Truly amazing
pictures!!!!!!!!!
Magnificent!
Friday, December 19, 2014
Lost in the fifties ... thx Ramey H!
Very disturbing summary ... Thx Ramey H!
Very disturbing summary. Maybe only the tip of the iceberg.
Snopes really does a spin job on this
one.
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Muslims in control ... Thx Ramey H!
Very disturbing summary. Maybe only the tip of the iceberg.
Snopes really does a spin job on this
one.
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Norwegian Township Volunteer fire department ... Thx Young Kim and Lyle S!
One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started
inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into
massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles
around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the
chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret
formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will
give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out
intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters
off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation
became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the
offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's
secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck
came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire
company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's
amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer
sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the
inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped
off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a
performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the
fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president
announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000,
and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire
fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film,
asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that
money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first
thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking
truck!
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Israel ranks the top ten air forces in the world ... Thx Ramey H!
The F-16 will always be - to me - the most "elegant, graceful fighter!
Kate Smith's and Irving Berlin's God Bless America ... Thx Ramey H!
This has been around before several years ago but
for those who have never seen/heard it, you are in for a pleasant
experience.
A
Little Patriotic History, Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of
her time, and said that when he and a million other guys first heard her sing
"God Bless America " on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in
their eyes as they wiped away a tear or
two.
Here
are the facts... The link at the bottom will take you to a video showing the
very first public singing of "GOD BLESS AMERICA
".
Before
you watch it, the story behind the
song:
The
time was 1940. America was in a terrible economic
depression. Hitler was taking
over Europe and Americans were afraid we'd have to go to
war.
It
was a time of hardship and worry for Americans. This was just before TV, radio
shows were HUGE, and families sat around their radios in the evenings,
listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer was bigger
than Kate Smith.
Kate
was also large; plus size, as we now say, and the popular phrase still used
today is in deference to her, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings
".
Kate
Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV, but with her voice coming
over the radio, she was the biggest star of her time. Kate was also patriotic. It hurt
her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would
bring.
She
had hope for America , and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do
something to cheer them up, so she went to song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White
Christmas") and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good
about their country.
When
she described what she was looking for, he had just the song for her. He went to
his files and found a song that he had written,
but never published, 22 years
before back in 1917. He gave it to her and she worked on it with her studio
orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be
received, but both
agreed they would not take profits. Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of
America.
Over
the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties
from this song.
This
video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra
and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very
first time, and starts singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in the
background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie,
" You're In The Army Now ." At the
4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office,
reading a paper; it's
Ronald Reagan .
To
this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in
our country.
Back
in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her
fellow Americans, I doubt she realized how
successful the results would be for
Americans during those years of hardship and worry.... and for many generations
to follow.
Now
that you know the story, I hope you'll enjoy it and treasure it even
more. Many people don't know there's a lead in
to the song since it usually starts with "God Bless
America ......
"So
here's the entire song as originally
sung.
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