radiochaser

Yep, there were northerners (Yankees to those from the south) that held slaves. If I recall correctly, there was a black man that went to court to keep a man, another black man, as his slave, or something like that. The court ruled in his favor and he kept his slave. Also, the Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation, if I recall correctly, only freed slaves in the civil wars, southern states. Not in the northern states. Sort of hypocritical ya might think.

Then why was robert byrd hillary clintons mentor? " When faced with the sobering reality that Democrats supported slavery, started the Civil War when the abolitionist Republican Party won the Presidency, established the Ku Klux Klan to brutalize newly freed slaves and keep them from voting, opposed the Civil Rights Movement, modern-day liberals reflexively perpetuate rather pernicious myth--that the racist southern Democrats of the 1950s and 1960s became Republicans, leading to the so-called "switch" of the parties. This is as ridiculous as it is easily debunked. " https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-05-01-the-myth-of-the-republican-democrat-switch/

I would not call slave owners good guys! I would not call people who hate someone merely because their skin is a different color than their own, good guys. One problem about that is, now days too many people believe that all southerners owned slaves, and that all southerners are racist. Only a small percentage of people in the south actually owned slaves and not all of the people in the south hated people whose skin was a different color. Both sides of my family were from the south. One Louisiana and the other Alabama. I lived in Louisiana for a good many years growing up. My grandmother hated the klan. I watched her one day come near killing one klan member with my grandfathers shotgun! I listened to klan members talk about their hatred of blacks and republicans. They spoke gleefully about how they would hang them if they could. Old hateful klan members. They infected some of the people I grew up with. Those old hateful klan members were democrat and continued to be democrat until they died. The people I grew up with that were infected with that hate were democrats. They still are democrats to this day. They still are bigoted, hateful racists to this day! Excuse me. A pet peeve of mine I guess. Not liking people who are full of hate!

I had covid vaccination after I had covid so I could go to Thailand with my wife and other family. From what little I know, I should get the pneumonia vaccinations as pneumonia, twice, has nearly killed me in my adult life. Whereas covid just made me moderately sick for a few weeks.

This is interesting. "Does fact checking matter to your opinions? 46 members have voted You do not have permission to vote in this poll, or see the poll results." Does anyone else, not have permission to vote in this poll or see the results? Or is it just me? ????

The picture isn't me, but I worked in the same hut in Vietnam and a fixed base in Thailand. 05D20, Special Identification Techniques Operator. Trained in the art of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) to locate high frequency (HF or shortwave) radio transmitters and Identifying individual radio transmitters using Radio Fingerprinting. A little over 2 years experience locating enemy transmitters (not just Vietnamese). I worked as a civilian for the government for 23 years, with duties that also included radio direction finding of HF transmitters, fixed base and mobile transmitters in the U.S. of A., including marine vessels on both Pacific and Atlantic oceans, aircraft, and other transmitters that might be in North, Central and South America as well as Europe, Africa, the Soviet Union, and all parts of Asia, if the signals could be heard. Government work included RDF of VHF and UHF signals using a mobile RDF vehicle. One duty of the work was traffic analysis, intelligence collection and analysis of the collected intelligence.

Or it could be unintentional jamming by an electronic device emitting spurious radio signals. I investigated that a couple of times when I was gainfully employed.

What?

I believe he is.

Oh! Darn it. My wife paid cash for her condo. Her cash, not mine.

Less than normal. Might be due to my Native American ancestry. Might also be why I can't handle alcoholic beverages. I can get drunk on 2 small glasses of wine. Too much and I get sick for days. Or I just might be allergic to alcohol!

I wonder the same about alcoholic drink. A more dangerous substance for intentional inebriation for many people in the world. It must be something ingrained in the brain as even animals and birds will intentionally become inebriation, such as eating fermented fruit.

I knew a woman years ago that told me she loved a very hairy man. I thought it was a little strange.

I am curious about who pays for the shipping costs back to the country the vehicle is stolen from? If the owner is reimbursed by the insurance company and the vehicle is returned to them, do they have to pay the insurance company back (I assume they would have to)?

I know you probably have already received offers to transport the diamonds, but, can you tell me where you are and wait till June for me to pick them up. June is when I go to Bangkok! You can keep the gold. I try to stay away from heavy metal!

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They might be prescription sun glasses purchased outside of Thailand. I have prescription sunglasses that I paid a little more than $600.00 for even after insurance, in the U.S. of A.!

I am too tall to blend in, in Thailand!

My ticket for arrival at the end of June, was purchased in December, 22. I will see what happens when I arrive.

Or the balloon was launched and china used the jet stream to its advantage to help float it into the United States. I believe that is a more plausible theory. There is no way that the U.S. military did not know the path of the balloon almost from the point of launch to the time it was shot down. My time with a branch of the military involved with spying on other countries is decades old, but even back then, the U.S. military was tracking flying objects before they left the borders of other countries. The amount of advancement of intel gathering abilities since then, most likely allowed the tracking of the balloon by the time it was high enough to pose a problem with air craft traffic.

Back in the early 1970's an airplane pilot in the branch of the Army I was in smoked. I never saw him smoke, but the evidence was hanging on his wrist. A roach clip. Judging by the amount of weed tar on it, a well used roach clip.

Like an idiot one day, I was scraping corrosion on the positive pole of a large 12 volt truck battery with a straightened out paper clip. As soon the paper clip grounded out on the frame of the truck, there was a snap, my thumb and finger were branded, and there was a ball of metal imbedded in my thumb!

The silkie bantams or just the normal looking midget ones?

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Like AgMech Cowboy commented. That is a nice house. I imagine it might be nice to sit out on the decks, or underneath it on the cooler days when it is raining. Or even sitting out there any time of the year. Is your leak up there on the top right in the picture, where it looks like you are missing two shingles?