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Left or Liberal, What’s The Difference?

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If you tell the average American you’re a liberal they will assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues.

In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment that is preached by the left.

He makes some excellent points. I urge you to take six minutes and watch it.

The First Presidential Limo

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HERE IS A BIT OF HISTORY I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW…

Hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, the Secret Service found themselves in a bind. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give his Day of Infamy speech to Congress on Monday, and although the trip from the White House to Capitol Hill was short, agents weren’t sure how to transport him safely.

At the time, Federal Law prohibited buying any cars that cost more than $750, so they would have to get clearance from Congress to do that, and nobody had time for that.

One of the Secret Service members, however, discovered that the US Treasury had seized the bulletproof car that mobster Al Capone owned when he was sent to jail in 1931. They cleaned it, made sure it was running perfectly and had it ready for the President the next day.

Al Capone’s 1928 Cadillac V-8 “Al Capone” Town Sedan Became the President’s Limo in December 1941.

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Mechanics are said to have cleaned and checked each feature of the Caddy well into the night of December 7th to make sure that it would run properly the next day for the Commander in Chief. And run properly it did. It had been painted black and green to look identical to Chicago ‘s police cars at the time. To top it off, the gangster’s 1928 Cadillac Town Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and inch-thick bulletproof windows.

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It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden behind the grille, along with a police scanner radio.

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Here is the previous owner, Al Capone

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Footnote: The car sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.00.

35 Interesting Facts

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How man of these things did you know?

  1. Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
  2. Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
  3. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
  4. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
  5. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
  6. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
  7. The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
  8. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
  9. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450F.
  10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
  11. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
  12. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
  13. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  14. The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
  15. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
  16. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
  17. Warner Communications paid 28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
  18. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  19. A comet’s tail always points away from the sun.
  20. The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.
  21. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some
    medicines.
  22. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
  23. If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
  24. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
  25. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
  26. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
  27. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
  28. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
  29. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
  30. Due to earth’s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000
    meters.
  31. Mickey Mouse is known as “Topolino” in Italy.
  32. Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
  33. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
  34. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
  35. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.