Beaglesonians, North siders and Downtowners

I don't know about paying dues to a political party.  I have been hit up for money from time to time, but I have never heard of a party requiring a certain amount regularly, or what, you would be thrown out of the party?  Doesn't make any sense.

Speaking of name changes, how about the homeland of Beagles and myself.  For almost a hundred years, since that great hero Woodrow Wilson gave us our statehood, we had been Czechoslovakia, a bit of a mouthful but we Czech's like that, and z's, we love z's, I'm surprised we just have one.  Then those ungrateful Slovaks pulled out, and good riddance to this hillbillies as far as we were concerned, but that left us with Czech, or worse Czecho.  Of course I am speaking here of the English name, who knows what other languages did. 

I don't  know how it worked but somehow we came up with the Czech Republic.  Good enough I suppose, just as any American beer can call itself a lager or a pilsener, any country can call itself a republic.  I suppose if they ever decided to go back to having a king they would have to change their name.  The Republic of Czech wouldn't work because of that hanging Czech thing.  But in fact there is really nothing wrong with Czech, it's just that we had become used to following it with oslovokia.  Plenty of countries have one syllable names, France and Spain pop readily to mind.  Kind of odd, you have Spanish fly and French fries, to make an adjective for Spain you add an ish, but for France you change the vowel and slap a ch on the end, but if we want to make a adjective of Czech we don't do anything at all, we just call it Czech sausage.

Obviously a person from Arkansas is an Arkansan, but even google shrugs its shoulders at Mackinaw City, Mackinack sounds cool, but Mackimaniac sounds even better.  How about Cheboygan?  It sounds like the adjective is built right into the name.  The guy is a Cheboygan, but maybe folks would think he was from the picaresque city of Cheboyg.  Cheboyganian though sounds a bit too much.


 I haven't heard much of a groundswell following Avenatti's hat toss, but right now the last thing the dems want to talk about is 2020.  All hands are on deck and working together like a well-oiled machine towards making the blue wave a reality in November.  Only after that is done can they afford the squabble which comes from picking one presidential candidate.

And that nda turns out to be a real thing.  Indications at this early stage are that it was something that Trump insisted on, but his lawyers knew it wasn't  really legal, but wrote one up to please him, but when making nominees sign it, shrugged their shoulders saying well this doesn't really mean anything to soften the impact and eventually quietly dropped the whole thing.