Don't Tread on Me

Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England.

Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous.

Franklin sketched, carved, and published the first known political cartoon in an American newspaper. It was the image of a snake cut into eight sections. The sections represented the individual colonies and the curves of the snake suggested the coastline. New England was combined into one section as the head of the snake. South Carolina was at the tail. Beneath the snake were the ominous words "Join, or Die."

Substitute "illegal aliens" for "convicted felons", and "DC" for "England", for starters.

Unfortunately, historical stories similar to this have been purged from “Government Education” curriculum.

I am absolutely convinced that's what's past is prologue, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Those unaware of history are damned to re-experience it's screw ups....paraphrased.

We are now 230 years ago.

And in pre-revolutionary Russia.

And in Weimar Germany.

And Argentina in late 2000.

And pre-plague Europe.

Harmonic historic tidal wave forming.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

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Franklin was truly amazing. He was so beloved in France, that it was said that there was not not one mantle in Paris that did not have a miniature portrait of him. He was a rock star in the 18th century.

He was ALWAYS a doer...when Braddock and Colonel Washington needed wagons in 1754 during the French and Indian War, it was Franklin who procured them.

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