Her name was amelia Carter, 29 years young, a pretty lady
Tying that sonofbitch to a tree fully dressed, “Take his boots!” would not be cruel and unusual punishment, he would live longer than she did, but the wolves and crows must eat as well.
Ever see this asked, ” what would Jesus”, I can you in no uncertain terms what he wouldn’t do, and that is Never back down in the face of EVIL. as in this example
anno, I am not making fun of the situation, this world is full of Evil
Weak men create hard times for everyone
What follows can filed under George & Martha
George, did you take the children to soccer practice today?
“No martha, we went out back and shot off cannons, the children had a great time”
George, you had one job, one job George
” I know Martha, I know… I known for a couple of days now, with the birth of the Christ child, which can be viewed as the best gift ever.
I’ve been informed, another child shall be born in July, my response was full-on Gunny, OUTFUCKIINGSTANDING and it’s about G’damn time, not getting any younger here. My mind started smilin when told, we’ll need a native name to go long with another name so grampa will still be with us. Got some time to think of things. Something I already know, I’ll bestest
First lesson learned while in my care GOD AND GUNS are good, giving the child a fighting chance agaisnt the evil out there. something else I get to do, share the stories I was told around a campfire
Telling the old stories while thinking I now sit where dad sat.
It’s Christmas, no time to be bummin, other day I was going through stuff, boxes an boxes stacked on top of totes which are on top of other totes. It’s then it clicked (sometimes it it’s awhile). As a kid you don’t think such terms because you are too busy thinking about Santa and gifts and food! Who provided the magic in your home, that’s right, your mother did, who started the conversation as in ” you go out and get those lights hung up”. clear case of your mother taking charge of Christmas. The tree was never the same except Beautiful. Well now I understand why. A wood fold out sleigh was always full of nuts
Ohh, and of course we must mention glassware
Going through just a couple boxes I felt a smile breakout, never mind this pile for there are mores piles
Believe you me, I know the difference between a Christmas present & a Birthday gift. Was some people over for like Christmas party, thinking 9 couples, she always had real mistletoe hanging
being a kid of 11/12 where your voice cracks and other weird stuff happening to your body I hear my name called, and there is Betty standing under the mistletoe, (I didn’t know it the time, her nickname was Bouncing Betty for good reason, believe you me I know the difference between a B cup and a Triple JJ. Like an idiot I went over to Betty, she wrapped arms around me, face buried between her breasts all the while she’s applying a reserve motorboat, Forget about any enjoyment a 11/12 year boy would have gotten, I couldn’t breath, I heard laughter while I dyin under the mistletoe. Went on for only God knows, felt forever, I never went by her again ever, I’m fast learner. As a kid whose taking beating from boobage you don’t think anything except living, now going these Christmas items, carrying around such weighted breasts as Betty did, that had to hurt her back. Fun lady, just stay away from her. It’s a TRAP!
Featured Image: The Spirit of ’76 painted by Archibald M. Willard, of Cleveland Ohio for exhibit in Philadelphia during the 1876 Centennial celebrations.The fife and drum played a crucial role during the American Revolution. They were used as tools for commanders to communicate with their troops. Fifes and drums were much easier to use for relaying commands, rather than yelling commands through distance, gun and cannon-fire, smoke, and general confusion. Different tunes composed for fifes and drums meant various commands for soldiers to follow.
Several popular fife and drum tunes during the American Revolution include “Yankee Doodle,” and “The British Grenadiers.”
The benign neglect the colonies experienced in the beginning of American colonization would slowly begin to disappear during the French and Indian War. (May 28, 1754 – October 7, 1763) The Acts of Trade and Navigation may have bothered the American merchant class but had minimal effect on the general population; it was the more affluent citizens who felt the costs of these regulations.
US brig Niagara. Brigs were a type of two masted sailing vessel that had square rigging on both masts. Brigs were popular during the 1700s as both merchant and naval vessels. The original US brig Niagara fought on lake Erie during the war of 1812.
In addition to the Acts of Trade and Navigation, the issuance of “Writs of Assistance” introduced in 1755 allowed customs officials to enter businesses, warehouses and private residences in the search for merchandise considered to be contraband with no recourse in the courts as the courts of record were the Admiralty courts. Needless to say, this did not give the colonials a fair chance as most of the goods seized were then sold to pay the courts and judges.
That the English government had little success in moving the Colonial populace during the war to actively support the war and even the depredations on the frontier did little to entice the Colonies to make sacrifices to protect themselves. Colonial reticence was partially fueled by the fact that England had military forces active in the war and was only superficially concerned after the disastrous defeat of General Braddock’s forces July 9, 1755.
General Edward Braddock marching through the wilderness to Ft. Duquesne
With the exception of Massachusetts, most of the colonies would continue to delay efforts of assistance during the war. This would drive the English Parliament to make further demands of the colonies resulting in the Sugar Act of 1765. The hunt for a source of colonial revenue was on; it would drive the Colonies to even greater acts of resistance. The cry of, “No Taxation without Representation” would begin to be heard throughout the colonies.
(We need to remember that the ideas of liberty, justice and government in general are not a modern train of thought. The basis for our Republic came from the Greeks and Romans.)
John Locke’s writings would set the stage for the colonial argument that colonial legislatures were in fact superior to Parliament. He put forth the argument that taxation could not be levied without the consent of the governed. He maintained that men had created governments to make liberties more secure; that government must respect the laws or forfeit the right to exist. He wrote, “If anyone shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.” (John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government, written in 1690 was instrumental in the mental foundations of much of the American Revolution.) John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704)
John Locke
As the Sugar Act of 1765 did not move the colonials to help pay for the French and Indian War, Parliament moved to implement the Stamp Act of 1765. Little did they know that it would result in even more discord and rancor within the colonies. As Americans examined the Stamp Act the more odious it seemed to them.
The following is from John C. Miller’s book, Origins of the American Revolution, copyright 1943.
”Under the provisions of the act, Americans could not engage in commerce, exchange property with each other, recover debts, buy a newspaper, institute lawsuits or make wills, without paying for a stamp. Every diploma awarded by a college or academy required a stamp of two pounds and – what was more important to the common man – every tavern owner who retailed spirituous liquor was obliged to pay twenty shillings for his license. To crown these hardships, infractions of the Stamp Act were to be tried without a jury in the hated Admiralty Courts.”
The more England’s Parliament pushed for a colonial taxation, the more entrenched the fight against taxation became.
A sediment you probably know, spoken or posted here and there
” I love my country, hate the government” Maybe what you don’t know, it’s a hand me down item, we’ll get to that soon enough.
Here we a Top Man explaining the drone situation
A hypothesis I seen somewhere, those drones are “sniffing” for something, ok say they are, who’s operating the sniffers. What they sniffing for, how about traces of a dirty bomb brought in, of all the countries in the world, a dirty bomb brought from the Ukraine, imagine that.
A book from the shelf over there, anno I didn’t see the film, books are always better
That is what the book was about, a dirty bomb brought in
No one knows anything about nothing, BS, how many days we got before Jan20th,
scenarios man, scenarios
Could America be viewed over-all has been run by democrats since FDR, with help of spinless gop, heard tell, if you want to change something, you have to do the change from inside. Inside like the “institutions”. If those institutions don’t want change, how far are they willing to go to keep control.
An example of that
Very few understand the evil of Wickard v. Filburn; most people have never even heard of the case. But the case essentially gave the government the right to regulate the entire economy and everything in it with basically no limitation. This is one of the worst Supreme Court opinions in history, up there with Roe v. Wade and Dredd Scott v. Sanford. With the Chevron doctrine recently overturned, Wickard v. Filburn is next maybe.
Discipline
it’s training your mind not to give a shit if it’s hard, if it hurts or sucks
if it needs to get done, it gets done
God speed President Trump and the American People to getting this done and over with, we’ve had it up to our G’damn eyeballs.
John how about we circle back to a time when ” we don’t know nothin about nothin”
From the goobermint website, go look for yourself,
Even down the road that way, we have TRAITORS, that’s right, G’damn TRAITORS
are you done as he
(uses his weasel voice)
No John, WE not
There is no such thing as a Preemptive pardon, you can stick that fantasy shit where the sun don’t shine, there is one however that would enjoy that way to much
I don’t know you were told, we were told, Men fart, Women fluffy, I call BS on that to John
Like her, I feel better.
File this under Reginal Accents
The other day, made a call concerning piece of equipment so I dialed up the helpline, was told, expect a in a few minutes, call came, west coast number. After the initial greeting offered on their end I replied WTFUCK!, something something was said back to me, then I said, where the Hell you at? BomBay India, and that’s when I said, Holdatitman spoken like the Caribbean people, ( what it means HolyShitman, the reply was What, what what, you heard me the first G’damn time! what? what hell, you some sort of G’damn lightbulb that’s burnin out?
An that’s when I click!
And yes, I’m was on my best behavior, phone behavior you know, because you just never know who’s in the area
ain’t that right FBLIE, suck that up like you have with Kash’s phone and emails
Was hearing a Eagles tune, hmm that it, I’ve been out riding fences to long, creatures such as Barbra, come with their own… problems, I got enough already. Some may not know what 5 degrees feels like or looks like, well now ya do, heat rising up from the water, as if she’s not cold enough as it is.
It’s 5 degrees out here, that’s like just below warm/chilly, keep moving stay warm, or get chilly, the cold will be here soon enough walkin around you stay warm, that rabbit will be plenty warm in my belly.
People may wonder what I think about out here in the woods, well, I don’t believe prostitution is the oldest profession, I’ll show you a couple books while keeping this in mind, how can I kill him when he’s over there while I’m way over here.
In no uncertain terms, this person here, I got stuff to do then wonder what level of crazy she has attained
Tosses in some history so you know I am as well informed as Kash
That’s enough inside, back outside, see this, it’s the McCready hat, Women are the only ones who know styling, I’d be stylin while checking the trapline, not at this price!
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They’re right, it’s not just a hat, it’s a G’damn money pit.
sips coffee…
I coulda to him there’s no mermaid in those waters, some people just don’t listen
Now excuse me, I’m call the McCready hat people and see if I can get the price lowered since I have some beaver skins layin around here doin nothin besides takin up space. They were rejected by the auction guy last Spring
That’s a quote, as a kid you may have heard a time or two, believe you me, I heard it much more often, but it fits the situation.
Using sarcasm/humor doesn’t lessen the severity, it’s something that Americans have always done. I called up Fast Fredy, you hear anything, ” chance I’m 85 years old, my hearing isn’t all that good.
Got Armydog on the horn, dog anyword yet?, garhead, the wifey is making bread, as I sit here with poor man’s jam waiting, the house does smell nice he just hung up
I don’t know any Coasties personally, so I’ll say it this way, are they not like our last line of Defense.
Allen was in the Coast guard
First Jersey, reports outta california, even over a golf course, and Langley.
These are the size of SUV’s, that’s a hella payload if you are planning something not nice. The FAA the Air Force, the Army and bunch of goverment types be crawling up your rectum if you shoot them down, while sayin they don’t nothing about nothing,
So what they are sayin without saying, our Airspace is as open as the border.
And yes, it has been fired
I apologize up front for showing you what not nice is
Operation PX
Unit 731 personnel conduct a bacteriological test on a child in Nongan County of northeast China’s Jilin Province. November 1940.
After the Geneva Convention banned germ warfare in 1925, Japanese officials reasoned that such a prohibition only confirmed how potent a weapon it would be. This led to Japan’s biological weapons program in the 1930s and the army’s biological warfare division, Unit 731.
It didn’t take long for the Japanese army to subject Chinese civilians to their cruel experiments. As Japan occupied large swaths of China in the early 1930s, the army settled in Harbin near Manchuria — evicting eight villages there — and built the infamous Harbin facility. What occurred there was some of the most inhumane activity of the 20th century.
I’m not saying what those drones are all about, “Cherry Blossom” did come to mind,if those are from Iran who got the technology from china china china, I wouldn’t rule out anything.
with strong winds around here, I would say I’m outta the woods, drones don’t well in 35 mph with snow
Featured Image: American patriot Patrick Henry gives his famous ‘Give me liberty, or give me death’ speech in front of the Virginia Assembly, 1775
Part One
America’s Revolution began nearly 150 years before the Declaration of Independence. The first permanent colonies in what is now the United States were formed in the present state of Virginia in 1606 and the present state of Massachusetts in 1620.
The colonies were not burdened with governmental interference in their early development even though the English government had begun the transition to a Mercantilist Economy. This was to allow raw materials to be shipped to England for English manufacturers to make products for world trade.
England was in the throes of a trade war with the sea-faring nations of Continental Europe, namely the Dutch, French and Spanish interests thereby driving the English to establish trade laws that forced the American colonies to trade with the mother country. These restrictions were very detrimental to American trade with nations other than England, thus driving a thriving smuggling economy in the Colonies.
(Mercantilism, a system of government in which the government controlled most of the trade of England by funneling most all trade through the Customs Houses of the English Crown. This system worked to keep most of the gold and silver used in transactions in the pockets of the English merchants to the detriment of colonial trade forcing many Americans to accept English goods for payment of most American products and materials.)
Hampton Roads VA Customs house. Built in 1720 by Custom Agent Richard Ambler, this is one of 12 extant customs houses from the Colonial period still standing
The Colonies were allowed to trade with the nations of the world with minimal interference until the Acts of Trade and Navigation beginning in 1651. These acts marked the beginning of the transition by the English government into a more formal Mercantilist Economy with additional acts in 1660, 1663, 1673 and 1696 that remained in force for nearly two centuries.
The act of 1660 would specify some commodities, namely, tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, ginger and wood products that were used to create dyes that could only be shipped to England or other English colonial holdings. It also stated that all vessels of foreign registry were restricted from carrying American products and produce.
The act of 1663 required all European goods destined for American ports had to first pass through English ports and said goods had then be carried by ships of English or English colony registry. These regulations increased the cost of goods requiring the exemption of salt for the fisheries of New England and Newfoundland, wine from Madeira and the Azores, provisions, servants and horses from Scotland and Ireland. Another tenant of the act repealed the prohibition of export of species from England. (Species is a term for gold and silver coin and bullion.)
New York Harbor, 1667
The act of 1670 imposed penalties of forfeiture of the vessel and its cargo if enumerated commodities were shipped without a bond or customs certificate, shipped to countries other than England, or unloaded sugar or enumerated commodities in any port except English ports. (It should be noted here that there were American export products that were exempt and could be shipped to European ports without penalty; among these was flour, fish, lumber, furs and animal skins.)
The Molasses Act of 1733 prohibited the importation of sugar from the French West Indies, forcing Americans to buy sugar from the British West Indies at a greater cost. It was replaced by the Sugar Act of 1764 causing even more unrest among American buyers.
This painting by Charles DeWolf Brownell depicts the burning of the HMS Gaspee
The Navigation acts required all imports to the Colonies be either bought or resold from English merchants, greatly increasing the cost of goods imported into the American colonies. To say the acts had little to no effect on the American economy, the burning of the British Customs vessel Gaspee in 1772 would dispel any such notion.
Editors note: This is the first in a new series from Walt. If you enjoyed it, be sure to leave a comment and like the post.
Many stories can be found in music, ” I’ll be home for Christmas”
this here is the Battleship North Carolina
The story goes that around Christmas in 1943 the chaplain on the Battleship North Carolina knew that the crew was feeling homesick as they were expected to still be overseas during the holiday season. He had an idea and collected $5 from every crew member that had children back home. The chaplain made a list of all that gave him money for their children at home and he sent that money along with the addresses of the sailor’s home to Macy’s department store. The request was made for Macy’s to buy gifts using the money provided for the crew’s family and have the gift mailed to their homes in time for Christmas.
As Christmas approached, the service men on the ship gathered for the annual Christmas show that involved songs, skits and entertainment for the troops aboard the Battleship North Carolina. When the entertainment had ended, the chaplain had a surprise to reveal.
When Macy’s received the money from the chaplain along with the list of the addresses, they thought that in addition to just giving gifts to these military families at home, they should give a one of a kind gift to the soldiers as well. Since they had the addresses for all the sailors homes, they reached out to each family and asked if they wanted to come to the Macy’s store and send a special message to their loved one who would not be able to be home for Christmas.
The men aboard the Battleship North Carolina sat there and saw their wives, children and loved ones appear before them on the screen as Macy’s had videoed each of their families sending them a Christmas message. These rugged sailors watched, wept and rejoiced. They weren’t home for Christmas, but what made their homes special was the Christmas gift they received on that December 25th in 1943
Thing about the Ladies, young or old, they gotta be styling, not sure what you’re thoughts are while seeing this stylish young lady on the snow.
Tara came to mind as in, Ok Sgt. Tara-Lyn Baker we could use your help, but this no place for bunny ears Welcome to Bridgeport…
When making things, there is no do overs, stuff ain’t cheap, got time for a do over you got time to do it right the first time G’damn it. Was hearing a song while making card
Best way to hear music is when you’re chronozones can feel it
get a setup like this, make the ole clomazones happy.
Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on the US Naval facilities at Pearl Harbor Hawaii and the Army Air Corps’ Hickam, Wheeler, and Bellows Fields. FDR declared it was a date that would live in infamy. It also marks a day that changed the world. It was the day that American manufacturing came to the fore and saved civilization.
Prior to the attack, the US was not actively involved in combat in WWII. To that point, the only US contributions were relatively small amounts of material. Before lend-lease was enacted in March of 1941, the US had been supplying the Brits with some arms, food, clothing and medical supplies on a cash-and-carry basis. After the legislation, the US started to supply the Soviets as well. Iosep Vissarionovich Stalin is quoted as saying “Without the machines we received through lend-lease, we would have lost the war“. The US wound up providing the Soviets 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 aircraft, 8,000 tractors and 13,000 tanks. The US also provided rail equipment, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars.
Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku
After the Japs bombed Pearl, the US production behemoth was released. Yamamoto Isoroku, the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy understood what the production capabilities of the US could do. He had traveled the US extensively while a student at Harvard in the 1920’s. Before the attack he is quoted as saying “if we have war with the United States, we will have no hope of winning unless the United States fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.” After, he said “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” And he was right.
US defense spending in 1939 was a meagre – by today’s standard – $980 million, about as much as 3 F-22 fighters cost. And that was a substantial increase from the $69 million in 1938. By 1941 that number had increased to $1.8 billion, although that number included several relief programs and was not strictly spent on defense.
In 1942 however, that number climbed to $9.2 billion and would continue to grow throughout the war, maxing out at $91 billion in 1944. By the end of the war, US defense spending topped $450 billion. But what was that money spent on?
By the end of the war, US industries had churned out more than 27 million rifles and carbines, 2.6 million machine guns, 300,000 planes, 120,000 tanks, 193,000 artillery pieces, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns, more than 2 million trucks, more than 1 billion artillery shells, 41.4 billion rounds of small arms ammunition and 18 million tons – about 5500 ships – of merchant shipping.
Ford Motor Company’s Willow Run assembly plant. During the war it produced 8,685 B-24 bombers. At peak production in late 1944, they produced one complete bomber every hour.
In 1939, the US Navy had a total of 394 vessels in commission incuding 15 battle ships, 5 aircraft carriers, 36 cruisers, 58 submarines and 120-ish destroyers. The remainder were support vessels and the like. By the end of 1942, there were 1782 in commission with 282 surface combatants and 133 subs. In 1945 that number hits 6768 total in commission with 883 surface combatants and 232 subs. Keep in mind, those numbers are actual in-commission warships and do not include the losses. Total production for naval vessels in the US during the war was nearly 9000 ships and subs of all types. Those numbers do not include landing craft or merchant marine vessels. Nor do they include ships and other vessels produced for the Allied countries.
The Suisun Bay, CA facility packed full of mothballed warships after WWII.
By the end of the war, the US produced about 2/3rds of all the war materiel used by the Allies.
Lend lease also provided food to the Allies, mostly the UK and USSR. Starting in 1941, the US sent more than a million tons of food to the UK by the end of 1942. The US supplied the UK with canned meat and fish, dried beans, evaporated milk, flour, starch, and concentrated orange juice. They also received raw materials like wool and leather. The Soviets got nearly 4.5 million tons of food aid – mostly canned and dried foods – nearly a quarter of the total lend lease tonnage they received.
The US production also helped at the end of the war. US industries kept Europe fed and clothed throughout the reconstruction. More than 26 million tons of supplies were sent to the newly liberated European countries. That includes the 1.7 million tons delivered during the Berlin Airlift.
The US was able to do all of this for several reasons. One of which was the availability of raw materials. Unlike the rest of the belligerents in WWII, the US had ready supplies of timber, iron, coal, oil, bauxite and most of the other raw materials needed for production.
It also had foresighted men. Men like Andrew Jackson Higgins who, seeing war on the horizon, bought the entire 1939 crop of mahogany from the Philippines on spec. Higgins’ company built the LCVP – landing craft, vehicle and personnel – commonly known as the Higgins boat. Higgins Industries built 23,358 of the indispensable craft by the end of the war.
I have to wonder if – God forbid – a major war broke out now if the country would be able to respond in the way it did in 1941. Is it even possible?
