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Rabbi Dave is back from his nineteen days on the road with a thirteen year old boy. It’s a great way to see America and at the same time miss all the news and happenings that Friar Rod kept up on. scientists, the same ones who keep telling us that everything is settled, have figured out a way to solve global warming and keep the Earth from overheating. It won’t work, but somebody will get very rich from the plan. Meanwhile, some people think that living longer is a great idea. So… like a Barnabas Collins wannabe, they are forcing their children to give them blood. It turns out that there is a very good reason that Dave never ate the piece of artisanal cheese that he bought in Wisconsin (where the real Americans live)… All that and more this week on What The Frock!

The Virginians introduce their plan for a new National Government, which officially shocks the Convention since they believed (officially) that they were there only to revise and amend the Articles of Confederation. The Convention adjourns to the Committee of the Whole – which is the same people, in the same room with the same purpose as the Convention but without General Washington sitting on the dais. So who is in charge of the discussion and debates that will begin with the Virginia Plan and end up with what we know so well as our Government? He was the 14th President of the United States, and he died in disgrace and failure. But for the moment, he is the man who is so well respected that he is chosen to lead the Committee of the Whole in its important work. His name is Nathaniel Gorham. He will control the discussions of The Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan (and eventually the Connecticut Compromise) in the first days of the Convention.

The Convention finally gets underway. First things first, rules must be established and agreed upon. Then the business of reforming the Government can get rolling. The first presentations take on the problems the nation confronts, including the biggest danger facing America. The local Newspaper wants a story, and somebody, just who isn’t exactly clear, is giving them one. George Wythe and his rules committee approved two special rules that will serve to ensure secrecy and flexibility. As an add-on for Constitution Thursday, I have compiled for you a couple of PDF Documents which contain the biographies of the 55 Delegates who participated in the Convention. It is a rather large file (18MB) and is nearly 400 pages in length, but it provides a quick reference for the men involved in this discussion. You can download CONSTITUTION THURSDAY – The Delegates HERE.

Week Two of our Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live look at the Philadelphia Convention... While waiting for a week for more delegates to arrive, the Virginia delegates have been meeting and discussing the plan that James Madison plans to propose. when John Dickinson of Delaware gets a whiff of what is going on, he iDDs appalled. Not only is the Virginia delegation planning to NOT simply “fix” the Articles of Confederation, they appear to be proposing a new central government that seems – at least on paper – destined to subsume small states like his into their control. He sends for help, but will it arrive before the Convention is derailed after barely getting started?

Why is there a Page 6? Why is the high speed car chase of Harry and Megan through the streets of Manhattan a news story? Why do “social media influencers” even exist? Why is our society so obsessed with having our the fifteen minutes of fame? We all claim that we want privacy and we are appalled when it is “violated.” But is that really who we are? Why is our society so determined to tell everything that happened to us every minute of every day? Blogs, Social Media, web cams… it’s almost as if we cannot get away from detail after detail of everybody we know.

Over the past few months, in increasing desperate sounding letters, eMails and phone calls, my mortgage company has been begging me to re-fi my house. Or… even if I want to sell my house and maybe even buy a new one? As it turns out, there is a reason for all this unseemly begging. I happen to have a good bit of equity in my house and I also have a locked rate of 2.5%. There is a shortage of houses on the market while mortgage applications are up 10% year over year. In essence, it’s a sellers market. So why is it that I… and millions of other Americans are not selling or at least getting a refinance? It’s the economy, stupid…

Look, I get it. we should all be pissed off. Left, right, center. What we learned this week is that J Edgar Hoover was alive and well in the one institution that we were told that we could trust. Efrem Zimbalist Jr, and Tom Clancy novels not withstanding, we learned that abuse of power infects every alphabet agency and hall of marble buildings across the government. i do not care what party you say you are, if this doesn’t piss you off, you’re the real problem. That said, and the famed Nuremberg Defense aside, can we please stop labeling our opponents – both sides – as “Nazis?” They aren’t. And our petty little political differences do not justify the disrespect it shows to the victims of the Holocaust. In the end, the FBI isn’t the real problem. But like so many other societies, we refuse to address the actual problem…

One of the things that I have wanted to do for some time is a complete revision of the Convention Episodes of Constitution Thursday. This summer, except for the three weeks I will be gone, Dave Does History gives me the chance to do just that. For the next few months we will take a weekly look at the things that happened in the Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787. This will not be a word for word repeat of the original Convention episodes, but with a new audience it will give us a chance to once again consider the struggle that lead to our Constitution… This week in 1787 is the designated time for delegate appointed by each State – except one – to arrive in Philadelphia to begin the process of revising the Articles of Confederation. In the previous year, at a conference in Annapolis, it was finally recognized that the government of the United States was just not functional in a meaningful way. This Philadelphia Conference was meant to try and fix some of the glaringly obvious issues that were causing more and

A recent tweet about the ancient deity Moloch by a conservative Talk Show Host has lit up some folks (get it?). In essence he tweeted that the white liberal women (specifically) “will throw their own children (and yours) into the fires of Molech without the slightest bit of hesitation.” Now… that’s the kind of reference that seems arcane. The truth is that most of the people who read it or heard about it probably had no clue what he was talking about. But you need to understand that for those of us who accept the torah (or Old Testament) as scripture, there are some VERY specific things that G-d told us about Moloch. And as we watch what is happening in our world today, those fires that Moloch worshipers used to destroy their children may have become metaphorical, but they are every bit as real as they were three thousand years ago…

The good news isn’t that Britney Griner is back playing practice games in the WNBA. It’s what she says about it that really has people excited. Meanwhile the City of Yonkers, New York is really mad at New York City over the dumping of illegal immigrants. But even Yonkers isn’t as mad as a Florida couple who had planned to get married in Orange County (NY), but… well… their big day got usurped by the same thing. Dave’s getting ready to hit the road, so savor this tasty morsel of What The Frock…

At 0530 this morning I was reawakened by my Ben, who wanted to know how soon we could go to GameStop. At 0530. Sometimes things are pretty important, even if they don’t seem so to me. And sometimes the underlying motivations aren’t as clear as they seem in the media.

Yesterday on Bill Mick Live we talked about the Astor Place riots and the impact that the love of Shakespeare in America of the 19th Century had on the nation, and the events of May 10, 1849. After the show, I was thinking a bit more about things, and it occurred to me that there might be a related issue today. The New York times recently ran an article explaining the problems in primary schooling when it comes to the teaching of history. The article seems to indicate that history, and indeed most social studies, are being ignored in primary schools (1st-12th) in favor of the more technical subjects which are tested for assessments and entry into colleges. Having a 7th grader myself, I am not convinced that is true, but it did raise some questions in my mind about HOW we teach not just history, but the values and principles that guided those who came before us…

Look, I love New York City. I’ve only been there a few times, and usually I didn’t have any time to look around much. But I have always harbored a secret desire to live there, at least visit for an extended stay. To really experience New York City. I have a friend who lives there, and I told him several times that I expect him to keep busy, because I live my own NYC life vicariously through him. That said, New York is a… well… it’s a different kind of place. for all it’s bluster and bravado about being so sophisticated and upper crust, it has long had a reputation for being a bit crazy and when it gets down to it, a little bit violent. Once upon a time, NYC was the leader in American dislike for the British. What you gotta understand is that Great Britain and the US were almost thinking about going to war against each other… again. The whole “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” thing. This time though, it wasn’t the national governments that stopped it. Still, it the common opinion in America to dislike all things

Yes, King Chuck III got hisself coronated yesterday at three in the morning. we did not get up to watch. That said, we still have questions. A man is dead after his behavior on the NYC Subway caused problems. The bigger question is whether or not this was truly just “mental illness” or if it was learned behavior? King Chuck has “giant sausage fingers.” And now, for just $63, you can suck on them. All that and more this week on What The Frock?

The US Navy announced this week that it had… appointed?… a “digital ambassador” to help with lagging recruiting. The controversy comes in the fact that this particular digital ambassador was apparently appointed as such because he is a drag queen. furthermore, it seems to be actually aimed at recruiting other drag queens into the Navy. Naturally, the interwebs and the politicians have exploded into anger and disgust. Oddly enough, I am not all that surprised by it, because… and this is something that you don’t know… there have always been drag queens in the Navy…

For what seems to be basically an American drinking festival, Cinco de Mayo has become “a lightening rod for controversy*.” A few years ago in California, white students began wearing American Flag t-shirts to school on the day. Of course, this was met with outrage, because… that’s what high school students have learned is the “proper” response to a perceived insult. When t-shirts aren’t the issue, so-called “cultural appropriation” becomes the rally cry. How dare Americans celebrate a Mexican holiday? Drinking cerveza and eating burritos! Outrage!!!! Of course, the bigger problem is that none of these reactions are based on even a cursory understanding of history. If it were, we could all united together and do what Norte Americanos have done since the mid 1600’s – Blame the French! *My all time favorite phrase used every week by the Modesto Bee writers to describe to various happenings around the County

A Law professor at Harvard – the smartest school in America – says that there is just too much free speech out there, especially on the interwebs. And he isn’t even close to being the dumbest professor at Harvard – the smartest school in America. Speaking of dumb, what if the Bud Lite execs , who have said that they had no clue what was going on, actually didn’t know what was going on? was firing Tucker Carlson a dumb move or a master stroke of manipulation? People are dumb enough to want to pretend to be disabled, and some doctors are dumb enough to go along. In Bremerton this morning, the revolution came and went on a Ferry boat. And it’s Coronation week! Congrats to King Chuck III, who, in a time of international war and brouhaha, has decided to signal his commitment to peace and prosperity by having a short coronation ceremony and wear a military uniform. All that and more (Dave buys a book on camping) this week on What The Frock?

The whole concept of forced, or compelled assimilation is one that is repetitive through history. Whether you’re talking about the Jews and the attempts to force them to convert, the Conquistadors forcing their beliefs onto the Mesoamericans, or even the attempts by the US Government to force “civilization” onto the Native American, it’s a constant theme. While the macro versions of these attempts are pretty obvious, the truth is that there is a great deal of micro-compelled assimilation. It is far more impactful on our every day lives. What do I mean…?

Admiral Irosuku Yamamoto, the leader of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was reputed to have once said that he personally would dictate the peace terms to the United States in the Oval Office. As the mastermind behind the the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto was seen as the evil genius behind the successes of the Japanese Navy up through the end of the Guadalcanal Campaign in early 1943. Now, in a desperate attempt to shore up Japanese morale after the defeat on Guadalcanal, Yamamoto elected to make a tour of the front lines around Bougainville Island. What he hadn’t figured out, even after the shattered sword of the the Battle of Midway, was that the United States had long ago cracked the Japanese codes they used to communicate. The US Military knew that the Admiral was coming to Bougainville. At just after 0725 on the morning of April 18, 1943, eighteen of the 339th Squadron of US Army Air Corps P-38 Lightning’s began to lift off from Guadalcanal, carrying extra fuel tanks. Two planes immediately turned back.

It’s been a month of Sundays, but at long last, Rabbi Dave is back! Together with the Good Friar Rod, we’ll take a look at the leak of classified documents and why it is that pretty much everybody seems to think that this was a good thing. Plus the boys will solicit unqualified medical advice from listeners. Twenty-one year old junior birdmen don’t seem all that smart. Did Governor Jay Inslee manage to personally cause a Washington State Ferry to crash?