The Fourth of July was enlivened by the resignation of Sarah Palin, who will now be free to travel and speak throughout the US, no longer held captive by the paradoxically large land mass and small population State of Alaska.
Palin's team lost to a man whose executive experience was nil, whose citizenship was debatable, and whose ideology was extreme Left. He even referred to "my Muslim faith" in an interview. Palin has inspired virulent hatred against every member of her family and constant attacks on her ability to govern, often by journalists who should have been glad she went back to Alaska.
Yesterday we finally got some relief from the Michael Jackson hagiographies. Palin owned all the news coverage by resigning when the senior journalists were partying at Martha's Vinyard and other luxury venues.
Our situation in America reminds me of Imperial Russia, when people overthrew the government of the Tsar because they suspected he was a agent of the Germans. This happened during WWI.
Queen Victoria is to blame. She married her first cousin and had a bunch of children who married into the royal families of Europe and afflicted some of them with hemophilia, a failure of the blood to clot properly. Her granddaughter married the future Tsar of Russia, and the heir presumptive, the only male child, had hemophilia.
There are two theories about the influence of Rasputin, the mad monk. One is that he stopped the Tsar's family from giving the British miracle drug, Aspirin, to their son. Aspirin would have made the disease far worse, so the boy got better. The other theory attributes special powers to Rasputin, who was famous for bewitching women.
Rasputin drank heavily and spouted a lot of information in taverns. Apparently German agents used his rants to inform their leaders. Increasingly, Russia suspected the Tsar. They also thought the Tsar's wife was having an affair with Rasputin.
Meanwhile, a paid German agent, Lenin, was shipped by the Germans into Russia with a pile of gold. The goal was to replace the Tsar with their agent and take Russia out of WWI. That plan worked too well, and Lenin became the new Tsar. His men murdered the Tsar's entire family, who were defenseless.
How many millions of Russians died from Lenin and Stalin? The truth is being acknowledged now. Mao murdered even more of his own people, but we seldom hear of the deliberate Chinese slaughter. Some estimate that 40 to 100 million Chinese were killed by Mao, to maintain his power.
The US government now controls the financial system and General Motors, itching to dominate medical care (14% of the GNP). The House of Representatives passed a bill, with GOP help, which will multiply all energy costs and reduce America to the economic status of Bosnia. I wonder when Americans will remember why we have an Independence Day. We turned away from the bad leadership of Bush-McCain to be held in bondage by the Anointed (by Oprah) One.
Anonymous has left another ignorant comment on your post "The Fourth of July":
Spoken like a true right-wing fanatic.
Proof please, of Lenin being an agent of the Kaiser?
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GJ - Many history buffs have read To the Finland Station, about Lenin being smuggled into Russian by the Germans. Here is a summary from World Net Daily. Imperial Germany wanted to close down their second front. Lenin signed the treaty soon after taking power.
This well known episode should remind readers that complicated enterprises are state-sponsored, requiring large sums of money and special expertise.
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Kenneth J. Schmidt has left a new comment on your post "The Fourth of July":
The fact that the Germans put Lenin on a sealed train back to Russia to help destabilize the Kerensky Regime is something that every high schooler should know. No historians deny it as a fact of history.
