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| richfed |
Posted - October 25 2014 : 1:03:58 PM
I know I don't post all that much around here these days, but if you want to keep up with my very exciting life [NOT] I have a blog up via Word Press. I welcome anyone to come & visit. A new posting is usually there at noon on Thursdays, plus some assorted posts may appear on special days. Richard's Meanderings
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| richfed |
Posted - April 05 2021 : 2:40:32 PM
Yeah, she was a real killer! |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - April 04 2021 : 3:10:38 PM
I saw that "Black Widow" post. I had forgotten all about that episode. Man, you really dodged a bullet that time! |
| Monadnock Hiker |
Posted - April 03 2021 : 3:41:00 PM
Said it before, but it bears repeating ... The music, Rush & The Fall of the Republic ... well done, & thanks. |
| richfed |
Posted - April 03 2021 : 2:10:16 PM
Sort of forgot that I had started this thread. Well, I am so far behind now, I'll just leave it with a link to the whole shebang.
Richard's Meanderings ... The long, strange trip it has been … random thoughts, political statements & life misadventures!
Enjoy, there's something for everyone, especially if you're me!  |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - July 17 2015 : 08:20:01 AM
"For reasons not fully known, they were late." The reason that they were late was that the Indians would not march with them. They had heard the inflated count of the British troupes and were waiting on another group, Potawatomi I think, before making a decision. Beaujeu spent the preceding day trying to convince them to march and attended their war council the night before. But the next morning they would not move. So after about two hours of waiting Beaujeu formed up the French and marched them to the edge of the woods. Then he went to the Indians and said that with of without them the French would march. And would they allow their French fathers to march alone? This was apparently enough to get the natives to move and the whole unit moved at some speed in an attempt to get to the river before the British could cross. Of course they didn't make it. The French milice broke and ran. The few regulars did stand but didn't make much of an impression. What ensued was the greatest victory ever of Native forces over a European opponent. In most other battles which were Native victories, the Natives outnumbered the Europeans. In THIS battle the reverse was true and that makes it unique. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - July 16 2015 : 09:18:29 AM
Great post Rich - a truly fascinating time in our history. Like most conflicts, a few small changes could easily have changed major outcomes. Washington seems to have lead a rather "charmed life" early in his career.
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It was a shocking debacle. A superior force was nearly annihilated by an enemy barely half its size. The repercussions, though temporary, were tremendous. The French maintained exclusive control of the forks of the Ohio and the all important Ohio Valley. They had demonstrated their might by crushing a more numerous foe, convincing the united tribes of whom to call Father. Fort Duquesne stood proudly still.
One more thing. Had the fort fallen in 1755, it is very conceivable that Fort Niagara would have followed suit and the French, abandoned early on by their Indian allies, rolled up back into Canada. Very possibly, the siege at Fort William Henry might never have happened. There very well may never have been a The Last of the Mohicans tale to tell! |
| richfed |
Posted - July 11 2015 : 10:04:34 AM
My Latest: Braddock's Defeat |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - June 30 2015 : 6:29:39 PM
Yeah - everyone has some "private memories" that are/were a special time & place. |
| richfed |
Posted - June 26 2015 : 09:47:28 AM
My Latest: A Moment in Time At Crow Agency ... |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - June 23 2015 : 1:55:37 PM
Some really great memories I'm sure Rich - it is a great movie, and I'm more of a history buff than a movie buff. Having both Russell Means & Wes Studi there had to "enhance things" even further, two actors, that IMHO "made the movie" what it turned out to be. |
| richfed |
Posted - June 20 2015 : 11:07:57 AM
My Latest: Gatherings For the Ages! |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - June 09 2015 : 4:43:38 PM
Good story Rich ... Got another one from "back in Maine".- A guy I knew owned a small machine shop, had about 3-4 part-time employees. One day one of the guys got a decent cut on his hand - went to the local ER and had a few stitches. - The shop owner paid for the ER visit & told the guy to take a day or two off - with pay. - End of story - right??? ... Next thing the shop owner gets is a notice he's being sued for $10,000.00 - by "guess who?" ... Stitches himself ... Sooo, the shop owner contacted his lawyer, told him the story - the lawyer told him to pay up or "try and negotiate a settlement" - but don't go to court. - The reason being - the shop owner is going to been seen a someone "with a buck" - and there will be at least one or two characters on the jury wearing T-shirts with "Shit Happens" printed on them - and YOUR MONEY is in their hands. - I think they settled for around $8000.00. |
| richfed |
Posted - June 06 2015 : 11:57:15 AM
My Latest: Who Done It? |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - May 17 2015 : 02:03:18 AM
Well - as long as things worked out in the "long run" and you're not still hopping around, then it was a good ending. - Talking about lawnmowers & feet, a tough combo apparently - last year where I work part-time we had a rather bad accident. - The contract outfit that cuts the grass had one guy on one of those "stand/ride" along-behind machines. He was in a driveway (at the time) that has "speed bumps" - one REALLY bad combo for that type of machine. - In any case he decided to "back-up" over a speed bump - somehow things got away from him. - He went ass-over-tea kettle and his left foot ended up going into the spinning blade. It took all his toes off about 2"-3" above the "toe line", (the lower part of his foot) & he nearly bled to death ... Thankfully a number of people working their, including the guards, have First Aid training & got things under control in time ... Methinks he's still hopping around though ... ;) |
| richfed |
Posted - May 13 2015 : 12:22:51 PM
The latest: A Dog, a Mower, and a Big Toe! |
| richfed |
Posted - February 28 2015 : 2:17:52 PM
My Latest: A Very Special Night |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - February 19 2015 : 11:16:42 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/02/18/lawsuit-fire-chief-terminated-because-christian-faith/?intcmp=latestnews
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“Every American should be concerned about a government that thinks it can fire you because of what you believe,” ADF senior counsel Kevin Theriot said in a prepared statement.
One of the leaders in the campaign to fire Cochran was city Councilman Alex Wan.
“I respect each individual’s rights to have their own thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, but when you’re a city employee and those thoughts, beliefs and opinions are different from the city’s, you have to check them at the door,” Wan told the Atlanta Journal Constitution last November. |
| richfed |
Posted - February 15 2015 : 07:23:32 AM
My latest: The First Amendment
Peruse --- lots of stuff on various topics. Hope you enjoy! |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - January 30 2015 : 10:58:23 AM
Spot on Rich - I tried to watch it, a couple of times in fact, about 10-15 minutes was all I could take. ... It was more like a novel made into a miniseries than an attempt at portraying things as they actually happened. There were a couple of good things in it though - the set/scenery etc. I thought was pretty good & they didn't portray everyone as being in their mid-60's to mid-70's.
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"this show was produced, most definitely, with the young pop-culture audience in mind. There is so much that is historically inaccurate in this mini-series – and I’m not one to fret over a misplaced uniform button – that even the History Channel asks the viewer to check their web-site to learn what really happened. It was, in some ways, a fantasy. Historical fiction for sure." |
| richfed |
Posted - January 28 2015 : 01:52:25 AM
No, I just wiped my hands on my shirt .... no, kidding!! 
Latest Post: ... Sons of Liberty |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - January 16 2015 : 3:54:45 PM
There was a place to wash up - right??? ... |
| richfed |
Posted - January 15 2015 : 1:41:28 PM
The latest: The Booger Ball |
| Dark Woods |
Posted - December 17 2014 : 10:17:54 PM
I have been off this site for a while. I am glad that it is still functioning.
Excellent points.
Government structural separations don't work well with cabals (political parties) over-ruling anything else. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - December 12 2014 : 3:48:12 PM
Letter to William B. Giles, 1825:
I see with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power.
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Letter to John Cartwright, June 5, 1824:
Our Revolution presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased. Yet we did not avail ourselves of all the advantages of our position… [What we really needed was] to break up all cabals.
“Cabals,” FYI, equates to “political parties.” (George Washington and John Adams also bewailed them.)
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Not to mention - IMO "term limits" for Congress are decades over-due ...
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| richfed |
Posted - December 08 2014 : 1:46:43 PM
The latest: What is going on? |
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