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This is an interesting take, true and some of it holds today...

‪Revolutionary War 250‬ ‪@revwar250.bsky.social‬ “I could for myself wish to see your Friends Washington and [Charles] L[ee] at the Head of it and yet dare not propose it tho’ I have it in Contemplation. “I hope that matter will be Considered with more propriety in your Body [the Continental Congress] than ours [the Massachusetts provincial congress]. If you Establish a Continental army of which this will be only a part, you will place the direction as you please.”

May 7 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-7

Evidently Trump got his Alcatraz idea from watching reruns of the Birdman From Alcatraz on the local PBS station in Palm Beach. Maybe they should start rerunning Mr Smith goes to Washington a few late Saturday nights. Or possibly All the King's Men

This is sounding more and more like my brother in law after his fifth or sixth beer of the day

Isn't that part of the qualifications for a Regime position?

May 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-6 Happy 80th Birth Anniversary to Bob Seger

Sorry, unfortunately as a wise man once said “Water always wins”

Hopefully this doesn’t venture to close to the political spectrum but when Field of Dreams first came out a minister friend did a sermon aligning one of the main themes in the movie to the Prodigal Son story. He was maligned by some members of the congregation for not preaching on the scripture that Sunday As an aside, anyone notice that three of the films mentioned starred Kevin Costner?

The same folks applauding Trump were the ones appalled at the parody of the Last Supper in Paris last year

I don’t understand your math 1) 73 million not eligible should not even even be in the equation 2) How did you conclude all 73 non eligible voters would vote the same way?

May 5 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-5/allies-end-occupation-of-west-germany On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On May 5, 1904, 37-year-old Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern Major League Baseball history as the Boston Americans defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0. Young strikes out eight of the 27 batters he faces and benefits from excellent defense in a game that is completed in only 83 minutes. "Unparalleled feat,” a newspaper calls the achievement. A perfect game is achieved when a pitcher retires all the batters he faces in order, with no one reaching base. Two other pitchers—Lee Richmond and John Ward—recorded perfect games in 1880, but the rules then were significantly different from modern baseball rules, which were established in 1893. Before the modern rules, it took eight balls to walk a batter and the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate was 45 feet. (The distance is 60 feet, 6 inches today.) 1955 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) becomes a sovereign state when the United States, France and Great Britain end their military occupation, which had begun in 1945. With this action, West Germany was given the right to rearm and become a full-fledged member of the western alliance against the Soviet Union.

I went looking for it out of curiosity, that’s the one I remember (CBS Playhouse?) edit It was the US Steel Hour and it is on YouTube The movie is available to rent on Amazon, I believe. Unfortunately there is no Kindle version of the book. May have to check the local library

Bull Durham is probably at the top of my baseball movie list. Kinsella’s novels are among my favorite baseball reading I need to watch Bang the Drum Slowly sometime soon

And our Netflix subscription rates will increase how much?

Have you seen recent pictures of the Oval Office. I call it Presidential Brothel style with all the gold trim https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/trump-is-putting-his-touches-on-the-white-house-with-flagpoles-art-and-an-oval-office-overhaul/3898147/ Yet he wants us peons to economize and like it

So now we’re only allowed five pencils and American movies. Making America Grate again

Looking at his resume on Wikipedia he really hasn’t stayed long at any of his gigs as President of a university. 6 years is the average so 3 years does seem short even for him. Just seem like he’s constantly looking for the next job

Jonathan Last (JVL) recently wrote about a New York Magazine article on John Fetterman. Concern from staffers about his mental condition since his stroke. What got me was this part Substitute Trump for Fetterman and see how it plays. Especially since at least the follow-up to the 2020 election

I was in the last Lottery class, my number was something like 185. Only lottery I ever won

The Regime lied again. The grass is still green (or brown)

May 4 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-4