Search This Blog

Showing posts with label populist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label populist. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2011

The Best Posts

Others probably haven't found the best post. Posts others are finding the most interesting include:

Right Now:
"Here Now Today"

Most recent 24 hours:
"More Mound Builder Notes"
"Hopewell People Continued"
"Robert Reich: Investing in America"

Most recent 7 days:
"Zorro" hope they didn't feel cheated
"Around the Place"
"More of History"

Most recent 30 days:
"Tohono O'odham"
"Lenga d'oc"
"Medicinenet"
"Nude"

I don't know why, but the following are among the all time popular posts:
"Direct Line Genealogy"
"1912 Lawrence Textile Strike"
"Populist Texan"

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Some of the Most Popular Posts on "What Then?"

Popular posts of the 7 days just past include:
~ Lenga d'Oc
~ Gerard of Cremona
~ Teachings
~ Chopra


Among the most popular of the last 24 hours:
~ Lenga d'oc


The most popular of the last 30 days include:
~ Gerry's Genealogy
~ Lebanon
~ Nude
~ Wronged


Among all time popular posts are:
~ Americans
~ Populist Texans
~ Direct Line Genealogy


Post containing general news and information have ranked consistently high. Some of what might be called 'back story' info have also done well.


Thank you for your interest!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Independent Republicans

Populists had little trust for the power of the few. A Populist party has usually been a kind of reform party a bit like the Independent Republicans.

Kansans, Oklahomans, Missourians, and Texans have been good at organizing populist parties

("Missourians" doesn't sound right to me.)

Jesse Ventura

Would it have be fair to have call Jerssie Ventura a populist?

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Populist Texan

I don't know why they asked me about politics. They weren't interested in politics in general. They weren't exactly interested in how it is done or how to do it. I thought that they might be interested in the history of it, but I was wrong. What they seemed most interesteded in was the ethics and philosophy of it!

I told them to consult a comedian or two.  I wasn't kidding, but found that I didn't recall one I could recommend. The only ones I coud remember were dead. I told them to find their own comedians.

They continued to pester so I told them to go get a populist.
They looked puzzled so that I added that a populist was a person interested in fairness. I said that they were particularly interested in getting  fair way of taking care of their families. They seemed to find that good a didn't ask me what fair is.

They did ask me where to get a populist. I couldn't remember any living or dead. Then the name Ann Richards came to mind. So I told them, "Texas! Look in Texas."  They asked me if Johnson was one and I said that I don't think he quite made the grade.

They started to look bored, but I was getting interested. I was thinking that Texas was probably a better place to find them than Oklahoma, Kansas, or Missouri. I felt a certain inspiration and said that Texan populists were probably the best teachers of populism in the Country. I add that there were also a lot of nut cases in Texas which they seemed to already know. I still couldn't remember the names of any Texan populists. I was sure that Andrew Jackson wasn't a Texan. I did tell them that while they were asking Texans about populists to hold off asking about guns, god, and gays right off.

Still haven't remember a name of a populist Texan, but the name Davis comes vaguely to mind. If the names of any Texan populist comes to your mind, please tell it to me. I'd like to find out what they had to say about ethics and philosophy.