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[h=1]NY Times Just Blasted Out of Existence Biggest Myth About George W. Bush & Iraq War[/h]
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Mason said:70 years ago, the Japanese war machine (knowing they were losing) unleashed thousands of balloons to drift along the jet stream to attack the US mainland. Most had explosives with timers to create forest fires in the Western US. Landed as far east as Michigan.
One especially large one knocked out the electricity to the Hanford plant that was helping build the atomic bombs. They even used anthrax from their infamous "Unit 731" in China to try to infect the US public- Weapons of mass destruction.
They froze in the upper atmosphere and didn't cause any damage. Total cover up by the Feds while they all had gas masks (FDR attached to his wheelchair).
On May 5, 1945, a pregnant woman and five children were killed when they discovered a balloon bomb that had landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain in Southern Oregon. Archie Mitchell was the pastor of the Bly Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.
He and his pregnant wife Elsie drove up to Gearhart Mountain with five of their Sunday school students (aged 11–14) to have a picnic. They had to stop at this spot near Bly, Oregon, due to construction and a road closing.
Elsie and the children got out of the car at Bly, Oregon, while Archie drove on to find a parking spot. As Elsie and the children looked for a good picnic spot, they saw a strange balloon lying on the ground.
As the group approached the balloon, a bomb attached to it exploded, killing Elsie and all five children instantly. Archie and several members of the road crew witnessed the explosion and immediately ran to the scene and used their hands to extinguish the fire on Elsie's and the children's clothing, but they could not save them.[22][23] Two members of the road crew gathered their bearings and headed to Bly.
They knew authorities and military personnel were needed.[24] These are the only known deaths caused by the balloon bombs, and also the only known deaths in the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during World War II.
Thanks for the tale.
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Today is Thursday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2014. There are 76 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in western Virginia. (Ten of Brown's men were killed and five escaped. Brown and six followers were captured; all were executed.)
On this date:
In 1793, during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded.
In 1934, Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their "long march" lasting a year from southeastern to northwestern China.
In 1939, the comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner," by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, opened on Broadway.
In 1943, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly officially opened the city's new subway system during a ceremony at the State and Madison street station.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb, codenamed "596," on the Lop Nur Test Ground. Harold Wilson of the Labour Party assumed office as prime minister of Britain, succeeding Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
In 1969, the New York Mets capped their miracle season by winning the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles, 5-3, in Game 5 played at Shea Stadium.
In 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (voy-TEE'-wah) to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II.
In 1984, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for racial equality in South Africa.
In 1987, a 58-1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
In 1991, a deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
In 1999, a New York Air National Guard plane rescued Dr. Jerri Nielsen from a South Pole research center after she'd spent five months isolated by the Antarctic winter, forced to treat herself for a cancerous breast lump.
Ten years ago: The Soyuz spacecraft was forced to manually dock with the International Space Station after it closed in on the station at a dangerously high speed. Pierre Salinger, a journalist who'd served as press secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died in France at age 79.
Five years ago: The government reported that the federal budget deficit for the just-ended fiscal year totaled an all-time high of $1.42 trillion (a record which still stands). Agricultural officials said pigs in Minnesota had tested positive for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, the first such cases in the U.S.
One year ago: Congress passed and sent to President Barack Obama for his signature legislation to avoid a threatened U.S. default and end the partial, 16-day government shutdown. A Lao Airlines turboprop crashed as it approached Pakse Airport in southern Laos; all 49 people on board were killed. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat St. Louis 6-4, trimming the Cardinals' lead to 3-2 in the NL championship series. The Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 to even the AL championship series at 2-all.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Angela Lansbury is 89. Author Gunter Grass is 87. Actor-producer Tony Anthony is 77. Actor Barry Corbin is 74. Sportscaster Tim McCarver is 73. Rock musician C.F. Turner (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 71. Actress Suzanne Somers is 68. Rock singer-musician Bob Weir is 67. Producer-director David Zucker is 67. Record company executive Jim Ed Norman is 66.
Actor Daniel Gerroll is 63. Actor Morgan Stevens is 63. Actress Martha Smith is 62. Comedian-actor Andy Kindler is 58. Actor-director Tim Robbins is 56. Actor-musician Gary Kemp is 55. Singer-musician Bob Mould is 54. Actor Randy Vasquez is 53. Rock musician Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 52. Actor Todd Stashwick is 46. Jazz musician Roy Hargrove is 45. Actress Terri J. Vaughn is 45. Singer Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 45. Rapper B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) is 43. Rock singer Chad Gray (Mudvayne) is 43. Actor Paul Sparks is 43. Actress Kellie Martin is 39. Singer John
Mayer is 37. Actor Jeremy Jackson is 34. Actress Caterina Scorsone is 34. Actress Brea Grant is 33.
Thought for Today: "Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors." — Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (born this date in 1888, died 1953).
(Above Advance for Use Thursday, Oct. 16)
Copyright 2014, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in western Virginia. (Ten of Brown's men were killed and five escaped. Brown and six followers were captured; all were executed.)
On this date:
In 1793, during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded.
In 1934, Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their "long march" lasting a year from southeastern to northwestern China.
In 1939, the comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner," by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, opened on Broadway.
In 1943, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly officially opened the city's new subway system during a ceremony at the State and Madison street station.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb, codenamed "596," on the Lop Nur Test Ground. Harold Wilson of the Labour Party assumed office as prime minister of Britain, succeeding Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
In 1969, the New York Mets capped their miracle season by winning the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles, 5-3, in Game 5 played at Shea Stadium.
In 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (voy-TEE'-wah) to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II.
In 1984, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for racial equality in South Africa.
In 1987, a 58-1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
In 1991, a deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
In 1999, a New York Air National Guard plane rescued Dr. Jerri Nielsen from a South Pole research center after she'd spent five months isolated by the Antarctic winter, forced to treat herself for a cancerous breast lump.
Ten years ago: The Soyuz spacecraft was forced to manually dock with the International Space Station after it closed in on the station at a dangerously high speed. Pierre Salinger, a journalist who'd served as press secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died in France at age 79.
Five years ago: The government reported that the federal budget deficit for the just-ended fiscal year totaled an all-time high of $1.42 trillion (a record which still stands). Agricultural officials said pigs in Minnesota had tested positive for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, the first such cases in the U.S.
One year ago: Congress passed and sent to President Barack Obama for his signature legislation to avoid a threatened U.S. default and end the partial, 16-day government shutdown. A Lao Airlines turboprop crashed as it approached Pakse Airport in southern Laos; all 49 people on board were killed. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat St. Louis 6-4, trimming the Cardinals' lead to 3-2 in the NL championship series. The Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 to even the AL championship series at 2-all.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Angela Lansbury is 89. Author Gunter Grass is 87. Actor-producer Tony Anthony is 77. Actor Barry Corbin is 74. Sportscaster Tim McCarver is 73. Rock musician C.F. Turner (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 71. Actress Suzanne Somers is 68. Rock singer-musician Bob Weir is 67. Producer-director David Zucker is 67. Record company executive Jim Ed Norman is 66.
Actor Daniel Gerroll is 63. Actor Morgan Stevens is 63. Actress Martha Smith is 62. Comedian-actor Andy Kindler is 58. Actor-director Tim Robbins is 56. Actor-musician Gary Kemp is 55. Singer-musician Bob Mould is 54. Actor Randy Vasquez is 53. Rock musician Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 52. Actor Todd Stashwick is 46. Jazz musician Roy Hargrove is 45. Actress Terri J. Vaughn is 45. Singer Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 45. Rapper B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) is 43. Rock singer Chad Gray (Mudvayne) is 43. Actor Paul Sparks is 43. Actress Kellie Martin is 39. Singer John
Mayer is 37. Actor Jeremy Jackson is 34. Actress Caterina Scorsone is 34. Actress Brea Grant is 33.
Thought for Today: "Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors." — Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (born this date in 1888, died 1953).
(Above Advance for Use Thursday, Oct. 16)
Copyright 2014, The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Ten years ago today, I would have been working the 10pm - 5am shift at the agency where I began my career as a SP.
Try teaching your body to stay up all night and have sex with total strangers after 30 years of working day shift. :shock:
Try teaching your body to stay up all night and have sex with total strangers after 30 years of working day shift. :shock:
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[h=1]5 things you should know before you start your workday[/h]
https://business.financialpost.com/...re-you-start-your-workday-36/?__lsa=b078-b8a2
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Remember Irena Sendler?.
She got robbed.
In 2007 she was up for the noble peace prize. Al Gore won it with a slide show of global warning.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/irenasendler.html
She got robbed.
In 2007 she was up for the noble peace prize. Al Gore won it with a slide show of global warning.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/irenasendler.html
The disastrous British (ie Winston Churchill) invasion of Turkey during WW1 and major military defeat- The Gallipoli Campaign. The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale (Turkish: Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula[6] in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916.
The peninsula forms the northern bank of the Dardanelles, a strait that provides a sea route to what was then the Russian Empire, one of the Allied powers during the war. Intending to secure it, Russia's allies Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula with the eventual aim of capturing the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
The naval attack was repelled and, after eight months' fighting, with many casualties on both sides, the land campaign also failed and the invasion force was withdrawn to Egypt.
The campaign was one of the greatest Ottoman victories during the war and a major Allied failure. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the nation's history: a final surge in the defence of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire crumbled.
The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who first rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli.
The campaign is often considered as marking the birth of national consciousness in Australia and New Zealand and the date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "Anzac Day" which is the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in those two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day (Armistice Day)
The peninsula forms the northern bank of the Dardanelles, a strait that provides a sea route to what was then the Russian Empire, one of the Allied powers during the war. Intending to secure it, Russia's allies Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula with the eventual aim of capturing the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
The naval attack was repelled and, after eight months' fighting, with many casualties on both sides, the land campaign also failed and the invasion force was withdrawn to Egypt.
The campaign was one of the greatest Ottoman victories during the war and a major Allied failure. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the nation's history: a final surge in the defence of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire crumbled.
The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who first rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli.
The campaign is often considered as marking the birth of national consciousness in Australia and New Zealand and the date of the landing, 25 April, is known as "Anzac Day" which is the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in those two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day (Armistice Day)
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[h=1]Babe Ruth hit his first MLB home run 100 years ago today against Yankees[/h][h=2]Ruth was better known at the time as a Boston Red Sox starting pitcher, throwing into the 13th inning (guess there were no pitch counts then) before losing when he gave up a game-winning RBI single.[/h]
https://www.thestar.com/sports/base...-run-100-years-ago-today-against-yankees.html
https://www.thestar.com/sports/base...-run-100-years-ago-today-against-yankees.html
[h=1]9 Crime Couples Who Turned On Each Other (and 1 with a Happy Ending!)[/h]
https://www.oddee.com/item_98963.aspx
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7 Celebrated Historical Figures Who Were Closet Scumbags
Gandhi beat his wife, was friends with Hitler, and was super racist.
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Patrick Henry kept his wife locked up in a basement.
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Woodrow Wilson was a Confederate level racist.
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Gandhi beat his wife, was friends with Hitler, and was super racist.
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There's no doubt that Gandhi's peaceful protests shaped the world we live in today. But, by his own admission, he didn't entirely practice what he preached. In his autobiography, Papa Mahatma admits to beating his wife while in South Africa. He also wrote Hitler a letter, naming the Fuhrer his friend, and looking to Adolph as a possible ally to the Indian cause. The most baffling, however, were his racist attitudes towards South Africans, which he shared openly. He was all about equality and peace and respect for his fellow man, unless of course, for his wife and Africans.
Patrick Henry kept his wife locked up in a basement.
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Patrick "Hat-Trick" Henry (his unofficial rapper name), is most widely known for telling the British to fuck off in the coolest way imaginable: "Give me liberty or give me death." He also dealt with his wife's post-partum depression in the worst way imaginable: by locking her up in the basement of their family home and ignoring her, which makes his famous quote very ironic now. I guess fighting colonial imperialists was a lot easier than trying to find a way to treat his wife's mental illness.
Source: History.org
Thomas Jefferson had a whole other family with Sally Hemmings, which he never acknowledged.StumbleUpon
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Jefferson was a very forward-thinking President, he even predicted the skullduggery that the Private Banking system is perpetrating on the economy today. He was also a hypocrite: he publicly decried interracial relationships, while carrying on one with hisslave, Sally Hemmings. They had children together and lived on his estate, Monticello. He never formally acknowledged his secret family, or the fact that he was a closet scumbag.
Woodrow Wilson was a Confederate level racist.
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Source: Real Clear Politics
President Wilson's policies were progressive and all about promoting civil liberties in both America and around the globe. However, he also "regretted the outcome of the civil war." So much so, that he set up racially segregated offices in the White House and barred African-Americans from attaining high level civil service positions. He even held a viewing party of a Ku Klux Klan propaganda film at the White House. There's no word as to whether or not he quickly covered the screen when Black employees passed by the screening room.
Source: BU EDU
Thomas Edison was a total asshole - stole practically every idea from Nikola TeslaStumbleUpon
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Thomas Edison created the light bulb, and is almost entirely responsible for barring free, superior electricity technologies from the American market. He also stole from Nikola Tesla - A LOT and, usually with hired thugs, spent a lot of time discrediting Tesla, threatening him, and destroying his work. He even cheated Tesla out of $50,000, (which is over a million dollars, today, adjusted for inflation) when he offered the superior scientist and inventor money to re-tool Edison Electric's inefficient motors. When Tesla did and asked Edison to pay up, Thomas laughed and said, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." Whatta douche.
[h=1]Mother Teresa grossly mismanaged charitable donations and was primarily concerned with converting the people she helped.
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[h=1]Mother Teresa grossly mismanaged charitable donations and was primarily concerned with converting the people she helped.
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Mother Teresa is a literal saint and is still renowned for her selfless pursuit of performing charitable work. However, she refused to ever have audits performed on the donations she received, and many of the locations she claimed to raise money for, never saw a dime. She also was a religious fanatic, opening 500 or so convents in her name and was heaven-bent on converting the people she was helping. There's a whole documentary about her, too, called "Hell's Angel." Subtle.
Source: Slate
[h=1]Jobs was a cutthroat idea thief; and he screwed over his partner, Wozniak.[/h]
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Steve Jobs is hailed as an innovative genius. The Apple brand is one of the most recognizable in the world, because Steve made it that way. However, he When Jobs worked at Atari also lied to Steve Wozniak about how much bonus money they received for building a scaled-down version of Pong. Steve took most of the money for himself, not telling Woz about it. We could get stealing money from someone when you weren't balling, but it's kinda hard to excuse dickish behavior later in life, when you're ballin'.
Note: FB's share text reads 8 figures, but you'll notice this list only contains 7. Please don't hate us for it. We'll make it up to you, promise.
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[h=1]9 Letters Tinged with Irony that Changed History[/h]
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John Candy's widow finds lost video of SCTV stars playing softball
https://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/...nds-lost-video-of-sctv-stars-playing-softball
https://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/...nds-lost-video-of-sctv-stars-playing-softball
[h=1]The Amazon's last lost tribe: Never-before-seen pictures capture the lives of Peruvian nomads who are untouched by civilization[/h]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-heart-clashes-encroaching-civilisation.html
- The Mashco Piro tribe have lived in the jungle in Peru for at least 600 years
- The rarely seen group look for turtle eggs Madre de Dios river and disappear into the forest during the wet season
- But logging, drug cartels and tourism are forcing them to break cover from the forest and beg neighbouring villagers for food and weapons
- But encounters end aggressively, prompting Peru government to try to contact them
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-heart-clashes-encroaching-civilisation.html
From Military.com: "Cameras capture the incredible moment when a B24 Bomber plane is hit and crashing in flames. This plane was nicknamed "Brief". Serial Number 44-42058. It had taken off from Angaur Airfield, flying on a bombing mission against anti-aircraft installations on Koror, Palau Islands. Whilst over Koror, the B-24 was hit by anti-aircraft fire .
The fuselage fell in a flat spiral until it crashed. 10 crew members were onboard. 9 were killed in the crash except the Navigator, 2nd Lt Wallace F. Kaufman.
He was captured by the Japanese and executed. There was a myth surrounding this footage that it was an American bomb striking the wing of the plane. However, a cleaned up version of the film has been analysed and it shows that the wing is struck from below. So it was not friendly fire."
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"Death of a Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrel
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In bombers named for girls, we burned the cities we had learned about in school-- Till our lives wore out...
The fuselage fell in a flat spiral until it crashed. 10 crew members were onboard. 9 were killed in the crash except the Navigator, 2nd Lt Wallace F. Kaufman.
He was captured by the Japanese and executed. There was a myth surrounding this footage that it was an American bomb striking the wing of the plane. However, a cleaned up version of the film has been analysed and it shows that the wing is struck from below. So it was not friendly fire."
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[TD="width: 480"]A line from "Flight of the Intruder" (1991):
"Fighter pukes make movies... bomber pilots, make history."
"Death of a Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrel
"From my mothers sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."
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In bombers named for girls, we burned the cities we had learned about in school-- Till our lives wore out...
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