"Every day we're going to go out and pursue perfection and somewhere along the way we'll achieve excellence." - Vince Lombardi
I hear people talking about how corrupt the CIA, DOJ, and FBI, are based on all the whistle blowers coming forward. I would like to remind everyone that it hasn't just happened on behalf of the Biden's and instead involved protection for Hillary back to when she was Secretary of State.
For example, the FBI didn't raid her home for her email server, the very thing that was considered evidence in the investigation, and instead allowed her to get rid of emails she thought shouldn't be shared before turning the hard drive over. She said she had only one mobile device under oath, yet she had five and all of them were bleached clean so the FBI couldn't conduct forensics on them. Do you see any of the above occurring if it involved Trump? No way in hell. Don't get me started on Benghazi. She lied again and again, she buried evidence, etc., and the FBI decided she didn't deserve to be prosecuted because as Comey said, she didn't know better. For the rest of us, we get prosecuted when it comes to ignorance of the law. She wasn't even ignorant of the law; she has always put herself above the law. Once again, Trump would've been arrested before they had this kind of evidence that they had against Hillary. They'd get subpoenas and then come up with a case. Where do we go when the highest offices in the land are corrupt? Oversight committees with authority, can't get certain records from the DOJ to help them with their investigations. There is no legitimate excuse for this. I don't know what it's going to take but I can't handle much more of this corruption including the FBI raiding the homes of people who are involved in the pro-life movement without any evidence of them breaking the law. These are scary times, and we can thank the Democratic Party for this. Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934 while in their vehicle via an ambush by police. Bonnie was 23 and Clyde was 25 years old. Some things you might not know about them:
Clyde grew up in Texas dirt poor with seven other siblings and they lived in a tent; this was during the Great Depression. Starting when he was a teenager, he began a life of crime robbing stores and banks (he could crack safes) and stealing cars. He was arrested for armed robbery when he was 17 and was sent to prison. Another inmate repeatedly raped him and then one day he grabbed a pipe and killed the man. He didn't get charged for the murder as another cell mate said he did it because he already had a life sentence. Clyde was never the same after this as he became extremely violent. Clyde wasn't sure how long he was going to be in prison and back then they had to do hard labor so one day he asked a buddy to use one of the work tools to cut off two of his toes so he could get out the hard work. He walked with a limp the rest of his life. The irony is that about a week after he had his toes cut off, he was unexpectedly released from prison. One of many bad decisions he made in his life. Bonnie got married to another man before she met Clyde, and she was only 15 years old at the time, but she split from him when he got arrested for robbery and went to prison. The only two men she ever loved were criminals. Bonnie didn’t want to be a criminal she wanted to be a poet. A couple of her poems were found at a hideout in Joplin, Missouri and the Joplin Globe newspaper printed them. One poem was called: "The Trail's End" which was a prophetic account of how she and Clyde ended up dying. Kind of like the Jesse James' Gang, Bonnie and Clyde had a following for all the things they were getting away with but when they started murdering people, including law enforcement, the public turned against them. Although 13 deaths were attributed to them, Bonnie was believed to have never committed murder although she did carry a gun and threatened people. Before joining up with Clyde, Bonnie worked as a waitress at a diner. One of her regular customers who she happened to have a good relationship with was one of the deputies who ended up killing her. The deputies who shot Bonnie and Clyde were given $200 apiece and they were allowed to keep some memorabilia from the famous pair. Because of their fame, their funerals brought in around 20,000 people. There were flowers everywhere and the greatest contributor of the flowers were from newspaper companies across the mid-west because Bonnie and Clyde helped them sell so many papers. The year was 1892. In a very small village in Clayton county of Northeast Iowa, the very first tractor was created by John Froelich. It had yet to be named the tractor, but it was the first successful gasoline engine that could maneuver forwards and backwards; the most rudimentary functions of modern engines.
Not many people know where pirates came from, and the story is very cool (at least to me). In the 1700's Britain and Spain were duking it out and Britain was barely getting the better of them. Well, during the twelve years they were going back and forth trying to take each other's fleets out, Britain sanctioned Privateers to plunder Spanish ships. They were like mercenaries for Britain and very much helped them beat Spain. But towards the end, both countries had had enough. They were both broke from fighting and came up with a treaty which included calling off the privateers, leaving them financially stranded in the waters around the Bahamas, Caribbean, Cuba, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
This didn't set well with the privateers, and they decided to keep plundering no matter who it was. These privateers saw a great opportunity to treasure hunt and make a living. Britain was livid that the privateers turned on them (they kind of turned on the privateers first). They sent their military to take these mercenaries out and gave them the name "Pirates," as a negative connotation. But as they found when the Revolution took place, pirates didn't follow war protocols and neither did the patriots who fought for our country. There was no pomp and circumstance, there was a lot of guerilla warfare. British sailors were certainly proud, but boy did they hate it if they saw the skull and crossbones. They knew that inevitably the pirates would be on their ship, and they'd have to fight hand to hand (sword to sword). Pirates loved it, the British, French, and Spanish sailors, did not. The period of advanced pirating only lasted between 1716 and 1730. Quite frankly, it was getting tough putting together crews because it was extremely hard and dangerous work. Due to the sparse areas of population they operated in, they didn't have a vast pool of candidates who were excited about becoming pirates and there was significant turnover on their ships. Some couldn't hack it and deserted as soon as they reached land, some were killed in battles, and some were killed by their own shipmates. Plus, there was a lot of illness back then. Many of them migrated towards legitimate work on merchant ships. A lot of people believe pagers were developed in the 80's because that's when they were so popular, but actually one of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area. Physicians paid $12 per month for the service and carried a 7 oz. pager that would receive phone messages within 25 miles from a single transmitter tower. The system was manufactured by the Reevesound Company and operated by Telanswerphone.
While excavating land from the Han Dynasty in China, they found swing sets dating back to 771 B.C.
Gold is such an amazing metal. You can do anything you want to it, but it will remain. For example, you could melt some gold down and then mix it with ink for a pen. If you wrote one page with the pen and then tossed the paper in the trashcan and light it on fire, liquid gold would be on the bottom of the can. None of it would be missing. A single ounce of gold could be converted into a thread that would be five miles long. BTW: Gold coins were first being used around 700 BC.
Over 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a new directive by the Biden administration. Biden's original proposal was to allow these immigrants to sign up for Medicaid, the health insurance program that provides nearly free coverage for the nation's poorest people, but it was shot down.
This move will allow thousands of migrants to access lucrative tax breaks (even those who don't pay taxes), when they sign up for coverage after the Affordable Care Act's marketplace enrollment opens Nov. 1, just days ahead of the presidential election. Timing is everything. Can you imagine the damage Biden would do if he were given four more years in the Whitehouse?! |
Author: John Mann |