Lee Templeton

Love my country. Love history. NC State grad

[Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer]

All across the Anglosphere from 1850-1900, as teams could travel by railway to play other teams, English-speaking Victorians came up with national rules for sports that had previously typically been played with countless local variants of rules. Those team sports still dominate.

[HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse]

We hate diarrhea as much as @HQNewsNow, but here is what they didn’t tell you:

▶️Cyclospora cases naturally rise every year between May and August.
▶️Cyclospora tracking never stopped. @CDCgov is actively working with 3,000 health departments to gather data.
▶️There are 843 confirmed cases with 1,500 additional cases under analysis.
▶️@US_FDA is doing its job: investigating the outbreak alongside CDC and state/local partners using established epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback tools.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

When I was at my childhood home last month, I found the second book I ever read. The first was “Hop on Pop,” but then I found this at a yard sale and begged my mom to buy it for me. It was under 25 cents but she was skeptical, and I swore I’d read it, mildly insulted by her doubts. Though abridged, it took 5-yr-old MKH 5 days and countless questions to get through it. It was formative. What an adventure and what a challenge. I’ll never forget it.

[Bilinmeyen Gerçekler @iyiTriloji]

Papua'nın yağmur ormanlarında bulunan Vogelkop Süper Paradise, sadece Endonezva'nın Papua eyaletinde bulunur. Karanfil siyah tüyleri 99.5% ışığı emer, bu da mavi gözleri ve göğsünü dijital bir ilüzyon gibi gösterir.

[Guns&Gadgets @Guns_Gadgets]

The USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, is the world’s oldest commissioned war ship still afloat!

She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. The name “Constitution” was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March or May for the frigates that were to be constructed.

Happy Independence Day America! 🇺🇸🫡
#america250 #america #independenceday #july4th

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>American airman asleep on a train in France while on vacation with his childhood friends
>Wakes up to the sound of screaming and breaking glass
>Sees a terrorist step into the aisle carrying an AK-47 and 300 rounds of ammo
>Doesn't look for an exit, doesn't hesitate
>Sprints 30 feet down the aisle straight at the barrel of the gun, completely unarmed
>The terrorist pulls the trigger; the rifle miraculously jams
>Tackles him, gets slashed in the neck and hand with a box cutter, almost losing his thumb
>Ignores the bleeding, chokes the attacker unconscious with his bare hands
>Credits God for the jammed rifle and his survival
>Saves everyone on board

Patriot airman Spencer Stone is a hero.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tommy Lee tells Joe Rogan about the night he finally got to open for the Rolling Stones.

He met the band backstage, and they were so wasted he wasn’t sure how they could possibly play.

Then "a switch flipped," and he was stunned how those guys all of a sudden became “f*cking money.”

LEE: "Mick isn't hammered, but Keith and Ronnie, dude, they were f*cking walking on their lips. I'm talking sh*tty, like just falling over with their guitars."

ROGAN: "Twenty minutes before they go on stage!"

LEE: "I'm like, how are these guys going to play? There's no way they're playing. I'm sorry. There's no way! No f**king way."

Then the lights went out.

LEE: "It was like a switch flipped. All of a sudden, those guys were f*cking money. Like 100% f*cking rocking out."

"They've been doing it for so long that they're masters of the controls."

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal.

This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city.

Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle.

The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed.

That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@NCDOT_Charlotte Good stuff. Some are in much worse shape than this one however.

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@dogwoodblooms Maybe 20yrs ago, I rode horses as part of a friend’s birthday. Very. Only two people got hurt. Fun otherwise.

[Young George Washington @washingtonmovie]

Kelsey Grammer reviews George Washington's resume - is he the right man for the job?

Young Washington is in theaters this Independence Day. Tickets on sale NOW!

[Chris Oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

RIP john adams you would have loved twitter

[Kerry McQuisten’s Common Sense Sanctuary @KerryMcQ4Oregon]

Let’s talk reflecting pool. Warren G. Harding built it on swampland and the structure beneath it would have been fine - if it had been built on stable ground. The whole thing started sinking slowly.

Presidents all the way up through Carter kept trying to prop it up with little cement pours, and regularly draining and cleaning it. Algae was a problem even then because there was no real circulation system. No pumps. No filters.

Reagan added some more concrete, realizing the entire pool was now 12 or 13 inches lower than it should be. It had sunk over a foot and pulled loose from its structure.

Clinton publicly acknowledged that the entire pool needed demolished and rebuilt, and that it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to do it right.

The Bushes just kept trying to plug leaks and clean it. Every time they had to drain and scrub the thing, it cost around $100,000 to do so. George W. Bush actually had plans drawn up to rebuild it. 

Obama decided to revise and execute the Bush renovation, which was needed, but it was flawed, and he spent tens of millions of dollars on it. He raised the pool up with a timber under-structure so the water ended up being even shallower, which means that’s the point at which the water started getting warmer. He also turned off the chlorinated city water supply into the pool and began pumping water in from the tidal basin - that’s the somewhat stagnant water that comes in from the Potomac River and surrounds the Jefferson Memorial. There was algae before, but with those changes came even more algae. Obama‘s reasoning was that the basin water would be cheaper instead of using the city water supply. He had the pool tiles removed from the bottom and another layer gray cement put in place along with gray-tinted reflective paint, which gradually faded away.

By the time Trump’s first term came around, the cleaning had to be done every three or four months, some of the Obama structural repairs were failing, and the leaks were rampant again.

By the time Biden got into office, Obama’s reflecting pool fixes were cracked and the pool was leaking hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of gallons of water. Biden opted to clean the pool, but performed little maintenance, and did no substantial refurbishment.

Trump’s fix was to try something that the other presidents hadn’t. Whereas Obama had used a gray reflective paint and cement, Trump tried a combination sealant liner - it isn’t paint. Those sealants are similarly light-reflective to what Obama used. Trump switched up to blue from the dark gray. He added nanobubblers.

When we walked around it the other day, there was only a small patch on the middle of the left side that may have been coming up. It was too windy and stormy to see why. It was not as if the sealant was coming up all over the pool and floating to the top because it wasn’t. We did see the algae cleaning going on and the crews, you could tell, were tired of being harassed for doing their jobs. 

Vandals have damaged the grass, they’ve cut into the liner in other places and the knife lines are clear in the videos. We did see the National Guard soldiers coming in. We also saw them placed around the America 250 construction area and in between the museums. Five vandals have been arrested since we walked through. It’s unbelievable to me that they want to destroy something we could all enjoy out of hatred for a president whose policies they don’t even understand.  And the mainstream media is reprehensible. They aren’t reporting. They’re spinning propaganda as usual.

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@Adams1722Saml @dogwoodblooms @Stephan05593081 Excellent choice. He died on a nearby plantation of sun stroke.
Wandering the Squares are great choices.

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@dogwoodblooms @Stephan05593081 Highly recommend the Bonaventure Cemetery bus tour. Beautiful and more well known names and super interesting graves, markers and statues.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

One more thought about parasitic taxation and I'll head off for some exercising. What should be the maximal ceiling of your yearly income that the governments should be able to take? Is it 50%? 60%? 70%? 80%? 95%? What is the philosophical, moral, and ethical precept that guides your response? For example, if you were to say that a government must create equal wealth distribution across all citizens then the government could conceivably take 99.99% of a a very wealthy person's income to achieve that objective. So in your view, how much of your earnings does a government have a right to in a free society? I'm being genuine here. You don't need to insult me, attack me, etc. I'm interested in your responses.

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@mkhammer I visited way back as a day trip.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth.
From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F.
For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access.
image compilation: @niccruzpatane

[Lee Templeton @wlt1691]

@carbac80 @elonmusk SpaceX clearly should consult you