Morning Thanks

Garrison Keillor once said we'd all be better off if we all started the day by giving thanks for just one thing. I'll try.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The Calliope Raid I

Among those Sioux Countians who like stories from the past, an all-time favorite is the how a bunch of Hollanders from all over the county--Orange City, Hull, and Rock Valley too--got together early one winter day, January 22, 1872, took their sleighs across the county, strong-armed a safe containing the fledgling county's organization papers, and brought the goods to Orange City, where, today, the wonderful County Courthouse stands and all the official business goes on.

Was it all legal? My word, no. It was an insurrection, a heist--not a bank heist, but a armed rebellion that worked.  

Was it righteous? Depends on who you ask.

All of that was almost exactly 150 years ago, time to lament or celebrate--depending on your point of view.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...


and who were intelligent enough to know that the only justification for aggressive war is the territory that is conquered by it,


The Jews, who, as I have said, are a highly intelligent people, and who with perhaps five per cent. of our military resources knew how to finish in six days a war against opponents far more numerous and formidable than the Vietnamese, and who were intelligent enough to know that the only justification for aggressive war is the territory that is conquered by it, decided that it would be fun to kill some despised goyim on our ship the Liberty, and they did so —

THANKS,
Jerry