Thursday, September 3, 2015

Throughout America's history, there've been myriad car brands that were sedulously developed only to fail and fade slowly into obscurity. And some of those brands produced truly amazing automobiles that didn't deserve their untimely fates.

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Courtesy RM Auctions 

1. Plymouth

Originally founded in the late 1920s with the goal of being a big-selling entry-level brand, Plymouth’s story was one filled with ups and downs. The brand that brought you Christine (1958 Fury) also unleashed the Hemi ‘Cuda and Road Runner...then gave the PT Cruiser to the world around the same time it revealed the amazingly unique Prowler.
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Don Graham 

2. Mercury

As the permanent home of upscaled Ford models, Mercury was both blessed and cursed by its familial ties. During its golden age, rolling out all-time greats like the Mustang-based Cougar tied in beautifully with Ford Europe-based cars like the Capri and the Merkur. The ever-cool Marauder was essentially an up-market Crown Victoria with a Mustang Cobra engine in the 1990s. Then came the Topaz, the Explorer-based Mountaineer, and, ultimately, death.
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3. Pontiac

During Pontiac’s heyday, its executive staff consisted of all-stars that did everything imaginable to elevate the brand. Guys like John DeLorean (yep, that DeLorean), paved the way for cars like the GTO—the original muscle car—the always-gorgeous Bonneville, and the legendary Banshee, a concept that was so ahead of the curve that GM’s brass feared it could take sales away from Corvette. They killed it, then let it inspire ‘Vette’s 3rd generation offering a few years later.
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Jack Snell 

4. Oldsmobile

Ransom Eli Olds founded his company on the spirit of pushing the envelope, and in the earliest days of the Olds Automobile Company it set land speed records. Decades later, it became the first automaker to mass produce an automatic transmission...then again for a turbocharged engine.

Fascinating side note: Ransom Olds went on to start another car company named after his initials: REO. Yes, it produced a Speedwagon, from which the band takes its name.
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Dave_7 

5. AMC

If you want to see a prolonged fall from grace, AMC is your answer. Formed from the largest merger in history as of 1954, AMC was at the forefront of economy cars under the leadership of George Romney (Mitt’s dad), then right in the thick of the first great muscle car wars with the AMX. As a company, it bought and refined Jeep, formed AM General (which you know as the producer of Hummers), then wound up taken over by Renault, and ultimately parted out by Chrysler, which kept only Jeep.
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6. Duesenberg, Auburn, and Cord

Most people don’t realize that Duesenberg, Auburn, and Cord were all the same company. Auburn spearheaded some of the most beautiful cars of the art-deco era, before being taken over by E.L. Cord, who ultimately named the company’s revolutionary front-wheel drive car after himself. He then bought Duesenberg, and made serious history. Often thought of as America’s Rolls-Royce, Duesenbergs were among the fastest and most luxurious cars of their day, winning the Indy 500 multiple times. When Cord took over, he gave one instruction: build the best damn car in the world. Mission accomplished.
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YellowcabNYCtaxi 

7. Checker

Look at any vintage movie wherein someone rides in a cab. Chances are it was a Checker. The company itself did a lot of behind-the-scenes manufacturing for various other conglomerates, but the Checker Cab is an American Icon.
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D. Miller 

8. Hudson

Rest in peace, Doc Hudson, a.k.a. Paul Newman.
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Rex Gray 

9. Packard

For decades, Packard was one of the cars to own if you wanted the very best in American luxury. It routinely traded punches with Cadillac and Lincoln, produced P-51 Mustangs during WWII, and somehow managed to squander all of its financial well-being in just a few short years thanks to a series of Hall of Shame-worthy business decisions.
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James Tworrow 

10. Studebaker

The sometimes-quirky Studebaker was around for generations, often just missing out on realizing supreme success. After making the first purpose-built proving grounds in North America, Studebaker ultimately fell into financial ruin after routinely finding itself incapable of lowering costs enough to remain competitive. A last-gasp merger with Packard led to some...interesting...designs, like the Hawk you see above, before both brands ultimately faded away.
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Brad Hanna 

11. DeSoto

From the late 1920s until the early ‘60s, the DeSoto lineup was Chrysler’s main means of reaching the middle class. The majority of DeSotos weren’t what you’d call revolutionary, but they were exactly the kinds of cars that would be popular today as cheap rides that respond well to modification. Case in point: many of the earliest NASCAR racers drove DeSotos

Monday, August 31, 2015

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas...

 

 

Parkland  Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons: 


1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963 



2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after 



3. Jack Ruby-who killed Oswald, died there a few years later. 


On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year.  (That's almost 44 per day---every day)! 


A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas ! 


According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million. 



The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay. 



OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than every day, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. " Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics.  NINE! 


The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico . This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.) 



"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects? 



Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right; she's technically a US citizen.) 



These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. 


Most of these things are available to American citizens as well, but only for low-income applicants, and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable. 


Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word. 


Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job.. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.) 


There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is going to sue them! Illegal's get it all free!   But U. S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued!  How stupid is this? 


As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish . In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. 
This was apparently a great injustice to her. 


In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish.. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement. 



(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation particularly to our"employees" in Congress .) 


Remember that this is about only ONE hospital in Dallas , Texas . There are many more hospitals across our country that must also deal with this.    




PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.  



  If  you want to verify the accuracy of this information: 


http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp


When zipper Bill was ......

When Bill Clinton was President...
 
I had forgot about some of this stuff and I needed to be reminded.  How about you?

 
If you're under 50 you really need to read this, if you are over 50, share it with those under fifty. Amazing to me how much I have forgotten! It adds up!!

 
When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform.  Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn't even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress.  This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts.

 
Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general.  Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration.  Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as "my worst mistake." Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.

 
Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission.  Lani Guanier was her selection.  When a little probing led to the discovered of Ms. Guanier's radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration.

 
Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations.  She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department.  Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

 
Many younger votes will have no knowledge of "Travelgate." Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply.  She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired.  This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.

 
Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House.  Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.

 
Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the "bimbo eruption" and scandal defense.  Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle was:

 
She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.  After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.

 
She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

 
Hillary's devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.

 
Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" a total of 56 times while under oath.

 
After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.

 
What a swell party – ready for another four or eight year of this type low-life mess?

 
Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the "pay to play" schemes of the Clinton Foundation – we have no idea what shoe will fall next.  But to her loyal fans - "what difference does it make?"

 
Electing Hillary Clinton president would be like granting Satan absolution and giving him the keys to heaven!

 

Saturday, August 29, 2015

An Atheist Called Dr. Ben Carson a " Moron " for Believing in God...

An Atheist Called Dr. Ben Carson a " Moron " for Believing in God...
Carson shut Him Down in One Brilliant Line? !?
 
When an atheist called him a "moron" for believing in God, Dr. Ben Carson responded with one brilliant line that put the atheist in his place.
 
"I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey," he told the individual, "and you've convinced me you're right."

Friday, August 28, 2015

O's Foreign Policy LOL!

These floats were part of the annual Carnival Parade in Germany watched by an estimated three million people in three German cities including D u sseldorf
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Doesn't it make you so proud that the whole world is laughing at the U.S.A. ?
You can bet the pro-Obama media will never print these pictures! So send this to all your friends.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

VA Chapels...Unbelievable what is happening in the VA Chapels!!!



VA Chapels...Unbelievable what is happening in the VA Chapels!!!
Notice verified by Snopes
Subject: V.A. Chapels....
- Did you all know about this?
NOT GOOD... This was checked out on truth or fiction and it came out truth!
From the Iron Mountain, MI, Daily News: 
“Stop This Insanity” 
May 30, 2014 EDITOR
 : 
I Went to the Veteran's Hospital in Iron Mountain today on business. While there I stopped at the Chapel and found pinky-purple type curtains with mesh at the top, covering the altar. (You know the type. They use them between sick patient beds in the hospital). 
I stopped in my tracks, shocked at what I saw. 
I Peeked behind the curtain, and found what used to be the welcoming part of the chapel, the Cross, a picture of Christ, and other Christian icons familiar to the majority of Americans.
I found Chaplain Bob Mueller, to ask what the meaning was of this change. This is what he told me. "A couple of months ago, an order came down from Washington DCto cover all things associated with Christianity in the VA Hospitals. Their solution is to cover everything in all the VA Chapels across the country."
Chaplain Bob went on to say, "A few weeks ago an official from the Madison, WI, VA Administration came down here to tell me to "stop talking about Jesus, and to stop reading scripture out loud." 
Chaplain Bob also said that the rest of the Obama planis to send more curtains to cover the rest of the stained glass windows, because there are Christian symbols on the stained glass. 
Was skeptical of the accuracy of this article, so I checked it out through Truth orfiction.com:
Ozero and his Muslim staff are emasculating Christianity in our country.
Please consider SENDING THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY OUR VETERANS!
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