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Mornin’ Gang
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This is another “wow” GMC!
This beauty is owned by the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott Iowa and you can see it anytime you stop there to admire all the trucks they have in their museum. I shot this image at the ATHS show in York PA in 2015.
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A nice Thursday morning story.
A former Planned Parenthood employee has received $3 million in damages after a jury in Maricopa County, Ariz., determined she had been wrongfully terminated for telling supervisors about unsafe medical practices.
Mayra Rodriguez sued Planned Parenthood Arizona in 2017 just after being fired, which occurred after she had been employed in several of the affiliate’s clinics across the state for well over a decade. At the time that she was fired, she was serving in an administrative role in Planned Parenthood locations in both Glendale, Ariz., and Phoenix.
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Since having been fired, Rodriguez has been involved with And Then There Were None, a group founded by former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson, which helps abortion workers leave their jobs.
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Morning, everyone. Hey, I expect to see an Open Comment full of interesting newsy events that all y’all have read already and posted for me when I finally get up. Looks like Texpat is “sleeping in” these days… And everyone else (except us retirees) had to hit the road and head to work.
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Maybe, just maybe, there’s still hope for some of us. I’ve got mixed opinions on this story – should the perps deny everything and fight it out in court, or should they pay the fine and run around bragging about it and showing everyone the framed ticket and talking about the stuff they didn’t get caught and charged with. Language caution. http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/breach-peace/accused-octogenarians-275913
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I’m up by 5:30 every morning – that would be 4:30 in Texas. Sometimes, I’m up earlier depending on the level of physical pain.
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Sorry, Texpat, no dereliction implied, or even possible considering your volunteer position. Much appreciated!
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This is such an obvious moral imperative and at the very least, common sense, I am baffled to this day by people who reject and condemn it.
Timothy Hsiao:
I am an ethics professor, and I carry a concealed handgun in the classroom. In the event of a mass shooting, I am the first line of defense between my students and an attacker. I refuse to let myself and my students be victims.
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It is absurd to think one forfeits the right to defend his life simply by entering a classroom. The right of self-defense is essential to our very dignity as human beings. Although we may sometimes partially delegate this responsibility to others, we can never delegate it completely. Even in the most secure college campus, the police response to an active shooter is measured in minutes. But when seconds matter, it is up to students and faculty to defend their own lives. And they cannot do this without a reasonable and effective means of self-defense.
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This was written last year, but I found it interesting. Not surprising, though.
However, there are some deviations from the rights usage we are all familiar with. In Article 3, Instead of the inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” found in our Declaration of Independence, the UN declares everyone’s right to “life, liberty and security of person.”
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Your tax dollars at work. Professor Mary Grabar writes:
The Zinn Education Project is a nonprofit launched by one of Zinn’s former Boston University students who was taken in by the radical professor’s tales of derring-do in protesting the Vietnam War and, in spite of Zinn’s pro-communist rhetoric, had done quite well for himself as a capitalist.
The Zinn Education Project’s mission is to distribute materials from its namesake’s record-breaking best-seller, “A People’s History of the United States,” in the form of downloadable K-12 lessons on such topics as imperialism, Latinx, LGBTQ, social class, prison uprisings, Black Lives Matter, reparations, and immigration. Zinn died in 2010, but these lessons are updated by his acolytes, such as Adam Sanchez, who, in a lesson titled “When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction,” claims President Trump’s “racist rhetoric and policies have provided an increasingly encouraging environment for attacks on Black people and other communities of color.”
and to follow the money,
Now the Smithsonian Institution, which describes itself as “the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 19 museums and the National Zoo — shaping the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world,” is peddling Zinn. For fiscal year 2019 (October 2018-Sept. 30, 2019), the Smithsonian received $1 billion in federal funding.
American taxpayers are supporting the spread of deliberate lies. Zinn lies not only about Columbus and Native Americans but also about such pivotal American events and developments as slavery, the Civil War, women’s rights, the labor movement, World War II, the internment of Japanese Americans during that war, the Cold War, the hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and protests against it, and the American Revolution and the founding.
The author of this article, Mary Grabar, has a new book out titled, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History that Turned a Generation Against America.
Here is a link list of her writings at various publications.
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7 mh42
Sorry, Texpat, no dereliction implied…
No offense taken. I was just pointing out I’m an early riser. Even if I wasn’t my dogs wouldn’t allow it anyway.
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Yellow star patches are just around the corner.
Europeans are considering stigmatizing Jewish businesses — an idea last popularized by the Nazis — all in the name of neutrality. This time, the focus is on Jewish-owned businesses located in the world’s only Jewish nation state and the European Union’s not-so-subtle suggestion that Israel exists only within its pre-1967 borders.
In June, Gerard Hogan, an advocate general at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, issued a nonbinding opinion, which many expect the court’s judges will adopt, suggesting that EU member states marginalize foodstuffs from Israel through detailed labeling. So products produced by Jewish citizens of Israel on land Israel won in the Six Day War is supposed to be labeled as hailing from “Israeli settlements” rather than being labeled “made in Israel.”
but there’s a problem for these Jew haters,
As those judges decide whether to follow the advocate general’s guidance, they are hopefully keeping in mind the potential international ripple effects. While the focus of this case is Israel, any new legal precedent could have ramifications for other contested regions, such as Crimea and Western Sahara, as well as the United States.
What about the illegally occupied nation of Tibet ? China has border and territorial disputes with every nation in East Asia. Japan has never signed the final treaty with Russia to end WWII because Russia invaded and took over the Kuril Islands. The people of Western Sahara have been fighting the occupation by the Morrocans for almost 50 years.
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An Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman walk into a bar and begin drinking. Soon they noticed a large glass vase of gold coins in the corner and asked the barman what was it there for.
The Barman told then: “that is there is the prize for anyone who can 1:Drink a full bottle of tequila in two minutes; 2:Go into that room over there with a lion inside and pull a thorn from the lions foot; 3: finally go upstairs and make love to a 100 year old woman”.
The Prize money was too much for the men to pass over so they agreed to try.
The Englishman goes first, but after only half the tequila he collapses drunk.
The Scotsman is next. He downs the tequila and staggers to the lions room. The door is closed and there is a massive scream and soon afterwards he stumbles back out of the room with his hand bitten off.
The Irishman drinks the tequila and stumbles towards the lions room. The door is closed behind him and almost immediately there are massive screams and shouts coming from behind the door, screams which last for nearly ten minutes… There is banging up against the sides of the door and everything and then silence. The Irishman emerges battered,bleeding and torn – “now” he says “where is that lady with the thorn in her foot”
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#12 TP: Haters gonna hate and anti-Semites gonna anti-Semite.
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That is similar to the Aggie/Alaskan joke I told some years ago. It also involved a large amount of alcohol, then the mixup between a polar bear and woman.
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Here’s a cute sight. Aw, c’mon, you GOTTA admit it is cute! Even if you don’t like either animal…
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CNN Pffffttt
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#16 mharper42 & #17 Shannon
Cute scene, not exactly the lion and the lamb but close enough. And how nice of the psych folks to exonerate cat ladies. Bet the cats appreciate the pass too.
Mixed up Old Joe quotes are on Hannity’s show right now. Loose cannon episodes more like. Then there’s Indianapolis Pete…. The Dems are long on possible candidates who are all short on qualifications except perhaps a pulse.
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PLEEEEEEEEEEZE LET JOE BIDEN BE THE CANDIDATE!
Can you imagine the debate between him and Trump?
Heck, between him and a kindergartner would be a pass the popcorn event.
Between Biden and a gnat might be a close call.
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They could just skip the questions for sleepy Joe and merely post his per-programed sound bites. Would save some time.
I’m still not sure that Tulsa Gabbard or whatever her name is from Hawaii has completely taken out Kamel Toe Harris. Her lady parts might still land her a VP slot (no pun intended) or at least a cabinet role. Screechy Pokehauntas is the scarest – I think she may be worse than hiliary, but thank goodness my hearing is beginning to fail somewhat in my old age. But yes, watching Joe mumbling around on a stage with Trump would be pretty awesome.
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They could send some little girls on onstage to distract Joe.
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[Fifty] years ago, on the evening of December 1, 1969, CBS News pre-empted the regularly scheduled broadcast of Mayberry RFD to pick up a live feed from Washington correspondent Roger Mudd at the Selective Service headquarters. “Good evening…Tonight for the first time in 27 years the United States has again started a draft lottery,” said Mudd in whispered tones as the ceremony proceeded in the background.
For all its life-changing, big-moment drama, as theater the drawing for the 1970 draft was a low-budget affair, staged on a nondescript set with an odd assortment of office furnishings pushed together. All 366 blue plastic lottery “capsules” had been unceremoniously dumped into a large glass container perched precariously atop a plain library step stool. A somber-looking official sat at a small table cloaked with black fabric, ready for the lottery ceremony to begin. To pick each lottery number, someone would simply reach into the water cooler–sized jar to pull out a capsule. Tucked inside was a birth date that would be read aloud and assigned its lottery number, starting with No. 001.
https://www.historynet.com/live-from-dc-its-lottery-night-1969.htm
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Probably the best candidate the evildems could nominate would be Heels-up. She checks the top two boxes on the Boutique Grievance Industry (BGI) list of oppression characteristics and she’s coherent. But it will probably be either the Hair Sniffer or Puke-a-hauntas. I think it’s over for Splatacuss and Baytoe. They just don’t know it yet.
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The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/22/1519-project-spanish-explorers-ended-mass-murdering-cult/
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23 Shannon
I was 17, seven months from being 18 and draftable. When they drew July 26th it was number 351.
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Texpat
Here’s further interesting details on the draft lottery.
The lottery held for men born in your birth year (1952) was held on August 5,1971.
According to the chart, your number was 351. The highest lottery number called up for this group was 95; all men assigned that lottery number or any lower number, and who were classified as available for military service, were called to report for possible induction.So, you would have been drafted at 19.
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I have some vague recollection that ultimately they decided they wanted 19-year-olds instead of 18-year-olds.
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My number would have been 082. I was only 12 so it didn’t matter. When I turned 18 I dutifully drove up to the high school I had just graduated from to register only to be told the draft registration had ended a few months earlier. By the time that damnable old fossil reinstituted draft registration a few years later I was out of the window. So I never had to register.
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27 Shannon
You’re right. I was in Austin, had already registered for the draft there. And, yes, 19 was the draft age. I remember being relieved when they passed 100 without drawing my birthdate.
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Nixon ended the draft on Jan 27, 1973.
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Carter reinstituted draft registration in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Just a couple months ago our own war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in our history. Almost 18 years. Men registering this year have never known a world without the US militarily involved in Afghanistan.
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I left out the link for #27.
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The fall of Saigon was a few months before I turned 18. I had never known a world without US involvement in Vietnam.
Now that I look at the dates, if you count Vietnam war as ending with the fall of Saigon, it’s still the longest. Some sources have it ending in April 73.
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I was born in November 1959. I missed having to register by 2 months.
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I was surprised that only four Viet Nam draft lotteries were ever held. But the first one was the biggie – it snared six years (‘44-‘50) of birthdays.And no one was ever called up from the last one (for 1953 birthdays).
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Music from the era….
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Some rambling idiot is on Fox News saying he knows all about the deep state trying to rig the 2016 election. I can’t believe they’re giving this insane fool a platform.
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I’m not much of a fan of cantaloupe, but HEB has those special ones which each are packed in their own net bag. I can’t remember the brand.
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39 Hammie
I’ve missed this whole sideshow – completely clueless.
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I wouldn’t bother trying to catch up. The guy is Loose Change crazy.
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It’s pretty nice out there this evening.
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In my best Forest Gump voice: … and then all of a sudden TexMo didn’t have a billable charge code.
At least times are not lean and I should land on a new project quickly. Supposedly after the merger, management got rid of the bench which means you always have to be billable otherwise they tell you to go home. My manager is on vacation this week so I’ll have to wait till Monday before I hear anything definitive. If they do tell me to go home, my resume is up to date.
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What’s really sad is that I really liked the project and the client I have been dealing with for the past 15 months. They seem to have a really good corporate mentality. Both the corporate engineers and the plant engineers were great. The other people at the plant, engineers and operators, were great too. Hell, I even liked the project manager. In fact I liked the client PM more than my own PM.
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Accidentally drop a resumé in their men’s room.
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One more from the era…
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Didn’t forget ya Unca phil…
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My dad was in his second to last semester of college in 1969. His draft number was in the top 100. He was told that if he volunteered he would be able to choose where he wanted to go after basic training. He chose Germany.
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If y’all aren’t enjoying watching the NYT and the rest of the MSM twist in the wind all day over this, you aren’t living right.
It’s not been a good week for the New York Times. The beleaguered newspaper on Thursday suffered another embarrassment as one of the paper’s editors was exposed for tweeting vile, anti-Semitic, racist attacks on Jews and Indians. As reported by Breitbart and Twitchy, Tom Wright-Piersanti, the senior staff editor at the Times has a history of hateful remarks.
The editor has been quickly deleting old tweets, including this one from 2010 in which he admits to being an anti-Semite…
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New Trump ad (maybe not an official Trump ad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htc3tXYncXQ
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Not anymore…
It’s all about the Deep State.
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Shannon says:
AUGUST 22, 2019 AT 5:59 PM33
I was surprised that only four Viet Nam draft lotteries were ever held. But the first one was the biggie – it snared six years (‘44-‘50) of birthdays.And no one was ever called up from the last one (for 1953 birthdays).
And just my luck, I enlisted b/c I had a low number—-
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The study isn’t the first to debunk that cat lady cliche. One 2017 study by researchers at University College London, U.K. found no link between cat ownership and psychotic symptoms, CNN reported.
Hey now, debunked or not, this is news to me! I never heard that us cat ladies were being smeared as psychos!!!
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Hey Katfish, look who will be in town.
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