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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

DO WE EVER REALLY KNOW PEOPLE?


William Moulton Marston

the only scion of a once-grand Boston family, was equal parts genius, charlatan, and kinkster. 

As an undergraduate at Harvard just before World War I, 

he was thrilled by militant suffragists like the ones who chained themselves to the fence outside 10 Downing Street.

 Maybe that’s where his fusion of feminism and bondage started:

imagery of slavery and shackles abounded in the movement’s demonstrations and propaganda.



Benjamin Franklin practiced what we now call “sock puppetry”,

 using multiple aliases in his pamphleteering 

to give the appearance that many people had similar views, sometimes arguing with himself through different names.  

His most famous alter ego was Silence Dogood.




Did Thomas Jefferson have a relationship with a woman who was his slave? 

Did that relationship produce children? 

In 1998 DNA tests were conducted upon his remains and those of men who were thought to be his sons by the slave, Sally Hemings.  

The results came in that  

Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings's children, and quite probably all six. 

He freed those male slaves only in his will, while keeping Sally a slave.  Jefferson's daughter freed the woman.

Apparently, all men were created equal ... unless you were his black sons.



BUT ENOUGH DOUR TALK!

LET'S TALK WINNERS!! 

On each guest post I pick two commenters and 
give them a Mystery Prize!

Crystal Collier
 
 
 
 DMS 
HAS WON CRYSTAL COLLIER'S BOOK




MERADETH HOUSTON
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HOW COOL IS THAT?

8 comments:

  1. Hi Roland - and women will never be equal as far as some men are concerned ... having hassles here - hence this comment - not man troubles as such ... just men!

    Congratulations to Meradith ... that will be a great listen, then DMS winning Crytal's Moonless ... how wonderful.

    Cheers Hilary

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    1. I am so sorry to hear that about even more problems for you. You have had enough in the past for two lives. :-(

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  2. Unfortunately, the majority of America's politicians have dirty deeds in a closet. They're all hypocrites calling the kettle black. As Yeshua said, All our works are as filthy rags.

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    1. Of all the American Presidents I have researched, only John Adams and Harry Truman come across as men I would trust. :-(

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  3. I love the word "kinkster." I never heard that before. Jefferson was a complex man but no angels for sure.

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    1. Isn't that a neat word? Jefferson was also a traitor sadly. He gave secret government documents to the French Foreign Minister at a time when we were at war with France in order to derail the present President (John Adams) so he could more easily become the next one. Sigh. Ambition is a dark mistress. :-(

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  4. Proof that everyone has a skeleton or two in the closet.

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    1. Sadly, yes. But sometimes that skeleton is the skeleton of what once their honor. :-(

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