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Hm. Looks like a Florida beach this morning.
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Looking at that picture reminds me of driving through the woods and farmlands out here at night where there are no streetlights, it’s dark and you’re totally alone. At some point you see a farmhouse way off with incandescent or fluorescent light streaming out thrugh the kitchen window and you feel all right again.
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In June 1963 my family and I were visiting relatives in Nova Scotia. Six of us (5 adults and a 1-year old) left the family residence around 5:00 AM to drive four hours to Halifax where I was to catch a flight to New York City. Talk about no lights ANYWHERE. We first drove on a gravel road, then macadam, then we were off a small cliff (luckily only about 4 feet) and into a stream.
I will never forget the headlights shining into the fog as we were starting to turn over clockwise. Suddenly the right front tire of my Dad’s brand new 1963 Ford Fairlane…which looked like this only in light turquoise (LOL!–what an aside!)…
…hit a huge boulder with a monstrous bang. The boulder likely saved all our lives as it helped right the car so that we landed in the stream on all four wheels. Seat belts were optional then and Dad chose not to install them, but no one was injured. Baby was absolutely fine.
We got out of the car, the men clambered up the bank, they saw what might be farm house lights in the distance and told us women to get back in the car and out of the cold, damp air. They headed off toward the lights, came back in about 45 minutes, the farmer driving, and we gals crowded into his car. That good man drove us at least an hour back to the residence, absolutely refused any payment, and told us he was happy to help.
Next we all piled once again in a vehicle, drove to the Canadian Mounties office, reported and filled papers about the accident, arranged for a tow truck, headed back on the road to Halifax, drove past our car still in the stream…and, wouldn’t you know it…the place where we drove off the cliff had no sign indicating there was a near-90 degree turn in the road and with the fog we couldn’t see it. Otherwise, it was totally our fault as we were going too fast for such weather conditions.
But the next interesting thing was that about 10 yards from where we went over, it was a much longer drop and not a boulder in sight.
Drive safely, my friends!
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Mornin’ Czar.
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Great story!
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Funny thing is, no one screamed or yelled. It was such a shocking surprise to know we were airborne. Mom was sitting in the middle of the front seat and I was sitting on the right. When that wheel hit the boulder, it was such an incredible jolt. Afterwards, I remember my Dad praying his thanks we were all OK.
Mom and Dad stayed in Nova Scotia for another month while the auto repair ordered parts from Ford. Amazingly, the car was in relatively good shape, with nothing major broken or cracked. Ford built ’em good!
Anyway, I had a great time in New York. Went to dinner with a Canadian businessman I shared a taxi with from Idlewild Airport (now JFK). Wouldn’t even contemplate doing anything like that now. I don’t remember where we ate but it was up high enough that we could look out over the city. The Dodgers were in town playing the Mets and I met one of the players…alas, not Sandy Koufax as I was hoping to do…LOL!
All-in-all a very memorable vacation.
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I still have some problems every now and then when I’m ion a at night I don’t drive regularly. The locals get more used to it, they’ll pass me doing 50 on a dark night, sorta like I do on my more familiar roads, but that country night swallows headlights like a sponge.
So far I haven’t driven off the road…OK, I backed into a ditch just outside the property on our street…but there are twenty foot drops along stretches of the highway with no shoulder, a badly white line and no lights for nearly 15 miles. So far, so good.
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U.S. World War 2 Rationing…
Make It Do – Rationing of Butter, Fats & Oils in World War II
Posted by Sarah Sundin
http://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-rationing-of-fats-oils-in-world-war-ii-2/
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I’ll see if Czarina can take a picture of the WW2 ration stamps I have. Did any of you buy savings stamps to buy savings bonds in school? I used to have war bond stamps and a few war bonds. The stamps disappeared but the bonds, for what they were worth, got cashed in for early-on college tuition.
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I have a vague memory of having savings bonds, but I have no idea what happened to them.
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Mornin’ Stella.
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Mornin’ mom!
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In Germany relatives had a savings stamp kind of book where during the pre-war and wartime you’d buy stamps, paste them into a book and when you had a full book you’d be able to turn it in for a Volkswagen. My dear ex-FIL, a WWII vet too, used to call VWs ‘Nazi footlockers’.
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I may have a ration book from WW2, gas coupons, meat. Saving Bond purchase was encouraged when I enter the Army.
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Yeah, we had a commander’s call every now and then to ‘encourage’ us to buy bonds. Now the government just says “what the hell!?” and prints more money.
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I remember the push to purchase the stamps at school, but my family could not afford them (we carried sack lunches b/c they were cheaper than the school lunch). Looking back, were they to pay for the war or the Marshall Plan, or something else entirely different the govt. wanted and misled the general public. In the 50’s there was still a huge “rah-rah” mentality which allowed good advertising/propaganda (like fat saving, metal scavenging, toothpaste tube redeeming, reduced use of sugar, etc.) to mobilize people to participate in such activities. It was done to keep them supporting the effort as a group, with all the “group mentality” and shaming/ostracism as needed to maintain the cohesiveness. I recall reading many years ago the sugar was not needed, the toothpaste tubes were thrown out, the fat was never used.
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Mornin’ Lucille.
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Good morning, Aus! Have a great day! We’ve got rain which is predicted to turn to snow every day through January 20 and likely beyond. We wouldn’t want to avoid having those six foot high piles of the white stuff, would we? Good thing it’s beautiful to look at.
This photo is entitled “Sunrise in the snowy woods (Italy)” by Roberto Melotti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJTBG5eWuJs&feature=emb_logo
Here is the Daily Mail article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7855039/Graphic-photos-Jeffrey-Epsteins-autopsy-reveal-bloodied-neck.html
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We watched the 60 Minutes article on Sunday, which showed this, and many other details which are troubling, but in the end don’t matter and will not change anyhing.
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The only group vocally and actively supporting IRAN (enemy of USA) is……
The US Democrat party
https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1214432307504918528
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https://twitter.com/BarronTrumpOrg/status/1189531025388519424
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And I’ll say it again, Mullah Obama stopped Israel from killing Soleimani. I don’t see how Netanyahu could shake hands with Obama without puking.
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I thought Obama was spit on, also I wouldn’t shake his hand, hey, where has this hand been?
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And now we are encouraged to recycle but there’s so much post-consumer crap to recycle that much of the parer and plastic based crap is just piling up because it’s too expensive to recycle it and there’s a shortage of industries to take the recycled end product.
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Back in the 90’s, my parents lived in Florida and were recycling like they were supposed to. That is, until a reporter did an expose and let everybody know that the trucks, trash and recycling, all went to the same dump to empty their trucks.
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Sounds like New Orleans – except the city makes you pay for recycling.
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When Netanyahu came to the US in Obama’s 2nd term he sorta choked out some forced praise of Obama at a conference, to say it sounded as if the praise was coerced is an understatement.
Obama would have thrown Israel right under the bus if he felt he could have gotten away with it but there was still too much support for Israel. Since then he and his ilk have steadily worn away some of that support and pushed support for Iran as the underdog, death to Jude-Christianity, all hail to the false religion of Make-It-Up-As-You-Go.
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Failing NYT quoting their “sources” as … three Iranians familiar with the meeting.
LOL
I thought that was a “joke”… but it is REAL!
Mr. Khamenei has told advisers that any retaliation against American interests must be direct, proportional and carried out openly by Iran — a departure from the country’s usual policy of acting through proxies. He laid down those parameters at a meeting of Iran’s National Security Council hours after the general was killed, according to three Iranians familiar with the meeting.
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Well of course there was a sea of mourners, free meals for those who attended………an the Army was rounding up those who weren’t attending…..
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Toronto police threaten Rebel journalist for calling Qasem Soleimani a “terrorist” | David Menzies
Jan 5, 2020
Rebel News
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https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1214230280585797637
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SMH
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Toronto is the Sacramento of Canada. A pathetic and stupid brainwashed populace.
The question always is, “If Iran is so terrific, then why did you leave?”
You’ll know who loves his country and wants to be rid of the mullahs so they can rebuild a democracy? They call themselves Persians, not Iranians.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, heard there was an “elephant walk”, 52 aircraft…….I like that number, I’m going too call my bookie, ask her if I can play that number, think my credit is good….
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Morning Ken!
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Afternoon Colonel Sir! 52 is an EXCELLENT number!! Works for B-52 as well!
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52 B-52s going for 52 targets. It all comes around…
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10 total from here – 4 there, 2 on the way, 4 to go!
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And of course there’s…THE B-52s:
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Wicked!
Mornin’ Wee, and all ya’all!
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Afternoon Z’s!
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Ya knows ya gotta have a rep when people who blow up kids and revere goats won’t sign ya.
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Good day, WeeWeed! I used to love watching football before the men went nuts via being fed lies and misinformation and didn’t have the inclination to check out what the were being told. Such a contrast to how things used to be.
One of my friends had a brother who played MLBaseball. In those days good looking sisters and their friends were invited to all the sports parties no matter what the game or who was in town. Everybody knew everybody. It was a different world.
The men enjoyed interacting with the fans. They’d stand outside the dressing rooms and sign autographs until their hands got tired. They really loved playing their various sports. One fellow (a major star and Golden Glove player) told me he’d play for nothing…and that year he almost did make nothing, salaries were so low! If any of the men had family who lived in Los Angeles or Orange counties, the families would give barbecues and the neighbors would come over to meet the players. NOBODY talked politics. All this for chump change to the men of today.
One of the guys I got to know used to be totally out of it after a football game, not only from the drugs they gave him to keep him in all 4 quarters (that was illegal even then) but from the concussions he often got and only sat on the bench for a few minutes.
I wonder with so many sportsmen today acting really strange both on and off the field and holding bizarre points-of-view aren’t suffering from undiagnosed traumatic brain injuries. Kaepernick used to be a devout Christian. Most of the tats he has reference Jesus. I know this leftism-espousing fiancee of his is a Muslim and he obviously fell under her spell. But that alone can’t account for his about face in just about every belief he once held. It’s sad and terrible at the same time.
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Evenin’ Lucy!
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Lol –
https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1214280921471496193
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Mornin’ Wee. 🙂
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Mornin’ Mom!
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So Sajak expects to get a ‘rise’ outta that?
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Just spent an hour trying to find an intake screen for our gray water pump. Had to download maker’s catalog to get part number, call manufacturer to find a supplier and then call parts supply to order…only to find out the ‘Mexico-made’ parts are always in short supply so they’ll send them to me when they receive them and when they work their way down thru the list of waiting recipients. Seems Mexico makes a few at a time and dioles them out.
I bought a spare to prevent this but when I went for the spare the buttons that are used to snap the screen around the pump were faulty – probably made by the outgoing shift late in the day before Cinco de Mayo. (BTW, just found out my spell check spell checks Spanish too).
Just another of those little things that you don’t have to put up with in the city.
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WWII B-24 Liberator “Hot Stuff” – Setting the Record Straight
June 15, 2013 WarbirdsUpdate
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-articles/wwii-b-24-liberator-hot-stuff-setting-record-straight.html
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Best figures I can find show 8th Air Force as losing 4145 aircraft and suffered 47,000 casualties of which 26,000 were deaths. In the first years of WW2 the US started flying bombing missions over Germany it was statistically impossible for a crew to fly and survive 25 missions.
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Until the American military figured it out and created a remedy, the Nazis knew exactly how to down the B-17s by instructing their fighter pilots to come in and go straight for the cockpit. Thus they avoided the B-17 machine guns unable to get the right angle to take them out.
A German pilot figured out this maneuver and apparently was amply rewarded for it. Makes a person wonder why Boeing didn’t also think of it.
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The B-17s learned to fly as a mass with overlapping fire sectors from their .50 cals. The early ME-109sc and FW-190s had .30 cal machineguns that didn’t have the range of the .50 but they made that up by installing 20mm cannons later.
I never appreciated what my dad went thru in the 17s until I actually went into one that was being rebuilt for display. They flew at altitudes in excess of 30,000 feet and were unpressurized, completely open. My father kept his mittens he flew with, one finger and a thumb free, made out of sheepskin with the fleece inside. He also had a sheepskin jacket, hat and pants he flew in. There was nothing between n him and the German planes outside but that one layer of metal skin. Eight hours or more in freezing or below freezing temps, much of that time breathing oxygen and no bathrooms in the plane.
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CNN settles lawsuit with Nick Sandmann
Amount not disclosed… and other companies yet to settle.
Sandmann’s lawsuit sought $800 million from CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal.
https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/
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I, for one, am glad. I am sure those lawyers of his didn’t accept an amount less than they thought was right. 🙂
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This belonged under Rumpole’s post about Sandmann.
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Australia: Muslim teen laughs after appearing in court for setting grass fire
JAN 7, 2020 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER 12 COMMENTS
Australia has just arrested a number of arsonists who are accused of setting the wildfires that are ravaging the country. Could they have anything to do with the fact that jihadis have identified setting fires as a tool of jihad?
This has been a threat for years.
“‘Unleash Hell’: New Al Qaeda magazine describes in detail how to start huge forest fires across the U.S..with instructions on how to make ’ember bombs.’” — Daily Mail, May 3, 2012
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/australia-muslim-teen-laughs-after-appearing-in-court-for-setting-grass-fire
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Will the Australians get the picture now? All Muslims must be on a watch list, and all Muslim aliens must be deported to country of origin.
Will Hollywood shut up now about global warming/climate change being the cause of the fires? No doubt they are too numbskulled to believe the real cause of Australia’s horrendous holocaust and will just keep blabbering on about this nonsense.
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Dozens arrested on arson charges as deadly wildfires ravage Australia
by Dominick Mastrangelo – January 07, 2020 10:12 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dozens-arrested-for-arson-as-deadly-wildfires-ravage-australia
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Iran just upped the ante, fired SRBMs and perhaps cruise missiles at unnamed US facilities in Iraq. The missiles came from Iran and not a proxy country as in the Saudi refinery attack, and thr IRG has claimed responsibility.
Our satellites, I’m sure, have been positioned to pick up the launches and I’m pretty sure the Iranians are using mobile launchers to prevent as much counter-battery fire but then I’m betting that the targeteers have already delivered ac set of IRG-related targets to the Pentagon and we may well see a lot of smoking holesc where there were once IRG bases.
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This is small potatoes compared to Iran/Iraq or any number of other matters. It does, however, add one more layer to the sleaze covering this family.
“Investigators Reveal Hunter Biden Used His Dead Brother’s Identity to Hide His Whereabouts”
by Beth Baumann – Posted: Jan 07, 2020 6:30 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/01/07/investigators-reveal-hunter-biden-used-his-dead-brothers-identity-to-hide-his-whereabouts-n2559061
One of the things I’ve noticed when looking at Hunter’s mouth. Now, lots of folks have complete dentures, of course, and for a variety of reasons not having to do with drugs. I’d wager, however, that meth took Hunter’s teeth.
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