HERE's LOOKING AT YOU, KID

On this day in 1942 CASABLANCA premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City







Coolness under Fire, Personified:
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, American Soldier of Fortune.



I love this film. Partly because it mirrors a time in my life when I lived through a similar adventure in a dusty, miserable place on the west coast of Africa not far from Casablanca; but most of all I love this film because of the many subtle sub-plots running through it, and of course for all of the great lines it generated. The screenplay is full of great quotes, here are a few of my personal favorites:





“You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.”
- Peter Lorre, never creepier than in this role as Signor Ugarte





Rick: "I stick my neck out for nobody."








"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."








"As leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca,
I am an influential and respected man."
- Sydney Greenstreet as Signor Ferrari, Owner of the Blue Parrot.








". . . it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people 
don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."







"Major Strasser has been shot . . . 
. . . Round up the usual suspects."





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P-47 THUNDERBOLT's - Actual WWII footage

The beautiful French and German countryside, juxtaposed with such wanton destruction . . . . viewing this amazing footage brings to mind Robert E. Lee's famous qoute:



"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it."



STORMBRINGER SENDS



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THE BRIGHTEST MIND

John F. Kennedy once held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."






Some notable quotes of Thomas Jefferson:



"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."



"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."



"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."



"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."



"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."



"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."



"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."



"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."



"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."



Thomas Jefferson said this in 1802:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered."



- STORMBRINGER SENDS



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