Thanks for the pro-tip, heshtesh.
She's amazing. Her hair scares me, though. But then, so did Amy Winehouse's. I can live with it.
It's like Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse had a spit-baby.
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Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
Well reasoned choices. T. Roosevelt is one I have been mulling over.
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Thanks for the pro-tip, heshtesh.
She's amazing. Her hair scares me, though. But then, so did Amy Winehouse's. I can live with it.
It's like Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse had a spit-baby.
And everyone else who chose Buddy Holly-— I love you.
It’s all connected, isn’t it?
I put in each one as separate. And I’m not sure a different British monarch would have ruled as George did, as it was Lord North and others in Parliament that really goaded the Colonists.
In ways we can't fathom.
Ever read 'Spell My Name With An S', by Isaac Asimov?
Who was Rod Sterling?
Soviets probably would have put Hitler in charge of a Gulag.
1. JOHN F KENNEDY (Whose tragic murder gave the nation LBJ/Vietnam/Unnatural Dem Congressional Majorities in 1964 and the resulting catastrophic ‘Great Society’ and Third-World-open-door immigration bills), and
2. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Because he was a shoo-in for the 1920 GOP nomination and another term as president).
I could come up with more names, but these two were obvious. The reason for the order is that another term of TR would not have changed the nation’s future much for the better (in fact, it may have been significantly worse that the Harding/Coolidge presidency as Coolidge is one of our most underrated presidents).
JFK’s murder was a real tragedy for the nation. Weak as he had been in dealing with Cuba and the Russians, he was unlikely to have dragged us into Vietnam (he listened to Gen Douglas MacArthur’s repeated advice to stay the He** out of a land war in Asia in their several meetings and quoted it to his cabinet members often), plus he was the last national Democrat who truly understood, appreciated and approved of Capitalism.
Even his slow movement on the liberal icon of the ‘Civil Rights Movement’ is, I would argue, a positive thing in our review of history, as slower pace of social change is always - ALWAYS - less disruptive to a nation that a pell-mell rush forward ...
JFK was the one who originally pushed those Third-World Open Door Immigration Bills.
Thinking too much domestically in my last post, I missed the obvious, no-brainer #1 choice of all time:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination in 1914 set off WWI which destroyed the old order and begat communism, Naziizm, and the resulting spiritual death of the West. (and the deaths in WW1, WW2, and under communist tyranny, of some 200+ MILLION people, many of them the ‘best and brightest’ that their nations had to offer).
LOL I’ve been listening to Amy since you brought her up and it’s been good...
I sincerely doubt that any immigration reform authored by JFK would have ‘closed the door’ on Europe the way the Teddy %#@!&!! Kennedy bill did ... and it would have faced a far more conservative Congress than the one elected with the JFK ‘sympathy vote’ in 1964 ...
At least he lived long enough to sign my grandparents’ exit visas from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Jimi Hendrix
George S. Patton
Alexander the Great, Mozart, Antonin Scalia.
‘Stonewall Jackson’
Had he lived, it would have been Jackson commanding the leading elements at Gettysburg. And unlike his successor Ewell, the old artillery prof Jackson would never have rested without first capturing the Cemetery Ridge high ground. Lee was without his right arm.
Ernie Kovaks, that is a good one. Genius!
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