Reds In Plymouth ..... So Now You Know!

     When the Pilgrims arrived in America in 1620, they immediately committed an UN-American act - at least, one that would be so viewed later on. Desiring to create a just and equal society, they established a communist economy. The early colonists remained committed to communism for several years, until they finally decided that it was inefficient. Their switch to capitalism was a defeat of sorts, since it implied the inability of men to work hard for the common good without individual incentive,

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The Pilgrims Didn't Land On The Rock ..... So Now You Know!

The belief that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock rest solely on the recollection of a ninety five year old man 120 years after the event. In 1741, Elder Thomas Faunce told a crowd that his father, who arrived in America three years after the Mayflower, had once pointed out to him the rock as the place the Pilgrims landed. There is no other evidence for the tradition. Besides, the Harvard historian Edward Channing proved that the ship never could have landed at the rock given the direction of the current.

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Naming in the New World .....So Now You Know!

Plymouth, Massachusetts, was named by the Pilgrims in 1620 because the Mayflower had sailed from Plymouth, England. It sounds logical and is believed by most people, but it isn't true. In 1614, Captain John Smith sailed from Jamestown, Virginia, on his first exploring mission to the northeast. He returned with a map cluttered with "barbarous" names representing Indian villiages. Smith showed the map to Prince Charles and asked His Royal Highness to provide good English names in place of the Indian ones. Prince Charles obliged, and changed the Indian name of Accomack to Plymouth, years before any white man ever settled there.

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Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary - Tom = TARDIS

 Tom Baker = The TARDIS

On the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who fans got a treat – a short but meaningful appearance by the all-time favorite Tom Baker. I tend to believe there’s no “right” answer to who or what the Curator was but my personal theory is he was the Moment, or should I say, the TARDIS. Let me explain…
The Moment guided the Doctor from the very beginning of their encounter. It showed him his own future, tried to cheer him up, broke the Time Lock on Gallifrey, appeared as the companion who always made him better and cleverly made sure the current companion, the one who knows the Doctor best and was born to save him, is around to help him make the right choice and save him one more time.

 

The Moment also gave him hope. Rose/the Moment was glad to see he finally understood her intentions and found a way to save Gallifrey. And after completing her quest to save Gallifrey and the Doctor she returned

once more time as the Curator to tell him he succeeded.The Moment didn’t need to appear as Rose anymore because at this point the Doctor was already better, already a proper good man. She mixed up past and future again as she did by showing Hurt’s Doctor the companion he didn’t met yet, this time showing the Doctor himself, but the wrong incarnation in the wrong time line. She showed him his dream can come true: retire, be a curator or anything else he’d like, now he doesn’t have the responsibility he took as the last Time Lord in existence. Settling down, be the old man that he is, telling him one day he’ll stop running and find a home, just what he dreams about.
Again, the Moment had the handy Clara around to assist him, this time telling her he’s looking for the Doctor, making sure it had a moment alone (see what I did there?) with him.
But what was the Moment?

 

Didn’t Rose remind you of a certain someone, say, Idris? The TARDIS consciousness trapped inside a human body (Series 6, “The Doctor’s Wife”). Only this time she wasn’t trapped, she was a projection, maybe using the Moment’s ancient powers to do it.
Sure, maybe all Time Lord artificial consciousness are as sassy, take forms of a certain Time Lord’s companions and are DESPERATE to save him. Or maybe it’s just the same one.
Was it simply the interface of an ancient weapon knowing the Doctor so well with the help of ancient Time Lord technology, or could it be the TARDIS, being the one who really knows him, all his lives, the one who is really inside his head? This wouldn’t be the first time she saved him pretending to be one of his closest companions. She did it at Let’s Kill Hitler. Could it be possible that this was, again, the work of the TARDIS saving her Doctor from his darkest hour?

Tobacco: Sixteenth-Century Panacea .......So Now You Know!

A relationship between smoking and health was recognized soon after the introduction of tobacco to Europeans. In 1588, Thomas Hariot published A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, in which he described the new product to the Old World. "It openeth all the pores and passages of the body," he wrote. Users "are notably (preserved) in health, and know not many greevous diseases wherewithall wee in England are oftentimes afflicted."

For those of you who don't know what Panacea is ....LOOK IT UP!

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Columbus's Secret Log

On September 9, 1492, as the last land dropped below the horizon, Christopher Columbus began keeping two logs. One log, which he kept secret, was a true reckining of his course and distance. The other was a falsified account of the ship's location written so the crew would not be frightened at sailing so far from land. Yet as fate would have it, Columbus overestimated his distance by 9 percent in his private log, placing his discovery much farther west then it actually was. The false log, however, contained no such "error". Columbus had given his sailors a record that was, for all practical purposes, virtually correct.

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Another fine example of whats wrong with Welfare .........

I came across this article and just had to laugh. Not only do able body people take advantage "the system", but when they get the chance they tale as much as they can get.

Walmart to Get Stuck With Most of Food Stamp Shopping Spree

Oct. 14, 2013

By SUSANNA KIM

A couple of Louisiana Walmart stores will be stuck with most of the bill after food stamp recipients went on a colossal shopping spree when a power outage temporarily lifted their spending limits, state officials said today.

Police were called to Walmart locations in Mansfield, La., and Springhill, La., on Saturday as shoppers cleaned out store shelves.

Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd said some customers were pushing more food than any household could store in a refrigerator and freezer.

"I saw people drag out eight to ten grocery carts," Lynd said. One person hauled away more than $700 worth of groceries, the chief said.

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services' spokesman Trey Williams said the retailers who chose not to use the emergency procedures that limit sales up to $50 per cardholder during an emergency would be responsible for any additional amount spent over eligible benefit balances.

Shelves in the Walmart store in Springhill, La., were cleared Saturday, when the store allowed purchases on EBT cards that didn't show limits.

Following the policy clarification by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, Walmart told ABCNews.com the incident was "isolated" and the company doesn't believe it had any material impact to its U.S. business.

The shopping frenzy was triggered when the Electronic Benefits Transfer system went down because a back-up generator failed at 11 a.m. EST Saturday during a regularly-scheduled test, according to Xerox, a vendor for the EBT system and based in Norwalk, Conn.

The bill could be a sizeable one for Walmart.

Lynd said customers were "not unruly." There were no fights or arrests made, but the scene was still chaotic, he said.

"It was definitely worse than Black Friday. It was worse than anything we had ever seen in this town," Lynd said of Springhill, which is near the border with Arkansas. "There was no food left on any of the shelves, and no meat left. The grocery part of Walmart was totally decimated."

Lynd said that around 9 p.m. CT on Saturday, a Walmart employee made an announcement on the intercom saying that the computer system had been restored and card limits had returned. At that time, customers left shopping carts full of food in store aisles, he said.

"At that point in time, they knew the jig was up and they couldn't purchase what they wanted to," Lynd said.

In the Walmart store in Mansfield, about 80 miles south of Springhill, staff temporarily closed the store to new customers to prevent a fire hazard with the existing number of shoppers.

Mansfield's Chief of Police Gary Hobbs said no arrests were made and there were no incidents besides customers "pushing and shoving." Hobbs said there were reports that customers were checking out with six to eight shopping carts, then returning later in the day to purchase more.

Unlike Walmart, other grocery stores in town told customers they would not accept EBT cards until the card limits were evident again, Hobbs said.

The EBT system was affected in 17 states, where individuals and households access programs like Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and other programs.

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Can you believe it? People checking out with 6-8 shopping carts and then returning later for more? Most will say that Walmart is responsible. But I don't agree, those people who abused their EBT cards should be held accountable. Why not cut off their benefits until they have paid for what they have taken. Make them survive on the food that they got. But that won't happen, the liberals would say that is cruel and unusual punishment but it's ok for them to loot the system. No wonder our beloved United States is in the trouble that we are in. We have turned into a Welfare State, and it disgusts me. In the 60's it was called "Relief", you got that till you got a job, Next they called it "Welfare"because they wanted people to be taken care of and now it is called "Entitlements". 

I see people all around me, doing nothing and living better than I do. Section 8 housing, free medical benefits, $3.00 prescriptions, EBT cards and finally cash. All given to them because, they were/are addicted to drugs, they are alcoholics, they can't find a job..... Well, i know that there are plenty of jobs out there but they don't want to work at McDonalds, they don't want to clean houses, they don't want to stock shelves. Because it is below them. Isn't being on Welfare pretty low? Do something to earn your keep, crossing guard, help the elderly, dig ditches, there are ways to be a productive member of our society. But that would require work.

I could qualify for disability because of my arthritis and degenerative bone disease in my back but my Father instilled a good work ethic in me. I get up everyday and go to work, work 10 hours and go home and take care of my parents. Maybe that's why I can't comprehend the Welfare system...