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Confederate Flag License Plate Sparks Debate (Texas)
Post Date: 2011-06-24 22:28:43 by Hondo68
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) -- Would you buy a license plate with a Confederate flag on it? State officials are looking at possibly launching a new Texas state license plate honoring veterans of the War Between the States. Mr. Hilary Shelton, with the NAACP in Washington, D.C., said that the Civil War may not be something we want to celebrate. “When many look at that history, we think about it in terms of secession, that is we were seceding from the Union in the southern parts of the country,” explained Shelton. “Many would view that, quite frankly, as treason, because they meant to actually destroy the existing governmental structure. But when we dig deeper, the issue becomes ...
Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie and the Rescue of Roger Locher
Post Date: 2011-06-24 19:13:25 by CZ82
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Jidaigeki
Post Date: 2011-06-03 22:20:06 by Mad Dog
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Jidaigeki (78;É95;Ó27;) is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama," and the period is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier — Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period — and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of this time. Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is really a sub group. They have a set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, ...
Why Arafat is Looking to Bush
Post Date: 2011-05-21 12:52:38 by lucysmom
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Yasser Arafat's qualified "yes" to President Clinton33;s proposals also looks a lot like a "no." What's his game? "Arafat is under more pressure than he's ever been. First he's pressured by the Americans to sign a deal. But then he's pressured by his own people, and by some of the most important Arab countries, not to sign. Arafat knows that saying no to Clinton is something very dangerous, but that accepting the American proposals is also very dangerous. So he has to find a formula in which he can appear to be both accepting them and rejecting them. snip So will the pro-Western Arab regimes encourage Arafat to make a deal? "Over ...
Tostig Godwinson Brother and Traitor to the King
Post Date: 2011-05-21 08:40:29 by A K A Stone
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Born around the year 1025, Tostig was the third son of the power Earl Godwin and the younger brother to the future King Harold. For most of his early life, he lived in the shadow of his two older brothers. In 1051, he married Judith the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, which cemented an already powerful alliance between the two families. In 1055, when Earl Siward died, King Edward named Tostig the Earl of Northumbria, Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire. The most important of these was Northumbria, which at the time was a lawless domain, ruled by bandits and robbers. With the backing of his powerful family, Tostig was able to impose new laws and round up the outlaws that had ...
Early Days of US Involvement in VN [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-20 11:12:45 by sneakypete
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Poster Comment:This is a documentary type thing from the early days in VN about Special Forces involvement in recruiting and training the locals. Notice the guys are still wearing regular fatigues,white name tags,and gold stripes,and they are all still carrying WW-2 weapons. Not real sure of the year,but I was issued a full-auto AR-15 and jungle fatigues when I got to Bragg in 64. Which means this was probably a team that was TDY from the 5th while it was still at Bragg. IIRC,the 5th deployed to VN in 65,and by then they should have all been wearing jungle fatigues.
Lincoln’s Religion, His Belief about God and Christianity
Post Date: 2011-04-16 20:02:29 by Sebastian
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$35,000 The Original of William H. Herndon’s Famous Letter of Revelations on Lincoln’s Religion “He…was a Theist & a Rationalist, denying all extraordinary – supernatural inspiration or revelation…doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term. He believed that the soul lost its identity and was immortal as a force.” On Lincoln the man and the politician: “He’s the purest politician I ever saw, and the justest man.” William H. Herndon was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1844, and late that year formed a partnership with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. They practiced for 17 years together, and no one ...
FBI memo, photo link Bush Sr to JFK Dallas murder scene
Post Date: 2011-04-16 18:21:16 by A K A Stone
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“Actually, however, Congress was being manipulated. This is how the war machine operates. Behind the seeming concern for national security are the busy men with the bulging briefcases hurrying form the Pentagon over to Capitol Hill, the tight-mouthed men hurrying from CIA headquarters over to the Pentagon; it is eventually a game. It is an operation designed to produce for the warfare sector and its military hardware supporters billions of dollars annually and unlimited power in the affairs of the nation.”
“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and ...
Civil War still divides Americans
Post Date: 2011-04-13 21:45:49 by Sebastian
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It has been 150 years since the Civil War began with the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and in some respects views of the Confederacy and the role that slavery played in the events of 1861 still divide the public, according to a new national poll. In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Tuesday, roughly one in four Americans said they sympathize more with the Confederacy than the Union, a figure that rises to nearly four in ten among white Southerners. When asked the reason behind the Civil War, whether it was fought over slavery or states' rights, 52 percent of all Americans said the leaders of the Confederacy seceded to keep slavery legal in their ...
Hawaii official denounces 'ludicrous' birther claims [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-10 13:41:06 by Skip Intro
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The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue. "It’s kind of ludicrous at this point," Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii's Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC. Fukino, sounding both exasperated and amused, spoke to a reporter in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements on the NBC Today show last week questioning whether Obama has a legitimate birth ...
Trump Sees Act of God in Recession [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-09 13:08:13 by Skip Intro
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Guess who is complaining that condominiums in Donald Trump’s latest big project are ridiculously overpriced. Donald Trump is. But he isn’t cutting the prices. He says the banks won’t let him. The project is the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, which is to be the second-tallest building in that city (after the Sears Tower). By Mr. Trump’s account, sales were going great until “the real estate market in Chicago suffered a severe downturn” and the bankers made it worse by “creating the current financial crisis.” Those assertions are made in a fascinating lawsuit filed by Mr. Trump, the real estate developer, television personality ...
Freedoms We had in the 19th Century We do NOT Have Now Thanks to "Progressives" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-05 02:10:25 by Coral Snake
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These are the freedoms we had in the 19th Century that we DON'T have now thanks to "PROGRESSIVES". 1. Freedom of travel. As a general rule horses and wagons were not LICENSED and REGISTERED and one did not have to submit to sexually oriented "pat downs" in order to board the stage coach or "iron horse" (passenger train). What roads that existed were paid for by county and state taxation and since everybody paid the taxes everybody had free use of them. 2. Gambling and losing was a personal choice not the law. Yes, legal Faro banks were crooked for the most part and led some of their players to become gambling addicts but one had a choice of weather he was ...
Videos of The Demolition And Destruction Of Americas Former Industrial Might
Post Date: 2011-04-04 23:27:37 by A K A Stone
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J.L. Hudsons Department Store - GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!! - Controlled Demolition, Inc. CUR NON - The Demise Of The Lafayette Building Ocean Tower - Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Poster Comment:Here is a start
Luftwaffe Over New York, a WW2 Secret
Post Date: 2011-03-28 21:32:24 by sneakypete
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The Most Dangerous Photo-Recon Mission of World War II On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the ‘White Wolf of the Luftwaffe’. A nickname she had acquired because of her frost blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Anna was one of the top pilots in Germany and even though she was only the co-pilot on this mission, her flying ability was crucial to its success. The Ju-390 was twice the size of the B-29 Superfortress. It was powered by six 1,500 hp BMW radial engines and it had a range of ...
1974 Xenia Tornado
Post Date: 2011-03-25 21:57:56 by CZ82
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Poster Comment:I thought this might be appropriate because it's now tornado season (we had a warning just last night). This video shows just how destructive an F5 tornado can be, even though there are no really good vids of the actual tornado. I was supposed to be working in Xenia that day, but my boss called me and told me not to come in because our furniture delivery didn't happen..... thank god for small favors because I would have been at "ground zero"..... Instead I was about 6 miles away helping the next door neighbor deliver papers before the storm hit. The thing I remember the most was before it hit it was real windy and then all of a sudden it got real quiet, no ...
Was Lost City of Atlantis Found in Spanish Marsh?
Post Date: 2011-03-14 12:08:44 by sneakypete
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Crime solvers follow the money, but experts searching for the lost city of Atlantis? In archaeology, "you should follow the stones," Richard Freund said. Freund, a University of Hartford professor, believes he and his research team have found the legendary island-city described by Plato in about 360 B.C. as having "in a single day and night ... disappeared into the depths of the sea." Using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar, underwater technology and some old-fashioned reasoning, Freund said his team pinpointed the city in a vast marsh in southern Spain that dries out one month a year. Their findings are featured in a National Geographic special ...
Pliny the Elder wrote About Dragons
Post Date: 2011-03-12 19:13:17 by A K A Stone
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Pliny the Elder wrote About Dragons Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, was an author, naturalist, and natural philosopher as well as a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire. He lived from 23 A.D to 79 A.D. He spent most of his time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field. He wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, or Natural History. picture of Pliny the Elder Natural History, consists of 37 books covering mathematics, geography, anthropology, zoology, botany, agriculture, pharmacology, mineralogy, and much more. In Book Eight of Natural History, we find some fairly detailed information about ...
Dragon Sightings
Post Date: 2011-03-12 19:02:12 by A K A Stone
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* 1st Century: Rome, Italy - The Historian naturalis Pliny the Elder reported that a dragon was slain on Vatican Hill during the reign of emperor Claudius. * 11th Century: Kiev, Russia - As recorded in the byliny (legends of heroes), Dobrynja slew a dragon named Gorynych that terrorized that region for years. * 1188: Ireland - Tristan of Lonesse slew a dragon, Giraldus Cambrensis later anounced that Ireland was free of all dragons. * 12th Century: Drachenfels, Germany - A mountain used to house a dragn that lived on a diet of young women, a fortress was later built on this sight. * 1222: London, England - Dragons were seen over the city on November 30, 1222. Thunderstorms and severe ...
Harold Godwinson also known as Civilization: British: Saxon Harold II of England Era: Saxon-Norman 1022 - 1066
Post Date: 2011-03-09 11:24:34 by A K A Stone
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Harold Godwinson was the last Saxon king of England, but he ruled only nine months, before being killed at the Battle of Hastings. Although Harold was king for a short time, he had inherited the estates and vast influence of his father, Earl Godwin, upon his death in 1053, and so had been the most powerful man in the realm for much of the reign of Edward the Confessor. The Goodwin family rose in power during the reign of Canute, and by the time Edward came to the throne, they possessed not only vast holdings themselves, but wielded great influence over the other Saxon nobles. Edward's relationship with the Godwin Family, and particularly Earl Godwin himself, was antagonistic. A ...
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
Post Date: 2011-03-09 11:13:53 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:Still relevant today.
Hitler Didn’t Outlaw Unions – As a National Socialist, He Went Double-Down On Them
Post Date: 2011-03-05 09:09:43 by A K A Stone
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Time and time again, the collectivist left in America chooses hyperbole when championing their economy-killing objectives. Most recently, as in the case of the socialist union (yes, they were created by socialists and Marxists) protests in Wisconsin, you see many signs being wielded by the neo-Marxist rubes stating, “Hitler banned unions”. The purpose of this urban legend-styled disinformation, of course, is a weak attempt to paint Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a Nazi, even though the Nazi’s were national socialists who subscribed to most of the tenets of modern American leftists. What are the roots of this “Hitler banned unions” urban legend? We have to ...
Washington: the 'blackest name' in America
Post Date: 2011-02-21 11:36:20 by A K A Stone
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George Washington's name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation's history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities — and people. In a puzzling twist, most of these people are black. The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American, a far higher black percentage than for any other common name. The story of how Washington became the "blackest name" begins with slavery and takes a sharp turn after the Civil War, when all blacks were allowed the dignity of a surname. Even before Emancipation, many enslaved black people chose their own ...
The New Deal and Roosevelt’s Seizure of Gold: A Legacy of Theft and Inflation, Part 2
Post Date: 2011-02-09 22:54:47 by A K A Stone
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The monetary system of the United States at the time of the Depression could not sustain inflation very long because the country was on a gold standard. If people sensed that the government was printing too many paper dollars, by law they could redeem those dollars from the government’s store of gold. Moreover, gold coins circulated along with silver dollars, half-dollars, quarters, and dimes. If people were exchanging their dollars for gold, then the government’s own gold supply would be diminished. Since the gold standard included requirements that the country’s money supply have at least a 40 percent gold backing, a drain on gold reserves would have forced the government ...
How Franklin Roosevelt Lied America Into War
Post Date: 2011-02-08 17:14:36 by A K A Stone
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According to his own official statements, repeated on many occasions, and with special emphasis when the presidential election of 1940 was at stake, Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy after the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1939 was dominated by one overriding thought: how to keep the United States at peace. One of the President's first actions after the beginning of hostilities was to call Congress into special session and ask for the repeal of the embargo on the sales of arms to belligerent powers, which was part of the existing neutrality legislation. He based his appeal on the argument that this move would help to keep the United States at peace. His words on the subject were: ...
FDR and the End of Economic Liberty
Post Date: 2011-02-08 09:52:37 by A K A Stone
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The watershed years were 1932-1937 — the first two presidential terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was the crucial period in American history — the period in which Americans abandoned the principles of economic liberty on which our nation was founded. For it was during this time that the welfare-state, planned-economy way of life replaced the private-property, market-economy way of life which had existed up to that time. Of course, this is not what Americans have been taught. From the first grade in their government-approved schools, the American people have been indoctrinated into believing that the Great Depression was the failure of America's free-enterprise system, that ...
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