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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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Today in History
| 1066 | Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in England, opens its doors. | |
| 1574 | On the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, two Englishmen and an Irishman are burnt for heresy. | |
| 1610 | Thomas West is appointed governor of Virginia. | |
| 1704 | Indians attack Deerfield, Mass. killing 40 and kidnapping 100. | |
| 1847 | Colonel Alexander Doniphan and his ragtag Missouri Mounted Volunteers ride to victory at the Battle of Sacramento, during the Mexican War. | |
| 1861 | The territory of Colorado is established. | |
| 1900 | After a 119-day siege by the Boers, the surrounded British troops in Ladysmith, South Africa, are relieved. | |
| 1863 | Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia. | |
| 1916 | Haiti becomes the first U.S. protectorate. | |
| 1924 | U.S. troops are sent to Honduras to protect American interests during an election conflict. | |
| 1936 | The Japanese Army restores order in Tokyo and arrests officers involved in a coup. | |
| 1945 | U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River. | |
| 1946 | The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system. | |
| 1953 | Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia sign a 5-year defense pact in Ankara. | |
| 1967 | In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers. | |
| 1969 | A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s request to be executed. | |
| 1971 | The male electorate in Lichtenstein refuses to give voting rights to women. | |
| 1994 | U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in the troubled area. |
Stories of Passports From Countries That No Longer Exist
But—with no disrespect meant to Captain Smolensk—that’s not even the best thing about this passport. That honor goes to a purple stamp on page 17, which reads “Haifa”— Israel’s main port. “British Palestine turned into Israel in 1948,” explains Topol. “To find nowadays a British Palestine passport with a stamp of Israel is pretty rare.” For practical reasons, Captain Smolensk was likely allowed to keep his British Palestinian passport for a year or so after the switch, allowing for this strange convergence.Read more stories of passports from defunct countries, including one with a picture of a dog, at Atlas Obscura.
How To Turn A Metal Can Lid Into An Emergency Whistle
Anyhoo, this fun video by Specific Love Creations shows you how to turn a lid from a metal can into a survival whistle, so you won't lose your friends while you're out getting lost in the woods.
Or just make one at home and drive your pets crazy!
Renowned French historian detained for 10 hours by US customs officials
A French historian was detained for 10 hours
by US customs officials this week while on his way to an academic
conference in Texas. Henry Rousso, 62, a specialist in the history of
World War II has taught at the Sorbonne in Paris and Columbia University
in New York.
Dumbass Trump’s Deportation War Will Cost the Economy Trillions of Dollars
Undocumented workers contribute 3 percent of GDP, or nearly $5
trillion in economic growth” that will vanish with Dumbass Trump’s “military
action” against Mexican workers.…
Monday, February 27, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 425 | Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople. | |
| 1531 | German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor. | |
| 1700 | The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered. | |
| 1814 | Napoleon‘s Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor’s allied enemies shortly before his abdication. | |
| 1827 | The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans. | |
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| 1865 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. | |
| 1905 | The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River. | |
| 1908 | The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood. | |
| 1920 | The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. | |
| 1925 | Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. | |
| 1933 | The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power. | |
| 1939 | The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes. | |
| 1942 | British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. | |
| 1953 | F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River. | |
| 1962 | South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon. | |
| 1963 | The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba. | |
| 1969 | Thousands of students protest Nixon‘s arrival in Rome. | |
| 1973 | U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color. | |
| 1988 | Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. | |
| 1991 | Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army. |
Baba Singh and His Turban
Baba Avtar Singh may be the wearer of the largest turban in the world. It is his pride and joy, but is too large for Singh to get around in buses and cars, so he rides a motorcycle -barefoot. The turban weighs 187 pounds, and takes several hours to construct.
That's 700 yards of fabric, not to mention the weight of the decorations. Enjoy this video of Baba Singh from Great Big Story
Sure, We’d Support This Cauliflower-and-Kale Burger From KFC
This clean-eating menu item might be fake, but it still earns our endorsement
Tennessee Preacher Rapes Teenage Student After Binding Her with Rope
by Chris Harris
A
Tennessee preacher and teacher’s assistant has been accused of binding
and then raping one of the teenage girls from his school, though his
defense attorney says he is innocent and “has not committed any crime.”
Law
enforcement alleges otherwise: Officials say Mike Ulmer, 53, picked up
the victim, 18, from Chester County High School on Feb. 16 and brought
her to his home in Henderson, Tennessee.
Ulmer
serves as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Henderson, and court
records show the victim was paid to clean his house.
She
is a student at Chester County, where Ulmer also worked, though
a source tells PEOPLE he was suspended from his teacher’s assistant
position on Feb. 17, moments before he was taken into custody.
The
day before Ulmer was arrested, authorities allege he directed the
teen to do some cleaning in his office, which is contained within a
detached garage on his property.
The
victim told investigators that Ulmer allegedly used a rope to bind her
wrists in the garage. He then wove the rope through a hook in the
ceiling, she claimed, which prevented her from escaping.
According to court records, she told police Ulmer allegedly sexually assaulted her after she was bound.
He has been charged with rape, sexual battery and assault, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
The assault charge was filed on Thursday, after the same victim told police she had been abused by Ulmer nearly four months ago.
Court
documents allege that in November, he asked the girl if he could “put
his fingers in her mouth” as he was driving her home.
She
refused, but that allegedly didn’t stop Ulmer: Authorities claim he
jammed his fingers into the girl’s mouth before pulling over behind a
lumber yard, where the victim said he “was holding her head down in his
lap and forced her mouth open.”
Investigators
say the victim recorded the alleged incident on her cell phone and that
Ulmer can be heard in audio from the incident ordering the girl to open
her mouth.
The girl can also allegedly be heard on the recording asking him to stop.
Ulmer has been released on $250,000 bond and is due back in court on May 9.
Neither
Ulmer’s church nor the local school district responded to requests for
comment. His defense attorney, Mark Donahoe, tells PEOPLE he intends on
vigorously fighting the charges.
“We maintain that Mike did nothing wrong,” Donahoe says.
This Is One Of the Earliest Signs You’re Getting Old
Here’s a test you can take to see if it’s already affecting you
Dumbass Trump Will Use Every Weapon to Stamp out the Grassroots Resistance
And as with everything he does he will fail.
Mary Jane
9 Out Of 10 People Don’t Survive Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Find out why this heart problem is so deadly—and how you can up your odds of surviving it
The Scary Health Condition Sleeping Too Long Can Signal
Your time snoozing might be saying something important about your brain
Ginormous Facts About Coconut Crabs
Coconut crabs are also extremely antisocial critters, living up to the "hermit" title better than most of their hermit crab cousins, so if you see a coconut crab waving at you it's trying to tell you to stay away!
Sunday, February 26, 2017
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Today in History
| 364 | On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor. | |
| 1154 | William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily. | |
| 1790 | As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France. | |
| 1848 | Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London. | |
| 1871 | France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles. | |
| 1901 | Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking. | |
| 1914 | Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1916 | General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun. | |
| 1917 | President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships. | |
| 1924 | U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations. | |
| 1933 | Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. | |
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| 1936 | Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders. | |
| 1941 | British take the Somali capital in East Africa. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven. | |
| 1945 | Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. | |
| 1951 | The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms. | |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts. | |
| 1965 | Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X. | |
| 1968 | Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa. | |
| 1970 | Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children. | |
| 1972 | Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks. | |
| 1973 | A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate. | |
| 1990 | Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro. | |
| 1993 | A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation. |
Editorial Comment
The wingnuts continue to spew their bile and venom in their hatred of
anything American all the while desperately claiming to 'Love America'.
The American people ARE speaking and speaking loudly and firmly.They are not pleased with the theft of their country.
Meanwhile on the Dark Side ...
The madness of the lunatic fringe is only getting deeper.
Hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, belligerence, lying, ignorance, stupidity, intolerance, and all manner of negative traits and phobias - not what America is but what AmeriKKKa is.
Now the world is witnessing the mass insanity of the deranged and deluded .. it is not a pretty sight.
It has not changed so we reprise the opening here.
In blog news ...
We report the truth.
We do not shy away from it.
Wingnuts don't like us for it and we could not give a flying rat's ass about what they feel - but we digress.
We posted about the most recent wingnut peccadillo involving one of their own wanting to boink little boys as they are wont to do and the perverts howled - boy did they howl ... each and every one defending the wingnut pervert Milo and accusing everyone else of being the real perverts. But what do expect they are perverts after all.
As to the other burr in the wingnut trolls asses ... illustrations that accurately portray them as they truly are - how dare we post actual photographs of the subject of an individual post ... of all the gall.
Tough titties. We will post actual photos of a post's subject matter in every case we can. We will from time to time use an editorial cartoon or a generic photo when no proper photo is available, however when we do so anyone with a functioning brain cell can tell a cartoon when they see one (with wingnuts that is not the case ... they cannot) and we include a disclaimer within the post of generic photos stating that they are such (something else wingnuts cannot comprehend).
In other words ...
Working too hard on the garden this year so we are going to take a few days and let time stop while sit on the front porch before we move to the back porch and remember what life was like when all was right in the world.
Remember, as always ....
Have Fun and Be Happy
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