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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Alexander Hamilton, founding father or damned furriner?

This has gotten me to thinking, didn't I hear about one of the founding fathers and presidents being born in the West Indies?  Off to the google machine and there he is, Alexander Hamilton.  Surely the ink had dried on the constitution by the time he became president, so what's the story with that?  I shall leave it to this institution's constitutional scholar and internet investigator to come up with that.

I don't know if we've always had birth certificates, and back in the day churches and courthouses would burn down and there wasn't always a record.  It seems kind of foolish to expect a guy to show up with one.  As I recall Obama showed one, but then the birthers wanted a longer form, and then when that was presented they found something odd in the typeface that they claimed was proof that it was a forgery.  And then there was the birth notice in the Hawaiian newspaper.  Had the plot begun with some kind of skullduggery in 1961 that would lead to Barak Hussein Obama becoming president in 2008?

That's why they are called conspiracy theories, because they fly so clearly in the face of common sense.  Like the one about Trump being some kind of Hillary plot, which I believe you have espoused in our correspondence before, and that I have heard espoused by others from time to time.  Isn't it much more likely that Trump, with his towering ego, wants to be president because he is the smartest guy in the universe, than to believe that somehow he is being paid off (a rich guy like him) or brainwashed or blackmailed or voodooed or something to clear the way for Hillary?  What opposite group is pulling the strings behind Bernie?  And who paid off your man Rand to be such an inept campaigner and bring defeat to libertarianism which, if the American people could see clearly, they would adopt in a heartbeat because it is such a groovy system? 

While you are researching Alexander Hamilton, maybe you could come up with something about the age of 35.  Why not 30, why not 40?  Actually
I seem to recall, back when I was dodging the draft, that that was the age when the selective service lost interest in you, so maybe there is some precedence in old Anglo Saxon law or something.

Both Rubio and Cruz are of Cuban ancestry.  Rubio is second generation and can speak Spanish.  Cruz is third generation and knows maybe a few phrases like we learned in Mr Chadwick's class.  His daddy is a fire and brimstone preacher and that's where he gets his peculiar speaking style.

I think your example of me being the only white guy in my building is a bit extreme, but I suppose if they didn't call me Whitey everytime they ran into me and my neighbors didn't blast that awful rap music to all hours of the night, it would be okay.  Look at you, you have like less than one percent Hispanics in the town you don't even live in, and probably haven't laid eyes on a Hispanic since you were a pup, and you are upset about them moving anywhere in the USA because sometime you might tune in your tv and see them making spectacles of themselves and that would upset your stomach like somebody had snuck a habanero pepper into your bland gringo chili.

The context in which I was referring to the Hispanics is that the only reason they are perceived as a voting block to be reckoned with is because they vote in a block, and the only reason they vote in a block is because the republicans keep bad mouthing them.  If the republicans didn't do that many of them, inspired by republican family values would be solid republicans.

Didn't you know that Scalia was a hero to all you second amendment types?  Not that you particularly believe in the second amendment (I think you said you didn't) but anything that keeps Old Betsy in your sweaty hands is jake with you.

If you haven't tossed your tv out the window for spoiling your meal of taco shells and eggplant(?) perhaps you saw Dubya returning from obscurity to stump for his brother.  Apparently Dubya is popular in the deep south state of south Carolina, but has it ever occurred to the smart Bush brother that the sane part of the country, where most of the votes are, hates Dubya, and surely these clips would find their way into anti Bush ads should he emerge from the clown car still standing?

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