It’s weird to claim that the United States wasn’t a country but A union of states when one of the major reasons why the articles of confederation were scrapped in favor of our constitution were because we were acting as different states. It made trade challenging, interstate commerce using different currencies challenging, and taxing to pay off war debts impossible. If the constitution didn’t unite the country as a nation then what was the point of scrapping the articles of confederation?
Al must go to Babe university for history. It’s just a weird brand of history that isn’t actually rooted in historical fact.
There are two broad approaches available to human b eings when seeking knowledge. We can look for authoritataive teaching (God, university professors, political advocates, propagandists.....) or we can resortto using our own minds and experiences. Overall, I'd say either by itself is insufficeint.
I think thriller has demonstrated a pretty extreme example of authoritarianism.
I note that his bit about the history of China in the twentieth century is something that has been recently challenged by very thorough researchers, some of whom had direct personal experience with it. He gave a link to his source, I gave a link in support of my opinion.
In my life, I have been to the Philippines, married a filipina who had pretty severe intentions to forget her origins and make her way as an American. We basically went to college together. She was incredibly talented in social situations, had great leadership skills. While she thought I was old fashioned or "weird", she was still a friend for years after the marriage bit fell apart. She as of mixed ethnicity, being part German and part Chinese. But mostly ethnic Malay like a majority of Filipinos She was the last I heard, a corporate executive. She came from a rich family and felt bad about the way she had treated the servants. Her parents ran a casino, and she taught me how to play poker.
My second wife was a legal secretary to the head of the Utah State Democratic Party and the Salt Lake Council on Foreign Relations. She was one of the most sincere liberals I have ever known. I believe she would talk to me if I called, but I am married to a lady who doesn't want me to call...... lol. Funny thing, one of my cousins is the head of that law firm today. My ex- is at another law firm I believe, just as liberal.
My kids are fabulous. We home schooled them to about eleventh grade, then put them in public school for the sports and the labs, in advance placement on all subjects. Their teachers all said we were awesome.
They are both in college now. One is on track to become a nurse like her mother, the other is probably going to get famous for her music.
I work hard at being different and coming up with views and opinions nobody has fed to me.
I never really assume I'm right. It is interesting to see what people have to say about it. I learn a lot from people.
I am actually proud of being very likely a descendent of King George III, and the family that owned the pub where most of England's deals were made. Nobody thanks a king for being a dupe for a corporate like the British Far East Trading Company and willing to be an *** against his own subjects and deny them their rights or permit British Merchant ship to cruelly haul slaves to America. I think I would have felt powerless in his place to stand up to those interests. We have to learn from own mistakes and the history we have. That is why I am in here trying to change the way people think about honchos and the deals that are going down today.
That one thin strand of Brit royalty that came to America in 1845 is shared by over 1 million other Americans today, many of them very conservative Americans.
But, still, one of the best friends I ever had was a hard-drinking, pot-smoking, drug experimenting Marxist who would have given me the shirt off his back if I needed it. For two years we carpooled to work. He sacrificed his job during a strike, during negotiations, to tell the plant boss personally that he would not train strike replacement workers. He was fired on the spot, and I knew him later when he worked as a janitor at the U of U Medical Center, where I worked for many years as a lab tech. I never got a Ph. D. but hey, I did the same work a lot of those guys did up there.
Slavery is probably an older, and more extensive human institution than prostitution. The Ute band in eastern Utah supplied slaves to the Spanish in Albuquerque for many years. The Utes had horses, and guns, and they raided the little camps of the Paiutes at will.
My friend was a Paiute. Well, still..... not that he was ever Shanghaied from the sagebrush.
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