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President's Day ...
No, I am not going to rant on the farce of your current political situation ...
except to say that politicians are like diapers, and should be changed frequently ... and for the same reasons.
You would think presidents would have compassion on idiots ...
on account of personal experience and heredity.
Take the presidents on this day set aside for them ...
DID TEDDY ROOSEVELT ORDER A MASSACRE?
When old Teddy Roosevelt was sworn to office the Phillipine-American war had been raging for two years already,
Roosevelt had been in office for not even a fortnight when he heard the terrible news
that 50 US soldiers had been killed on the island of Samar.
This being the biggest single military loss since the battle of the little Bighorn 25 years prior,
Roosevelt sort of lost his calm and ordered General Jacob H. Smith to "sort this mess out once and for all"
thus leading to the massacre of thousands at the "Balangiga massacre" namely most being civilians.
Smith was quoted saying to his troops,
"I want no prisoners. I wish for you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn the more it will please me."
Smith was noted for being a brutal man having played his part in the Wounded Knee massacre, was this the reason Smith was chosen for the task?
It is noted that when the General was court martialed and found guilty of this massacre
Roosevelt reprimanded and retired Smith.
DID ANDY JACKSON INDULGE IN THE FIRST ETHNIC CLEANSING?
Pilgrims, the more I learned about presidents, the more I loved my dog.
Jackson expelled 100,000 Natives from their homelands.
As a soldier Jackson had already acted mercilessly towards the natives, killing and exiling large numbers of them,
and as US president he signed the "Indian Removal Act,"
which was effectively a death sentence for thousands more.
This law permitted the relocation of Native American tribes
such as the Cherokee,Seminole and Chickasaw peoples in order to create territories for white settlers.
The move was so rapid and so badly organized that an estimated 25% of those deported
died of hunger, hypothermia or exhaustion.
This terrible chapter in US history is known as the Trail of Tears.
As a soldier Jackson had already acted mercilessly towards the natives, killing and exiling large numbers of them,
and as US president he signed the "Indian Removal Act,"
which was effectively a death sentence for thousands more.
This law permitted the relocation of Native American tribes
such as the Cherokee,Seminole and Chickasaw peoples in order to create territories for white settlers.
The move was so rapid and so badly organized that an estimated 25% of those deported
died of hunger, hypothermia or exhaustion.
This terrible chapter in US history is known as the Trail of Tears.
DID HONEST GEORGE START A WORLD WAR?
The history of the USA begins with George Washington, don't you know.
At the age of 22, when he was still a British Officer in the American colonies,
Washington was involved in an incident that is still debated by historians today.
In May 1754, the French sent a diplomat out to secure the territory,
but Washington ambushed the Frenchman, the French negotiator and up to 13 of his soldiers were killed.
This incident caused the French and Indian wars in North America, which culminated two years later into the Seven Years War (1756-1763),
A bloody conflict between the great European powers of the time.
Many historians consider this the first world war as it was the first to be fought in America, Europe and Asia.
And America has been mistaking it way from war to war ever since.
WAS RONNIE REGAN A F.B.I. INFORMER?
Reader, I am not trying to convince you of anything here.
I have long since learned it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
From Hollywood actor to the most powerful man in the world.
In the years following WW2 he spied on his fellow actors in Hollywood for the FBI,
reportedly under the codename T-10.
Film actors were part of the Screen Actors Guild union
and in the mind of the former head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, every union was a secret society of communists.
In return, the FBI actively supported Reagan's political career right up until his presidency.
In the years following WW2 he spied on his fellow actors in Hollywood for the FBI,
reportedly under the codename T-10.
Film actors were part of the Screen Actors Guild union
and in the mind of the former head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, every union was a secret society of communists.
In return, the FBI actively supported Reagan's political career right up until his presidency.
JOHNSON NAMED HIS JOHNSON "JUMBO"
Look at the "kindly" eyes of that pilgrim.
Why the man envied Kennedy his affairs and commenced to have more.
Johnson would make passes at secretaries,
and it was known that any who accepted would be promoted to private secretary,
two words that in this context, children, should probably have air quotes around them anytime they are uttered.
By the time he was done, virtually all of his secretaries, plus his two mistresses, got the Johnson Treatment.
The man certainly had his issues, don't you know, and would whip out his "Johnson" (or Jumbo as he called it) in public.
During a Cabinet meeting, when asked why the U.S. went into Vietnam,
Johnson reportedly whipped it out and bellowed, “This is why!”
Johnson would make passes at secretaries,
and it was known that any who accepted would be promoted to private secretary,
two words that in this context, children, should probably have air quotes around them anytime they are uttered.
By the time he was done, virtually all of his secretaries, plus his two mistresses, got the Johnson Treatment.
The man certainly had his issues, don't you know, and would whip out his "Johnson" (or Jumbo as he called it) in public.
During a Cabinet meeting, when asked why the U.S. went into Vietnam,
Johnson reportedly whipped it out and bellowed, “This is why!”
Reader, suppose you were an idiot, and then suppose you were a president ... but I repeat myself.
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WAS OLD GROVER A DATE RAPIST?
Old Grover Cleveland –
A presidential secret that most people don’t know about him is that long before that Cosby fellow ...
He was accused of being a rapist.
Maria Halpin, a store clerk, claimed he violently raped her after a night out.
She then had a child, the paternity test was never known, but he did pay child support ...
after placing the child in an orphanage and putting the store clerk in an insane asylum!
Of all the animals, Man alone is cruel and inflicts pain for the pleasure of it.
He was accused of being a rapist.
Maria Halpin, a store clerk, claimed he violently raped her after a night out.
She then had a child, the paternity test was never known, but he did pay child support ...
after placing the child in an orphanage and putting the store clerk in an insane asylum!
Of all the animals, Man alone is cruel and inflicts pain for the pleasure of it.
You may, of course, disagree with me with impunity ... since I am not the sitting president.
OLD HARDING WAS AN INSPIRATION TO JOHNSON
Another "kindly" eyed man, twenty-ninth president Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)
repeatedly made love to a young girl, Nan Britton, in a White House closet.
On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from beating down the closet door!
On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from beating down the closet door!
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TO JEFFERSON ALL MEN WERE CREATED EQUAL ... UNLESS YOU WERE HIS SONS.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
(why do I not have a foundation I ask you?!)
from DNA and historical evidence believe that, years after his wife’s death,
Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of his slave, Sally Hemings,
mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
Madison and Eston were released in Jefferson's 1826 will.
Jefferson gave freedom to no other entire slave family.
America, I have found, is full of cruelties, vanities, and hypocrisies ... but all the other countries are no better ...
for they are ruled by men.
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PRESIDENT WOODY ALLEN, AH, I MEAN GROVER CLEVELAND
A longtime close friend of Oscar Folsom, Grover Cleveland, at age 27, met his future wife shortly after she was born.
He took a keen interest in the child, buying her a baby carriage and otherwise doting on her as she grew up.
When her father, Oscar Folsom, died in a carriage accident on July 23, 1875,
without having written a will, the court appointed Cleveland administrator of his estate.
This brought Cleveland into still more contact with Frances, then age 11.
Sometime while she was in college, Cleveland's feelings for her took a romantic turn.
He proposed by letter in August 1885, soon after her graduation.
They did not announce their engagement, however, until just five days before the wedding.
Well, children, I'd tell you more but I've gone and depressed myself and bored Midnight!
For More Of Mark Twain and Historical Figures ...
Oh, this did make me chuckle "politicians are like diapers, and should be changed frequently..." Just excellent!
ReplyDeleteAn actual quote from Mark Twain actually. His ghost makes me stay true to his take on life! Thanks for visiting, Misky.
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