The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Aliza:

My Rep. is Eshoo. I assume she'll be a co-sponsor to the House version of this bill.

And I've been hearing "Congresscritters" for years. :-)

I'm glad to know that our Constitution isn't dead.

I found this fascinating thread because I was searching for the lyrics to _Son of a Scoundrel_ (quoted way up above), but I've got a question and a comment:

What year was it that the DAR started accepting non-white members? Was it the same time that they started accepting descendants of non-white Rev. war participants?

I once knew a very very pale-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed woman, who was descended from, and shared a surname with, a famous Revolutionary War poet. Phyllis Wheatley. Yup, the famed African-American poet, brought over as a slave from Africa at 7 or 8.

- Aliza (2nd-generation descendant of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the US from Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania (2x, same town), before and after WWI. One branch has been traced back to the 1750s, but the records of Eastern European Jews are notoriously hard to find...)

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