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  1. very cool stories. I bet I wouldn’t even know who he was if he was standing next to me, but I also know that he is someone that we should have all known.
  2. Supposedly became an artist and has paintings on display in Texas Musician Bobby Whitlock dies aged 77 Story by Pierra Willix Musician Bobby Whitlock, who co-founded the band Derek and the Dominos, has died aged 77. The keyboard player and vocalist was best known for forming the blues rock band with Eric Clapton in 1970, however they only ever released one album and broke up after a year. Whitlock also worked with The Beatles star George Harrison, playing on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. This week it was announced that he had died. ABC Audio reported Whitlock’s death, quoting manager Carol Kaye as saying: ‘With profound sadness, the family of Bobby Whitlock announces his passing at 1:20am on Aug. 10 after a brief illness. He passed in his home in Texas, surrounded by family.’ Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Whitlock was signed to Stax Records as a teenager, also becoming the first white artist signed to the label. His first recording credit came in 1967 when he supplied handclaps on Sam & Dave’s single I Thank You. Between 1965 and 1968, he performed regularly in the Memphis area, playing organ with local soul band the Short Cuts before forming the Counts. Although there had been plans for him to work on a pop album, he instead decided to leave his home city and join a soul-revue band being forming in Los Angeles – Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, who accompanied the duo Delaney & Bonnie on their tours. Another member of the group was Clapton, however after disagreements, the band members that had been brought on board quit and instead went on to work on Harrison’s album. Soon after they formed blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos – releasing their debut and only album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in 1970, which has been considered by many as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. But after the album tanked commercially and failed to chart in the UK – as well as the band being wrapped up in drug consumption and personal conflicts – it fell apart after a year. After this Whitlock went on to forge a career as a solo artist, releasing his self-titled album in 1972, which also featured all members of his recently dissolved band. It was followed by Raw Velvet the same year and One of a Kind in 1975, however after this release he withdrew from the music industry. Whitlock previously said the decision was due to him having ‘problems to deal with’. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Whitlock lived on a farm in Mississippi, raising his children and doing occasional session work. He also had his own television show with Steve Cropper. In 1999 he resumed his solo career with the album It’s About Time and in 2003 teamed up with his partner and musician CoCo Carmel to release a live album of the Dominos’ songs. The couple later moved to Austin, Texas, and continued releasing music together. Other than his wife, Whitlock is also survived by his three children – Ashley Brown, Beau Whitlock and Tim Whitlock Kelly.
  3. The Little-Known Role of Jimmy Doolittle in Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Summarize Richard SiskAugust 08, 2025 at 3:46pm ET Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle (second from left) and the crew of the plane he piloted in the raids over Tokyo on April 18, 1942. (National Archives) Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and Doolittle as a lieutenant general also had a little-known role by happenstance in the last strike in the form of the atomic bombing that destroyed Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Doolittle became involved when a distraught NavyCmdr. Frederick L. "Dick" Ashworth came to his tent on just-liberated Okinawa to give a report on what he then thought was a failed mission to bomb Nagasaki with the second atomic weapon used in warfare, resulting in the bomber missing the target and ending up with a "Mayday" landing on Okinawa. Ashworth, who had been the "weaponeer" aboard the B-29 Superfortress in charge of arming the bomb, had just come from a harrowing landing in which two engines conked out for lack of fuel. He could have expected the chewing out of the century for bursting into the general's tent unannounced to give a failed mission report, but Doolittle settled on hearing out Ashworth after his initial "Who the hell are you?" greeting. "Commander Frederick L. Ashworth, U. S. Navy, reporting, sir. We've just dropped the second atomic bomb over Nagasaki. We need to send a report back to Guam, but your communications people aren't cooperating," Ashworth would later recall in a 1958 article for the U.S. Naval Institute. "Well, son, sit down and tell me about it," Doolittle said. Ashworth, a 1933 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who had earned a Distinguished Flying Cross for his service on torpedo bombers in the Solomon Islands, told of a mission plagued by mishaps before the B-29 carrying the 10,000-pound plutonium bomb dubbed "Fatman" got off the ground from Tinian island for the 1,500-mile flight to Japan. A pump on a reserve fuel tank had failed, meaning that the mission would have to proceed without a hitch for the bomber to make it back to Tinian, but there were several hitches to come. The B-29 was dubbed "Bockscar," for its usual pilot Frederick Carl Bock, but the pilot of Bockscar for the Nagasaki mission was Maj. Charles Sweeney. Bock instead flew a B-29 called "The Great Artiste" that carried scientific instruments and photography to measure and record the effects of the nuclear weapon. A third B-29 carrying special cameras missed a rendezvous point, forcing Bockscar to waste fuel waiting for the third plane to show up before the decision was made to proceed to the primary target of the city of Kokura without it. "So we headed for Kokura, our primary target," Ashworth wrote. "However, at 30,000 feet over Kokura, we looked down at a heavy concentration of haze and smoke, apparently resulting from a bombing attack the night before on Yawata, just across the river. That place was still burning." The Bockscar crew was under strict orders from Gen. George C. Marshall to make a visual sighting of the target and not bomb by radar. The B-29 made three passes over the city, burning more fuel, but could not find a hole in the clouds for bombardier Capt. Kermit Beahan. It was said of Beahan that he could drop a bomb on a pickle barrel from 30,000 feet. "After the third pass over Kokura, ground anti-aircraft fire opened up on us," Ashworth wrote. "Shortly after, we saw about 20 fighters on their way up. The decision to get out of there and head for our secondary target of Nagasaki was not difficult to make." Ashworth continued: "At this point, we broke radio silence to notify air-sea rescue teams that we might have to ditch south of Japan. As we approached Nagasaki, the weather appeared to have deteriorated to almost solid overcast. That left us in a real pickle. Here we were supposed to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki under visual conditions, and we couldn't even see Nagasaki!" "At the last minute -- actually about the last 20 seconds -- the bombardier, who had been following very closely the radar run, and who had been receiving dropping angles from the radar operator, detected what he thought was the aiming point, a bend in the river flowing through the middle of Nagasaki. He yelled that he had his bomb sight on the target and let go visually." The air burst of the Fatman bomb exploded at an altitude of about 1,650 feet with a force of about 22 kilotons of TNT, compared to the 12.5-kiloton "Little Boy" uranium bomb that destroyed Hiroshima three days earlier on Aug. 6, 1945, according to initial estimates. The initial estimates also were that 60,000 to 80,000 people were killed in the Nagasaki bombing, compared to the 90,000 to 166,000 killed at Hiroshima, but many thousands more were to die of the aftereffects. "Our gas shortage restricted us to one turn around the atomic [mushroom] cloud, after which we picked up a heading for Okinawa. On the way, I pulled out my target chart. A prolonged examination produced a gnawing uncertainty," Ashworth wrote. "I knew we had hit Nagasaki, but did we hit our target?" Doolittle interrupted: "What do you think? Did you hit the target?" Ashworth replied: "No, sir, I don't think we did." He pointed to a spot on the map that was about a mile and a half northeast of the main target. Doolittle then leaned over "and took a closer look at the map. A smile played upon his lips. Then, he stood up and put his arm around my shoulders." "Well, son, I wouldn't worry a bit about that mission," Doolittle said. "I'm sure that General Spaatz [Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of Strategic Forces] will be much happier to know that the bomb went off up there in the industrial area instead of over the city of Nagasaki." Six days after the Nagasaki bombing, Emperor Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945. The formal surrender documents were signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945. In his radio address to the nation announcing the surrender, Hirohito, whose voice was being heard by much of the Japanese public for the first time, said, "We must bear the unbearable and endure the unendurable in order to pave the way for peace for all future generations." "Furthermore, the enemy has begun to employ a new and cruel bomb, causing immense and indiscriminate destruction, the extent of which is beyond all estimation," Hirohito said. "Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in the ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but it would also lead to the total extinction of human civilization."
  4. Height 6-1.8 Feet 06/24/23 Weight 216.00 Pounds 06/24/23 40-Yard Dash 5.25 Seconds 06/24/23 Come on Sark. Can't we let OU win one?
  5. Is this something you look for in posters?
  6. Y'all got gypped. ROFL Box sent me some way nastier pics as well as some of the nurses with perky tits.
  7. But Lockett and McCutcheon have separated themselves so no Terry is not catching up. And "Ffrench has something special" so are McCutcheon and Lockett really separating themselves? It is kind of a clusterfuck of a writing. Maybe it is saying that Lockett and McCutcheon will be the first ones in to start the season. I think that is as far as I would go. The rest just seems like noise.
  8. That paragraph doesn't make much sense. What did we learn?
  9. Yeah, I had a start-up in my prior life and had my business on the Emory West campus, partnered with some Emory scientists on the main campus and had an SBIR with the CDC on Tb detection among other things. Needless to say, I'm quite familiar with the area and many of the workers.
  10. This hits close to home, literally. Winter is no joke, though.
  11. True with Porcelain fused to Metal which isn't used anymore - Not true with Zirconia or Gold. But I would be cautious for other reasons. You can get an implant if your tooth splits in half for $3200 all in. A root canal may cost $1600 and a crown may cost $1400. Invest in a nightguard to protect your teeth from grinding at night and to prevent your jaw from popping (problems with your TMJ). If a tooth breaks because of wear, get an implant and be done with it. Medicaid is a completely off topic discussion but I have a totally different view. Very few general dentists accept Medicaid because reimbursement is terrible, it opens doctors up to government lawsuits, and most importantly, doctors have to jump through hoops to get paid. Medicaid rejects all initial crown claims. All appeals have to be done through certified mail (so a trip to the post office plus costs). Approved claims still come with long payment times and with some that don't get paid for various reasons for example if the patient doesn't come back, if the teeth shift after patient misses multiple appointments, the need for a root canal develops, the patient breaks the tooth after missed appointments... Obviously some fraud definitely occurs but keep in mind that there are people within government searching for ways to not pay bills. And most of the fraud I see from dentists is over-diagnosing but interestingly that is probably the least likely way to get in trouble with the government. Most of the trouble comes from billing issues like coding too many extractions as surgical or billing for work not done. There are government actuaries/statisticians who catch that stuff. And no on the poor people thing. Rich people are a pain in the ass and complain over little bullshit. Middle class and poor complain about money and cause the front desk lots of headaches regarding financing and insurance. Poor miss appointments, fight bills, don't follow patient instructions, and try cheating the system. In summary, no specific income level is immune from being a pain in the ass. Think about going to a restaurant - the rich send their food back and act like arrogant assholes, middle class and poor complain about the bill, the poor don't tip. Who is worse and who is better? It depends on what type of PIA the service provider is better able to handle.
  12. Well, I said airplanes and there is no way that Ukraine has air superiority unless you include drones.
  13. Because it is a negotiation. If the deal is something like no more airplanes and no more targeting of civilians then I think it would be something that Ukraine would consider.
  14. Rare earth minerals
  15. I think more or less, you hit the nail on the head.
  16. 43 Killed During Horrific Church Massacre Islamic State-backed rebels killed at least 43 people during an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on July 27, 2025, according to multiple reports from civil society leaders and security sources. The assault occurred around 1 a.m. at a Catholic church in Komanda, located in Ituri province. Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) stormed the church premises during a nighttime vigil, targeting worshippers with guns and machetes before setting fire to surrounding houses and shops. Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, reported that searchers found the bodies of 38 people at the church scene, including 19 men, 15 women and nine children. “More than 21 people were shot dead inside and outside and we have recorded at least three charred bodies,” Duranthabo indicated to news agencies. The death toll varies among different sources, with local civil society leaders reporting between 34 and 43 fatalities. A United Nations-backed radio station cited security sources confirming 43 deaths, while the Congolese military acknowledged a lower count of 10 confirmed fatalities in the church attack. Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of Congo Army in Ituri province, confirmed that armed men with machetes conducted an incursion into the church facility. Video footage from the scene showed burning structures and bodies on the church floor, with survivors identifying victims while others stood in shock. The attackers also struck the nearby village of Machongani earlier the same evening, killing at least five additional people before taking several residents into the bush. Lossa Dhekana, a civil society leader in Ituri, reported that the fate and number of those taken remain unknown. Security sources indicated the attackers originated from a stronghold approximately 7.5 miles from Komanda’s center and fled before security forces could respond to the alarm that sounded at 2 a.m. when smoke from burning houses became visible. The Allied Democratic Forces formed in Uganda during the late 1990s from disparate groups expressing discontent with President Yoweri Museveni’s government. Following military pressure from Ugandan forces in 2002, the organization relocated its operations to neighboring Congo. The group pledged allegiance to the Islamic Statein 2019 and has since been responsible for killing thousands of civilians in the borderland region between Uganda and Congo. The ADF operates with the stated goal of establishing an Islamist government in the East African region. This attack represents the latest in a series of deadly ADF assaults on civilian populations. Earlier in July 2025, the group killed 66 people in Ituri province in what a United Nations spokesperson characterized as a bloodbath. Duranthabo condemned the violence, noting that it occurred in a town where security officials maintain a presence. He called for immediate military intervention, warning that enemies remained near the community. Some residents began fleeing toward Bunia following the attack. The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo has struggled to contain the ADF threat while simultaneously confronting renewed hostilities involving the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel movement. The complex security situation has created challenges for the overstretched Congolese military forces. Survivors at the scene prepared to bury victims in a mass grave within the Catholic church compound. The attack suspended all activities in Komanda as the community grappled with the aftermath of the violence. Eastern Congo has endured decades of conflict involving more than 100 armed groups, with roots tracing back to the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The mineral-rich Ituri province has been particularly affected by ongoing violence that has displaced approximately 7 million people across Congo’s population of 106 million. The United Nations peacekeeping mission MONUSCO warned that the church killings would exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation in the province. Meanwhile, security forces including the Congolese Armed Forces, Ugandan military and local police launched search operations for the attackers. The Congolese government denounced the attack as horrific, while military officials described it as a large-scale massacre conducted in retaliation for recent security operations targeting ADF positions. Sources: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/21-killed-attack-east-congo-church-islamic-state-124111635 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/east-congo-church-attack-islamic-state-backed-allied-democratic-force/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-attack-on-a-congolese-church-that-killed-nearly-40-worshippers https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/africa/eastern-congo-church-attacked-rebels-intl https://news.sky.com/story/democratic-republic-of-congo-at-least-34-people-killed-after-islamic-state-backed-rebels-attack-catholic-church-13402556
  17. Those 2 look like they are going to dominate in practice.
  18. I’m pretty sure I combined the names Robert Earl Keen and James Earl Jones. Oh well. So if I add the fact that he went to Sharpstown High School - I’ll probably screw up and find out he went to Westbury.
  19. it be nice if there was a way to weaponize them and send them to go after Putin. But, for whatever reason, they prefer to stay in the Ukraine and steal and rape there. The deserters, it seems, are as worthless as the non-deserters.
  20. If you like that selection. Choose Jerry Jeff Walker on Pandora and then don’t like or dislike anything. The mix includes Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, John Prine, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, James Earl Keene, Jerry Jeff Walker and a few others. Pandora always pisses me off except for this one mix. The John Prine station never played a single John Prine song and my Dylan Mix and my Tom Waits Mix sucked as well.
  21. Taylor Swift’s mom went to my high school in Houston. She’s quite a bit older, though.
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