Monday, July 15, 2024

advanceOnvance

  From WIKI : 


Relationship with Donald Trump

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Vance was an outspoken critic of Republicannominee Donald Trump. In a February 2016 USA Today column, he wrote that "Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd."[102] In the Atlanticand on the PBS show hosted by Charlie Rose,[103] Vance called Trump "cultural heroin"[104]and "an opioid of the masses."[105][106] In October 2016, he called Trump "reprehensible" in a post on Twitter,[107] and called himself a "never-Trump guy."[108] In a private message on Facebook he called Trump "America's Hitler".[109]

By February 2018, Vance began changing his opinion, saying Trump "is one of the few political leaders in America that recognizes the frustration that exists in large parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and so forth".[110]

Vance supported Trump in 2020.[111] In July 2021, he apologized for calling Trump "reprehensible" and deleted posts from 2016 from his Twitter account that were critical of him.[112][113] Vance said that he now thought Trump was a good president and expressed regret about his criticism during the 2016 election.[107] Vance visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement regarding his U.S. Senate campaign.[39]

In October 2021, Vance reiterated Trump's false claims of election fraud, saying that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of widespread voter fraud.[114] On April 15, 2022, Trump endorsed Vance for U.S. Senate.[108]

After historian Robert Kagan wrote a November 2023 Washington Post opinion piece titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending", Vance wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter suggesting Kagan be prosecuted for promoting "open rebellion" by Democrat-controlled states. Kagan said that his piece did not advocate rebellion and remarked, "It is revealing that their first instinct when attacked by a journalist is to suggest that they be locked up."[115][116]

On June 30, 2024, on Face the Nation, Vance said, "I believe that the president has broad pardon authority...but more importantly, I think the president has immunity".[117]


  1.  Vance, J. D. (February 18, 2016). "Trump speaks for those Bush betrayed: Column"USA TodayArchived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Author Appearances: J. D. Vance"Charlie Rose. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  3. ^ Voght, Kara (2022-11-09). "J.D. Vance Kissed Trump's Ass Just Enough to Make It to the Senate"Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  4. ^ Vance, J. D. (2016-07-04). "Opioid of the Masses"The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  5. ^ LaFraniere, Sharon (2024-04-27). "A Match Made in MAGA: How a Friendship Helped J.D. Vance Land on Trump's V.P. List"The New York Times. Vol. 173, no. 60138. pp. A1, A18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  6. Jump up to: a b Warren, Michael; Steck, Em; Kaczynski, Andrew (July 6, 2021). "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"CNNArchived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  7.  Jill, Colvin; Smyth, Julie Carr (April 15, 2022). "Trump backs GOP's JD Vance in US Senate primary in Ohio"ABC News. ABC. Associated PressArchived from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  8. ^ Jacobs, Ben (April 22, 2022). "J.D. Vance on His MAGA Conversion"Intelligencer. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  9. ^ Donnan, Shawn (February 2, 2018). "Hillbilly elegist JD Vance: 'The people calling the shots really screwed up'"Financial TimesArchived from the original on October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  10. ^ Quay, Grayson (April 16, 2022). "Trump endorses Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance in Ohio Senate primary"The WeekArchived from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved April 16,2022.
  11. ^ "JD Vance says he regrets past criticism of Trump"The Hill. July 6, 2021. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  12. ^ Warren, Michael; Steck, Em; Kaczynski, Andrew (July 6, 2021). "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets"CNNArchived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  13. ^ Skolnick, David (October 23, 2021). "Vance spouts Trump talking points on 2020 election loss"Tribune ChronicleArchived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  14. ^ Baker, Peter (December 9, 2023). "Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate"The New York TimesArchived from the original on December 9, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  15. ^ Kagan, Robert (November 30, 2023). "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending"The Washington PostArchived from the original on December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  16. ^ "Transcript: Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio on 'Face the Nation', June 30, 2024"CBS News. June 30, 2024. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
    1.       WE Will SEE how things change with this guy .. 

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Political Courage Test[edit]

The Political Courage Test[15] (formerly the National Political Awareness Test, NPAT) is an American initiative intended to increase transparency in American politics.

It is part of the voter education organization Vote Smart's candidate information program. With a view towards elections, the test seeks to obtain answers from election candidates, describing their respective stances on a variety of popular issues in American politics. This information is then made available to voters in a selection-driven, standardized format.

In 2008, Project Vote Smart kicked John McCain off of the organization's board due to his refusal to fill out the Political Courage Test.[16]

The response to the Political Courage Test has dropped, from 72% in 1996 to 48% in 2008[17] and even further to 20% by 2016,[18] because politicians from both parties are afraid that challengers will use their responses out of context in attack ads, according to The Wall Street Journal. Rep. Anne Gannon, Democratic leader pro tempore of the Florida House of Representatives, stated: "We tell our candidates not to do it. It sets them up for a hit piece." In response, Vote Smart has tried to shame politicians into it, and lets them leave up to 30% of answers blank.[19]


Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Colby Mansion2

 This is what I've found, available on the web, on Colby Mansion in Byram Township, NJ .  

It is just of interest to a few .. this seems the best way to share it since I'm not emailing everyone.


C O L B Y    M A N S I O N :





     "The Colby Mansion is located in Byram Township in Sussex County N.J.    It has been known amongst teens for years to be haunted.   The story goes that there was a very wealthy man who had his entire family living with him in his mansion. This man, his first name escapes me at the moment, supposedly belonged to an occult. For one of his "rituals" he cut off their heads and placed them on the fireplace mantle.
Now one year later and many trips later I am finally putting my story up. Me and my partner in crime, Jay, found out part of the truth to the story. There was indeed a man who lived there with the last name of Colby. This same man did murder his family in this house, whether or not he did belong to an occult will never be known. 
Risking our butts, literally, an old woman is said to live behind the mansion, the caretaker, and shoot at anyone caught in or around the house with a salt and pepper gun. Luckily we did not encounter her. But we did make it inside long enough to get pictures and grab a little momento. 
It was a clear night and me and Jay decided it was time to go into the house instead of just talking about it. We talked to a few local teens who knew the legend and the houses whereabouts and got some info. The legend proved to be the same that we had heard so that got us even more psyched. There was only one small problem, no one had ever gotten into the house before. Well, that egged us on even more. Getting a really big knife, some rope, a lot of flashlights, we picked up our cameras and set off. We wandered around the woods for a while trying to find the best way of approaching the house without getting caught. Well, we encountered many a strange thing out in those woods.
Our biggest problem, a dog. 
There was a guard dog out back that kept hearing us on the twigs and leaves. We had to go so slow. We wound up going too far back in the woods and wound up behind the caretakers house. I almost stepped on the dog before we noticed how close it really was. Well now the dog is barking up a storm. We thought we were caught for sure. So we took off running. What we found was huge piles of rocks in a field behind the house. It was so eerily quite back there it would chill anyone to the bone. We still have no clue as to why there was just a couple of piles of stones in a field, burial grounds maybe? "Who knows...we sure don't... we just know it was scary as hell back there.
Well, after taking off like a bat out of hell, we doubled back and found ourselves jumping from grass spot to grass spot in the middle of a swamp on the side of the house. After we finally got across that, we were there, finally, at last. The house loomed enormously in front of us....where should we start? We figured the front door to be good, so we let ourselves in. The second floor had collapsed in a room on the right and there was rubble everywhere. But right in front of us was the first fireplace. So we took pictures. We made our way around the first floor of the house like mice dodging a cat. We had no idea what to expect. We just kept snatching pictures left and right. we found another fireplace on the first floor and this one had a "kiln" on the side of it. Why would you need a kiln in a fireplace in what appeared to be a living room? The marble staircase that we found was in perfect condition, that may sound pretty normal, but not when the rest of the house is falling down around you. There looked like there was a door open at the top of the stairs, but all the other doors were closed. That spooked us a little. We decided we had stayed long enough, we were bound to get caught if we stayed any longer. 
So we left, but not without taking a little something to remind us of our trip first. We grabbed a glass jug from a room. It appears to be an old wine jug, but who knows. We just know that we got out of there in one piece. The oddest thing about the whole trip wasn't all the freaky things we saw, but how comfortable and welcome we felt when we got into the house.... like someone wanted us to be there. We only got to explore the front half of the first floor before we had to go....this leaves a reason to go back many more times in the future. Check out the pic's...there pretty neat...let me know what you think."

 The following are the pictures that they took .. 


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Interesting find.. thanks to Jay and his friend .. 

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I guess this place is listed as Haunted by a few sites .. as follows :   

   "  Byram Twp. – The Colby Mansion – This is an old boarded up house on Tamarack Road in Byram. The house was built for a wealthy railroad millionaire in the late 1800s.The man shot his wife and cut off her head and put it on the fireplace mantle. He was then killed and both of their bodies are buried in the estates’ graveyard. Someone recently bought the property and built a new house somewhere on the land. The old mansion is still standing but the old guest cottage fell down many years ago. The property is heavily patrolled by police. "



haunted .. ! Colby Mansion

Pocano Record
 2008 news .. old places .. took the beams from one place and put them into Colby Mansion. 



what's is cost ??  Zillow !  says $775K

Wiki says :  that about the place . 




2nd time to put this up ..







Monday, July 02, 2018

Celebrities.Before & After

Oh no.. I need to find the URL that I found these on... it was a Youtube, actually :
I KNOW that the paparazzi will find the absolute worse pics ever ..
hell we ALL have our bad days !!! .. in a daze!! .. apologies to the celebs .. they have to
live with their public lives ..



"Cindy Brady" ..
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McCauley Culkin
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That cute kid... in that Arnold Swartzneger movie..
the Exterminator . . 
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.. Another cute kid .. On Family Ties .. 
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He was on Pay It Forward movie .. Joel ?? well, he
basically looks the same . 
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Wasn't he in Goonies ??
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On Family Ties
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Melissa .. Little lHouse on the Prairie .
she's stayed looking pretty good !! .. but I KNOW
that the Nat'l Enquirer and such would have some
horrible pictures .. 
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Researching plates, pottery .



 This one is about Japanese Porcelain Marks
http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml
    5 pages down are some photos .
at about 18 pages down is Dat Ichi Toki .. looks like something that I have . ? ..



  page 43 is Ichi Hon (Nippon) . .
 page 53 :

  Also looks like a few items I have .

approx 65 pages, as my computer is currently set ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjN0Em62LIc.  
Dr. Lori video Antiques Appraiser . She says you can send her a picture of YOUR
object .. at www.DrLoriV.com  (Don't know if she charges?)


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I didn't look at these, yet.. but.. I'll delete whatever doesn't interest me, whenever I DO look..
Took these URLS from a forum .:



http://reviews.ebay.com/Identifying-RS-Prussia?ugid=10000000009898813

http://www.rubylane.com/item/463593-RL-2830/R-S-Prussia-sugar-bowl


Here are some German marks wepages. I checked the first one already - no hits. The second I haven't.

http://www.auktion-bergmann.de/Katalog.aspx?a_id=3&s_id=305&pidx=12

http://www.ceramic-link.de/icd/pages/marks/marksbycountry/germany.htm

http://www.limogeslovers.com/limoges/sold-limoges.cfm?page=72

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SILVER :
http://www.leopardantiques.com/object/stock/listall


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/glossary/
  Words used on the Antique roadshow .

http://www.antiqueweek.com/Glossary.asp
   Words ..Glossary of Terms used by antique businesses

https://www.kovels.com

https://archive.org
    research the archives ..
IE .. Journals :
https://archive.org/details/journals

https://antiques.lovetoknow.com/Free_Online_Antique_Price_Guide
 
http://fineestateliquidation.com/research-antiques/cameras-to-czechoslovakia/
  Cameras to Czech.

http://fineestateliquidation.com/research-antiques/taxidermy-to-typewriters/
     T....





Saturday, March 18, 2017

PicturesOffInternet











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Draft Card ..














Facial Recognition




 Hats from the 1860's..-1890's
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Picks !




Trying to "date" old photos.. info on that..



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