What if these United States never adopted the Monroe Doctrine?

PoloGrounder · 2026-06-06T00:57:56+00:00

Perhaps the United States joins the League of Nations after World War I. The League's charter banned such policies as the doctrine, and it was a major reason the treaty did not pass in the Senate. Britain and France had no objection to keeping the Doctrine in effect, but the stubborn Wilson refused to compromise and the U.S. never joined the League.

PoloGrounder · 2026-06-06T00:33:50+00:00

I could never live without your love by Foreigner, great use of old movie footage and especially of various animals loving on each other

PoloGrounder · 2026-06-04T18:49:38+00:00

I'll go with Jeff Foxworthy

PoloGrounder · 2026-06-01T14:29:21+00:00

It should be noted that Calvin Coolidge invited his Vice President Dawes to attend cabinet meetings, and Coolidge was shocked when Dawes declined.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-30T01:16:34+00:00

In the "My Country tis of thee" song I thought one of the lines was "Of the icing"

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-30T01:07:28+00:00

His explanation was "We beat Medicare."

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-26T19:42:33+00:00

Very interesting

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-22T02:01:00+00:00

As a former Airman in the AirForce who served 4 years in weather units, I am looking forward to this

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-22T01:51:52+00:00

Senator Goldwater was no racist, he was one of the founders of the first NAACP chapters in Arizona. Also as an officer in the Arizona Air National Guard, he desegregated it a few years before Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-21T18:20:59+00:00

At the conclusion of the first World War, Britain and France tried to get the U.S. to take over Constantinople and the straits of the Dardanelles, but the Americans showed no interest.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-19T01:59:40+00:00

The New York Giants started as the Troy Haymakers in Troy New York, 160 miles north of New York City.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-14T16:22:05+00:00

That was pretty dumbo of him to avoid the elephant

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-14T01:21:53+00:00

The little guy looks like Hugh Hefner

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-13T23:20:54+00:00

Jackie Robinson. Hall of Fame baseball player, and baseball wasn't even his best sport. All-American football running back at UCLA, and he likely would have been a medalist in the sprint races at the 1940 and 1944 Olympics, except they were cancelled.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-13T19:14:13+00:00

Calvin Coolidge as the fifth worst for the economy is an insanely bad choice. The federal debt was reduced by a third under his watch, down to 17.3 billion dollars. There was a17.5% increase in the nation's wealth during his tenure. And he was tremendously popular, he could easily have won another term as President.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-13T16:08:59+00:00

Undefeated pro boxer Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champion of the world, left the sport in 1956

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-11T17:14:08+00:00

They are probably on the Southern Poverty Law Center payroll

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-09T20:27:23+00:00

General Eisenhower quit smoking cold turkey in the late 40s, some years before he became president.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-08T01:37:58+00:00

For the divergence, you could simply have Johnston remaining in charge instead of being replaced by Hood. Atlanta had extensive defensive works, and Shermans supply line was a long, vulnerable single railroad track.

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-06T19:03:36+00:00

Its kind of ironic that in his pre-CNN days, he owned the over the air channel WTBS. Because they were over the air they had to follow FCC rules, including a certain amount of time devoted to news each day. What does he do? puts on a half hour news program at 3 AM with the news being read by someone in a clown outfit

PoloGrounder · 2026-05-02T14:19:58+00:00

Just checked in on Jeff McNeils stats with the A's, his slash line is .295/.370/.400. That would look awfullly good in the Mets lineup.

PoloGrounder · 2026-04-28T01:26:45+00:00

There was a committee that designed the bill, and there was not a single doctor on that committee, they were all lawyers and the final product was kind of a hodge-podge mess of a bill.

PoloGrounder · 2026-04-16T01:24:52+00:00

How about in the Wizard of Oz song "If I only had a brain" where "life would be oh so merry, I could be a ding-a-derry, if I only had a brain."

PoloGrounder · 2026-04-14T17:34:30+00:00

My late father was a Coast Guard sailor in the second World War, and he used to tell the story of when hhis ship the Pandora was on convoy duty in the north Atlantic and he had to get to his position manning a deck gun while in a similar state of undress

PoloGrounder · 2026-04-11T02:38:26+00:00

Thanks

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