I'm a little shocked that she did.

But we do need to know our history and our history says that only the landless came here, that the magistrates and many colonial governors were just passing through on their way to their inheritances back home. The gentry had too good a deal to risk everything in a new world. It was the underclass who took the risk.

she appeared impaired so many times on TV that Morning Joe stopped having her on. She simply couldn't cope that early. It was actually sad...

But by next week she'll be taking like a corporate fascist Republican again.

even as she recounts the challenges they faced. I'm afraid she'd never make a democrat. This limited insight evidently results from the situation of others hitting a lot closer to home than usual.

To let you know that it wasn't her thought.

I think that so far only Bush and Rubio took Trump to task about the "Mexicans" remark and one can "explain" that for them it is personal. It is. And, I suppose, the other non-white non-men candidates: Carson, Fiorina, Jindal, Cruz - who does support Trump - may have a similar problem.

But what about the white men: Huckabee, Santorum, Perry, Kasich, Paul, Christie, Pataki, Graham, Walker?

(I think that I've got all of them).

??

(Knopf, 1986; reprint Vintage Reprints, 1988)

This is a helluva good book about the peopling of America during the Colonial period, which is admittedly not the time period in question, but I love to push this book whenever I can. You can learn a lot about indentured servitude from this book. First half rigorous social history, with a chart or graph about every page; second half anecdotal, drawing from primary sources to highlight different aspects. Bailyn is still one of the best-regarded historians in the business, although he's slowed down a little since being born in 1922. Won the Pulitzer for this book (his second Pulitzer). No, I didn't study with him, I couldn't afford Harvard.

-- Mal

I'll check it out.

He can see what's going on everyday....

Thanks for posting.

something said by her.

occasion TO SLUR OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS. to OUT-TRUMP TRUMP.

"Irishmen made up a large percentage of the officers of early police forces in many American cities. Thus, this theory suggests that the concentration of Irish in the police forces led to the term "paddy wagon" being used to describe the vehicles driven by police."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_van
(Granted, there is listed "an alternative theory," but that is poppycock.)

"The term paddy wagon (sometimes one word—paddywagon) usually denotes a large police vehicle used to transport multiple arrestees, and it sometimes refers to any large police vehicle regardless of its use.1 The term is of American origin, but its exact derivation is unknown.2

One theory about paddy wagon‘s origins is that the term came about due to the large numbers of Irish Americans on the police forces of some American cities.3"
http://grammarist.com/usage/paddy-wagon/

his thumb, with a knick knack paddy whack give your dog a bone..."

They hated the Gaelic Irish because they were pagans.Then they were pretty good fighters. They were driven out of Ireland by the Catholics and went on to become the West Virginia Blue Ridge mountain folk . They fought by defending their territory extremely well in the Revolution. They all became Episcopalians.

The German ancestor mailed his passport over to his brother, so his brother could dodge the draft and illegally enter the country.

I'll give Peggy credit for this.

you arrogant twit.

... not quite understanding that "refuse" is not synonymous with "garbage."

-- Mal

one that an elitist like her probably can not imagine

establishment wants to get rid of Trump in any
way they can. I wonder if any of their plans
will work. They hate the idea of him being in
the debates.

I love it though! Even better than 1212.

The upper crusties are who she identifies with.

people vote against their own interests, because they identify with the top 1%, even though they are not richie rich or speech writers that identify with richie rich?

...can be sober once a decade or so.

Immigrants have often been treated poorly in the USA. Bigots we have with us always, it seems.

Trump is an abject moron. That is a fact.

In it, a woman (with a felony conviction) makes the case for her inclusion in a flight to another world by pointing out that our country was settled by more malcontents and criminals than those yearning for freedom.
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