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My favorite Kilmer role was Doc Holiday in Tombstone RIP

Great place to start, town council, county supervisor. You don't need DC start the change on the local level

I stopped drinking Budweiser a long, long, time ago. Then I drank it when Busch Gardens had the free brewery tour. I haven't been there in forever either. Also I've never rooted for the Cardinals after they screwed me in 1964, but then it was probably the Yankees fault

Jonathan Last had in interesting take on Booker's speech yesterday. One that is worth repeating and sharing The whole piece is worth a read https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-cory-bookers-speech-matters?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Another way for MAGA to go after their "enemies". True tax cheats won't get investigated

April 2 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-2

Since today is supposed to be Tariff Tuesday in the Musk/Trump White House it will be interesting to see how things do shake out. Especially the regional impacts on deep Red Districts

Tesla boycotting Tesla. Couldn't happen to a better set of folks. I'm playing my tiny violin for them

So after Booker's marathon Senate Democrats voted unanimously to approve former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as Ambassador to NATO. The least they could have done was to unanimously oppose the nomination along with all future appointments

Quoting one of the late Gilda Radner's SNL characters. Oh Never mind

And mostly getting away with it

Dr Muskenstein's Monster is turning on him

The very people loosing their minds over the price of eggs a year ago now telling us to suck it up about our retirement funds...

As well as Rousseau, Locke and Hobbes. I doubt anyone in the current administration has any clue about these individuals

It's a minor point in the whole scheme of things, but the comedian Amber Ruffin has been scratched from the White House Correspondents' Dinner this month. All part of President Felon For Life's butt hurt of getting dissed by Obama low those many years ago.. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amber-ruffin-white-house-correspondents-dinner/

Also one of the reasons Madison and Hamilton (and company) originally set up the Electoral College. They didn't want the general voting public to have a direct say in the election of the Chief Executive fearing the choices the "rabble" would make.

April 1 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-1

March 31 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-31/parliament-passes-the-boston-port-act On March 31, 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today’s money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. 1776 In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adamswrites to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain. The future First Lady wrote in part, “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” Nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives voted to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote,

So what did I miss?Seems like more of the same old. Trump to supporters “Drop Dead”

Since we're becoming Pirates of the Caribbean for the next several days (no it's NOT a Disney Cruise) allow me to post this a day early. On the 250th anniversary of the Patrick Henry speech

March 22 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/March-22/stamp-act-imposed-on-american-colonies In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War(1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice. Though the Stamp Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising vehicle in England, it stirred a storm of protest in the colonies. The colonists had recently been hit with three major taxes: the Sugar Act (1764), which levied new duties on imports of textiles, wines, coffee and sugar; the Currency Act (1764), which caused a major decline in the value of the paper money used by colonists; and the Quartering Act (1765), which required colonists to provide food and lodging to British troops under certain circumstances.