Posted on 10/20/2009 5:14:44 PM PDT by The Comedian
American unity
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.
INDEED.
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Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.The Seedling Fund is a concept based on a gift made by Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin died in 1791, he left $5,000 to the citizens of Boston. Franklin's will specified that the money should be left to compound for 100 years. In 1891, part of the assets founded the Franklin Institute. The remainder of the assets was left to compound for another 100 years. In 1991, the fund terminated, leaving a gift of almost $5 million for the purposes stipulated in Franklin's will. [*]Nice story, but apparently the Franklin Institute was founded by someone else. |
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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.
I love his epitaph as well. Never lost his sense of humor. :’)
Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down
Some days it seems it's not worth it
The fight in me is all gone
And I'm not trying to be perfect
But just get one damn thing done
Before I lose control
I pick myself from the floor
Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down
Never come a day that I'll solve you
Consequently I could never leave you
In the shadow of those looming battleships
I love our canoe
I'm ready for the falls
And those still waters we will find are true
Oh there's a clock in my head
And despite what it says
Another one on the wall
They don't agree at all
And there's a schism in me
And despite what you see
You might see me as calm
But I go out like a bomb
Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down
Whoa
Oh in the comfort of strangers
You don't see the danger
Of just letting it flow
This I know
Before you're pointed at me
There is a possibility
You better turn that thing around
The fits come easily
So don't you tread on me
Cause I will knock you down
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