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To: joseffy who wrote (305991)	6/8/2011 11:20:49 PM
From: Oblivious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Weiner's wife is pregnant. Probably from a tweeter.

To: joseffy who wrote (305991)	6/8/2011 11:24:32 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 306849

Obama is head and shoulders above any repug candidate so far. Maybe Palin will run and save your party.

To: joseffy who wrote (305991)	6/9/2011 12:18:40 AM
From: Oblivious	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Always look for the Silver Lining > > Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii > every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty > minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, > I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor " by > Admiral Chester Nimitz. > > Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a > concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone > call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin > Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) > would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. > > Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. > He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a > spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the > Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz > was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by > the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the > waters every where you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the > young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think > after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked > everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The > Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever > make or God was taking care of America . Which do you think it was?" > Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by > saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force > ever made?" > > Nimitz explained. Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday > morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on > leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we > would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800. > > Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined > in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they > never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had > destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those > ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in > shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry > docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could > have towed them to America . And I already have crews ashore anxious > to man those ships. > > Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war > is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. > One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel > supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest > mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America > . > > I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an > inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that > because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg , > Texas --he was a born optimist. But anyway you look at it--Admiral > Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance > where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. President > Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately > needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the > clouds of dejection, despair and defeat. > > There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST