Today's Money Beg From Tony Perkins

From KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins:

Dear Joe, The very future of America is at stake. What kind of country will we give to your children and grandchildren? Will we adhere to what Thomas Jefferson so eloquently called "the laws of nature and of nature's God" in the Declaration of Independence? Or will we twist and distort that which is natural, ignoring the design and Word of nature's God and trampling over His laws and ours? That, my friend, is where America is headed just 238 years after Mr. Jefferson penned those words in the first sentence of his world-changing Declaration. That's why we are gathering 250,000 signatures on a simple but powerful ePetition which we will present to Senator Ted Cruz in a public display of support for natural marriage. Sign it now! The ePetition is a tangible first step in our comprehensive National Campaign in Defense of Natural Marriage. We are not giving up. FRC is taking a moral, ethical, legal, and biblical stand for natural marriage. We will make sure your voice is heard and your values understood. We need your generous gift of $15, $25 or $50 along with your signature to empower this ongoing campaign for what is right and what is good for America and your family.

It's kind of funny that Perkins cites "natural marriage" while ignoring the inconvenient Jefferson Bible.

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There's A Lot Of Ruin In Metropotamia

I was cruising around Strange Maps and found this February post about Thomas Jefferson's rejected plan on dividing the Northwest Territory into ten states. Jefferson's names were rejected as "too silly." Some factoids about the never-were states:

• Sylvania would have covered much of present-day Minnesota, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some of northern Wisconsin.
• Michigania would have incorporated most of Wisconsin, but nothing of Michigan.
• Most of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula would have been the state of Chersonesus, which is simply the Greek word for ‘peninsula’.
• The northern part of modern-day Illinois would have been the state of Assenispia, after the Assenisipi River, also known as the Rock River.
• In between Assenispia and Pennsylvania would be the state of Metropotamia, a name referring to the many rivers originating there.
• The states of Illinoia, Saratoga and Washington would have incorporated large parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio respectively.
• Polypotamia (‘Land of Many Rivers’) and Pelisipia would have covered the western and eastern parts of Kentucky, mainly (and therefore are partially outside the Northwest Territory, as it is bounded to the south by the Ohio River, Kentucky’s northern border).

Assenispia. How the school kids would have loved that.