Jack of Jacks

04/02/2023

Amazing night out with the one and hip cat at Icehouse

03/16/2023

Daniel Dwight Eisenhower was born in a large family. Where there were all called Ike, so he had to stand out. He did so by excelling in school and enlisting in the great war, when he was denied, he took other jobs to help the cause, this soon bumped him to become a major figure in WW2 to eventually becoming Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force(SHAEF) after helping with North Africa and Italy. And then overseeing D-day.
After returning from the war, ike kinda had a golden ticket, so what else, he became the head of NATOand president of Columbia University from 1948-1953. By the end, he never wanted to be president but much like Washington, he and the American people thought it was his duty so that's what happened in a landslide with his vp Richard Nixon.
As prez, Ike was the most open with the most press conferences than any previous. He started and signed in the interstate highway system in 1955. And founded NASA in 1958.

The last president to be born in the 19th century in 1890. And with this, I'm aware that some relatives are going to be alive when these presidents were alive so WATCH OUT!

01/11/2023

So here is America's oldest grandfather. A man who lived through the 1970s, that everyone thought was the epitome of the 19th century.

Harry S Truman, S is just an initial to honor both his grandfathers. born in Missouri and was just a very pleasant handy hard working boy, working on the family farm, in the shops and doing whatever he could to hold the American dream. So that led to politics and enlisting to the top of the lines during WW1.
After that, he returned to home to become county judge by making very sketchy friendship with a very sketchy Missouri politician/mobster, Tom Pendergest. The Pendergasts owned Missouri and controlled everything, so after a while of climbing the Pendergast political ladder, Truman became the Senator for Missouri. In these days, Harry S was very quiet and quaint in meetings, not making a peep, just politely taking notes in every meeting.
Around this time, FDR was running for a 4th time, and all of his VPs selections weren't working out, but, this polite democrat from Missouri? Ok is all Truman said, being very reluctant, much like basically every prez before him, and low and behold, FDR died within a few months of that term!
The perfect time to become prez is when your nation is facing war of unimaginable power, and that your predecessor was making plans to nuke a nation. Truman knew this was happening, and went through everyone to see what the solution was. By 1945, the war was ending, but the Japanese would not stop , this bomb was built, and as Truman later said" this would save millions of American and Japanese lives" the bomb was detonated and again 3 days later.
Right after this, the cold war broke out due to the fact that, yes, now nuclear weapons are now possible, with this russia and china became enemies with the US.
After WW2, the question of where do the escape Jewish people to live lingered. With the help of the british and many of his friends, Truman signed into existence the State of Israel in 1948(even though the name Israel was given a few months later)
So Truman did believe in equal rights, he still used not PC language and had questionable values, such as having his idol be Andrew Jackson,

09/30/2022

Oooh hoo hoo

09/12/2022

Einstein! I read this in high school and loved it and it got me into bios, so let's see how it holds up!(ps, I loved it)
Albert Einstein was a genius from his first years, even helping his fathers electrical wiring business at age 7. He was gifted but very rebellios in the fact that he didn't turn his homework in but in tests he was perfect.
He was soon admitted to a prestigious academy in Zurich, where he met his first true love, Mileva, who everyone thought was horrendous, but Einy thought was an angel. So they soon got married after graduating. But soon Einstein applied and traveled anywhere that would have him, away from Marić and their newborn, that they soon gave away because of the strain.
Einy got a job at a patent office where he secretly wrote papers himself, this got his name out there, but took a huge toll on their already strained marriage, prompting him to have an affair with his cousin. Elsa.

Einy worked without mercy on his relativity theory(I still don't understand), but estranged him from his 3 new children. EspeciallyHans Albert. Asking about calcium deficiencies than emotions.
His new found fame forced him to seek a divorce abd remarry Elsa, but this took him all over the world. This fame was new to Einy and didn't resonate well, but he became used to it.

The climate in Germany after WW1 was getting grotesque, Einy and Elsa decided to emigrate to the US. ,where he became even more of a pacifist against war. This was his main fight for the rest of his life, seeking a balance between pure pacifism and fighting the terrible N**i threat. He hated Nationalism, if not N**is in Germany, it would just be another terrible group from another country.

He wanted desperately for a world government, for every country to agree and follow a set world rules, many critics to this theory, even him at times. The Manhattan project was very problematic for Einstein and with many others. Several letters were sent from and to him to no avail.
At the end of Einsteins life, he was at peace with his eldest son, who became a science professor, and with his many critics, and mostly with himself. He received a parrot from friends as a thank you and di

08/12/2022

Join is in the first of monthly events for cleaning up uptown. This Sunday at 2pm. Meet at our place(message me for address). See you all there

08/03/2022

07/31/2022

Happy Collins auntie and unkey hang out

07/10/2022

Now onto the BIG prez! FDR in the flesh of biographical pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a child raised to be the best. His mother was the epitome of helicopter parent, making him do everything at a young age, but that led to him going to Harvard, so...ok? But then soon seeing his cousin, Eleanor(Theodore Roosevelt's neice) and soon marrying her. But soon FDR started several affairs that led to Eleanor(still married to him) but maintaining the marriage as more of a political relationship than anything else.
FDR ran for NY Senate with impeccable passionate and won(prez who did not like law school). He was an avud supporter of nominee Woodrow Wilson who after winning made him Assistant Director of the Navy. This led to everyone (except FDR) seeing how great he would be in the White House.
Around that time, FDR began experiencing many ill symptoms including paralysis. He was soon diagnosed with polio(even though now it's probably of another long disease name), he soon learned to walk short distances with a cane, but was insistent to never take a picture of himself in a wheelchair. This stopped his political career for a while but didn't keep him down for long. FDR was shortly after elected Governor of New York where he was massively popular and easily made him a front runner for president. He told the people of his new deal plan, and that secured him as the 32nd president.
As soon as he was elected, FDR put his plan in action: first was to put banks on 4 day holidays to stop ppl from withdrawing funds, that quickly helped relieve banks and increase our stocks rapidly. The new deal also put together an unemployment to employment department and also Gabe relief to farms. All these and more massively helped our country.
With this and his assuring fireside chats. He was an easy win for a 2nd term. But (of course), the Supreme Court didn't agree with some of his economic new deal decisions. This and WW2 made this term tougher. At the start, it was only a European matter(like WW1), with Roosevelt being close to Curchill(England) and giving all our country could do to help his allies, but soon Japan(who already not good relations with US) signed with

06/05/2022

Finishing up the music of your musical is a pretty good feeling. Lots more to come, but for now, I'm going to be proud of myself and smile.

03/12/2022

The Guthrie's Tempest last night followed by breakfast poutine in the morning makes for a very tragicomedic weekend