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Bill Gates has never been a farmer. So why did the Land Report dub him “Farmer Bill” this year? The third richest man on the planet doesn’t have a green thumb. Nor does he put in the back-breaking labor humble people do to grow our food and who get far less praise for it. That kind of hard work isn’t what made him rich. Gates’ achievement, according to the report, is that he’s largest private owner of farmland in the US. A 2018 purchase of 14,500 acres of prime eastern Washington farmland – which is traditional Yakama territory – for $171m helped him get that title.

In total, Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland with assets totaling more than $690m. To put that into perspective, that’s nearly the size of Hong Kong and twice the acreage of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, where I’m an enrolled member. A white man owns more farmland than my entire Native nation!

The United States is defined by the excesses of its ruling class. But why do a handful of people own so much land?

Land is power, land is wealth, and, more importantly, land is about race and class. The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy in the United States, and also the world. Wealth accumulation always goes hand-in-hand with exploitation and dispossession. In this country, enslaved Black labor first built US wealth atop stolen Native land. The 1862 Homestead Act opened up 270m acres of Indigenous territory – which amounts to 10% of US land – for white settlement. Black, Mexican, Asian, and Native people, of course, were categorically excluded from the benefits of a federal program that subsidized and protected generations of white wealth.

The billionaire media mogul Ted Turner epitomizes such disparities. He owns 2m acres and has the world’s largest privately owned buffalo herd. Those animals, which are sacred to my people and were nearly hunted to extinction by settlers, are preserved today on nearly 200,000 acres of Turner’s ranchland within the boundaries of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty territory in the western half of what is now the state of South Dakota, land that was once guaranteed by the US government to be a “permanent home” for Lakota people....

Like wealth, land ownership is becoming concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, resulting in a greater push for monocultures and more intensive industrial farming techniques to generate greater returns. One per cent of the world’s farms control 70% of the world’s farmlands, one report found. The biggest shift in recent years from small to big farms was in the US.

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Hi!! I really like the aesthetic for each of your characters, especially Wynonna Vonnegut and Beatrix Fitzgerald!! Do you have a story for them and your other characters? Who would you consider the "main" characters of your main story?

okay first of all holy SHIT thank you so much!! i’m so happy to hear that!!!

second of all i do actually! i have like 3 (maybe 4 idk yet) stories featured here and i also have a character page here (beware it’s v wip)

more info under the cut

through hell and back (a working title until i can come up with a better one) is abt a young woman named laramie redmond who steps into an alley behind a nightclub one night and witnesses a guy (terrence worthington) getting stomped to death. two days later, she sees the murderer (ramone vonnegut) talking to her us senator father (lawrence redmond) abt some Important Things he needs to get back. she soon realizes that ramone is a hitman and more people are probably gonna die bc she didn’t turn him in. laramie ends up deciding to track the guy down and kill him before he gets these things and presumably kills the people who took them. along the way it turns into a conspiracy thriller, with people slowly starting to go missing, a conspiracy theorist reporter who’s rants are starting to make sense (arnold briggs), a presumed-dead astronaut (wynonna vonnegut), a doomsday sex cult (the aureum individuals), and even her missing mother (yvette redmond), who disappeared when laramie was a teenager.

halloween, 1982 (again another working title) is abt a week-long university halloween party that ends up going straight to hell due to someone prowling around campus and calling both the campus dj (june carpenter) and the head of campus security (lyle mccarthy), threatening to turn the campus into a bloodbath. these calls are, for the most part, ignored bc it’s halloween and it wouldn’t be the first time someone’s called in a fake threat as a joke. but then they start mentioning mccarthy’s daughter (janis mccarthy), who’s basically become the campus boogeyman due to having died in mysterious circumstances 20 years ago. june starts to panic as the caller’s threats get more and more graphic and they go into more and more detail abt janis mccarthy, to a borderline-incriminating degree, and tries to figure out a way to warn everyone on campus, all the while knowing that it won’t be long before someone finds a body.

lonely hearts club is a shorter one and it’s abt a guy named jaime campbell who’s very unlucky in love. no matter what he does or tries, he just can’t get a woman to stay with him. but his luck changes one day when he meets a cute librarian (meredith dolores), and finds out that she lives in the same apartment. and when he tells meredith abt his feelings, not only does she not reject him, she admits her own feelings towards him. this would all be fine and dandy, if it weren’t for the fact that jaime campbell is the kind of guy who thinks that guys like ted bundy or david berkowitz had some pretty good ideas abt women.

and i have some characters that don’t really have a story (yet), such as rhondetta moretti, beatrix fitzgerald, and the lavanti brothers.

but i have been thinking of something for rhondie and bea, like their journey from stricken poverty during the 1910s, to being the heads of their own criminal empire. a rags to riches story basically.

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Numerous esteemed organizations have recognized Hageman for her legal and policy work. In 2011, Hageman was inducted into the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame.

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Hageman beat Cheney in the Republican primaries.( Source : Nbcnews )ĭuring her thirty-year career as a trial attorney, Harriet was licensed to practice law in Colorado, Michigan, Wyoming, and Nebraska and has been admitted before the United States Supreme Court. Like her father, Hageman attended the University of Wyoming, but unlike him, she graduated, earning a Bachelor of Science in business administration and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law. Having been raised on a ranch outside Fort Laramie, she attended and subsequently graduated from Fort Laramie High School. Harriet Hageman is 59 years old and has achieved a long and fruitful career in the almost sixty years she has been alive. James Hageman married Marion Malvin on May 19, 1956, and she bore six children for him. During Hageman senior's tenure as a Wyoming House of Representatives member, Hageman served as a chair for 12 years of the House Education Committee. After returning from Germany, he founded a ranch in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. She served in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany. Read more about other Republicans: Who Is Cory Mills' Wife, Rana Mills? Here's A Look At Their Relationship Like his daughter eventually would, James Hageman attended the University of Wyoming but only did so for two years. She was born in Douglas, Wyoming, on March 2, 1930, and graduated from Douglas High School in 1948. Her father, James Hageman, was an American politician, rancher, and businessman who served as a member of the House of Representatives in Wyoming from 1982 until he died in 2006. She was born on October 18, 1962, to James Clay Hageman and Marion Malvin and raised on a ranch outside Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Harriet Hageman is the daughter of longtime member of the Wyoming House of Representatives James Hageman( Source : Codyenterprise ) Harriet Hageman's ethnicity is caucasian, though there are some rumors that she might have some Native American in her. Her calling cards are challenging federal overreach, protecting water rights and users, exposing federal land and wildlife mismanagement, protecting private property rights, challenging unconstitutional acts by both state and federal agencies, and working with local governments to ensure they meet long-term water demands. She advocated against the United States Forest Service's roadless rule during this case.įollowing the success of this case, Hageman opened her law firm in August 2000 and has since, in her own words, dedicated her career to fighting for the people of Wyoming. Wyoming dispute over the waters and management of the North Platte River. Her big break happened when the State of Wyoming hired her in 1997 to handle the Nebraska v. She started her career as a law clerk for Judge James E. Before this nomination, she was also a candidate for the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, where she placed third in the Republican primary.īefore her foray into politics, Hageman had been a trial attorney for almost 30 years. American attorney Harriet M Hageman is also a politician and a member of the Republican party.Īs a member of the Republican party, Hageman is currently the Republican nominee in the 2022 House of Representatives election in Wyoming.

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Harriet Hageman Wiki, Biography, Age, Husband, Parents, Nationality, Net Worth & More

Harriet Hageman Wiki- Harriet Hageman is a very well-known American attorney and politician. Harriet is now a Republican nominee for the 2022 United States House Representatives election in Wyoming. Earlier Hageman was a candidate for the 2018 Wyoming Gbernational Election where she placed third in the Republican primary.

Harriet Hageman Wiki, Biography

American Politician Harriet Hageman was born on 18 October 1962. She took birth and was raised on a ranch outside Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Talking about her studies she got graduated from Fort Laramie High School and later she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Wyoming. Later she also earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law. Name   Harriet M.Hageman Date Of Birth 18 October 1962 Place of Birth Fort Laramie, Wyoming  Profession Attorney, Politician Age 59 years Zodiac Sign Libra Marital Status Married School  Cheshire High School University University of Connecticut

Harriet Hageman Age, Biography

As she took birth in 1962 Harriet is currently 38 years old. As her birthday falls in October Harriet's zodiac sign is Libra.

Harriet Hageman Husband, Children

Harriet is currently married. She got married to John Sundahl who is a malpractice attorney based in Cheyenne. There is no information regarding her children.

Harriet Hageman Parents, Siblings

Talking about her parents, she was born to James Hagerman (father) and there is no information about her mother. Her father has served as a longtime member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.

Harriet Hageman Nationality, Ethnicity

As Hageman took birth in Wyoming, she holds American Nationality. Her ethnicity is not mentioned.

Harriet Hageman Career

Hageman began her career being served as a law clerk for Judge James E.Barrett and worked as a trial attorney. Later Hageman advocated against the United States Forest Service's roadless rule and later stated that she had been fooled into opposing Donald Trump. She also supported Senator Ted Cruz and criticized Trump during the 2016 Republican Party Presidential primaries.

Harriet Hageman's Net Worth

Being a well-established Attorney for a very long time, and a politician for the past few years Harriet earned a well-deserving net worth of $  Social Media Accounts Instagram Twitter  Facebook FAQ ON Harriet Hageman Q.1 Who is Harriet Hageman? Ans. Harriet is an American attorney and politician. Q.2 Where was Harriet Hageman born? Ans. Harriet took birth on a ranch outside Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Q.3 How old is Harriet Hageman? Ans. Harriet is currently 59 years old. Q.4 What is Harriet Hageman's net worth? Ans. Harriet holds a deserving net worth of $ 1.5 million. Read Also: Treat Williams Wife Read the full article

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Finding Classic TV on Free Steaming Services

I admit that I’m late to this, no smartphone and no tablet, just a laptop and an ereader.  However, as I watched the cost of my Directv keep going up, plus their practice of charging extra for HD and extra for DVR and a monthly fee for...well, pretty much everything, it got to be more expensive than I was willing to put up with.

Switching to their Directv Now cut the cost a third of what I was paying, with no hidden fees.  While my first choice in a streaming device was Chromecast, they require a smartphone to use as a remote.  No smartphone, remember?  Therefore I opted for Amazon Fire TV Stick which, I admit, works very well.

As I searched for interesting streaming apps that were free, I found a few that were just up my alley in regards to retro television series and/or movies.  I thought I’d share what I found, even if many of you probably are already aware of them.  ALL ARE FREE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

My first choice and one that I’m quite pleased with is PLUTO.TV.  They have multiple channels with music, movies, classic television, Cracked, Shout TV, anime, Wired, various news and sports channels.  I’ve become hooked to Cracked’s After Hours skits where popular media is discussed and dissected.  

PBS was a great choice in some ways, but disappointing in others.  The various book related series, such as BOOKS, BETWEEN THE BOOKS (a local Florida series), OFF BOOK all keep me happy.  But certain of their series are locked with access only to those who contribute to PBS.  Considering it is PUBLIC television, I honestly find that offensive.  Of course, PBS is also supposed to be commercial free and we all know that is bullcrap.

THE CW has a sister app called THE CW SEED.  The series that particularly caught my attention was MOONLIGHT, a series I didn’t see much of during its original run.

NBC has the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, MIAMI VICE, and QUANTUM LEAP, among others.

TNT has a few selected back episodes of BONES and THE LIBRARIANS.  Again a little disappointed that they cannot have the entire series, but that’s Time Warner for you.

Tubi TV was a huge surprise.  If you have the patience to scroll through, it is amazing what you’ll find in regards to series and/or films, from silent to relatively current.  It does have a search option if you want a particular show/film, actor, genre, but clicking through was an eye-opener.  Some of the Basil Rathbone version of Sherlock Holmes’ films are available.  In the TV area: THE AVENGERS (Mrs. Peel, not Ironman), SEA PATROL, THE SAINT (Roger Moore version), THE PROTECTORS, SPACE: 1999, FATHER TED, MORSE, PETTICOAT JUNCTION, ONE STEP BEYOND, UFO, and many, many more from around the world.  Hundreds and hundreds of movies.

ABC has surprisingly little selection, but I did find ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB listed.  Considering the great classics they had in their heyday, I’m a little surprised.

SHOUT TV, while a channel on PLUTO TV, also has an app that will let you pick and choose.  Again, lots of films, but the retro series included ROUTE 66, SAPPHIRE & STEEL, THE SAINT, DOBIE GILLIS, and SECRET AGENT.

TBS, like TNT was a huge disappointment.  Limited selections of their currently running series, such as BROOKLYN NINE-NINE.  Such a shame.

CBS ALL ACCESS requires a monthly charge, but they have two price levels.  I opted for the $5.99 monthly fee as it allows me to get my local channel.  DIRECTV NOW is still in negotiations with CBS, Fox, and the CW, so this is the only way to be able to catch any CBS series.  They also have the following available for viewing:  AFTER TREK, MACGYVER (original & current), MISSION:  IMPOSSIBLE, PERRY MASON, all the STAR TREK series (even the animated one), THE TWILIGHT ZONE, JAG, HAWAII FIVE-O (both versions).  Complete episodes aren’t always available on the newer series.

I’m still checking out possibilities, so if you have suggestions, pass them on.  I’m still trying to find free services for the following series:  T.H.E. CAT; HONEY WEST; THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E.; LARAMIE; LANCER; WILD WILD WEST; SEA HUNT; WHIRLYBIRDS; THE VIRGINIAN; ANGEL; LEVERAGE; THE TOMORROW PEOPLE (the original series); THE CHAMPIONS; THE PROFESSIONALS; MINDER.

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Rap Sheet: ***639*** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters (PART 1.)

When not calling Trump supporters “Nazis” as a means to dehumanize us, the establishment media like to whine about the lack of civility in American politics, even as they cover up, ignore, downplay, or straight-up approve of the wave of violence and public harassment we are seeing against supporters of President Trump.

It is open season on Trump supporters, and the media is only fomenting, encouraging, excusing, and hoping for more… The media are now openly calling Trump supporters “Nazis” and are blaming Trump for a mass murder he had nothing to do with. This, of course, is a form of harassment because it incites and justifies mob violence.

Here is the list, so far, and remember that if any one of these things happened to a Democrat, the media would use the story to blot out the sun for weeks. Remember how crazy the media went over a nobody rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask, a GOP staffer who criticized Obama’s daughters? 

And yet, hundreds of Trump supporters are harassed and brutalized and the media only dutifully report them, if at all. That is because the media are desperate to normalize and justify violence and harassment against Trump and his supporters.

And while the media openly encourage this violence against us, the media also campaign to disarm us, to take away our Second Amendment right to defend ourselves.

This list will be updated as needed. Back-filling it will be an ongoing project…

Here is a video channel dedicated to documenting the dozens and dozens of assaults against Trump supporters.

Please email jnolte@breitbart.com  with any updates or anything you think deserves to be added to this list. Also, if you see errors — duplicate postings or events misinterpreted as attacks on Trump supporters, please let us know. Unlike the establishment media’s reporting, we want this list to be comprehensive and factual.  

November 5, 2018: Bomb Threat called in at building next to Trump event.

November 5, 2018: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) tells cheering supporters he “wanted to ‘Beat the Living Crap out of’ his GOP Opponent

November 3, 2018: Gillum (D-FL) intern arrested in Florida for throwing chocolate milk at College Republicans

November 2, 2018: Although reported to Twitter, live tweet (three days and counting) threatens Trump’s family.

November 2, 2018: Joe Biden Again Threatens To Harm GOP Candidate, “I’d Like To Give Him A High Threshold Of Pain”

October 31, 2018: Woman Threatens Violence Against 11-Year-Old over Trump Halloween Costume

October 31, 2018: Traverse City, MI,GOP office receives bomb threat

October 29, 2018: Actor James Cromwell: There will Be ‘Blood in the Streets’ Unless Trump Stopped

October 29, 2018: Twitter allows 179 death threats against Trump

October 29, 2018: FL: Shots Fired into South Daytona Republican Party Office

October 28, 2018: Left-wing mobs disrupt Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) rally

October 25, 2018: New York Times runs story fantasizing about Trump’s assassination

October 25, 2018: GOP headquarters vandalized in Iowa City, IA

October 24, 2018: Left-wing activist with history of harassing GOP lawmakers arrested for trying to buy radioactive material

October 24, 2018: N.J. GOP Congressional Candidate Receives Letter Threatening His Children

October 23, 2018: Boulder thrown through Rep. McCarthy’s (R-CA) office window

October 21, 2018: Obama’s former deputy secretary of state, Philippe Reines says harassment of McConnell and his wife “is fine”

October 20, 2018: Watch–Angry Leftists Harass McConnell, Wife at Restaurant: ‘Why Don’t You Get Out of Here?’

October 19, 2018: New York Man Charged With Threatening Two Senators Over Kavanaugh Support

October 18, 2018: Dem operative for Soros-funded group arrested for ‘battery’ against Nevada GOP candidate’s campaign manager

October 18, 2018: Rosie O’Donnell calls on military to remove Trump

October 17, 2018: TN Restaurant owner’s life threatened for renting space to GOP’s Marsha Blackburn

October 17, 2018: Portland Antifa tells 9/11 NYPD widow “YOUR HUSBAND SHOULD FUC*ING ROT IN THE GRAVE”

October 17, 2018: Professor calls for harassing Republicans at restaurants, sticking ‘fingers in their salads’

October 16, 2018: Person claimed ricin was in letter sent to Senator Collins home

October 16, 2018: Left-wing comedian gets physical with Trump supporter at Hooters

October 16, 2018: Republican candidate Shane Mekeland punched in Minnesota restaurant

October 16, 2018: Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) Blames GOP for Antifa Attack on Manhattan Club

October 16, 2018: Republican State Rep. Sarah Anderson assaulted in Minnesota

October 16, 2018: DFL Employee Calls for Republicans to be Beheaded

October 15, 2018: Vermont GOP House Candidate Receives Threatening Letter

October 13, 2018: VIDEO: Republican Justin Fareed’s Campaign Canvasser Allegedly Chased, Assaulted

October 12, 2018: GOP office vandalized in Mesa, AZ

October 12, 2018: Antifa Smash Windows, Deface Doors of Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan

October 11, 2018: Anti-Trump Protester Threatens to Rape Conservative Reporter

October 11, 2018: A truck with ‘Trump 2020’ bumper stickers was left at a bar overnight. Someone set it on fire.

October 10, 2018: Susan Rice’s Republican Son Assaulted at Pro-Kavanaugh Event

October 10, 2018: Eric Holder Tells Dem Activists: ‘When They Go Low, We Kick ‘Em’

October 10, 2018: CNN says mobs have “constitutional right” to chase Republicans out of restaurants

October 9, 2018: Hillary Clinton opposes “civility” with Republicans.

October 8, 2018: Raw Story’s Editor: Steve Scalise ‘Accomplice’ to His Attempted Murder

October 8, 2018: Leftist Teacher Tweets: “So Who’s Gonna Take One For the Team and Kill Kavanaugh?”

October 8, 2018: Antifa Takes Over Portland, Harasses Old Man for Disobeying

October 8, 2018: Rand Paul’s Wife: I Sleep with a Loaded Gun Thanks to Leftists’ Threats

October 7, 2018: Sen. Cory Gardner claims wife received a beheading video over Kavanaugh vote.

October 6, 2018: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) harassed at airport

October 6, 2018: Kavanaugh Protesters Accost an Elderly Trump Supporter

October 6, 2018: Sen. Collins Flooded with Abusive Tweets Threatening Death, Violence

October 5, 2018: Protesters Chase Graham To His Car Saying They Will Remove Him From Office

October 4, 2018: Republican Senators Hit With Death Threats Amidst Kavanaugh Fight

October 3, 2018: Ricin and threatening letter sent to Trump

October 2, 2018: 2 hospitalized after exposure to powdery substance at Cruz’s Houston campaign office

October 2, 2018: GOP Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD) assaulted by protesters

October 1, 2018: Vandals Hit IL GOP Headquarters With ‘RAPE’ Graffiti

October 1, 2018: Senator Mitch McConnell Badgered At Airport By Anti-Kavanaugh Activists

September 30, 2018: Georgetown prof: White GOP senators in Kavanaugh hearing ‘deserve miserable deaths’

September 27, 2018: Republican Senators doxxed by Democrat Congressional intern

September 25, 2018: CNN Defends harassment of Ted Cruz

September 25, 2018: Ted Cruz and Wife harassed out of DC restaurant

September 20, 2018: Brett Kavanaugh and family receive death threats

September 17, 2018: Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) “Something’s got to happen to this guy [Trump], because if we don’t get rid of him…”

September 12, 2018: Resistance Makes Rape Threat to Susan Collins Staffer over Kavanaugh Vote

September 11, 2018: DC police investigate threat to commit mass shooting at a MAGA event in Trump International Hotel

September 11, 2018: Threats of Rape and Strangling’ Force Writer Into Hiding After Anti-Abortion Tweet

September 11, 2018: Trump Hater Attacks California GOP House Candidate with Switchblade

September 10, 2018: Hispanic Immigrant says she was spit on in Santa Monica for Trump hat.

September 10,2018: Broadway Star Carole Cook on Trump: ‘Where’s John Wilkes Booth When you Need Him?

September 6, 2018: Media and Leftists Harass Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and His Family

September 6, 2018: Black Trump Fan Booted from Bar for Wearing Trump Hat

September 6, 2018: Arsonists hit Albany County GOP Headquarters in Laramie, WY.

September 5, 2018: TV Writer Hopes Kavanaugh Daughters ‘Go to School Without Being Shot’

September 5, 2018: Man Ahouting ‘Treason’ Intentionally Rammed Truck into Local Fox Station KDFW

August 31, 2018: Dem Rep. Ruben Gallego Threatens Immigration Officials

August 28, 2018: California student arrested for stealing MAGA hat from classmate, slapping teacher

August 27, 2018: “F” Trump: Flagstaff, AZ, GOP Office Vandalized

August 19, 2018: Dad Dares Daughter To Knock Off Guy’s MAGA Hat For 100 Bucks. She Does It.

August 18, 2018: Trump supporter assaulted by aging punk rocker.

August 14, 2018: CNN’s Chris Cuomo justifies and encourages violence against Trump supporters.

August 12, 2018: TX Restaurant forced to close social media accounts over photo of Jeff Sessions

August 9, 2018: ‘Frozen’ Actor snatches Trump banner away from audience member

August 9, 2018: FBI announce arrest for contract killing threat of ICE agent via Twitter

August 9, 2018: Antifa blocks Infowars reporter’s access to park

August 8, 2018: Democrat protester harass GOP rep. “Shame on your Mexican wife!”

August 6, 2018: Infowars reported harassed by Antifa in Portland

August 6, 2018: FL: Vandals throw dead fish on Lee Co. Republican headquarters

August 4, 2018: Democrat Alison Grimes ‘Jokes’ about Rand Paul beating

August 4, 2018: Trump supporter’s car has all 4 tires slashed in Philly.

August 4, 2018: Left-wing terrorists Antifa follow and harass Candace Owens

August 3, 2018: Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing

August 2, 2018: Man arrested for threatening Rep. SteveScalise

August 1, 2018: Woman charged with trying to hit man with her car over Trump sticker

July 28, 2018: Sen. Cory Booker Pleads for Supporters to ‘Get Up in the Face of Congresspeople’

July 26, 2018: KY: Fayette County GOP headquarters vandalized

July 26, 2018: Trump supporter punched in Hollywood

July 25, 2018: Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed … again.

July 25, 2018: Man arrested, indicted on charges after allegedly threatening Congresswoman Diane Black

July 24, 2018: Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) Says Brett Kavanaugh supporters are “complicit in evil”

July 23, 2018: Denver Post Runs Letter to Editor Suggesting Trump Should Be Executed

July 23, 2018: Elizabeth Warren Supporter Shoves Challenger

July 20, 2018: Green-Haired “Gender Fluid” Guy Spits All Over Teen’s MAGA Hat

July 20, 2018: ‘Hang Trump’ Shirt Peddled on Facebook

July 19, 2018: ‘New Yorker’ Kills Trump

July 19, 2018: CA Anti-Trump Protesters Target Legal Immigrant’s Cafe Over Trump Support, Hurl Feces

July 17, 2018: Uber Driver Refuses to Serve Black Conservatives Over MAGA Hat

July 17, 2018: Gory Trump Throat-Cutting Art Decorates Portland Gallery

July 16, 2018: House Democrat Calls For ‘Military Folks’ To ‘Stop Trump’

July 16, 2018: Mob chases pro-Trump group out of Los Angeles bar

July 15, 2018: Social Distortion singer attacks Trump supporter

July 15, 2018: Anti-Trump Paraglider Who Buzzed Trump Visit Arrested in Britain

July 15, 2018: Former Clinton WH Staffer: It’s ‘Tempting’ to Beat up Rand Paul

July 13, 2018: Anti-Israel protesters harass Jared and Ivanka with loud speakers outside their home

July 13, 2018: 76-year-old man assaulted by anti-Trump thugs in San Diego.

July 11, 2018: ABC’s Terry Moran shames Fox News’s Shannon Bream for feeling threatened at SCOTUS protest

July 10, 2018: Protesters arrested, accused of assaulting officer at Portland ICE office

July 10, 2018: Man threatens to ‘curb stomp’ Trump supporter at Disneyland

July 10, 2018: Fox News Reporter Harassed, Threatened And Forced To Leave Supreme Court By Leftist Mob

July 9, 2018: Far-left blog Talking Points Memo mocks Stephen Miller over report of confrontation with bartender.

July 9, 2018: Trump senior aide Stephen Miller harassed on street by angry bartender.

July 9, 2018: Motorists scream curse words at Sean Spicer in his yard.

July 9, 2018: Trump senior aide Kellyanne Conway harassed in grocery store

July 9, 2018: Anti-Trump activists vandalize New York DHS office

July 8, 2018: LISTEN: Idaho GOP Rep. Receives Threatening Voicemails, Emails Because of This Facebook Post

July 8, 2018: Longtime Hillary Clinton aide publishes contact information about bookstore owner who stopped the harassment of Steve Bannon, Reines’s  obvious goal is to see the bookstore owner harassed.

July 8, 2018: Far-left Daily Beast writer defends public harassment of Steve Bannon

July 7, 2018: Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) menaced outside restaurant. We know where you live!

July 7, 2018: Steve Bannon harassed at bookstore; police called

July 7, 2018: Left-wing AntiFa terrorists attack peaceful Tommy Robinson supporters in San Francisco

July 7, 2018: New York Times editorial calls for Dems to “take a page from The Godfather” to “go to the mattresses” to stop Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

July 6, 2018: BLM activist calls for assassination of Supreme Court Justice

July 6, 2018: Brick Thrown Through Front Door Of Wheeling, IL, Township Republican Headquarters

July 6, 2018: CNN analyst justifies violence against Trump supporters

July 6, 2018:  Long Island Man Threatened to Kill Supporters of Republican Congressman, Trump: Police

July 6, 2018: Florida man attacked over Trump flag in yard.

July 6, 2018: Woman threatens to stab Alan Dershowitz in heart.

July 5, 2018: Founder of #WalkAway campaign refused service at camera store.

July 5, 2018: Trump supporter wearing Make America Great Again hat allegedly assaulted in burger joint (video at link).

July 4, 2018: Paul Begala Reportedly Sending Serial-Harasser Mike Stark To Harass Barbara Comstock July 4th

July 3, 2018: Left-wing Catholic calls for sending Trump supporters to the guillotine

July 3, 2018: Nebraska GOP office vandalized.

July 3, 2018: EPA head Scott Pruitt harassed at restaurant.

July 2, 2018: MAGA hat wearer harassed at seafood restaurant

July 2, 2018: Mother of cancer survivor harassed online for thanking Eric Trump for $16 million in St. Jude support

July 2, 2018: Cher accuses ICE of “Gestapo tactics.”

July 2, 2018: Man accused of threatening to kill Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his family.

July 1, 2018: Washington Post reporter publicly calls on mobs to give Trump officials a “life sentence” of harassment.

July 1, 2018: Man wearing MAGA hat refused service in restaurant.

July 1, 2018: AntiFa terrorists attack Patriot Prayer rally in Portland.

June 30, 2018: Attorney Attacks Elderly Vet at “Keeping Families Together” March

June 29, 2018: Media falsely blame Trump for murder of five journalists in Maryland.

June 29, 2018: Hollywood actor calls on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to be harassed at “every meal.”

June 29, 2018: California man accused of threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s children.

June 28, 2018: Reuters editor says Trump has blood on his hands for murder of five journalists in Maryland. He still has a job.

June 28, 2018: Singer John Legend praises and agrees with Rep. Maxine Waters for calling on mobs to publicly harass Trump officials out of public spaces like restaurants.

June 28, 2018: Journalist lies about Maryland mass-shooter being a Trump supporter.

June 28, 2018: Co-Chair of Women for Trump Receives Death Threats After CNN Appearance

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Hollywood Stars Align With Racers and Rodders at 1958 Motorsports Events

Starstruck.

It should come as no surprise that photojournalists chasing interesting people, places, and things would lead interesting lives, themselves. Some of their shared experiences were documented on film that no Petersen staffer expected to ever be seen outside of the photo lab, recorded for internal entertainment only. Six decades further down the road, however, such outtakes glisten like gold amongst familiar, published negatives. Often, what determines whether or not such a nugget is selected for these pages is the story behind it—or lack thereof. We strive not only to identify who’s in a shot, but also why the credited staff writer or photographer deemed the particular scene worthy of fully 1/12 of that roll of medium-format, 12-shot film. Perhaps only that one person can say—or would’ve said, had we gotten to him in time. Those roving reporters were mostly in their mid-to-late twenties or thirties, already. Add 60 years, and it’s easy to understand why a tempting image might be rejected today only because its shooter either can’t remember or, more commonly, took that inside information to his grave. (Prime example: Fully half of this installment’s photography is the work of the late Eric Rickman, whom historians haven’t been able to pester since 2009.)

Luckily for HOT ROD Deluxe and y’all, Spence Murray and Bob D’Olivo are still around, able, and willing to suffer dumb questions about obscure images that neither had seen since their film was processed and proofed in 1958. The irony of using modern technology to digitize, share, and identify ancient negatives that belatedly appear here as black dots on paper—same as ever—is not lost on either nonagenarian. Though Rod & Custom‘s founding editor has been physically slowed by strokes that hinder typing, wife Carolyn expertly transmitted Spence’s memories of building, driving, touring, and crashing the Dream Truck. The same month he crashed into a Kansas ditch, D’Olivo bumped into Jill St. John at Riverside Raceway. Along with Bob’s four frames of the actress, we noticed Motor Trend‘s main photographer was shooting some 35mm film, instead of the larger formats used almost exclusively by Robert E. Petersen and his hirelings since the start. Mature readers will recall that the smaller, lighter, single-lens-reflex (SLR) design was as nearly as revolutionary in its time as Apple’s camera phone became. For this issue, the longtime Petersen photographic director listed the advantages of 35 mm for race coverage.

Another thing that this latest round of archive research uncovered was an unprecedented number of entertainers and other celebrities not normally associated with our hobby. Stateside interest in sports-car racing was booming, especially now that underdog Corvettes and Thunderbirds dared to challenge European exoticars. Entertainment figures had been associated with hot rod shows since the very first one, in 1948, for which young Robert E. Petersen lined up some B-list beefcake to lure wives and girlfriends to the Los Angeles Armory (while Pete peddled the Jan. ’48 HOT ROD outside). Relationships created during and after his postwar stint as a Hollywood agent would increasingly bring those worlds together in Petersen-produced magazines, promotions, indoor shows, and special events. Thus does his incomparable photo collection contain a unique combination of show-biz and automotive milestones, along with mug shots of the employees who documented them. Many more examples await discovery. We can hardly wait to peek behind the curtain at 1959’s outtakes, next, before blasting into the ’60s.

Of approximately 3 million black-and-white negatives in the Petersen archive, this one was surely among the most mutually painful for an editor and his audience. Through five years and four custom iterations, Rod & Custom readers were encouraged to submit suggestions for modifications that would be performed in the magazine, then seen in person at the 47 car shows across America that featured the Dream Truck. Its 48th would’ve been Iowa’s 1958 International Motor Sports Show, had the tow vehicle’s left-rear tire lasted just 60 more miles. Editor Spencer Murray and helper Jim “Buzzie” Blair escaped uninjured. The new-model Chevy Fleetside with custom Barris grille and paint also survived. In fact, after a wrecker yanked the shiny side up, Spence drove it the rest of the way to Des Moines at the request of a nervous show promoter whose patrons were expecting to meet the editor and see a customized California pickup. (If any of you attendees took pictures of the damaged pickup on display, we’d love to share them in HRD.) Murray briefly referred to the October 21st incident in his Jan. and Feb. ’59 editions—the last two installments of a series that established the formula for long-term magazine projects. The Dream Truck appeared in too many R&Cs to list here, starting with Sept. ’53. (Also see Mar. ’58 HOT ROD; July & Oct. ’58 Motor Life.) The pre-crash ’58 Fleetside mild custom got a spread of its own in R&C’s Jan. ’59 truck issue.

If you young ‘uns ever wondered why the last inside page is consistently missing from Grandpa’s old Car Crafts, it probably went someplace his mother did not. Carol Grace’s turn in CC’s monthly “Coming Attraction” department teased in more ways than one, pointing (sorry!) young readers to Ted Long’s F100 custom and the upcoming truck issue. (See May & June ’58 CC.)

Richard Boone stood a respectable 6-foot-one, but the Have Gun, Will Travel guy looks like a giant in a toy car. Bob D’Olivo rushed a few shots for a May ’58 Motor Trend piece allegedly penned by “Paladin” himself (no byline, but written in the first person). Therein, we learned how Bill Devin—whose fiberglass Ferrari Monza knock-off came in 27 sizes and wheelbases from 75 to 100 inches—adapted this miniature model to the 80-inch wheelbase of a hot Porsche Speedster that Boone had crashed on location.

Hot rodding’s most-famous trophy was still jointly awarded for America’s Most Beautiful Competition Car and America’s Most Beautiful Roadster. Oakland’s big winners were Romeo Palamides’ canopied fueler and Richard Peters’ radical ’29 roadster pickup. The Ala Kart, destined to repeat as 1959’s AMBR, was built by George Barris (seen in the background—for once!). (See Oct. ’58 HRM; Dec. ’58 CC.)

“Have Camera Will Travel,” read the headline of a May ’58 HRM “house” ad, followed by the subscription pitch: “A man of action, our photo editor Eric Rickman is everywhere! You can go, too, by keeping your subscription to HOT ROD up to date. GO, MAN! $3.50 year, $6.00 for two.” We prefer this outtake because it shows more of Rick’s famous Corvette—here in recovery mode, following a single-vehicle street crash—and also because his camera case’s cool decals were “airbrushed out” for publication. We asked his longtime boss, photographic director Bob D’Olivo, about the hardware. “At the top is my personal Eastman Kodak 4×5 view camera,” e-mailed D’Olivo. “Coming down, one item looks like nothing I’ve ever seen, a small camera on a strap. Never saw him use it. On the bottom is my 4×5 Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic. The company had no equipment like this when I started there in August of 1952; we used the stuff that my wife and I brought from New York in my ’40 Ford Deluxe tudor when we moved to California in 1950.”

Four years before Carol Cox singlehandedly pressured Wally Parks into accepting the first female participant in NHRA-produced events, Rickman got this ironic pan shot of her and hubby Lloyd’s family car at sanctioned Inyokern Drag Strip. (See Aug. ’58 HRM.) The couple alternated driving at the drags and El Mirage dry lake—where Carol initially broke an unwritten rule against women racers by disguising herself in Lloyd’s overalls and signature hat until she was accepted. In 1962, Carol would wheel her daily-driven ’61 Ventura to SS/Automatic class wins at NHRA’s only two national events (Pomona and Indy).

What the heck were sprint cars doing on Riverside Raceway’s road course—running in the wrong direction, yet? All we knew was that Rickman submitted a few rolls identified as “CRA 500” for processing on June 2. Curators Jim Miller (American Hot Rod Foundation) and Greg Sharp (NHRA Motorsports Museum) each came through with details about a 500-mile California Racing Association show during the track’s official grand-opening Memorial Day weekend on May 30. The $10,000 purse was considered huge (equivalent to about $87,000 now). The course direction was reversed to counterclockwise for oval-track drivers accustomed to turning left. Some teams installed oversized fuel tanks to minimize pit stops.

Riverside winner Bud Rose was congratulated by a virtually unknown, 21-year-old trophy queen named Dyan Cannon. The hunky dude stepping on the tire is John Smith, soon to become famous on the Laramie series. Rose (whose given name was Harry Eisle) prevailed in the same, ancient Offy that he’d stunt-driven for Clark Gable’s action scenes in 1950’s To Please a Lady. Afterward, Joe Gemsa bought the roadster from the studio and named it the Clark Gable Special. Rose/Eisle was obviously a dead ringer for the movie star. (During filming, Gable supposedly told his double, “You drive the race cars, and I’ll take care of the broads.”)

You’d look befuddled, too, if your boss fired off a flash bulb first thing one morning—particularly if he was Wally Parks, not exactly a major prankster. HRM tech editor Ray Brock was probably sharing this Indianapolis motel room with Parks and possibly another staffer for Memorial Day weekend (note rollaway cot and partial person in foreground).

Would you believe Shirley MacLaine, queen of the 500? She was 24. The popular actress stayed through the race that opened with Pat O’Connor’s fatal first-lap crash on a restart to reward Jimmy Bryan with three big kisses in the winner’s circle.

A rare, unposed portrait of Parks was taken from telephoto range by colleague Tom Medley during the Indy 500 weekend. It’s no wonder the guy often looked worried while juggling simultaneous responsibilities as HRM Editor, editorial director of Petersen’s automotive titles, NHRA president, and drag-race promoter.

Another Medley photo from the crew’s Indy trip is a self-portrait that not even his son had seen. Gary Medley is a chip off the old block, continuing to publish new/old artwork featuring the adventures of his multitalented parent’s alter ego, Stroker McGurk. (See strokerbymedley.com.)

Although Backstage Past prioritizes unpublished outtakes over pictures you might’ve seen in the magazines, we’re making this exception partly to address HRM’s inexplicable failure to attach any caption to Tex Smith’s classic action shot in the Sept. ’58 issue—a rare showdown between the most-controversial dragsters of the preceding season: the California car that ignited the 1957-1963 fuel ban by running 166.97 versus the Florida fueler that reportedly reached 176.40 the previous November. HRM readers might’ve been informed that Wichita Falls was the farthest west that Don Garlits had yet traveled; that a $450 guarantee was his first-ever appearance fee; that he reset both the strip and Texas state records to 9.12/163.33; that the runnerup (far lane) was Kansan Loyd Davis in the former Cook & Bedwell fueler.

Four months before the Dream Truck’s crash, R&C’s editor posed at home with the fourth-and-final version of a ’50 Chevy that was first customized in 1952. A who’s who of custom shops contributed body modifications (e.g., Barris, Metz, Winfield, Valley Custom). Now 91, Murray’s memory is intact. Via e-mail, he answered all of our questions in detail, except one: Asked to identify the lovely lady in his driveway—twice—Spence curiously suffered amnesia, coming back with “Just a friend” and “One of my exes.”

Near-simultaneous exposures by HRM’s Brock and Parks accidentally produced mirror images of Pikes Peak champs Nick Sanborn Jr. (Stock Car), Bobby Unser (Championship Car), and Ak Miller (Sports Car). Both staffers can be seen in the opposing backgrounds. Brock (wearing backward ball cap) appears to be climbing some poor schmuck’s shoulders to get the high-angle, forward-facing composition that happened to include his boss (behind Miller in the sunglasses and white Mobil sweatshirt).

All we know about this intriguing frame is staff photographer Colin Creitz’s three-roll entry in the photo lab’s film log: “Art Center School.” The assignment was issued by Motor Life, but our incomplete collection failed to produce a related article. Experts’ predictions and artists’ impressions of Detroit’s upcoming compact cars were newsstand staples in the late ’50s. The clay models seem to hint at future Chrysler products. The custom-looking pickup makes us wonder why Dodge never produced an “El Dart-o” to compete with the so-called “car-trucks” introduced by Chevy and Ford for 1959.

Various closeups of the Scotty’s Muffler Service Special and team from this August photo session were published in tabloids as prerace publicity for NHRA’s Nationals. What’s unusual about our outtake is the absence of Wally Parks and the appearance of a full camera-and-sound crew, possibly outside its studio. Car-owner Charles “Scotty” Scott (behind seat) was joined by 9-year-old Billy “The Kid” Scott, his future Top Gas and Top Fuel prodigy, and mechanic Cub Barnett. Both Scotts are gone. Barnett still builds race motors and campaigns one of nostalgia racing’s winningest roadsters. As for Miss HOT ROD, a caption printed in Drag News—likely written by Wally himself—reveals that “Hollywood starlet Christine Callas was chosen by more than 70,000 hot rodders throughout the nation to reign over the 1958 National Championship Drag Races in Oklahoma City, Labor Day weekend. She is auburn-haired, blue-eyed, with 36-24-36 measurements.”

This may not be the first pair of rails ever to pull side-by-side wheelstands, but Eric Rickman’s example is the earliest we’ve noticed on archive film. The state-of-the-art California cars of Tommy Ivo (far lane) and Jim Nelson were tangling for Top Eliminator at Santa Ana. What seems like a sizable holeshot might’ve been calculated caution by Ivo, who held a half-second advantage. Earlier this Sunday, his Kent Fuller frame and injected Max Balchowsky Buick combined for a shocking, all-time-record e.t on gas, 9.50 seconds (at 141.68). The Aug. 23 Drag News ran a similar photo and reported that Ivo’s A/Dragster beat the carbureted-Chevy B/D by two lengths. Nelson sat in the second chassis built with Dode Martin. Dubbed the Drag Master, the car’s name would be merged into one word when the pals launched Dragmaster Co. with a handshake. (See respective car features in Feb. ’59 and Mar. ’59 CC; Apr. ’59 HRM.)

No, your old eyeballs are not seeing double, nor did Photoshop exist to fake us out 60 years ago. At the opposite end of this radical custom, a second pair of headlight housings was installed in the leading edge of the hood. CC Editor Dick Day brought the weirdness home from the World’s Fair Auto Show in Springfield, Massachusetts

Another of Tom Medley’s great portraits captured Bob D’Olivo with one of the earliest 35mm cameras used by his photographic team. “It’s an Asahi Pentax 35mm SLR (single lens reflex) model,” he tells us. “It had a no-return mirror, meaning that after the shutter is released, you see nothing until film is advanced. At least, it was a beginning. I also used a 35mm Nikon rangefinder model with a couple of lenses. Nikon SLR cameras did not exist yet. The advantages of 35mm equipment were compact size, higher shutter speeds, motor drives, wide-angle lenses and longer-focal-length lenses for racing, and getting 36 exposures in a small cassette [versus 12 frames per medium-format roll].”

Utah mechanic Athol Graham drew quite a crowd when his homemade streamliner lumbered onto the salt for the first time. Starting with a B-29 belly tank and a surplus Allison V12, he’d invested 12 years and about $2,500 in the project. An oil-pressure problem forced Graham to abort his first-and-only shakedown run, slowing to 84 mph. In the push-off photo, HRM’s Ray Brock approaches with a camera. Graham’s speed would improve the next year to 344 mph—shockingly close to Mickey Thompson’s 364-mph record in Challenger I’s debut. Shooting for the first 400 in 1960, he’d be killed after the left-front wheel reportedly snapped off, flipping him end over end. Nevertheless, the City of Salt Lake was rebuilt twice, raced at Bonneville by two true believers, and still exists.

Among the mysteries raised by this round of archive research is why such a killer Rickman shot of the season’s most-important match did not appear in extensive NHRA Nationals coverage in Petersen monthlies. Absent the late photographer and Wally Parks, who oversaw all automotive titles as PPC editorial director, we can only guess that the obvious darkness influenced rejection by a safety-obsessed boss whose other job was running—and protecting—NHRA. Parks had already convinced two slower quarterfinalists to bow out, eliminating one daylight-eating round of Top Eliminator. Ted Cyr (near lane) received no cash for beating Al Eshenbaugh in 10.04 seconds and earning 1958’s national championship, though he and partner Bill Hopper won the keys to a new Chevy Fleetside pickup. The California team had entered two rails in NHRA’s second gas-only Big Go, hoping to unload this older model here, plus an A/Altered coupe that Hopper drove. Amazingly, all three could’a, would’a, should’a competed in the quarterfinals that never happened, had Hopper’s class-winning Fiat not been one of the two cars prematurely dropped by darkness. Ted drove both dragsters in the semis, where only a sideways launch in the new car prevented an all-Cyr & Hopper final round.

You won’t find Barbara Livingston’s name in any 1958 mastheads, but backstage, the former HRM secretary and future Mrs. Wally Parks remained involved as unofficial proofreader and fierce protector of Petersen and NHRA publications; too involved for editors and contributors who resented her outsized influence and interference (e.g., she and artist Pete Millar waged a running battle over the “butt cracks and flies” that Barbara faithfully erased from his illustrations). All PPC editors seemed to be go-kart enthusiasts. Wally’s twin-engined model rode atop an entry-level Delray sedan delivery thought to be NHRA’s first official vehicle, subsequently lettered and assigned to ex-HRM staffer Tex Smith.

Sporty-car fans’ favorite two couples could not have been more different. For starters, garage operators Max and Ina Balchowsky drove their homebuilt ��special” the 60 miles from home to Riverside for USAC’s inaugural U.S. Grand Prix, while Lance Reventlow’s large crew was delivering not one, not two, but all three of the existing Scarabs on fancy trailers. Reventlow, whose supportive mom was Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, got rear-ended on the first lap and spent the day spectating alongside already-famous actress Jill St. John, his future wife. Team mechanic-driver Chuck Daigh salvaged their day by winning the main event in another Scarab. Meanwhile, Balchowsky ran near the front until a broken Jaguar gearbox—reportedly the only “foreign” part in his entire car—restricted Old Yeller to high gear only and a seventh-place finish. (See May ’58 ML; June ’58 & Jan. ’59 HRM; Jan. ’59 MT; May ’16 HRD.)

After aging out of the Mousketeers, child-stars Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk might’ve been practicing a magic trick or how to slow dance without swallowing a playing card, for all we knew. Our historical sources were likewise stumped until Margaret Simmons, a bride of 1958, recalled the “Suck-and-Blow” party game played by teens of the time—with one key difference: Instead of positioning the card vertically, for transfer by the lips, these crazy kids used their teeth. (No sucking and blowing allowed by Disney, apparently.) Later, they costarred in cheesy, teen-romance films such as Pajama Party, in which Tommy plays a clueless Martian who gets wooing lessons from Annette.

Spence Murray had the wreckage trucked back to L.A. as freight. He was not compensated personally for the Dream Truck’s loss, and George Barris’s $1,000-plus repair estimate left no practical option to stripping and selling an old, badly bent body and frame that nobody expected to see again. The custom made its final magazine appearance in the HOT ROD Mart classifieds in 1959 and was presumed lost for the three decades before freelance photojournalist Michael Lamm spotted it on a Stockton street. Bruce Glasscock tracked the truck down and started a restoration before selling to Kurt McCormick, who completed the job, and still has it. The body retains a surprising percentage of its old steel, including the signature fins that Bob Metz installed (now reattached to replacement fenders).

We can see why fuel economy wasn’t the main concern of folks shopping for new cars this fall. Sorry about ruining your next trip to a corporate filling station, though Mohawk’s pricing isn’t all that great, adjusted for inflation and modern technology: In today’s money, we’d be paying only $2.20, but that gallon wouldn’t take a ’59 Studebaker nearly as far as any modern gas compact. Motor Life averaged just 16.1 mpg testing a 90hp Lark that needed 20.7 seconds to reach 60 mph. (See Feb. ’59 ML.)

Had Mickey Thompson and Fritz Voigt dragged their dual-Hemi, 4WD monster directly to Oklahoma City’s NHRA Nationals this summer—as previously planned—rather than detouring to Bonneville for a test run of new Bob Sorrell bodywork, the overweight, second-hand dragster probably would’ve been footnoted in history as an early round Top Eliminator victim of much-quicker gas dragsters. Instead, they ran 242 right off the trailer, on gasoline, before borrowing some nitro and deciding to stick around for record runs. Eight passes later, the two drag racers had America’s fastest car, claiming both the unlimited streamliner record (266.204 avg.) and Top Time of Speed Week (294.117). Nobody we asked (including Danny Thompson) knows whether the Feb. ’59 HOT ROD Mart ad resulted in a sale, or where the car went. Greg Sharp suggests that the early image is an illustration, possibly commissioned for sponsor pitches (evidently unsuccessful, in the case of a cam company whose name never appeared on a car that ran Isky’s stuff). (See Nov. ’58 HRM; Nov. ’58 & Feb. ’59 MT; Dec. ’58 R&C; Dec. ’58 & Aug. ’59 CC.)

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The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football

Phil White

The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football

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November 8, 2014

During the second period of the season-opening football game against Arizona on Sept. 20, 1969, a packed house at the University of Wyoming's War Memorial Stadium watched as Cowboys' split end Ron Hill, a sophomore from Denver, caught a pass and took it 24 yards into the end zone. It was Wyoming's first touchdown in the 100th anniversary year of college football.

The University of Wyoming Cowboys near the start of the 1969 season. UW American Heritage Center.

In the third quarter, Jay Berry—then called Jerry Berry—a sophomore safety from Tulsa, Okla., intercepted an Arizona pass on his own 12-yard line and returned it 88 yards for another touchdown.

But these football triumphs faded quickly from public memory when a controversy that fall linking sports, race, religion and protest politics swung the nation’s news spotlights to Laramie, Wyoming at a time when Americans were already deeply divided over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Controversy erupted over the expulsion of 14 African-American football players from the Cowboys’ varsity. They came to be known as the Black 14.

A Winning Team

The Cowboys opened the season by defeating Arizona, the Air Force Academy, Colorado State University and the University of Texas at El Paso, and were ranked 12th in the nation in the United Press International coaches poll as the players prepared for their next game against Brigham Young University. The UW team led the nation in rushing defense.

Ten members of the Black 14 at the University of Wyoming, fall, 1969. Front center: Earl Lee Second row l-r: John Griffin and Willie Hysaw; Third row l-r: Don Meadows and Ivie Moore; Fourth row l-r: Tony Gibson, Jerry Berry and Joe Williams; Fifth row l-r: Mel Hamilton and Jim Issac. Not shown are Tony Magee, Ted Williams, Lionel Grimes and Ron Hill. University of Wyoming photo.Lloyd Eaton coached Wyoming football from 1957 through 1970. He was head coach beginning in 1962. UW photo service.Under Head Coach Lloyd Eaton, Wyoming had won three consecutive Western Athletic Conference championships in the three previous years; had won 31 of the previous 36 games; defeated Florida State in the Sun Bowl and very nearly upset Louisiana State University in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1968, after going undefeated during the 1967 regular season.

The 51-year-old Eaton, a native of Belle Fourche, S.D. was at the peak of his career. On Oct. 11, 1969, the Madison, Capital Timesreported that Wisconsin Athletic Director Elroy Hirsch was considering Eaton as a candidate for the Big Ten team's next coach.

But on Friday morning, Oct. 17, 1969, the day before the BYU game, Eaton summarily dismissed Hill, Berry and the 12 other African-American players on the UW team when they appeared at his office as a group wearing black armbands on their civilian clothes. BYU is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormons. By wearing the armbands, the players were protesting the LDS policy then in force, which barred black men from the priesthood.

The coach's action deeply affected the players’ lives, and soon caused the demise of his own coaching career. The university, too, was profoundly affected.

A turbulent time

The controversy came at the end of the turbulent 1960s. The decade profoundly changed the nation but had apparently had less of an effect, so far, on conservative Wyoming. In 1968, the Tet Offensive had shown Americans no quick end was likely for the Vietnam War, a politically damaged president, Lyndon Johnson, had declined to run for re-election, MartinLuther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated and protest spread wider and wider across campuses and capitals.

In October of that year, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos indelibly linked sports to racial politics when, standing on the medalists’ platform at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, they raised black-gloved fists as The Star-Spangled Banner played over the loudspeakers.

In the western United States, some college athletes learned of the Mormon Church’s policy of barring black men from the church’s lay priesthood and thus from leadership in the church. The students felt they could bring attention to what they saw as an injustice by protesting when their teams played Brigham Young University. BYU, located in Provo, Utah, is wholly owned and operated by the Mormon Church.

In November 1968, at San Jose State in California, black football players boycotted a home game against BYU, and only 2,800 fans “braved threats of disruption and demonstration” to come to the game, BYU’s football media guide noted the following year. In April, 1969, black track athletes at the University of Texas at El Paso were ejected from the team when they refused to participate in a meet at Provo. On Oct. 6, an Associated Press story in Wyoming newspapers reported that an Arizona State black student group had asked black students to boycott the Sun Devils' Western Athletic Conference game against BYU that week because of alleged discrimination against blacks at BYU.

Protest comes to Laramie

About a week before the UW-BYU game, slated to be played on UW home turf in Laramie, Willie Black, a 32-year-old math doctoral student with a wife and four children living in student housing, had learned of the Mormon policy. Black was chancellor of UW’s Black Students Alliance. On the Monday before the game, he informed alliance members, including the black football players, of what he had discovered. On Wednesday, he delivered a statement entitled "Why We Must Protest" to the UW president and athletic director. The document announced plans for a demonstration at the stadium before the BYU game.

Mathematics doctoral student Willie Black, left, was chancellor of the Black Student Alliance. American Heritage Center."Our Humanity Demands: . . . That all people of good will--whatever their color--athletes included" protest this policy, the document noted. Further, it called on UW and all WAC schools to stop using "student monies and university facilities to play host to [BYU and] thereby, in part, sanction those inhuman and racist policies. . . ."

Also on Wednesday, Laramie townspeople and students took part in the Vietnam Moratorium, a nationally coordinated series of demonstrations and teach-ins. It was the largest set of antiwar protests the nation—and Laramie—had seen so far.

After practice on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 16, Coach Eaton warned Wyoming's tri-captain Joe Williams about the coach’s rule prohibiting participation by athletes in demonstrations. Williams conveyed this information to his fellow black players that night, and they decided to meet with Eaton to discuss the issue.

About 9:15 a.m. on Friday, the 14 black players gathered at Washakie Center in the dormitory complex. They donned black armbands and walked to Memorial Fieldhouse where Eaton had his office, hoping to persuade the coach to allow them to show some solidarity with the BSA call for a protest.

Seeing them together, wearing armbands, Eaton led them into the upper seating area of the fieldhouse and, according to the players, immediately told them that they were all off the team. After that, according to the wife of a faculty member who was walking on the fieldhouse floor below, the coach insulted the players in an angry manner, which further polarized the situation.

"It was pretty belligerent talk," Ann Marie Walthall recalled more than 20 years later in a documentary on the Black 14 produced by University of Wyoming Television. "I felt embarrassed for the young men hearing this tirade."

Eaton would later testify in federal court that he "told them that if the program at Wyoming was not satisfactory then perhaps they had better think about going to Morgan State or Grambling”—both traditional black colleges.

The players emptied their lockers and walked to the student union. They asked UW President William Carlson to arrange a meeting with Eaton at Old Main. In the afternoon, the players met with Carlson, Athletic Director Red Jacoby and student leaders, but Eaton did not appear.

That evening, the coaches and players met separately with the UW Board of Trustees and Wyoming GovernorStanley K. Hathaway during a special meeting lasting from 8 p.m. to 3:15 a.m. Saturday. At that late hour, the university issued a press release saying the trustees confirmed the dismissal of the 14 players. The players "will not play in today's game or any during the balance of the season,” the press release noted, and added: "The dismissals result from a violation of a football coaching rule Friday morning."

Support for the 14 dismissed players was widespread on the UW campus. American Heritage Center.Support for Coach Eaton was also widespread, and bumper stickers like this were common. Branding Iron Collection, American Heritage Center.Athletic Director Jacoby further noted in the release that "(a)mple notice was given to all members of the football team regarding rules and regulations of the squad, some of which cover a ban on participation in student demonstrations of any kind. Our football coaching staff has made it perfectly clear to all members of the team that groups, or factions, will not be tolerated and that team members will be treated as individuals.”

According to Jacoby, the staff had “no recourse” when the 14 players appeared as a group at the coach's office. “We had no choice but to drop them from the squad. It is unfortunate this happened, but an open defiance of a coaching staff regulation cannot be tolerated."

On Saturday, the Cowboys, suddenly an all-white team, defeated all-white BYU 40-7 while the 14 dismissed black players watched from the student section of the stands. Fans on both sides of the stadium chanted, "We love Eaton." After the game, Eaton said, "The victory was the most satisfying one I've ever had in coaching."

The players

Statistics published in the program for the game showed that the 14 African-American players had contributed substantially that year to the team's unbeaten status through the first four games. John Griffin, a junior college transfer from San Fernando, Calif., was the leading receiver; Ron Hill of Denver led in kickoff returns; and Joe Williams of Lufkin, Texas, and Tony Gibson were third and fourth, respectively, in rushing. Ted Williams, another transfer from Port Hueneme, Calif., relieved the injured Joe Williams (no relation) in the CSU game and rushed for 87 yards to lead the Cowboys' ground attack.

Mel Hamilton, a junior and a former mayor of Boys Town, Neb., had moved into a starting position in the offensive line, and Gibson, a junior from Pittsfield, Mass., started at fullback in the UTEP game. Ivie Moore, a Pine Bluff, Ark., defensive back who transferred from a Kansas junior college, was listed as a starter for the BYU game.

Defensive end Tony McGee, a junior from Battle Creek, Mich., had keyed the Cowboys' thrilling come-from-behind win at the Air Force Academy by tackling the AFA quarterback for losses seven times.

Only one of the 14 was a senior at the time of their dismissal. Two—Mel Hamilton and Earl Lee—had already served in the U.S. Army. Half of them were under 21 years old.

The national spotlight

The dismissal of the 14 brought camera crews from the three big TV networks to Laramie, and articles appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the nation. The Nov. 3, 1969, issue of Sports Illustratedcarried an article whose photographs included one showing 10 of the dismissed players sitting on the south steps of the Wyoming Union. The Casper, Wyo. Quarterback Club, the Rock Springs Wyo. City Council and the University of Wyoming Alumni Association supported the coach.

Aside from some of the students, the Denver Post and the student newspaper at UW, one of the few expressions of concern for the dismissed players, ironically enough, was an unnamed source close to the BYU Board of Trustees quoted in the Oct. 24, 1969, issue of the Denver Post.

"It's most disturbing,” said the source, “to think that the Negro athletes at Wyoming could lose their education."

Aftermath

Early in 1969, the Wyoming Legislature had adopted a law allowing the UW student body president to sit as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees. This allowed Associated Students of the University of Wyoming President Hoke MacMillan to sit in on all of the board’s sessions that Friday night and early Saturday morning.

Click to enlarge | The Black Student Alliance issued this statement calling for protests the Wednesday before the BYU game in October, 1969. Irene Schubert Collection, American Heritage Center.Click to enlarge | The press release issued by the UW trustees at 3:15 a.m. Oct. 18, 1969. American Heritage Center. Author's collection.In response to the dismissals, the UW Student Senate, with MacMillan fully involved, adopted a resolution by a 15-3 vote alleging that “coach Eaton refused to grant a rational forum for discussion, choosing instead to degrade and arbitrarily dismiss each player....” The resolution said the ASUW Senate "expresses its shock at the callous, insensitive treatment afforded 14 Black athletes. . . .[T]he actions of coach Eaton and the Board of Trustees were not only uncompromising, but unjust and totally wrong."

On the Wednesday after the game, Eaton and Carlson appeared at an on-campus news conference to announce that the coach's rule prohibiting student athletes from participating in demonstrations was being amended to apply only while on the playing field. When Eaton was asked if the dismissal of the 14 would have happened if the now-modified rule had been in effect the previous week, he left the press conference, the Associated Press reported the next day. The UW student newspaper, the Branding Iron, published an editorial advocating reinstatement of the players because the no-demonstrating rule had now been withdrawn.

English professor Ken Craven stated at the October 19 faculty meeting that he would resign if the players were not reinstated. Some of the other UW faculty members supported the coach, however.

During the week after the BYU game, four black trackmen—Huey Johnson and Grady Manning of Chicago, Mike Frazier of Pueblo, Colo., and Jerry Miller of Battle Creek, Mich.—quit the team and left UW in protest of the football players’ dismissals. Two of them had been conference champions in their main events the previous year.

The Cowboys finished their home slate with a victory over San Jose State a week after the BYU game. A plane pulling a banner proclaiming, "Yea Eaton," flew over the stadium, and the crowd responded with a roar and a standing ovation. Many wore "Eaton" armbands. All of the SJS players wore either black or multi-colored armbands.

[thefabulousfulcrum]

The Land of the Large Adult Son

via TheNewYorker

By Jia Tolentino

n January, 2015, shortly after Mike Huckabee announced that he was exploring a second bid for the Presidency, a Twitter user with the handle @JuliusIrvington posted an old Huckabee family photo in which the politician, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, sits next to his wife on a wooden bench. Behind them, three kids smile at the camera. On the right is a young Sarah Huckabee (now Sanders). Next to her are her two brothers, John Mark and David, who are the same size as their father and wear matching striped shirts. “My favorite thing in the world is that Mike Huckabee literally haslarge adult sons,” @JuliusIrvington wrote. 

This seems to be roughly when the large-son meme went more or less mainstream. It had been germinating in arcane corners of the Internet for a couple of years by then. In 2012, the Twitter user @MuscularSon, who eventually deleted his account, started tweeting in character as a beleaguered father of several mythically rowdy boys. “i cant control my enormous nerd sons. they force me to cosplay as a police box from Dr Who and take turns paintballing my enormous nude torso,” he wrote. And later, “my two awful big sons got into the 20 quarts of hummus i have and now their heading toward The City.” In November, 2013, @dril, the ur-account for this genre of absurdist online humor, tweeted, “i have trained my two fat identical sons to sit outside of my office and protect my brain from mindfreaks by meditating intensely.” In 2014, he tweeted, “please pray for my sons Thursten and Gorse, who have just glued themselves to a curtain.” By then, the image—a tornado of havoc around a couple of big, rambunctious sons—had somehow solidified as a comic trope.

The galaxy of large adult sons contains many constellations, and sons don’t necessarily have to be adults to belong. In November, 2014, the parody Web site Clickhole posted a BuzzFeed-style quiz called “Which One of My Garbage Sons Are You?” “I’ve got some shit boys,” the intro read. “My huge beautiful wife gave me children who think and speak like the toilet. I have four garbage sons: The first son is named Royce, the second son is named Preston, the third son is named Lance and Blake (two names for just one son), and the fourth son is the dreaded Laramie. Which one of my toxic sons are you? Take this quiz to find out!” My result: “You are a real trash mountain of a son who came marching out of my huge beautiful wife on the worst day to ever happen.” I was working at Gawker Media when this quiz was posted, and it derailed all operations for about an hour.

Once you’re made aware of the preponderance of large adult sons in our culture, you will start seeing large adult sons everywhere. Like all the best memes, it is essentially good-natured: “large” is a proud but gentle word, used in this context the way a gardener might talk about a beautiful butternut squash. The meme is also highly flexible, as Barry Petchesky, the deputy editor of Deadspin, pointed out to me over e-mail: “Literally every man in America is someone’s large adult son.” Sports media, in particular, has adapted it as a term for what Tom Ley, the managing editor of Deadspin, calls “big lovable galoots.” In April, SB Nation ran a piece unpacking “the myth of Aaron Judge, our large adult baseball son.” Sports Illustrated responded, arguing that the Cubs leftfielder Kyle Schwarber was the true large adult son of the M.L.B. (“How can anyone be said to match Schwarber in terms of being a big beefy boy?” Jon Tayler asked.)

But the Huckabee sons remain the poster boys for the meme. “They are very large, they are adult, and they are so clearly Huckabee’s sons,” Petchesky noted. They also fully fit the archetype. David, notoriously, once killed a dog at summer camp, and John Mark once acted in a low-budget film in which he smoked cigarettes while assuring a female character that it was normal to “suck a little dick to get a part.” This is classic large-adult-son behavior: alarming, with a whiff of the surreal. The Huckabee boys also remain cloaked by the cartoonish piety that undergirds their father’s politics. The situation resembles a 2014 @dril tweet: “my big sons have made a mess of the garage again after being riled up by the good word of the Lord.” The definitive quality of the large adult son is that he is endlessly excusable: though he does nothing right, he can do no wrong.

These days, it’s getting harder to separate the large-adult-son meme—one of the few reliably good things on the Internet—from the larger hellscape of adult-male behavior in which we all live. The Times recently ran a trifecta of pieces from writers across the ideological spectrum who all believe men are acting too much like boys. In a column titled “Before Manliness Loses Its Virtue,” David Brooks argued that it is embarrassing—for the country, but also for the institution of masculinity itself—that the President and several of his top advisers are openly needy, puerile, and immature. Senator Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, wrote a column about how, as a teen-ager, he used to perform hard agricultural labor on summer breaks: without the hard-won discipline he honed in the cornfields, he argued, kids these days will take too long to grow up. Jennifer Weiner wrote a column about the men who simply never have to, linking childish YouTube personalities to men like Billy Bush and Ryan Lochte, and—alone among these three columnists—to Donald Trump, Jr., the President’s oldest son.

Don, Jr., is generally portrayed, as he was by “Saturday Night Live,” as the more adult of Donald Trump’s two large adult sons—who are, like the Huckabee sons, prone to taking interesting photos together. But this summer Don, Jr., has become the rowdiest son of all. In July, after the Times reported that he had taken a meeting, in the spring of 2016, with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer in the hopes of obtaining negative information about Hillary Clinton, Don, Jr., confirmed the report by tweeting screenshots of the e-mail chain that led up to the meeting. “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” he wrote, replying to Rob Goldstone, a British music publicist who had dangled “official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary.” Christopher Wray, Trump’s pick for F.B.I. director, pointed out that Don, Jr., should have taken this offer to the F.B.I. On Thursday afternoon, Reuters reported that grand-jury subpoenas had been issuedin connection with the meeting.

At thirty-nine, Don, Jr., is old enough to conduct himself with basic integrity—or, barring that, with basic competence in his plans to deceive. Many people have pointed out the painful absurdity of large adult sons in political families (Don, Jr.; Billy Bush; Ted Kennedy) being excused for shocking behavior well into their thirties when twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was deemed enough of a threat by Cleveland policemen to be shot dead on the sight of his toy gun, in 2014. Donald Trump, Jr., is a mere ten days younger than the French President, Emmanuel Macron. And still, President Trump dictated Don, Jr.,’s original statement and excused him after the scandal broke, calling Don, Jr., a “good boy.”

The large-adult-son meme takes wing from the idea that men overcompensate when they are humiliated, and that a primary source of this humiliation is interdependence—sons act out when they are defined by their fathers, and fathers are disgraced by the oafish flailing of their sons. But it’s memes all the way down with this Administration: Trump, the father of the large adult son of the summer, is himself, clearly, a large adult son. He is the loudmouthed, mischievous, and disorderly child of a presiding father. He loves to get behind the wheel of a truck and pose for the cameras like an important birthday boy. The Web site Gossip Cop recently ran an earnest post headlined “Donald Trump Does notWear ‘Adult Diapers,’ Despite Speculation.” These are strange times we live in. The seas are warming, the summer is ending; each day lasts a century, and we are everywhere ruled by large adult sons.

[jccamus]

Trump's new White House website contains plenty of 'alternative facts'

The Trump administration's disdain for factual information has become abundantly clear from the falsehoods uttered by Trump's aides in recent days, such as press secretary Sean Spicer's inaccurate assertions about the inaugural crowd sizes, as well as senior advisor Kellyanne Conway's use of the Orwellian term "alternative facts" to describe Spicer's figures.

The world of dubious assertions extends deeper, though, to Trump's version of whitehouse.gov, where some of the information presented just days into the new administration is... questionable, if not outright wrong. 

Let's take a look at some of the assertions presented in the White House site's "issues" section.

'Standing up for our law enforcement community'

Chicago's new police superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, shakes hands with other officers after being sworn in by Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a city council meeting on April 13, 2016, in Chicago.

Image: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

Trump has been fond of saying that 2015 saw a 17 percent rise in homicides in the nation's 50 "largest cities," and that bit of information has now made its way to the White House's website. 

It's true in the narrowest sense, but misleading without context. First, homicides went way up in some cities while they stayed even or declined in others over that year. For example, in New York City, reported homicides in New York City fell to 335 murders in 2016, down from 352 in 2015, and way down from a whopping  2,262 in 1990. 

Secondly — and this is where Trump's statement starts to sound disingenuous — homicides in the U.S. as a whole have declined by around half since 1993, and criminologists say that single-year changes can obscure this long-term trend.

'America first energy plan'

In this Feb. 11, 2014 photo, steam rises from the stacks of Basin Electric's Laramie River Station coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyoming.

Image: AP Photo/The Casper Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers

When it comes to climate change and energy policies, the new administration is focused on rolling back the Obama administration's programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions and opening up more oil and gas resources to drilling. 

To justify this approach, the website claims that eliminating Obama's Climate Action Plan, which includes regulations on emissions from power plants, as well as clean water regulations will increase American wages "by more than $30 billion over the next seven years."

Sounds great, right?

Trouble is, it's a made-up claim. The nonprofit research and journalism group Climate Central debunked this on Friday. 

Turns out that this $30 billion figure comes from a non-peer reviewed paper written by a finance professor at Louisiana State University in 2015, and it was written for a fossil fuel industry organization. The paper didn't analyze the specific power plant regulations the Trump administration wants to repeal, which makes the administration's claim dubious from the start. 

Instead, the paper's author wrote about the potential economic impacts that the U.S. might expect if it began drilling for more fossil fuels from public lands. Its conclusions are hardly robust enough to base national policy decisions on, given that they don't factor in the costs that will come from climate damages. The paper reportedly doesn't correctly analyze the combined effects of removing regulations, either, which also includes costs. 

The White House site also makes no mention of how academics and the previous administration have said that the environmental regulations Trump seeks to dismantle would themselves boost part of the economy. 

For example, in justifying its regulations in the first place, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated that the overall economic benefits of power plant carbon emissions reductions would be in the tens of billions of dollars a year.

'America first energy plan,' part 2

This April 2, 2010 photo shows a Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, in Anacortes, Washington.

Image: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

The administration also claims that the U.S. is sitting on $50 trillion (that's trillion with a 't') "in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves."

It's true that there are huge amounts of coal, gas and oil that the U.S. has not used to its economic benefit, but that's because it can't. The costs to get to much of these resources are prohibitive, making the number — which, to begin with, comes from a Trump advisor rather than any authoritative study — a dream figure more than anything, according to Climate Central. 

'Making our military strong again'

A photo shows the USS Missouri in Oahu, Hawaii on Dec. 24, 2016.

Image: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images

This White House page also laments the size of the U.S. Navy, lamenting that the military's sea branch has shrunk from more than 500 vessels in 1991 to 275 in 2016. 

This, like the crime statistics from earlier, is accurate in a specific sense and misleading when given context. 

Specifically, the emphasis on ship numbers ignores technological progress when it comes to weaponry. That type of drop-off makes it seem as though the Navy is weak, but experts say the U.S. Navy is far and away the strongest in the world. As ships have grown more technologically capable, we've needed fewer of them to cover the same area. And, if size really does matter, the U.S. still has more aircraft carriers than all other nations combined (as of late 2015). 

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[whatismco-blog]

I had a hunch based on Ted Laramie's post that there was some kind of testing facility located where The GROVE stands today.

After I emailed a few people and I got this picture. It's the only one anyone could find.

Image dated around spring of 79 and taken just outside of Brightmount Downs (or BD-SECTOR) and it has a watermark on it so maybe it was an official thing?

[beneaththefrailtrees-blog]

this is how

late hours dawn to lightning strikes

great flames upon the tower

juvenile gaze is swept away

from the men who fall and cower

in spots of blackness the final blow

comes reaching and grasping

like great fingers they claw at the fallen

pushing them away

merely stalks born to collapse

bending and crying, they fray

and children succumb to the night

swiftly shouting joyously

they hurtle past the fire

so let it be known to ears around

ted laramie is a liar

[maxockerman90-blog]

beneath the frail trees

http://beneaththefrailtrees.tumblr.com/

creepy poems on here. Most definitely related because they mention Ted laramie.