You forgot five. These guys are my personal heroes:
Marvin Heemeyer, aka Captain Killdozer. Built a homemade tank and wrecked his town over a zoning dispute.
David Hahn, aka The Radioactive Boy Scout. Built an unlicensed nuclear pile in his mom's tool shed and almost accidentally irradiated 50,000 people.
Billy Martin - MLB's greatest competitor and half the reason Ten-Cent Beer Night was AWESOME.
C.E. MIddlebrooks - Founder of Turbonique, the company that brought rocket technology to the masses. Inventor of rocket superchargers, rocket drag axles and bolt-on pure-thrust boosters that'd push go-karts to 200 mph.
And finally, Eugene Mulvihill, the founder and owner-proprietor of Action Park. That rarest and most American of heroes: A steel-cored lunatic who never got his head around the concept of "asking permission."
I did not forget him. He was a great war time President, but a disaster domestically who helped create the welfare state and extended the Depression for years with his dumb policies.
Sherman the murderer! Oh my God, John. You can't be serious. Wow, what a list. Statism to the max. Susan B. Anthony? Really? As feminist as her buddy Stanton. Oh well, just goes to show that the America we all love is a really, really big tent. Until one day when it isn't. I wish could say that some of the people you mention are not the nucleus of tomorrow's tyranny, but I do believe some are.
Clarence Thomas also deserves a spot on that list.
Would like to add Tom Clancy, John Steinbeck and Edgar Rice Burroughs to the writers section of this list.
You can tell Clancy was never in the military because his heroes are always OFFICERS.
You forgot five. These guys are my personal heroes:
Marvin Heemeyer, aka Captain Killdozer. Built a homemade tank and wrecked his town over a zoning dispute.
David Hahn, aka The Radioactive Boy Scout. Built an unlicensed nuclear pile in his mom's tool shed and almost accidentally irradiated 50,000 people.
Billy Martin - MLB's greatest competitor and half the reason Ten-Cent Beer Night was AWESOME.
C.E. MIddlebrooks - Founder of Turbonique, the company that brought rocket technology to the masses. Inventor of rocket superchargers, rocket drag axles and bolt-on pure-thrust boosters that'd push go-karts to 200 mph.
And finally, Eugene Mulvihill, the founder and owner-proprietor of Action Park. That rarest and most American of heroes: A steel-cored lunatic who never got his head around the concept of "asking permission."
You forgot FDR.
I did not forget him. He was a great war time President, but a disaster domestically who helped create the welfare state and extended the Depression for years with his dumb policies.
The guy who goaded the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor to take domestic attention off his New Deal, which prolonged the Depression?
I think Elijah Otis deserves a spot. His invention of the elevator safety brake allowed buildings to exceed 10 stories.
Sherman the murderer! Oh my God, John. You can't be serious. Wow, what a list. Statism to the max. Susan B. Anthony? Really? As feminist as her buddy Stanton. Oh well, just goes to show that the America we all love is a really, really big tent. Until one day when it isn't. I wish could say that some of the people you mention are not the nucleus of tomorrow's tyranny, but I do believe some are.