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The photograph is that of "Miss Inez Thomas of Dallas, Texas." Who represented her city as the Duchess of Dallas at the 1916 San Antonio Fiesta
Inez was the daughter of a multimillionaire Dallas businessman Mike Huffman Thomas, who had seven children with his wife, Emma Moss Thomas. Beginning in her high school years, Inez was constantly in the social news, and her attendance at parties, teas, and dances was reported. She attended a two-year college in Washington D. C., Fairmont Seminary. She graduated in 1915 and returned to Dallas to make her debut as an Idlewild debutante in fall 1915. She was participant at the 1916 Fiesta San Antonio, where she acquired the title of Duchess. She continued her life as a socialite, constantly giving parties at her home or at the Dallas County Club.
At the age of 33 years old (1926) Inez married Joseph William Rubush, a man 5 years her junior, at the East Dallas Christian Church. Mr. Rubush, who was a veteran of World War I had received the Croix de Guerre for his services. During World War II he served three years as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service. He committed suicide on 18 November 1948 at age 51. Their only child Sharon made her debut as an Idlewild debutante in 1949. In 1950 Sharon married Thomas Walter Blake, Jr.
Inez re-married in the 1950's (date unknown) to a gentleman, Mr. (FNU) Schubert. Inez Thomas Rubush Schubert died July 23, 1974. At the time of her death she was resident on Lomo Alto Drive, Fort Worth, a member of Lovers Lane Methodist Dallas, Texas.
It is likely Inez Thomas was a patron of Neiman-Marcus, which was founded in 1907. I'm certain this gorgeous and elegant lady was a valued and regular patron! By looking at the cut of her dress and associated accessories, Inez was also a fashion leader in her social circle.
In Dallas, Inez likely danced fox trots and waltzes, maybe even the Charleston, to the music of Jimmie Joy's Baker Hotel Orchestra as well as Jack and Fred Gardeners' Orchestras; While she was in San Antonio, she would have danced at the St. Anthony Hotel to the same bands because they played in both venues with the names of the hotels changed where appropriate.
Portrait of one fine-looking Texan, made all the more so by her realization that a slight tilt up minimizes the effect of a generously-sized nose. Note the focal point is right at her irises; everything else is soft.
And perhaps M. Murcek has had this 'passing thought':
Oh, to be the Duke to such a Duchess.
"Another ladle of Tex-Mex chili to go with your Pearls lager, m'lady?"
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FYI - The bio with accompanying comments have been compiled and edited from diverse sources, available on the innerwebs' found in the USA. No fewer than 19 sites were visited to glean and verify information on the subject as well as supporting information.
I appreciate the Editor & Chief of Rantburg Fred P. choice for providing us with a challenging post on such a lovely lady from the early 20th Century.
CORRECTION: A @usairforce C-17 Globemaster III safely transported 823 Afghan citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 15, 2021. This is a record for this aircraft.⁰ The initial count of 640 inadvertently included only adults. 183 children were also aboard. https://t.co/DL6wP8WTQV
[Townhall] During Thursday's press briefing at the Pentagon, General Hank Taylor and Press Secretary John Kirby provided an update on the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul before taking questions on the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
General Taylor reported that in the last 24 hours, the U.S. military footprint grew to number more than 5,200 total troops on the ground at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport and that additional gates for entry to the airfield were opened while the airport remains open and secure.
He also reported that 13 C-17 transport planes had arrived at HKIA with additional troops and equipment and 12 C-17s departed with evacuees.
When asked by Fox News' Jennifer Griffin about how planes conducting the airlift were being fueled, Taylor and Kirby refused to deny whether the United States was buying from the Taliban.
"The assets on KHIA, on the airfield, are what we need to maintain the operations, all operations to support the mission," Taylor responded without answering the question.
Griffin pushed, asking "so that's a no — you're not buying fuel from the Taliban?"
Taylor stepped back from the podium and Kirby stepped in. "There's- um- plenty of fuel sustainment capability at Hamid Karzai Airport and as you know Jen, we also have the ability of our- on our own- our logistics ability to fuel our aircraft as needed," he explained without denying that the U.S. was paying the Taliban for fuel. And 10% for the Big Guy
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It would of course be out of the question to fly those heavily loaded planes out with the minimum necessary fuel and air refuel them with tankers loaded in Saudi Arabia.
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Has anyone asked how much the USA is paying the Taliban to keep the airport "open and secure"?
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So far it looks like 100,000,000 Euros is under, errr, on the table.
#5
FWIW it’s roughly $30k fuel uplift per turn per wide body. Once upon a time inspected the fuel far,pm at KBL and frankly by now it should be empty. I mean who’s driving the trucks to refuel it (and the pipelines shut down). Gotta wonder how the overfly permits are being approved - by whom? Can you legitimately use a Reach call sign?
#1
It’s a shame they are only lightly armed after Gen Milley and That doddering fool Biden left the Taliban all kinds of artillery, armored vehicles, tactical aircraft, helicopters, weapons, ammo, and even a few drones. I admire their bravery and dedication to their own liberty, but the numbers look very bad for them if the Taliban manages to organize effectively as something other than a guerilla and gestapo force.
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USGOV doesn't control all of CONUS. Especially the parts they are purposely igniring, like the southern border.
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The Taliban won’t. Remember they’re tribal and the various clans will eventually fight each other over the spoils of American equip, the cut from the Chinese for mining and so on.
So while the Taliban have all the shiny toys they’ll still to hire mercenaries not to use the stuff but to fix it
#1
Biden IGNORED calls from Boris for at least 36 hours, and there is still no coordination between brits and us forces. The brits are sending in the Paras in armed patrols to pick up isolated Brit civilians and allies. Why are we not doing the same?
#4
/\ Without hostages, there is little for Foggy Bottom to negotiate. Can't just load up on the last lift out and pi** it off. Think of the number of staff positions lost.
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...For the record, in terms of aircraft, they got diddly that nobody else didn't already have - no F-16s, no A-10s, no AH-64s. On top of that, maintenance was already overwhelmingly in the hands of US and European techs, who ain't there no more.
What they did get was US biometrics tech, and I'm sure that the CCP and Russians are lining up to pay for that.
Mike
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The planes can be broken down into spare parts, but the people who broker such stuff are well known to the intel community. Now, if it was only a priority to deal with it...
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Now the jamaat asks the ISI to procure them for use against America or allies. If they see some worth in it, the PAF trains pashtun assets in their use and if successful, pins the whole thing on Taliban.
Then Pakistain 'stands in solidarity' with the hurt party and wags its head, offering to 'bring the elements to justice'. If accused, Imran Khan tut tuts and says 'Those ungrateful Americans! Doubting us?!'
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I'm having trouble getting an ABS control module for my 2008 Jeep Liberty. The part, if I can find it used, needs to be flashed with the VIN of my car to work. You think any significant part of an F-16 is any different?
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What they did get was US biometrics tech
...and the secure network mesh technology, which may be chinese anyway.
I'm having trouble getting an ABS control module for my 2008 Jeep Liberty.
Ah'm certain if the Stryker had an anti-braking skid system, one could be found.
Over the past 48 hours, the elite tactical unit of the French Police, RAID, have made multiple trips into Kabul to rescue people sheltering in the French Embassy.
At least two people have been killed after the #Taliban opened fire at a crowd celebrating independence day in #Asadabad, witnesses said (updates)https://t.co/DFnGHG2xOv
#4
Up till 2001, soldiers hospitalized were charged for their meals. The rationale was they derive a separate rations allowance* and the government was being reimbursed, something left over for generations.
*housing and rations allowances are separate from 'base' pay because retirement is calculated based upon base pay and the government is a skinflint when it comes to compensation unless its graft for their buddies. Oh, an until recently retirement pay was calculated as a 'benefit' for compensation. Now they deduct from the service members pay for it (along with FICA - social security/medicare).
Posted by: Regular joe ||
08/20/2021 11:16 Comments ||
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Half life of promises from the Biden Boyz is 0.001 femtoseconds. Back to owing the government for a ticket out of a crisis of their making (if you can make it to Kabul Airport alive).
“All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S. Government for the flight. A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding,” the form stated.
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Can't imagine how desperate that parent is. Or what she thinks is coming. That she should think her kid has a better chance with a bunch of foreign soldiers than a place run by the Taliban
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Playing Devils Advocate.
Mother gets child to USA,
Child is granted USA Refugee Status Visa,
Mother manages to access US Embassy there or in neighboring country.
Mother uses child as USA travel ticket.
Mother is placed on US Welfare & related help. Then placed in a Afghani community for voting reasons.
Mother meets and marries a Naturalized Afghani Islamic and raises the child and others as such.
Mother and child and hubby live 10,000x's better than they lived in Afghanistan.
The Afghani Community grows and in 5 years they have community control voting power.
They elect a Afghani Islamic mayor and councilmen to run the community.
The Islamic Mayor and councilmen gradually impose Sharia Rules. As Covid-28AZ is used to mandate Burka's and face veils/Masks for infection prevention.
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^^^ Yep, pretty much. Colonizers one and all. I don't care about whatever flack my opinion might draw. We need massive reverse immigration in this country. All of the non European 3rd world folks have to go.
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Morning news does what I call The Bullshit Montage, where they find five or six 3-4 second clips about the day's narrative, and run them on a loop to a monologue, usually outsourced from a more professional or an official narrator.
This was part of that montage.
Wife's first reaction, she thought it was staged. She wasn't that cynical two years ago, but the manager caste hadn't shown themselves to be total muppets then either.
[CFP] Original title: These two won't be alive long
Historic defiance against Taliban by Afghan nationals. Locals in Kabul replace the Taliban flag with the Afghan national tricolour flag at the famous Abdul Haq Square. Loud noise cheering from behind audible. Several protests against Taliban held, waving the Afghan flag.
[Aljazeera] The United Kingdom says it will welcome as many as 20,000 Afghans under a new resettlement programme that will give priority to women, girls and religious and other minorities, according to reports in British news outlets.
The scheme aimed at those seen "most at risk of human rights abuses and dehumanising treatment by the Taliban" will offer a safe and legal route to Britain, the Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. About 5,000 people are expected to arrive in the UK in its first year.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least five people were killed and 50 others were maimed when a bomb went kaboom! near a procession of Muharram mourners in Punjab, Pakistain, news sources said.
An explosion targeting an Ashura procession in Pakistain’s Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... has killed at least five people and injured dozens more, al-Mayadeen reported.
Videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing toward the site of the bombing, India Today reported.
Several maimed people were seen waiting for help along a road in the deeply conservative city of Bahawalnagar in the eastern Punjab province where the attack took place.
Police also said that women and kiddies were among the deaders and maimed in the terrorist blast.
According to Punjab police, due to the high number of injured, there is a possibility of increasing the number of deaders in this terrorist incident.
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It's not really an Islamic holiday if somebody isn't getting blown up.
[YNet] - Massive wildfire that raged in Jerusalem for over two days, becoming one of the biggest blazes recorded in recent years, was apparently the result of arson, new satellite images reveal.
According to the satellite imagery provided to Ynet by the United States space agency NASA, the fire started on Sunday at 3pm, at three, unconnected and far away locations, all at the same time. Ever creative Jihad
What Nasrallah is implying is that an attack on the ship will be considered an attack on Lebanon thus risking retaliation from Hezbollah. https://t.co/xz38cXEH1h
The area attacked tonight in the Qalamoun region has been subject to repeated Israeli airstrikes dating back to 2015. Some of those strikes reportedly targeted Hezbollah weapons shipments and Syrian positions. #Syria#Israel
Targets of tonight’s strikes reportedly near Qara in the Qalamoun region of Syria near the Syrian-Lebanon border and Damascus International Airport area pic.twitter.com/jOBp2ExFB7
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria said that Militants belonging to the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... fired 20 times on Syrian territories adjacent to the Idlib de-escalation zone.
This was reported on August 19 on the page of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Facebook.
According to the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria, the Syrian provinces of Idlib, Latakia, Aleppo and Hama came under fire.
"In the Idlib de-escalation zone, 20 attacks were recorded from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group, including, according to the Syrian side, 20 attacks.
In the province of Idlib, 11 attacks were registered, in the province of Lataki: four attacks In the province of Aleppo: two attacks, in the province of Hama: three attacks," the Russian military department said in a statement.
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[Townhall] During Thursday's press briefing at the Pentagon, General Hank Taylor and Press Secretary John Kirby provided an update on the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul before taking questions on the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 
