Almost as genuine as a north korean mourner at kim jong il's funeral.
Posted on 06/19/2015 12:36:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Martha Washington on the 1891 one-dollar bill.
I shared my thoughts on the church murders in Charleston and the Pope's encyclical on climate change on this afternoon's Hugh Hewitt show. We'll print the transcript here tomorrow morning.
~The decision to boot Alexander Hamilton off the ten-dollar bill - or at any rate reduce him to one-half of a double-act (like the short-lived Dan Rather and Connie Chung) - is one of those small acts of historical vandalism I absolutely loathe. The powers that be have decided it's time (once more - see right) for "a woman" on a US banknote. So Hamilton's not even being bounced for some outstanding individual but just for some dreary identity-group quota. Secretary Lew said, "Find me a woman, any woman" - Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal... And that means one of the dead white males has to go. Not Washington or Lincoln - people have still, just about, heard of them. But Hamilton? I mean, dude, like, he wasn't even president ...er, was he?
No, but he can stake a greater claim to being on there than most of the guys who were: Jackson, Wilson, they're just the passing parade - but Hamilton earned his place.
Yeah, but who knows any of that stuff these days? I took a modest pleasure when my middle kid, who'd memorized the presidents in order, demanded to know who the non-prez on the ten was and I was able to answer. It won't be the same with Bella Abzug.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Steyn, you magnificent bastard!
Who Is On Old Ten Dollar Bills?
http://www.antiquemoney.com/who-is-on-old-ten-dollar-bills/
> Alexander Hamilton has been on the United States ten dollar bill since 1928. [others were] Abraham Lincoln... Andrew Jackson... Benjamin Franklin... Daniel Webster... Michael Hillegas... Meriwether Lewis & William Clark... Philip Sheridan... Robert Morris... Salmon P Chase... Thomas Hendricks... William McKinley
Alexander Hamilton was on the $2 bill before it became Thomas Jefferson’s.
Steyn ping.
[The Moronization of the Republic]
An apt description of the last 7 years.
The U.S. is now one big Jerry Springer show. It’s started with Clinton, and has been in warp speed with Obama.
Yes, and I think those shows even contribute to it, in some degree.
There has been a lot of garbage on television for the past 20+ years.
Obama is on the soon to be released $3 bill.
If the idiots in government can change the ten dollar bill on their own without public approval, what’s to stop them from changing the other denominations? HOW IN THE H... DO THESE MORONS GET TO DO THIS!!!!? Sorry for the early morning screaming, but this is just another little example of a tyrannized government.
Garbage? Garbage? If you think TV has a lot of garbage, get on the "social media" and wear your hip waders.
The filth will drown you {and our kids and grandkids are swimming in this swamp}.
Almost as genuine as a north korean mourner at kim jong il's funeral.
—— Harriet Tubman-——
Harriet was a criminal, a felon
Moronization is not a word. Moron.
“Moronization”
It’s a thought that Steyn has created a word for. I think we will see this word again and again.
There are a lot of "ization" words in use that aren't words.
A woman on a $10 bill? Cheapskates! How about the $1,000 bill, which will most likely become necessary in the future. Zimbabwe here we come.
Yep...so's obama. (didn't need to be said of course but I felt compelled to jump in.)
Might as well be Marge Simpson.
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