Where were you that day?-----Flight 191: 40 years later -- Chicago Tribune

Flight 191: 40 years later -- Chicago Tribune
"As 258 passengers filed on to American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare International Airport the Friday before Memorial Day in 1979, nothing suggested that they would never reach Los Angeles.
They would have listened to the flight attendant instruct them how to buckle the seat belt and where to find the emergency exits.
None of that would matter.
As the three-engine McDonnell Douglas DC-10 accelerated down the runway, reaching takeoff speed, the left engine broke away, vaulting over the aircraft’s wing.
The pilots heard a thunk.
“Damn,” one of the pilots said.
It would be the last word captured by the cockpit voice recorder.
...How the crash happened..."
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History for May 23

History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com
Friedrich Anton Mesmer 1734 - Physician, astrologist, Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, critic, women's rights activist, Artie Shaw 1910 - Band leader


Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers) 1910 - Actor, musician, singer, dancer, Lauren Chapin 1945 - Actress ("Father Knows Best"), Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host


1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.


1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.

Here’s How The Asylum System Is Being Exploited | The Daily Caller

Here’s How The Asylum System Is Being Exploited | The Daily Caller:

Tens of thousands of apprehended migrants from the Central American countries driving the border crisis exploit loopholes in the immigration system by making false asylum claims, according to data, experts and surveys.
The loopholes allow “people with suspect asylum claims … to make their way into the interior of the United States and disappear,” one expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Data shows only about half of the migrants from those countries who claim asylum actually file a formal application after being let into the U.S.

The way we were-----The B-52's - Private Idaho (ACR10 - NTSC)

Boob-tube-----Monty Python Deductive Reasoning

5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual | Intellectual Takeout

5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual | Intellectual Takeout:

• Never underestimate the sex appeal of intelligence.

"Is there anything more complex and multifaceted than human attraction? 
My best friend and myself have discussed in the past how different we are when it comes to the women that we find attractive. 
While we can usually agree on people who are conventionally beautiful, our personal tastes seem to be on entirely opposite ends of the spectrum.

When it comes to finding a partner, however, there is usually one trait that sticks out for both of us, and that’s intelligence.  
A beautiful mind never goes underrated. 
And if you’re a sapiosexual, then you’re probably like us–you value a person’s mind over their body.

Here are five signs that you’re a sapiosexual:..."
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Dobson rips 'thinly veiled death sentence to 1st Amendment' - WND

Dobson rips 'thinly veiled death sentence to 1st Amendment' - WND:

Now it’s the U.S. Congress, where the House last week adopted the Equality Act.
It is nothing less than “a thinly veiled death sentence to the First Amendment to the Constitution,” James Dobson Family Institute founder James Dobson warned on Monday.
“In the history of our nation, there have been times when evil was so apparent – and so heinous – that they stand in infamy decades later. They include the Dred Scott Decision on slavery in 1857, and the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Now, we are faced with another such tragic moment in American history,” he said.

Walter E. Williams---Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering

Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering: 

• Presidential contenders are in a battle to out-give one another.

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposes a whopping $50,000 per student college loan forgiveness. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes free health care for all Americans plus illegal aliens. 
Most Democratic presidential candidates promise free stuff that includes free college, universal income, “Medicare for All,” and debt forgiveness.
Their socialist predecessors made promises, too.

• “Freedom and Bread” was the slogan used by Adolf Hitler during the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) campaign against President Paul von Hindenburg. 
• Hitler even promised, “In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband.”
• Stalin promised a great socialist-Marxist society that included better food and better worker conditions.
• China’s Mao Zedong promised democratic constitutionalism and the dream that “farmers have land to till.” These, and other promises, gave Mao the broad political support he needed to win leadership of the entire country in 1949.

Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized..."
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Which Major West Coast City Is Being Overwhelmed By Rats, Drugs, Crime, Piles Of Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People?

Which Major West Coast City Is Being Overwhelmed By Rats, Drugs, Crime, Piles Of Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People?
"Can you name the major west coast city that has become a rotting, decaying hellhole and is being completely overwhelmed by rats, drugs, crime, piles of garbage and hordes of homeless people?  
Of course San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, “all of them” and “any of them” would all be correct answers, but in this article we are going to talk about Los Angeles.  
Once upon a time, millions of young Americans flocked to “sunny L.A.” in order to experience “the California Dream”, but these days Los Angeles seems to be on the cutting edge of many of our most critical societal problems.  L.A. has been known for Hollywood, the porn industry and world class traffic congestion, but now it is also becoming famous for “rat-infested piles of rotting garbage”…

Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year’s record number of flea-borne typhus cases..."  Read all.

Lunch video-----The Truth About the Euro Elections

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