After searching for the blood pressure monitor for a good ten minutes I asked DaughterGeeding if she knew where it was. She told me it was inside her Doc McStuffins checkup center in a “duh, you should have known that” kinda tone. All of that reminded me of this classic Ron Swanson moment. He’s one of the best characters in the history of television, right up there with Archie Bunker. Yup, I said it.
Listening to Dale Hanson and Brad Sham on BaD Radio yesterday was enlightening for us Cowboy fans that try to ignore the present and reminisce in the past. I had no idea that Tex Schramm always wanted the number one Dallas sportscaster as providing color commentary. Gosh, it would be great if those two would broadcast games again.
Buzzfeed has a lit of 27 ice cream shops around the world you need to try before you die and surprisingly a Dallas place is on the list. This is the first I’ve heard of Carnival Barkers Ice Cream but they must have some good ice cream with a web address like this: www.DamnGoodIceCream.com. I actually have friends that would refuse to eat at such a place because they would be offended by the name.
Since Jesse Ventura was a Navy SEAL I had a hard time believing Chris Kyle’s story about Ventura saying that they “should lose a few”. As much as I appreciate Kyle’s service to the country for things I can’t even imagine, I always thought he went against the SEAL ethos/creed of “I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.” With that said, Ventura probably should have dropped the suit after his death.
Until this week I really didn’t know much about the Soviet involvement in WWII with Japan after the fall of Germany and how their victories were a decisive factor in Japan’s surrender. I was always lead to believe that the bomb was the main motivating factor of surrender.
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There’s some talk about the Raiders moving to San Antonio. I’ll guarantee you that Jerry will do all in his power to make sure that doesn’t happen, as well as that Houston owner.
My number one beef against legalizing weed is after our long history of death and carnage on our roads and highways caused by alcohol, why would we want to legalize another intoxicant?
I totally disagree about Russia and Japan. If you note the date the Russian war "began", it just so happens to be the day the second bomb dropped. They had been pushed for months to get into the war against Japan, but they didn't.
In reality, they probably couldn't–they lost more men to the Germans than anyone else–somewhere between 20 and 22 million people–and were pretty much unable to do anything but throw people at Germany to try and slow their advance. But to say that Russia was a main reason for Japan to surrender when they got in on the action on the day the war effectively ended is a prime reason why you shouldn't trust Wikipedia.
Don't even get me started on why we should have Chinese Holocaust museums right next to the Jewish Holocaust museums…
I worded my thought wrong implying that the bomb wasn't the main motivating factor.
I'm going to say it was a combination of the two, the bomb and Soviet involvement that caused Japan's surrender, probably 65 percent one way and 35 percent the other, or the other way around . . . I'm not sure and still trying to figure it out for myself.
I guess my overall point was that I really never knew about the Soviet participation with Japan until recently. I could have used something other that Wikipedia to source, but I like how Wikipedia will cite sources and if it's not properly cited, it's flagged.
I'm sorry I didn't word things better, sometimes I get sloppy trying to get my thoughts down late at night. The bomb definitely was one of the main reasons, but we shouldn't ignore the Soviet contribution.
I didn't mean to sound snotty, and there's nothing to apologize for. I just get a little uppity on a couple of historical points (Pearl Harbor, Russia/China/Japan, and Gettysburg are my biggest ones). Having a history degree with a concentration in the political cause and effect of modern warfare probably has something to do with it. On the bright side, I'm not still serving coffee like a lot of my fellow history majors…
With respect to your foreign policy article, I think the premise is a bit wrong. It asks whether or not the use of the bombs was "correct" (i.e., moral, I guess) based on the eventual certainty of Japan's surrender. It fails to take into account that the main reason the bombs were dropped was to show Russia we had the bomb and keep them in line. We caused more deaths with conventional bombs than with the A-bombs, and we had no more A-bombs. Over 100,000 people died in one night when we fire-bombed Tokyo (and Dresden). Neither A-bomb killed that many (I dispute he 140,000 number in the second article). But the main reason they were dropped was to prevent the loss of American life. We weren't going to have to invade the Japanese homeland, and we wouldn't have had as many casualties as the estimates showed. But if we lost one more man, that was too many, and was worth dropping the bombs.
The second article's premise–that Japan surrendered to the US in order to avoid being treated harshly by Russia, may be closer. After all, Germany was ceding ground and troops to the Western Allies while throwing troops at the Eastern Front in order to delay Russia as long as possible so the West would get a larger piece of Germany when it was all over, because they knew we would be better to them than Stalin. To that extent, all Japan had to do was surrender regardless of Russia's offensive, which was probably more effective than it otherwise would have been because Japan's command and control was in absolute ruins due to American bombing.
All in all, Japan had been fighting with Russia in the area since before the 1909 Port Arthur battle. They knew what they were up against, and a quick take over of soon to be lost territory isn't (in my opinion) what convinced them to surrender and renounce the emperor. The US was, by itself, rolling back Japanese forces since early 1942, and we were only getting stronger with new technology that was staged closer and closer to Japan. It was absolutely relentless, and we had already destroyed an enormous percentage of the country (there is a graphic at the WWII museum in NOLA that shows this very well. Some cities were up to 95% destroyed. Cities as large as Cleveland were just gone. Cities as large as NY and LA were up to 50% gone.).
Anyway, it's an interesting point and not altogether indefensible, but I just don't agree.
Fun stuff to talk about though. Just need a few more beers to make it heated.
Carnival Barker's Ice Cream sells out of a window attached to the front of this awesome Beer Garden on Lower Greenville called the Truck Yard. You can swing by and say hello to Aaron Barker himself and then hit up a food truck or grab a mostly authentic Philadelphia cheesesteak. <- biased. http://www.whiterocklakeweekly.com/view/full_stor…
I think Jesse Ventura did the right thing by continuing the suit after Kyle's death. His character was defamed and the Kyle's were profiting off it. It's not Ventura's fault Kyle was known to fabricate stories to make himself look good.
After spending 3 months in Colorado I can say without a doubt that legalizing marijuana will not turn our roads into killing zones.
That touching father/son photo looks scary/ominous to me. Father's flashing gang signs and son's wearing a matching striped uniform? It's sad to think that the son might follow in his father's footsteps.
My number one beef against legalizing weed is after our long history of death and carnage on our roads and highways caused by alcohol, why would we want to legalize another intoxicant?
I totally disagree about Russia and Japan. If you note the date the Russian war "began", it just so happens to be the day the second bomb dropped. They had been pushed for months to get into the war against Japan, but they didn't.
In reality, they probably couldn't–they lost more men to the Germans than anyone else–somewhere between 20 and 22 million people–and were pretty much unable to do anything but throw people at Germany to try and slow their advance. But to say that Russia was a main reason for Japan to surrender when they got in on the action on the day the war effectively ended is a prime reason why you shouldn't trust Wikipedia.
Don't even get me started on why we should have Chinese Holocaust museums right next to the Jewish Holocaust museums…
I worded my thought wrong implying that the bomb wasn't the main motivating factor.
I'm going to say it was a combination of the two, the bomb and Soviet involvement that caused Japan's surrender, probably 65 percent one way and 35 percent the other, or the other way around . . . I'm not sure and still trying to figure it out for myself.
I guess my overall point was that I really never knew about the Soviet participation with Japan until recently. I could have used something other that Wikipedia to source, but I like how Wikipedia will cite sources and if it's not properly cited, it's flagged.
I did find another couple sources that address your timeline issue and goes into better detail than Wikipedia. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/14/historian…
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/…
I'm sorry I didn't word things better, sometimes I get sloppy trying to get my thoughts down late at night. The bomb definitely was one of the main reasons, but we shouldn't ignore the Soviet contribution.
I didn't mean to sound snotty, and there's nothing to apologize for. I just get a little uppity on a couple of historical points (Pearl Harbor, Russia/China/Japan, and Gettysburg are my biggest ones). Having a history degree with a concentration in the political cause and effect of modern warfare probably has something to do with it. On the bright side, I'm not still serving coffee like a lot of my fellow history majors…
With respect to your foreign policy article, I think the premise is a bit wrong. It asks whether or not the use of the bombs was "correct" (i.e., moral, I guess) based on the eventual certainty of Japan's surrender. It fails to take into account that the main reason the bombs were dropped was to show Russia we had the bomb and keep them in line. We caused more deaths with conventional bombs than with the A-bombs, and we had no more A-bombs. Over 100,000 people died in one night when we fire-bombed Tokyo (and Dresden). Neither A-bomb killed that many (I dispute he 140,000 number in the second article). But the main reason they were dropped was to prevent the loss of American life. We weren't going to have to invade the Japanese homeland, and we wouldn't have had as many casualties as the estimates showed. But if we lost one more man, that was too many, and was worth dropping the bombs.
The second article's premise–that Japan surrendered to the US in order to avoid being treated harshly by Russia, may be closer. After all, Germany was ceding ground and troops to the Western Allies while throwing troops at the Eastern Front in order to delay Russia as long as possible so the West would get a larger piece of Germany when it was all over, because they knew we would be better to them than Stalin. To that extent, all Japan had to do was surrender regardless of Russia's offensive, which was probably more effective than it otherwise would have been because Japan's command and control was in absolute ruins due to American bombing.
All in all, Japan had been fighting with Russia in the area since before the 1909 Port Arthur battle. They knew what they were up against, and a quick take over of soon to be lost territory isn't (in my opinion) what convinced them to surrender and renounce the emperor. The US was, by itself, rolling back Japanese forces since early 1942, and we were only getting stronger with new technology that was staged closer and closer to Japan. It was absolutely relentless, and we had already destroyed an enormous percentage of the country (there is a graphic at the WWII museum in NOLA that shows this very well. Some cities were up to 95% destroyed. Cities as large as Cleveland were just gone. Cities as large as NY and LA were up to 50% gone.).
Anyway, it's an interesting point and not altogether indefensible, but I just don't agree.
Fun stuff to talk about though. Just need a few more beers to make it heated.
I think it would be an honor to have a beer with you. Great dialog, I appreciate the perspective and lesson, seriously.
Carnival Barker's Ice Cream sells out of a window attached to the front of this awesome Beer Garden on Lower Greenville called the Truck Yard. You can swing by and say hello to Aaron Barker himself and then hit up a food truck or grab a mostly authentic Philadelphia cheesesteak. <- biased.
http://www.whiterocklakeweekly.com/view/full_stor…
I think Jesse Ventura did the right thing by continuing the suit after Kyle's death. His character was defamed and the Kyle's were profiting off it. It's not Ventura's fault Kyle was known to fabricate stories to make himself look good.
After spending 3 months in Colorado I can say without a doubt that legalizing marijuana will not turn our roads into killing zones.
That touching father/son photo looks scary/ominous to me. Father's flashing gang signs and son's wearing a matching striped uniform? It's sad to think that the son might follow in his father's footsteps.
Am guessing your comment was tongue in cheek.