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4th of July Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Fredrick Douglas' 4th of July speech.

-  4th of July fight fiasco: how a Jack Dempsey title fight KO'd a small Montana town's finances. Cool bit of history mostly forgotten.

- Whatever happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.

- What do we owe our country

The US and Nazi Germany

The growing German economy in the thirties had been good to some of America's largest companies, especially the automakers. Ford had established its second largest plant outside of North American in Cologne. General Motors' wholly owned subsidiary, Opel AG, happened to be the largest automaker in Germany. Combined the US automakers constituted the majority of German automotive car production. This was especially critical as German automakers Daimler-Benz and Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had shifted from passenger car production to the service of rearming Germany. - Bhu Srinivasan Americana

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

The Metric System and the USA

Opposition to the metric system remains strong in the US. Mostly due to the "Go Fuck Yourself" attitude of most Americans.

Nobody comes right out and says it but many Americans oppose legalizing marijuana because they are afraid that it is just a gateway drug to the metric system. All that grams of this and grams of that. I also believe that Pokemon Go died out as a fad in the US mainly because they were trying to force good law abiding citizens to participate by metric measurements. Hey Japan do we need to remind you that the Imperial System of Measurement won the War in the Pacific in World War II? Darn tootin'.

And while we're at it - you can keep your Royale with Cheese! In America it's a Quarter Pounder with Cheese! USA! USA! USA!