>> i was in cairo in march, and i actually went to gieza, and i was allowed to wear my davie crockett hat. i think we should reciprocate. i didn't even have to sign a release. >> you are still wearing the davie crockett hat. >> they won't let you have the flame shot. >> could the park have handled this differently? if they didn't ask these women to take them off and something happened, there would be a lawsuit. >> yeah, and there could be a death. >> i am not an expert, but i didn't know you had to go to the end of the play land. >> it brings up another point, bill, any place named play land is never fun. >> it is more like decay lands. >> they have to throw it in your face. they are trying to prove something. >> they are looking for the machine. >> my mom thinks he was kidnapped. >> i knew him well. >> care was there as well, and i get -- let's say if they didn't -- if they didn't stop them from wearing it, couldn't that be seen as anti-muslim? >> don't stop it with headscarves. ban grown men wearing shirts and they are all at amusement parks. >> i would have to say, i would be less

. >> i ordered 150 novelty davie crockett hats from you and i still never received them. >> let's bringm out. >> 150 dancing girls in nothing but davie crockett hats. >> i have moved on to pot now, apparently. you said you don't think a .4% increase is significant, but here is the deal. sure, it is not. but the next year is another .4% and the year after that another .4%, and then after 200 years it is 100%. think. >> which doesn't particularly bother me. my point was i don't mind people who smoke pot. i think we are fighting a wrong battle trying to put people who are harmless and smoking. >> i think every drug -- at this point i want every drug legalized except pot. i am tired of listening to potheads talk. >> excellent point. you are right. >> it sounds like a war on bill. >> no, it doesn't. >> greg, you said of the story, a new government survey of drug use indicates a slipe up -- a slight up tick in sloochy-buchy. >> i tried to rhyme it with steve busey, but maybe went too far. i don't know what that meant. >> let jay and silent bob call it pot. it is well known in the community, b

a chance to actually live on the frontier and to be a pioneer like his heroes daniel boone and davy crockett and so on. and it would give him a chance to hunt because of all the big game which i suspect was a wonderful distraction from the depression that was haunting him at this time. and it gave him a rugged life with a lot of fresh hope so there was hope that he could recover his health and on the side, ride books and he did, in fact, write several books while he was out there and established himself as an author. now, before we go on with roosevelt, let's take a look at the badlands environment of that time. at that time was june 8th, 1884, that's when he arrived there. he got off a train in medora to go to territory, which is a brand-new town. there were about 100 buildings there. it had only been sustained, the town about 4 or 5 months earlier. there were about 300 residents of this town permanent in transient residents. and this included miners and lumberjacks, former buffalo hunters and ranchers and former cowboys. rambling in the dakota badlands was unlike any cattle operation today

to vermonters he's part paul bunyan, part davy crockett and two part jack daniels. [laughter] >> as soon as i said i was writing about ethan allen, i saw a gesture i had never seen before. oh, ethan allen, oh, ethan allen. and seems to be the part vermonters are most proud of. [laughter] >> but they know little beyond that, even beyond the schools. ethan allen, among other things, i found, just to start out with a little summary -- in addition to taking the most formidable fort with 89 men and not fire a shot, he was the first published diased philosopher. he organized 29 communities to defend the new hampshire grants as it was known. there still wasn't a new hampshire. preserving the homesteads until the revolution came along, for 40 years. he was a prolific author. i was surprised at how much he wrote. but he was better known as the land speculator and the two things connected between ethan allen bought and sold land, bought it as cheaply as he could and sold it in small parcels to hundreds and hundreds of frontier families but if you didn't have any money on hand

been a source of fascination ever since detopo's trip across america in 1830 when he met both davy crockett and jim bowie on his trip. his book "democracy in america" is still the best description of america's unique ideals in action. another outstanding text is america's exceptionalism by seymour martin lipsick. the presiding officer: the senator has 10 minutes remaining. mr. alexander: i thank the chair. a third question i ask my students is why is it you can't become japanese or french but you must become an american? if i were to immigrate to japan, i couldn't become a japanese. i would always be an american living in japan. but if i were a japanese citizen who came here and i wanted to become a citizen, i would have to become an american, and we would welcome that person with open arms. why? it's because our identity is not based on ethnicity but on a creed of ideas and values in which most of us believe. historian richard hofstetter wrote it is our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one. to become american citizens, immigrants must take a test demonstrating their knowle