Jackie Kensler

Supporting our great American Kennel Club, our nation's farmers, animals in entertainment, hunting, fishing, life saving medical research & the Florida Gators

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@DMRegister ASPCA is not an "animal welfare" organization. They're "Animal Rights" extremists. Entirely different. Marxist, rad animal lib, swamp crawling money$uck activist scammers. No friends to the USA's #1 hog & #1 egg state.
Nebulous "mill" epithet used same as "factory".
Good 4 USDA!

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@CroakyWasRight In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

I googled it for ya.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Heartbreaking 💔 Two IDF heroes fell in battle while bravely fighting in southern Lebanon.

🕯️ Captain Shachar Gimla, 24
🕯️ Sergeant Ohad Yaari, 21

May their memory be a blessing forever.

[Cattleman🪓 @cattleguy92]

Regarding American Beef and Ranchers.

We won’t break!
Enjoy your steak this summer cause we’re still gonna make em!🥩🇺🇸

[Steve Mac 🇺🇸 @Stevemac270]

Need to 'detox' from glyphosate? 😂 No problem just take a piss.
It doesn't bioaccumulate in humans. Your body clears it out quickly through urine.
You don't need some grifter's fancy internet cleanse. Biology already handled it.
Some chemicals work like this — science > snake oil.
#FarmFacts #Glyphosate

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@LivingstoneNed @jpitney @Charlie85915085 He's a freak.

[Jack Pitney @jpitney]

RFK Jr. spent years pushing the lie that vaccines cause autism. Today, CDC reports 2,030 measles cases this year, more than in all of 2024. And after he hyped vitamin A as an alternative measles treatment, a new report finds a surge in vitamin A poisonings. Misinformation doesn't just spread. It hurts people.

[Israel Army @IsraelArmyX]

Is Bibi Netanyahu the most determined and influential leader in modern Israeli history?

A) Yes, absolutely!
B) Incomparable legacy
C) Israel needs him.
D) View results

Retweet to spread the word!

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hezbollah began firing rockets isn’t an escalation.

But Israel responding is escalating the conflict.

You cannot hate the New York Times enough.

[Adam Nicol Racing @NicolRacing]

Moments like these 💙

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@tcboyle Whose birthday? Happy birthday to whomever!

[T.C. Boyle @tcboyle]

The crow K. has befriended, enjoying a morsel of birthday cake.

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@tcboyle Takes a lot of trust for wild birds to befriend you! Been studying up on ways to give mine the love since I found this awesome app & learned who they all are. And, I have lots on my 3 mostly wooded acres. Some I'd never heard of before!
Highly recommended. https://t.co/OCs2BUwZTG

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@FLVoiceNews @WiltonSimpson He should be our Governor.

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

בשורה קשה על נפילתו של סרן שחר גמלא ז״ל, קצין סיירת אגוז בן 24, שנפצע קשה בקרב בלילה בין חמישי לשישי האחרון ואחרי מלחמה על חייו, הבוקר הפציעה הכריעה אותו.
עוד גיבור שנלחם על הבית והקריב את חייו למען החיים שלנו כאן.
יהי זכרו ברוך גיבור ישראל🇮🇱🕯
שנהיה ראויים.

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“It is with heavy sorrow that we received the news this evening regarding Egoz commando fighter Captain Shahar Gamla, of blessed memory, who was severely wounded in battle in Lebanon and passed away this morning from his injuries, and Givati fighter Sergeant Ohad Yaari, of blessed memory, who fell during operational activity in southern Lebanon.

Shahar and Ohad, of blessed memory, were among our finest sons. They fought with supreme heroism to protect the communities of the north and the citizens of Israel, and their sacrifice and courage will be forever etched in our hearts.

My wife and I, together with all citizens of Israel, send our condolences to the Gamla and Yaari families and embrace them in this hour of their profound grief.

May their memory be a blessing.”

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@DrLizaMD @DrNeilStone @ASMicrobiology @camjenglish I believe totally abolitionist vegans could think like that.

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@DrNeilStone @Stevemac270 What Americans? You mean RFKJrkoff? And/or MTG, w/her own junk science fiction re chemtrails & hurricanes, Maui fires & Jewish space lasers?
Only the woke GOPs listen to them. Though, must admit, we have some.

[Jackie Kensler @mz55qrf]

@DrNeilStone @Stevemac270 Over my place all the time. Airport's 12mi Southeast of me. Guess who's 1.3mi south of there. Our Sheriff! Gtd he's positive they're contrails bc he'd have already caught & busted anybody there pumping chems into planes. No way he'd let that happen. But, never did, anyway.. ever.

[Steve Mac 🇺🇸 @Stevemac270]

You're more likely to get cancer from the sun than from glyphosate...