Posted on 07/31/2023 7:51:38 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
Pickens, GA Rally~~July 1st
Council Bluffs, Iowa Rally~~July 7th
Nevada Volunteer Recruitment Event LV, NV~~July 8th
Turning Point USA Action Conference West Palm Beach, FL~~July 15-16
Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner Des Moines, IA ~~July 26th
Erie, PA Rally~~July 27th
And his family!
good one!!
I ❤️ black olives!!!!
I learned how to brine them before leaving California. I could go to just about any center median or city street lined with trees and pick olives. I don’t know why but those are the trees they planted. They live a long time, maybe that was why. They weren’t cheap
Olive trees can be shaped quite nicely.
We have 2 at our other house.
They are sprayed so they will not develop the olives.
They were there when we bought the house.
Just got back from Church.
Yes, record albums are making a comeback.
You can even get them at Walmart.
I have all my albums standing up in milkcrates in our spare bedroom closet, takes up 1/2 the closet.
I used to play them all the time, might just have to break them out as I don’t like much of what passes for music and singing these days.
Oh! You just reminded me! I still have a pot of Hagen Daas coffee ice-cream waiting for me! Thanks, sweetie. I’ll never mention ice-cream again, starting now.
Love black olives as well......yum. They’re the best.
Ha! So true.
I remember having a bunch over for dinner years ago. During our discussion, one of the ladies said she thought the social security payments should increase when the husband passed away, and not decrease. I suggested that it might not be the best idea in the world lol.
Speaking of ice cream....
Hubby has a new favorite, Blue Bell Moo-llennium Crunch.
It has creamy vanilla ice cream chock full of caramel, chocolate chunks, walnuts, almonds and pecans.
It is moo-ee-licious!
For those who don't have TS.
Question: Can a non-TS member still see posts?
I know you can't on FB.
I love that too.
And it is so true!
So now I’m a “One Percenter”, eh?
Just another label I’ll have to wear, I guess.
Worst part is constantly having to see yet another old friend gone.
Best part is the pure joy that is great-grand children. (Not to mention outliving some of the SOB’s from those days)
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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I have the Staysure Senior PGA Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland, on my great course, and I can’t go. I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists. I wouldn’t want to be in Europe and watch this COUNTRY DESTROYING Scum work their disgusting and illegal “magic” on unsuspecting Republican “leaders” who just don’t think it is appropriate to Fight Fire With Fire. BUT WE WILL WIN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
I was just up in Massachusetts for some family vacation time and was pretty surprised to hear that at least 3 “ex-friends” who cut me off once I started posting my thoughts on social media 5+ years ago are now all saying the same thing:
The sexual indoctrination of children in our schools is a red line
They may not be switching their voter registrations to Republican just yet, but the perversion and grooming in schools is having an impact on Democrat voters in blue states
11:26 AM · Aug 27, 2023
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
This was a catastrophic error in judgment, strategically and in cost of colonial lives. The war was fought for another six years, and perhaps could have ended much earlier. The extraordinary heroism of the Maryland 400 was a tragedy of epic proportions.
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George Washington loses the Battle of Long Island
On this day in history, August 27, 1776, George Washington loses the Battle of Long Island, one of the most important battles of the American Revolution and the largest in terms of the numbers of men involved. After losing Boston to the Americans, British General William Howe set his sights on New York City. He began landing troops on Staten Island in July of 1776, just as the Americans were declaring their independence. By the end of the month, over 30,000 troops were landed.
George Washington had generals Charles Lee and William Alexander begin building defenses around New York City earlier in the year. The defenses consisted of a string of forts and redoubts on the western edge of Long Island, batteries on the islands at the opening of the Hudson River and forts on Manhattan’s northern end.
Washington was faced with a dilemma. Would Howe attack Manhattan first or Long Island? Many of his officers thought Howe would attack Long Island first. Washington disagreed, thinking Howe would make a small attack on Long Island as a feint, with a larger assault to come on Manhattan. Consequently, Washington put most of his 19,000 troops in New York City with only about 4,500 on Long Island.
On August 22, British generals Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis began landing 20,000 troops on Long Island. Three main passes led to the American positions and they were guarded well, but a fourth pass, furthest to the east, was guarded by only 5 men. Locals informed General Clinton of the Jamaica Pass and he moved 10,000 men during the night through the pass, unbeknownst to the Americans.
On the morning of August 27th, British and Hessian soldiers began attacking the Americans from the front, while Clinton’s much larger force snuck up from behind. There are numerous heroic stories to be told of the Battle of Long Island. Perhaps the most famous is that of the Maryland 400. When the last American position outside of the fortifications at Brooklyn Heights was about to be overtaken, General William Alexander began evacuating his troops to the heights.
Two hundred seventy Maryland troops stayed behind to keep the British at bay. Once the rest of the troops evacuated, the only way of escape was through Brouwer’s Mill pond. Many were shot or drowned as they crossed the pond. Less than a dozen survived. Washington, who had come to the battle with thousands of reinforcements, observed from a nearby hill and is said to have exclaimed, “Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!”
With all the American troops now safe behind the defenses of Brooklyn Heights, General Clinton inexplicably stopped the assault, perhaps afraid to have another massacre of his own soldiers like what happened at Bunker Hill. Clinton began preparing for a long term siege. George Washington, however, wanted to get his troops out to fight another day. On the evening of August 29th, he began evacuating his troops across the East River to Manhattan in the middle of the night.
In the morning, the evacuation still not complete, a fog descended on the area that hid the longboats ferrying the remaining soldiers across the river. The Continental Army survived to fight another day, but eventually Manhattan was taken as well and the Americans were forced to retreat across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania. The war would drag on for another six years.
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Thanks once again to http://revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com for the main essay.
10:53 AM · Aug 27, 2023
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