Mark Strohecker
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Mark Strohecker
@StroheckerMF
Baseball, Music, History, Woodworking, Engineer, Philadelphia raised, Penn State and Oregon State Alum. “They don’t, they don't speak for us”
Havertown, PA Katılım Ekim 2017
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TEN by Pearl Jam is undoubtedly one of the greatest albums of the 90s
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I cannot believe that COSTCO, a family store where there are many children with their parents would allow this POS wear that shirt in the store. I will be contacting COSTCO CORPORATE later today. I know we, in the USA 🇺🇸, have freedom of speech but not hate speech or these kind of statements when in a public place. President Donald J. Trump should take action.
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Today's Poll Question at Smerconish.com: Before his death, Barney Frank said overreach by the left is alienating moderates and setting back Democrats. Do you agree?
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@NancyMace The White House, no wait….. Congress, no wait ….. Supreme Court….. shit I can’t decide. I guess they aren’t an “agency” but I trust them fair less than the agencies
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@bennettjadenn Why is it so important to you what Highway is named? History is not being erased when a highway is renamed.
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Growing up on a Civil War battlefield amid schools and roads named after Confederate generals radicalized me. The county later renamed them all, even Jefferson Davis HWY to Patriot HWY, erasing our history and my childhood. I’m still pissed off that the landmarks I knew are gone.
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@finebaum It can’t be ruined when it already ruined. Each team plays 2-3 competitive games, and few glorified HS teams. The teams should be ranked 1-48 at the end of the season and the following year the top 36 play each other and only each other and the top 24 in playoffs. Redo
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State Your Case: Would a 24-team College Football Playoff ruin the regular season?
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You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Jorge Posada. Does he get in?
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@smerconish Your poll question are so frustrating. It’s not either/or answer. Some character flaws can be ignored, others cannot. Alcohol Abuse vs Domestic Violence are not the same type of character flaw.
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When you vote, which matters more: character or policy? Michael Smerconish explores one of the oldest and most uncomfortable questions in American politics: should voters prioritize a candidate’s personal character or the policies they promise to deliver?
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@BasedMikeLee He also thought the constitution should be re-written every 19 years but you leave that out
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Thomas Jefferson was right
Pure democracy => tyranny
Constitutional republic => liberty
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THOMAS JEFFERSON: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
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@smerconish “Money is corrupting…” are you kidding me, it has always corrupted gov and the fact that you think it wasn’t corrupt 10-20 years ago when you could have actually done something about it says everything. You are no better than anyone else, blinders on until you are out of it
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John Kasich joins Michael Smerconish for a candid conversation about Trump’s GOP, Thomas Massie’s political fight, and whether moderates can still survive in American politics. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/YB7e0Z8aVUg
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@Jeff_Davis1808 Because you only provide a quotation, not the the actually letter. anyone that has read books on Grant knows his parents are abolitionists, had a deep hatred for his father, married a slave owners daughter & freed the one slave she was given by her father in-spite of being broke.
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I'm still surprised this quote only got 4 bookmarks. Grant, by the middle of 1863, will tell his sponsor, Washburne, that he was never an abolitionist but felt slavey couldn't remain once the war started. This is more evidence that the second part of his statement was false.
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On 5/16/1862 Grant was still advising his father-in-law how to hold onto his slaves. His letter to his wife shows that he still expected slavery to continue. Grant did not suggest that the Dents should free the family slaves. Why have you never seen this letter until now? Hmmm.
Jefferson Davis@Jeff_Davis1808
"Your father sent Casey Emma a bill of sale for the negroes he gave her. To avoid a possibility of any of them being sold he ought to do the same with all the balance. I would not give anything for you to have any of them as it is not probable we will ever live in a slave state again but would not like to see them sold under the hammer." -Grant to his wife on 5/16/1862 (NOTE: Grant's advice was to protect his father-in-law's slaves from being auctioned off to creditors as he was in debt--"sold under the hammer." Notably he doesn't want Julia to hold the balance because he doesn't expect to live in a slave state, which clearly assumes slavery will still exist at the end of the war.)
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Do you think Curt Schilling should be in the Hall of Fame?
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@ScottMGreer Maybe because It might be our last 50 year milestone and it’s depressing
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A smart friend's opinion on why Americans aren't hyped about America250:
"I think in general that the baseline appreciation for America and its history and continuity is so much lower now than in 1976 or 1926/1876. Not just for the obvious reason of 100 million foreigners and 150 million+ total non whites but lib whites have racism, genocide and oppression as the only defining feature of American history, and right wingers who would form the Bancroft and Philadelphia exposition class really don’t agree on even if they like America. Much less what they like if they do like America. 'What is there to celebrate/Why?' shouldn’t even be a question, especially on the right but it is.
In a way it reveals the total triumph of the left over US History. Even supposed Neo Nazis can’t break from general nihilism about all things America. To be fair, I have my internal Anglican pietyesque private world of building American history from the Corded Ware culture, but there’d be no real place for that in the public space. Even if I was a billionaire, if I tried to hold an exposition or restore Liberty USA theme park in Memphis Tennessee but with allusions to English and Medieval Irish history everywhere, I would pretty rightly called a freak by the general public and mocked a fair bit in the press and by rw malcontents who call it all Jewish."
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@ConfederateShop It was federal property, why would he let it go? Once shots were fired, eventhough no one was hurt, the government’s had to respond. Hell George Washington raised and army for the Whiskey Rebellion.
SC should have pressed it through the courts and SCOTUS before they tried war
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WHY couldn't Lincoln simply let Fort Sumter go?
First, you must look at who some of his party backers were--the Northern industrialists--those reliant on the protective tariff.
Had the South seceded they would have opened a free port, while also controlling the Mississippi river. Northern industry would have been devastated.
On April 4th, Virginia Unionist John B. Baldwin visits Lincoln. Baldwin suggests Lincoln order the withdrawal of troops from Ft. Sumter and Ft. Pickens, Lincoln responds that “his friends would not be pleased with such a step.” Then, the President added, “Well, what about the revenue? What would I do about the collection of duties?”
On April 12th, Virginia Unionist Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart visits Lincoln. Stuart suggests Lincoln “order the evacuation of the forts.” President Lincoln’s responded, “If I do that, what will become of my revenue? I might as well shut up housekeeping at once!”
On April 22nd, Baltimore YMCA delegation visits Lincoln. Fuller suggests recognize the independence of the Southern States.” Lincoln’s responded, “what is to become of the revenue? I shall have no Government—no resources?”
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1. Testimonial of Delegate Col. John Baldwin of the Virginia secession convention, April 4, 1861, private interview with Lincoln.
2. Robert Louis Dabney, Discussions (Secular), vol. 4, pg. 97
3. Baltimore Sun, 23 April 1861, pg. 2, col. 1
ConfederateShop@ConfederateShop
“The South started it.” Did they? Hallam’s Constitutional History states: “The aggressor in a war is not the first to use force but the one who renders force necessary. It was the North who were the aggressors. When the Southern states held legal referendums to secede, they began receiving back their properties, many which were leased to the Federal government for the protection of those places. Fort Sumter was an exception, and although the federal government owned it, once South Carolina seceded, the federal government had no legitimate need for it. We know from cited statements that Lincoln refused to let go of this location for economic reasons. When South Carolina seceded, U.S. Major Anderson occupied Fort Moultrie, across the water from Fort Sumter. On the night of Christmas, Anderson spiked his guns and moved to the better defensive position of Fort Sumter. Later, tensions rose even further when Lincoln reinforced the Fort with The Star of the West, which was clearly seen by South Carolina as an act of aggression. William Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State, remarked: “The attempt to reinforce Sumter will provoke war. The very preparation of such an expedition will precipitate war. I would instruct Anderson to return from Sumter.”
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@SGTWipper1Each I surprised that anyone classifies Apocalypse Now as military movie
A bridge too far but I get that there may be too many Brits in it to be a US military movie
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Best US Military Movies ranked:
1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
4. Patton (1970)
5. Platoon (1986)
6. Black Hawk Down (2001)
7. The Thin Red Line (1998)
8. Glory (1989)
9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
10. American Sniper (2014)
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@uscfan981 Andy Reid. No one has done less with more than Andy has. Two hall of fame QB's, multiple elite defenses, and only won Superbowls once he got a generational QB and without that QB he only made a single super bowl lost and routinely choked in the playoffs.
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@uscfan981 Andy Reid, only won because Mahomes could overcome him.
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@historyrock_ It felt like they are trying to hard to be like LZ and I couldn’t get into it. It’s one thing to be influenced by versus trying to emulate.
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