Thursday, August 22, 2019

Today -100: August 22, 1919: Well, everyone needs a hobby


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The US Cavalry troops in Mexico kill four bandits. The only casualty on the US side is a cactus-related injury. Carranza asks the US to remove its troops from his country, please and gracias.

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Sen. Albert Fall asked whether the US could just skip the whole peace treaty thing and go straight to declaring that a state of peace exists. 

A black man is lynched in Louisburg, North Carolina.


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  1. I remember watching C-Span back in the 80s when a Contra was busy explaining to the host how terrible the Sandinistas were. How in fact they ground up glass and put it in children's milk. Children's Milk Mandrake. I can't remember why they would have done this. The more things change etc. etc. etc.

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  2. Or the Iraqis after they invaded Kuwait removing babies from ventilators, according to what turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador.

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  3. Reading this in 2024..now the enemy beheads babies and burns them in ovens.

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