Waste Deep in the Big Muddy.

George Washington:   “[I}t is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.”

Lyndon Johnson:  "But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

Donald Trump: "Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that we're taking our military cooperation to even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally."

What was that, MAGA, about forever wars? 

And why on earth would we want to designate a monarchy that will have a regime changing revolution within the next fifteen years as an formal "ally".

Friend of convenience, that's in the ICU, yes. Ally?

George Washington Onion item. Onions Brazilian Style.

This looks really good to me, even though the host wasn't impressed.

Cookin' with Congress

George Washington‘s favorite food? Onions. And onions Brazilian style was way up there.  -

Eating Like Martha Washington for an Entire Day

Wednesday, September 24, 1924. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum arrived in South Dakota

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum arrived in South Dakota at the invitation of historian Doane Robinson to carry out plans to carve an epic statue of four Presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in the state's Black Hills.

Last edition:

Thursday, September 18, 1924. Leaving the Dominican Republic.

Labels: 1910s, 1916, 1920s, 1924, Dominican Republic, United States, United States Marine Corps

Monday, September 5, 1774. The first Continental Congress Convenes.

President Peyton Randolph.

The first Continental Congress convened at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia.  Twelve of the Fourteen (not thirteen) colonies sent delegates. Georgia, which was fearful of war with native tribes, did not participate as it hoped for British assistance in the impending war with those earlier denizens.  Quebec had no interest in participating.

Peyton Randolph of Virginia was named President of the First Continental Congress. 

Randolph. . . not Washington.  

Randolph, not Washington, was the first President of the United States by some measures (and Washington is not the first President under any properly considered measure).  He was an American born lawyer who had studied law at the Middle Temple at the Inns of Court in London, becoming a member of the bar in 1743, showing just how unlike the current populist "don't tread on me" crowd these men were.

He died of some sort of seizure in 1775 while dining with Thomas Jefferson.  He was 54 years of age.

Signatory page of the three-page Continental Association signed by 53 of the 56 delegates

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Sunday, September 4, 1774. Explorers.

Labels: 1770s, 1774, Alexander Hamilton, Canada, Exploration, Hudson's Bay Company, James Cook, New Caledonia, Personalities, Saskatchewan, The Frontier West, The written word

Blog Mirror: This Day in History: Aitken's Bible

 

This Day in History: Aitken's Bible

And also, given a comment, the myth that "most" of the founders were Deists:

The Myth of the Founders' Deism (Chapter One of Did America Have a Christian Founding?