and so they go to verdun for this meeting. he kind of goes around the chairs and says, okay, what's going on. and everybody says, as soon as this snow clears, we can send up reconnaissance aircraft and we'll give you great details. and when he gets to patton, he says, george, what can you do? he said i can turn north and in 72 hours i can turn north and attacking north. eisenhower says, george, don't be fascist. don't kid with me. patton said, no, i've got three divisions ready to go. eisenhower goes, that's good. what else have you got? well, in another 48 i can attack north. what about your southern flank? i already talked to the southern flank, they'll take it over. this is patton's glory moment with eisenhower. and when the whole meeting is over, eisenhower turns to him and says, george, you know, every time i get promoted i get attacked. when he got his third story he got attacked. and patton said every time you get attacked i bail you out. with that, the verdun meeting was over with. patton begins his charge north into b

some of the cutest, most colorful bags and wristlets you've ever seen is the stock equivalent of verdunou prefer an american reference, let's call it one of the bloodiest fights of the civil war. landscaped turned red. shiloh. how could vera possibly be that dangerous in a market where retailers worry? it's the shareholder base. you look at the analyst coverage. eight buys, three holds, not a single sell in this one, and you got to figure there's a substantial cohort of bulls out there since vera has rallied over 18% this year. yet on the other hand, vera bradley is one of the most heavily short ed short sold bet against stocks i have ever seen in my whole career. it has a 19 million share float and 10.9 million shares of those -- of the float have been sold short. 10.9. in other words, more than half of the people in this stock are betting it will go south. 57% to be exact. it's true that the shortage has been declining of late. that's still a could loss sol amount of short sellers. now, vera reports the week after next, march 149, and that creates a combustible situation that i frankl