Why is Michigan called: The Wolverine State?

WHY IS MICHIGAN CALLED THE WOLVERINE STATE:

Wolverines are not native to the state of Michigan. Wolverines do, however, live in Canada, Alaska and other really cold places. But, not MI. The few that live in MI are either in a zoo, owned illegally by people as pets or escaped from peoples houses who had them as illegal pets, etc. The ones in MI and all other Northern states were either brought there by people or they walked over the Canadian boarder by themselves.
The real reason for the nickname comes from the: Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio in 1835.
The city of Toledo is in Ohio, but, it is right on the edge of Michigan.
In 1835, the government of Michigan said, "I don't think that city officially belongs to Ohio. We need to claim it as part of our state!"
Wolverines have a reputation for being extremely aggressive animals. They will often attack other animals that are just minding their own business and not trying to harm anything. The Wolverine will attack the other animal for seemingly no good reason at all.
The state of Ohio was just minding their own business and not posing a threat to anybody. One day, the government in Michigan told the state Militia to attack Ohio.
It was quite a surprise when the Michigan Militia invaded Toledo and said, "We, the people of Michigan are taking the city over! The city belongs to us now!"
In 1936, President Jackson put an end to the war. He decided that since Ohio was already a state and Michigan wasn't and since he wanted Ohio's electoral votes in the upcoming election, he would let Ohio keep the city. In exchange, Michigan became an official state. The state also was given about Two Thirds of the Upper Peninsula. It sounded like a bad deal at the time, because nobody wanted the Upper Peninsula. But, it has a lot of: Copper, Iron and Timber. So the state took advantage of that.
After the war, some people in Ohio said, "The state of Michigan has the mentally and temperament of a Wolverine! MI should be known as: The Wolverine State!"
The name Wolverine State stuck. Michigan has had that name ever since.
Eventually, The University of Michigan adopted the name: "Michigan Wolverines".
That's how MI got that name.

For anyone asking: Why does the US need to have a SPACE FORCE?

FOR ANYONE WHO IS WONDERING WHY WE NEED A SPACE FORCE:

    I'm pretty sure there was a time when people said: "Why do we need a Navy? Why do we need an Air Force? What good are those going to do? That's a waste of money!
Why are they spending Billions of dollars creating Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Army Rangers, Delta Force and similar things? That's a waste of money! They are wasting my tax dollars on this!
Why are they spending so much money on building nuclear weapons? That could destroy the whole world in just a few minutes!
The enemy can and does attack the US and other countries from the air and water. That's why we need Air Force and Navy.
There's things going on in the world everyday that you and I will never know about. We have enemies all over the world. People are constantly thinking of things they can do to attack another country. Delta Force is a top secret military organization that, up until Clinton was in office, we weren't even supposed to know about. The government denied its existence completely. Bill Clinton hinted that there might be an organization like that, but that's all I'm going to say.
They are constantly protecting the world from terrorists.
Navy Seals and Special Forces take most of the missions that are way too difficult, dangerous and top secret for any other military units to take on.
SEALS killed Bin Laden, for instance.
The reason we have nukes is to PREVENT nuclear wars from ever happening in the first place. How? N. Korea, Russia, Iran and all other countries that don't like the US, they all know that the US invented both Atomic and Nuclear weapons. They also know that the US has more of them than most other countries. I'm sure there's probably a country somewhere in the world that probably has more than we do, but, the US has more than 99.999% of other countries in the world. They know better than to launch a nuke at the US or our allies. Because, the US can and will track their missiles coming in from tracking devices in space and on the ground. If they launch ONE single nuke at us, the President will first, launch about 20, multiwarhead missiles on their country and turn them into a pile of rubble!
Technology is changing really fast all over the world and we need a new way to fight crime, terror, illegal immigration, drugs, nuclear war, the list goes on and on.
Just like Science Fiction movies from the 1980's and even ling before that predicted, we would be in space by the year 2000. Well, we're late getting into space! 18 years late, but, it was inevitably going to happen.
Not only should we have a military presence in space, but also, a lot more Scientists should be up there studying the Earth and it's atmosphere.
As soon as the US gets a military presence in space, other countries will do the same. Our enemies will be up there to.
From outer space, you can see an entire continent, so, instead of an airplane flying over the ground between 300 feet to 5 miles off the ground, they have satellites and troops 20,000 miles or more above the ground. They will be able to look down and see everything. The enemy won't be able to hide very easily on the ground anymore.
The US and rest of the world will be forced to invent new technologies to keep up with the Space Force. When a Scientist tries to invent something specific, they will have to work on it for a long time. In the process, they will accidentally discover and invent other things. That is how we got the Lazer and the Microwave along with Millions of other things.
There is a lot of "Space Junk" flying around in space. It's all over up there. A lot is in orbit around Earth. That could crash in on us and cause a lot of problems. Space Force can protect us from that and try to find a way to clean it up.
They will watch for Metiors and yes, even UFOs!
Space Force will be above the atmosphere of Earth, so, they will have a better, much clearer view of outer space. That will help us study Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and other things.
They can even send FBI agents up to watch down on the ground, not just in the US, but, in other countries to, and they can track criminals before they run too far away. Then, hopefully, it won't take 10 years to find them, like it did to get Bin Laden!
There's probably a Million other good reasons to have a Space Force.

World War I Christmas Truce.

This truce was not authorized by the commanders of either country (Germany and Great Britain). When soldiers on both sides started getting out of their trenches and making friends with their enemies, the commanding officers on both sides didn't know what to do. Some soldiers got out of the trenches and befriended the enemy, some didn't. The ones that did got in trouble later.
When they all finally went back to their own trenches and ended the truce, a lot of the soldiers were unwilling to fight against the enemy,   because they had made friends with each other.
High ranking officers of both sides told the soldiers on their side not to participate in the truce. If they got out of their trench, they'd be in trouble. So many soldiers disobeyed the direct order that there wasn't much the commanding officers could do.
Since there were so many soldiers on both sides that were now unwilling to fight against their new friends on the other side, a lot of soldiers on both sides had to be relocated to different locations far away. That way they faced different enemy soldiers whom they did not know and they had not made friends with.
When WWI was over, The militaries on both sides wrote some new military regulations that made it illegal for any of their military personnel to do something like this ever again. They also came up with some very harsh penalties for anyone who ever participated in a truce like this again. The most severe penalties included: Court Marshall and military discharge. Soon after these countries made rules against having a truce like this, other countries made their own similar rules against it. For the rest of the war, some unit commanders on both sides ordered artillery strikes on the other teams trenches on Christmas eve and Christmas day, just to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
(There was a documentary on the History Channel about this several years ago.)

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Things you learned in school (and other places) that are wrong.

Ben Franklin:

He never flew a kite in a thunder storm. His kite was not struck by lightning. He did not discover electricity.

Yes, he did fly a kite in clouds that were electrically charged, but they were not storm clouds.

He did not get struck by lightning. If he had been, he would have either died or been seriously injured.

Electricity had been discovered Thousands of years before Franklin was ever born.

He worked a lot with electricity. Someone asked him which direction electrons flowed out of a battery, he told them: “I think it flows from Positive to Negative”. For years everybody believed that. It wasn’t until the mid 1900’s when they invented the electron microscope that they were able to see electrons under the microscope and prove Franklin’s guess wrong. Electrons flow out of the NEGATIVE TERMINAL AND BACK TO THE POSITIVE TERMINAL!

 Einstein:

He did not do very well in school. Although he was a genius with an IQ of 160, he did not show it in school. Some of his teachers in school thought he would never amount to anything.

He had Aspergers, this caused him problems. He couldn’t walk until he was about 4. He had problems communicating. He couldn’t speak full sentences until he was 7.

He actually was good at Math. If he hadn’t been good at Math, he would never been successful as a Physicist.

Bill Clinton:

Yes, Congress did officially impeach him. The reason that he was still able to finish out his term as President is because Congress did not vote to “Remove him from office”.

Washington:

He never really chopped down a Cherry Tree, like you probably learned in school. Over 200 years ago, somebody wrote a fictional novel about Washington. In the book, he chops the bark off his dad’s Cherry Tree and the tree dies. Even in the book, he did not chop down the tree!

Edison:

He did not invent the Light Bulb by himself. He owned a company and some of his employees actually discovered how to make the light bulb work. But, since Edison owned the company, he took full credit for it! This still happens in companies all the time today. If you invent something, your boss will steal all the credit for your invention. He gets on TV and tells the world: “I invented this. I had a hard time making it work, but, I finally figured it out……………” Then he puts the paten in his name, any awards that your invention earns go to the boss. He gets all the money, etc. Your name is never going to be mentioned.

Tesla:

Edison and other people created so many myths about him that I could almost write a book about them all.

He had an idea that would have given the world FREE energy.

He used to work for Edison. But, they didn’t get along very well, so he quit and opened his own company.

He came up with the idea of using Alternating Current (AC) electricity instead of Direct Current (DC). He told everyone that it would be so much better than using batteries. Edison was much more powerful and had a lot more money. Edison went out of his way to prove Tesla wrong and convince the public that Tesla was wrong and he was an idiot. The people believed Edison for a long time. He was able to convince people that his idea of sticking with the old way of using batteries was the best way to go.

Tesla’s idea of AC electricity being better took years before it caught on. But, when people figured out it was better, they put up power lines and that is what comes out of the electric outlets in almost everybody’s homes and other buildings today.

Tesla was found mysteriously dead in a hotel room one day. He was murdered. Most of his research documents were stolen. Nobody knows for sure if Edison was involved in his murder or not. (I think he probably was involved.)

The federal government doesn’t want us to have free energy, because, they’d get less money. So They were very likely involved in his murder to!

 Voting:

When you cast your vote for President, YOU are not voting actually for President, you are voting for Electoral College (EC) votes. Each state has a certain number of Electoral College votes. It depends on the population of the state as to how many Electoral College points they have.

If your state has 30 EC points, If the state votes mostly Republican, most of the people the state sends out to vote for the EC will be expected to Republican supporters. They will be expected to vote Republican. However, when they go cast their own votes, you don’t know who they are going to vote for, they can still vote for whoever they want.

Lightning:

You’ve probably heard the term: “JIGAWATT” in the movie Back To The Future. There is no such thing as a Jiggowatt. It was a mispronunciation of the word: “GIGAWATT”. The word “Giga” means Billion. Just like with a computer, as in Gigabyte (One Billion Bytes). A Gigawatt is One Billion Watts of electricity.

Lightning strikes the Earth between 50 and 100 times every second. NASA can see it from space.

Lightning does not usually come down from the clouds to the Earth, it usually goes from the ground up! Lightning can go in all directions: Up, down, Horizontally, diagonally, etc.

Most lightning never hits the ground, it is cloud to cloud lightning.

The Lightning Belt is an area in FL that gets more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the US. It goes from Tampa, crosses over Orlando and ends in Daytona Beach.

More people get struck by lightning in FL almost every year than any other state.

READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY! Don’t get confused by the facts here! Each year,  there’s not normally a lot of people in the state of Michigan that get struck by lightning. However, (READ THIS PART SLOWLY! TAKE A MINUTE AND LET YOUR BRAIN PROCESS THIS!) However, there have been more people in the state of MI who have been reported as having been struck by lightning ON THE GOLF COURSE, WHILE PLAYING GOLF than in any other state. (OK, go back and read the last part of this again if you have to, before you say it doesn’t make sense or it contradicts or any other stupid comments. It makes perfect sense!)

(I’m sorry, I’ve had problems with that one before. I tried to explain it to some stupid idiots before and all they did was argue with me and say: “That don’t make sense. First you said, “There’s not a lot of people in MI that get hit by lightning, then you said there’s more people who get struck there.”

Then I have to explain: More people have been struck ON THE GOLF COURSE in MI than anywhere else. Other than that, there’s not a lot of people who get struck in MI.)

When people do get hit by lightning, it’s not usually a direct hit. The lightning either hits another object and bounces off, hitting the person, hits the water they’re standing in or hits something they are touching.

Roswell UFO:

I just had to include this one, because I love Outer Space, Astronomy and especially UFO’s more than anything! I guess I’m a geek.

Since UFO stands for: Unidentified Flying Object, anything you see flying through the air can be considered a UFO. If you don't know for sure what it is, in other words,  you can't identify the object that you see in the air, up to the moment that you can tell what it is, technically, it is a UFO. Most of the time, however, when we hear about a UFO, we think of flying saucers from outer space.

Years ago, something crashed in Roswell, NM. Nobody knows for sure what it was, except the US government! According to witnesses, there were three strange beings on the ground near the object that landed. The material the spacecraft was made out of did not look like any material on Earth. It was not the shape of anything that we have on Earth that can fly. There were other strange things about it to.

The US military sure got there pretty fast. They searched the whole area with a magnifying glass and picked up every single tiny piece of the UFO. So if someone else went out there later to find a piece of it, there was literally nothing left of it. Not even a speck of dust!

When the military finished cleaning up the remains of the UFO, they threatened all the witnesses saying, “If you tell anyone what happened here, we’ll kill you and your family! You are going to get on the news now and say it was just a weather balloon.”

People think they probably took the remains of the UFO and aliens to Area 51. I don’t think they took the UFO there. I think there was another top secret location that is even more top secret than Area 51 where they took it and no one knows where this location is. That would be a more likely place to take it.

The US military declassified some documents 15 or 20 years ago that tell about the US military attempting to make a flying saucers. The reason they never used the military version of the flying saucer is, because they couldn't get it to lift up off the ground more than a few feet and it would only fly a short distance before it fell to the ground. They eventually had to give up the project, because it was costing too much time and money. So it's not they didn't want to build a UFO, they just couldn't get it to work.