#Leon Nixon

[deadpresidents]

Are there any studies on how this country might've changed if Ford had not pardoned Nixon? Is it likely that the DOJ would've indicated Nixon and is it likely that Nixon would've been impeached and convicted?

Nixon 100% would have been impeached and convicted and removed from office. The House Judiciary Committee had already voted to impeach Nixon about a week-and-a-half before he resigned, so the next step would have been impeachment by the full House of Representatives. That would have triggered the trial in the Senate.

The reason Nixon resigned was because Senate Republican leaders like Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott went to the White House and told him that he was finished and that even they would be voting to convict him once he was impeached.

Whether or not Nixon would have been indicted if Ford had not pardoned him is hard to know, but at the end of the chapter about President Ford's pardon of Nixon in Richard Norton Smith's recent book, An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), Smith reveals:

Among Ford's privately stated reasons for pardoning Nixon was his desire to relieve Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski of responsibility for deciding the former President's legal fate. The irony of this position was revealed only after he left office. In June 1982, ABC News marked ten years since the Watergate break-in by assembling seven of the twenty-three grand jurors originally summoned to investigate the Nixon White House. As they told it, prosecutors answering to Jaworski had drawn up a four-count indictment charging Nixon with "bribery, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and obstruction of a criminal investigation." All it required for implementation was a formal jury vote and two signatures -- those of the jury foreman and the special prosecutor. The grand jurors were unanimously prepared to endorse such a course. Jaworski was not. Arguing that no precedent existed for indicting a sitting President, he had persuaded the grand jury to instead forward its evidence to the House Judiciary Committee for possible impeachment proceedings. With Nixon's August 1974 resignation, the issue of Presidential guilt resurfaced. Jaworski's deputy Philip Lacovara argued for an indictment of the now-former President, a view widely held among the prosecutorial staff and seconded by members of the grand jury. Jaworski thought he had suffered enough. In reality, Jaworski had never intended to put Nixon on trial if he could possibly avoid it. Ford's pardon saved him from publicly disclosing this reluctance, something he confided before his death in October 1982 to [former Defense Secretary] Mel Laird and Houston Congressman William Archer, both instrumental in his original appointment.

[leonjaworskiluvrgrlll]

Hello Mitchell-Stans. Sorry for the hiatus.

I’d like to issue a formal apology to @giveemhell-leonbaby​ for my past shipping views relating to our babygirl Leon. I started this blog with a judicial prejudice that Leon would not be proud of. I now recognize my closed-mindedness and regret that I hadn’t reflected on my own political biases as someone previously raised and committed to the mid-20th century Republican party.

Following this revelation, I’ve taken it upon myself to consult the primary sources relating to Leon’s correspondences and relationships, and I’ve come to the conclusion that my surface-level sources detailing Nix*n and Leon’s relationship lacked the proper context and research that ought to supplement such serious claims about Leon’s intimate life. @giveemhell-leonbaby​ had not falsified the truths when detailing the toxic nature of leonix*n’s dynamic. I apologize for any misgivings I had held prior to this post; giveemhell has done nothing but cement their character of “frankness and candor”, as Leon would say.

I swear to do better in future endeavors and to hold truth to its highest standards before forming opinions. “No one is above the law.” I hope this post can mark the beginning of my journey towards real repentance. That’s all.

looking forward to making more content in the future for y’all!!!🥰🥰🌊

*o,o

[giveemhell-leonbaby]

hiiiiiiiiiii leo stans !!! sry to keep u all waiting, ik i’ve been delaying posts almost as long as the white house wanted to delay nixon’s trials lol!! 

sooooo as u all may know there was some past beef between me and another prominent figure in the leon jaworski fan community a while back. 

i want to apologize to @leonjaworskiluvrgrlll for some comments and disagreements we’ve had. 

i’ve recently read thru the transcripts of leo’s interviews with bob and carl (eeeeeeee!!! u guys it was soooooooo cute omggggg he told a lil story abt his grandson!!!!! ugh and theres SOOOOO much DRAMA!! ) and it rly made me reflect on the leo content i’ve put out here. i was operating off of limited information and fell prey to some flash judgements inappropriate for someone committed to a man of the law (remember: “no one -- absolutely no one -- is above the law” 💖💖💞💞💞💞💗💗💗💕💕💕💖💖💖).

@leonjaworskiluvrgrlll​ and i have since reconciled and realized there’s someone even better for our baby than nixon OR sirica -- al haig!!! 

leon and al had “an unusual working relationship” 👀👀👀👀 sooooooo u may be getting some content abt that *real* soon from ljlgrrl & i !!! <3333 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The education of Aileen Cannon

July 16, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

Judge Aileen Cannon is not smart enough to come up with the idea of ignoring controlling precedent to hold that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violates the Constitution. Instead, she received not-so-subtle tutoring from six reactionary justices on the US Supreme Court who have signaled that judicial precedent has the binding force of fairy tales—“just so” stories to be invoked when convenient but otherwise irrelevant to the process of judicial decision-making. When precedent is meaningless, the law is rudderless, and we are reduced to judges running popularity contests or selecting random outcomes from a Bingo hopper. To state the obvious, that is not good for the rule of law.

On Monday, Judge Cannon gave Donald Trump a hostess gift for the Republican National Convention. She dismissed the federal indictment against him for unlawfully retaining defense secrets after the National Archive, DOJ, and FBI demanded the return of the documents. To achieve that lawless result, she ignored dozens of other decisions—including binding Supreme Court precedent, which previously held that appointing a special counsel is consistent with the Constitution.

Cannon dared to tell the Supreme Court that its prior acceptance of the validity of special counsel appointments was “dictum”—that is, unnecessary surplusage not relevant to the decision in a case. See Just Security, Judge Cannon Dismisses Trump’s Classified Docs Case: What’s Next?

As explained in Just Security, the Supreme Court upheld a subpoena by special prosecutor Leon Jaworski issued to then President Nixon. Although the Supreme Court did not rule on a challenge to the validity of Jaworski’s appointment in US v. Nixon, the Court did rule on the authority of Jaworski to issue a subpoena to the president. If the Supreme Court believed Jaworski had no authority to issue the subpoena because he was not validly appointed, it would have told him so. It did not. Rather, the Court ruled unanimously in US v. Nixon that the special prosecutor had the authority to issue subpoenas to the president—and that the president was required to comply with those subpoenas.

The justices on the Supreme Court who unanimously joined in the US v. Nixon opinion were Warren Berger, William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell. Several legal giants were included on that bench!

But Judge Cannon rejected the unanimous ruling of those legal giants in US v. Nixon and instead favorably cited the solo dissent of Clarence Thomas in Trump v. US—a case that involved the existence of a legal defense but not the validity of the special counsel’s appointment. None of the other reactionary justices joined in Clarence Thomas’s baseless dissent in Trump v. US in which Thomas claimed that appointment of the special counsel violated the Constitution.

Is Judge Cannon’s lawless decision good? Bad? Both? The answer is a qualified “Both.” Jack Smith has already announced he will appeal the ruling to the 11th Circuit. In a world where the 11th Circuit follows the law, it will overrule Judge Cannon and remove her from the case. That would be a good result.

But what will the Supreme Court do? In a just world where the Supreme Court respects the rule of law and its own precedent, the Court should affirm the reversal of Judge Cannon’s opinion. But after its gonzo ruling in Trump v. US, predicting outcomes in the Supreme Court is dangerous business. See, e.g., Robert Hubbell in this newsletter,

When precedent is meaningless, the law is rudderless, and we are reduced to judges running popularity contests or selecting random outcomes from a Bingo hopper.

 Moreover, Judge Cannon has ensured that the defense secrets case cannot be tried until after the 2024 presidential election. No matter. We are precisely where we were before Judge Cannon’s ruling: The courts will not save us. Trump will be held accountable only if Joe Biden wins the 2024 presidential election. We are not merely electing Biden; we are defending the rule of law.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[wanide69]

The human names of the bfdi-tpot characters

The male

8-Ball:Owen Baker Vik

Balloony:Bailey Pond

Black Hole:Ben Homer Black

Blocky:Blake Kennedy

Bomby:Bobby Mix

Cake:Casper Kay

Clock:Clarence Lowe

Cloudy:Cloud Carey

Coiny:Conner Neville

Donut:Dennis Peters

Eraser:Edgar Sánchez

Firey:Finley Irvine

Firey Jr:Finley Jr

Fries:Fern Livingston

Gelatin:Garrett Hill

Grassy:Gary Fay

Lightning:Lewis Knight

Loser:Lucas York

Marker:Mark Fisher

Nickel:Nick Leon

Pen:Peyton Andersson

Rocky:Ricky Mostyn

Snowball:Scott Baker Willis

Spongly:Sergio Furlán

Stapy:Stanley Pine

Tennis Ball:Terry Baker McKenzie

Tree:Trent Fay

Woody:Woody Long

The femela

Basketball:Betsy Baker Smith

Barf Bag:Barbara Battle

Bracelety:Bridgette Cagney

Bell:Bella Cheng

Book:Brooke McKenna

Bottle:Bonnie Talbot

Bubble:Belinda Sladen

Eggy:Emily McGee

Fanny:Fanny Volkov

Foldy:Foxley O'Dell

Flower:Florencia "Flora" De La Rosa

Gaty:Gabriella Tyler

Goflball:Grace Baker Jung

Ice Cube:Inés De La Cruz

Leafy:Leah Fay

Liy:Lily Toyo

Lollipop:Loretta Pollock

Match:Martha Castillo

Naily:Nelly Allen

Needle:Natalia "Nataly" Kimura

Pencil:Penelope "Penny" Andersson

Pie:Piper Lawson

Pillow:Petra Willow

Pin:Paulina García

Puffball:Pamela Baker Saxby

Remote:Rose Moss

Ruby:Ruby Evans

Saw:Serena Watts

Taco:Taylor Campos

Teardrop:Teresa Dross

The no binary

Price Tag:Paige Taggart

Winner:Wilbert Nixon

Profily:Porter Fry

Fun fact: Penelope and Peyton (Pencil and Pen) are twins, although Penny acts as Peyton's older sister.

Trent, Leah and Gary are siblings of different ages (Tree is the older brother, Leafy is the middle sister and Grassy is the younger brother)

Finley and Finley Jr are cousins ​​and Finley Jr's family named him after his older cousin (Firey) and their families live in different countries (Firey's lives in Australia, his native country, and Firey Jr's lives in the USA). )

All characters that have "ball" in their names in the human version have Baker in their middle names.

[juniperss]

Band of brothers medieval au ,that's just a thought...

anon, your mind….lets take this a step further if you don’t mind me doing so:

knights of the round table au. Now I’ll be honest and admit that my knowledge on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is entirely sourced from BBC’s Merlin so you’ll have to bear with me BUTTTTTTTTTT

“We would fight a thousand armies with our bare hands for you. We are never alone. We stand together." -Elyan to Arthur

In this AU I clearly picture Richard as Arthur. Just as in Band of Brothers, we see how quickly Easy Company (led by Lipton and so on) admit they would rather be transferred (or even killed) than to have to serve under Sobel. It’s clear from the beginning who the loyalty of the Company belongs to and that is Winters.

Now there aren't enough Knights of the Round Table to have each member of Easy Company, so I'm going to divide Easy into the Archetypes of each Knight that they most reflect in either all or most aspects (in my opinion!) -Sir Gwaine Archetype: "I think we have no chance. But I wouldn't miss it for the world." Bold, seeing the best in others, flirtatious, confident, fiercely loyal, humorous, throw hands first and ask questions later, and believed that people should be defined by what they did rather than who they were [Guarnere, Toye, Speirs, Talbert] - Sir Lancelot Archetype: "It is not just his deeds that we'll never forget. It is his courage. It is his compassion. His unselfish heart." Kindhearted, compassionate, courageous, humble, loyal and self sacrificing. [Lipton, Roe, Malarkey] -The Sir Elyan Archetype: "He's [Elyan] just one of those types of people, never settles down, never thinks about the future. Just follows his heart wherever it takes him." Affectionate, adventurous, loyal, brave, kind to others, cunning and quick on their feet, giving. [Muck, Skip, Nixon, Liebgott, Luz] -The Sir Leon (THATS MY MAN!) Archetype: "I have fought alongside you [Arthur] so many times, there is no one else I would rather die for." Steadfast, loyal, sensible, knew the difference between courage and foolishness, outspoken, humorous, good natured, self sacrificing for the greater good [Martin, Buck, also Lipton] -The Sir Percival Archetype: "Your enemies are my enemies" Quiet, man of few words, skilled, brave, gentle and softhearted, decisive, mischievous in the right company. [Shifty, Bull, Babe, Skinny]

Prince Richard presents his plan to stop an evil that has grown so powerful and destructive that he isn't sure he can actually succeed but he vows that he will try anyway. He doesn't ask his friends for help, but one by one they pledge their aid to him.

The Knights that Richard chooses aren’t all nobility nor are they approved by the King. They are simply men who have shown unwavering loyalty and love to him, they are men he trusts. And they are there when he has no one else, and they commit themselves to his cause knowing full well that they might not survive. Their numbers aren't many (only 5 Knights with any skill in battle and 3 honorary members) but they are steadfast and skilled.

After Richard establishes the Knights of the Round table, he would later abolish The First Code of Camelot that states that only men of noble blood can be Knights. After all, blood does not make the man. It's his actions and loyalty that do.

I do absolutely adore the idea of the Knights (Easy) wearing red cloaks and armor like the Knights do in Merlin. It's so dramatic and I think it should be allowed *bangs gavel*

Something something the Knights were so deeply loyal to one another that it bordered on something more than platonic something something the dedication to one another that after the death of their leader there was too much grief to continue on something something.....

While the Knights are meant to be a symbol of the realm and its power, I also see them as representative of the common people, especially in the BBC Merlin version after the Round Table is established. These are men who have come from varied backgrounds and experiences and there's not a way that they wouldn't be seen as what could be for the future.

watch this video and tell me i'm wrong (pls don't tell me i'm wrong)

[darkmaga-returns]

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#scottritter#ww3#NATO

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[maddinmymind]

Hello! I’m Bug!

I have MaDD and have (after many months of observation) fallen in love with the community here!

I’m a minor so please don’t interact if you have a prom blog or anything else explicit :)

I’m Trans and my pronouns are He/They. I’m also Bi. Bug is my paraself's name, not my real one. I have AuDHD and anxiety. This blog will probably be only MaDD stuff but if anyone wants to talk about disability/queer stuff I will gladly join! I’m also from the US (please help).

Please please please interact with me!!! I’m here to make new friends! I only learned about this disorder last year and it was as if a huge weight had been lifted. It’s so nice to know I’m not alone. I’ve had it all my life so I can definitely talk quite a lot about it but I’m not so confident with new language and vocabulary.

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me! I hope we can be friends :)

Side note: When I follow you it’ll be from @galaxyofjedi

My paras!!!

I’ll add links as make posts about them

- Bug (main)

- Leon

- Kix

- Melody

- Cortic

- Atin

- Bly

- Lydia

- Nixon

- I’ll add more as I remember they exist!

[bropunzeling]

If you're up for some random-ass questions, here are some questions for the new year!

what fic were you proudest of this year?

what fic are you most surprised you wrote?

favorite old (to you) ship this year

favorite new (to you) ship this year

favorite old (to you) ship you picked up again this year

favorite old man (old man being a state of mind not gender) ship (maybe you ship a younger version of them but they're Old Men now)

ships/characters you're excited about in 2024

fics/plot bunnies you're excited about working on in 2024

give a random prediction of any kind - about your own writing, about your fandom's fic trends, about canonical developments in your fandom

share a random thought about fics you've written, characters you're thinking about, writing in general, etc

Feel free to pass on if you'd like, or not! Happy new year!

thank you anon! what a great excuse to ignore the work computer. also consider this a blanket "steal these prompts" from me for whoever is so moved bc i don't want to tag everyone

what fic were you proudest of this year? i might have to say only fools rush in aka marriage bets! it certainly is the longest one i've written and had the longest gestational period. plus i wrote a lot of it while incredibly busy (tho maybe that helped?). im still happy i managed to hit the balance between ridiculous premise and genuine feeling that i was aiming for, and that i managed to figure out and feel comfortable in a new pov.

what fic are you most surprised you wrote? linger. if you told me a year ago i was gonna write 65k of omegaverse i simply would not have believed you! it wasn't a trope i ever thought i would write! and yet here we are. lmao.

favorite old (to you) ship this year? i mean. viva la ratfiction. someday we may run out of steam but not this year by golly!

favorite new (to you) ship this year? the amount brady/quinn clawed its way into my brain this year cannot be overstated. maybe i was exploring last year but this year is when it really got me in a fucking chokehold. the pining! the friends to lovers of it all!!!!! exquisite. honorable mention to matthew/sasha. those two ARE in love.

favorite old (to you) ship you picked up again this year? earlier this fall i started a rewatch of miss fisher's murder mysteries and god. jack and phryne. they are EVERYTHING. someday i really will write fic for them.

favorite old man (state of mind) ship? gotta be honest first thing that came to mind was band of brothers winters/nixon. we'll go to chicago. i'll take you there.

ships/characters you're excited about in 2024? hmm brady/quinn, obvi. the general state of brady tkachuk and how i'd like to give him a midlife crisis and by midlife i mean when he's 29. jamie and trevor are BACK baby, and i wanna make trevor sad and making poor choices for 50k before he finally gets to get kissed. has someone written timmy stu and mo seider as summer boyfriends yet? bc i still like that.

fics/plot bunnies you're excited about working on in 2024? i think i have tentatively figured out my next long matthew/leon project (which i can't start until the new year) but i don't want to say quite yet in case i scare it off but! that. it WILL be a true slow burn which will be fun. also ballet quinn i WOULD like to put more than 2k in your gdoc. hopefully at some point soon inspiration will hit again/i'll feel less dull and burnt out

give a random prediction of any kind - about your own writing, about fandom trends, about canonical developments in your fandom: the kraken will sign yamo to a longer contract. i will start a project thinking it will be nice and short and then watch it double, like bread dough rising.

share a random thought about fics you've written, characters you're thinking about, writing in general: did you know the more you write the better you get? even though there’s plenty of areas where i want to improve and become a stronger, more thoughtful developer of sentences/plots/et cetera, i can really see my growth from month to month or year to year and that's neat!!! i'm slowly getting better!!!

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

The following is the lineup for the polls by date, made using a random number generator. New characters introduced in chapter 199 will automatically be added to the end of the roster.

April 19th - April 26th

Chlaus

Rian Stoker

Lord Ackroyd's son

FOL Orphanage staff

Timber

Claude Faustus

Tanaka

Conny

Emily

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Finnian / Finny

Sharpe Hanks

Mabel

Burnett

April 20th - April 27th

Soma's elephant

Beast

Sophie Smith

Theodore

Finny's hat

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Karl Woodley

Oscar

Chris Heathfield

Sieglinde Sullivan

Fred Abberline

Stella Rose

Charles Phipps

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

April 21st - April 28th

Nick

Joanne Harcourt

Purple House dorm master

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Yana Toboso

Grete Hilbard

the Mad Dog of Venice

Abbie

Johnny

Mina

Rachel Phantomhive

Charles Phipps's chicken

Haku

Sascha

April 22nd - April 29th

Jumbo

Mrs. Mayell

Goethe

the Rowdy Count

Georg von Siemens

Margaret Connor

Al

Cedric Brandel

Mathilda Simmons

Wendy

Sam / Old Man Sam

Grelle Sutcliff

Ellery Nixon

Eric Slingby

April 23rd - April 30th

Edward Midford

Luka Macken

Queen Victoria

Lord Ackroyd

Layla

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Betty

Reaper trainees

Green House dorm master

Vincent Phantomhive

Drossel Keinz

Kelvin

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Charles Grey

April 24th - May 1st

Margaret Turner

Akashi

Snake

Edgar Redmond

Derrick Arden

Ronald Knox

Aurora Society member

Bloodbath Johnny

Wilde

Soma Asman Kadar

Claude's birds

Sebastian's silverware

Chef Rickman

Susannah Connor

April 25th - May 2nd

Susan

Artie

Damian

John Brown

Saneatsu Nekoma

Peter

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

demon Crow

Nina's assistants

Ludger

Prince Albert puppet

Miranda

April 26th - May 3rd

Blavat Sky

Vicar Rathbone

Julius Pitt

walking stick shopkeeper

Grimsby Keane

Ciel's horse

Edward V

Jay the Undertaker

Gregory Violet

Canterbury

Jeremy Rathbone

Doctor

the cat from the live action movie

Henry Barrymore

April 27th - May 4th

Lawrence Bluewer

Prince Albert

Higham

the Panzer

the train kidnapper

Donne

Heinrich

Chef Lach

Dagger

Doll / Freckles

Sam's grandson

Bitter Rabbit

Japanese man with a katana

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

April 28th - May 5th

Mey-Rin

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Webster

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Diedrich

Johann Agares

Bronte

Carter

Othello

the cultists

Baldroy Jr.

John Brown's horse

Sphere Music Hall staff

April 29th - May 6th

Jackknife Haywood

Nina Hopkins

William's death scythe

Angela Blanc

Wolfram Gelzer

McDowell

Ronald's lawnmower

Arthur Randall

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Keats

Annie

Terry

Hao

Maria

April 30th - May 7th

Irene Diaz

Polaris

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

kenpo master

Red House dorm master

Ran-Mao

Shiori Genpou

Cedric K. Ros

Lau

Clayton

William T. Spears

Patrick Phelps

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Oliver

May 1st - May 8th

Arthur Conan Doyle

the bear

Grelle's chainsaw

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

Richard

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

the archeologist

Joker

Jan

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Hilde Dickhaut

Rin

Cloudia Phantomhive

"Deer"

May 2nd - May 9th

King's Bear prostitutes

McMillan

"Her"

Undertaker's death scythe

Daniel

Ginny

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Charles Bennett Sato

demon Ciel

Ada

Arnold Trancy

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Arihito Genpou

Thomas Wallis

May 3rd - May 10th

Chef Tarpin

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Lau's ladies

Fennian

Harold West Jeb

Nicholas

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Anne Drewanz

CGI horses / driver

Margaret Connor's father

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

Jane

Paula

Wordsworth

May 4th - May 11th

Maurice Cole

Alexis Leon Midford

bizarre dolls

the turnspit dog

the "werewolves"

O!Ciel's land renters

priest

Pluto

Sebastian the dog

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

the Sebastian Roomba

bizarre doll horses

Baldroy's cow

Undertaker

May 5th - May 12th

Hanae Wakatsuki

the iceberg

Alan Humphries

Ash Landers

Thompson

Snake's unnamed snakes

Milly

Munemitsu Aoki

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Aurora Society purified water seller

Drossel's dolls

the timetable guy

Herman Greenhill

May 6th - May 13th

Azzurro Vanel

William's pigeons

Joanna

Reaper managers

Dove

Countess Trancy and her baby

German countryman

Scotland Yard officers

Haku's henchman

Lorraine McDowell

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Hannah Annafellows

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Pitt

May 7th - May 14th

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

Paul Jones

Francis Midford

Sebastian Michaelis

Cheslock

Phantomhive family ring

James

Edward Abberline

Baron Ridley

Sebastian's owl

[usafphantom2]

Did you know the SR-71 Blackbird sonic booms shattered the windows of Kelly Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor and President Nixon’s houses?

What do Zsa Zsa Gabor, President Nixon, and Kelly Johnson all have in common?

Sonic booms!

‘Obviously the SR 71 broke the sound barrier to get up to 85,000 feet and a speed of 3.2 Mach,’ explains Linda Sheffield Miller (Col Richard (Butch) Sheffield’s daughter, Col. Sheffield was an SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer) on her Facebook Page Habubrats. ‘Often, I would look at the windows of our house at Beale [Air Force Base, AFB] and watched them shake so hard I thought they would break!

‘The SR-71 tried to stay away from major cities, but occasionally it would happen over a large city like Los Angeles.

‘Zsa Zsa Gabor called the police to complain after the London to Los Angeles speed run. Her windows were (supposedly) shattered in her Hollywood hills home. She was appeased when pilot Buck Adams and RSO Bill Machoreck went to her house and gave her personal autograph

Did you know the SR-71 Blackbird sonic booms shattered the windows of Kelly Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor and President Nixon’s houses?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

‘President Nixon called the Air Force to complain when the sonic booms broke the windows in his home in Southern California. Even though it was himself who ordered sonic booms 15 seconds apart to be delivered by the SR-71 over the Hanoi Hilton.’

Did you know the SR-71 Blackbird sonic booms shattered the windows of Kelly Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor and President Nixon’s houses?

President Nixon on the phone in the oval office

Sonic Booms

Sheffield Miller continues;

‘With aircraft, this phenomenon is caused by bow and stern waves — traveling at the speed of sound �� getting forced together (or compressed) because they can��t get out of the way of the faster moving plane. In “smooth flight” the united wave — now a shock wave — starts at the nose of the aircraft and ends at the tail. As the plane passes through, the wave attains a pressure imbalance (called an “N” wave due to its shape) and that’s when the boom happens.

‘The following video features the Audio Recording of SR-71 Blackbird Sonic Booms. Listen here to hear what a double sonic boom sounds like!

‘In reality, there are two booms that happen. One when that reaches the observer and one when the pressure returns to normal.’

Sheffield Miller concludes;

Did you know the SR-71 Blackbird sonic booms shattered the windows of Kelly Johnson, Zaza Gabor and President Nixon’s houses?

Kelly Johnson

‘Kelly Johnson [The head of Lockheed’s Vaunted Skunk Works, the division that developed the SR-71 Blackbird itself] had a busy life outside Lockheed. He and his wife Althea Louise Young built a house in Encino, in the San Fernando Valley, 10 miles west of Lockheed’s facilities. They kept horses, and eventually acquired a working ranch, Star Lane, in the Santa Ynez Valley, north of Santa Barbara. Johnson maintained his own farm machinery in a 4,800-square-foot shop that he had built, and whose huge size and strong construction were a source of pride for him. The rumor is… that a test flight SR-71 flew over Johnson’s ranch and broke several of his large windows. But he didn’t have the nerve to make a complaint.’

Photo credit: CIA, News release by Rogers & Cowan talent agents, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and U.S. Air Force

SR-71 print

Dario Leone

Dario Leone is an aviation, defense and military writer. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviation Geek Club” one of the world’s most read military aviation blogs. His writing has appeared in The National Interest and other news media. He has reported from Europe and flown Super Puma and Cougar helicopters with the Swiss Air Force.

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Book Review: Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

Author: Ilyon Woo Title: Master Slave Husband Wife Narrator: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon Publication Info: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023 Summary/Review: This historical work focuses on efforts of enslaved Black people to liberate themselves and the abolitionist community in the North around the time of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.  It focuses on the story of Ellen and William Craft fleeing…

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Events 7.5 (after 1945)

1945 – The United Kingdom holds its first general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party. 1946 – Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris. 1948 – National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom. 1950 – Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan. 1950 – The Knesset of Israel passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel. 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin. 1954 – Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. 1962 – The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an eight-year-long war with France. 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board. 1971 – The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. 1973 – A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters. 1973 – Juvénal Habyarimana seizes power over Rwanda in a coup d'état. 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. 1975 – Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. 1977 – The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown. 1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980). 1984 – The United States Supreme Court gives its United States v. Leon decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials. 1987 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic. 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned. 1994 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon. 1995 – Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union. 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. 1997 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee. 1999 – U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. 2003 – The World Health Organization announces that the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained. 2004 – The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held. 2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft). 2016 – The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet. 2022 – British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

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Episode 043 - Cow Punk

Fun Things - Savage

Resolver - Better Than What Coolabahs - Four Pubs & A Watertower Convict Class - Kantoriphobia

Zeke - Back At School (Cosmic Psychos) Shandy - Let's Dance Firepower - Road Bruiser Blowhole - Ballad Of Dee Dee

The Johnnys - Injun Joe The Johnnys - Ten Outlaws Beasts Of Bourbon - Psycho (Leon Payne) Jon Wayne - Texas Jailcell

Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk The Cramps - She Said (Hasil Adkins)

The Supersuckers - One Cigarette Away Steve Earle With The Supersuckers - Creepy Jackalope Eye Eddie Spaghetti - Killer Weed Earl Lee Grace - Saturday Night (Dwarves)

Andre Williams & The Sadies - Hey Truckers Andre Williams - Car With The Star Ween - Piss Up A Rope

Dead Kennedys - Rawhide Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors - Winnebago Warrior (Dead Kennedys) Elvis Hitler - Hellbilly Hickoids - Rodeo Peligroso Country Bob & The Bloodfarmers - Dang Me

Melvins with Hank Williams III - Okie From Muskogee Assjack - Tennessee Driver Jeff Walker Und Die Fluffers - The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash) Country Teasers - Reynard The Fox Country Dark - 50000 Volts

Nine Pound Hammer - Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) Revelators - Serve The Man

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I miei film live action vintage Disney preferiti tratti da romanzi

Odio appassionatamente i moderni film live action Disney, rifacimenti di cartoni animati classici che ho amato, ma amavo i vecchi live action Disney degli anni '60 e '70, tratti da famosi romanzi per ragazzi, ecco la lista dei miei preferiti.

4 bassotti per un danese, tratto dal libro The Ugly Dachshund di Gladys Bronwyn Stern

Link: https://amzn.to/4c1t3Mo

Trama: Fran (Frances) e Mark Garrison sono una giovane coppia, felice e recentemente sposata, che possiede una bassotta, la pupilla di Fran. La cagnetta aspetta i cuccioli e quando i due la portano dal veterinario, il dottor Pruitt, per partorire, quest'ultimo mostra a Mark un cucciolo di danese che la madre, non avendo abbastanza latte, ha messo da parte. Il veterinario propone quindi a Mark di prendere con se il cucciolo almeno per il periodo dello svezzamento. Nonostante le iniziali perplessitagrave; Mark si fa intenerire dal cucciolone e decide di portarlo a casa…

FBI operazione gatto, tratto dal libro Undercover Cat scritto dalla coppia di autori di romanzi polizieschi nota come "I Gordon" (composta da Gordon Gordon e Mildred Nixon Gordon)

Link: https://amzn.to/3RxAral

Trama: Nel corso di una rapina, una cassiera (Grayson Hall) viene rapita. Un gatto siamese, che casualmente transita dal covo dei rapitori, diviene involontariamente il portatore di un messaggio d'aiuto che viene colto prontamente dalla sua padrona.

L'isola sul tetto del mondo, tratto ratto dal romanzo di Ian Cameron (alias Donald Gordon Payne) Il cimitero dei capodogli

Link: https://amzn.to/4bakgX8

Trama: Il benestante londinese sir Anthony Ross, dopo aver ricevuto la notizia che il figlio Donald è scomparso nel corso di un viaggio esplorativo nella parte settentrionale della Groenlandia, decide di organizzare una spedizione per ritrovarlo a tutti i costi. A seguirlo nelle ricerche il prof. Ivarsson, esperto in geologia e in culture primitive, e il cap. Brieux, inventore e costruttore di un singolare dirigibile, l'Hyperion. Da Londra, nel 1907, gli esploratori si trasferiscono velocemente a bordo del dirigibile del cap. Brieux per partire alla volta di Port Conger, un'estrema stazione esquimese nella zona dell'Artide. Preso a bordo Oomiak, un indigeno reduce dalla spedizione del disperso Donald, dopo una tempesta e un atterraggio di fortuna, il gruppo di sir Anthony raggiunge un'amenissima terra circondata da ghiacci mai vista prima e mai segnalata in nessuna delle cartine esistenti. Il clima di quella terra è piuttosto mite a causa di fenomeni vulcanici e gli individui abitanti l'isola sono discendenti dei vichinghi…

PISTA! ARRIVA IL GATTO DELLE NEVI, tratto dal libro Chateau Bon Vivant di Frankie e John O'Rear.

Link: https://www.vecchio-cinema.it/pista_arriva_il_gatto_delle_nevi_dvd_1972_dean_jones_67.html

Trama: John Silvester Baxter, newyorkese, impiegato intristito dalla monotonia del lavoro, eredita da uno zio dimenticato l'Imperial Hotel, a Silver Hill nel Colorado. La fallace notizia che l'albergo offra molti guadagni, lo induce a trasferirvisi con la moglie Suzy, i figli Richard e Christine, il cane Cuor di Leone. Ma torva un albergo fatiscente che, come lo informano sul posto, ebbe momenti di fortuna soltanto tempo fa. Caparbio, Baxter trasforma l'albergo ed i numerosi terreni annessi in una stazione sciistica. Ottiene qualche concreta soddisfazione quando un treno di sportivi rimane lì bloccato per due settimane, ma poi l'inadeguatezza dell'albergo e l'abbondante sprovvedutezza della volonterosa famiglia e del personale assunto provocano la catastrofe finanziaria. John cerca di rimediare al fallimento prendendo parte a una gara che offre molto denaro al vincitore con risultati esilaranti.

Magia d'estate, tratto dal libro Mother Carey’s Chickens dell’autrice Kate Douglas Wiggin

Link: https://amzn.to/3VHWzB7

Trama: Ambientato circa nel 1899 a Boston. Dopo la morte di suo marito la signora Carey e i suoi quattro figli, due femmine e due maschi faticano a tirare avanti solo con la pensione del defunto, devono trasferirsi in una casa più economica, e la figlia maggiore Nancy, molto intraprendente riesce a scovare una bella casa in campagna dove potrebbero stare gratis facendo dei lavoretti di manutenzione. Non sanno che chi gliela offre lo fa senza il benestare del proprietario Tom Hamilton, assente ormai da anni. La famiglia si trasferisce e gioisce dell’atmosfera campestre, le due figlie si innamorano entrambe del giovane maestro locale ma solo una potrà conquistarlo e starà nella saggezza della madre consolare la delusa, Nancy, che presto troverà però un nuovo pretendente proprio in Tom Hamilton che era giunto in paese proprio per cacciare la famiglia dalla casa che voleva vendere.

Il fantasma del pirata barbanera, tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Ben Stahl

Link: https://amzn.to/3XymkW5

Trama: Un giovane insegnante di educazione fisica si trasferisce a Godolphin per allenare la squadra di atletica della cittadina. Prende alloggio in una locanda posta su un isolotto gestito da vecchie zitelle discendenti del pirata Teach detto Barbanera. Finisce cosigrave; coinvolto nei maneggi delle vecchine per preservare la casa del loro avo dalle mire di un pericoloso gangster intenzionato a trasformarla in casa da gioco. Addirittura il giovane riesce a evocare il fantasma del vecchio bucaniere che interviene in soccorso delle sue discendenti.

Pomi d'ottone e manici di scopa, tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Mary Norton

Link: https://amzn.to/3Vs1yES

Trama: Per Carey, Charles e Paul si prospetta un'estate ben noiosa, mandati a stare da una vecchia zia che non sorride molto, con una domestica anziana e severa in una casa enorme, dal giardino senza fiori. Ecco perché i giorni passano lentissimi, tutti uguali l'uno all'altro! Ma il giorno in cui Miss Price cade dalla scopa, per i tre ragazzi comincia la più incredibile delle avventure. La loro vicina di casa, infatti, è nientemeno che un'apprendista strega, anche se i suoi incantesimi non sempre funzionano come vorrebbe. Tra la matura signorina e i piccoli vicini si stabilisce subito una grande amicizia, e sarà grazie al pomo di ottone di un letto, stregato da Miss Price, che i quattro faranno i più straordinari viaggi nel tempo e nello spazio. E chissà che, viaggiando viaggiando, l'incerta e titubante strega non finisca per trovare nientemeno che l'amore..

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Russell Means was denounced multiple times by the American Indian Movement for misrepresenting AIM positions, continuing to present himself as a leader of the movement after he resigned, representing himself as a cofounder of the movement which he was not, generally being a grifter, assaulting his father-in-law, supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, inaccurately portraying Amrican Indians in Pocahontas and Natural Born Killers, pandering to right-wing politicians, and other things.

Just a few quotes, but there's a lot in the linked statement:

"What is especially egregious, and outrageous about Russell Mean's violations of the laws of the Dine Nation is that he is charged with assault and battery against his father-in-law, Mr. Leon Grant who is a revered elder of both the Omaha and Dine Nation and is 80 years of age and has an artificial arm. We, of the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council are no longer surprised by Russell's clownish antics. He continues to deceitfully mis-represent the American Indian Movement in order to deceive those peoples and organizations worldwide, who due to their goodwill, and support of the Indian cause may have already, or will contribute to his appeal through his personal web page where he solicits money for the Russell Means Philanthropy and AIM Club Membership in name of the American Indian Movement, and an "Immersion Indian School" that never existed, nor does it exist at this time."

...

"Bellecourt also sought to distance AIM from what he described as Means' recent forays into conservative politics. In the 1980's means traveled to Nicaragua to help rebel bands of Miskito Indians who were allied with the anti-revolutionary Contras. Means was being manipulated by reactionary elements under the guise of patriotism, Bellecourt said. He believes Means has allied himself with reactionary elements who seek to discredit AIM, a campaign which goes back, in one form or other, to the Nixon administration."

...

"In 1985, he again resigned from Yellow Thunder Camp in the Black Hills stating, quote, "I'm tired babysitting Yellow Thunder Camp," and that he was going to go on to other interests. Those interests was to align himself with Ward Churchill, Glen Morris, and Brooklyn Rivera of the CIA-sponsored Miskito Indian faction of the contras, as well, Elliot Abrams, and the Reagan Administration's war against the Nicaraguan people of which the Miskito Indian people, and all Nicaraguans are the principal victims.

During this time he went on a nationwide speaking tour sponsored by the Unification Church of the Reverend SunYung Moon, speaking to right wing audiences. The same groups who are totally opposed to Indian treaty, political, jurisdiction, water, natural resources, and territorial rights."

...

In other words, Russell Means is not someone to listen to when it comes to indigenous liberation.

Speech given by Russell Means of the Oglala Lakota tribe in 1980.