Random US facts nobody talks about thread.

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

1. Prohibition ded to income taxes which made up for the lost revenue generated from taxes on liquor. The irony is that the bootleg industry thrived and Al Capone ended up being brought down because of income tax evasion.

But once prohibition was repealed, income taxes remained

2. JFK didnt really want to send a man to the moon. He didnt even give a shyt about space. It was a political distraction for the bay of pigs. He even tried to get Russia to partner with the US for the mission before he was assassinated.

 

[Savvir]

2. JFK didnt really want to send a man to the moon. He didnt even give a shyt about space. It was a political distraction for the bay of pigs. He even tried to get Russia to partner with the US for the mission before he was assassinated.

source?

 

[Yade]

3 . All jobs in the future are going to be GONE from automation and we’ll be living under a a social score system how China has and we’ll be forced to accept all types of agendas or be broke
And condsidered a low level citizen

 

[Ian Ahbaa f/ Area51]

MLK survived the shooting at the Lorraine in Memphis.. he was directed to a certain hospital close by where he was assisinated.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

MLK survived the shooting at the Lorraine in Memphis.. he was directed to a certain hospital close by where he was assisinated.

I heard that when he got there the doctor refused to treat him?

 

[MoveForward]

MLK survived the shooting at the Lorraine in Memphis.. he was directed to a certain hospital close by where he was assisinated.

Word?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

source?

this is common knowledge.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko applauded Kennedy’s speech and called it a “good sign,” but refused to comment on the proposal for a joint trip to the moon. In Washington, there was a good bit of surprise–and some skepticism–about Kennedy’s proposal. The “space race” had been one of the focal points of the Kennedy administration when it came to office, and the idea that America would cooperate with the Soviets in sending a man to the moon seemed unbelievable. Other commentators saw economics, not politics, behind the proposal. With the soaring price tag for the lunar mission, perhaps a joint effort with the Soviets was the only way to save the costly program. What might have come of Kennedy’s idea is unknown–just two months later, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, abandoned the idea of cooperating with the Soviets but pushed ahead with the lunar program. In 1969, the United States landed a man on the moon, thus winning a significant victory the “space race.”

One could even say that how JFK dealt with Russia, first with the bay of pigs, then with the cuban missile crisis, is why people think his assassination was an inside job.

And he picked the moon because it was something he knew Russia wasn't trying to do.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

MLK survived the shooting at the Lorraine in Memphis.. he was directed to a certain hospital close by where he was assisinated.

I don't know how he would've survived this.

King had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was struck in the face at 6:01 p.m. by a single .30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760 rifle.[17] The bullet entered through King's right cheek, breaking his jaw and several vertebrae as it traveled down his spinal cord, severing his jugular vein and major arteries in the process, before lodging in his shoulder. The force of the shot ripped King's necktie off. King fell backward onto the balcony, unconscious.


If anything, the paramedics probably took a long time to get him to the hospital or slow rolled resuscitating him.

 

[Freedman]

That the USA spent a good 400 years fighting the Native Americans. Our school system doesn't stress the extent and severity of the battles with the Natives. All we get the Pilgrims and then the Trail of Tears and that's it

 

[Ian Ahbaa f/ Area51]

I don't know how he would've survived this.

King had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was struck in the face at 6:01 p.m. by a single .30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760 rifle.[17] The bullet entered through King's right cheek, breaking his jaw and several vertebrae as it traveled down his spinal cord, severing his jugular vein and major arteries in the process, before lodging in his shoulder. The force of the shot ripped King's necktie off. King fell backward onto the balcony, unconscious.


If anything, the paramedics probably took a long time to get him to the hospital or slow rolled resuscitating him.

30 ot 6 is the calibre rifle his assasin is said to have had but i dont believe the official record so that quote is flawed imo. How does a shot from below you travel down your spine?

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

That the USA spent a good 400 years fighting the Native Americans. Our school system doesn't stress the extent and severity of the battles with the Natives. All we get the Pilgrims and then the Trail of Tears and that's it

THE CRAZY PART WAS THAT NATIVES WERE GIVING THEM THAT WORK CONSIDERING THEY WERE OUTGUNNED.

 

[Perfectson]

how much do you want for your ransom?

 

[Savvir]

this is common knowledge.

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko applauded Kennedy’s speech and called it a “good sign,” but refused to comment on the proposal for a joint trip to the moon. In Washington, there was a good bit of surprise–and some skepticism–about Kennedy’s proposal. The “space race” had been one of the focal points of the Kennedy administration when it came to office, and the idea that America would cooperate with the Soviets in sending a man to the moon seemed unbelievable. Other commentators saw economics, not politics, behind the proposal. With the soaring price tag for the lunar mission, perhaps a joint effort with the Soviets was the only way to save the costly program. What might have come of Kennedy’s idea is unknown–just two months later, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, abandoned the idea of cooperating with the Soviets but pushed ahead with the lunar program. In 1969, the United States landed a man on the moon, thus winning a significant victory the “space race.”

One could even say that how JFK dealt with Russia, first with the bay of pigs, then with the cuban missile crisis, is why people think his assassination was an inside job.

And he picked the moon because it was something he knew Russia wasn't trying to do.

can you link to the source ?

EDIT: found it....

how does this show that the joint mission was an effort to hide the bay of pigs incident when this speech was 2 yaers after bay of pigs and we had already signed a testing treaty with russia... thus cooling the cold war. I don't see the correlation the other poster was making.

Maybe you can link to more info on that perspective.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

can you link to the source ?

EDIT: found it....

how does this show that the joint mission was an effort to hide the bay of pigs incident when this speech was 2 yaers after bay of pigs and we had already signed a testing treaty with russia... thus cooling the cold war. I don't see the correlation the other poster was making.

Maybe you can link to more info on that perspective.

https://history.nasa.gov/JFK-Webbconv/pages/backgnd.html#interest

“…I’m not that interested in space.”
When this transcript was released in August 2001, the press and public focused in particular on one comment by President Kennedy: “Now, this may not change anything about that schedule but at least we ought to be clear, otherwise we shouldn’t be spending this kind of money because I’m not that interested in space” (emphasis added).

Only a minute earlier, Kennedy had said, “And the second point is the fact that the Soviet Union has made this a test of the system. So that’s why we’re doing it.”

This is the most dramatic and blunt statement of Kennedy’s motivations for sponsoring Apollo. Because of his untimely death and the protectiveness of his advisors, little information has emerged about what Kennedy actually thought about the expensive project that he had initiated, thus requiring that observers divine his motivations largely from his actions and his public speeches. Unfortunately, because of the size and ambition of the Apollo goal, over time many people have assumed that it was primarily motivated by Kennedy’s enthusiasm for space exploration and not by political concerns.

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This was ALL about the cold war. The Bay of Pigs, Cuba Missile Crisis. Russia put a satellite in space first. They put a man in space first. Kennedy wanted to do something that Russia couldn't do or already didn't do. TO make a statement.

Nothing more, nothing less. He couldn't take the bad press.

 

[Savvir]

https://history.nasa.gov/JFK-Webbconv/pages/backgnd.html#interest

“…I’m not that interested in space.”
When this transcript was released in August 2001, the press and public focused in particular on one comment by President Kennedy: “Now, this may not change anything about that schedule but at least we ought to be clear, otherwise we shouldn’t be spending this kind of money because I’m not that interested in space” (emphasis added).

Only a minute earlier, Kennedy had said, “And the second point is the fact that the Soviet Union has made this a test of the system. So that’s why we’re doing it.”

This is the most dramatic and blunt statement of Kennedy’s motivations for sponsoring Apollo. Because of his untimely death and the protectiveness of his advisors, little information has emerged about what Kennedy actually thought about the expensive project that he had initiated, thus requiring that observers divine his motivations largely from his actions and his public speeches. Unfortunately, because of the size and ambition of the Apollo goal, over time many people have assumed that it was primarily motivated by Kennedy’s enthusiasm for space exploration and not by political concerns.

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This was ALL about the cold war. The Bay of Pigs, Cuba Missile Crisis. Russia put a satellite in space first. They put a man in space first. Kennedy wanted to do something that Russia couldn't do or already didn't do. TO make a statement.

Nothing more, nothing less. He couldn't take the bad press.

oh I see, this I already knew... .the space race was 100% about the cold war....
The other poster said the space race was 100% about distracting from bay of pigs. It was much bigger than that.