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Some neat trivia questions about U.S. States.

All questions have 4 answers and include Names of States.

See how long it takes you to get all the answers.

Quote:Name the 4 States and their Capital City that have Capital cities named after Presidents:



Name the 4 States and their Capital City where the Capital City starts with the same letter as the State:



Name the 4 States that were previously sovereign states before U.S. Statehood:



Name the 4 States that start with the Letter “A”



Name the 4 States that start with the Letter “I”



Name the 4 States that start with the Letter “W”

The following post originally appeared on Above Top Secret on Aug, 4 2019:


The Great Millenium War:


The increased escalation of political violence is far beyond the conversation of guns, mental health, or any other issue. The identitarians on the right and left are dragging everyone into what will soon be a real hot war.

The goal of the NZ shooter and the El Paso shooter was to create the conditions for major internal conflict among the world powers. We need to tread carefully, but I fear it is too late. Radical global change doesn't come from the cooler-heads of society, it comes from the fringes, the radicals, the agitators, and they are NEVER the majority.

Their actions do, however, force the hand of the majority and in that manner, they are able to control in what direction the country moves. We are being manipulated. The government manipulates us, the media manipulates us, our own sensibilities betray us.

We are struggling immensely to cope with the new world the 21st century has foisted upon us. The social changes, the truths revealed, the emergence of decentralized economies, the shattering of Industrial Revolution era economics and ideologies, the rapid change in technologies that are tearing at the fabric of our world views, and the realization of just how transformative and central to our lives these technologies have been.

It will be like what was foisted upon the world in the first decade and a half of the 20th century. No one knew the depths of how far technology had come. No one could have prepared Europe and the world for the insanity of a world at war for the first time with modern weapons and industry. Indeed, within the first year of the Great War millions had already perished on all sides at the pointy ends of new technologies few had really understood.

I fear we have arrived at another such junction in human events. There is mass confusion, global powers are on the move and acting to protect themselves from what is coming, the world powers of today are starting to be dragged down by social unrest and political violence, foreign and private actors with immense wealth are moving their own chess pieces around on the board and cutting little nicks on the periphery of the fabric of the American Empire.

We are beyond the point of no return. The guns have come out in the service of ideology and no gun control or mental health legislation can stop the escalation that is coming. These are the final throws of communism and fascism as the world leaves them behind. Technology has ground many of our ideologies into dust and like dust, it will all be swept away, but not before there is blood in the streets and whole nations disappear in the conflagration to come.

People will ignore the lessons here and substitute their own reality. They will make this about their own political religion as they march into the fire of the war they helped stoke.

Get ready. The Great Millennium War is coming.

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Addendum:

Today we are faced with the reality of war on the streets of America. We are being overrun by communist agitators and we must preserve the Republic. People are being shot by BLM/ANTIFA members in the streets. Violence has escalated and will continue to escalate as more monuments are destroyed and more assaults/murders are perpetrated. 

There is no mistake. This is no dramatic post. The cards are drawn and the game is on. We're all playing whether we want to or not.

My husband has been through quite a bit. He’s permanently in a nursing home after having a stroke in February. He’s done other stints in nursing homes for things. This story I’m telling is about something that happened in the weeks after he was convalescing at the hospital after quadruple heart bypass surgery.

On October 15, 2014, my husband had quadruple heart bypass surgery. He had been having chest pains a couple of days prior, and I took him to the ER. The surgery was lengthy, about 10 hours, and a few hours after I saw him in intensive care, I received a call at 4 AM from the intensive care nurse telling me they had to take him back in and open his chest back up, because he was bleeding. 

About three hours later, the doctor himself called me and told me they got the bleeding under control and all was well. He was heavily sedated and on a breathing tube for the next 48 hours. For about four days after the initial surgery, he was on the precipice between life and death. Sometime during this time, he suffered a stroke.  

He was unable to feel anything or move his left arm. After about a week, feeling started coming back, and he slowly recovered movement in it. All in all, he spent nine days in intensive care, two weeks in the hospital, and five weeks in a nursing home going through intensive rehabilitation after his stroke. 

So he was very sick for awhile, and I was beside myself. There was little to nothing I could do for him except to encourage him to hang in there and never give up. I visited him every day for hours. I damn near wound up in the hospital myself, as I was exhausted and was not eating or taking care of myself for awhile. 

Everything worked out, and he came home to my TLC.  

Anyway, he has told me many stories of "dreams/hallucinations" he had while in the hospital about friendly people attending to him in a hot tub/steam room where he was able to relax and hang out. These same people checked him into a hotel/spa setting where he was able to get away from the hospital for awhile. I always smiled and nodded, reminded him he was on some very heavy duty pain meds, antibiotics, and practically every drug under the sun to keep him alive those nine days he was in intensive care.  

He specifically described how these people looked, and they didn't look like any of the doctors/nurses/CNA's in the hospital. He talked about several lengthy conversations in which they gave him advice about taking better care of himself after he got home. They admonished him about what would happen if he did not take proper care of himself. He mentioned that several of these people didn't seem like your average doctors or nurses. A number of them were of older age, and didn't seem to be in the medical profession. 

What he told me when we were out to dinner blew me away. He mentioned that these people may have been ghosts - people who died in that same intensive care unit who were trying to help him stay on the right side of the grass as it were. I was in tears. I'm just so grateful that we were able to celebrate our wedding anniversary instead of me being a widow. I wonder if these people were indeed helpful ghosts. I'm a skeptical person by nature, but I really believe now that these weren't merely hallucinations, but actual ghosts helping him to recover.  

He described things so vividly. Yeah, he was on a lot of drugs while he was in intensive care. Who knows? 

Hi everyone. I originally created this thread in ATS. I realize vaccinations are a very controversial topic. We’re all adults here. I feel good about posting this. Now I know I won't change anyone's mind, but I feel compelled to tell this true life story. 

Polio is a devastating, crippling, sometimes fatal disease. Thankfully, there is a vaccine for it. This wasn't the case in 1946, when my mom, who was two years old at that time, wound up with polio. So for 74 of her 76 years of life, she has had to deal with this.  

After getting sick and being quarantined, she was sent home. She was one of the lucky ones who didn't die or wind up paralyzed. But she was unable to walk anymore. In the years that followed, she went through many lengthy stints in the hospital. In order to get her legs so she could possibly walk again, she endured 15-20 operations. She had both of her legs broken twice.  

She spent most of her summer vacations in the hospital for more treatment. She was endlessly bullied in school as she was in a wheelchair. She endured so much physical and emotional pain. Then there were the other indignities. The pointing and stares when she walked haltingly with ugly cumbersome braces. The ridicule by other kids. She was told she would never drive, ride a bike, or be able to bear children.  

Then she met my dad. The fisst time he proposed to her, she told him to go to hell, and prove he wasn't proposing because he felt sorry for her. She made him work for it. 

 once they got married, he taught her how to drive and ride a bike. She walked a lot, with a noticeable limp. She never let that slow her down. She has three kids and four grandchildren now.  

She also has something called post polio syndrome. She is in constant pain, and still walks, but it's much more difficult for her. She has taken many falls, has had a few concussions. Her damn kneecap is literally sliding down her leg. I worry about her a lot. 

We have talked on the phone, and I asked her what she thinks of all these things in the news about the anti vaccine movement, and she said: I hope nobody ever has to go through what I have been through, and that these people are seriously deluded.  

Her words, not mine. But I totally agree with her. I cringe when I hear about previously eradicated things coming back.  

Oh well. This will not change anyone's mind, but I had to get this off my chest. I hope nobody is offended. I get some are against vaccines, and some are for vaccines. It is a hot button issue.

www.usatoday.com... 

I copied a link from USA Today with an article on speculation that some people who had a cough in December 2019 actually may have had COVID-19. I found this kind of interesting. I know both I and my husband had bad coughs, a temperature, and sore throats. We figured we had colds, bought some cold medicine, and waited it out. It took 2-3 weeks to go away, and the cough was pretty bad. I’m skeptical though too, because I really don’t think there were any COVID-19 cases in the United States until January. So I don’t know. The article is pretty interesting though.  

What do you all think of this?  

This is a live camera feed of Brooks Falls at Katmai National Park, in Alaska.

The salmon run starts in early July with thousands of fish swimming to their spawning grounds.


From dawn until dusk you can watch large brown bears (grizzlies) walking through the water and catching fish.

Usually there is two or more bears running around.

The rangers do a good job of panning the camera to see all the action.

Especially as the bears wander down stream towards fisherman.

They have some other cameras up there but this is the best one.

I read you can only get there by seaplane and there is over 2000+ bears there.

An interesting place.




https://youtu.be/IcWTPFnqOLo

It looks like the fashion of terrorism is vogue once more...

Quote:Paris 'gunman': La Defense shopping centre evacuated by armed police.

Armed police evacuated a major shopping centre and train station in Paris following reports an
armed man was seen near the busy centre. Police were called to Les Quatre Temps shopping
centre and La Defense train station in Paris at around 10am on Tuesday.



At around 11.30am the Paris police department issued an updated statement on Twitter to say
that no suspect had been identified that matched the description that was reported to the Police
Secours 17 division.

Footage on social media showed shoppers running out of the centre while police searched the
area. People could also be seen slowly evacuating the centre with their arms raised.

The Paris police department said on Twitter that the shopping centre had been evacuated to
"allow for checks". Police asked people to avoid the area and to follow the instructions of the
authorities.

A source told Le Figaro: "We are looking for an armed man who would have been seen at the
4 temps shopping centre in La Defense district." The French daily morning newspaper also
reported that the suspect could be caring an AK-47 rifle.

A man who was stuck inside the train station told the Mirror Online: "We are safe. We are just
waiting inside the station." The Metro and RER stations at La Defense were temporarily closed
to the public for "security measures"...'

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Quote:On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Quote:On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. 

Quote:But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.

Here are some facts few people know:
Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction” 

The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”

Climate change is not making natural disasters worse

Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003

The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska

The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California

Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s 

Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level

We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter

Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change

Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels

Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture


I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism. 

Quote:But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.” 

But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

Quote:I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations.
Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse. 

But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. 

Quote:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most high-profile environmental group claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.” 


The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.” 

Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.

As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct.

And in January, one out of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/lea...d1fdca442a?

Quote:Prime Minister Scott Morrison will warn Australians to prepare for a more “dangerous and disorderly” post-COVID world as he announces a $270 billion cash splash today on long-range maritime missiles and land strike capabilities as tensions with China intensify.

The Prime Minister will issue a blunt warning that tensions are rising across the region, citing recent border clashes between India and China and tensions in the South China Sea.