Month: October 2019
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Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571
Tony Stafki, The Battle of Lepanto (In the contemporary painting above: “The Catholic ships form a cross and the Muslim ships form a cresent. – The standard of the Holy Cross which was blessed by Pope Pius V can be seen on Don Juan of Austria’s ship which is leading the charge. – Papal ships…
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What Not to Say When You’ve Been Caught Committing a Crime By a Man With a Gun
KAIT: MANILA, Ark. (KAIT) – When a Mississippi County man awoke to find a burglar in his house, he told him to leave. Then the suspect told him to hand over his gun. Sheriff’s deputies say that’s when the homeowner shot him. The victim told deputies he awoke around 3 a.m. Tuesday to a loud…
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The New Normal
Alexander Belisle, July 4th Parade #2. Kevin D. Williamson: The trauma of 9/11, the divisions of the Iraq War, and the fearful disorientation of the financial crisis left Americans agitated and anxious — but not in a way that put them in the mood for another return to normalcy. The pendulum began to swing madly:…
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Ithaca Auto & Burglar Gun
Wikipedia: Model A The Auto & Burglar Gun was manufactured in two variations. Approximately 2,500 of the original variation were manufactured from 1921 to 1925 using Ithaca’s standard 20 gauge Flues model shotgun, and designed to fire 2½” shells. Sometimes referred to as “Model A”, its barrels were about 10″ in length. These guns should…
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Nothing Sacred
Oregon Live reports that John Wayne has become the Left’s latest target, and at his alma mater no less! John Wayne has been a hero at the University of Southern California for decades. But some students at the private Los Angeles school, the late movie star’s alma mater, now view him as a villain. A…
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Tweet of the Day
BREAKING: The whistleblower is a registered Democrat & CIA analyst who was detailed before the 2016 election to the Obama White House,where he worked on the NSC's Ukraine desk & met w anti-Trump Ukrainian officials before being sent packing by the Trump NSC & becoming disgruntled — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 4, 2019
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British Employment Tribunal Says Doctor Can Be Fired For Declining to Refer to Trannies By Their Preferred Pronoun
Daily Wire: On Tuesday, a British [employment tribunal] ruled that belief in the Bible was “incompatible with human dignity.†That statement came in a case involving Dr. David Mackereth, a devout Christian who had worked as an emergency doctor for the National Health Service for 26 years. He said he was fired from his job…
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Teddy Roosevelt, Westerner
A nice article in Sporting Classics by Roger Pinckney recounts how it was the Wild American West that made Theodore Roosevelt into the man who could become president. “I have always said I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota, for it was there that the romance…
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How Entitled Are Today’s Yale Undergraduates? This Entitled
Josh Diaz is Class of ’20, Morse College. Yale junior Josh Diaz sees no reason he ought to have to work a bursary job as a student at Yale, while other students from wealthy families, whose parents are paying $72,100 this year, do not. I was hired to work events such as Mellon Forums and…
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Great Story: “The Great Flamingo Uprising”
From Zookeeper Problems: I told this story to a few guildies a while back and decided to archive it in a longer format; so here is the story of The Great Flamingo Uprising of 2010 as told to me by my favorite cousin who was a keeper at the time. … The flamingos had their…
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Red China Celebrates 70th Anniversary by Unveiling New Missile
China unveiled its “ultimate doomsday weapon†during the military parade celebrating the Communist Regime’s 70th Anniversary. The Sun: The Dongfeng-41 is a 7,672 mph intercontinental ballistic missile [carrying 10 nuclear warheads]that is said to have the furthest range of any nuclear missile and could reach the US in 30 minutes.