8 Crazy Facts About the Washington Monument

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In honor of George Washington’s birthday, I am bringing an article, written by Dave Roos, called 8 Crazy Facts About the Washington Monument. Enjoy!

The National Park Service calls the original design plan “audacious, ambitious and expensive,” which explains why all but the obelisk was eventually scrapped.

On Sept.19, 2019, the Washington Monument reopened to the public after a three-year renovation. Eager tourists got in line early to experience the zippy new elevator and take in one of the best views East of the Mississippi.

The Washington Monument is an impressive structure dedicated to an American icon, but its construction was less than smooth (it was actually derailed for decades by a political coup). Here are eight surprising facts about America’s favorite obelisk.

A Memorial for Washington Was Planned Way Before He Died

It’s hard to overstate how much Americans loved George Washington. As early as 1783, when Washington was very much alive, plans were in the works for erecting a large statue of the first president on horseback near the Capitol building. In fact, the architect of Washington, D.C., the French landscape engineer Charles Pierre L’Enfant, left an open place for the statue in his drawings. And that’s almost exactly where the Washington Monument sits today.

Congress failed to act on the equestrian statue, and even after Washington died in 1799, legislators couldn’t agree on what kind of monument best suited the national hero. Frustrated with congressional feet-dragging, a private organization called the Washington National Monument Society was formed in 1833 to raise money and solicit designs for a large-scale homage to America’s beloved first president.

The Original Design Was a Mashup

In 1836, the Washington National Monument Society announced a design contest for the future Washington Monument and the winning sketch was submitted by 29-year-old architect Robert Mills, who would go on to design the U.S. Post Office, the Patent Office and the Treasury Building.

Mills’ original design was a mashup of architectural references. First, there was to be a 600-foot obelisk with a flattened top, a nod to the Egyptomania that had captured the early 19th-century imagination. (Note that soon after Washington’s death, the House of Representatives proposed the construction of a marble pyramid, 100 feet on each side, to serve as the first president’s mausoleum. The pharaohs would have approved, but Congress didn’t.)

In Mills’ original sketch, the giant Egyptian obelisk was to be encircled at its base by a neoclassical temple with 30 towering columns. On top of the circular temple would be a statue of Washington on a chariot, and in between each of the 30 columns would stand statues of 30 different revolutionary war heroes.

The National Park Service called Mills’ original plan “audacious, ambitious and expensive,” which explains why all but the obelisk was eventually scrapped.

There’s a Zinc Time Capsule in the Cornerstone

An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 crowded the National Mall to witness the laying of the Washington Monument’s cornerstone on July 4, 1848. But first the 24,500-pound hunk of pure white marble had to be dragged through the streets on a cart with bystanders grabbing lengths of rope to help the cause.

After a droning two-hour speech by the Speaker of the House, the assembled dignitaries placed mementos in a zinc box that would be sealed in the monument’s cornerstone for eternity (or until an alien race plucks it from the ruins of Western civilization). Included in the zinc time capsule were copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, a portrait of Washington, an American flag, all the coins in circulation and newspapers from 14 states. The laying of the cornerstone was performed by a grandmaster of the masonic lodges and its actual location apparently is still a mystery.

Construction Was Stalled by the Pope’s Stone Saga

The unfinished stump of the Washington Monument, as it looked for over 25 years. During the U.S. Civil War, the site was used for the grazing and slaughtering of government cattle, earning it the nickname Beef Depot Monument.

By 1856, after eight years of slow and painstaking construction, the obelisk stood 156 feet high and would remain that way — an unfinished eyesore that Mark Twain called “a hollow, oversized chimney” — for the next 21 years. The reason, weirdly enough, had to do with the Pope.

In 1853, the Washington National Monument Society was dangerously low on funds, so they came up with a scheme whereby large donors could have a commemorative stone placed in the interior of the obelisk. One of those donors ended up being Pope Pius IX, who shipped over a 3-foot piece of marble from the Temple of Concord in Rome.

The Pope’s gift really ticked off members of the new “Know-Nothing” party, who were virulently anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. On the night of March 6, 1854, a gang of men locked the night watchman in his shed and stole the Pope’s stone, allegedly tossing it in the Potomac.

The controversy over the stolen stone brought donations to a standstill. But even worse was what happened next; a contingent of Know-Nothings staged a coup and overthrew the leadership of the Monument Society. Donations dried up entirely and the Know-Nothings only managed to add 20 more feet to the obelisk by the outbreak of the Civil War, when construction was halted altogether.

Yes, the Monument is Three Different Colors

After the Civil War, during which the grounds of the stubby Washington Monument were used as a cattle yard and slaughterhouse, Congress finally decided to take over. On July 5, 1876, in time for the centennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence, Congress appropriated $2 million for the completion of the monument and construction resumed in 1877.

The first task of the new chief engineer, Thomas L. Casey, was to reduce the total height of the obelisk to 555 feet, exactly 10 times the width of the structure, and to spend years reinforcing the foundation with concrete.

The next issue was the masonry. The original quarry in Baltimore had shut down, so Casey tried shipping down rock from Massachusetts. But after placing only a few layers of this stone, it was clear that it was a different color and of poorer quality than the original. So, the builders changed tack yet again and brought in stone from another Baltimore quarry, which was used to finish the final two-thirds of the obelisk.

The result is that the Washington Monument is nearly white on the bottom, a tannish-pink on the top with a thin belt of light brown in the middle. Classy, Casey.

The Priceless Capstone Would Cost a Few Bucks Today

Construction of the obelisk was finally completed on Dec. 6, 1884, more than 36 years after the first cornerstone was laid, with the ceremonial setting of the capstone. When you think of precious metals befitting the capstone of a 555-foot monument dedicated to the nation’s greatest hero, you think of gold, maybe silver, but certainly not aluminum.

Yet back in the late 19th-century, pure aluminum was a very rare commodity, and it was chosen for this important feature, as the metal would not tarnish. (In 1884, aluminum cost $1.10 per ounce or $26 per ounce in 2019 dollars; in 2019, aluminum cost around 78 cents per pound.) The 100-ounce aluminum capstone for the Washington Monument was the largest single piece of cast aluminum in the world. The final cost of the Washington Monument was $1.18 million in 1884 or nearly $30 million in 2019 dollars.

Before the capstone was shipped to Washington, D.C., it went on exhibit on the showroom floor of Tiffany & Co. in New York City, where visitors could say they “jumped over the Washington Monument.” Yay!

For Five Glorious Years, It Was the World’s Tallest Manmade Structure

And then Eiffel built his silly tower in 1789, which at 1,063 feet is nearly twice as tall as the Washington Monument.

But the Washington Monument is — and probably always will be — the tallest structure by far in Washington, D.C., although not for the reasons you might have heard. It has nothing to do with city planners who didn’t want any building to block the view of the Capitol Building or the Washington Monument. That’s actually a myth.

The height limits on buildings in the District of Columbia were established by the Height of Buildings Acts of 1899 and 1910, which were primarily concerned with the fire safety of new construction methods that allowed buildings to be raised to incredible new heights. The laws, which are still on the books in D.C., restrict the height of buildings to the width of the street in front of them, which is 130 feet in most places and 160 feet on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Half a Million Tourists Ride Up the Monument Every Year

The Washington Monument is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Washington, D.C., and untold millions of people visit the monument grounds every year. But given that there’s only one elevator that zips people to the observation deck, only 55 people can be admitted into the monument every half hour. That means that around 500,000 people enjoy the spectacular view from the top of the Washington Monument every year.

The newly installed elevator system will only take 70 seconds to carry visitors to the 51-story observation deck, where they will take in panoramic views of the National Mall, the Capitol Building, the White House and the wilds (suburbs, actually) of Virginia and Maryland up to 25 miles in all directions on a clear day.

Now That’s Cool

The first tourist elevator was installed in the Washington Monument in 1889, just five years after its completion.

SOURCE: https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/destinations/landmarks/places-of-interest/washington-monument.htm

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  1. “European publishers join backlash against woke rewrite of Roald Dahl children’s books — French and Dutch publishers confirmed they had no intention of following the lead of the books’ British publisher and the Roald Dahl Story Company acquired by Netflix in 2021” [NF: Ah! That’s why none of his family members can sue!]

    February 22, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The French, Dutch and Norwegian publishers of the Roald Dahl children’s books have confirmed they have no plans to follow the lead of British publishers in rewriting the literature to better reflect modern sensitivities.

    U.K. publisher Puffin Books and the Roald Dahl Story Company sparked outrage earlier this week when they announced that after a review of the famous children’s stories including Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the books would be edited to remove language deemed offensive in the modern day.

    Critics, including Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, heavily criticized the move describing it as amounting to “absurd censorship.” European publishers joined the backlash. Joris van de Leur, director of De Fonte, which publishes the Roald Dahl books in the Netherlands, said he would be demanding an explanation for the revisions. “Roald Dahl is the reason I came to work at this publishing house. His humor is second to none,” van de Leur said.

    Oompa Loompas are now gender-neutral, Augustus Gloop is no longer fat, and Matilda now reads Jane Austen instead of Rudyard Kipling in just some of the edits implemented by Puffin Books and the Roald Dahl Story Company “Exaggerations are a figure of speech with him: If a person is fat, it represents gluttony and excess. Children understand what such literary hyperbole is. They really don’t think all fat kids are greedy. Fortunately, we have the freedom to see what that means for our translations. We will be careful not to detract from Dahl’s humor,” he added.

    French publishing house Gallimard offered a similar response, insisting the “rewrite only concerns Britain,” and confirming, “We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no plans to do so today.”

    Eva Thesen, the publishing manager of children’s books for Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Litteratur, expressed “a sense of unease in relation to the development we are seeing” regarding the revisions. “We are critical of the scope of the changes that are now intended for the British market,” she told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. “It is out of the question to include all the changes we now see discussed in the British media,” she added.

    The Roald Dahl Story Company, which was acquired by streaming giant Netflix in 2021 defended the move, claiming it is “not unusual to review the language used [in books] alongside updating other details, including a book’s cover and page layout.”

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  2. “Irish police tell family of sexual assault victim to delete social media post accusing migrants —
    Police have confirmed reports of a sexual assault attack in an Irish town but have reportedly urged members of the public not to repeat claims that migrants were involved”

    February 22, 2023
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE
    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Police in Ireland have reportedly asked the family of a woman who was the victim of a sexual assault by four men she believes to be foreign nationals to take down a social media post regarding the attack.

    Gardaí (the Irish police force) in the southeast coastal town of Dungarvan have confirmed they are investigating an alleged assault reported to have taken place in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 19. The police noted there has been “commentary on social media in relation to the incident,” but insisted that as an ongoing investigation is underway, no further information will be released at this time.

    As reported by the Irish news outlet, Gript, a request was made to close friends and family of the alleged victim not to share information about the attack that identifies the attackers as foreign nationals. One such post published on Facebook by someone close to the victim claimed a woman was walking home from the local pub when she was allegedly dragged into an alleyway by four foreign adult men.

    The men reportedly ripped her pants off and pulled her underwear down to her ankles with the intent of raping her, the post read. An elderly woman from a residential building nearby heard the victim screaming and reportedly approached the men, prompting them to assault the witness before fleeing the scene. This account of the attack has not been corroborated by Irish authorities.

    One of the victim’s family members told Gript they had been asked to take down the social media post, which identified the attackers as foreign nationals. They say they only made the post because the authorities had not made any arrests and they believe women need to know about the incident for their own safety.

    “We were asked by the Gardai why we said it was foreign men and then asked to take the post down. Then we were asked not to talk about what had happened to anyone,” one family member told the news site. “It seems all wrong, who is being protected here? (The victim) can’t sleep or eat, she is totally traumatized. Normally if there’s a serious crime anywhere it’s on the radio and descriptions are given and there’s an appeal for witnesses. But we’re being told to say nothing,” they added.

    A local Sinn Féin politician, Cllr. Conor McGuinness, has since told Irish media he has engaged with police over the reported incident, and an investigation is underway, requesting that “every necessary resource is made available” to ascertain the individuals involved. In a post on social media, Cllr. McGuinness urged members of the public to refrain from discussing the incident.

    “It’s not right that people would be unsafe walking home at night, or at any time. We must all stand against sexual and gender-based violence. When women come forward to report an attack they should be taken seriously. We have a terrible history in this country when it comes to victim-blaming and to treating perpetrators with impunity,” he wrote. “I will not be making further comment or discussing specifics of this case. I would ask that others do the same,” he added.”

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        1. they say some of the ones in NYC were in on the latest grab and run at one of the big retailers…
          illegals committing crimes and yet they are given everything

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    1. The only way it could be better is coconut-pecan-caramel frosting…..German Chocolate cake frosting. For many, many years, that was the ONLY coconut I would eat, until I finally was able to try a fresh coconut. Oh, I loved that! Not the milk, tho.

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      1. You and Miss Pat might like this cake!

        5 DAY COCONUT CAKE

        I’ve seen grown men weep over this cake….it makes the moist cake luscious and so coconutty!

        LAYERS – Moist 3 Layer Buttermilk Yellow Cake

        Ingredients:
        3 cups flour
        2 cups sugar
        1 tsp salt
        1 tsp soda
        1 tsp baking powder
        —
        1/4 cup butter
        1/4 cup oil
        2 tsp vanilla
        1-1/2 cups buttermilk
        3 eggs

        Directions:
        Whisk together dry ingredients
        Add:
        1/4 cup butter
        1/4 cup oil
        2 tsp vanilla
        3/4 cup buttermilk

        Beat eggs with remaining buttermilk.
        Add to batter mixture.
        Divide into greased, floured cake pans
        Bake 350º – 25-30 minutes
        ——

        COCONUT FROSTING

        2-1/2 cups sugar
        2 cups sour cream
        2 pkg frozen grated coconut

        Day 1
        Bake layers and freeze
        Mix sour cream, sugar, coconut – refrigerate

        Day 2
        Split frozen layers
        Frost and refrigerate cake in air tight container (aka Tupperware)

        Day 3-4
        Resist eating cake
        Icing may slide a bit – if so, use spatula to spread it back up over the cake.

        Day 5
        Serve!
        Store any possible leftovers in airtight container in refrigerator.
        —————————

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        1. Well, I love buttermilk pancakes, altho these days, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the diff. The frosting sounds interesting but I think I’d just have to add some caramel in there somewhere. LOL

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          1. It would compete with the coconut flavor.

            Here’s the best caramel cake ever:

            Really good – Ella Mae’s Caramel Cake
            Icing
            2 cups sugar
            1/2 cup dark brown sugar
            1 c evaporated milk

            Boil to soft ball stage
            Cool before frosting cake

            Ella Mae made plain moist yellow cake in 2 or 3 layers, then frosted it, decorating all over with chopped pecans, or just whole pecans in a ring around the top. Toasted lightly salted pecans would give that popular salted caramel flavor. Ella Mae used chopped pecans pressed around the sides and whole pecans in a ring on top. The frosting tastes like New Orleans pralines!

            ——
            Moist 3 Layer Buttermilk Yellow Cake

            Ingredients:
            3 cups flour
            2 cups sugar
            1 tsp salt
            1 tsp soda
            1 tsp baking powder
            —
            1/4 cup butter
            1/4 cup oil
            2 tsp vanilla
            1-1/2 cups buttermilk
            3 eggs

            Directions:
            Whisk together dry ingredients
            Add:
            1/4 cup butter
            1/4 cup oil
            2 tsp vanilla
            3/4 cup buttermilk

            Beat eggs with remaining buttermilk.
            Add to batter mixture.
            Divide into greased, floured cake pans
            Bake 350º – 25-30 minutes

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            1. GA, I do appreciate your efforts but please, don’t go to any trouble on my account because I will never make this stuff myself. Sorry – I just won’t. It’s just not at all my thing – I buy box cakes/frosting or ready-made – period. But I have no doubt Pat will really appreciate them! You’re so thoughtful!

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              3. LOL – sorry, GA – you just don’t realize how much I literally HATE doing stuff like that. Seriously! I’ve never been more than a utilitarian cook – ever! I always bought HB’s BD cakes. Just not my thing – give me a stall to clean, hay to haul, horses to groom, dogs, cats, yardwork – ANY of the above over house-wifely matters. Hmmmm….I can’t imagine that had anything at all to do with my failed marriages….! 😉😉😉🙃🙃😑🙄

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              5. Yeah, my thing is mechanical reasoning, which is the category I scored highest in on the AFEES exam to enter the military – figuring out how things work and how to improve them, taking them apart and using the pieces to create something else, etc.. I guess along the lines of the left/right brain differential.

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            2. OHHHHH, this looks good tooooooo
              copied for another date!!!
              I see a lot of cakes with chopped nuts pressed into the frosted sides…and I researched how they do that. you don’t frost the top only the sides at first, then roll it like a wheel over the nuts spread on like a cookie sheet…
              I can see me messing that up, but I’m gonna have to try it now!

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  4. One other thing that irritates me about some on Substack, like Emerald Robinson – they send you teasers – the beginning of what looks like a great article until…..Ooops! “This is for premium accounts only – SIGN UP!!!” Grrrrr……

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  5. Irisheyes
    February 22, 2023 1:27 pm

    I said this late last night, but I think it’s worth repeating:

    If a country is at war, the initial goals always are 1) control/ destroy the enemy’s food 2) destroy the enemy’s energy resources 3). Cut off the enemy’s supply lines.

    If anyone can’t see that the USA is being attacked and is already in a war, they’ve got their head in the sand. Even normies should be aware (finally) that this not simply “normal”.

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  6. See the area between the shed and the tree on the left? That was empty of snow when it began; of course, it is protected somewhat from the wind, which is coming from the NW but still…

    Mostly blowing snow obscuring the view south…

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  7. “Vetting Vivek Ramaswamy — Former pharma exec and newfound anti-ESG crusader has substantial ties to the Covid industrial complex, Pfizer, Soros inc, and a track record of business calamities.”

    Jordan Schachtel
    11 min ago

    “Vivek Ramaswamy came out of nowhere, and now he’s running for president. Like many Americans, Mr Ramaswamy popped up on my radar due to his effective and passionate voice against the ESG and DEI movements, the climate hoax, and the woke cult, for which he deserves a lot of credit.

    Yet suddenly, he’s a featured television mainstay on the likes of Fox News, CNBC, and elsewhere. Over the past few months, the 37 year old has suddenly, almost improbably, captured millions of eyes and ears with his passionate and articulate declarations against these agenda items.

    On Tuesday evening, in an appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show, the pharma founder and Yale Law grad announced that he was running for president. Yes, commander in chief. Head honcho of the whole country. President of the United States!
    (Tucker video segment)
    A man who was almost an entire unknown before 2022 has thrown his hat in the ring for the nation’s highest office, so it’s time to do some real vetting. There’s so little we actually know about Vivek Ramaswamy, other than his clearly carefully crafted brand. Who is the real Vivek Ramaswamy? Let’s get started.

    Soros, the WEF, and Wikipedia edits — Ramaswamy was indeed nominated and selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2021, which is an obvious, massive red flag. However, Ramaswamy claims an alibi, explaining on social media:”

    More: https://dossier.substack.com/p/vetting-vivek-ramaswamy

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    3. “For reasons unknown, Ramaswamy’s Wikipedia page was recently updated that deleted information about his religion and his association with Soros, Inc.

      Writing for the Wall Street Journal in 2020, Ramaswamy unveiled his opening salvo against the WEF and BlackRock’s “stakeholder capitalism” model. However, later in the piece, he confusingly declared: “I would love to have BlackRock as a shareholder if my company ever goes public.”

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  9. holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    phoenixrising(@phoenixrising)Online
    Wolverine
    February 22, 2023 13:53

    A fire broke out at a uranium processing building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.

    Large-scale protective measures are being carried out after a uranium compound ignited in the national security complex Y-12 in Oak Ridge.

    The U.S. Department of Energy Center in the suburb of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, next to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The center produces components for nuclear weapons, and also stores the bulk of the American stockpile of enriched uranium.

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    1. RDS posted about that at M’s and I explained my work with ORNL as part of the team preparing the EMaCC annual report for the DOE, on which I had to coordinate with all of the national labs, including Oak Ridge.

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      1. someone posted when you are at war, you attack your enemy’s food supplies, transportation lines…and look what has been happening around the country lately. we are already at war…

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        2. Our young people have been under attack through drugs/fentanyl, immoral indoctrination in schools, human trafficking, media, and many other ways.

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  11. I am learning some interesting things about the woodpeckers. Each type seems to all come at about the same time. A while ago, there were 5 Downy’s out there; now it’s a couple of Hairy’s, and always Nuthatches in and out. Then the Striated will come together another time. Rarely at the same time. They have their patterns that they follow. Voracious little buggers! I replaced the big block 2 days ago and it is already down to 1/3 it’s original size! And it’s not the squirrels – they have their own smorgasbord!

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    1. cool…gonna show hubby when he’s done working…
      he bought a porsche (used) right out of college. had a mustang in high school…
      by the time i met him, he was a dad with a subaru…LOL

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    2. (1963 Galaxie Station Wagon Interior with a floor stick shift!)

      [NF: I had a 1965 Ford LTD with a V8 that would flat fly!!! Paid $500 for it from my AIT Drill Sargent’s brother (yes, we had a little fling, DS Bolling and I, but AFTER I signed out of the company, thank you very much!). I scared the be-Jesus out of a few people with that car! LOL – I figured it was close to it’s last legs and traded it for a Mustang II (biggest mistake I ever made!) Two months later, I saw it sailing down the interstate with a couple of black ladies in it while I was stuck with a POS Mustang II that immediately had to have the overhead cam replaced! It was defective so it didn’t cost me but the first one they sent was ALSO defective. I was preggers with HB then.

      The LTD was the one my CPO friend, Howard from Ohio, helped me to replace the oil pan on at Ft. Myer. The plug was stripped so the first time we changed the oil, he glued the plug in, knowing we would have to replace it thereafter. We had to jack up the engine block to get to it – by the end of the day, I was filthy from the top of my head to my toes but man, did I ever learn a lot! ]




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        1. IKR? I love older cars! BIG cars! Like my 4-door deluxe Buick Electra with a 400 Wildcat engine – black leather interior, electric windows – sweet! IIRC, that was also a 1960’s model. Oh, man! We had fun in that. One winter, we went out to the Fairgrounds in Madison, my older brother driving and we were doing donuts in the snow. That was fun! It had a very low center of gravity and weighed a ton, so it would just plow right thru the snow.

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  14. holly08(@holly08)Online
    Wolverine
    February 22, 2023 15:07

    Chemical engineer expert explains how gov’t officials are lying in Ohio about it being a “controlled burn”

    A CB implies control of the oxygen & fuel used to burn the chemicals safely

    He says what happened in Ohio was an “Uncontrolled burn” which is why it created a toxic cloud pic.twitter.com/0rz2fBeb08

    — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 22, 2023

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  20. “State Bills to Support or Oppose — The Unity Project has done an excellent analysis and needs your help”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS
    11 min ago

    EXCERPT: “Last year, The Unity Project worked with dozens of grassroots organizations and strategic partners to educate Californians on the horrific bills that were being proposed and voted on in the state legislature. With help from many volunteers, perhaps even yourself, they passed out more than 150,000 flyers in three languages and educated 86% of California communities on the consequences these anti-Medical Freedom and Parental Rights bills would have on everyone living, working, or learning in the state.

    Now, Unity is expanding across the country and needs your help! The Unity Project is creating state specific flyers highlighting Bad Bills to fight as well as Good Bills to support. Below are some of the bills that have been presented so far in 2023.

    Bills to Oppose
    Bills to Support
    —————-
    Do you know of more bills in your state that The Unity Project should include in the campaign?
    Do you want to help distribute flyers in your communities?

    The Unity Project needs your help! If you would like to be a Unity Project volunteer, please email info@theunityproject.org for more information. They will provide all the resources you need including flyers, talking points, codes of conduct, FAQ’s and a video explaining the campaign process.”

    List of bills and brief descriptions: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/state-bills-to-support-or-oppose

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  21. “Trump Grand Jury Foreman is into ‘Green Witchcraft’ & Even CNN Admits She’s a ‘Prosecutor’s Nightmare’. Emily Kohrs appeared on corporate media this week, teasing an indictment of the 45th President of the United States.”

    Raheem Kassam
    2 min ago

    EXCERPT: “Emily Kohrs appeared on major corporate media networks this week to tease a possible indictment of President Donald J. Trump in the Georgia election case. While telling the Associated Press she was not part of any particular political party, she also remarked, “If I chose a political party, it would be the not-crazy party.”

    So it’s worth figuring out what “not-crazy” means like to someone like Kohrs – the Grand Jury foreman in the Trump case – who also fawned over Cassidy Hutchinson, the anti-Trump former White House aide who recently admitting lying about her ludicrous tale of Trump lunging into the driver’s seat in the Presidential limousine before attacking a Secret Service agent. We all still want to see that re-enactment, though.

    If you haven’t yet watched Kohrs, here’s an indicative clip from Tuesday night.

    Kohrs also spoke with CNN’s Kate Bolduan, and MSNBC’s Ally Wagner, in interviews that even Anderson Cooper, the Huffington Post, and Yahoo! News openly “cringed” and “winced” over (their words, not mine).

    COOPER: First of all why this person is talking on TV, I do not understand. Because, she’s clearly enjoying herself, but I mean, is this responsible? She was the foreperson of this grand jury!
    HONIG: This is a horrible idea And I guarantee you that prosecutors are wincing, watching her go on this–
    COOPER: I was wincing just watching her eagerness to like, hint at stuff.

    A snapshot of Kohrs’s Pinterest activity, however, may provide a hint of what she considers to be crazy, or “not-crazy”. Let’s start with the folder labelled “magic,’ I suppose. And hat-tip to “SomeB1tchIKnow” on Twitter, whose online digging first revealed much of what follows:

    Ms. Kohrs appears to be preoccupied with things related to astrology and crystals. So what, right? Plenty of people are. Maybe you are. Well, if that’s where it ended, I’d be getting a massage instead of sitting at this uncomfortable desk.

    Amongst her other, relatively normal Pinterest saves are a few strange folders showing she might just be into some, uh, stranger things. Kohrs has saved posts about witchery, sorcery, spell timings, poisonous herbs, superstitions, and psychic abilities. Now, I get. There are plenty of people out there who believe in some or all of this stuff. A full 27 percent of Americans. A full 25 percent of people in the South. A full 32 percent of women under 44. So there’s quite a high likelihood of someone like Kohrs (or you?) becoming a critical part of such a grand jury.”

    https://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/trump-grand-jury-foreman-is-into

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  22. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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              2. Oh, no doubt it would be far beyond my capabilities now, even if I didn’t have my health issues. I was waaay out of shape before this started getting bad. But, back in the day…..yeah, I’d have handled it, I think – zig=zag back and forth, I expect. I mean, I hauled 60 lb bales of hay, 50 lb bags of feed and I used my legs a lot for lifting – I was in pretty good shape if I do say so myself!

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  33. Looking something up and the medical article gives me this bs

    A note on gender
    We use “women” and “men” in this article to reflect the terms that have been historically used to gender people. But your gender identity may not align with how your body responds to this disease.

    Your doctor can better help you understand how your specific circumstances will translate into diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment.

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