(Part 3) Best us state & local history books according to redditors
We found 3,946 Reddit comments discussing the best us state & local history books. We ranked the 1,521 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
First off Mr. Kluwe, please go read Badasses to get a feel of where the legacy of the Raiders began. Get insight into the insane world of the Snake, The Assassin, and The Ghost. Only when you come from that place can you begin to bleed the silver and black.
To tackle your questions:
Last tip, your first regular season game at home walk to the Black Hole. Keep your helmet on, this is important. The with arms wide lean into the rugged arms of men with painted faces and liquor on their breath. I wish that I got that experience.
The Raiders.
They're just so cool. The uniforms, logo, and name are badass. I don't know what it is, but the fact their colours are silver and black just really sticks with me. I remember watching one of the NFL Super Bowl champ rundown and they mentioned Al Davis always checking the uniforms to make sure they were silver, not grey.
On the topic, Al Davis was such a badass.
> He remains the only executive in NFL history to be an assistant coach, head coach, general manager, commissioner and owner.
> refusing to allow the Raiders to play in any city where black and white players had to stay in separate hotels. He was the first NFL owner to hire an African American head coach and a female chief executive. He was also the second NFL owner to hire a Latino head coach.
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^^I ^^also ^^think ^^the ^^ ^^49ers ^^are ^^cool.
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EDIT: For those interested, John Maddens book is called 'One Knee Equals Two Feet'. Here's a link for it on Amazon. It's quite old, but still a stonking great read.
Also that word reminded me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Buy it as well.
EDIT 2: "If you're buying any of the books mentioned in these comments, Amazon has a physical book sale today. 30% off, use promo code HOLIDAY30" - thanks to /u/Mandarinez.
EDIT 3: If you're interested in some Raider history check out Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders by Peter Richmond. - thanks to /u/Imaygetyelledat.
Highly recommend reading the book about this:
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805073663/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oOXuDbYA71H0K
I'm currently reading What's the Matter with Kansas? that looks into and attempts to explain why GOP voters keep voting against their own interests.
For those interested in what the result would be, check out this book another redditor pointed me toward. It is a very good look at Kansas, it's history and politics from the 1800s through current days. It is fascinating and a bit disturbing:
What's The Matter With Kansas by native Kansan Thomas Frank
It wouldn't surprise me if he lived down there. There is this book "The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City" about homeless people who live inside subway and maintenance tunnels beneath New York City.
https://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/155652241X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525826533&sr=8-1&keywords=mole+people
Its also common for people to live in the flood tunnels beneath Las Vegas, since it rarely rains in Las Vegas.
You're very welcome! I learned most of what I know about New York City history by reading as much as I could about it. It started off as an interest, became a passion, and over the past few years I've been able to turn my love of city history into a career.
There are definitely some fabulous blogs and websites about NYC that are a good place to start if you're interested in learning more, such as Forgotten New York, Daytonian in Manhattan, Untapped Cities, Ephemeral New York, and The Bowery Boys, to name a few. The New-York Historical Society, The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Historical Society, and The New York Public Library are all great places to visit, and their respective blogs (here, here, here and here) have a ton of valuable information. Other organizations and groups have websites and social media feeds that are worth checking out. Here is a list with some amazing websites and resources to check out.
In terms of books, I recommend starting with Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. It is comprehensive, informative, and incredibly well written. I have read it numerous times over the years, and I reference it constantly. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar is also a good introductory book to get yourself up to speed. I have compiled a list of books for /r/nychistory, which you can view here, and it has plenty of other good choices to pick and includes different categories.
In the event that you enjoy what I do and want to learn more, feel free to check out my Twitter page (you don't need an account to view it), where I have shared over 7,000 unique historical images and photos from the city's history. I also have an Instagram account, where I am able to provide more in-depth stories about the events, buildings, views, and people that have helped make New York City the place that it is today.
Go back 2000 years ago all of Israel and Palestine were inhabited by Jews. The Roman empire conquered Israel and after a long period of civil strife kicked all the Jews out of their homeland. This is called the diaspora. Jews settled all over the world and most of them in europe. Over the previous millennia Jews had been treated petty harshly by their host countries. In some places ethnic cleanings took place. About this time(late 1800s) the Zionist movement began where Jews started moving back to Israel and Palestine. They bought land from the government and Arabs living there. After WW2 where Hitler killed if over 6 million Jews many of the remaining Jews moved to their homeland. This caused more strife with their Arab neighbours.
Because of the attempted genocide against the Jews the UN partitioned British Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The day after the British turned over control the surrounding Arab countries invaded Palestine and attacked the state of Israel. Since then there have been several wars with the surrounding Arab states. Israel won these wars but this left some areas not in Israel but under Israel's control. Gaza, the West bank and the golen heights. Gaza and the West bank are the proposed sights if the nation of Palestine. Golen heights is considered Syrian territory but Israel has extended its law and likely will not be returned for national defense reasons. Along the border of Gaza and the West bank has seen numerous twist attacks by Palestinians and Israelis, though today it is mostly Palestinians.
So the root of the problem is two peoples lay claim to the same land. Neither side wants to give up their claim and are in a deadlock.
From Beirut to Jerusalem is a great book on it that includes the formation of the Zionist moment (1890s) to the present day conflict. It does not gloss over the Israeli terrorism nor Palestinian. It was recommended reading in college political science courses and it a great read.
Joking aside, Lon Horiuchi really has stepped out of public view on purpose. After the incidents in Ruby Ridge and Waco, Timothy McVeigh took an interest and spread quite a bit of information, such as his home address, as incitement toward his murder. He even sent letters directly to Lon, saying "what goes around, comes around" and similar. You can read about all McVeigh's actions, including those letters, in "American Terrorist", by Lou Michel if you so desire.
Horiuchi's gone dark to stay alive, is my guess. I don't blame him for that, although I don't agree with his former actions as part of the FBI HRT. Still, I can understand wanting to preserve his own life, almost all of us would do the same even if it meant being a recluse.
This brings up my weekly reminder to read Sons of the Profits, by Bill Spiedel, former Seattle Times editor and creator of the underground tour.
From that book, I learned that the railroad companies made their real money by creating towns they owned. They were able to buy up Tacoma real estate for nothing, and plopped their west coast terminus station there, expecting they could slay Seattle and take its crown, making a mint as they turned barren farmland into downtown real estate. The Northern Pacific Railroad commissioned the Olmstead Brothers, premiere architects of their age, to draw up a city plan, which was summarily rejected due to curvy streets, too much green space, and avenue names such as Orinoco.
Tacoma was essentially a planned and marketed product of a city. However, Seattle had momentum. And hookers.
Umm, Duh??? Building 257 at Plum Island was where ticks were actively experimented on. Read the book https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416
The first half of Thomas Friedman's [From Beirut to Jerusalem] (http://www.amazon.com/From-Beirut-Jerusalem-Thomas-Friedman/dp/1250034418) covers the same thing. It received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1989.
I am with you - I don't understand how having kids with someone is less of a commitment than marriage. But a sociologist did a book on this trend and I keep meaning to read it:
https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
Another fantastic book in the same vein is What's The Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank. Really does a great job explaining how conservatives have gotten people in the south and midwest to vote for them based on an ever changing idea of "conservative values" despite Republican economic policy being the opposite of what they should be voting for. Highly recommended.
Given my understanding of how "TANF" and other programs for the low-income work in the USA, it sounds like the odds are decent that you may be causing a lot of grief for people in extremely precarious and difficult situations. People with kids in extremely precarious and difficult situations. If you're a single parent struggling to get by and your BF or GF comes by with groceries, and you sell my food aid so you can buy kids' winter boots that year, and then you have to deal with an interruption to your meagre aid, and punishment that affects the kids' well-being, all for just trying to get by...
...yeah, I don't know; I think I'd find a different hobby, outside of incidents where you're 100% sure you are in possession of all of the facts and there is unquestionably abuse of the system rather than doing what one can manage to do to squeak by.
Alternatively: write your congressperson, tell them you're tired of your tax dollars being wasted on administering an alphabet soup of different programs, and you'd rather see the $ being spent there simply being given to the poor, so they don't resort to this.
(Observing this from Canada, where we don't have "food stamps," and thus, no underground trade in ditto...)
> probably get a bunch for it because you have multiple kids (common here anyways)
If you're genuinely interested in this and would like to learn something about it instead of just making knee-jerk assumptions, the book
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage is riveting reading and explains a lot about an issue people like to complain about without thinking much about.
(Here is the quickest thing I could Google vis-a-vis "a bunch," a [PDF table showing max amounts for food stamps in one state in 2014]. "Each additional HH member will increase by $146." $146/mo to feed a person for a month is not exactly luxury.)
Read: Sons of the Profits is a pretty good book about the origins of Seattle, and most of the Underground Tour (worth going on) is cribbed from it.
Podcasts: See this thread.
Businesses: In general, please patronize the scruffy older business we have. It's easy to always go to the newest or trendiest spot, but do try to support places that have been there for years (shoutout to Cortona Cafe ). Avoid Storyville Coffee (they're the business arm for a really regressive church that likes to pretend its hip), Cherry Street Coffee (the owner decided there needed to be a 'healthcare surcharge' on every receipt after the ACA was passed), and don't rent anything from a guy named Hugh Sisley.
Etiquette: We are polite to a fault. We're really chill. We tend to be indirect and studiously avoid confrontation(snark, not snarl, ya dig?). It will be hard to make friends with 'locals' b/c we already have social networks and there aren't so many of us around anymore, but patience/persistence pays off. Join a group activity and keep showing up if you want to get 'in' with a crowd.
I read this book quite some time ago: http://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
Some people see motherhood as the only way they can contribute to society or feel important and respected.
I think American society makes 3 huge mistakes that lead to this. We glorify motherhood, we keep the myth of the American dream on life support, and we don't talk enough about the cost of having children. Too many people think that they will birth the child that will go on to cure cancer or strike oil when the rule is that children born into poverty usually stay impoverished and they keep their parents impoverished.
People usually overstate the incidence of unintended pregnancy among the poor, which is less than 15%. I imagine that the slightly higher rate of unintended pregnancy among the poor is mostly due to not being able to afford birth control.
They are not unplanned. It's a misconception. Poor women have children because it gives their lives some fulfillment/meaning and raise their social status in community.
Here's a good book about single motherhood among the poor: https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
I read a history of Seattle called "Sons of the Profits". It explained early Seattle was built on Alki but after a couple of winters they moved it to it's current location.
Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business. The Seattle Story, 1851-1901 https://amazon.com/dp/0914890069/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_ybJEub185NSTG
Check out the book The Bad Guys Won about the 86 Mets. Lenny Dykstra was the leader of a clique called "The Scum Bunch" that bet huge amounts of money on ridiculous shit.
http://www.amazon.com/Fugitives-Refugees-Portland-Oregon-Journeys/dp/1400047838
>Fugitives and Refugees is a must for anyone who may, in their lives, go to Portland. But its appeal should reach beyond Oregonians. Palahniuk's love of the city is so great, and his stories so weirdly wonderful, it makes one want to get out of the house, get in the car, and drive to Portland right away.
There's a fairly famous book about the many cases where people have died on Washington. You don't have to deal with altitude sickness like the rockies but when the weather turns it can get ugly quick. A month or two ago the weather station on the summit recorded continuous winds over 110mph for 3 straight days.
Yes. As an example, 900 of the crew of USS Indianapolis survived her torpedoing. Four days later, only 321 of them were still alive, many of them killed by shark attacks. There are a number of good books on the tragedy: In Harm's Way might be the best, though there are so many, practically any of them will do.
I've lived here for almost 20 years now and probably half the shows I've been to have been at the Roseland. I've always felt like there was something vaguely dark about it, so when I found out about the murder in its history it didn't surprise me a lot. It's definitely a story from the city's Drugstore Cowboy and Fugitives and Refugees days.
I loved Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk because it really set the tone for how strange aspects of Portland was, although I’m not sure how accurate it remains 15 years later. Still a great book though.
The last excellent work of fiction I read was City of Dreams by Beverly Swerling. The book that I feel best captures the feeling of New York City, however, is Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.
I mostly read nonfiction books about New York City history, and I'll share a few of my favorites with you. The definitive tome, of course, is Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Mike Wallace and Edwin Burrows. Another favorite of mine, as I love the history of New Amsterdam, is Island at the Center of the World:The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto. One of the most fascinating subjects I have been learning about is Native American history at the period of first European contact, and I really recommend checking out Adriaen Van Der Donck's A Description of New Netherland (The Iroquoians and their World), which many scholars agree is just as much of a significant work as William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, and would be the definitive guide to the new world if it had been written in English. Evan Pritchard's Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquian People of New York also offers an incredible look at native culture.
If you are interested in the subway system, check out Stan Fischler's fantastic Uptown, Downtown. One of the most underrated books I have picked up recently explores the construction of the amazing Grand Central Terminal, and I learned an incredible amount from it: Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan. If you are interested in urban planning, I would also suggest The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor.
At this point I've read a ton of nonfiction books about the city, so if you have any questions or want any other recommendations, feel free to ask!
First off, I assume you have or will be doing the required reading. Portland is chock full of plucky transplants who have never experienced the joy of being harassed by a homeless person at Saturday Market, an anti-Californian xenophobia campaign or even a Santa riot. Times may have changed, but you should prepare yourself for the following:
If you can get past those caveats, it's a fantastic place and I wish you all the best.
If you have a good library nearby, you should be able to get it in the military history/history section. https://amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1381010923&sr=8-2&keywords=lab+257 Check out this film too, rave reviews from NYTimes, LATimes, Variety, etc: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1652376/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl It's trailer is here: https://np.reddit.com/r/Lyme/comments/8d2q4x/under_the_eightball_in_their_eighteen_month_long/
The Zoo Where You're Fed to God
And, of course, the renowned-
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
edit to add- I got to "The Zoo Where You're Fed to God" by looking at Craig Clevenger's website for books that have inspired him. Craig also wrote a highly recommended book that has an eye - catching title: The Contortionist's Handbook.
Northwestern Territory, yes. But Illinois has a greater claim on Wisconsin rather then the other way around.
If it makes you feel better, Wisconsin was basically deforested to build Chicago (pre-fire, 1871. Source: William Cronon's "Nature's Metropolis")
And the Green Bay-Chicago rivalry transcends football. After the revolution, Chicago, St. Louis, Green Bay, and Cincinnati all competed to be the nexus for trade and goods moving from the western frontier to the East Coast and on to Europe. Chicago actually lagged for several reasons: Shipping would include an annoying portage from the Illinois to Chicago Rivers, and Chicago was an ice or mud locked malarial swamp for much of its early history.
But while the other cities invested heavily into their water passages, Chicago gambled and came up big on the newer technology of railroads. After most of Chicago burned to the ground in 1871, Green Bay began to attract significant investment from New York and Boston betting Chicago would take decades to recover. (Source: Donald Miller's "City of the Century")
there are bunches, here's a few ive read recently:
Sons of the profits. a little dry but packed with facts and fills you in on the history of the people that built the city, along with their struggles and trials doing so.
https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Profits-Business-Business-1851-1901/dp/0914890069
canoe and the saddle: goes back to when there was next to nothing here. half neat story, half educational to the area in the mid 1800's. i recommend the book with all the explanations noted to help follow along
https://www.amazon.com/Canoe-Saddle-Critical-Theodore-Winthrop/dp/0803298633/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502831073&sr=1-1&keywords=the+canoe+and+the+saddle
the good rain. i just love this one. it bounces all over, but i still love it. it also covers everyones favorite drunk climber, fred beckey (http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PJ-BD708_beckey_DV_20111109195435.jpg) !
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Rain-Terrain-Northwest-Departures/dp/0679734856/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502831144&sr=1-1&keywords=the+good+rain
Harvey penick's little red book.
http://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Penicks-Little-Red-Book/dp/1451683219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427001163&sr=8-1&keywords=harvey+penick
You should read the book "Operation Paperclip" by Annie Jacobsen. It is a pretty good read that follows the entire operation.
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists-ebook/dp/B00BAXFBI2
I'm not suggesting that there was a deliberate release of Lyme, but it does seem pretty clear that Plum Island was a biological warfare testing station. Lab 257 is a mind-blowing read.
How is he not being consistent? I root for the laundry. And we're Mets fans. The last time we won a World Series, the best book written about it was literally titled, "The Bad Guys Won".
If given the choice, then yeah, I'd rather have a successful team of nice guys than a successful team of assholes, but I'd rather have a successful team of assholes than a bunch of nice, friendly losers.
A professor is not a government official. Republicans are idiots. Bill Cronon is also one of the BEST historians the U.S. has right now, by the way. Read Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West to have mind blown by a brilliant writer and educator. This is one of the best books on U.S. history ever written!
You'd have to be obtuse to think that the people of the UK voted in the EU referendum based on the merits of the EU and the relationship the UK had in it. The previous UK PM fucked up tremendously in allowing that referendum to be put forth knowing how politics would warp it.
Venice isn't a principality. Neither is Hong Kong which is on borrowed time. Hong Kong became a major city because it was the British trading post to China for a century. That was its edge and it doesn't have that anymore and China is puffing up native Shanghai as its business center instead.
Singapore exists because of the current international system with treaties and the UN makes it way too inconvenient to invade and also it has two weak neighbors. Singapore's edge is that it's next to the Straights of Malacca so it's like an an Asian Panama Canal--shipping is focused there. Thailand and China are working on a canal to the north of it which will drink its milkshake.
Monaco exists because France allows it. Monaco is some luxury apartments and a couple of casinos in less than 640 acres on the side of a mountain on the French Riviera, that's pretty meaningless economically and politically. Monaco defaults back to France as soon as there isn't an heir to inherit the princedom.
Some city-states were tried in the late 1800's and after WWI but they didn't last.
You're probably thinking NYC is the model of a principality. NYC is one of the top 2 or 3 cities in the world not because of some special New York City-ness to it but because it New York City is the economically central city in a massive country. NYC would be greatly diminished if NY State or even New England were separated from the rest of the country.
New York City exists as it does because of the rest of the US. NYC got its edge when the Erie Canal was built that connected (funneled) the Great Lakes to the Hudson River. In the early 1800's Baltimore and New York City were rivals and neck and neck. Unfortunately for Baltimore it was much harder to build a canal from the Ohio River to the Potomac so all of the bounty of the Midwest went by boat across the Great Lakes to the Erie Canal then to the Hudson River and down to NYC. This is the same reason Chicago was the #2 city for a century. Chicago was the start of the funnel of all the agriculture and industry of the Midwest. Everything got sent to Chicago and then shipped by boat and later rail off to NYC. If this is interesting to you, you can read more about this in Nature's Metropolis.
Cities are not on islands where everything more than 20 or 30 miles away doesn't matter or is interchangeable. Cities exist where they do because there's a reason for a city to be there and the reason usually involves stuff more than a few miles beyond the edge of the city. There's a large city where New Orleans is because there is a good spot for a port to interface between barges on the Mississippi River system, railroads, and international shipping right there and then there's a feedback loop that having those facilities attracts additional industry. If New Orleans were part of a different political/economic unit than the rest of the Mississippi River basin, or the Mississippi River decided to flow somewhere else, then there wouldn't be much use of a port there which means there wouldn't be much of a city there in the long-run.
For comparison look at the Danube River in Europe! It's a big-ass river but there are only dinky cities along it because the river runs through like 9 different countries. It's hard or expensive and complicated to trade on that river so there aren't any large port cities there in that part of Europe. In comparison the Rhine River isn't particularly deep, wide, or long but it flows through two countries: Germany and the Netherlands. (It borders France and Switzerland too but that's upstream.) It's easy to do trade on there and subsequently it's a massive river in economic terms, running right through the heart of German industry and the largest port in Europe is at the mouth of that river in the Netherlands.
Cities and the regions around them are chicken-and-egg situations economically and geographically. You can't separate the city from the region and country around it.
You'd probably want to read Edin's Promises I Can Keep. Here's a summary.
Her basic thesis is that there's been a disconnect between marriage and childbirth in the last 40 years (post birth control). Marriage is now less about starting a family, and is more about the wedding as a symbol of economic status.
This broad social change has a differential effect based on class. As such, you see more high income people marry without the intention of starting a family right away, and more low income people start families before getting married.
That's the general subject matter of What's the Matter with Kansas?
I just finished reading The Boys of Summer, about the Brooklyn Dodgers. Easily one of the best baseball books ever written.
Founded in 1962 to fill the void left by the Brooklyn Dodgers. The inaugural team was one of the worst ever (finished with 40 wins and 120 losses, 60.5 wins behind the NL champion).
Won a World Series in 1969 against Baltimore. That team had pretty great pitching. Tom Seaver was the star of team and is still considered the best player in the team's history. He's the only player whose number has been retired (#41) and was nearly voted into the Hall of Fame unanimously (no one has ever been voted in unanimously).
Lost the 1973 World Series to the Oakland Athletics. The Mets had a pretty strong surge in the last month or so of the season to make the playoffs.
Then for a long time nothing happened.
In 1983, they got first baseman Keith Hernandez in a trade and things started to turn around. Young players Doc Gooden and Daryl Strawberry came up, and they acquired Gary Carter from Montreal in a trade. The 1986 team won the World Series in 7 games. They won game 6 in part thanks to an error by Bill Buckner. The team was made up of a bunch of maniacs. There's a pretty good book about the season.
Then for a long time nothing happened again.
In 1998 they traded for catcher Mike Piazza, which helped turn things around again. In 1999, they lost the National League Championship Series to the Braves, and in 2000, they lost the World Series to the Yankees.
In 2005, they brought in Carlos Beltran via free agency. David Wright and Jose Reyes also came up around this time. The team dominated in 2006, but lost the NLCS to the St. Louis Cardinals. Endy Chavez made one of the greatest catches of all-time in Game 7.
In 2007, they blew a 7 game lead with 17 games to go in September to Philadelphia. It came down to the last game of the season, but the Marlins killed us in the first inning and that was it. In 2008, it came down to the final day of the season again, but we lost again.
Things have been lousy since then. R.A. Dickey won a Cy Young Award in 2012. As you mentioned, there's lots of potential right now. Let's hope 2015 is the start of something good.
Read [Amazin] (https://www.amazon.com/Amazin-Miraculous-History-Beloved-Baseball/dp/0312309929) and [The bad guys won] (https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+bad+guys+won&qid=1554604792&s=books&sr=1-1) for all the history you need to knw,
We've retired 4 numbers:
37: Casey Stengel- first Manager and sweetheart of the Mets (if theres a saying about baseball that doesnt make sense It's either Casey or Yogi berra that said it)
14: Gil Hodges - Manager of the 69 Miracle Mets.
41: Tom Seaver - "The Franchise" The greatest pitcher to play for the mets up until deGrom. Used to hold the record for highest percentage of votes in the HoF till Griffey broke it.
31: Mike Piazza - The greatest home run hitting catcher of all time. Lead the team to the 99 playoffs and world series in 2000.
Hopefully theyll also retire 5 for David Wright. "The Captain" Led the team from 2004 to 2018. Leads the team in basically every offensive category, and was the face of the franchise for the last decade and a half.
Also know "Ya gotta Believe".
Welcome to the lifetime of suffering that is rooting for the New York Mets.
Kathryn Edin wrote a book about this. The tl;dr I got from it is that in general, the women she interviewed wanted to have kids, that they thought having kids would be a motivation to adapt to the responsibility, and that many thought their fathers could and would straighten out.
https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
Just because you didn't need something in a single certain specific instance doesn't mean you don't need to carry it generally.
Washington is known for extreme weather at all times of the year. People die up there even in the summer- and in fact, you actually more frequently see unprepared hikers on the mountain in the Summer than you do in the Winter, because folks are more likely to underestimate the conditions during the warmer months.
There's a really good book about the history of mishaps on Washington and in the rest of the Presidential Range- Not Without Peril. Many of the situations described in the book took place during warmer months- and not all of them had happy outcomes. IMO, this book is a "must read" for anyone who hikes in the White Mountains frequently.
This book covers the potential outbreaks from the lab on Plum Island. I haven't read it yet but it looks pretty interesting.
/u/LeeroyJenkins- has a good start in his post.
I would add Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn and Pull up a Chair The Vin Scully Story.
Not Dodger specific but Watching Baseball Smarter is also very good. It will help you appreciate the game you watch that much more.
The Baseball documentary by Ken Burns (as mentioned by /u/LeeroyJenkins-) is a must watch. It is long, around 20 hours including the 10th inning follow up, but it is well worth it. Available streaming on Amazon and Netflix.
This is a great book on the sinking http://www.amazon.com/Harms-Way-Indianapolis-Extraordinary-Survivors/dp/0805073663
[Henry Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf] (http://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Penicks-Little-Red-Book/dp/1451683219)
A wonderful book full of wisdom on golf and life.
Harvey Pennick's Little Red Book.
Can't wait for the Masters and the warm weather.
I don't even care about "WARM" warm, just give me mid fifties so the fairways dry up and I can hit the links.
It's the law until a state practices nullification. Here is a link to a Tom Woods book you should read.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1596981490/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1367541672&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
You need to read Operation Paperclip. Von Braun was very aware of the hangings of slave laborers from the cranes in the Mittlewerk. He requested more slave laborers from the death camps. His hands were plenty dirty. But we had Russians to beat to space. So he was useful.
Most here will encourage watching some vids. That's cool and worthwhile effort, but let me say that I really think you should start with 2 books :
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Here is an excerpt from Madden : https://www.reddit.com/r/oaklandraiders/comments/3wbnia/how_john_madden_influenced_cbss_football_coverage/
and another :
https://www.reddit.com/r/oaklandraiders/comments/3dnrpn/john_madden_said_that_game_was_the_most_proud/
And here is one for Bad Asses :
https://www.reddit.com/r/oaklandraiders/comments/3nac0n/gerald_irons_recalls_how_he_learned_the_raider/
My favorite is probably "The Bad Guys Won" about the 1986 team
The Bad Guys Won!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bad-Guys-Won-Uniform/dp/0062097636
Must read for Met fans.
Even better, get learnt:
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X
Sons of the Profits
http://www.amazon.com/Sons-Profits-Business-Business-1851-1901/dp/0914890069
Just know how to pronounce certain rivers and areas.Pick up Chuck Palaniuk's Fugitives and refugees http://www.amazon.com/Fugitives-Refugees-Portland-Oregon-Journeys/dp/1400047838, great read about how Portland was and what its has turned into.Have a bike?Go on some Midnight Mystery Bike rides.Downtown P-town can suck some times.Momo's is a good bar.Don't go to VooDoo doghnuts it's such bullshit.Powell's is cool.There is more to Portland then just Trendy Third and Downtown.Check out SE.it's a lot more fun.
You can usually snag a good set of clubs from a thrift store. Even just getting a few clubs, like a 5 wood, a putter, pitching wedge, and a few irons (5 and an 8) from the random bucket at a clubhouse. Garage sales are another fantastic way of getting good clubs for cheap. Especially if you've got a nice neighborhood around, I've snagged $200 clubs for $15 from rich people yard sales.
Once you've got a set of clubs, even if they're loaners, check out your local public golf course. There's almost always a course pro who teaches lessons, and they're pretty affordable. Take some to get a good idea on your form. If that's not on option, find a friend who's a decent golfer. Once you've got an understanding of form, start hitting the range often, and end on the practice green. I wouldn't touch a course until you're pretty comfortable hitting the ball consistently. Then go out with a friend, or someone who can play and just go for it.
Getting some research on, youtube videos are always fantastic, and the Harvey Penick's Little Red Book is fantastic.
Source: Golfing for 15 years.
Anyone interested in this stuff should check out Mole People. Takes place in New York, but it's similar. Found it to be a very good read.
I grew up in the White/Green Mountain region and I have heard stories like this time and time again. It is imperative to follow certain precautions in the White Mountains as well with any type of hiking but with those mountains conditions can be much different around the summits than it is down in the valleys where you park your car especially during this time of the year.
A great book to take a look through if you hike in this area is:
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Without-Peril-Misadventure-Presidential/dp/1934028320
It gives you a great history of the misfortune along the Presidential Range and what to consider for your own safety.
That's a broad topic. Let's see:
To be a Mets fan you have to research and fall in love with the team's history on your own. Here are good places to start:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bad-Guys-Won-Uniform/dp/0062097636
http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Fear-Flushing-Intense-Personal/dp/1616080469/ref=pd_sim_14_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Q25iqXe3L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0JYEAW0YZ08RBB0SXQGE
There's some fascinating sociology on this topic, actually. Why people of low income choose to have children even when it would strike people like us as financially ruinous or irresponsible or whatever. It is interesting to see it from their perspective, because how they see it breaks pretty much all standard left/right narratives. Book rec: https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
-The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
-Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
-Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
-In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
I don't have extensive experience with books on Portland, but I recommend Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
No. McVeigh's ideas had nothing to do with racism. He was unhappy with perceived government injustices, like Waco and Ruby Ridge.
He did spend some time with groups that held racist ideals, and even distributed literature that contained racist ideas while he was in the army, but has stated he was only interested in it for content relating to survivalism and anti establishment. He's specifically stated that he was not racist.
Source: American Terrorist
I've actually read two books in the past couple of months. "Badasses" by Peter Richmond:
https://www.amazon.com/Badasses-Legend-Maddens-Oakland-Raiders/dp/0061834319
and "Just Win, Baby: Al Davis and His Raiders" by Glenn Dickey:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0151465800/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and I also have on my shelf 'Slick: The Silver and Black Life of Al Davis' by Mark Ribowsky. I have not started this one yet:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0026025000/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Badasses covers the team mostly through John Madden's years up through 1976 and a few words through the '78 season, I believe. It was actually a really good book if you want to know more about how the Raiders established themselves and finally broke through after losing the eventual champions for so many years. I loved it. Absolutely one of the best football books I've ever read and a key to understanding the establishment of what it meant to 'be a Raider'. It was published in 2013, so it's certainly a bit more recent than either Al Davis biography.
Dickey's book is centered strictly around Al Davis with plenty of anecdotes, mostly from the viewpoint of an old beat writer. It felt a little light at times but makes for a great continuation from what 'Badasses' established. From memory, it really focuses on the more high profile incidents involving Davis including the feud with Rozelle around the Raider's move to LA and it does a GREAT job of highlighting the negotiations between Davis and Oakland and Davis and LA. You have to keep in mind that the Raiders wouldn't return to Oakland until 1995 and this book was published in 1991.
I believe Richmond cited Ribowsky's book quite a bit in 'Badasses'. As mentioned, I haven't read it yet, but it looks a bit more dense than Dickey's book. It seems like it was released at the same time as Dickey's book and perhaps was a bit of competition between book companies based on the fact they were both released about the same time.
As far as being 'hit' pieces, 'Badasses certainly isn't, as it is centered around the team more than Davis himself. Dickey's book was fair enough and reads like an Oakland beat writer wrote it. Nothing that really made me stop and think, 'Well, that was a unnecessarily harsh.'
In college, Cleveland's History of the Modern Middle East was my favorite history book about the Middle East. A little clinical and textbook-y but I thought it was very objective with a good level of detail.
Edit - I also thought From Beirut to Jerusalem was excellent. This was before Friedman became his current hacky self, and is very different from his work the last 10+ years. This book was very enjoyable and easy to read, and therefore would be very accessible for somebody just treating it as pleasure reading. The big downsides are that it may be a bit outdated and it isn't comprehensive or complete - it largely focuses on covering the highlights of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Lebanese civil war; it also isn't as academic.
Without nullification, the states are just powerless administrative divisions of the federal government. It's incredibly important to have sovereign states who can place a real check on the continued growth of the Federal government.
"Nullification" by historian Tom Woods is a pretty good primer on this subject.
On the topic of Kaiser, they are literally the worst. Fun fact: even President Nixon was aware HMO-based health care like Kaiser was a complete money making scam. Source
The reason you got laughed at is Lyme Disease is not endemic to California. Borrelia burgdorferi is absolutely everywhere but as usual the medical system is 20 years behind the research. Ticks ride around on deer, birds and most importantly, humans. I personally think the theory that Lyme only comes from a tick bite is absurd. The "science" does not support that theory yet but its only a matter of time.
Regarding Nazis coming to America after WWII, this was called Operation Paperclip and is documented fact. Source
Now the question is were they developing biological weapons on Plum Island and was this the origination of Lyme Disease? For that I point you to this book which details the story of Plum Island.
Search this subreddit for Plum for some additional threads on this topic. Happy researching.
Honestly, the research out there is pretty vast, and you would be best served by simply running a Google search for "Timothy McVeigh", "Terry Nichols", "Oklahoma City Bombing Report", and "Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building". A caveat: much of the webpages out there deal heavily in conspiracy theories, so exercise your due diligence when sifting through the links.
I can suggest a couple of books however: American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,
https://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072
and Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Mcveigh-Oklahoma-Bombing-Conspiracy-ebook/dp/B0030T2MB8
These represent two competing views of the events leading up to the bombing.
As it pertains to this particular post, again, Google "Timothy McVeigh" and "Invictus". Many megabytes of text have been uploaded to discuss the meaning behind his selection of this poem as his last words.
A Fan's Notes while not so much an in depth football book as it is a literary work, A Fan's Notes is still a brilliant read for any football fan. Deals with the authors alcoholism, nihilism, the bizarre relation a fan has to his team, and the fear of spending ones life on the sidelines of the action. An all around excellent read. It does have some nice insight to the 60's Giants as well.
Some other more traditional books I'd recommend would When Pride Still Mattered, Run to daylight, Instant Replay, and for one none packer book: Badasses. All four of those provide excellent looks into storied franchises at their best, and When Pride Still Mattered is the definitive book for the NFLs greatest coach.
Thanks OP, I've been meaning to make this thread for awhile now and I love reading books about football and sports in general. I really do heavily recommend A Fan's Notes though, that novel is excellent.
And while I'm still here I guess, even though it isn't football, I'll quickly recommend A Season on the Brink as one of the greatest sports books ever.
EDIT: On the off chance anyone takes an interest in this I have lots more I could recommend.
Woke up to a temp of 33 degrees and windchill of 19. Glad to feel the brisk chill of winter, and can't wait to see my co-workers who were all bundled up when the temps were in the low 60's.
About to start reading [The Bad Guys Won] (http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform--/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416320417&sr=8-1&keywords=the+bad+guys+won) to get my baseball fix
Only insomuch as it was a filming location for Batman. New York has always been Gotham. It's where the term originated. NY has magazines with the name, books that use it, major websites, and so on. The Batman comics took the name from New York.
The book Gotham is really solid. I had the author as a professor in college and he was a fountain of awesome information from the 1600's to present day. It also includes world events that affect the city in one way or another. Last I checked he was working on Gotham 2, from 1900-present day.
Not novels, but -
[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X) - a very readable account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters by Tom Wolfe
[The Teachings of Don Juan] (http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Juan-Yaqui-Knowledge/dp/0671600419/ref=la_B000APXVFG_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404522090&sr=1-1) - presented at the time as research/non-fiction, since questioned, but still pretty fascinating
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X
Link for the lazy: http://www.amazon.com/Area-51-Uncensored-Americas-Military/dp/0316132942/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318350213&sr=8-2
Just to add a little information for you the plane didn't disintegrate because of the speed. What happened was the drones noes cone was at a poor angle (as you can see) when it detached it pitched immediately down cutting into the plane. The video you watch if you notice is in really slow motion and does not show this. But if you slow down the actual crash you will see the two aircraft collide. Thanks for sharing this video I haven't see this one yet but I have read reports and books on this crash.
edit anyone interested is reading into what happened at area 51 (no not alien stories) but the u2/sr71/stealth bomber and nuclear testing you should check out this book. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316132942/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1/192-7878547-1497613?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=0ZJ5GT5NG18GHDGCDA89&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_i=0440220734 its a good read.
Natures Metropolis by William Cronon
" Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation. "
Most people are familiar with the story from the book In Harm's Way published in 2003.
A cursory google search doesn't reveal when it was declassified but IIRC the book discusses it.
Anyone really interested in this ship needs to read "In Harms Way" (https://www.amazon.ca/Harms-Way-Indianapolis-Extraordinary-Survivors/dp/0805073663)
One of the most edge of your seat books i have ever read.
It's been this way since the first outsiders arrived. Read about how this all got going... https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Profits-Business-Business-1851-1901/dp/0914890069
Everything I said is true: the cash you're willing spend will get you the best in this city. I see you shitbagging me in other comments so I'll just say this:
There is a huge socio-political context that you're entering into. Saying you'll drop enough for the top 1% of housing is going to make people assume a lot about you. You'll have a ton of fun here--those celebrity chefs don't charge as much as they do back home--but if you plan on staying and becoming a part of the community then I recommend watching American Winter and reading Fugitives and Refugees (though it's outdated, sadly the 24 Hour Church of Elvis has closed) to get an idea of whats going on in this city.
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth
Good read. There is some messed up stuff in there.
>What you are arguing for is the dissolution of the US government as defined by the founders.
No, that's what we have had. The US government was not intended to be a single entity, but rather a federation of largely self-governing states.
We have differing opinions and something tells me we're not going to convince each other. I personally believe that localism is required for true liberty. I do not have any race-based intentions at all - I was born and raised in NYC and am "colorblind." If you want to see the perspective of the pro-nullification crowd read this book.
By 'crazy shit' you mean testing infectious diseases with ticks.
You also mean its research was partly headed up by ex-Nazi Scientist Erich Traub brought over by Operation Paperclip
And by 'fringe conspiracy' you mean - House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them
I don't think it was intentional, personally. I think it was migratory birds and shit laboratory conditions, which is well documented.
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
Operation Paperclips post mortem effects slowly dripping down into society, if only we had better biological experimentation regulations to plug this major gap once and for all because a lot of these genetically modified ticks were from escaped experiment labs and the wind and birds dragged them all over the place by them(the ticks) hitching rides. Whether people want to live in a bubble and suffer from denialism, we can't just be ignorant and pretend like lyme disease and associated diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome are natural and not synthetic lab made creations, the ratios for these diseases were nothing years ago to what they are now. Theres books on the subject and so much piles of anecdotal evidence, the government doesn't want to own up to this because they are too prideful that their scientists are perfect and don't make mistakes, it's what happens when you appoint nazis to do biowarfare work for the US, doesn't end very well. https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416 a great book on the subject matter I speak of if anyones interested.
["The Boys of Summer"] (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0060883960/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a38BzbK07YC9Q)
Odd Man Out is also excellent. It's written by Matt McCarthy and the year he spent playing single A ball in the Angels org after graduating Yale. Not Dodgers (although he does mention playing the Ogden Raptors a few times).
Bottom of the 33rd was a very well written look at both the longest game in history as well as the players, ballpark staff, and fans in attendance. It puts the game in perspective.
If you're more into fiction and don't mind diving into a book written for Young Adults Summerland is a very enjoyable read. But it sounds like you would like more baseball in the book.
The Boys of Summer has a great blend of baseball and real life, talking about baseball in the 1930s and 40s and the hearts that broke when the Dodgers (and Giants) moved from New York to California.
Ah, the Mr Burns of the NFL... Ever read Badasses? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061834319/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1404521045&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40
Put this on your reading list:
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform/dp/0062097636
Totally out of context for this thread, but man, you commenters (is that a word?) Seem like who to ask... Is there a book about SF in the same vein as Gotham: A History of NYC?
If you find this gif interesting for the battle it shows, I can't recommend reading Gotham enough. Fascinating read on the early history of NYC. It is a tomb though, so be prepared for only reading one book for the next six months.
The original idea for the Batman commic is that it would be set in Manhattan. It was changed to make it vague and so they could work with a fluid city, writing in features and locations without having to worry about being geographically accurate. If you want something a little more solid, please read Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Sort of depends on the type of book you're looking for but here are some of my faves in no particular order: Illusions, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Holographic Universe, Center of the Cyclone, True Hallucinations, The Archaic Revival, Be Here Now.
also https://www.amazon.ca/Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031242759X
What did you think of this book? Specifically the claim concerning russians sending mutants over to spook the Americans?
I'd strongly recommend you read Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.
>Occasionally I've seen it followed by some kind of incredibly patronizing excuse which is that while they know it's technically irrational and irresponsible, they cannot really be blamed because having 'a family' is pretty much all the fulfillment that the dumb peasants are ever going to get out of life since everything else for them is so awful.
I wonder if people who have this perspective have heard of books like Promises I Can Keep, and then boil it down to this oversimplified and patronizing point of view?
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/dp/0520241134
There is an AWESOME book about this, I highly recommend it.
Same here. Was first introduced to him from his work on the Lebanese Civil War
All of Harvey Penick's books. It's much more mental than technique, but mental is a big part of the game many people ignore. I'm sure he wrote much more than what I linked below, but it would be a good start.
Little Red Book
And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend
The Game for a Lifetime
Get this book and put his teachings to use!!
It's my golf bible. I read it a couple of times a year, especially if I'm in a funk on the course.
Ben Hogans 5 Lessons - Solid foundations from one of the games legends. Great for beginners or those with funky swings, grips, stances, etc (which your <10 handicap dad likely doesn't need) but it's a classic golf instruction book with fundamentals in mind and the first golf book i read. Best part is it's full of really cool old illustrations to describe what he's talking about in each segment.
Next is Harvey Penicks Little Red Book - It's a good coffee table or bathroom book. Each "chapter" is a page or two usually. Harvey Penick was a legendary instructor and he famously had a small red book full of one-liner lessons that he finally published late in life. Another classic golf instruction book that keeps it super simple.
Then we have Golf is not a game of perfect by Dr. Bob Rotella It's written by a sports psychologist who specializes in "the mental game". Ideal for the weekend warrior that wants to have more fun while shooting better scores. I read this when i felt like i had all the skills but was getting in my own way mentally. Helped me work on consistency, course management, and managing expectations for those hot-head moments.
After that i read Dave Pelz' Short Game Bible Written by a now short-game guru and former actual nasa rocket scientist, this book is thicker than most bibles and is super (exhaustingly) detailed. Honestly it is solid science that would work for everyone if they had the time and discipline to practice and implement. But it burned me out before i could finish it. I'm just not at the level where i need to know all of the "how's" and "whys" to every shot ever imaginable inside 150 from every lie to every landing.
Next up is Zen Golf: mastering the mental game by Dr. Joe Parent Another sports psychologist who specializes in thinking smarter/better. A very interesting read. Lots of tips that helped and i plan to re-read very soon. It actually has many lessons that translate well to everyday life, not just golf.
Finally, Lowest Score Wins This last one is a more modern approach to the game. Very simple and straight forward. Very data driven. Kind of like a fundamentals book but more aggressive and concerned with one thing, lowering your score. There's some great chapters on "seeing the course differently" that really helped my course management and it's great for drills on every aspect of the game.
I think the last two are the best all-around.
Ben Hogan's 5 Lessons-great for fundamentals
Tiger Woods: How I Play Golf -great for teaching you different shots
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book-great for learning fundamentals and interesting little stories
You should be able to find all 3 for >$50
[Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire] (https://www.amazon.com/Not-Without-Peril-Misadventure-Presidential/dp/1934028320/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469484204&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=not+without+peril+150+years+of+misadventure+on+the+presidential+range+of+new+hampshire) by Nicholas Howe is a fascinating book filled with hiking and backcountry history, adventure, and misadventure.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why by Laurence Gonzales is an interesting look at survival in the wilderness, which is always handy for those of us who spend a good deal of time in the backcountry.
Yep. And liberals have been known to believe that at least as often as conservatives. To be fair, it's basic human nature: you construct your policies to help the people, and then the people reject you in favor of the other guy. So, is it easier to believe that you're just worse than the other guy, or that the voters are stupid?
Here ya go!
I got that from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists-ebook/dp/B00BAXFBI2
This book might be interesting. "Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America" by Annie Jacobsen - http://amzn.to/2jOmSnT
It only covers Germany, but it is interesting and is well researched and written. Hope this helps.
There's a great book on this called Lab 257. It goes into many the odd things going on at that place, including the Lyme disease that Eldrazi mentioned. It's also rumored that the West Nile virus came from there as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Laboratory/dp/0060011416
An interesting read relevant to biowarfare and Lyme. Not sure how I feel on the topic (despite having read the book).
The United States has a similar stories revolving around a once secret lab named Lab 257. It's speculated that West Nile virus may have escaped that lab, among other things.
Oh yes. It takes the events and history of Plum Island, and narrates them to you extremely well. The book reads like a thriller. I can't speak for the complete accuracy, and I hear that its a sensationalized, conspiracy-theorist's wet dream, but it was still a fun read.
Amazon link.
American Terrorist
There's nothing suspect, they were just two highly intelligent, anti-US government "political prisoners". No grand conspiracy, especially given McVeigh being on the Federal execution fast track.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072
https://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072 Here ya go, He attended Klan rallies while in the service and bought a WP shirt just to fuck with his black squad mates and caught a reprimand for it.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072
This is told simply, just the facts, book written by a pair of journalists. In fact, McVeigh got mad at his defense attorneys (as mentioned late in the book) a few times because they were trying to do the very thing you are wanting to avoid!
LOL.... nooooo
Never....
http://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072
I read American Terrorist several years ago. I have expressed no judgment about the event in my comments here. I merely pointed out that blowing up an NSA datacenter has some similarities to McVeigh's action.
I read The Catcher Was a Spy probably 20 years ago. It's mildly interesting in recollecting Moe Berg's life, but it reads more like someone's idea of what their life may have been like, than what it actually was.
If you want some interesting baseball books, I'd suggest October 1964 by David Halberstam, The Boys of Summer (classic) by Roger Kahn, or Great and Glorious Game by Bart Giamatti. The last one includes an essay entitled "The Green Fields of the Mind" that is probably one of the most beautiful pieces written about the game.
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
It's a pretty great memoir of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers written by their former beat reporter.
The Boys of Summer is a great book about the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers.
This is an outstanding Lou Gehrig biography.
If you took away my baseball, you might as well take away my air, water, and food. I live, breathe, and eat the game... so much so I work part time for one of the clubs!
A favorite non-fiction book is Crazy '08 about the 1908 season if you like the history of the game.
Also Summer of '49, The Boys of Summer, The Glory of Their Times, and Eight Men Out
For fiction... you MUST read Shoeless Joe. The Natural, For Love of the Game, and Bang the Drum Slowly aren't bad either... I'm sure you've seen all the movies too.
Welcome!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061834319/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=1BSE26R0JR2AT&amp;coliid=I3BTG5YHLYPYXP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmVBeFmvvYk
Off topic, but you should really read this book: Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061834319/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_VjBGDbMYRC7GE
This would be a good start then.
>It's always been the humble team that can never win being the Mets
You must really be under 25.
The Mets were one of the most non-humble, hated, arrogant teams in baseball for years and years and years. And it was great.
>who constantly win and always showboat with the likes of A-Rod, Clemens, etc.
The Yankees play a scratchy 1954 recording of God Bless America every 7th inning, and don't allow facial hair. They have never been "the fun team". Even when good, let alone now. It's just not what they're about. They are the anti-fun. Any fun their fanbase has comes from winning, and from shitting on the other teams' fans that win less.
You really got your team cultures mixed up if you think the Yankees are "showboat central". The Yankees are your Korean War vet great uncle who complains about kids today on their iPhones, and listens to cassettes of Perry Como in his car.
>Well the Mets are finally looking good after years and years and years of no hope, let's not cross into Yankee territory. That's how I look at things.
The only Yankee territory we are crossing into, is the media fawning over the Mets, which is extremely new territory, not seen on this side of the rivalry since roughly 1990.
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So did Tottenham like go from last place to Winning it all? Or did they have a team that Partied hard, and won it all?
Check this Book out too: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform--/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413799170&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+bad+guys+won
This is slightly different, but still relevant: I'm currently reading Gotham. Slavery was still legal in New York at the time of the Revolution, and the city was occupied by the British for nearly the entirety of the war. Many people fled the city, and many freed their slaves during this time. It wasn't out of kindness, but so they wouldn't have to support them.
Not a documentary, but Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is probably the best book about New York City up until the 20th century.
This may not be the greatest suggestion but there is a book called Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 that has always looked interesting to me. It's massive, but the reviews are pretty positive. It's considered a textbook, but it's relatively cheap.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0195140494?pc_redir=1396203794&amp;amp;robot_redir=1
EDIT: wrong words used.
I recommend this book.
It's complicated, but I suppose it's safe to say that it introduced a sort of non-theistic mysticism into the youth culture in the SF Bay Area. When you can literally watch physical reality shift before your eyes, it's much easier to believe that you've moved past older ways of viewing the world.
Read Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Read this - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031242759X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0553380648&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=18T8EFF1EGDE1SRVSJ4C
Annie Jacobsen has probably gotten as close as anybody.
Another good one about the Oxcart project
This is very similar to the perspective put forth by Annie Jacobsen about the U2 spy planes doing fly overs of the USSR during the cold war.
I highly recommend this book to learn more about the SR-71 (among many other things).
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago & the Great West is a wonderful read that doesn't pop up on here that much. It analyzes the environmental and economic background of the city from it's foundation until just past the worlds fair IIRC. It posits the straightforward argument that the success and growth of Chicago was an organic and interdependent inevitability based on the vast amounts of natural resources spread throughout the plains and upper midwest. It's basically Third Coast, but focused a hundred years earlier. It is a very dry read for most of the book, but it delves deeply into almost every industry that fed into early Chicago. If you've ever wondered why the Board of Trade is such a figure in the cities history, or why Chicago had the largest meatpacking industry in North America, or why all the grain from the upper midwest ended up here, why the bulk of the timber from the North Woods came through the city, this is your book.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West is another one I'll throw in with your list, if I may.
I read Nature's Metropolis. It's about Chicago becoming a large city. Like Railroads and I believe it was a huge lumber depot. It was interesting.
Nature's Metropolis by Bill Cronon - fascinating story about how Chicago developed into the urban powerhouse it is today
The Name of War by Jill Lepore - a history of King Philip's War of the 17th century, a profoundly bloody conflict between colonists + Indians
This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust - history of death and suffering in the Civil War (LOVE this book)
The Circus Age, by Janet Davis - a political and cultural history of the circus during the 19th century
Segregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom Miller - how pop music developed from racial categorization
Midwestern cities are especially fascinating because they were all founded fairly recently so you have a full recorded history of the people, why they decided to build there, and the decisions they made that sealed the fate of their city.
Many of them have economically collapsed or been destroyed, often more than once! Sometimes to recover, sometimes not.
I would recommend the documentary series about the early history of Chicago. Mostly because the Chicago of that era was essentially an unlivable city - anarchic, polluted, uneducated -- that somehow managed to survive and thrive no matter what kind of natural, social, and/or economic disaster the city encountered.
It's a good way to understand, not what is enjoyable about a successful city, -- but rather, what is essential.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPBDWNYZbA&amp;t=682s
https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Metropolis-Chicago-Great-West/dp/0393308731
https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-natures-metropolis-chicago-and-the-great-west-by-william-cronon/
I picked up a book called Nature's Metropolis:Chicago and the Great West the other day to read over spring break. I've only been to Chicago once in my life a few years back but there is something about that city that intrigues me.
It's not a simple question. Here's an excellent book on the subject
Long story short there are barriers to marriage. Motherhood is a pathway to fulfillment for people who are deprived of opportunities to upward social mobility.
Well if you are into true crime at all, then two that jump to mind are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and The Devil in the White City. The first is an older book written about a small town murder while the latter is about the serial killer H. H. Holmes. Both are fantastic reads despite their subject matter.
Speaking of serial killers, Gary Stewart makes a compelling argument in his book The Most Dangerous Animal of All that his biological father might have been the Zodiac Killer. What started out as a simple story of an adopted son trying to find his biological parents turns into a quest of discovery of a murderer. Many "experts" on the subject aren't sure about Stewart's claims, but his discoveries make a compelling argument.
Lastly, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand was recently made into a pretty decent movie, and In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is often featured on shark week and will soon have a movie made as well. Both are fascinating WWII-related reads that seem to cross the line from being biographical to novelized due to the content and excellent writing.
If you like to read, check out Sons of the Profits. It gives a nice narrative of the beginnings of the city, with details on the political and social intrigues of the time.
You should read the book "Sons of Profits". Seattle actually has a pretty fucked up history - including hookers, lumberjacks, killing Indians and construction policies just as fucked up as the 520 bridge :D
Here is a good book about the growth of Seattle called Sons of the Profits. I recall that it said that the railroads wanted Tacoma to be the major city in the area because they owned a lot of land there, but they restricted the prostitution and gambling houses more than Seattle did. That caused Seattle to grow fast during the critical time and led to Seattle being the major city in the region. https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Profits-Business-Business-1851-1901/dp/0914890069/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493693958&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=sons+of+the+profits
Please, Portland is not the underdog. or at least they didn't start out as the underdog. Seattle has a better deepwater port sure, but you have to go past the mouth of the Columbia and down through the sound to get to it from San Fransisco, and even then Tacoma has a better one and they had the railroad first.
Portland existed before Seattle, has better access to river commerce and has been a bigger city for a very long time. Seattle is just very good at taking advantage of what we've got. our civic boosterism is second to none.
Alaska is funded entirely by the oil companies, where do you think they get the money to subsidize every single resident of the state from? it is no more authentically wild than anywhere else. and it has Sara Palin, the biggest deluded phony in America today.
I take more objection with your obsession with authenticity than anything else, what the hell does that even mean? the frontier is closed, it has been for a while, while it was open Oregon was a destination for settlers but those who pressed further ended up in Washington, does that not make us more of a frontier state than you?
also, not all of Oregon is like Portland, so to, not all of Washington is like Seattle. much of the state is rural, conservative, poor, and has a meth problem. to speak of the culture in Seattle as even being emblematic of all of King county is stupid, let alone the whole state.
TLDR, no such thing as the old west anymore, sorry. also Seattle rules, Portland drools.
I've seen the Hitchens speech and I've seen the video of Saddam himself. What I have never seen is video of half of parliament being forced to execute the other half of parliament. The only place I've ever seen that claim is the Hitchens' speech.
Admittedly, I have not researched it that much. But there is this exert
> On August 7, 1979, all five main conspirators, along with seventeen others, were found guilty and sentenced to death by “democratic executions.” According to the book Iraq Since 1958 (1988), an authoritative history by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, the morning after the sentencing a firing squad consisting of Saddam Hussein himself and the remaining senior members of the Baath leadership executed the plotters, apparently with submachine guns. After the execution, no one questioned the “legitimacy” of Saddam’s ascension, nor did anyone wonder why Saddam married his beautiful daughter Raghd to the commander of his personal bodyguards, Hussein Kamel.
from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Beirut-Jerusalem-Thomas-L-Friedman/dp/1250034418
which I also won't speak to the veracity of, although it is highly lauded, but which does paint a different picture than one half executing the other half.
There doesn't seem to be video of the execution itself, who what actually took place can at best be described as hearsay, unless you have more information.
I don't think looking for substantiation is out of bounds.
Reading from beirut to jerusalem by Thomas Friedman right now. That place is a huge messy power keg.
This gave me a good start.
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman, https://www.amazon.ca/Beirut-Jerusalem-Thomas-L-Friedman/dp/1250034418
So this may be a little dated - but I always got a good chuckle out of reading Chuck Palahniuk’s walking tour of Portland. Fugitives and Refugees. Everyone is a little different - but the food is fantastic and there’s a lot to explore. Gift certificates to restaurants, money to go to Mount Hood - anything to take advantage of going into the city.
You should read Fugitives and Refugees - A Walk in Portland, Oregon.
When I had my first bookstore job, I had a lot of requests for "you know, that red book." Fortunately, this book had just come out and was the correct answer 90% of the time.
https://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Penicks-Little-Red-Book/dp/1451683219
This book changed everything for me. Its highly recommended that every golfer has a copy of this and reads it at least once a season. When you're stuck at a 10-15 handicap the club you really need to work on most is the one sitting between your ears. Your brain! This book is filled with some of the greatest mental tips you'll ever get.
FYI https://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/155652241X
I think you guys might enjoy this good read: The Mole People About 50,000-80,000 people living beneath Manhattan.
There is also a book about people living in NYC tunnels: http://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/155652241X
The Mole People is a great book on people who live in the vast networks of tunnels and abandoned areas under NYC. I first read it in my anthropology class about 10 years ago and I've kept it since. It's a very fascinating read about life and culture right under the feet of the people on the surface.
My favorite: http://mises.org/daily/1533
and the motherload:
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/node/12362
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Wrong. The Federal law is only supreme in the specific enumerated powers granted by the states to the federal government. See 9th and 10th ammendment.
Also, Nullification by Tom Woods
Relevant: http://www.amazon.com/Nullification-Resist-Federal-Tyranny-Century/dp/1596981490
Two solutions:
Big Government:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_slave_laws
> The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
Our ability to ignore Big Government:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
> Jury nullification is a concept where members of a trial jury find a defendant not guilty if they do not support a government's law, do not believe it is constitutional or humane, or do not support a possible punishment for breaking the law.
> Some commonly cited historical examples of jury nullification involve jurors refusing to convict persons accused of violating the Fugitive Slave Act by assisting runaway slaves or being fugitive slaves themselves, and refusal of American colonial juries to convict a defendant under English law.[2]
If you are so inclined, you can reading Tom Woods book on it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981490
As /u/rabidstoat has already recommended, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon is a fascinating read. One of the authors (Michael P. Ghiglieri) also co-wrote its sister book, Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite. Both books manage to not be overly morbid (tales of near-misses are included, so it isn't just one death after another) and actually seemed uplifting to me. I came away with a real sense of respect for the wilderness; if we are aware of the dangers and risks every time we venture out, however seemingly remote, our chances of survival in a "worst case scenario" improves.
There are other books in a similar vein that chronicle all (or most) deaths in specific wilderness areas, such as Not Without Peril: 150 Years Of Misadventure On The Presidential Range Of New Hampshire. These are good too, but often seem to be a collection of first-hand accounts and historical vignettes. Ghiglieri manages to weave all of his information into a larger overarching narrative with a satisfying conclusion. I'm really hoping he does another one of these books!
Glad you had a good hike, and day for it!
Much better than the last time I was up there in winter. Got about 2/3 the way up Sunset Ridge, just past tree line, was pelted with ice pellets and 70+ MPH wind gusts that literally knocked me off of my feet. Needless to say, we turned around and went back to our start (forecast had not been so vicious for peaks that day). Winter hiking is always pretty and fun, but always respect the mountain and it's temper-tantrums lol. Just make sure to have the right gear, extra layers for warmth, a bivy, sleeping bag, backpacking stove, etc. A good read on how vicious these mountains can get: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Without-Peril-Misadventure-Presidential/dp/1934028320
> I think I heard of an accident report book for the Whites.
Not Without Peril - 150 Years of Misadventure On the Presidential Range ^^non-referral ^^link
I hear this book is a good source.
Makes me think of this book
Two books related to upbringing and politics that you might enjoy: George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant and Thomas Franks' What's the Matter with Kansas?
Lakoff also has some youtube videos of his lectures.
Funny you should ask that way-
https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America-ebook/dp/B003J4VEM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494708066&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=what%27s+the+matter+with+kansas
The Nazi wonder weapon- http://www.pagepublishing.com/books/?book=die-glocke-the-bell
The plans are taken- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAXFBI2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1
The technology is perfected- https://www.ebay.com/p/Area-51-An-Uncensored-History-of-Americas-Top-Secret-Military-Base-by-Annie-Jacobsen-2011-Hardcover/109025731?iid=352694980816
Alright, if you want go there, let's do it.
First of all, where did you learn the term "9/11 truther". Was it in bootlicker training camp where you were lied to and taught that intellectualism means boxing people in groups and beating them up instead of actually reading and thinking clearly?
>imagine being convinced of a grand governmental conspiracy by nutjobs on reddit and youtube
where'd you get this assumption about youtube nutjobs? have you ever heard of this group? or this guy? are you sure they're all nutjobs?
and with regards to government conspiracies, are you so moronic as to think there is no such a thing as a government conspiracy? didn't you know that false flags are a proven reality? or you that ignorant?
have you heard of operation northwoods? or project paperclip? or the gulf of tonkin?
there's literally hundreds of confirmed government conspiracies out there, but I guess you're too brutish, weak, and stupid to even "go there". you just watch CNN and actually believe them, even though we know they work to distort our perception of the world to favor the whims of the elites.
Who are you to say I'm not allowed to ask questions? Or that if I do, I'm unworthy of engaging with?
Go ahead and keep your head buried in the sand... you apparently don't like free-thinking at all, much less free speech. Keep licking those boots.
I think the following links are interesting to look at. Also researching MK Ultra has been repeatedly recommended on this sub-reddit. What would non-lethal social control look like? Would NLP evolve to contribute to non-lethal technologies? Or technologies that cause harm but are not traceable to the perpetrator? Just thought experiments...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/04/17/the-pentagons-twilight-zone/7677a8f2-366b-49a9-a20f-e167cf6f7dde/?utm_term=.a2e27dc66386
"A report by the Defense Intelligence Agency notes that Soviet tests of parapsychology "included sending to the recipient the anxiety associated with suffocation and the sensation of a dizzying blow to the head . . . . " Possibly new age weapons way ahead of ours and also Nuero-linguistic programming has evolved and is still being utilized. Its earlier version is mentioned in the above link to a 1988 Washington Post article.
You can find links to some interesting facts on this website. I don't care if aliens exist by the way. I am also an atheist just in case anyone wants to pin beliefs on me that I do not have.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mindcon09.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Morris
"Janet Morris argues that while,"war will always be terrible... a world power deserving its reputation for humane action should pioneer the principles of non-lethal defense (6)." In "Defining a non-lethal strategy," she seeks to establish a doctrine for the use of non-lethal weapons by the U.S. in crisis "at home or abroad in a life serving fashion."
She totally disregards the offensive, lethal aspects inherent in some of the weapons in question, or their misuse, should they become available to "rogue" nations. Despite her arguments that non-lethal weapons should serve the U.S.’s interests,"at home and abroad by projecting power without indiscriminately taking lives or destroying property (7)," she admits that "casualties cannot be avoided (8)."
Closer examination of the types of weapons to be used as non-lethal invalidates her assertions about their non-lethality. According to her white paper, the areas where non-lethal weapons could be useful are,
"regional and low intensity conflict (adventurism, insurgency, ethnic violence, terrorism, narco- trafficking, domestic crime) (9)."She believes that,
"by identifying and requiring a new category of non-lethal weapons, tactics and strategic planning" the U.S. can reshape its military capability, "to meet the already identifiable threats" that they might face in a multipolar world "where American interests are globalized and American presence widespread (10)."
http://subversify.com/2011/05/13/hitler%E2%80%99s-mind-control-experiments-and-how-they-influenced-modern-propaganda/
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists-ebook/dp/B00BAXFBI2
http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/nlp.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/soviet-era-punitive-psychiatry-making-return-170530141852510.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2017/04/child-soldiers-reloaded-privatisation-war-170424204852514.html
Try to get your hands on this book and dig in a little bit. Super readable and amazing history.
A better story of the Indianapolis is " In harm's Way " This one really looks like a low budget bad telling of a very interesting story
http://www.amazon.com/American-Terrorist-Timothy-McVeigh-Oklahoma/dp/0060394072/
His biography doesn't mention extreme Christianity, IIRC.
I just finished reading "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base" and it explains [SPOILER] the Roswell incident was a hovercraft with alien looking "children" in it, but they were not ET, they were from the USSR.
Stalin was apparently fascinated by the effect the radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" had on our country (in terms of panic, psych fear, etc.) and "recruited" (i.e. enslaved) German scientists captured from WWII to create the craft and genetically engineered humans as a scare tactic, though he didn't really intend it to crash.
1995 just called and wants you to reconsider that the violence will be in the future. Horrible stuff. I do not support.
The Republicans are, first and foremost, the party of NO WAGES. They have no other agenda except exclusion. No wages. No voting. No access.
Bullshit. If this were true then every sailor who has ever been lost at sea is a moron. The phrase, "Water, water everywhere but not enough to drink." was invented to teach sailors NOT to drink seawater. I have read three biographies of men being lost at sea, and multiple survival books. All of them say the same thing, "DON'T FUCKING DRINK SEAWATER RETARD!! IT WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!!" These kids may have really survived at sea, but there is no way in hell they survived for 50 days on seawater.
The ship called the USS Indianapolis which was carrying the Little Boy nuclear bomb to Japan was sunk by a Japanese sub shortly after it had delivered the bomb. And because of the radio silence order no one knew of the incident. 880 men survived the blast only to spend 3 and 1/2 days at sea. Only 316 survived. They were eaten by sharks and some committed suicide because of their intense thirst. Some even went "Below deck" because the ship was "just underwater."
564 men died, mostly of dehydration. A LARGE PORTION OF THOSE MEN DIED DRINKING SEAWATER. (Apologies if my info is not completely correct. I got it from Wikipedia. I remember most of the story from the book, but I had to go find the exact numbers.)
What? Oh the ass thing? Right, so all of these people who have died at sea FOR THOUSANDS OF FUCKING YEARS!! Didn't figure it out, and these three retarded teenage boys did... You keep thinking that. And while you are thinking, ask yourself why they are not teaching this to every seamen at the naval academy.
Apologies for my grammar. I suck at grammar. BTW the book was fucking savage I recommend it highly.
tldr: DON'T FUCKING DRINK SEAWATER. IT WILL KILL YOU. (No, I don't mean instantly.)
herp, seamen. heh.
Edit: Wow, I had no idea everyone on reddit had a death wish. -5 votes because I tell you people the truth, WITH REFERENCES, and instead of respectfully showing me that I may be wrong like alienangel2 you just downvote because I might be right. I have lost all respect for the intelligence of this community.
lolol! That rat killed in the Marcy Projects is normal sized, he is holding a 4 foot long pitchfork toward the camera, old trick! Of course people claim to see rats the size of dogs, the same people also claim that there is a benevolent floating deity watching over us from outer space!
Read the Mole People, this lady spent months in the deepest parts of the defunct subway systems and mentions zero giant rats!!
http://www.amazon.com/Mole-People-Life-Tunnels-Beneath/dp/155652241X