@eppy99 I have a friend who was in the midst of a small remodel and the crew just stopped showing up a few weeks ago. The company will not give her a time frame of when work will be completed.
My grandmother was born in 1901 in Shelbyville Indiana. Her Shelby County birth certificate is written in German. Her marriage certificate ~1921 was also written in German. People were not always so adamant that immigrants shed every aspect of their heritage when coming here. She was proud to be an American but also proud of her family's German roots.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@zeke4ahs my sympathy is zero for Dems. Get an Id and show up. Unless disabled or military. No excuses
My grandmother was born in 1901 in Shelbyville Indiana. Her Shelby County birth certificate is written in German. Her marriage certificate ~1921 was also written in German. People were not always so adamant that immigrants shed every aspect of their heritage when coming here. She was proud to be an American but also proud of her family's German roots.
I like to point out an entire Corps of the Army of the Potomac spoke German. I guess we should have kicked those evil people out.
@arthur-dent bc it’s common sense. Why do we always have to pander to the laziest element. And I’m for more locations. Make it easier to do that
My grandmother was born in 1901 in Shelbyville Indiana. Her Shelby County birth certificate is written in German. Her marriage certificate ~1921 was also written in German. People were not always so adamant that immigrants shed every aspect of their heritage when coming here. She was proud to be an American but also proud of her family's German roots.
@receipt-keeper new board, but same stories. Another family member🤣🤣🤣
@snarlcakes check out the other thread. Pretty clear who @gros-louis is too. The morons are out in full force.
There is a constitutional right for citizens to vote
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/28/the-missing-right-a-constitutional-right-to-vote/
You're idealizing the past. There's been an assimilationist bent to American public opinion for a very long time. Have you never heard of the Native American Party of the mid-nineteenth century, depicted in Gangs of New York? Far and Away? Or read the quote ascribed to Teddy Roosevelt?My grandmother was born in 1901 in Shelbyville Indiana. Her Shelby County birth certificate is written in German. Her marriage certificate ~1921 was also written in German. People were not always so adamant that immigrants shed every aspect of their heritage when coming here. She was proud to be an American but also proud of her family's German roots.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to separate from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns out people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polygot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” — from a January 3, 1919, letter to the President of the American Defense Society, in Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters, Vol. II (edited by Joseph Bucklin Bishop; published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920)
@receipt-keeper new board, but same stories. Another family member🤣🤣🤣
Why would I make up a story about my grandmother being German? Half the people in Shelbyville 100 years ago were German. Ever been there? Her grandmother came over from the Rhineland on a boat in about 1870, arriving in New Orleans then taking a steamboat up the Mississippi to Louisville. We still have the wooden chest she carried with her for all her belongings.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@shooter name the best basketball player in Shelbyville basketball history?
Bill Garrett, I presume.
One of the best was a relative of mine, last name Kehrt, who went to IU and lettered in basketball, track and baseball in the 1930s
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451