August added 162,000 jobs. Inflation is not the main story. The real risk-free rate is. Capital that can earn more than that higher hurdle gets paid. Capital that needed cheap money does not.
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Lake America
Uniquely & Appropriately Ordered and Named, the Time Has Come.
-A name is never only a label. It is a claim about who made a place, who keeps it, and which inheritance still has the strength to speak in public. When the President Of The United States directed that the body of water long styled Lake Ontario be entered in the federal geographic record as Lake America, it did something larger than needle a trading partner. It put a Latin word, already the name of two continents and of the world’s most consequential constitutional republic, on the eastern gate of the Great Lakes. That is not a trivial stunt. It is a statement about continuity.
-The word America is not an advertising slogan. It is a Latin feminine formed to stand beside Europa, Asia, and Africa. It comes from Americus, the Latin of Florentine Amerigo, itself a Germanic name of “work” and “rule” carried into Catholic Italy and then onto Waldseemüller’s 1507 map. The New World received a classical name because the men who first wrote it into European geography thought in Latin, measured by Ptolemy, and baptized their children in the Church. To call the lake America is to say, without apology, that the civilization which named the hemisphere is still the civilization that orders its maps.
-That civilization is Greco-Roman in law and letters, Judeo-Christian in moral grammar, and Catholic in the long trunk from which the Latin West grew. The United States is not the whole of that world. It is the strongest living vibrant radiant branch of it: a federal constitutional republic with separated powers, written limits on government, an independent judiciary, and democratic institutions that still, under strain, submit elections and statutes to law. Reform minded Christians, Protestants who protested abuses and Catholics who sought a clearer grasp of the faith of the Fathers, did not invent a new cosmos. They argued inside a millennial and a half inheritance. The American Founding is that argument made into a frame of government. If one asks which political community today most clearly carries the productive, institutional, and military weight of that historic Christian West, the honest answer is the United States. That is not a hymn nor an advertisment jingle. It is a description of power, output, and constitutional form.
-Critics will say the renaming is petty because the lake is shared. They are half right about the surface and wrong about the meaning. Roughly half the lake’s surface lies on the Canadian side; Toronto sits on the northwestern shore; the name Ontario is older than either Confederation or the Declaration, from an Iroquoian root commonly rendered “beautiful lake.” None of that erases the other facts the order recited: the Rochester Basin, the lake’s 802-foot deep, lies in the eastern trough associated with New York waters; the United States supplies most of the icebreaking that keeps the lakes open; American ports, yards, and the Seaway’s U.S. segment still move the ore, grain, and fuel that make the system a working artery rather than a postcard. A shared shoreline is not a veto on an American name for American charts. Canada remains free to print Ontario. The United States federal government is free to print America. Names on sovereign maps have always worked that way.
-The Toronto comparison is the right one, and it cuts against the people who treat “Lake America” as uniquely vulgar. In 1793 John Graves Simcoe, a classically schooled Anglican officer of the Crown, discarded the older name and called the town York after a royal duke. The little capital lived on British arms, British law, and, in its first winters, on Indigenous knowledge and trade it could not do without. In 1834 the town incorporated and took back Toronto, from Mohawk tkaronto—“where there are trees standing in the water.” That restoration was not an act of archaeological purity. It was a political choice by British subjects who preferred a sonorous local word to “Little York.” If a colonial capital may drop a royal English name for a Mohawk word, a great world super power continental republic of vast reach may put a Latin hemispheric name on its own hydrographic records. One renaming is not more “authentic” than the other. Both are acts of self-description.
-History here is not a children’s pageant. The same Mohawk nation whose language gave Toronto its restored name was not a single bloc, but a large part of it, led in war by Joseph Brant (anglicized name), fought with the Crown against the United States. The US New York Mohawk Valley paid for that war in savage warfare, burned towns and the Sullivan campaign. After 1783 many of those British loyalist allies were granted land in Canada because the new United States of America republic had become the power on the south shore. To remember that is not to sneer at living Mohawk communities on either side of the line. It is to refuse the fashionable habit of treating the United States as a late trespasser on a lake it helped to survey, fortify, and keep open. Fort Ontario at Oswego, the yards at Sackets Harbor, the War of 1812 squadrons, and the later Seaway are American facts. They do not cancel Canadian facts. They do explain why an American government may speak of the lake in the first person.
-What the new name declares, if one is willing to hear it, is this: the New World was written into the old world’s Latin; the United States is the principal political heir of that writing; and a constitutional republic that strongly believes in its own story, is allowed to put that story on a map. Lake America does not annex Toronto. It does not repeal the Boundary Waters Treaty. It does not convert bathymetry into a deed. It says that the deepest working claim on the meaning of this water, in American law and American speech, belongs to the country that took the name of the hemisphere and made it a republic.
Those who find that unbearable will keep saying Ontario. They are entitled to. The rest of us are entitled to notice that York became Toronto by choice, that America is older and more exact as a civilizational word than the critics admit, and that a free people is not required to whisper its own name at the edge of its own lake.
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@RLHeinrichs There are stay at home GIRLFRIENDS?
The social contracts are broken, Men have no rights to their own prodgney or family size & structure. @DACourtney
On our way to DC! After a year of health issues, proud to say CANCER FREE, my charming, handsome, delightful husband surprised me with this 20th anniversary trip that coincides with our Nation’s 250th! Did I mention we met and married in DC?! Who else is going and where will u b?
@HopefulIdiot@DonaldD22729990@IAPonomarenko In Europe it has been a common feature of dictators, often by communists & socialists. The litmus test for identifying dictators in US is hard with term limits & narrow majorities in legislature. Feel free to examine California & other US States with Super Majorities & high taxes
@jprowell @IAPonomarenko Prepared? What other nation(s) will or are prepared to do anything? End your social welfare spending and dedicate it to defense spending because you are stating that China Communist Party is.
@25thPAC@IAPonomarenko Glad you recognize that they will be collectable by the majority of US Citizen voters that voted for him and determine the financial aid to allied countries in need of military support. Got Air Defense?