making a deal

I think wiki said there are like five variations on the Canadian goose.  I don't think we can call them species because they surely can breed with each other.  I'm rather fond of them, moving across the greensward they are reminiscent of the late lamented buffalo.  I like their take no shit attitude, but they will get out of the way of the larger great apes, but with a truculent air and a dirty look.  And even though they are as common as pigeons and seagulls in the city, they have all the romance of the northwoods when they take to flight.  They make you want to grab for a Hamm's beer.

I still don't see what Missouri (which was also not a state at the time) had to do with Illinois claiming Chicago, but it was indeed the portage, that little swamp of big muddy lake between the Chicago and Des Plaines, between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico that they wanted.
 

I've heard that the beer and wine of olden days was considerably weaker than what we drink today, and it was drunk mainly to slake thirst without getting the thirster infected with something or getting loaded.  Whiskey doesn't have all that much water, despite phrases like wetting one's whistle, nobody drank whiskey because they were thirsty.

The Lewis and Clarke expedition carried 120 gallons of whiskey.  Imagine the Apollo mission carrying several cases of beer.  Maybe Old Milwaukee to cut costs.

Each state got two senators as a way to get the small states to feel they weren't losing that much independence throwing their lot in with that motley crew.  That's why they did that three fifths thing that is so reviled today, just to get a deal done.
 

Ah, but we are just reciting what we read in our history books to each other.  I guess when Trump falls silent we have nothing to say,

Oh, speaking of Trump, have you caught onto his latest caper where he used to phone into the press under an alias to sing his own praises?  He denies it of course, but when they replay it's clearly him.  His Trumpettes say, oh that doesn't sound anything like him, but to everybody else in the room it sounds exactly like him.

I haven't yet heard the newspapers thump outside my door so I don't know what the news is.  Well the radio has been on all this time, but I only listen with half an ear and a lot of it is local.  My Yahoo news is all Trump and Mideast bombing.  There is some Bernie news, i don't know why, he is going to lose and frankly he is rather a Johnny one-note.


Does it even make any sense to rail against the big money guys who run everything (sort of like your Them, only less mysterious)?  When have the rich and powerful ever been overthrown?  You know traditionally the rich and powerful have thrown in their lot with the reps, but do they dare trust Trump?  It seems like some of them are coming around, but there is also some talk of some of them going with the big girl.  They may not get such a good deal with her, but at least they know she will keep her part of the deal, whereas Trump, every day is a new deal.