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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Portsmouth Spartans 1930 ... Thx Denny R

THIS ONCE WAS AN NFL STADIUM

Spartan grandstand
It’s a little unfathomable now but this stadium, hard against a river wall along the Ohio River, was a part of the NFL circuit some 80 years ago.
Optimistic city fathers in Portsmouth, Ohio, paid for and built Universal Stadium in 1930, the first full year of the Great Depression. The hometown Spartans, featuring future Hall of Fame back Earl “Dutch” Clark, were virtually unbeatable in their four seasons here, logging a home record of 19-2-4 with wins against the likes of the Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and New York Giants as those teams traveled through town to the Midwest or East Coast. Hence the selection of Portsmouth as a sort of crossroads franchise for the still-fledgling, money-strapped league. The small city also was a mere 90 miles from the early NFL’s headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. NFL president Joe F. Carr liked to come down and take in Spartans games from a seat in one of the field boxes shown above.
Spartans locker room
The main locker room at Spartan Municipal Stadium once was warmed by a coal furnace (bottom, right).
The Spartans lost the 1932 NFL championship game to the Bears, 9-0, in the indoor venue of Chicago Stadium, in the NFL’s first playoff game ever. But drawing from Portsmouth’s relatively small fan base in the midst of the Depression drained the Spartans financially. In 1934 they were sold and moved to Detroit to become the Lions, leaving Green Bay as the NFL’s last remaining small town. The following year, 1935, the Motor City won it all with small-town Portsmouth’s former team.
Universal Stadium, in defiance of time and changes that swept the entire NFL to major cities and TV-studio-like structures, is still there at the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto rivers with hilly Kentucky just across the waters. It now bears the name Spartan Municipal Stadium, and today two high-school football teams and the semipro Kentucky Warriors still use the gridiron, grandstand and locker rooms of what is believed to be the oldest NFL structure to continuously house football.

Trump will, Pidge, but he is of neither party. I'm Tea Party! Send our long-termers ion Congress with them ... Thx P.F.!

Subject: WHAT 3 PRESIDENTS HAD IN COMMON
 
 
   
 
Three Presidents
No one in either party has the courage to do this today................


What did Presidents Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?


(This is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me.)


Back during the great depression, Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.


Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.


In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million illegal Mexicans. The program was called Operation Wetback. It was done so WWII and Korean War veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took two years, but they deported them!


Now, if they could deport the illegal aliens back then, they could surely do it today. If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.


Why, you might ask, can't they do this today? Actually the answer is quite simple. Hoover , Truman, and Eisenhower were men of honor, not untrustworthy politicians looking for votes!

It is a long time but there will be lots of this if the witch from Arkansas stays in it. ... Thx Lyle S!

Pan Am luxury flights in late thirties ... Thx Ramey H!

 
If You Thought Air Travel Was Luxurious In The 1970s,
Check Out What It Was Like Aboard
The 1938-40’s WW2-Era
Boeing Clipper.
 
 
The Boeing Company.
Clipper passengers took their meals at real tables, not their seats.
For most travelers in the 21st century, flying is a dreary experience, full of inconvenience, indignity, and discomfort. That wasn’t the case in the late 1930s, when those with the money to afford Trans-oceanic flight got to take
the Boeing Model 314, better known as the Clipper.  Even Franklin Roosevelt used the plane, celebrating his 61st birthday on board.
 
Between 1938 and 1941, Boeing built 12 of the jumbo planes for Pan American World Airways. The 314 offered a range of 3,500 miles — enough to cross either the Atlantic or Pacific —and room for 74 passengers on board.
Of course, modern aviation offers an amazing first class experience
(and it ' s a whole lot safer), but nothing in the air today matches the romanticism of crossing the ocean in the famed Clipper. Thanks
to the Pan Am Historical Foundation for sharing its photos. The foundation is currently working on a documentary about Pan American World Airways and the adventure of the flying boat age.
 
The Model 314’s nickname Clipper came from an especially fast type of sailing ship, used in the 19th century. 
Pan Am Historical Foundation.
The ship analogy was appropriate, as the Clipper landed on the water,
not runways.
 
 
The Boeing Company.
Here's a diagram of the different areas of the plane.
 
 
The Boeing Company [Source: Boeing]
On Pan Am flights, passengers had access to dressing rooms and a dining salon that could be converted into a lounge or bridal suite.
 
 
The Boeing Company.
The galley served up meals catered from four-star hotels. If you want to sit at a table to eat with other people these days, you have to fly in a private jet. 
 
 
There was room for a crew of 10 to serve as many as 74 passengers. 
 
On overnight flights, the 74 seats could be turned into 40 bunks for comfortable sleeping. 
 
The bunk beds came with curtains for privacy. 
 
Pan Am Historical Foundation.
On the 24-hour flights across the Atlantic, crew members could
conk out on these less luxurious cots. 
Unlike some modern jets that come with joysticks, the Clipper had
controls that resembled car steering wheels. 
 
 
Padation.
Navigating across the ocean used to require more manpower in the air. 
 
Pan Am Historical Foundation.
The lavatory wasn't too fancy, but it did have a urinal — something you never see in today’s commercial jets, where space is at a premium. 
 
The ladies lounge had stools where female passengers could sit and do their makeup. 
 
 
The Clipper made its maiden Trans-Atlantic voyage on
June 28, 1939. 
 
But once the US entered World War II, the Clipper was pressed into
service to transport materials and personnel. In 1943, President
Franklin Roosevelt celebrated his 61st birthday on board. 
 
 
Pan Am Historical Foundation Source: Boeing.
 

O has nothing good in his plans for our country ... Thx Paul C!

EVERYONE SHOULD READ ALL OF THIS,  AMERICA IS IN DEEP TROUBLE

A Stunning Act of Treason

alaska 2Obama has given away seven strategic, oil-rich Alaskan islands to the Russians at a time when we could be going to war with Russia. At minimum, the oil, alone, from these Islands should be considered to be a military asset. I remain very concerned that these seven islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea could also be used as a military staging area from which to invade Alaska and defend its new claims of the mineral rich resources at the North Pole.
The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake, related to these seven Islands. Didn’t Obama promise energy independence. Didn’t this proven communist president promise to help the economy bounce back by lessening our dependence on foreign oil? And despite our ongoing economic depression, Obama killed the Keystone Pipeline a few months ago. Perhaps, very soon, America will not need the Keystone Pipeline because Alaska will not be remaining as a viable member of the United States. To those who think that Obama would never sacrifice Alaska to Russia, then please tell us “conspiracy theorists” why he would give away seven Islands, one as big as Delaware, with great natural resources, to the Russians?  This is a case of bold-faced treason plain and simple. Obama and his cabinet should be arrested, tried and sentenced as we would with any traitor. Yet, there is more.

The Giveaway of Alaska

There exists documented facts which support the reasons why Alaska should be placed on high alert.
Russia recently sent four brigades to the Arctic. The Arctic can be used as a staging area for the invasion of the North Pole to protect its recent mineral claims, but more importantly, this area of the Arctic could serve as a base of operations from which to invade Alaska with the help of pre-positioned assets within the state.
In March of 2012, with a microphone left on. Obama made an unguarded comment to Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev to be “more lenient on nuclear issues” because he could be more flexible “after the November election”. Does more flexible mean killing the Keystone Pipeline prior to giving away seven rich Alaskan Islands to the Russians? Does more flexible mean letting the Russians train in Colorado Springs and in Alaska? Does being more flexible mean compromising our defense of Alaska?

More Treason From Obama

Although some journalists have said that they suspect that Obama is preparing to give away Alaska to Russia. I previously did not see how a sitting president could do such a thing and remain in office. However, if Russia were to militarily seize Alaska, that would provide Obama with a plausible excuse in which he claims America was caught off guard and the danger was unforeseen. Obama could best accomplish this by weakening the defenses of Alaska and the evidence is supportive of this suspicion. The evidence does not support a timetable, however, I would guess that this event may transpire in Obama’s last year in office, or possibly in the lame duck session where he cannot be held accountable. This article will hopefully remove Obama’s ability to excuse away the notion that America lost Alaska because it go caught with its proverbial pants down.
The giving away of seven strategic, oil-rich Islands is a good start to support a claim of treason because Obama is purposely weakening the defense of Alaska. Also, local residents along the Alaskan coast have reported to me that the massive over flights along the coast have all but ceased. The F-22’s have disappeared. The Air Force says the flights have been suspended because of oxygen concerns which are impacting the pilots. Then shouldn’t the flights be replaced by F-16’s? What about national security?These over flights have been a staple of Alaskan defense since the Cold War. If we are close to war with Iran and its ally, Russia, then shouldn’t we beefing up our patrols in Alaska?
Recently the ATF asked for gun registration records in Alaska. Perhaps the Russians need to know, in advance, where the most civilian opposition will come from when they take over Alaska.

Are Plans Being Made For a Post-Russian Takeover of Alaska?

It is now on the record that Putin said that he was going to make his country the greatest country, economically, as he said in print that he is claiming part of Alaska. Adding fuel to the fire, it is now clear that Russia is also establishing plans for an Arctic industrialization. In geopolitical and military terms, it could be an easy to claim to make if the military resistance in Alaska is greatly compromised, and it has been. 
 The last thing that country should do on a potential front line area is to close military facilities and bases, yet, this is exactly what is happening in Alaska. Obama and the Base Realignment and Closure Commission have been closing bases and/or reducing base operations all through Alaska. It has gotten so bad that the Alaskan Governor hired a lobbyist to prevent military reduction.
Two years ago, a prominent Russia Professor predicted the end of the United States. The professor stated that Alaska would return to the control of Russia and that the United States would be split into six pieces.  John McCain recently said “I think it’s very clear that Russian ambitions are to restore the old Russian Empire. Not the Soviet Union, but the Russian Empire.”
There is also a tunnel from Russia to Alaska being constructed. Are we funding our own demise with our tax money which is designed  to set up Russia’s future? Last summer, Russia challenged west coast detection capabilities of our military by making provocative moves with their submarines inside of our territorial waters. Also, in a stunning move, Putin banned adoptions of Russian children by American parents. Could it be likely that he is looking out for the Russian adoptees as this is a reaction to what Putin knows is coming?

Makes you wonder ... Thx Ramey H!


  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

Same o- Same o Short movie ... Promoting islam is his priority as pusa ... UGH! 9-11-2001 ... Thx Ramey H!

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