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Another great meme that I must redistribute!
I didn't manage to capture sunset this evening here, only some contrails
Posted on 08/31/2023 8:00:39 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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Another great meme that I must redistribute!
I didn't manage to capture sunset this evening here, only some contrails
You will also be surprised as to who has become a Christian at your reunion.
That’s pretty awesome! What/where is that?
This is one mad New York mother of school children.
Language..
https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/111027249031252674
Beautiful pic. Contrails or chemtrails?
“Beautiful pic. Contrails or chemtrails?”
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That’s hard to say for sure without collection and testing. Both, possibly.
I’ve seen it claimed that the ones that spread out strangely (wispy expansion in two directions or more, like the one at the top left), are more likely to be “not just simple water vapor condensation from burnt jet fuel”.
(That makes sense to me, scientifically.)
Nano metal particles added to the fuel for whatever reasons might behave that way, for example.
~Easy
Anyone that wants to watch the Tucker Carlson / Larry Sinclair interview (Ep. 22)
via Truth Social, rather than actually looking for it on X-Twitter, you can get to it here:
https://truthsocial.com/@EasySt/111027950569082393
Joan Rivers told us about this one...
I had a Navien tankless that pretty much took a dump...water everywhere.
Navien paid for the replacement, i had to pay the labor and it came with no warranty other than to the end of the warranty period for the first one.
Later today, the city is shutting off our water for “repairs” - they “think” 4 hours but won’t swear to it.
Getting up early to do our morning business then filling the bathtub to take care of um...necessary water needs.
Good morning, lysie!
Looks mighty fine, thank you.
Good morning, lysie!
I think I will work my way from right to left!
Thank you for breakfast!
You got post #2000!
winner, winner chicken dinner
For yesterday:
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James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
When I came across this essay, I was stunned to find that submarine warfare was actually waged for the first time during the American Revolution. Naturally I assumed it was engaged for the first time in the legendary battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack during the Civil War. I can’t imagine the courage of the man who captained the first one-man submarine in an attack on a British warship.
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The American Turtle attacks the HMS Eagle
On this day in history, September 7, 1776, the American Turtle attacks HMS Eagle in the first naval attack ever made in a submarine. The Turtle, also called the American Turtle, was designed by David Bushnell of Westbrook, Connecticut in 1775. While a student at Yale in the early 1770s, Bushnell studied the use of underwater explosives and incorporated their use into a submersible ship that could attach explosives to British ships.

Bushnell’s submersible was recommended to General George Washington by Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull. Washington provided some money for the sub’s development, although he was skeptical. The Turtle, so named because of how it looked underwater, was 10x6x3 and had room for one man, who could propel the sub’s propeller with his feet.

The sub had small windows in the top to let in light when it was not fully submerged, but when submerged, a naturally glowing bioluminescent piece of cork provided light! It also had a water tank for ballast to enable the sub to submerge. It was made of wood and covered with tar with steel bands for reinforcement.
The Turtle was brought to Long Island Sound in the fall of 1776 for final testing with its volunteer operators. After western Long Island was taken over by the British, the Turtle was transported overland through Connecticut to New York Harbor which was still in American hands. General Washington gave permission for the Turtle’s first mission on September 6. Sergeant Ezra Lee left at 11pm that night and pedaled for 2 hours toward British General William Howe’s flagship, the HMS Eagle.
Early on September 7, Lee’s first attempt to secure the explosives to the Eagle by boring a hole in the ship’s side failed because he hit a metal plate probably used to secure the ship’s rudder to the hull. When he made a second attempt, he was unable to keep the Turtle submerged and the sub floated to the surface. Realizing that he had failed and that he could be discovered, Lee gave up and headed back to safety.
British soldiers on Governor’s Island saw the sub fleeing and rowed out toward it. Lee released his explosive “torpedo,” hoping the soldiers would try to retrieve it. They didn’t and the charge blew up in the East River, blowing plumes of water and debris sky high.
The Turtle’s attack on the Eagle was the first recorded use of a submarine in naval warfare. George Washington wrote that the invention was ingenious, but contained too many variables to be controlled. The Turtle was used again in another attempt to blow up a British ship on October 5, but this one failed when the ship’s watchman saw it coming. A few days later, the Turtle went down when the ship that carried it was sunk by the British off the New Jersey coast. Bushnell claimed to have recovered the Turtle, but no one is sure whatever happened to it.
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Much thanks to https://revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/american-turtle-attacks-hms-eagle.html, for the main body of this post.
10:27 PM · Sep 7, 2023
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