tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post4051959086900057751..comments2024-03-28T15:17:40.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: "My dad wanted to name me Steak, the food, because he loves it so much. But my mom was never going to go for it."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37701864746532260712017-05-12T05:15:41.305-05:002017-05-12T05:15:41.305-05:00Attention to you all,I'm agent smith from USA,...Attention to you all,I'm agent smith from USA,I'm one of the <br />twelve selected agent sent by the grand-master to expose Illuminati to <br />the world,we the twelve agent are identify with the head-quarter number <br />and the email I will drop here also,you are not allowed to contact us on<br />Facebook because will the real agent are not allowed to chat with you <br />on Facebook that is why you are ask to contact us in email or call,those<br />that you will contact on Facebook are not real and if you contact them <br />they will not be able to help because they are not one of us,please be <br />wear that you are not allowed to contact any agent on Facebook,if you <br />are willing to join email us or not on Facebook by <br />e-mail;worldmoneyilluminati669@gmail.com or cal us, on whatsapp now +2347052744530 <br />for more information and to no if you contact a real member please call <br />our head-office on (+18187569256) be ware of scam....,,,,<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05669771708395685880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14345029729542500402017-05-11T17:46:37.862-05:002017-05-11T17:46:37.862-05:00@St Croix:
The story is pretty much true. I'd ...@St Croix:<br />The story is pretty much true. I'd add a couple of things to it. O'Neal wasn't a socialite, at least in Southern Aristocracy's eyes. She was the daughter of an innkeeper, which is why Jackson defended her -- he had this thing for common folk. The leader of the cabinet wives' cabal against Peggy was VP Calhoun's wife, Floride. Calhoun, of course, sided with her. Savvy Martin Van Buren publicly took Peggy and John's side, which endeared him to Jackson. Calhoun became persona non grata in the administration and Van Buren went on to succeed Jackson as president. (Side note -- when Jackson dumped/ignored his official cabinet he took to meeting with associates in the White House kitchen -- hence the term "kitchen cabinet." Robt Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908620589286432142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14719473333880863102017-05-11T12:37:06.164-05:002017-05-11T12:37:06.164-05:00I don't know if Cracked is a reputable source,...I don't know if <b><i>Cracked</i></b> is a reputable source, but <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19666_the-6-worst-attempts-at-damage-control-in-political-scandals.html" rel="nofollow">it's a funny read!</a><br /><br /><i>Margaret "Peggy" O'Neale was a socialite in Washington, D.C. At 17, she married 39-year-old naval officer John B. Timberlake. Unfortunately, only a few years into their marriage, Timberlake went away on a ship, never to return…<br /><br />Enter Senator John Eaton. He was a friend of both Timberlake and Peggy, and after John was out of the picture, Eaton fell in love with the lady and they were quickly married. The union even had the sanctioning of President Andrew Jackson…<br /><br />Unfortunately, some people thought they should have waited a little longer (where "some people" in this case means "absolutely everyone"). The resulting social-scene uproar threw Washington, D.C. into chaos: Everybody who was anybody had an opinion on the marriage. At one point, the cabinet secretaries' wives got together and plotted to ostracize Peggy, in true Mean Girls fashion, and stirred up numerous rumors relative to Peggy's chastity and/or extreme lack of it...<br /><br />Almost completely out of spite, Jackson inserted himself directly into the middle of the controversy by very publicly siding with Eaton and nominating him to be the secretary of war. Foolproof, right?<br /><br />Having lived through seeing his own wife slandered in a similarly public manner, the paranoid and defensive Jackson vigorously defended the Eatons against the accusations of the rest of his Cabinet. Eventually, Jackson became convinced that the whole thing had been the work of his political detractors to try to destroy his presidency (he was crazy, you see). The more the press raged against the Eatons, the more paranoid Jackson got. Not wanting to look weak by asking Eaton to resign from the Cabinet, but also not wanting to get eaten alive in the press anymore, Jackson finally asked for the resignation of the entire Cabinet, figuring that he could just start over again fresh after the next election.<br /><br />After the mass resignation, Samuel Ingham, the former secretary of the treasury, was pretty pissed at Eaton and sent him snarky letters. Eaton challenged Ingham to a duel, and when Ingham refused, Jackson offered Eaton the sensible and not at all insane advice, "If he won't fight, you must kill him…"</i>Saint Croixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17876368500159112781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34417141484802442752017-05-11T09:10:07.453-05:002017-05-11T09:10:07.453-05:00If you read the literature of the time, non-fictio...<i>If you read the literature of the time, non-fiction especially, you find that between 1830 and 1860 slavery was the dominant political issue of the age. Not on moral grounds so much as political representation grounds.</i><br /><br />I think many slave owners, like Jefferson, knew that slavery was morally dubious but they needed it for economic reasons. Slavery has existed as far back in history as war. The usual fate of losers in war was slavery if not death.<br /><br />The political left tries to argue that American slavery was unique and the destruction of the teaching of history helps to keep that ignorant opinion alive in the young.<br /><br />That's why Lincoln thought he might be able to buy the slaves and avoid war for economic reasons.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39500375788850284972017-05-11T08:35:58.054-05:002017-05-11T08:35:58.054-05:00I hope they can fit in a scene with a red Solo pla...I hope they can fit in a scene with a red Solo plastic cup.Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277966379512526469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8393741725966828342017-05-11T07:00:23.666-05:002017-05-11T07:00:23.666-05:00Given Sean Penn's penchant for supporting soci...<i>Given Sean Penn's penchant for supporting socialist dictatorships, he's the exact wrong person to portray Andrew Jackson.</i><br /><br />Penn has been remarkably silent these last several years. It's as if he would rather people forget his more loquacious days as Venezuela's self-appointed ambassador-at-large.<br /><br />As for Sean Penn acting the role of Andrew Jackson... leonine is not a word that freely associates with Mr. Penn, does it? Cathartine, perhaps. Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78933470337105613662017-05-11T06:34:11.791-05:002017-05-11T06:34:11.791-05:00The point is that Polk persistently and skillfully...The point is that Polk persistently and skillfully took the western half of the USA from the two European claims to occupy that land. He politically maneuvered and stood up to them and drove them out, at a time the Eastern Original coastal colonies preferred virtue signalling that they were too moral to take land from a European Empire.<br /><br />It was the Revolution moved west and re-fought by a war between the British and Spanish forces and the Scots-Irish settlers who fought them for it.<br /><br />The Mexican Independent State had no actual power in Texas once Houston and Travis defeated Santa Anna. All they ever had was a hope to rule it if they ever found men brave enough to conquer the Apache and Commanche Empires. Those men showed up from southwestern Virginia and Tennessee.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67178921895657993382017-05-11T06:24:30.502-05:002017-05-11T06:24:30.502-05:00walter said...
Steak? Better choice: Quill
Why no...<i>walter said...<br />Steak? Better choice: Quill</i><br /><br />Why not just skip straight to Star-Lord?Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736461252925227611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6901003486798781052017-05-10T23:32:34.868-05:002017-05-10T23:32:34.868-05:00IIRC, the Southern states wanted TX to be broken u...IIRC, the Southern states wanted TX to be broken up and admitted as four or more (slave) states. The Northern states wouldn't accept that, and that is why TX is so big (again, IIRC, can't find a cite at the moment).Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83128401386562596982017-05-10T23:28:51.563-05:002017-05-10T23:28:51.563-05:00If you read the literature of the time, non-fictio...If you read the literature of the time, non-fiction especially, you find that between 1830 and 1860 slavery was the dominant political issue of the age. Not on moral grounds so much as political representation grounds. The slave states were doing everything they could to increase their representation in the federal government at the expense of the free states. The free states were against slavery because they wanted a nation based on the family farm rather than the plantation, and where there was slavery, there were no small farmers. Economically they could not compete. This fact was mentioned again and again in the memoirs of pre-war settlers in the Western Territories. They hated slavery. <br />The "freebooting" Grant mentions in his memoir was the practice of settling Indian or Mexican land without permission. The US did not want freebooters because, sooner or later, their existence would become a political issue and the Feds would be forced to subsidize and/or defend these rogue "colonies." If they became established it was almost impossible to bring these freebooters to heel (cf. Texas & Hawaii). <br />These days, I suppose, if the Feds tried to disband a freebooter settlement, the freebooters would get some federal judge to protect them. <br />Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81755866879745565432017-05-10T22:52:18.399-05:002017-05-10T22:52:18.399-05:00Steak? Better choice: QuillSteak? Better choice: Quillwalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17818749187960350810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59690328180588737762017-05-10T22:32:26.826-05:002017-05-10T22:32:26.826-05:00"The Gadsden Purchase bought at least part of..."The Gadsden Purchase bought at least part of AZ and NM from Mexico. Ten million dollars."<br /><br />Yeah, it was a crazy amount of money for some (then) worthless desert. Any country in Europe would've taken it, and paid Mexico zero. Germany didn't "pay" France for Alsace-Lorraine in 1870, they just took it. rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34498047593695414482017-05-10T22:29:55.187-05:002017-05-10T22:29:55.187-05:00Many people opposed the Mexican war because they o...Many people opposed the Mexican war because they opposed the annexation of Texas, and the addition of more slave territory. IOW, since the South was for annexation and the war with Mexico, they were against it. Thoreau and Emerson took the same position as Lincoln. <br /><br />Unfortunately, they didn't have the foresight to see the war was also about California, Arizona and NM.<br /><br />Its too bad, we couldn't have gotten those places without Texas (since it succeeded 14 years after the Mexican War) but that wasn't possible. rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82892270765947538202017-05-10T22:24:05.659-05:002017-05-10T22:24:05.659-05:00The Gadsden Purchase bought at least part of AZ an...The Gadsden Purchase bought at least part of AZ and NM from Mexico. Ten million dollars.mockturtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10507310332014103437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4095512166779519012017-05-10T22:23:46.357-05:002017-05-10T22:23:46.357-05:00Sorry, if Grant thought the Mexican war was one &q...Sorry, if Grant thought the Mexican war was one "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation" then he was wrong.<br /><br />The USA was NOT stronger then Mexico in terms of arms or in men. We beat Mexico with a smaller, but better led and better trained army. <br /><br />You have to wonder why Grant fought in the war if he thought it so wrong. Or why he married into a Slave-holding family and lived in Missouri for many years. I suspect that when writing his memoirs in the 1880s, with the Mexican War long over and the Southwest ours, he didn't engage in the usual Anglo-Saxon moral superiority dance. "oh isn't it terrible that we did X, but of course now benefit from and can't undo" - I think he engaged in the "Lo, the poor Indian" nonsense too.rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9651190425057985182017-05-10T22:20:27.402-05:002017-05-10T22:20:27.402-05:00rcocean observes: The problem with Jon Meacham is...rcocean observes: <b>The problem with Jon Meacham is that he's a journalist turned Historian.</b><br /><br />A couple of years ago I read a 'biography' of Huey Long that was written by a journalist. Literally everything in the book was taken from newspaper clippings. Long's own autobiography was better--and surprisingly candid.<br /><br />mockturtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10507310332014103437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2716178482196926332017-05-10T22:14:25.081-05:002017-05-10T22:14:25.081-05:00"We tried to buy California -NM - Arizona fro..."We tried to buy California -NM - Arizona from them,"<br /><br />I have a map, hanging on the wall behind me, of Utah, California and New Mexico, which does not have Arizona on it.<br /><br />I like old maps and this one is a favorite. Tucson is on it. but not Phoenix.<br /><br />I think the Mexican War was sketchy in terms of justice. Lincoln opposed it and was excoriated for doing so.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19773053744177417322017-05-10T22:12:26.677-05:002017-05-10T22:12:26.677-05:00Given Sean Penn's penchant for supporting soci...Given Sean Penn's penchant for supporting socialist dictatorships, he's the exact wrong person to portray Andrew Jackson.Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736461252925227611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31910432833940695952017-05-10T22:05:42.973-05:002017-05-10T22:05:42.973-05:00Here is what U.S. Grant wrote about the Mexican-Am...Here is what U.S. Grant wrote about the Mexican-American War. And he was there:<br /><b><br /> Ostensibly we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico in case she appeared to contemplate war. Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. Texas was originally a state belonging to the republic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east to the territory of the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had received authority from Mexico to colonize. These colonists paid very little attention to the supreme government, and introduced slavery into the state almost from the start, though the constitution of Mexico did not, nor does it now, sanction that institution. Soon they set up an independent government of their own, and war existed, between Texas and Mexico, in name from that time until 1836, when active hostilities very nearly ceased upon the capture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized Texas, and afterwards set up slavery there, and then seceded as soon as they felt strong enough to do so—offered themselves and the State to the United States, and in 1845 their offer was accepted. The occupation, separation and annexation were, from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union.<br /></b><br />http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch3<br />I guess you can say that U.S. Grant didn't like Texans. I suppose the dislike was mutual.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80183074998108845092017-05-10T21:58:40.806-05:002017-05-10T21:58:40.806-05:00The problem with Jon Meacham is that he's a jo...The problem with Jon Meacham is that he's a journalist turned Historian. rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1922962368010785922017-05-10T21:55:32.300-05:002017-05-10T21:55:32.300-05:00"James K. Polk initiated the most unjust and ...<i>"James K. Polk initiated the most unjust and unnecessary war in our history." </i> <br /><br />No, Polk "initiated" the most sensible and just war we ever fought. Mexico attacked us. We tried to buy California -NM - Arizona from them, but they refused. So when they started the war, because they thought they still "owned" Texas, we took the Southwest from them, and paid them FMV for it.<br /><br />I'll leave "Justice" out of it. But the most "Unnecessary" war was our own Civil war which cost the live of 500,000 Americans and could have been avoided with some better statecraft and wisdom on both sides.rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44415451063291846352017-05-10T21:52:29.319-05:002017-05-10T21:52:29.319-05:00Jackson was totally dedicated to his wife Rachel. ...Jackson was totally dedicated to his wife Rachel. Rachel was a Donelson, the granddaughter of Col. John Donelson which was from an eminent family in Virginia, and laterNorth Carolina. Like Jackson he moved to settle in wild Indian lands around Nashville, Tennessee. <br /><br />One branch on my father's side of the family also goes back to Donelson family members that moved south and settled in the 1820s near the the Roswell Road/Powers Ferry Road area 10 miles north of what became called Atlanta. They were original members of Sardis Methodist Church, which is still in use there.<br /><br />traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27026246087024701652017-05-10T21:48:03.664-05:002017-05-10T21:48:03.664-05:00Blogger YoungHegelian said...
@MK,
"Meacham ...<i>Blogger YoungHegelian said...<br />@MK,<br /><br />"Meacham was just on TV saying Trump fired Comey because Comey could have proved he committed treason."<br /><br />That's the sort of shit you don't say about anyone, much less a sitting president, unless you have the facts in hand to prove it, & can produce that evidence.</i><br /><br />This far-gone insanity is scary. It's incoherent. You can believe:<br /><br />A) Comey has the secret, unseen evidence of treasonous collusion between Trump and the Russians, but he won't release it because it's against the rules. <br /><br />-or-<br /><br />B) There is no secret evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians. <br /><br />If someone chooses to believe "A", well, why would they not believe in ghosts? Or little green men in UFO's? Or that Trump is the pawn of Jewish conspiracy that controls history?<br />If you are willing to believe one thing based on no evidence, why would you refuse to believe another thing with no evidence?<br /><br />I know a guy who believes that Kennedy was the victim of a CIA plot. Sort of. He believes that Oswald shot Kennedy, but only because he got the jump on CIA sharpshooting assassins that had set themselves up on the grassy knoll. <br />It allows this guy to admit the truth -- that the evidence shows that Kennedy was killed by a commie with a screw loose -- but still heap equal guilt on the CIA and the US "military industrial complex" <i>without ever having to show evidence that the CIA killed Kennedy</i>. <br />Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44736168887685650262017-05-10T21:45:07.195-05:002017-05-10T21:45:07.195-05:00I agree with crosse. Sean should name his next ki...I agree with crosse. Sean should name his next kid Marine L. Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44487098209400952492017-05-10T21:40:24.934-05:002017-05-10T21:40:24.934-05:00James K. Polk initiated the most unjust and unnece...James K. Polk initiated the most unjust and unnecessary war in our history. Where is J. Farmer when you need him?Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.com