Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Fwd: Study these 3 photos closely...
Study these 3 photos closely, then read the message at the bottom.
It will explain a lot of things...
THIS IS INDIA ...
IT'S WHERE YOU CALL WHEN YOU
HAVE A TECHNICAL PROBLEM
WITH YOUR COMPUTER.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Space Photos of the Week: Dang That’s a Purdy Supernova [feedly]
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Space Photos of the Week: Dang That's a Purdy Supernova
// Wired Top Stories
Space photos of the week, September 20–26.
The post Space Photos of the Week: Dang That's a Purdy Supernova appeared first on WIRED.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Fwd: interesting read in light of the current invasion of Europe and US
A brief history of the religion of pieces"
In 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dominated the Mediterranean, with intentions of not only invading Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain, but Rome itself.
The only thing standing in his way was the small rocky Island of Malta just south of Sicily, defended by the Knights of Malta.
In March of 1565, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sent Algerian Admiral
Dragut to Malta with 200 ships and 40,000 Muslim soldiers, including
6,500 elite Janissary troops.
Dragut stated: "Unless you have smoked out this nest of vipers, you can do no good anywhere."
Queen Elizabeth I of England is said to have remarked:
"If the Turks should prevail against the Isle of Malta, it is uncertain
what further peril might follow to the rest of Christendom."
The Knights of Malta were led by a 70 year old Frenchmen, Jean Parisot de la Valette. Pleas for reinforcements went out across Europe, but defense seemed futile.
La Valette addressed his men:
"A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ..."
La Valette continued:
"...Today it is a question of the defense of our faith -- as to whether
the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice."
The Turks attacked again and again, even reducing one of their fortresses to rubble, but the Knights kept fighting, resolved to save Western Civilization.
Finally, Dragut was killed and the Muslims sailed away on SEPTEMBER 11, 1565.
Another major event was in 1683.
Sultan Mehmed IV sent over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks to surround Vienna, Austria, led by General Mustafa Pasha.
For two months they starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders.
Sultan Mehmed IV sent the message to Austrian King, Leopold I:
"Await us in your residence...so we can decapitate you."
Polish King Jan Sobieski gathered 81,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops and led a surprise attack on SEPTEMBER 11, 1683.
They made one of the largest charges in history, 38,350 cavalry and dragoons. Soldiers had made wings for their backs which made a thunderous noise when they charged, causing the Turks to flee in confusion.
Upon entering the abandoned Turkish tents, Sobieski found bags of beans - coffee beans - revealing how Turks could fight day and night.
The beans came from Ethiopia, the one African country which stayed Christian, and the Muslims called them infidels or "cafir," from which the word "coffee" was derived.
The legend is that Pope Clement VIII was petitioned to declare coffee "the
drink of the devil" due to its association with Muslims, but the Pontiff
tasted it and stated:
"This devil's drink is so good, we should cheat the devil by baptizing it."
Shortly after the victory of Vienna, Polish General Koltschizky
opened Vienna's first coffeehouses and coffee quickly spread across Europe.
The Pope and European leaders hailed Jan Sobieski as the "Savior of Western Civilization."
The humiliated Muslim army beheaded General Mustafa Pasha and sent his head back to Sultan Mehmed IV in a velvet bag.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) wrote in The Great Heresies (1938): "Less than 100 years before the American War of Independence a Mohammedan army was threatening to overrun and destroy Christian civilization...
Vienna was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the King of Poland on a date that ought to be among the most famous in history - SEPTEMBER 11, 1683."
Muslim Ottoman Turks dominated Belgrade, Serbia, since 1521.
In 1691, Austria helped free Belgrade, but Muslim Ottoman Turks recaptured it and razed the city's buildings to the ground.
The Serbian Orthodox Patriarch led thousands to flee to the Austrian Hapsburg Empire in the first "Great Serbian Migration."
Habsburg Prince Eugene of Savoy led the Holy League to counter-attack.
Losing 500 men, they killed 30,000 Turks in one of the Ottoman Empire's worsts defeats in history - the Battle of Zenta, SEPTEMBER 11, 1697.
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his 1916 book, Fear God and Take Your Own Part: "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor."
On SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked passenger jets.
Two were flown into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one crashed in Pennsylvania.
US President Bush stated: "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended,"
That evening, President Bush stated: "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. Pictures of planes flying into
buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with
disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger."
President Bush continued:
"America was targeted...because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world... I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve...
I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23:
'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.'"
On September 13, 2001, President Bush stated: "In the face of all this
evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'"
Taken from the American Minute a daily newsletter by William Federer
Fwd: a real man
Rugged Alaska!
Only one of these girls has to wear gloves.
also notice they let obamer hold the largest fish
Monday, September 21, 2015
Trump pledges nationwide concealed carry in 2nd Amendment policy paper [feedly]
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Trump pledges nationwide concealed carry in 2nd Amendment policy paper
// Personal Liberty Digest™
You wouldn't have known it from watching the Big Three news networks over the weekend, but Donald Trump released a policy paper late last week that affirms his position on 2nd Amendment rights.
Trump's plan, titled "Protecting our Second Amendment rights will make America great again," starts unequivocally. "The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear," its first sentence reads. "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period."
From there, Trump expands into the policy arena, proposing a "National Right to Carry" law that wouldn't allow states to pick and choose portions of the 2nd Amendment to abrogate — as they routinely do now.
"The right of self-defense doesn't stop at the end of your driveway. That's why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too," Trump asserts. "That permit should be valid in all 50 states. A driver's license works in every state, so it's common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state. If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege."
Trump also calls the banning of firearms from military bases and recruitment centers "ridiculous" and describes encroachments such as assault weapons bans and limitations on magazine size as "a total failure."
"Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons', 'military-style weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' to confuse people," Trump states. "What they're really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans. Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own."
While he doesn't suggest the abolition of background checks — already considered an infringement on 2nd Amendment rights by Constitution-minded gun owners — Trump does emphasize that there's no need to keep expanding them:
[T]he overwhelming majority of people who go through background checks are law-abiding gun owners. When the system was created, gun owners were promised that it would be instant, accurate and fair. Unfortunately, that isn't the case today. Too many states are failing to put criminal and mental health records into the system — and it should go without saying that a system's only going to be as effective as the records that are put into it. What we need to do is fix the system we have and make it work as intended. What we don't need to do is expand a broken system.
Whoever helped Trump write this paper understood that people who are passionate about their right to bear arms are also well versed in the philosophy of why that right is so inalienable. At the outset of the paper, he makes sure to emphasize the spirit in which the 2nd Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights, so that readers will understand that he understands — that, when it comes to the 2nd Amendment, at least, he gets it. Trump doesn't get into the extent to which he believes the 2nd Amendment ensures against an oppressive government, but he appears to allude to it.
"The Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right that belongs to all law-abiding Americans. The Constitution doesn't create that right — it ensures that the government can't take it away," the paper states. "Our Founding Fathers knew, and our Supreme Court has upheld, that the Second Amendment's purpose is to guarantee our right to defend ourselves and our families. This is about self-defense, plain and simple.
"It's been said that the Second Amendment is America's first freedom. That's because the Right to Keep and Bear Arms protects all our other rights. We are the only country in the world that has a Second Amendment. Protecting that freedom is imperative."
Read the whole thing here.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Seal Riding on the Back of a Whale Photo Goes Viral [feedly]
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Seal Riding on the Back of a Whale Photo Goes Viral
// I4U News
Photographer Robyn Malcolm, was whale watching near Eden, New South Wales. The time during September-October period is prime whale-watching season in Eden and Narooma. The spots are often an...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
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Friday, September 11, 2015
In the news
This article showed up on the news.
Then I saw this next one where people lined up to show them they were wrong.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Gun sales soar, and no one is surprised [feedly]
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Gun sales soar, and no one is surprised
// Personal Liberty Digest™
The summer of 2015 set a record for the number of firearms sold in the U.S., if the FBI's background check data is anything to go by.
For the months of May, June, July and August, more people applied for a firearms background check through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) than ever before.
The FBI reported nearly 100,000 more NICS background checks for May 2015 than in May of last year; nearly 150,000 more for June of 2015 than June of last year; nearly 200,000 more for July of 2015 than July of last year; and nearly 200,000 more for August of 2015 than August of last year.
In all, August took the record, with 1.7 million background checks performed in that month alone — "the most checks ever performed in any August since the creation of the National Instant Background Check System," as The Washington Free Beacon observed.
The number of background checks does not indicate how many firearms were actually purchased. Some applicants no doubt were unable to buy a weapon; others may have bought more than one after their background check had gone through. But there's no doubt that the four-month surge in background checks reflects a trend.
The increase in interest in gun ownership is only the most recent surge in a long-running uptick in Americans' general embrace of firearms — an interest that has spanned the duration of Barack Obama's pro-gun control presidencies.
"While Democrats pushed gun control — seizing on heinous attacks on innocents in Garland, Texas, (May 3), Charleston, South Carolina, (June 17), Chattanooga, Tennessee, (July 16), Lafayette, Louisiana, (July 23), and Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, (August 26) — Americans recognized that the gunmen in each of these instances fully complied with gun control, passing a background check in all five attacks, only to carry out their criminal plans afterward," Breitbart commented after the FBI released its data.
"Therefore, rather than trust in gun control, Americans increasingly trusted in the gun."
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Fwd: ALLEN WEST
Cc:
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> Subject: ONE OF THE BEST SPEECHES EVER! - LTC Allen West
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> Very powerful speech (no notes, no teleprompter, etc) given 7/22/15 at Times Square. Still waiting to hear about it from U.S. press sources. The source for this video on YouTube is "JBS" which is the Jewish Broadcasting Service. You had better hurry to watch the video as YouTube has already disabled any comments
> from being made and suspect it may be pulled.
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> http://youtu.be/i3lEO0ty6No
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Fwd: TAX
Hello 2015 . . . ROBBING HOOD IS BACK!!!
As A Brief Reminder For Those Who May Have Forgot
Or For The Many That Didn't Know.
Here is what happened, quietly, on January 1, 2015:
Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
PUNISH THE WORKERS....TO REWARD THE NON WORKERS
Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
MORE PUNISHMENT FOR WORKING HARD!
Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%
MORE TAX UPON INCOME THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN TAXED!
Dividend tax went from 15% to 39.6%
MORE PUNISHMENT FOR INVESTING WISELY AND MAKING GOOD DECISIONS!
Estate tax went from 0% to 55% PUNISHMENT FOR SAVING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION! ONLY TO HAVE IT GO TO THE GOVERNMENT!
A 3.5% Real Estate transaction tax was added. MORE PUNISHMENT FOR INVESTING IN A HOME OR RENTAL PROPERTY!
Remember this fact:
These taxes were all passed solely with Democrat votes, Not a single Republican voted for these new taxes.
These taxes were all passed in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
If you think that it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know this, the many millions who don't yet, then pass it on.
