radiochaser

Slaves in the modern era? Not today, unless you believe that that muslims who own slaves are white/caucasians! I don't believe that all muslims are white/caucasian, they can be any ethnic race, and not all own slaves today! I would think that you mean during the years of southern slavery and I would agree with you. There is no "look over there" aspect of my post. It is what you want to call a, fact base, post, according to the history of what happened. One issue that seems to be evident is that too many people believe that America had the most slaves through out the world, or, as is in some cases, the only country that had slaves during that era. Did America have black slaves, yes, did America own the most slaves or was it the only slave owning country? No.

Yes I can. If you cannot I don't know why. I thought it might be due to you being in Thailand (I don't know where you are) and your IP address was blocked. I changed my VPN to Singapore and the link opened. As to paywalls... I run into that on occasion. What I find works more than 90% (a guess on my part) of the time is, using a search engine (not google, at least not currently) I look for the same story, quote, etc, and keep opening up links until I find one that works. Something I learned to do when I was working as a Federal Agent and was involved in investigations, beginning back in the the year 2002. Here is a brave search of the title: https://search.brave.com/search?q="The+Big+Lie%3A+Democrats+and+Republicans+Switched+Sides+on+Race"&source=web

I would like to believe, that I, when I called the talk line of the ray taliaferro's talk show out of San Francisco, one early morning after midnight, and invented the idea that Bush Sr. flew to Europe in the back seat of an SR71, and negotiated the hostage release from the Iranians, before Reagon was elected! ray taliaferro had never heard that claim before, but he immediately and completely accepted and believed it. I made that claim, hung up the phone, and continued to listen to other caller after another also accept the claim. There were some callers wanting to know what the SR71 was. I don't recall if ray taliaferro knew what it was or if I had to explain what that aircraft was. I had known about the SR71 was since 1972-1973. I could look at pictures taken on it's flight over Vietnam and China that were posted on a bulletin board in the OPs building at the 7th RRFS, outside of Udon Thani. If I recall correctly, the SR71 would fly at an altitude of 80,000 feet, up the east coast of Vietnam, make a U-turn over China, and fly back down the west boarder of Vietnam, all in about an hour or so, all the while with cameras taking pictures continuously during the north and south flight. Amazing black and white pictures, taken from an aircraft flying approximately 3000 miles an hour, at 80,000 feet. I think I was told that the negatives were 24 inches square! I remember pictures of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun crew, where you could tell they had either sandals or boots on, you could see canteens on their belts, whether they carried an AK47 or an SKS rifle. Not just something that looked like it might have been those things, but you could see the detail of the objects. I sometimes wonder if I had heard this theory, that Bush sr. was flown in the SR71 and that memory was relegated to some deep dark place in my subconscious memory, and then I dug it up on that time. I don't know at this time so many years after the fact. Now there is a claim by a pilot that he flew Bush to Europe in the SR71. But there are also claims that a single pilot could not as he needed a navigator. I don't know which is true, I only know that people I have met, who worked with the SR71 program supports the claim that the SR71 could not have been flown with Bush Sr. in the back seat, because he was not a qualified navigator, and the pilot in the front seat, alone, could not navigate, and fly the SR71 by himself.

OK, I give up. In context, what does it mean?

Sounds more like an opinion than it does a fact. I'm not sure what you mean by "paywalled". You can't open or see the link? I have no problem with it.

Perhaps, but it does appear that it is the first legal ownership of slavery in the Colonies. And that person was a black man (African descendent) who owned African slaves. When you hear or read the term ‘slavery’, the first thing that would readily pop into your mind is a black man being abused and used by white man. After all, this is the battle cry of the black community whenever they likened racism to slavery. While this may be true of most slave cases, do you know that the first legally recognized slaveholder in America was not a white but a black man? https://history101.com/first-legally-slaveholder-black-man/

Who is being delusional now? The Big Lie: Democrats and Republicans Switched Sides on Race Republican failure to refute Democrats’ "big lie" that their parties switched sides on race has allowed that falsehood to become widely accepted. https://lindasuegrimes.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-democrats-and-republicans

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!