Modern Atticus

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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

At 4:30 in the morning, in a room rattled by wind and rain, one man had to decide whether to launch the largest invasion in human history based on a weather forecast. Then he wrote a note taking the blame for a disaster that hadn't happened yet.

D-Day was originally set for June 5, 1944. On June 4, with the Channel turning ugly, RAF meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg told Eisenhower the weather would be too rough for landing craft and air support. Eisenhower postponed 24 hours. Some convoys were already at sea and had to be turned around.

The stakes of the delay were brutal: if June 6 was missed, the tides and moon wouldn't line up again until June 19. Two more weeks for the Germans to find out. (Worse, in hindsight: a massive storm hit the Channel on June 19.)

At 4:30 am on June 5, Stagg told the commanders the storm was breaking. A window. Maybe 36 hours of barely acceptable weather.

The Germans saw the same storm, concluded no invasion was possible, and relaxed. Rommel went home to Germany for his wife's birthday.

Eisenhower sat in silence, then said words to the effect of "OK, we'll go." Around 160,000 men, thousands of ships, and the fate of the war moved on that sentence.

Later that day, he scribbled a note and put it in his wallet, to be released if the landings failed: "The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

In his exhaustion, he dated it July 5 by mistake.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@BurkiesTurkeys @BourbonCap Exactly. Here is the average P/E each year going back to 2016.

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@BowTiedEffer True. Also, the parent also would not have an insurable interest in the life of the adult son/daughter in many states.

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@bobbycotton2024 @emeriticus Here’s a real photo:

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@BuckSexton @MyState_Is_Full People push a lot of revisionist history on social media in the interest of virtue signaling.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

They really are not hiding that their median viewer is seventy years old.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

No one wants a romantic dinner ruined by a screaming child at the next table.

According to a new survey, 75% of Americans say restaurants should offer some kind of adults-only dining experience to avoid unruly kids.

That includes child-free sections, restrictions during late-night hours, and quieter dining environments focused more on the experience than family-friendly chaos.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@DudeWhoInvests The average person never reaches $500,000 in liquid investable assets.

[Naval @naval]

If the people you most look up to are investors and financiers, then your God is money.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@realEstateTrent To be fair, you also invested in a $100,000,000 real estate asset managed by volunteers on an HOA Board without real estate experience. Like any investment thesis, management is critical.

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@haveaconcern @BadLegalTakes

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@ryangrim “USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING.”

Apparently the US is paying the Iranians for something.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@girdley @girdley is relying on counsel for his business from an attorney who has collections problems and does not require advanced payment into trust. 🚩🚩🚩🚩

[Woke Former Senator @WokeMitt]

This is how people who don’t believe in Jesus explain Christianity.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

@BowTiedXmas @JoelWBerry I have tried roughly 40 jury trials, and you are always rolling the dice.

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@trevor_abroad Keep up the good work, man. All of the people you love are better off for it.

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@lornecolin @unusual_whales I’m having a hard time believing that Amazon wouldn’t make mitigating facts readily known if they existed.

[The Divorce Lawyer - Raiford Dalton Palmer @raifordpalmer]

I’ve told this story before - my grandmother sent me to the home of a dear friend, who had become a widow in her 70s. No kids, she and her husband had a fabulous time pursuing career, hobbies, travel. Then as their friends died off they got more and more isolated. When her husband died, she had no one but a caretaker to make her meals.

A nephew was going to help her with her finances and she was terrified that he was taking advantage of her. I went to the house to meet the guy and the woman.

I’ve never seen a sadder scene. She was sitting alone in the corner of a beautiful room, in a beautiful house, surrounded by all the things they accumulated. She took me through the house to show me all of their stuff. Her artwork. His writings and his office, still left as it was the day he died.

And she had no one. I am sure she would have given anything to have children and grandchildren to fill her life up.

We have a hard time thinking long term. We need to think long term much more often.

[Modern Atticus @ModernAtticus]

There is much wisdom in this clip.

[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

This is a must watch interview with @BenSasse and @DouthatNYT

"In Christianity, the need for daily repentance is just a truth. I am broken. I leave undone those things which I ought to have done..."

"I've continued to feel a peace about the fact that death is something that we should hate...yet it's pretty good that you pass through the veil of tears one time and then there will be no more tears, there will be no more cancer..."

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Sasse: "At a policy level, I’m very conservative. At a dispositional and tonal level, I’m a moderate because I believe that American civics and the glories of being able to inherit a constitutional doctrine of anti-majoritarianism and restraints and a belief in pluralism — that stuff is so glorious"

[Justin Bass @DrJustinbass]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis on April 9, 1945 at the Flossenbürg concentration camp.

A camp doctor who was there gave this eyewitness account:

“On the morning of that day between five and six o’clock the prisoners, including Admiral Canaris, General Oster and state attorney Dr. Sack were taken from their cells and the verdicts of the court martial read out to them. Through the half-open door in one room of the huts, I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer, and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.”

Bonhoeffer's last recorded words: "This is the end—for me the beginning of life."