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John Kennedy from Louisiana

Hey folks, you must read the bio of my favorite Senator from Louisiana (R). This guy should be president!
Sen. John Kennedy on parking lots & crackheads:
This guy speaks in a language everyone understands and is an extremely bright individual. Sen. 
 
Kennedy graduated magna cum laude in political science, philosophy, and economics from Vanderbilt University , was president of his senior class, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the "Virginia Law Review" and elected to the Order of the Coif. He earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first class honors from Oxford University ( Magdalen College ) in England , where he studied under Sir Rupert Cross and Sir John H. C. Morris. 
 
RECENT QUOTES FROM: SEN. JOHN KENNEDY, (R) LOUISIANA FIRST OF ALL, 
I'M JOHN KENNEDY, NOT THAT JOHN KENNEDY, I AM THE OTHER JOHN KENNEDY, (R) SENATOR REPRESENTING THE GREAT STATE OF LOUISIANA . PERMIT ME TO TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE 
 
• I BELIEVE AMERICA WAS FOUNDED BY GENIUSES BUT IS NOW RUN BY IDIOTS. 
 
I BELIEVE YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID, BUT YOU CAN VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE. 
 
• WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD OF ANYONE TRYING TO SNEAK INTO CHINA.? 
 
• AMERICA IS SO GREAT THAT PEOPLE WHO HATE IT, REFUSE TO LEAVE IT 
 
• LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, SO FAR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SUCKS. • I DON'T LIKE TO BRAG ABOUT THE EXPENSIVE PLACES I'VE BEEN TO, BUT THIS MORNING I WENT TO THE GAS STATION. • I BELIEVE EXERCISE MAKES YOU LOOK BETTER NAKED. BUT SO DOES ALCOHOL. • WELFARE SHOULD BE A BRIDGE, NOT A PARKING LOT. • WEAKNESS INVITES THE WOLVES. • WE MUST ARM FOR PEACE. • WE DON'T HAVE A GUN CONTROL PROBLEM, WE HAVE AN IDIOT CONTROL PROBLEM. • FREE ADVICE FRIENDS, IF GOVERNMENT TELLS YOU NOT TO BUY A GUN, BUY TWO. • I BELIEVE IF YOU HATE POLICE OFFICERS, THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE IN TROUBLE, CALL A CRACK-HEAD. • HERE'S A FREE TIP, COPS WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE IF YOU DON'T DO STUPID THINGS. • I BELIEVE WE NEED AN ELECTION DAY, NOT AN ELECTION MONTH. • I BELIEVE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROVE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE WHEN YOU VOTE. • I BELIEVE 400,000 BODIES BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY IS THE REASON YOU SHOULD STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. • I BELIEVE THE WATER WON'T CLEAR TILL YOU GET THE PIGS OUT OF THE CREEK. • I BELIEVE LOVE IS THE ANSWER, BUT YOU SHOULD OWN A GUN, JUST IN CASE.

 

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Louisiana nun kidnapped in Africa reportedly found alive nearly 5 months later, Catholic Church says

An American nun in her eighties who U.S. federal officials said was kidnapped in Africa nearly five months ago has been found alive, the Catholic Church reported Wednesday.

Sister Suellen Tennyson, a member of the Marianites of Holy Cross in Louisiana, was kidnapped by armed gunmen on April 4 in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, the FBI previously reported.

According to the FBI, Tennyson, was 83 when gunmen kidnapped her from her home near Kaya, the fifth largest city in Burkina Faso, a landlocked country bordered by Ghana and Niger.

A letter sent to Marianites of Holy Cross said Tennyson, an American citizen, was free and in U.S. hands in Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Wednesday reportedly in good health after being released by her captors.

Sister Suellen Tennyson, a member of the Marianites of Holy Cross based in Louisiana, was kidnapped by armed gunmen on April 4, 2022 in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, the FBI reported.
Sister Suellen Tennyson, a member of the Marianites of Holy Cross based in Louisiana, was kidnapped by armed gunmen on April 4, 2022 in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, the FBI reported.

Church officials said the nun was taken by 10 gunmen without her blood pressure medication. The church statement about her release, though, said she was still in good health after nearly five months in captivity.

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MYTERY: Finland's Balancing Rock Defies the Laws of Physics

Our brains are pretty good at physics. For instance, you can watch somebody kick a soccer ball in front of you, and you can run to the spot where you and that soccer ball will intersect, taking into consideration the speed of both you and the ball — so smart! Not only that, we can look at one object balancing on another and tell how sturdy it is without so much as touching it.

But sometimes our brains make uneducated mathematical guesses, and one of these is Kummakivi, the balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. If it was up to your brain, Kummakivi — which means "strange rock" in Finnish — wouldn't exist. It's a boulder resting on a lump of rock in a position that, to our monkey engineer brains, appears impossible, or at least dicey. Extremely slap-dash and temporary work, at best. And yet Kummakivi sits quietly in its Scandinavian forest, racking up the centuries. Millennia, even.

 

balancing rock

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First Radio Commercial

Time Line: August 28th, 1922

First ever RADIO commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City; 10 minute advertisement was for the Quensboro Realty Company which paid a fee of $100.

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Re: LEBANON: The sadistic fall of a country that produces huge talents :-(

By Llewellyn King

 

This last spring, I was in Washington for an awards dinner given by the American Task Force on Lebanon. The talents of the exceptionally gifted Lebanese were on display: The room was filled with accomplished expatriates and immigrants — business leaders, diplomats, physicians, writers and poets, an opera singer — from their troubled Middle Eastern homeland.

But the event’s high point was the recognition of the scientists who had saved countless lives by creating Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine: four Lebanese Americans.

The Washington celebration was in painful contrast to the shambles that is Lebanon today: bankrupt, corrupt, violence-riven, starving and hopeless.

According to Edward Gabriel, a Lebanese American who served as U.S. ambassador to Morocco during the Clinton administration, Lebanon is in danger of sinking so far that it will be a failed state, ungoverned and ungovernable.

Gabriel has just returned from a visit by the American Task Force on Lebanon, and he reports of a country in parlous disarray.

In a paper for the task force, Gabriel stated, “On (Aug. 4, 2020), over 500 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the Port of Beirut exploded, causing more than 220 deaths, 7,000 injuries, 300,000 displaced individuals, and at least $1.5 billion in property damage. Since then, there has not only been a lack of closure for the families of the victims but the very corruption and negligence that caused such carnage and suffering has yet to be addressed by those in power.”

In their meeting with the Lebanese leadership, Gabriel and the task force discussed the urgency of implementing reforms to access IMF funds and get aid from the United States and other allies, including Saudi Arabia. Food is critical, as Lebanon imports 90% of its grain from Ukraine and Russia.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lebanon, which stretches along the Mediterranean Sea north of Israel, was a treasure of a country. Its seaside capital, Beirut, was a sparkling jewel, rivaling Monaco in its incandescence.

Beirut in its heyday had all the cache of Tangier and Casablanca, and was a destination for the adventurous, the sophisticated, and for artists, journalists and writers. A-listers headed there before that term existed.

As a young reporter in London, I was fascinated by the tales of the high life in Beirut as told by otherwise jaded foreign correspondents. “There’s nothing you can imagine you want that you won’t find in Beirut,” a famous photographer for the Magnum photo agency told me.

It wasn’t just nightlife and sin that drew the world’s press to Lebanon. It was a center of transport, and you could get anywhere from its airport by air or anywhere bordering the Mediterranean by ferry. Yes, Beirut revived world-weary journalists’ appetites, but it also was a very practical place to work.

In 1963 Lebanon, a small country with a small population of 4 million, was a highly successful one, envied and copied. The basic layout of the beach development in Tel Aviv, I was told in Israel, is modeled on that of Beirut.

British intellectuals often cited Lebanon’s religious minority-respectful government as a model for diverse societies as Britain withdrew from its former colonies. Traditionally, the three major religious groups share power this way: The president is always a Maronite Christian, the prime minister is always a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament is always a Shia Muslim.

The fall of Lebanon began with a huge influx of destabilizing Palestinian refugees and was sped up by the arrival of rival terrorist militias, particularly Iran-backed Hezbollah, determined to prosecute a war with Israel.

Lebanon’s brightest prospect is the development of its gas reserves in the Mediterranean. Hezbollah has been frustrating the conclusion of a maritime agreement between Lebanon and Israel, which would enable drilling for natural gas in Lebanon’s offshore fields, where reserves are plentiful and proven.

That and a revival of tourism are Lebanon’s best, slender hopes. Hope is, people, like me, will want to go, looking for the ghosts of a giddy nightlife and James Bondian intrigue. I hope to go this year.

Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com."

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Nota Bene Edit;

A General View Of Zaitunay Bay And The New Waterfront At Night Beirut ...

 

Lebanon Wallpapers High Quality | Download Free

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May God help this once great  Phoenicia  manifestly beautiful land without a desert and once Maritime Master of  the Mediterranean  ('mare Nostrum) ..... Grapes and wrath  by the &sea

K/kindly keep her in your devotional prayers

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FIRST TELEVISED MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES

TIME LINE; AUGUST 26/1939. New York

SHOWN ON EXPERIMENTAL STATION W2XXBS

A double header between the home team Brooklyn Dodgers and visitors Cincicinatti Reds at Ebbets Field  The first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers take the nightcap, 6-1. The network employs two cameras, one behind home plate, showing a wide view of the field, and the other on the third base line to capture the plays at first base

Ebbets Field - history, photos and more of the Brooklyn Dodgers former ...

Crews begin demolishing Ebbets Field, home to 7 no-hitters, 56 years ...

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THE SCHOONER "AMERICA" OUTRACED 12 Fast British Conternders

THE SCHOONER "AMERICA" MYSTERIOUSLY NAMED "ORACLE" oUTRACED 12  HIGHLY RATED BRITISH  CONTENDERS OVER THE WAVES ~~~~~~~~~~

TIMELINE: August 22nd, 1851 AMERICA Ship named 'ORACLE" beat more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy  for the 'America' CUP.

America's Cup tied, set for winner-take-all finale

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20 Innocents Murdered as Islamic forces attack Hyatt hotel & countiing :-(

  • At least 20 international innocent and 40 wounded as islamic militants stormed a Hyatt hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead.
  • At least 40 people were wounded in the late Friday night attack and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu’s popular civilian non military  target   Hyatt Hotel.
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Former College Teacher before they're done with high school.

I'm a former college teacher. I wish parents would teach their kids these 3 life skills before they're done with high school.

Rachel Garlinghouse
Thu, August 18, 2022 at 4:20 AM·3 min read
Courtesy of Rachel Garlinghouse

  • I was a college teacher for nine years.

  • In those years I realized that many of my students were not ready for life beyond high school.

  • From clear communication to taking care of their health, this is what I wish parents taught kids.

I spent nine years teaching college students. I had anywhere from 50 to 70 students every semester, most of them fresh out of high school. I saw a pattern emerge among my college freshman — and it wasn't a good one.

Many students were not ready for life beyond high school, and it wasn't their fault. In my one-on-one talks, many confessed that their parents had done everything for them. College was a wake-up call because mommy or daddy couldn't rescue them.

What's interesting is that my students weren't grateful for all the "assistance." Rather, they were discovering how ill-prepared they were for college life, which worked to their detriment. The parents anticipated their child's every need and took care of them. When conflicts arose, the parents jumped in, dictating the outcome. College has no space for such things.

I'm a parent of four kids now and want to share what I learned as a college teacher with other parents.

I recommend that you pause and consider what you're doing when you always step in for your child. They need to learn some basics before they walk across the stage and accept their diploma.

Video: Parents of unsuccessful kids could have these 6 things in common

Teach your child to communicate — clearly and honestly

I had countless students who would wait until the proverbial poop hit the fan, and then they'd have a tantrum or they'd crumble. College teachers do not have the time — and are not required — to coddle students who are struggling before freaking out when it's the end of the semester and grades are due.

When your child is struggling with anything, teach them how to communicate this to the adult in charge. Ask them to be proactive and honest, taking responsibility for their part in the problem. Being polite about it is important, too.

Teach your child to take charge of their health

You've probably heard of the "freshman 15," or perhaps experienced it yourself. Many freshmen get a major taste of freedom in college and make poor dietary choices — gaining 15, or more, pounds during their first semester.

They don't have their parents preparing and serving them meals anymore. Between the meal card and the access to alcohol, students can quickly spiral.

Very few of my students utilized the university fitness center, which led to not only weight gain, but a lot more stress. I had several students have anxiety meltdowns, especially during their first year of college. I prompted many of them to seek assistance from the university's mental-health-service center. Though I'm grateful that I was able to help my students, their parents should have taught them these lessons prior to sending them to college.

Teach them how to manage money

Many students rack up debt — and quickly. The taste of college freedom can feel euphoric, and students don't always make the best financial decisions; they're too busy having fun.

While your child is living at home, help them learn to budget their funds. Encourage them to keep track of their money, and show them what to do if they find themselves spiraling. They should ask for help before they are in a pit of debt. Making sure they have opportunities to earn their own money is also important — because they treat money differently when they realize how hard it is to earn.

College students will inevitably make mistakes, which is part of their learning journey. However, you help your children far more by letting them fumble now instead of when society starts considering them adults

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LAWYERS, WOW, MUST READ

Subject:  Lawyers
Lawyers
 
 
As an attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be considered to be an indictment against my profession.  But I believe there is much truth to the article below.  Very thought provoking.  Lawyers are adversarial and are trained to try to win at all costs.  It may work in litigation but does not work well when governing our nation.  Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization and hatred that now fills our country and leaves no room for common sense or legitimate debate.
Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school, although Gore did not graduate.  Joe Biden (no surprise) was at the bottom of his class.  Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.  Barack Obama was a lawyer.  Michelle Obama was a lawyer.  Hillary Clinton was a lawyer.  Bill Clinton was a lawyer.  John Edwards is a lawyer.  Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.  Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer.  Former Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different.  President Trump was a businessman.  Presidents Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen.  Vice President Cheney was a businessman.  President Eisenhower was a 5 star General.  The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor.  Tom Delay was an exterminator.  Dick Armey was an economist.  Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer.  The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.  Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976.  The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.  This is very interesting. I had never thought about it this way before.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.  The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.  And so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow.  Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, which, in this case should be the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.  Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming.  Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government.  We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit.  We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws.  We are contorted by judicial decisions.  We are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers!  Tort or legal reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits.  This legislation has been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.  When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER FORWARDING THIS ONE!
 
  
 

 

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Reuters Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

Reuters

Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

Kanishka Singh
Fri, August 19, 2022 at 3:12 AM

By Kanishka Singh

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of an Islamic State cell known as "The Beatles" to life in prison for involvement in a hostage-taking plot that led to the killings of American journalists and aid workers in Syria.

Families and friends of the four Americans killed and of other hostages previously detained by the militant group looked on as District Court Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, to life without parole, calling his behavior "horrific, barbaric, brutal and of course criminal."

A jury in April concluded the former British citizen was part of an Islamic State cell, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their English accents, that beheaded American hostages in areas of the Middle East controlled by the militant group. He was found guilty on four counts of hostage-taking and four counts of conspiracy after a two-week trial.

The victims' relatives and friends sat in the front rows of the courtroom and were visibly shaken during the course of the hearing as tears rolled down their eyes and they consoled each other. Elsheikh was sentenced to eight concurrent life sentences.

At the peak of its power from 2014-2017, Islamic State ruled over millions of people and claimed responsibility for or inspired attacks in dozens of cities around the world.

Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate over a quarter of Iraq and Syria in 2014, before he was killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in Syria in 2019 as the group's rule collapsed.

Elsheikh, who was born in Sudan and raised in London, was accused of conspiring to kill four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

Foley and Sotloff, both journalists, and Kassig, an aid worker, were killed in videotaped beheadings. Mueller was raped repeatedly by al-Baghdadi before her death in Syria, U.S. officials have said.

The deaths of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were confirmed in 2014; Mueller's death was confirmed in early 2015.

Elsheikh appeared in the federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday wearing a gray jumpsuit, a facemask and glasses. Family and friends of his victims were asked to make statements in front of the judge.

"Hatred completely overtook your humanity," Foley's mother, Diane said, later breaking down in tears. "I pity you. I pray your time in prison will give you a time to reflect." Friday marked the eighth anniversary of Foley’s beheading.

The head of the London police's Counter Terrorism Command, Richard Smith, said in a statement the victims' families "have shown remarkable fortitude and bravery in giving their accounts of what happened to investigators, and in court."

The charges against Elsheikh, whose British citizenship was withdrawn in 2018, carried a potential death sentence, but U.S. prosecutors had previously advised British officials that they would not seek the death penalty.

Prosecutors argued that a life sentence was needed to prevent Elsheikh from causing future harm and to set a precedent that such crimes will get strict punishment.

"The Beatles were genuine psychopaths," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh argued in court on Friday during the hearing, adding that Elsheikh was the highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court.

Another cell member, Alexanda Kotey, was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. judge earlier this year. Kotey was held in Iraq by the U.S. military before being flown to the United States to face trial. He pleaded guilty last September to the murders of Foley, Sotloff, Kassig and Mueller.

A third member of the group, Mohammed Emwazi, died in a U.S.-British missile strike in Syria in 2015.

Some former hostages, released by the cell after protracted negotiations, testified during trials about the torture they endured. Family members of those killed also testified.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; writing by Rami AyyubEditing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)


 

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WASHINGTON TGIMES: Biden Silent On Church Attacks

Advocacy  group 'Catholic Vote' launched a $1M  defensive ad campaign criticizing President Biden's  "notable  silence" on multi attacks  on dozens of churches nation wide following the Supreme  Courts ruling reversing RoeV. Wade.

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