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Sheldon Adelson's Grandfather Was a Welsh Coal Miner???
Self | May 13, 2016 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 05/13/2016 12:39:27 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Okay, I'm a big Trump supporter and I am glad that Seldon Adelson ANNOUNCED in the Washington Post that he also supports Trump. However, one line from Adelson's announcement has me really perplexed:

Despite being the grandson of a Welsh coal miner and the son of a Boston cab driver, I’ve had the remarkable experience of being part of almost 50 different businesses in my more than 70-year business career.

A Welsh coal miner? Really? This is as perplexing as if Adelson had announced that he was the grandson of a Samurai warrior.


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To: PJ-Comix

My grandfather was a Welsh coal miner in western PA; it’s not that uncommon is it?


41 posted on 05/13/2016 3:46:43 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: PJ-Comix

Yes he did....I’m not sure it was Welsh, but I found the statement perplexing....he didn’t act like the son of any coal miner.


42 posted on 05/13/2016 4:20:23 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: dljordan

“Welsh.”

Ooops—— thinking of the grape jelly.

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43 posted on 05/13/2016 4:25:49 PM PDT by Mears (i)
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To: dfwgator

I remember when it happened. My then young mind was astonished at the sheer recklessness of having a massive accumulation of mining waste piled up near a school.


44 posted on 05/13/2016 4:41:38 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

I think of all of the disasters I have ever read about, it may very well be the saddest one of all.


45 posted on 05/13/2016 4:43:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mears

“His mother’s maiden name was Tonkin,which is Welch.”

Then why is the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam?


46 posted on 05/13/2016 4:52:34 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Mears

“Ooops—— thinking of the grape jelly.”

My Granny used to save the glasses that that the jelly came in to drink out of. It was a kind of a 1929 depression thing.


47 posted on 05/13/2016 6:05:40 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: PLMerite

Tonkin is a corruption of Dong Kinh, the name of Hanoi during the Le Dynasty.


48 posted on 05/13/2016 6:06:41 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (The Cheater and the Eater got their asses beat by the Tweeter!)
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To: dljordan

“My Granny used to save the glasses that that the jelly came in to drink out of. It was a kind of a 1929 depression thing.”


That went on for many years——I can still remember the glasses.

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49 posted on 05/13/2016 6:28:35 PM PDT by Mears (i)
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To: PJ-Comix
Stranger things have happened. For example, Lefty “Casino” Rosenthal was actually Swedish. Adopted at birth which accounts for his name.

And Andrew Breitbart, who was adopted and raised Jewish, was biologically Irish, which anyone could plainly see to look at him.

50 posted on 05/13/2016 7:54:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, the Jooos discovered coal under enuf pressure becomes a diamond.

They secretly manufacture them behind the Western Wall and hire minors to hide them in places like Africa.

Then they celebrate cornering the market with a few Debeers and some Welches, blood, and matzah.

Adelson has a secret Jew tunnel under all his casinos that leads right to Jerusalem.


51 posted on 05/13/2016 8:08:23 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: stellaluna

And more importantly, did they have Tonkin trucks to play with.


52 posted on 05/13/2016 8:12:55 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Dong Kinh donuts. Mmmmmmmm.


53 posted on 05/13/2016 10:34:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dfwgator
TV news clips at the time showed the locals desperately trying to dig out the village and its school. It was all to no avail, and it was painfully easy for me to imagine a disaster leveling my elementary school and setting the parents to digging through the debris for their children.

It bears mention that the true culprits in the Aberfan disaster were not the deadly heap of mining waste but those who built and permitted the menace, the socialized British coal industry and the British Coal Board, the government's plenary supervisor of the coal industry. For all the talk of socialism being an expression of worker power, in practice, socialism commonly leads to the neglect of worker safety as the government's interests as proprietor tend to outweigh safety concerns.

54 posted on 05/13/2016 11:23:27 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: PJ-Comix

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/05/14/sheldon-adelson-poised-give-donald-trump-donation-boost/

Sheldon talking about donating 100 mil to Trumps campaign.


55 posted on 05/14/2016 8:10:21 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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