Dr. M.A. Davis

We know what to call people who are happy Trump is President

makes things interesting I sez. no I will not 'move there' that's how they get you. the rocks I mean.

"area anticommunist angry that China needs American help to win medals"

hey, I say she proved the dominance of the US in sport that even China has to poach talented stars from our shores.

that's quitter talk

I live in a county with about the same population density of Guatemala. it is by far the most urbanized county for miles and miles around.

one might that should not be but it is, so here we are.

many a great man has also done greatly terrible things. nature of the beast.

and opponents tended to be (though of course weren't all) civil libertarian types, like Robert Taft, or my favorite crank author George Schuyler, rather than people who really believed in egalitarianism.

Well, I don't think you'll see anyone here who views Japanese internment as a great idea.

Easier to do in postwar/Cold War America than Depression America. I would guess _Truman_ could have gotten a Civil Rights Act (1957 if not 1964) through a friendly Congress but he hardly ever had one.

one can take revision too far. yes FDR made compromises with the one-party state that made up a third of the country. yes Black people were correct to vote for him en masse and see him as the first President on their side since (arguably) Lincoln.

I think it would get more Northern Republican support than we might think - but this was an era when wages and hours laws were getting struck down by the Hughes Court, much less desegregation laws!

yes FDR made compromises with segregationists to get his economic legislation through Congress, yes Black Americans were right to see him as their champion in the White House and vote accordingly.

Paul hms. "Luke, overall I like it - but the title is unwieldly. make it more about the content than the message to the reader."

one likes to think the sculptor used the latter as a model.

don't have to change the signs and stationary, saves time during war

(there's only one Monitor for Milton and it's the one the Christian Scientists publish). #wrightposting

Five years from March 9, 1857, Ericsson's USS Monitor will take to sea to fight Mallory's dream made flesh - the CSS Virginia, an ironclad vessel built to destroy rather than save the American Navy. It won't work.

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Stephen Mallory (D-FL) is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs. Mallory is a naval buff and advocate of reforms as diverse as a return to flogging and building a fleet of vessels armored with iron. He won't get either of those things - not yet.

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It's March 9, 1857 and Milton Wright is at home reading.

John Ericsson's caloric engine design has made him a rich man, helping him recover from that incident in 1843 aboard the Princeton that almost killed both President Tyler and his career.

Meanwhile

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need to remember that old principle:
"we must all liberal together, or we shall all liberal separately."

Spirit Lake Massacre - Wikipedia

the same day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_...

10 hour drive today, across most of the Midwest. another world for Milton until the railroad.

in his diary he writes sympathetically of Indians as long as they are Christian. to be fair, that's how he views white people too.

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Milton Wright
March 9, 1857

I remained at home, and read some.

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Glenn’s problem was that the people who would automatically vote for an astronaut were not the people who voted in a Dem primary in the late 60s, which is why it took him a few tries to get there. (And why he never got a Presidential nomination)

“Someone is”

Was thinking w/Franz von Papen how he picked the side of evil in virtually every major professional decision of his life - and is now almost forgotten because someone even worse came along. Not even the lowest seat in Hell! Oh well.

if this is the Silas Andrews I think it is, he was 72 years old when Milton stayed at his house - aged indeed for rural Indiana in 1857! (he'd ultimately live until 1870) www.findagrave.com/memorial/775...

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Acts 16.19 tells us:

"And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,"

a turn towards Gentiles-as-antagonists in Acts. always liked that a little better.

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Revelations 14.6 tells us "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people"

hey not the scariest angel in that book by any means.

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