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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Texas! For those unaware, today is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15. MLK was a spokesman for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law.
Enjoy your day off if you are celebrating it. If not, enjoy the light traffic despite having to work. Here is an inspirational MLK quote to get you thinking today:
"Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
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There are reports Commissar elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.[1][2] This is a project that has already under construction, spending $207 million in Canada and $47 million in the US so far.[3]
We are talking about a massive project already underway with completed pumping stations and pipe in the ground. This is the same as you having spent your money for land and a partially framed home only to have the county arbitrarily pull your building permit without cause.
How is that even possible, let alone legal in this nation?
But it gets even better. Allow me to quote from a friend of mine who is a little more plugged into intelligence matters than I am:
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So, cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline that will connect the Canadian Oil fields to the Southern US refineries and ports, increased regulations intended to eliminate fracking, we’re looking at a massive increase in gas prices and the resultant impact on economic recovery. It also has significant national security implications.
One of our most potent weapons against an expansionist Russia was flooding the European markets with low cost American natural gas. This caused a resultant drop in Russian GDP, and curbed their military spending. The Canadian government has also said that if they can’t sell the oil through the US, they have no problems shipping it to their west coast and selling it to China. Geopolitics matter; and opponents getting fuel your nation needs has ended more than one conflict. This may not be a net negative in a Near-peer conflict with China, since we’d be able to cut the supply off, but in a Cold War like we have now, the economic impact is a much bigger issue for the time being.
It also means that our established foreign sources of petrochemicals are going to need to be protected in the Middle East, historically with American troops.
Hope those of you on the political left like high gas prices, a crumbling economy and more foreign wars- because that’s what the Biden Foreign policy is shaping up to look like.
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Gas and diesel going up in three... two... one...
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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/18/president-elect-biden-kill-keystone-xl-pipeline-fight-climate-change/
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/biden-keystone-xl-cancel.html
[3] https://www.keystonexl.com/construction/
Hi!
Hello Texan friends! ^_^
There are only two days left to submit your photos to this year’s Forest Photo Contest! Submissions will close on January 21st at midnight GMT. Anyone from a region that has an embassy with us can submit photos.
If you haven’t dug out your best photos yet or snapped some great new ones for the Contest, I highly suggest you do so. We have four great categories this year!
You can find all the full information here:
Forest Photo Contest 2020
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2020 has undoubtedly been a year like no other. The general consensus is that it’s been crazy if not outright terrible. But with the holidays and the new year just around the corner, 2020 is finally coming to an end. Before we move on to a hopefully smoother 2021, though, there’s one last thing that needs to be done: the sixth annual Forest Photo Contest! Here's what you need to know: 🌲 We have four categories once again this year:
🌲 You may submit up to 12 photos total. You may choose how to divide those among the different categories, but please do not submit more than 12. 🌲 Please post your photos in the appropriate thread on our forums, located 🌲 The photos must be taken by you, but can be taken at any time (not just during the contest). 🌲 Anyone in Forest or in a region which has an embassy with Forest may submit photographs for the Contest. 🌲 Timing: Submissions will be open from December 18 at 00:00 GMT (7:00pm Dec 18 EST) to January 23rd at 23:59 GMT. Voting will begin on January 23rd at 23:59 GMT and end January 30th at 23:59 GMT. 🌲 Voting will take place on a Google Form. Needless to say, please no puppeteering! 🌲 The photographers with the top three photographs in each category will have their photos acknowledged on our RMB, on our World Factbook Entry, and potentially in our next foreign update. A banner will also be created with a collage of the top photos to applaud the winners, and participants in the competition will be encouraged to add it as their nation's custom banner. Forest's flag will also be changed to the 1st place photos in each category for a week after the Contest. Now it's time to head out and start photographing! Good luck to everyone! Any questions about the Contest should be directed to Mount Seymour.
Trees (this category is permanent each year)Light & Dark (photos that display astounding lights and/or shades)Seasons (photos that represent one of the seasons or a certain time of year)2020 (any photo that resonates with or represents this crazy year)here. You may also submit photos via a link to an image hosting site in a telegram to Mount Seymour.
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You can head over to Forest's forums (https://forest.freeflarum.com/t/photo-contest) to submit your photos, or you can telegram links to the images to me.
Happy submitting! :)
- Mount Seymour
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About the poll: Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 over Sugar Pops has always been a personal favorite. (JD doesn't go sour.)
I gave you a few shots to consider.
NewTexas, Mount Seymour, Fort verden, and Talitha macer
Thank you so much! They're all amazing, I particularly like the train shot. ^_^
NewTexas, Issues Test Bed, Fort verden, and Talitha macer
Thank you for the reminder Mount Seymour, Snow in NewAustin, NewTexas, tree-perspective, posted.
For those interested:
https://forest.freeflarum.com/d/203-submissions-trees-photo-contest-2020/22
Indian Empire, Mount Seymour, Issues Test Bed, Fort verden, and 1 otherTalitha macer
I like trains. Have since I was too small to call them by name.
Nice shootin', Tex...
NewTexas, Mount Seymour, Fort verden, and Talitha macer
I did a magic trick for you. Compare this picture with the Gibbon River entry photo under trees.
https://forest.freeflarum.com/d/207-extra-sharing-photo-contest-2020/2
NewTexas, Mount Seymour, Fort verden, and Talitha macer
I'll try and dig through my photos in the morning, see if anything is worth submitting.
NewTexas, Mount Seymour, Fort verden, and Talitha macer
NewTexas, PR In Space, and Texas capital city
And the people cheered their new leader as the nation began its descent into oblivion. The difference between most of the American Media and the Dance Band on the Titanic is the band on the Titanic knew they were going down.
I'm kind of sorry he did not cut pardons for himself and his family. The political and harassing nature of the prosecutions surrounding this administration are disgusting and could have been ended right then and there with the stroke of a pen.
It might be because if he gives pardons to him and his family it wont work to his advantage. So in retrospect having the Democrats go after him still would make them look worse and it might be the the thing that gets the Senate into Republican hands or even a Republican President in 2024.
Aside from the blanket pardon of Nixon, there is no precedence to pardon someone not actually convicted of a crime.
Actually there is. Special operators are (were?) given blanket pardons before and after missions we do not speak of in mixed company.
Then there is General Flynn. After the literal screwing he took at the hands of the Obama White House, Obama holdovers in Justice and the FBI became painfully obvious to everyone, including my cat, he withdrew the guilty plea and demanded a trial. The judge played silly buggers with the motion to dismiss and the President decided to finish it rather than prolong Gen. Flynn's legal bills.
I would argue that being immune from persecution isn't the same as a pardon. As for Flynn, he was already charged with a crime. Aside from the Impeachment, Donald Trump has not been charged with a crime, and currently his family haven't been charged with anything.
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The children on the Left are spending a lot of time and effort calling bull**** on several versions of a meme running around the internet right now. Those meme's all quote Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as saying, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism."
Politifact, among others, gleefully deny The Premier said those words.[1]
As someone who was alive in 1959 and doing “Duck and Cover” drills in grade school, (Like hiding under our desks was really going to save us from a nuclear explosion…) I remember Khrushchev making numerous statements along those very lines. Even though we are talking 60 odd years ago, those words do sound familiar to me. There are numerous quote sites attributing the first three sentences of those meme's to Khrushchev as well.
However, let me share some of the things Khrushchev is verified to have said and where you may look them up yourself:
"I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."[2]
Nakita got that one wrong. The working class tried to save the United States. We lost this nation to several generations of mass indoctrination from kindergarten through grad school led by elitists who, two generations ago, were preaching segregation and eugenics aimed at minorities.
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"[3]
While Khrushchev directed that particular rant at Poland, he was fond of that "we will bury you" phrase and used it against the United States as well. I don’t remember how old I was when he said it about the US, but I do remember hearing about it on TV and the fear it struck with my mother and grandfather.
But here is Khrushchev’s most chilling prediction. The one that looks like he correctly called as of the last election:
"We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within....[3]"
I remember that one. They were still talking about it years later when I was in high school.
While it is possible Nikita Khrushchev may have been misquoted in those meme's, there is no question the sentiment was there.
One other thing is certain. If Khrushchev was alive today to hear to the things Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and other elected representatives say, to see the crowds Bernie draws, and witness the blind eye officials took to the painfully obvious theft of the last election… He would be gratified beyond words.
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[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/09/nikki-haley/no-khrushchev-didnt-say-about-americans-60-years-a/
[2] https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/nikita-khrushchev-2449.php
[3] https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikita-khrushchev-quotes
[4] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-put-trump-online-letters-20180716-story.html
A baseball great has played his last game. Hank Aaron died this morning at age 86.
NewTexas and Fort verden
Hey at least he can play Blurnsball in Heaven now.
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