Thursday 21 May 2009

Thought for the Day.....




H/T Shelly

3 comments:

Murray said...

It wasn't THAT successful. the Americans had to play on both teams to keep it going.

JP Gibb said...

There's also something about taxes on sugary drinks and teas.

It's like they're completely ignorant of history, or something.

steveH said...

You want five different opinions? Get three Americans together in a group.

As for the taxes, yeah, they (among other things) set the stage. The most active response to them was polluting Boston Harbor. (Which represented a *lot* of cash for the time, granted.)

The act of moving to confiscate the militia stores at Concord did trigger the first real fighting. The straw that broke the camel's back, thingie.