Some or most (or virtually all) of you probably won't recall
that shortly after the Fuhrer was "elected", I posted a short piece about the child of a patient of mine who works very high up in the Establishment in Washington and was contacted by the incoming administration for no less than a cabinet post. The parent told me that it was declined for very interesting reasons IN RETROSPECT.
The individual, a career Republican operative (the parents are and always have been liberal Democrats) was aware that the person who is now known as Individual 1 was known to have inappropriate relationships with the Russians and there was no way in Hell that this person would join anyone whose national security credentials were so clearly compromised by the Enemy. And this person was and is, shall we say, in a position to know exactly what is going on at the "highest levels".
Now I find the most fascinating part of this imbroglio is that the Republicans are and were therefore and obviously completely aware of the seditious nature of this discount-Manchurian Candidate inhabiting our White House and have just allowed it to progress. We have no idea how much information has been passed to the Russians and God only knows who else by this West Wing crowd.
Between the sedition and the grotesqueries of the lies as well as the probable inappropriate sexual practices of at least several of the individuals here, this administration makes Caligula's look like Jimmy Carter's.
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Pittsburgh is one of the very few American cities spelled with the "H" and it's owing to the Gaelic/Celtic influence. Sometime before 1900 the spelling was changed to "Pittsburg" without the "H" and there was a lot of protest. After a few years it was changed by law back to the original spelling as it has remained ever since.
One of our wealthiest, most influential citizens was Andrew Carnegie who was born in Scotland and emigrated to Pittsburgh with his impoverished parents at the age of 6 or 7 years old. He lived and grew up in the area of the Northside that used to be called Allegheny City before it was incorporated into the City of Pittsburgh around 1902. The Northside at that time was populated by a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrants, also Germans who lived in the neighborhood called Deutschtown.
The story of Andrew Carnegie fills several books, but suffice it to say that he provided employment in his steel mills for many of the Scottish, Irish and German immigrants who came to Pittsburgh in those years. Eventually steel mills popped up all over western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio thanks to our proximity to coal, the rivers, the railroads, and the trained labor force.
