Happy Birthday, Mr. President, Happy Birthday to You!

This country has had 40 Presidents since it’s beginning. The remarkable thing is that all of them have been changed peacefully in spite of conflicts both within and without. Do you have a favorite? Many progressives would cite Teddy Roosevelt or Bill Clinton. Solid true red conservatives are honor bound to say that Reagan was […]

A victory… even if it’s only partial

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html McPherson Square is finally being reclaimed by the Park Service. I will only be completely happy when I see the entire square scrubbed of these vermin. http://wtop.com/?nid=109&sid=2734685 But in my mind, it is still only a partial victory since the powers that be have not taken the appropriate stand. From Reuters: “”This is not […]

National Freedom Day

I was looking at my desk calendar and noticed that today (February 1) is National Freedom Day. I have never really paid much attention to anything in February other than President’s Day, Valentines Day, and Groundhog day. President’s day of course is a made up holiday that neither falls on Washington or Lincoln’s actual birthday […]

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The history of the State of the Union is a pretty interesting one for most people who study such things. The requirement for the President to prepare and deliver his views of the country are contained in the Constitution, “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of…

Gold! There’s Gold out there!

January 24 1848 is a day that will live forever as one that changed American history. John Sutter had hired a millwright named James Marshall to construct a sawmill along the south fork of the American River. The water was not flowing in the right vicinity so they cut a fresh millrace. The timber from […]

Clear the Square… NOW!!!

I’m not sure if its vanity or just a curiosity, but I have always been interested in things named McPherson. My family name was actually spelled that way when they first emigrated to the US in 1845 at the beginning of the potato famine. The family came from northern Ireland on a ship called the […]

State of the Union

The history of the State of the Union is a pretty interesting one for most people who study such things. The requirement for the President to prepare and deliver his views of the country are contained in the Constitution, “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the […]

Earthgrazers

I learned a new term while researching today’s post. Earthgrazer. You may have to add it to your computer’s onboard dictionary as I did in order to avoid the dreaded red line of spelling misfortune. It is another word for a Shooting Star. I was originally going to use the word Shooting Star in the […]

Sock Monkey says “Time to Get Back to Work”

Many people trudged back to work today despite the fact that it was a Federal and State Holiday (wouldn’t want to miss out on the prepaid holiday resulting from the “Sunday Rule”.) I am sure that must have been started back when the early pioneers first started this country. “Hey Olaf, why are you not […]

What will you tell your grandchildren?

All of us will leave a legacy when we pass to the next world. Some will be lengthy and some will be rather modest. I am at the age where I read the obituaries in the local paper. Its kind of ghoulish in a way since I am not from here and really don’t know […]