September 30

1938 - British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement.

The Euro-pansies decided to appease Hitler, allowing the Nazi butchers to claim Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

Later in the day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made his great pronouncement: "We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.  We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe."

And then he had the gall to throw out this bit of self-congratulatory babble: "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time...Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."

Hahahaha! What a sorry joke...I hope they slept well, though, because a rude awakening was coming in the near future.

As we know, this 'deal' worked out 100% opposite of how Chamberlain predicted - exactly as Churchill predicted...Exactly as many predict will happen if we continue to appease the madmen in our time.  Something our historically-challenged leaders seem not to understand.

By the way, when I say 'madmen' I mean those who are truly nuts and dangerous - not necessarily those who are competitors to U.S. hegemony...It's important to recognize the difference.

430 - Church father St. Jerome died. He was converted at 19 and spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ('vulgar') Latin of his day (hence the 'Latin Vulgate') as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.

Just an FYI...I found it enlightening.

1927 - Babe Ruth hit his 60th homer of the season breaking his own Major League record.

This record is even more impressive when put in context with the era Ruth played in: The second most home runs hit in the A.L. in 1927 was Lou Gehrig (47), and the third most was Tony Lazzeri (18)...What’s really sick is all three were Yankees.

No wonder that team is often recognized as the greatest ever.

1946 - Verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war crimes trial. 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes, and 12 sentenced to death by hanging.

A dozen died, but thousands got away with murder...Thankfully, Chamberlain gave the world “peace” in 1938, though.

1949 - The 'Berlin Airlift' ended.

For over a year the U.S. and British flew over the the Soviet blockade, with 277,264 flights, carrying 2,323,738 tons of supplies...The airlift was a show-of-force-without-force, and kept many Germans from being swept up in the Soviet land grab.

You'd think these German SOB's would thank us, but that's asking a lot.