Wow! I am so amazed at the ignorance and illiteracy of some of our American citizens. Especially those who claim to be college students. They are really showing their unenlightened status by their silly and stupid protests in certain cities tonight.
We have the world’s most successful methodology of choosing President leaders every four years without battles, armed aggression, and uprisings. But some want to have uprisings anyways. How stupid can you get?
The U.S. Constitution is an amazing document. It is an agreement between the States, yes, the States. Not the individuals. The Founding Fathers came up with a wise method for such transitions of power. They had to please the large States as well as the small States in their method. That’s one reason we are not a true democracy. We are a Republic—if you can keep it, as Benjamin Franklin declared.
An anonymous descendent of Jefferson’s recently made a gift to Monticello of Jefferson’s obelisk clock. Jefferson had a carved shelf inside of his alcove bed. He designed an obelisk clock which was engineered and built by Parisian clockmaker, Louis Chantrot. It’s quite a work of art in itself. When Tom could see the time on the clock as it sat on this shelf in the morning sunlight, that’s when he would arise and start the day.
Poor Richard’s Almanac was written and printed by Benjamin Franklin, Printer, and it was very popular. We still use some of his hokey sayings today. For example: “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead>”
Looking at all the different fish, I was reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s experiment with a faddish vegetarian diet. He had given up eating meat for a season. On a trip across a harbor on a boat, the wind stopped and the boat became becalmed. It couldn’t reach the shore. So the crew made the most of their time by fishing off the bow.
Abraham Lincoln was one for corny jokes. Or of just plain joking about some corny or crazy situations. For example, one day two young men were having a quarrel. It looked to everyone that it may eventually become serious.
Benjamin Franklin had seen so much trouble and even despair caused by drinking that he advised against it. His childhood friend borrowed some money from Ben, then disappeared to Barbados. Ben never saw him again.
James Monroe, while not considered one of the Founding Fathers directly, did serve with and was influenced by them. Monroe was in the camp with George Washington in December, 1776. You recall that was the month that Washington directed the assault across the Delaware River in a snowstorm to attack the British and their hired warriors, the Hessians. The Hessian were considered the most mighty and brutal of all the fighting armies at the time.