Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️

USMC SSgt. '72-'80, MOS 2841, Shellback, Marine Corps League Life Member, Retired Police Lieutenant, NRA Life Member, Extra Class Amateur Radio operator K8CHK.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@Arkypatriot Uh, let me guess, Megan Markle stringing Harry along by the ba...

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@JRM58506966 USMC does irons at 500 yards

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@JRM58506966 I carried '72. Still missing the lower Haversack, Shelter half with blanket, tent poles, rope and stakes and blanket roll straps.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@JRM58506966 OOOOH! A KY-38 below a PRC-77. Repaired both but had to repair KY-38 in the dark with your eyes closed because the insides were SECRET. 🤫

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@Arkypatriot Yes vote! 1st Amendment gives Freedom OF Religion. Not - Freedom FROM Religion. Christians were Never barred from being involved in Government.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Here’s one of those ancient mysteries that will send you straight down a rabbit hole. I am all about archaeology and anthropology!

Look at carvings and figures from Göbekli Tepe, ancient Mesopotamia, and cultures of the Americas and you’ll find something strange. They are objects that look remarkably like little handbags, with a rounded handle over a square or rectangular shape.

But here’s what makes it really interesting: these carvings were NOT all made at the same time in history. Some are separated by thousands of years. And these civilizations were scattered across different parts of the world, with no evidence that places like ancient Mesopotamia and pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas were communicating with one another.

At Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, some of the famous “handbag” shapes are more than 11,000 years old. Similar-looking handled objects appear thousands of years later in Mesopotamian and Assyrian art. People have also noticed comparable shapes in Maya, Aztec, Inca and other ancient American art.

In Mesopotamia, scholars generally identify some of them as ritual buckets or containers associated with purification. At Göbekli Tepe, we still don't know exactly what the shapes represent. And the objects in the Americas may have had completely different meanings.

They may have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. Human beings in different places can independently create similar shapes and symbols.

But I still find it fascinating that civilizations separated by oceans, continents and thousands of years left behind images that can look so familiar to us today.

Once you see the “handbags,” you can’t unsee them.

So what are they? Similar practical or religious objects developed independently? Or are we simply looking at something we still don't completely understand?

[Just call me Gunny @JRM58506966]

The Marine Corps Colors will never run, never hesitate, and never back down.

Anything standing in their way better be prepared to be destroyed.

Semper Fi. 🇺🇸🦅🌎⚔️

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@GunDigest OH BOY! Another plastic pistol! Another one to drool over. 🤪

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@wrathofgnon Is that the Dr Who Tardis? Tiny outside, big inside?

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@KingVelesI Not supposed to do laundry once a month.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@Ukrainene No gas to run those cars anyway.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@OANN @Georgesantos Show me anywhere there is a symbol of the USA. This is a generic uniform of the woke United Federation of Planets. 🤮

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@Arkypatriot Two problems. It reeks of old days bribing voters at the poles before election time. Secondly, it's an empty promise because the Congress holds those purse strings, not the President. No way a frozen Senate will vote, and Dems and RINOS will be against any Trump idea.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@JRM58506966 A Harris-AOC run may be what cinches a 3rd term for Trump. Hey, what the heck, I thought Dems liked to disregard Amendments that were an 'Inconvenient Truth'.

[Charles H Knaack ✝🇺🇸 USMC 👮‍♂️ @CharlesKnaack]

@JRM58506966 I was in Comm school at Twentynine Palms in '73 during the shortage. I sure was glad to have my new Datsun 1200 that got 34 mpg. Base rationing according to even/odd license plates.

[Greg Landry @glandry5577]

Can’t say it any better.

[Volunteer_Anon @AnonJourna96897]

💥 It’s Fact Friday! 💥

THE BATTLE OF ATHENS, TN:

On August 1, 1946, World War II veterans in Athens decided they were done watching McMinn County steal elections. Paul Cantrell had run the county since 1936. Pat Mansfield later held the sheriff’s office. Deputies lived off fines and scare tactics, and elections were not clean. The GIs formed their own ticket and ran Knox Henry for sheriff. That night, deputies grabbed the ballot boxes and locked themselves in the county jail to count the votes in private.

That’s when the town snapped.

Veterans smashed into the National Guard armory, loaded up on rifles, and closed in on the jail. A crowd packed the square, and the deputies would not come out. Then the shooting started. For hours the jail and the streets traded fire in the dark. After midnight the GIs brought dynamite. The blasts flipped the cars, tore up the jail porch, and blew the windows out.

That ended it. The deputies gave up, and the boxes came out. Knox Henry won sheriff 2,175 to 1,270. Nobody died, and by morning, the old crowd that ran the county was finished.

The lesson was not that Athens loved a fight. It was that a country goes rotten when nobody can trust the count. They fought all around the world to secure the right to vote. They were not going to lose it in a corrupt county jail.

Pictured below: GIs firing on the jail during the fight. Knox Henry(white shirt/striped tie) being sworn in after the count. The crowd outside McMinn jail and the overturned cars on the square the next morning.

(Tennessee State Library & Archives; McMinn County Historical Society and Archives; Bettmann Archive.)

[Mrs. S. @hshLauraJ]

Is this too racist??
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[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

The only chart you actually require to understand the nature of what's happening.

We live in a soap opera, in hell, that's on fire.