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This video has been added to your favorites.This video will appear on your blog shortly.Thank you for flagging this video.Content of this nature is not necessarily prohibited on YouTube, however we will review this video and take action as appropriate.There may be significant legal penalties for false notices.Please refer to our Help Center for more information and the complete instructions.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb.Percee P is the truth and this joint is a banger.Nice video too, i remember growing up in The Bronx in this era, when it looked like a straight battle field where ever you went.Glad those days are over but there were good memories.He is regarded as one of the best by those who know their shit.Would you like to comment?After making your selection, copy and paste the embed code above.The code changes based on your selection.THROWBACK RAP ATTACK: PERCEE P...Put it on Washington's TabGeneral George Washington of the US Continental Army abuses his expense account.Instead, he merely insisted that Congress take care of his "expenses".You might say the father of our country is the father of padding his receipts.Popular VoteThe Electoral College was hated by Jefferson, loved by Hamilton, used poorly by Burr, and exploited by Harrison.Recent American Book Award winner Joseph J.Ellis takes a look around his office and puts together a collection of essays loosely organized around the importance of personal relationships in the birth of the United States.Thomas Fleming adds new life to a well known duel, and crowns it the manifestation of a society at odds with itself."John Adams had put forth a litany of virtues praising the future general of the army without actually naming him.We have here an account of a gentleman's average consumption: 'Given cider and punch for lunch; rum and brandy before dinner; punch, Madeira, port and sherry at dinner; punch and liqueurs with the ladies; and wine, spirit and punch till bedtime, all in punchbowls big enough for a goose to swim in."We tried to translate this figure into modern perspective using the venerable History House Cheese Tonnage Economic Index, but we couldn't find published cheese prices in the United States earlier than 1879.Or, at least, that's what he wanted everyone to think.America's future first president declined fiscal remuneration for his services.He said:Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to have accepted this arduous employment, I do not wish to make any profit from it.For a little perspective, the very day Washington accepted his commission, Congress drew up the pay for officers and privates.Seems to us Washington was giving up a decent sum in exchange for this promise of discharging these expenses.George followed in the steps of Benjamin Franklin, who subscribed to "charity, humility and pacific temper."However, Franklin seems to have taken these words with a grain of salt, as he somehow managed to pen an essay called "Fart Proudly" in the interim.Zall tried to write a book called George Washington Laughing in an effort to prove otherwise, he had to stop after only 52 pages.As if that weren't bad enough, most of these episodes describe jokes being told in Washington's presence rather than being uttered by the man himself.You can even look at scans of it, in entirety, online.That must have been some pretty damn nice tackwork.We're sure it kept his letters very dry.Yes, George Washington charged thousands of dollars to retreat from the enemy.He also gave loans to his friends that were never repaid, he bought limes by the crateload (400 at one point), and he treated himself to every "sundry" good available.The Washington family diet for the month of August included chickens, oysters, whortleberries, pears, cucumbers, veal, mutton, bread, and milk.In October, they bought nearly 32 dozen eggs.Washington's taste for Madeira wine shows up with mindnumbing regularity: from September 1775 to March 1776, Washington spent over six thousand dollars on booze.Getting Fat for the WinterTo say the least, Washington was resplendent in gastronomic finery.That winter, some 9,000 troops lacked shoes or coats.The fledgling government owned sufficient supplies in Boston and Newport; they sat molding in warehouses due to problems in military distribution.Washington must have paced in disgust and thrown up his hands.Indeed, in an effort to keep his troops happy, the General staged a play.Too bad that wasn't enforced when Lincoln was President.Weighty ProblemFortunately, the Valley Forge winter eventually let up, and Washington was again free to indulge himself.All of his close cronies, who dined with him frequently, weighed over 200 pounds each; General Henry Knox won the fat man prize at 280.In comparison, Brigadier General Eben Huntington, not a close associate of Washington's, tipped the scales at 132 pounds dripping wet at war's end.Put simply, George lost the receipts.Congress approved the lot of it.FootnotesJohn Adams had put forth a litany of virtues praising the future general of the army without actually naming him.Hancock's chest filled with pride, as he assumed he was a natural for the job; at least, it swelled until Adams announced that Washington would be doing it.At the Library of CongressWashington and Kitman, p.We tried to translate this figure into modern perspective using the venerable History House Cheese Tonnage Economic Index, but we couldn't find published cheese prices in the United States earlier than 1879.BibliographyGeorge Washington and Marvin Kitman.George Washington Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes by and about our first President from Original Sources.George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America.In her cartoons Ann Telnaes casts
a consistently critical eye on U.She caricatures President George
W.September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon."You see it so much," she
says.New York state on July 6, 1999.West Virginia from following federal
environmental regulations.Clinton to back the rider, but Clinton later withdrew his
support.Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge be opened to drilling
for oil.Mississippi is the only state to incorporate the
Confederate emblem in its flag.Phoenix, Arizona, gas station on September 15, 2001,
because he was mistaken for a Muslim.United States on people incorrectly
perceived to be Middle Eastern.On September 26, President
George W.I'm not even an agnostic.But I think that separation of church and state is the best
way to protect everyone's right to worship as they choose."In the cartoon, the girl who holds a copy of 1001
Arabian Nights, is being questioned by the FBI.Telnaes, " because they
actively protested giving up their records."Telnaes highlights in this cartoon.Congress had granted at the president's urging.American public pays for
the economic impact of the deficit and increased spending.Sufficient Clinical Trials on Implants?FDA advisory committee recommended they be allowed
back on the market.On November 5, 2003, President George W."You're just showing what everyone who looks at
the photo is thinking."Carol Moseley Braun, Wesley Clark, John Kerry, Dick Gephardt,
John Edwards, Al Sharpton, and Joe Lieberman.Telnaes's cartoon was to trim down
the field to a manageable size.Braun and Gephardt dropped
out of the race later in January.
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