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Little Known Facts
Who's The Real Enemy?
Average Prices as of 3/10/22
Russian's pay $.44 per gal. of natural gas & $2 a gal for gasoline.
The U.S. pays $5 gal + del for propane and $4.35 for gasoline
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UPDATE:
Temp Extremes
on Earth's surface
These ARE "everyday" & NOT Record Temps!
7-20-2016!
Iraq: 126deg. F.
Antartica: -91deg. F.
217 deg. spread
8-4-2021!
Samoa: 129deg. F.
Antarctica: -96deg. F.
225 deg. spread
4 deg. warmer
5 deg. colder
>In over 5 Years<
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Sea Levels in Pineland
have NOT gone up 1 inch in 50 years - But the Atlantic Ocean, 150 miles away has risen 3 feet?
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The Dollar's Value IS Tanking!
'92-'05 ~ $400 oz.
2011 - $1800+ oz.
The Gold Story
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Money Isn't Counted
in Venezuela,
It Is Weighed:
10-31-16; Wall
Street Journal,
1 Doz. eggs, $150
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In 1757, Lomonosov fathered the theory crude oil originates from biological material. The Story
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Little Known Arab Facts The Story
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The REAL “Cellular Therapy” Story The Cell Story
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Read: Climate Change "Consensus" a Fallacy
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Read: Astronauts Object to Global Warming "Crisis" Assertion
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17,000+ children and teens are treated for lawn mower injuries each year. The Story
Items of Note
- 4th of July, 2025 Parade - Video
- HURRICANE IAN - Video
- 4th of July, 2024 Parade - Video
- 4th of July, 2023 Parade - Video
- 4th of July, 2022 Parade - Video
- 4th of July, 2021 Parade - Video
- Common Sense American Patriot Dearly Missed -
Rush Limbaugh - Died 2-17-21 - 4th of July, 2019 -- Here for 4th of July, 2019 Parade video
- ClamJamSWFL Video video link
- PIN Upgrade -- Here for Upgrade Story
- 4th of July, 2018 -- Here for 4th of July, 2018 Parade video
- 4th of July, 2017 -- Here for 4th of July, 2017 Parade video
- 4th of July, 2016- Here for 4th of July, 2016 Parade video
- Actual Photo of the Calusa Golden
Mask discovered over 40 years ago
Wisdom From 450 BC
Just in case you or anyone you know or heard of thinks they have had one original thought in their entire life. . .some technology excluded.
- “The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents."
- “You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.”
- “Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
- "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
- "I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”
Quotes from Thucydides translated from the classic Greek text:
Born:460 BC, Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos)
Died:400 BC, place of death unknown
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and a general having fought in many Greek battles. Most notably fighting in and cronicaling the Pelopeneasean War in the fifth-century BC between Sparta and Athens manuscript of which he didn't finish for unknown reason. (more to come)
Relevant Quotes
The U.S. Constitution is just words on parchment. If no one protects and defends. . .protects and defends it, God won't bother.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” — Thomas Jefferson
When accused of colluding with the Russians, Winston Churchill said, “If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself in the House of Commons."
". . .while the excesses of McCarthyism may be fairly described as a witch hunt, it was a witch hunt with witches, some in government.... " (Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books, 11th May, 2000)
"It (not being conclusively exposed until 1999) meant that he (Alger Hiss, assistant to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius under Franklin Roosevelt) could take pride in acting as Soviet agents in the United States were instructed by their handlers to act. Never reveal your covert existence, they were told; if exposed, categorically deny any complicity; if convicted (he WAS convicted with the help of Richard Nixon), strenuously maintain your innocence as long as you live... (G. Edward White, Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars - 2004)
In 10,000 years no one ever sacrificed their arms, their legs, their family or their life for "progress."
Speaking of Iran's crude nuclear bomb technology and inaccurate delivery systems, "If I were the (west bank) Palestinians, I'd be a little nervous." --John Wohlstetter, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute
"Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops. " --Salman Rushdie (On the death of Christopher Hitchens, Dec.,16, 2011) UPDATE 8-22 (See link)
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."...."To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."--Alexander Hamilton:
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." --Winston Churchill