Truly it was “one of the most awesome armadas ever assembled,” as Major
Bill Stocker, in command of the lead B-52, later described it. The roar
could be heard and vibrations felt 10 miles away when our 78 giant
bombers went to full throttle on all eight turbojet engines, one after
the other, over 2 1/2 hours, and took off from Andersen Air Force Base
in Guam.
In 1993 the Washington Post published an article on research
being conducted by an accomplished Richmond lawyer named Robert Cooley.
According to this article, among many additional details in regard to
the subject, Cooley had been working with scholars for years to examine
land deeds owned by the descendants of Thomas Jefferson, for the purpose
of investigating specifically what land had been inherited and then
developed by these grandchildren of Jefferson as the City of Washington
D.C. expanded.
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has vowed to file a
lawsuit against CNN and is seeking a “substantial payment” in the wake
of a series of undercover videos showing bias against the Republican president inside the network.
“Never in the history of this country has a president been the
subject of such a sustained barrage of unfair, unfounded, unethical and
unlawful attacks by so-called ‘mainstream’ news, as the current
situation,” Trump lawyer Charles Harder writes to CNN President Jeff
Zucker and Executive Vice President David Vigilante.
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk pilot Major William David Gatling sank the Leone
Pancaldo, an enemy destroyer, during WWII (MTO)(1943). In January of
2015, The Institute of Military Technology had Major Gatling share his
experiences flying the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk with the 324th Fighter
Group- 315th Fighter Squadron & 316th F.S. in WWII. United States of
American Army Air Corp 1943. 4K
(John Gatling, below, married
my great aunt and practiced law with my great, great grandfather Bart
Moore whose words and portrait are above. I have a large picture of
him and his family in the upstairs hallway at Dixieland. BT)
John Gatling, Esq., appeared, was sworn and testified.
July 26, 1871
“I was a member of the Legislature of 1868-69.
Q.
Do you not know that Littlefield was very active in procuring the
passage of bills making appropriations to the various railroads during
the sessions of 1868-69?
A.
I knew that he had a bad reputation. I have seen him in the lobby [of
the Legislature] very often, and in close conversation with the
members. I think he was very active in procuring the passage of those
bills. I know that liquors and cigars were kept in one of the rooms of
the Capitol, and was said to belong to General Littlefield.”
John Gatling, Sworn to and subscribed before the Commission (Report of 1871-72 Fraud Commission, page 502-504)
Sources:
North Carolina During Reconstruction, R. L. Zuber, NC Dept. of Archives & History, 1969
Report
of the Commission to Investigate Charges of Fraud and Corruption,
Under Act of Assembly, Session 1871-1872, James H. Moore, State Printer
and Binder, 1872
Prince of Carpetbaggers, Milton S. Littlefield, Jonathan Daniels, J.B. Lippincott, 1958
A judge in California issued a tentative order this week finding a
“disconnect” in the ATF’s classification of AR-15 lower receivers as
“firearms.”
The case began when the ATF launched an investigation and
subsequent prosecution against Joseph Roh, who they accused of illegally manufacturing
and selling AR-15 receivers in a warehouse outside Los Angeles.
After
deliberating for more than a year, US District Court Judge James V.
Selna determined that because an AR-15 lower receiver does not house the
bolt or breechblock and is not threaded to the barrel, as defined in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11, it does not constitute a “receiver” and cannot be considered a “firearm” under federal law.
There it was for all to see Sunday night, October 13…right
there on ABC Nightly News (and then re-shown on “Good Morning America”): grotesque
and horrible film footage of Turkish army units shelling and massacring our
defenseless Kurdish allies and their families in northeastern Syria. You could
hear Lindsey Graham wailing at top voice: “Stop the atrocities! Stop the
genocide!”
There was just one small problem: the film footage shown by
ABC News was faked, it was not of Turks
massacring helpless Kurds. It was, instead, film footage of a nighttime arms demonstration
at the Knob
Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. ABC News’ announcer, David Muir,
intoned that the situation in Syria “is rapidly spiraling out of control.”
There was no reason to leave a
few Special Forces in the middle of an armed conflict when, yes, Erdogan
might be willing to risk war with the U.S. There has been a great deal of outrage
expressed over the fact that the United States did not prevent Turkey
from initiating the military operation to create a “buffer zone” in
northern Syria. The major objection seems to be that in withdrawing the
100 or so American Special Operations forces who had been stationed in
the area, the United States was giving permission for the operation and
abandoning the Kurds who have helped us in the fight against ISIS.
I don’t see the criticism; in fact, far from abandoning the Kurds,
the United States has consistently opposed the Turkish buffer-zone
operation and used every means to prevent it that were consistent with
America’s overriding national interests in the region.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Just over half of voters still believe in the likelihood of an illegal
high-level effort to stop the Trump presidency, but not nearly as many
expect anyone to be punished for it. Voters are evenly divided over
which of the major 2016 presidential campaigns is more likely to have
had illegal foreign help.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey shows that
51% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s likely senior law enforcement
officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from
winning the presidency. That includes 34% who say it’s Very Likely.
Thirty-six percent (36%) consider high-level illegality as unlikely,
with 22% who say it’s Not At All Likely. Thirteen percent (13%) are not
sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows
that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job
performance.