“Being elected” is perfectly reasonable shorthand for being the head of the party winning the largest number of seats, and being chosen to lead a coalition government, in a parliamentary system.
In “Stonewall at 40,” Frank Rich celebratesin the NYT the June 28, 1969 Greenwich Village drag bar riot that symbolically launched the gay liberation era, and on Monday, President Obama will commemorate Stonewall with an East Room reception for gay leaders.
Rich never mentions, and I suspect that Obama won’t either, that the catalyst for the riot was Judy Garland’s funeral the previous day, and that most of the rioters were cross-dressers.
True, but again, we’re not quite dealing with a parliamentary system here. Among other things, in a parliamentary system one generally is elected to a seat in the parliament first.
Yeah, black ops generate lots of paperwork that survives twenty-five years later.
Unless one is John Tory ;). (Yes, I know he was party leader, not Parliament leader, but same principle. Plus, any chance to make fun of that jackass is worth it.)
Not really a conveniently forgotten fact but something amazing I just read. President John Tyler, who was born during George Washington’s first year as President, has two living grandchildren.
athelas writes:
> Rich never mentions, and I suspect that Obama won’t either, that the catalyst
> for the riot was Judy Garland’s funeral the previous day, and that most of the
> rioters were cross-dressers.
It appears that the Stonewall riots had nothing to do with Judy Garland’s funeral. See footnote 5:
Neville Chamberlain’s actual actions before the start of WWII (vs the American history version “If it hadn’t been for Chamberlain and his weak policy of appeasement the war never would have happened”. Conveniently forgetting that Chamberlain declared war with Germany on 3 September 1939 so as to not have to answer the question of just what the fuck we were waiting for.).
CMC fnord!
The note says the rumor was started by a “heterosexual publication”. So was it Playboy or Penthouse?
After doing a lot of searching, I find that the story that the Stonewall riots had anything to do with Judy Garland’s death apparently originated in the column “Last Call” in The Village Voice. It was written by Walter Troy Spencer, appeared on July 10, 1969, and was titled “Too Much, My Dear.” It’s on page 36 of the newspaper.
Wow!
Now THERE’S an oxymoron! “Democratically-elected Marxist” state? Would you have voted for Gus Hall or Earl Browder?
I do not consider the dictatorship of the proletariat to be a democracy. And I believe Lenin didn’t either.
They accepted runaways from Patriots, not Loyalists. From Lord Dunmore’s proclamation:
I’m talking more about popular history than history taught in school. Living through the Bicentennial as a kid, with all the concomitant attention to the Revolution in the popular media, I would have thought that the entire war was fought from New England to the Mid Atlantic states (with a quick dip to Yorktown to wrap things up). I think in the popular mind, the war is associated mostly with Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and most people have no clue about the fighting in the South, or that victory was won there.
Mel Gibson’s The Patriot was really the first bit of popular history to take note of the Southern Campaign and its pivotal part in the Revolution.
Montpelier is on the Winooski River. The Merrimac River rises in new Hampshire, and empties into the Atlantic in Massachusetts.
I can second this, but I grew up north of Valley Forge, so it is not surprising that the media mostly focused on the Philadelphia area during the Bicentennial. I would assume that the North Carolina media focused on more local events, but perhaps I’m wrong. If you include books as part of popular history, then I know at least one book on George Washington covers it. I also believe a popular history of the Revolutionary War (Spirit of 1776?) covered it.
That is a big WOW!
Tyler was born in 1790 and has two grandchildren still living…219 years later.
From Wiki
“As of 2009, Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935). Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928.”
Lyon fathered his last at age 75! Go Lyon!
Astonishing. Grandfather, father and son born in three successive centuries, and the last of them living into a fourth.
Is it really an invasion if you invite them over?
Here here!
When Germany annexed all of Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain changed his tune and became hostile to Germany. He started the preparation for war then. He played hardball with Germany and declared war in 1939 when they attacked Poland.
The man misjudged a situation but rapidly changed his behavior when he saw he was wrong. For that, he is maligned throughout history.