpoints) soon became its first Grand Wizard: Nathan Bedford Forrest.

I wonder if Senator Robert Byrd (D - WV) puts on the ‘white hood’ in remembrance of this day.**
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1942 - The first powered flight of a V-1 cruise missile.

**This was the forefather of every modern rocket...Imagine if Hitler hadn’t shipped out or killed all of his Jewish scientists, and they invented the atomic bomb before the Americans? Which is likely would have occurred.

There is also little doubt the Mad Corporal would have loaded them on the V-1’s and V-2’s...If the Germans had the time to perfect these weapons, the world would be a much different (more horrible) place than it is today.**
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1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt appointed General Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Allied forces for 'Operation Overlord.'

**Ike was the perfect 'political general'...No other commander could have pulled off the European invasion as well.

Per normal, America was graced with the presence of ‘the right man, in the right place, at the right time.’**
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1946 – U.S. General MacNarney granted 800,000 'minor Nazis' amnesty.

**The next time you hear the press howling about the U.S. freeing many of Iraq’s former Baathists, keep this in mind...We cannot start over from scratch, just as we couldn’t in Germany or Japan.**
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1968 - The 'Apollo Eight' astronauts (Lovell, Anders and Borman), orbiting the moon 250,000 miles from home, reading verses from their bible and transmitted a message to all of mankind calling for "peace on earth."

**Oh my GOD! Liberal ‘separation of church and state’ nuts must have had spontaneous strokes and heart attacks.**
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2003 - Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf agreed to step down as head of the armed forces by the end of 2004, part of a deal with the hard line Islamic opposition to end a long standoff which had stalled the nation's return to democracy. Musharraf also agreed to scale back some of the special powers he decreed himself after taking power in a 1999 military coup.

**Never forget this is a country with nuclear weapons and advanced delivery systems...With millions of radical Islamists chomping at the bit trying to take control of them.

They can hide behind the facade of democracy, but the reality is the world cannot afford to allow a fundamentalist Pakistani leadership to evolve.**

December 23

1779 - Benedict Arnold was court-martialed for improper conduct.

**'Improper conduct' = A nice way to say treason!!

Ironically, 'TREASON' is a common theme on this day.**
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1783 - George Washington resigned as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

**The great man had less than six-years of peace before he was called on to serve his nation again, in 1789 as President.**
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1902 - An exceptionally brutal three-year war waged by the U.S. Army against Filipino revolutionaries ended with the signing of an armistice by the rebels, which left the U.S. in possession of the archipelago of 7,100 islands. General Arthur MacArthur (father of Douglas) conducted this war, which had Filipino casualties estimated between 50,000 to over 2,000,000.

**Who in the Hell came up with these casualty figures? 50,0000 is quite a bit smaller than 2,000,000...Not even a Democrat-Voter-Fraud-Collector could come up with such a wide split.

Ok, maybe they could in Cook or King County**
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1921 - President Warren Harding freed socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners.

**A horrible precedent...The 24 Socialist subversives should have been executed.**
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1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe was sentenced to death for the ‘Reichstag Fire.’

“The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!” - Herman Goering (as stated by Gen. Franz Halder at the Nuremberg Trials)...Van der Lubbe was found half naked, cowering behind the burning building.

**Hitler and, the soon to be Fat Ass Field Marshal, were more than happy to blame the loony communist, who was beheaded on January 10, 1934...They must have been feeling a little on the festive side allowing him to live an extra 19 days through the Christmas season.**
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1944 - General Dwight Eisenhower confirmed the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.

**This is exactly how a deserter should be punished...As should those who commit treason, sedition or subversives acts against the U.S., which should include those who are draft dodgers.**
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1947 - President Harry Truman granted a pardon to 1,523 who evaded the World War II draft.

**The anti-Ike...See the 1944 comment.**
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1948 – Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed.

**Good riddance to dead dictators and warlords.**
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1953 - Robert Oppenheimer lost his security clearance due to contact with communists and opposition to the Hydrogen-Bomb.

**See the 1944 comment.**
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1996 - President Clinton expressed gratitude to the nation's armed forces as he visited Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

**Empty words from the man who did more to destroy the U.S. Military than any president before or after.

Forget the BlewClinsky affair, as a draft-dodger Clinton should have never been allowed to run for the highest office in the land, and to hold the title of Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Once again, see the 1944 comment.**
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2006 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. The Security Council resolution ordered all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also froze the Iranian assets of 10 key companies and 12 individuals related to those programs. Iran denounced the sanctions. China’s endorsement was an important symbolic act.

**'Symbolic' indeed...What a sad joke.**

December 22

1775 - A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.

1785 - The American Continental Navy fleet was organized, consisting of two frigates, two brigs and three schooners. Sailors were paid eight dollars a month.

**Both of these were fantastic historical navy’s but don’t get this day confused with the birthday of the U.S. Navy, which is October 13.**
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1864 - Union General William T. Sherman sent President Abraham Lincoln this message: "I beg to present you as a Christmas present the city of Savannah with 150 guns and plenty of ammunition."

**A Christmas present indeed...Grant definitely picked the right man when he let Sherman loose on the South, and this terrible war was shortly entering its last year as a result of such fighting men.**
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1944 - During the Siege of Bastogne: The 101st Airborne Division and part of the 10th Armored Division were encircled by German forces within the bulge. The German commander besieging the town demanded that the Americans surrender or face annihilation.

U.S. Major General Anthony McAuliffe prepared a typed reply that read simply:
To the German Commander: "Nuts!"
From the American Commander.

The Americans who delivered the message explained to the perplexed Germans that the one-word reply was translatable as "Go to Hell!"

**America’s WWII commanders were great...McCauliffe forever immortalized himself, and the 101st Airborne did likewise in their brilliant defensive battle at Bastogne.**
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1989 - Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, last of Eastern Europe's hard line Communist rulers, was toppled from power in a popular uprising.

**Nikki was replaced by some of his ‘less aggressive’ Communist buddies, but communism was definitely on its way out in Romania.

Keep an eye out for Nikki in a few days...His execution is soon to follow.**
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1997 - Actress Hunter Tylo, whose pregnancy got her fired from TV's 'Melrose Place,' was awarded $4.9 million by jurors who agreed she was wrongfully terminated.

**Her job was to portray a 'Tylo-Ho,’ and in her pregnant state she was unable to perform this function. She should have been fired for not being able to do her job.

Decisions like this are ridiculous, but the Liberal insaniacs are doing everything they can to create judicial anarchy, and to poison business.**

December 21

69 – Vespasian, Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus, a gruff-spoken general of humble origins, entered Rome and was adopted as Emperor by the Roman Senate.

**Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian Dynasty, and one of the more decent Roman Emperors. He is noted for his mildness, sense of justice, and the amount of money he spent on Rome’s public works...Including the construction of a new forum, the Temple of Peace, public baths, and the Colosseum.**
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1494 - A new sickness broke out in Naples: Syphilis.

**The Euros gave the American Indians smallpox, and the Indians gave the Euros syphilis...The Euro’s suffered, but the Indians perished.

This incidence of disease transfer wasn't intentional, and it wasn't the first time biological warfare was waged on an virgin population, but it was brutally successful.**
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1620 - 103 Pilgrims aboard the 'Mayflower' went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.

**This ended a 63-day voyage establishing an English settlement on the North American continent...The world would never be the same.**
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1879 - Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born.

**Happy birthday, you sick bastard: Joseph Stalin.**
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1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.

**I won’t pretend to know much about this element, but I do know Marie was one of the most important women in the history of the world and her discovery helped change the world.**
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1939 - Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich named Adolf Eichmann leader of 'Referat IV B,' the group in charge of transport of Jews for the 'Final Solution.'

**What a miserable trio of psychopaths...Any one of the three could make the claim for being 'Top Nut of the Reich,' but I’d put my money on Heydrich.**
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1945 - 'Old Blood and Guts' died: General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, died from injuries suffered not in battle but in a freak car accident.

**What a terrible way for the old warrior to die...All of his previous deaths came in battle (with Hannibal, Caesar, etc), and this peacetime death will hopefully be made up for in his future efforts as an American commander. He believed it, so I see no reason not to honor it.

Also, it is important to note his nickname is a little bit misleading, because other than General MacArthur there were very few WWII commanders who had a lower casualty rate among HIS OWN TROOPS...Patton did cause plenty of casualties for his enemies, however.**
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1971 - The U.N. Security Council elected former Nazi, Kurt Waldheim as Secretary General.

**You read that right: 'FORMER NAZI…as SECRETARY GENERAL' of the U.N.

What a complete joke.**
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1991 - Eleven of the twelve former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

**It’s somewhat ironic the great Hell State met its final day on Stalin’s birthday.**
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2000 - The final U.S. election results showed Al Gore with 50,996,116 votes and George W. Bush with 50,456,169. Gore led by over 500,000 votes but lost to Bush by one electoral college vote.

**This popular vote nonsense is for the idiots in this country who have had their minds altered by the media, or were never properly educated in American civics and history in the first place.

The Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College for a reason, and that reason was to protect the nation from being run by the huge states...The system has always worked, and will in the future. As long as the revolutionary Leftists are kept from absolute control of the government and the courts, that is.**
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2000 - Ted Turner offered to make up the $35 million difference between dues the U.S. owed the U.N. and the amount Congress was willing to pay.

**The U.S. should exit from the U.N. and let Ted and any of his Socialist buddies fund 100% of the world's largest Circle Jerk Group.**

December 20 (A Triple)

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was completed with the territory formally transferring from France to the United States during ceremonies in New Orleans. This purchase effectively doubled the size of the existing U.S. With 827,987 square miles in the deal, a price translating to roughly $18 per square mile- under 3 cents/acre.

**The U.S. almost doubled in size overnight...President Jefferson had doubts about the legality of making this purchase (he was such a Constitutional stickler), but knew the opportunity had to be seized.**
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1860 - South Carolina adopted an Ordinance of Secession, testing the concept of the state's right to secede from the Union.

**The firing hadn’t begun, but this event properly marks the beginning of the Civil War, which as horrific as it was had to happen...The North and South had many problems that couldn’t be worked out politically (slavery was only one of them), and war was the only answer.

Thankfully the U.S. had the right man in charge at the right time...The true blessing throughout her short history.**
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1917 - The Russian Secret Police was formed under Felix Dzerzhinsky. He helped lead the Bolshevik Revolution and set up the secret police, the Cheka, which later became the KGB (also known as NKVD).

**This proved to be an important step in the progression of a day-from-Hell for the Russian people.

Next!**
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1922 - Fourteen republics formed the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR).

**Lenin completed the conquest of Russia and her minor neighbors, and succeeded in creating the perfect Hell State...And to make things even more pleasant, he passed it on to the 'Man of Steel.'**
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1924 - Adolf Hitler was released from prison after serving less than one year of a five-year sentence for treason.

**How a country can allow a man convicted of treason to live, let alone free him, is amazing to me...Incredibly, he was only one of the 20th Century psychos who managed to spend time in prison for crimes against their nations, yet eventually took control of their governments. Lenin and Stalin are the other notables, but there were many others.**
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1933 - The German government announced 400,000 citizens were to be sterilized because of hereditary defects.

**Nice. The nut-job German scientists had the perfect goon-squad take over control of their nation, and now they were allowed to put their insane Eugenic theories into practice...Lets not forget, these scientists were around long before the Nazis, and the Germans were by far the most advanced scientific nation at the time.

Sadly their legacy was one of great knowledge and even greater inhumanity.**
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2002 - Canada's Supreme Court ruled the book 'One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads' and others with gay themes cannot be banned from kindergarten classrooms in Canadian schools.

**KINDERGARTEN!?!? This is propaganda at its finest in the 21st Century version of the Normo Hitler Jugend.**

December 19 (A Double)

1562 - The Battle of Dreux: The French Wars of Religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics began with this battle.

**"Une foi, un loi, un roi," = "one faith, one law, one king."

These wars destroyed a whole generation of Frenchmen, but were a logical extension of the Protestant Revolution, with the people challenging the power of their kings who claimed power was granted to them by God.

The battles continued through the end of the 1500's and only started to wind down with the Treaty of Nantes in 1598.**
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1916 - The WWI Battle of Verdun ended.

**This is one of the longest battles in military history, and also one of the most useless. Like most WWI battles...Over 250,000 deaths and 450,000 wounded/missing, primarily fought between the French and Germans.

Neither side made much headway, but France won the battle because Germany withdrew after finally decided the ‘killing field’ was unwinnable.**
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1941 - Hitler assumed the title of Commander in Chief of the German Army, after accepting the resignation of Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch.

**What a huge break for the Allies...Although it's unlikely the Germans could have held off envelopment from the West and East, the German military would have surely done a much better job without the Austrian Corporal having direct control over the German military machine.**
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1941 - The U.S. Office of Censorship was created to control information about WWII.

**Can you imagine if the modern-day jackals (N.Y. Times, CNN, ACLU(seless), etc.) had been around in 1941? They’d go nuts over such ‘infringements on public knowledge’...And we could have possibly lost WWII due to this bunch of un-American, psychotic idiots.**
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1972 - 'Apollo 17' splashed down in the Pacific, winding up the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

**What a sad day for this great program. I hope we return in my lifetime...I’ve said it before, and will say it again: America’s Manifest Destiny is not limited to Earth.**
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1996 - The school board of Oakland, Calif., voted to recognize 'Black English,' also known as 'Ebonics,' in a decision which set off a firestorm of controversy.

**The board later reversed its stance, due to public disgust…Which is exactly why we must never remain silent in the face of stupidity, even when called racist.**
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1998 - President Clinton was impeached on two counts: Articles 1 and 3, for perjury and obstruction of justice. The 42nd chief executive became the second in history to be ordered to stand trial in the Senate, where, like Andrew Johnson before him, he was acquitted.

**Impeachment is a responsibility the House hasn’t used properly, to check the power of the Executive or the Courts...It should be used more often, which would do much to right our floundering ship/nation.

Clinton was rightfully impeached, and also rightfully not indicted by the Senate...I hope you follow this logic.**
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2002 - Senator Patty Murray of Washington told high school students that Osama bin Laden was popular in poor countries because of his charitable works and challenged the US to do the same.

**SHE SAID WHAT?!?!?!

Can you imagine any politician, Democrat or Republican, expounding the virtues of Mr. Hitler for pulling Germany out of its depression, and challenging Roosevelt to do the same?

See the event above: The failure to use the tools given by the Constitution have allowed subversive maggots like 'Osama Mama' Murray to prosper in modern-day America...And the Democrats accept her with open arms. KEEP THIS IN MIND EVERY TIME YOU VOTE (D).**
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2003 - Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, after secret negotiations with the United States and Britain, agreed to halt his nation's drive to develop nuclear and chemical weapons and the long-range missiles to deliver them. He admitted to nuclear fuel projects, including possessing centrifuges and centrifuge parts used in uranium enrichment, showed American and British inspectors a significant quantity of mustard agent, acknowledged Libya intended to acquire equipment and develop capabilities to create biological weapons, and admitted "elements of the history of its cooperation with North Korea" to develop extended-range Scud missiles.

**The Libyan Drag-Queen was looking to save his skin…He saw Saddam Hussein fall and was smart enough to play the ‘good guy.’

He's nuts, not stupid...The question is: What is he up to? You know he didn't give up everything.

That said, had we not invaded Iraq, this nut would still be playing with a full WND program, and would be another lunatic with dangerous toys...What's really scary is the fact Libya is a bit player in the Middle East, and if they had such an advanced program the bigger nations surely do (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., etc.)**
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2003 - China said it issued rules restricting exports of missile, nuclear and biological technologies that can be used to make or deliver weapons of mass destruction.

**I haven't seen the restrictions, but it's safe to assume they look something like this: 'China will only sell such weapons to those who can pay with cash or oil'...Give me a break.**

December 18 (A Double...For Me!)

1118 - Afonso the Battler, Christian King of Aragon captured Saragossa, which was a major blow to Muslim Spain.

**This was one of the first successes in the Spanish Reconquista...Modern day Spaniards better read their history, or they are likely to find themselves in a reverse process; an Islamic Reconquista.**
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1862 - General U.S. Grant announced the organization of his army, with generals Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand as his corps commanders.

**Lincoln scoured the Army for a general who could lead the Union force to victory, and there was no way anyone would have ever guessed that man would be U.S. Grant.

But history is filled with bizarre twists, and Grant proved to be a fighting general, who chose a brilliant supporting cast...Particularly, Sherman and Sheridan.**
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1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect.

**The words of the Declaration of Independence should have been enough to grant blacks freedom, but it wasn’t to be.

Slavery is definitely a sore spot on our nation’s history, but much has been done to right this wrong. Hopefully the pain will end someday, and blacks will be accepted by all of American society...I'm equally hopeful blacks will eventually accept all of American society as well.

The combination of these two ideas is when the real healing will begin.**
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1915 - President Woodrow Wilson, a widower for one year, married Edith Bolling Galt.

**Edith was the first female President of the U.S...Some will get this reference, some won't. If you don't, check out Mrs. Wilson's Stewardship.**
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1940 - Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

**He said he'd do it, and he did...Just as he did with everything else in his reign of terror.

Unfortunately, the rest of the world thought he was bluffing...A costly fact, which cost the world over 50,000,000 lives and unmeasurable suffering.**
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1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained.

**War is Hell, and in Hell civil rights are often trampled on...Of course Japanese-American internment was a blight on American history, but it was the proper thing to do at the time.

We will do it again, eventually...Unless American Muslims take a new tune.**
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1997 - President Bill Clinton extended indefinitely the deadline for withdrawal of U.S. troops helping with the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.

**But now he bitches we've been in Iraq too long...What a putz.**
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2000 - My second angel was born...Brooklyn Nicole, I love you more than you will ever know.

December 17

546 - Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, captured Rome.

**The Goths claimed Rome when the Empire fell, but the East Roman Empire (Byzantine) rightfully felt they were the true holders of the Roman tradition...Unfortunately for these ‘Romans,’ they couldn’t hold the Goths out of Rome, and were eventually run out themselves.**
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1526 - Ferdinand Hapsburg, of Austria, was elected King of Bohemia; establishing the Kingdom of Austria-Hungary.

**The Hapbsurgs had been consolidating power for years (through political marriages), and uniting the Austrian and Hungarian nations was a major issue...It also re-started a period of non-stop European wars over control of Central Europe.**
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1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII for the second time.

**Another in a long line of events which pushed England away from the Continent...A blessing for the English, and later, American people.**
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1777 - France recognized American independence.

**France had its own strategic issues in mind with this act, which was more an act against Britain than for the U.S...That said, receiving French help was instrumental in the American victory.**
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1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful controlled flight in a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, on the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

**The world shrank considerably with this event...The ability to overcome time and space has been a huge factor in civilian and military life. Travel was sped up by an incredible amount, and as a result the enormity of the planet was cut down more than a little.**
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1927 - U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg suggested a worldwide pact renouncing war.

**What an idiotic Utopian.

"Sometimes war is the only answer.” – Dennis Prager

Unless you consider being conquered a better answer. Because only a fool would let down his guard while his enemies put theirs up.**
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1944 - The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing 'evacuees' to return home.

**Japanese Internment was terrible, but necessary...National Security is every nation’s top priority, and it's unfortunate that civil liberties are often stomped on, but the other option isn’t acceptable.

Sadly, it will happen again someday; with Muslims.**
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1957 - The United States successfully test-fired the 'Atlas' intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.

**This event marks the beginning of the U.S. Military’s policy of ‘Global Reach, Global Power’...And a truly awesome power it is.**

December 16 (A Quadruple)

1653 - Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

**After emerging victorious in the English Civil War, Cromwell took control of the British nation as Dictator...He was an excellent military commander and banned the monarchy, but an average civil administrator as Lord Protector and left a week successor, who was quickly replaced by King Charles II.

An interesting note on Cromwell: Charles II hated him so much he had Cromwell’s dead body dug up in 1661 and gave him a 'posthumous execution,' then a a public hanging and finally had him drawn and quartered.**
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1689 - The English Parliament adopted a Bill of Rights after the Glorious Revolution.

**Don't mistake this Bill of Rights with the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

This bill of rights gave some minor rights to the English people, but was primarily a political document acknowledging the succession of William and Mary as King and Queen, and then deciding the line of succession. It also stated the English monarchy could never be placed in the hands of a Roman Catholic.

The most important part of the Bill, however, was a huge one, giving Parliament political supremacy over the monarch.**
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1773 - The Boston Tea Party: Around 50 American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard into Boston harbor to protest tea taxes.

**The 'Sons of Liberty,' led by Samuel Adams, dressed as Mohawk Indians, fired one of the first shots of the soon-to-come American Revolution with this act of defiance.

The question I have is what happened to the Bostonians? They went from being the original anti-tax Americans, to becoming the degenerate, Communist, People’s Republic of Massachusetts...A sad ending for the home of our first Patriots.**
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1944 - The Battle of the Bulge began: German forces broke through the allied lines in the rugged Ardennes region, taking U.S. troops by surprise.

**This was the last gasp of Hitler and the German Army in WWII, and it started with a bang...It ended with a whimper, as Patton rolled up the German offensive.**
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1950 - In the wake of the massive Chinese intervention in the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman declared a state of emergency, proclaiming "Communist imperialism" threatened the world's people. Truman called upon the American people to help construct an "arsenal of freedom."

**Truman would have done well to think of this problem from the beginning of the Korean War, and to have listened to MacArthur and either pushed the Chinese back to China or nuke them…He was right to do so in Japan, and would have been equally correct at this time.

If Truman wanted to stop the spread of Communism he had the ability to do so, instead he took the French way out, refusing to fight an offensive war, and our troops suffered as a result...Unfortunately, he passed this characteristic on to every succeeding American president.**
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1969 - The British House of Commons approved the permanent abolition of the death penalty.

**How can they be against aborting the lives of hard-core criminals, but for executing innocent unborn children?**
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1998 - President Clinton ordered a sustained series of missile strikes against Iraq forces in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors.

**The Democrats loved it when Clinton tossed bombs at Hussein, which had little if any effect...And the Republicans stood by his decision to do so as well.

Amazingly, the Democrats couldn’t stand behind Bush when he decided to do what Clinton didn’t have the stomach for, but had to be done; removing Saddam from the world.**
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1991 - The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-to-25.

**I’d imagine if this vote was retaken today, it would be much closer to the one in 1975 than in 1991.**
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1997 - A Pentagon-appointed panel concluded the Army, Navy and Air Force should segregate male and female recruits in their earliest phases of basic training.

**Women do not belong in the military, and this is just one of the many reasons.

The military is an extremely complex unit which can’t function at its optimum unless it is completely integrated, and there should be no segregation based on sex, race, etc...Every troop (man or woman) must be 100% combat effective and completely integrated into the military system, or they shouldn’t be there.

National Defense should always supersede 'Social Engineering'...Unfortunately, Liberals in this country feel the opposite is true, and most Conservatives are afraid of being called sexists and refuse to take them on.**
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2006 - Iran's president said his country was ready to transfer nuclear technology to neighboring countries.

**Amazingly, too many in the West assume Ahmadinejad is barking at the moon...You'd think the lessons of the 20th century would have wizened them up, but I guess not.**

December 15

1791 - The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (the Bill of Rights) went into effect following ratification by Virginia.

**So much anguish went into guaranteeing these right, yet the politicians of today want to deny or pervert the value of many...Particularly the 1st, 2nd and 10th Amendments.

1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

What part of this speaks of 'separation of church and state?' The Founding Fathers surely had no intention of such foolishness...This is a modern concept, created simply for the sake of destroying religion (or more to the point, destroying moral codes of any kind).

2nd Amendment: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

What part of that says the government can deny people arms/guns? The Founding Fathers knew the dangers of an unarmed citizenry. Specifically, the danger of an unarmed citizenry against an all-powerful government.

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Unfortunately, modern-day Liberals have hijacked the concept of 'leave it to the states' or 'leave it to the people,' and taken it to mean 'leave it to the judges' (Liberal judges that is).**
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1938 - The U.S. sent its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews.

**I’m sure Hitler was shaken by this 'fourth note'...The other three didn’t scare him, but this fourth one must have really made him nervous.

This is exactly why you do not negotiate with insane dictators. They must be removed...North Korea, Iran, Syria, etc.

It's a good thing we have the U.N. to take care of these problem now, however...HAHAHAHAHA.**
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1945 - General Douglas MacArthur, in his capacity as Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in the Pacific, brought an end to Shintoism as Japan's established religion. The Shinto system included the belief that the emperor, in this case Hirohito, was divine.

**MacArthur is one of my favorite individuals in American History, and it was events like this one which sets him aside from the modern fools we have running our country...There is no way we would do the same now.

In the end Islam will cost more lives than Shintoism, but no one will ever have the balls to ban Islam...Although it would be a great idea.**
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1973 - The American Psychiatric Association reversed its long-standing position and declared homosexuality is not a mental illness.

**I agree 100%...It is deviant behavior, but it isn’t a mental illness.

Deviant behavior is a choice and is learned, mental illness is involuntary and is a disease...Of course, this wasn't what the APA was trying to get at. They were trying to say Normos should be considered Normal, not sick.**
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2001 - With a crash and a large dust cloud, a 50-foot tall section of steel, the last standing piece of the World Trade Center's facade, was brought down in New York.

**I have six words for this event: NEVER FORGET! NEVER FORGIVE! NEVER AGAIN!**

December 14

1799 - George Washington died at his Mount Vernon home at age 67.

**Washington is much more than the 'Father of Our Country', he's the 'Greatest American'...There is no way there would be a United States without Washington, which is why he must forever be known as the 'Indispensable Man.'**
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1937 - Japanese troops conquered and plundered Nanking.

**Most are ignorant to the fact WWII began in 1937 with the invasion of China by Japan...The Rape of Nanking is a horrible story, and one which must be read to fully understand the brutality of the Imperial Japanese.**
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1939 - The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.

**Less than ten years later the Soviet Union was added to the United Nations...Same country (with much more territory and many more enslaved people), and the same Joseph Stalin. Such is the joke known as the United Nations.**
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1946 - The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U.N. headquarters in New York City. It also, adopted a disarmament resolution prohibiting atomic bombs.

**The Circle Jerk Group is based on wonderful ideas and ideals, but is nothing more than a pipe dream for Utopians, a resource for espionage, and a staging ground for international fraud and plunder against the American taxpayer.**
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1967 - DNA was created in a test tube.

**INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL and INCREDIBLY SCARY!!!! It all depends on which kind of scientists are using the technology...Will it be the Jonas Salk’s or Josef Mengele’s of the world????

Sadly, I'm betting it will be Mengelians posing as Salk's.**
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1988 - In a dramatic policy shift, President Reagan authorized the United States to enter into a "substantive dialogue" with the Palestine Liberation Organization, after chairman Yasser Arafat said he was renouncing "all forms of terrorism."

**Thank goodness Arafat ‘renounced all forms of terrorism'...Except against Israel, of course.

Reagan is one of my favorite U.S. presidents, but he should have shunned the Hitler-in-a-Headdress instead of giving him recognition.**
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1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. The experimental procedure at a San Francisco hospital was criticized by animal rights activists.

**’Animal Rights Zealots’ are completely insane, and the thought of putting any animal ahead of a human is repulsive.

What is really nuts is I’d bet the AIDS and Animal Rights activists are political allies almost 100% of the time...Just not when AIDS victim's lives are involved I guess.**
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1998 - President Clinton stood witness as hundreds of Palestinian leaders renounced a call for the destruction of Israel.

**What a disgrace for an American president to pretend these scumbags mean anything they say...If he had any morals Clinton would have walked off the stage and left the event. But then again, no one has ever accused Clinton of having morals**
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1999 - In Seattle, Ahmed Ressam was arrested after crossing the border at Port Angeles from Canada with bomb-making materials, including 200-pounds of urea, timing devices and a bottle of RDX (cyclotrimethylene trinitramine) in the trunk of his car.

**September 11, 2001 was simply a stepping stone in Global Jihadist aspirations0...There will be many, many more, with ever increasing death and destruction.**
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2001 - The German Parliament approved a plan to shut down all nuclear power plants within 20-years.

**Stupid fools...Maybe they are planning on reopening some concentration camps and running their country on the power of Jewish labor again.**

December 13

1577 - English Captain Sir Francis Drake set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey which took him around the world.

**Drake was a great explore, and an even better pirate, looting the Spanish many times...Truly one of the astronauts of his time.**
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1636 - America's first permanent militia regiments, among the oldest continuing units in history, were organized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

**This event is considered the birthday of the U.S. National Guard...Happy 373rd Birthday.**
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1863 - The Battle of Fredericksburg: Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat, which ended at Marye’s Heights with the bloody slaughter of Union troops.

**The Union had over 120,000 troops, led by General Burnside, against Lee’s 78,000 Confederate troops...This was a slaughter, and Burnside proved he had no business commanding such a large force (Which he tried to persuade President Lincoln of prior to the battle, by the way).

The Confederates left the battle with a victory and about 5,000 casualties, compared to over 12,500 for the Union force.**
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1998 - Puerto Rican voters rejected statehood by a vote of 50.2% to 46.5%. The winning option was none of the above, but was interpreted as a decision to remain a commonwealth within the U.S. with local autonomy.

**They’d much rather continue sucking at the nipple of the American cow without the responsibility that comes with being a state.**
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2000 - George W. Bush claimed the presidency five weeks after Election Day, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity.

**After tearing apart the nation, Al Gore called for national unity...And then proceeded to take ‘pot-shots’ at Bush at every opportunity he could.

What a POS!**
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2003 - American forces captured Saddam Hussein who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.

**This was great news, but I'm still amazed he was captured and not killed...Thankfully, Saddam met the hangman on December 30, 2006, which is how every despot on should meet his end.

Go here to watch the SOB die...The video and audio quality are not great, but the outcome is.**
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2004 - The U.N. restricted its humanitarian operations in Sudan's troubled South Darfur area following a shooting that killed two aid workers.

**What a sad joke! How can anyone put any stock in the U.N. if it proves itself to be useless even in Third World toilets?

The problem with the U.N. is stated in the headline: The U.N. loses two people and it turns tail.

Solving tough problems requires tough people...The U.N. is a panty-waste organization, which is why it can't handle tough problems.**

December 12

1799 - Two days before his death, George Washington composed his last letter, to Alexander Hamilton, his aide-de-camp during the Revolution and later his Secretary of the Treasury. In the letter he urged Hamilton to work for the establishment of a national military academy. Washington wrote that letter at the end of a long, cold day of snow, sleet and rain that he had spent out-of-doors. He remained outside for more than five hours, according to his secretary Tobias Lear, did not change out of his wet clothes or dry his hair when he returned home.

**This isn’t a great historic event, but stories of the 'Indispensable Man' should be read by all, and always have a special place in the heart of this historian.**
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1800 - Washington D.C. was established as the capital of the United States.

**A great place to visit, but...Just go visit it.**
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1930 - The last Allied troops left the Saar, Germany.

**Within three years Hitler was Fuhrer, and the Ruhr and Saar were re-militarized by Germany...And then the rest of the lovely story followed.**
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1946 - A United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of U.N. headquarters.

**Such a magnanimous fool...Thanks a lot J.D.**
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1988 - PLO leader Yasir Arafat accepted Israel's 'right to exist.'

**Sure he did!

All I know is I ‘accept Yasir’s right to be dead’...I hope he's enjoying his 72 virgins. IN HELL!**
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1995 - By only three votes, the U.S. Senate killed a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against Old Glory.

**For those of you keeping score at home:

Today in America, it is ok to pull down your pants and take a crap on the U.S. flag...But your kids can’t celebrate a Christmas party at school.

We are getting closer to the Lunatic Fringe every day.**
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2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the Al Gore campaign by reversing the Florida Supreme Court's decision to recount presidential votes and remanded the case back to that court.

**This is the day the Al Gore 'Presidential Heist' attempt ended.

Just to show what a POS he really was, if Al had won his own state (Tennessee) he’d have won the presidency...Luckily those who knew him best, knew he shouldn't be president.**

December 11

1620 - 103 'Mayflower Pilgrims' landed at Plymouth Rock.

**They left England searching for religious freedom...And must be rolling over in their graves seeing what is going on in modern-day America, with Liberals trying to destroy religion in America.**
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1941 - Germany declared war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor answered that question.

On December 8, Japanese Ambassador Oshima went to German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop to nail the Germans down on a formal declaration of war against America. Von Ribbentrop stalled for time; he knew Germany was under no obligation to do this under the terms of the Tripartite Pact, which promised help if Japan was attacked, but not if Japan was the aggressor. Von Ribbentrop feared the addition of another antagonist, the United States, would overwhelm the German war effort. But Hitler thought otherwise.

**Nice guess Adolph.

The Allies were lucky this nut took over control of the German armed forces, and dragging them down with the 'Fuhrer Principle' (all major, and many minor, decisions could only be made by the Austrian Corporal)...It would have been much more difficult to defeat Germany had their military people been in charge with the ability to make logical decisions.

Also, why didn't the U.S. declare war on Germany on Dec. 8 (as it did with Japan)?...I wonder if we would have stayed out had Hitler not jumped the gun. Hmmm!**
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1972 - Challenger, the Lunar Lander for Apollo 17, touched down on the Moon's surface. It was the last time man visited the Moon. The last two to walk on the surface of the moon were Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan.

**We must return...Our Manifest Destiny did not end at the Pacific Ocean.**
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1999 - President Clinton told CBS Radio his 1993 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on gays in the military wasn't working, and pledged to work with the Pentagon to find a way to fix it.

**There is only one way to 'fix it': Kick all the gays out...The military is no place for social engineering.**
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2006 - The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it granted the US and Russia a five-year extension to the 2007 deadline for destroying their chemical weapon stockpiles. The Chemicals Weapons Convention which went into effect in April 1997. Extensions were also granted to India and Libya as well as one country that requested anonymity.

**Call me a skeptic, but I highly doubt any country which had/has chemical weapons is fulfilling their agreement on this matter...Including the U.S.**

December 10

1520 - German reformer Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's bull, 'Exsurge Domine,' which demanded Luther recant his 'protestant' heresies, including that of justification by faith alone rather than through purchased indulgences or other papal favors.

**Luther put his life on the line, and his ‘afterlife’...Remember, according to Christian doctrine, he couldn’t go to Heaven without receiving his ‘Last Rites,’ and if excommunicated he could not receive such ‘Rites.’

This was a huge deal in the 16th Century, yet Luther stood his ground.The Church brought this problem on itself, through the mess of the Papacy during the 14th-16th Centuries, and the Protestant Reformation was probably the best thing that could have ever happened to the Roman Church.**
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1864 - Union General William T. Sherman completed his 'March to the Sea' when he arrived in front of Savannah, Georgia.

**He ‘arrived,’ but it took a 12-day siege before Sherman was able to invest Savannah...Which made a very nice Christmas president for President Lincoln.**
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1869 - Women's suffrage (right to vote) was granted in the Wyoming Territory...The first in the U.S.

**The U.S. isn’t a perfect nation, and it’s history is filled with issues which should have been made right from the start, but weren’t...This is one.

What's great about the U.S., though, is the fact we have a system in place which allows us to eventually get it right.

Amazingly, nationwide women’s suffrage had to wait another 50-years.**
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1898 - Spain signed the Peace of Paris Treaty officially ending the Spanish-American War. It gave Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States.

**Isolation and the United States ceased to by synonymous, as America claimed its first piece of the ‘global pie.’**
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1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

**What a dumb ass, Utopian ideal...This same group has defended the right to exist for such ‘Human Rights Sponsors’ as Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, Mao, etc.**
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1949 - 150,000 French troops massed at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion.

**Can you imagined if the Chinese called their bluff, and invaded? The world would have seen one of two events occur:

1. The French demonstrate the world’s largest 'Sit Down Demonstration.'

2. A massive slaughter of Frenchies on the battlefield.

Knowing the Chinese as I think I do, they'd have massacred them if #1 occurred, too.**
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1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

**The Hitler in a Headdress received a 'Peace Prize?' This has to be the ultimate proof the Nobel Peace Prize is an absolute joke.

But it does give the Iranian Mullahs hope for getting one someday.**
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2006 - The oil-rich Arab states on the Persian Gulf said they would consider starting a joint nuclear program for peaceful purposes. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council included Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.

**Another of the many ugly realities of allowing Iran to obtain atomic power...For peaceful or belligerent uses.

And who knows how long the six states listed above will remain 'peaceful' as well? It's a massive stretch to label Saudi Arabia as 'peaceful' at this time, let alone any time in the future.**

December 9

1940 - British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II.

**It was against the Italians, not the Germans, but was a good training ground for the battles they had to fight in the sand for the next three years.**
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1994 - President Clinton fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning she told a conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part of human sexuality.

**He fired her not for her plan, but because the media found it out before she implemented her scheme.

Rule #1 for the Leftist nutjobs: Do not get caught!!!**
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1998 - It was reported scientists in Japan cloned several calves from an adult cow; the third mammal duplicated after mice and sheep.

**Unit 731 is alive and well in Japan...Lets never forget the Japanese had their own Mengelian psychos conducting every bit as inhumane human science projects as their Nazi counterparts.

For those of you unfamiliar with Unit 731, check out the Japanese Biological Unit.**

December 8 (A Double)

1854 - Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the 'Immaculate Conception' in his apostolic letter, 'Ineffabilis Deus.' It asserted that by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, Mary was freed from original sin "in the first instant of conception."

**No comment...Next!**
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1907 - Christmas Seals were sold for the first time to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Today, Christmas Seal donations are primarily used in the fight against birth defects.

**I can already see the ACLU(seless) claiming this organization has no right raising money to help children in the name of Christmas...Sick bastards.**
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1932 - Japan told the League of Nations it had no control over her designs in China.

**And they were absolutely correct...Much as the United Nations has no control over current international politics, or itself.**
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1941 - Japanese troops occupied Shanghai, landed on Guam and in Malaya, invaded Siam, attacked Hong Kong, and Japanese destroyers attacked Wake Island.

**A big day for the ‘Empire of the Sun’...I hope they enjoyed it while it lasted.**
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1941 - The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress granted President Roosevelt a declaration of war against Japan.

**Historians often speak of Stalingrad, Midway or El Alamein as the ‘turning-points in WWII,’ but the real turning-point was the day the U.S. entered the war...From this day on, the Germans and Japanese ceased to control their own destiny, which is why it's a shame we waited so long.**
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1948 - Jordan annexed Arabic Palestine; the old city of East Jerusalem came under Jordanian control until 1968. Transjordan was given to a client Arab family, the Hashemites (led by King Hussein’s grandfather), and was run out of Mecca by the Saudis.

**So, the next time you hear anyone speak of the Palestinians as a ‘people without a homeland,’ tell them they are absolutely correct. And the Palestinians have their Arab brothers to blame for it.

Israel shouldn't give up any land for the creation of a Palestinian state. Jordan should simply allow the Palestinians to enter their country or give up some of their land for the creation of an independent Palestinian state...Of course that won't happen, and they'll just keep blaming Israel.**
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1987 - The 'Intifada' (Arabic for uprising) by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began.

**And it hasn’t ended...In fact it has spread, and will continue to get worse.

At this point in history this is no where near as important as the other two events (1941 and 1991), but it's my opinion this will eventually lead to the same significance, because of its influence on the rest of the Muslim world. Particularly the Global Jihadist fools...I hope I am wrong.**
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1987 - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty, which provided for the dismantling of all U.S. and Soviet missiles with ranges of 300 to 3400 miles.

**I’m sure neither party upheld their end in this deal...And they shouldn’t have.**
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1991 - Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government dead, forging a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, and Belarus President Stanislav Shuskevich met in a hunting lodge to proclaim the Soviet Union null and void and to form a loose Commonwealth of Independent States.

**WOW!!!! The fall of the USSR...The CIS isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is infinitely better than the Soviet Hell State.**
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1993 - President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect at the start of 1994.

**As much as I can’t stand the Democrats, I wish they had won on this issue...The Republicans made a huge mistake in opening the borders to the 'Goths on Wheels,' and we will be paying for it for years to come.

The significance of this event is much like the 'Intifada,' because of the terrible long-term effects which will develop out of it in the future...Once again, I hope I am wrong.**
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1997 - At the U.N. conference on Global Warming in Kyoto, Japan, U.S. Vice President Al Gore signaled a willingness on the part of the U.S. to compromise and perhaps raise the amount of greenhouse gases it is willing to cut.

**During the Clinton administration, the U.S. Senate (controlled by Democrats) refused to support the Kyoto Protocols, and President Bush absolutely refused to take part in such madness...Unfortunately, I'm not so sure the incoming Senate or President Obama will follow suit.**
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2001 - John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier from Marin County, Ca., was held at Camp Rhino near Kandahar as a battlefield detainee. He was captured a week earlier following the prison revolt at Mazar-e-Sharif.

**The scary part is he's only one of many...The 'Enemy Within' (MS) are everywhere, in and outside the U.S., waiting for their marching orders.

As with every lasting country in history, there will be another civil war in the U.S. eventually, and when this day comes these scumbags will have their day of reckoning.**
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2002 - Iraq's massive dossier detailing its chemical, biological and nuclear programs arrived in New York; the U.N. Security Council agreed to give full copies to the United States and the four other permanent council members (Britain, France, Russia and China).

**So Iraq really did have a WMD program? I would swear the stiffs on TV said they didn’t.**
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2003 - Russian military documents confirmed that dozens of rockets outfitted with dirty bombs appeared to be missing from the military airport at Tiraspol, capital of Trans-Dniester.

**Hmmmm. I wonder which radical group is holding onto these babies? We will surely find out sooner or later...Hopefully our troops in the field can capture them instead of finding then when used against the people of N.Y. City or L.A.**

December 7

43 B.C. – Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated by Marc Antony’s agents, who cut off his head and right hand.

**Cicero was one of the original, and maybe the best, ‘Poison Pen,’ and one of the Roman Republics finest politicians and orators...My favorite Cicero quote:

“Julius Caesar was every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.”...How he survived this is amazing, even though it was true.

Remember, Antony was Caesar’s top general, and I’m sure he had his 'right hand' cut off as a symbol ending Cicero’s writing.

Cicero's last words: "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly." **
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1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

**They were smart to do this...Otherwise most Americans would know absolutely nothing of the tiny state of Delaware.**
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1931 - A report indicated that Nazis would ensure Nordic dominance by sterilizing certain races.

**Most would say this was simply the insanity of the Nazis, but truth be told the German medical community established the doctrine of eugenics (purity of the gene pool) back in the 1920’s...The Nazis were just the perfect psychos to put their doctrine into practice, but the Nazis were not the originators.**
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1941 - Japan launched an aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet. They also attacked the Philippines, the International Settlement at Shanghai, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Long aware a Japanese surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor could precede war, U.S. authorities were still woefully unprepared when 363 Japanese fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes sunk or damaged eight battleships and three light cruisers, destroyed 188 planes and killed 2,400 men in just over two hours. The Battleship Arizona lost 1,177 men. An estimated 900 were entombed in the sunken ship. The U.S. lost [18] 19 ships, 140 aircraft and 2,300 [2,338] lives. In all 2,403 people were killed and 1,178 were wounded; 187 planes were destroyed and 159 damaged.

The Japanese lost 29 planes and 5 midget submarines.

**Truly a “date which will live in infamy."

The U.S. had been spared from invasion for almost 130-years (War of 1812, Britain), but the oceans could no longer protect her.

Japan had no chance of conquering the U.S., but this was its chance to knock America out of WWII. Admiral Yamamoto knew this was a necessity, but he missed the opportunity since the Pacific Carrier Fleet was out to sea (Was it Providence? Was it FDR's plan?)...Either way, the U.S. Navy was crippled, but wasn’t finished off, and the Japanese felt the wrath of the American created Hell-storm for the next four years.

Never forget, the Japanese brought every WWII Japanese death on themselves...Do not pity them for the 'Fire Raids,' and do not pity them for the atomic blasts. Bad things happen to bad people, and the Japanese got exactly what they deserved.**
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1949 - The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organized a non-Communist international trade union.

**'Non-Communist' my ass...If you have to qualify yourself, you usually have something to hide.**
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1970 - Poland and West Germany signed a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland's western frontier, and acknowledging a transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory.

**After three 'Partitions' and the Blitzkrieg you’d think the Poles would learn not to make deals with the Germans...Lucky for them, they have become a strong American ally.**
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1994 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Gaza City, pledged to protect Israelis from militant extremists.

**This was some amazing diplomacy...Clinton should really be proud of getting this promise from the Hitler-in-a-Headdress.

What a waste of time!**