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A lot never paid attention to all the crap he pulled back with the casinos and bankrupting Trump Tower. If they knew him at all it was because of the Apprentice. Where they fixed up his dump of an office and made him seem bigger than life. As PT Barnum once said "A sucker is born every minute" or something like that... Or to quote Paul Simon...Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

July 17 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-17 One note Disney would often visit with JD Rockefeller Jr in Williamsburg, Va.during the 40s and 50s It's said that the two would sit in the rear of the Rockefeller financed Williamsburg. Theatre as they shared their interest in movies during that time. That was about the time Colonial Williamsburg came to life (the idea started in the mid to late 1920s). It's not surprising that. Disney wanted to bring a bit of education to his theme parks.

I haven’t seen any confirmation of this.

“I have found great Inconvenience for Want of this Art, since I have had to contemplate America so much, and since I had to study the Processes and Operations of War. But their Honour, Truth, in one Word their Morals, are of most importance. I hope these will be kept pure.”

Those of us of a certain age have fond memories...

It all makes sense. The statue was probably placed on word of mouth history. Archeology has gotten so much better in recent years. One example in Williamsburg is latest work on the armory. When Colonial Williamsburg was being recreated back in the early 1930s they relied a lot on peoples memories (Parts othe armory was still standing, memories said the walls were much higer than later research found they were too high. Also the first rebuilt armory had a wooden slat roof. To store gunpowder it probably had to be slate. Just this past year while clearing land for a proposed indoor sport facility for travel teams, construction workers found remains of what is thought to be barracks for the British Army near Yorktown (about 15 miles away) This is the stuff that fascinates me since we moved here 5 years ago

JVL nails it again... https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-talk-to-your-maga-friends-about-jeffrey-epstein?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=168437474&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

Gut feeling is that JD could be worse. He believes the MAGA line and has been paid big time for it

Two weeks, always two weeks

July 16 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-16

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-15/ford-motor-company-takes-its-first-order

Going after tax paying immigrants. A wonderful concept. Just remember we are all immigrants. The only real natives got pushed out of their lands well before the current idiots were born They all need to be Custarded

MIAMI (AP) — Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater said he has been suspended from coaching his former high school team in Miami because he provided players with financial benefits that he says he’d reported to the school. The 32-year-old Bridgewater publicized action taken against him by Miami Northwestern High School in a social media post in which he also reaffirmed his desire to continuing coaching the team for which he once played. “I’m not going anywhere,” Bridgewater’s social media post said. “And if it comes down to it, I will volunteer from the bleachers like I used to in 2018 and 2019 when no one had a problem.” https://apnews.com/article/teddy-bridgewater-miami-northwestern-20ccc564ab4f2f69e4c616401fd0454c

For those of us who were told to finish our dinner because there were starving children in China (or wherever)

Paging Rosemary Woods

Always the self entitled Boomer. Never admits to being wrong

Happy Bastille Day https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-14/french-revolutionaries-storm-bastille

MLB.com report

Looks like the Tigers are following the league trend of going under slot for the first round