Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Restoring Some Foundations

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In order to protect our future (if such is still possible) and to pass on to our grandchildren truth and accurate history, we must have an understanding of our past much beyond that which the “good old boys” of revisionist/humanist “history” will ever be willing to give us. Let us briefly examine a few truths that will never flow from the pens of James McPherson and his Cultural Marxist clique.

The War for Southern Independence was mainly theological in nature. It was partly cultural, but that was based on theology as all culture is based on theology. It was partly economic and partly political, but the theological issues were the main issues, even though “historians” today will never address that just as they are extremely reluctant to address the amount of Marxist penetration in the early Republican Party and in Lincoln’s armies. It’s almost as if they take the position that “what you don’t know can’t hurt us.”

However, a true understanding of history must subordinate other causes to the theological cause. In Webster’s 1828 Dictionary a confederacy is defined as a league or covenant. Even in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary it is defined as a “league or compact” which is pretty close. Now “covenant” is a religious term, a biblical term. At its root, our “Civil” War was fought over the definition of that term “covenant.” The South saw that term in a biblical context and sought to revive (confoedus revivo) the old national covenent which the states made when they created a very limited federal government.

Goodies from Ol' Remus


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Nymphs and Satyr
William Bouguereau 1873
Like the clever definition of mythology: "what never was, but always is", William Bouguereau (La Rochelle France 1825—1905) was little more than a persistent legend until recent times. Bouguereau, a consummate painter of the human figure, perhaps the era's Michelangelo, was the traditionalist most reviled by modern art, yet such was his genius he outlasted the effort to expunge him.
Rehabilitated—more nearly, rediscovered—in the later 20th century, his works are again the aspiring artist's self-measure and command prices equal to their value. Almost exclusively a genre painter, Nymphs and Satyr, above, is one of his few classicist works.
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History, rhyming - The Obama Regime's military build-up over the past 6 or so years is no less frightening, no less obvious and no less a portend of their intention, than was Germany's in the '30s. Obama told America who he is, what he is and what he intended, most starkly with his “domestic military police force” comments. Tyrants only ever have one destination; tyranny.
The Gantt Guy, comment at falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit

art-link-symbol-small-rev01.jpg CNN is on DC's payroll, says CNN journalist
Amber Lyon is an award-winning journalist who worked for CNN. She says while working at CNN she was ordered to report fake stories, delete unfriendly stories adverse to the Obama administration, and construct stories in specific manners while working for the left-wing network. Why? According to Lyon CNN is paid by foreign and domestic Government agencies for specific content. Let me repeat that. CNN is paid by the US government for reporting on some events, and not reporting on others. The Obama Administration pays CNN for content control, says sundance in this article, The Last Refuge, at The Conservative Treehouse.

art-link-symbol-small-rev01.jpg How to win in Iraq
After the administration blundered on Benghazi, on the Arab Spring, and Syria, Heaven itself has afforded it one last chance to set itself right. It is almost impossible for the administration to screw it up. All it has to do is nothing. Yes, Nothing! So let them shoot it out. When the Mideast is a flaming wreck, the administration should encourage Putin or China to intervene. Nothing sinks empires faster than trying to tame the Muslims. We will get out, and avoid our own collapse, says Mike Konrad in this article, Let Them Kill Each Other, at American Thinker.

Designated dimwits - Contemporary television advertising would lead us to believe that white male physicians are a faint and failing minority being overtaken by waves of minority medical graduates... the dunces and dupes whose wives and all-wise minority physicians point out their delinquent behaviors... the message delivered to white children across this nation is that your daddy is a moron who can’t find his butt with both hands.
Russ Vaughn at americanthinker.com

Hillary's book bombs - Between us, they are nervous at Simon & Schuster. Sales were well below expectations and the media was a disaster. They sold 60,000 hard covers first week and 24,000 ebooks. Simon & Schuster hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week. The 60k represents a less than 10% sell thru based on what they shipped. They will be lucky to sell 150,000 total lifetime. It's a bomb but it will be interesting to see how they spin it.
"Veteran publishing source", to Daniel Halper at weeklystandard.com

The Bill and Barry Show - I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived. I've had two successors since I left the White House—Bush and Obama—and I’ve heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president—none whatsoever. I really can’t stand the way Obama ­always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me. Sometimes we just stare at each other. It’s pretty damn awkward. Now we both have favors to ask each other, and it’s going to be very unpleasant. But I’ve got to get this guy to owe me and to be on our side.
Bill Clinton, Blood Feud, The Clintons Vs. The Obamas by Edward Klein, via Thomas Lifson at americanthinker.com

Lies my leaders told me - "Socialists" clearly now no longer seek the amelioration of social problems through economic restructuring, if they ever did, but rather to destroy the nation state and traditional society, root and branch, in favor of a controlling elite and a borderless world awash in a tidal wave of third-world primitivism, dysfunction, and failure. This objective cannot be admitted and thus the necessity for the lies.
Col. B. Bunny at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com

Confederate Veteran Spotlight - Howard Malcolm Walthall Co. D, 1st VA Infantry


Photo: The Virginia Flaggers are pleased to announce the release of the first in a series of profiles of Confederate Veterans who resided at the Old Soldiers’ Home, on the grounds of Confederate Memorial Park in Richmond, VA. 

For over 140 weeks, the Virginia Flaggers have forwarded the colors, twice a week, on the sidewalk outside of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) after museum officials forced the removal of Confederate Battle Flags from the portico of the Confederate Memorial Chapel.

One cannot truly appreciate the history and significance of the Chapel, nor the degree of desecration committed when museum leadership, driven by their own misguided prejudice and ignorance, removed the flags, without knowing the (personal) stories of the men who built the Chapel, worshiped in it every Sunday, and gathered each time the bell tolled, to pay their respects to and honor their comrades, as one by one, the Veterans passed over to eternity. 

For many of our Flaggers, this fight is about more than just defending our Heritage against yet another unwarranted and unprovoked attack.  For those whose veins course with the blood of the men who actually lived and died at the Old Soldiers’ Home, it is personal...

Veteran Profile: Howard Malcolm Walthall, Co. D, 1st VA Infantry
By Laurel Kathryn Scott

On April 21, 1861, without consulting his parents, 19-year-old Howard Malcolm Walthall—a clerk in Richmond, Virginia—stepped into a vacant store and enlisted to defend his home. Like his younger brother Robert Ryland Walthall and other locals, he became a private in the 1st Virginia Regiment just days after that state's secession from the Union. "I was in my teens then, and with crude ideas of what going to war meant," he later wrote. But he knew that the Southern states refused to submit to oppressive legislation. He also knew that attempts to prevent secession by military force "fired the southern spirit, and they made ready to resist the invasion."

Co. D, 1st VA entered the fray July 18, 1861 at Blackburn's Ford. In his post-war memoir, Howard vividly described his involvement in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Frayser's Farm and Second Manassas, not to mention Gettysburg (where he survived Pickett's Charge), Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff and Five Forks. He was captured at Second Manassas and imprisoned briefly in Alexandria's Slave Pen and Washington's Old Capitol Prison. In May, 1864, he saw his brother shot at Drewry's Bluff after "standing [and] shouting to the Yanks to come on." Ryland died in Howard's arms. He had fought his last fight, but Howard faced quite an ordeal getting his body out of the swamp and to Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

The following spring, after the desperate clash at Five Forks, capture seemed imminent and the men of Howard's company were told to fend for themselves. Howard commandeered a horse and rode to Richmond. There he said goodbye to his family, escaping as the enemy poured into the city and the evacuation fires started. Toting bags of Confederate money for sons of families left in Richmond, he sold the horse and rejoined the remnants of his company at Amelia Court House. During the army's chaotic retreat—possibly from Sayler's Creek—Howard was struck in the arm by a stray bullet. He distributed the money as promised, but as his wound needed tending and he dared not risk capture, he pressed on toward Lynchburg to see a cousin who was a doctor. Soon after his arrival, Howard learned of Lee's surrender. He was paroled at Lynchburg on April 15 and walked back to Richmond, where he found his neighborhood destroyed by fire and his family homeless.

After the war, Walthall rebuilt his life in Richmond and went to work in the tobacco manufacturing business. He married and raised four children, becoming a deacon of the First Baptist Church and traveling around the world. He was also active with R.E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans.

In 1923, at the age of 82, Howard—by then a blind, feeble widower—applied for residency at the Lee Camp's Soldiers' Home. In a touching letter to the home's superintendant, he asked for a first-floor room because of his difficulty negotiating stairs, and said he looked forward to living among his old comrades-in-arms. "With the care and pleasant surroundings at the home, I hope to be out of doors a great deal," he wrote. "I am well acquainted with several men in cottages ... If Mr. Chamberlin's [old] room is unoccupied next to Mr. Bachelor, it would be very agreeable to have it, as then some of my friends might be of service in my blindness in telling me the time, etc."

Howard left the Soldiers' Home on Jan. 13, 1924 and died two days later at Grace Hospital, his daughters by his side.

90 years after Howard Malcolm Walthall left this earth, his cousin, Laurel Kathryn Scott, is determined that his sacrifice, courage and devotion to God and country will not be forgotten, as she forwards the Colors in his memory, and in protest of those who have desecrated the Confederate Memorial Chapel and the hallowed ground on which it rests, and dishonored our gallant Confederate Veterans. 

God bless the Walthall brothers, and God bless those who stand and speak for those who no longer have a voice!

Photo:  Left:  Howard (on the left) with his younger brother Robert (“Ryland”) in their uniforms, 1861.  Right:  Howard Walthall, circa 1909  -  Courtesy of Grace Walthall Turner Karish

RETURN the flags!
RESTORE the honor!

#VMFA
#VaFlaggers
 Photo: Left: Howard (on the left) with his younger brother Robert (“Ryland”) in their uniforms, 1861. Right: Howard Walthall, circa 1909 - Courtesy of Grace Walthall Turner Karish
 
By Laurel Kathryn Scott

On April 21, 1861, without consulting his parents, 19-year-old Howard Malcolm Walthall—a clerk in Richmond, Virginia—stepped into a vacant store and enlisted to defend his home. Like his younger brother Robert Ryland Walthall and other locals, he became a private in the 1st Virginia Regiment just days after that state's secession from the Union. "I was in my teens then, and with crude ideas of what going to war meant," he later wrote. But he knew that the Southern states refused to submit to oppressive legislation. He also knew that attempts to prevent secession by military force "fired the southern spirit, and they made ready to resist the invasion."

Co. D, 1st VA entered the fray July 18, 1861 at Blackburn's Ford. In his post-war memoir, Howard vividly described his involvement in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Frayser's Farm and Second Manassas, not to mention Gettysburg (where he survived Pickett's Charge), Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff and Five Forks. He was captured at Second Manassas and imprisoned briefly in Alexandria's Slave Pen and Washington's Old Capitol Prison. In May, 1864, he saw his brother shot at Drewry's Bluff after "standing [and] shouting to the Yanks to come on." Ryland died in Howard's arms. He had fought his last fight, but Howard faced quite an ordeal getting his body out of the swamp and to Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

The following spring, after the desperate clash at Five Forks, capture seemed imminent and the men of Howard's company were told to fend for themselves. Howard commandeered a horse and rode to Richmond. There he said goodbye to his family, escaping as the enemy poured into the city and the evacuation fires started. Toting bags of Confederate money for sons of families left in Richmond, he sold the horse and rejoined the remnants of his company at Amelia Court House. During the army's chaotic retreat—possibly from Sayler's Creek—Howard was struck in the arm by a stray bullet. He distributed the money as promised, but as his wound needed tending and he dared not risk capture, he pressed on toward Lynchburg to see a cousin who was a doctor. Soon after his arrival, Howard learned of Lee's surrender. He was paroled at Lynchburg on April 15 and walked back to Richmond, where he found his neighborhood destroyed by fire and his family homeless.

After the war, Walthall rebuilt his life in Richmond and went to work in the tobacco manufacturing business. He married and raised four children, becoming a deacon of the First Baptist Church and traveling around the world. He was also active with R.E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans.

In 1923, at the age of 82, Howard—by then a blind, feeble widower—applied for residency at the Lee Camp's Soldiers' Home. In a touching letter to the home's superintendant, he asked for a first-floor room because of his difficulty negotiating stairs, and said he looked forward to living among his old comrades-in-arms. "With the care and pleasant surroundings at the home, I hope to be out of doors a great deal," he wrote. "I am well acquainted with several men in cottages ... If Mr. Chamberlin's [old] room is unoccupied next to Mr. Bachelor, it would be very agreeable to have it, as then some of my friends might be of service in my blindness in telling me the time, etc."

Howard left the Soldiers' Home on Jan. 13, 1924 and died two days later at Grace Hospital, his daughters by his side.

90 years after Howard Malcolm Walthall left this earth, his cousin, Laurel Kathryn Scott, is determined that his sacrifice, courage and devotion to God and country will not be forgotten, as she forwards the Colors in his memory, and in protest of those who have desecrated the Confederate Memorial Chapel and the hallowed ground on which it rests, and dishonored our gallant Confederate Veterans.

God bless the Walthall brothers, and God bless those who stand and speak for those who no longer have a voice!

RETURN the flags!
RESTORE the honor!

#VMFA
#VaFlaggers

Staff sergeant who fought off 200 Taliban fighters despite being unable to WALK in deadly battle that killed nine of his comrades to be awarded Medal of Honor

Via LH

President Obama is scheduled to bestow the Medal of Honor on Pitts, left, during a White House ceremony on July 21 

Ryan Pitts is set to receive the medal for his heroics during one of the deadliest battles of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan
 

He spent 90 minutes fighting off enemy fighters despite shrapnel injuries to both legs and an arm that left the young soldier critically wounded

Nine paratroopers gave their lives and 27 were wounded at The Battle of Wanat

Pitts will become the ninth living recipient of the medal for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan
    

More with video @ Daily Mail

WE HAVE THE DEED TO CONFEDERATE CIRCLE - THE PARTY'S ON - Y'ALL COME ON DOWN TO FORT DIXIE!

Via Billy

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We hope that y'all are planning to come to Ole Bedford's 15th Annual Birthday Celebration at Fort Dixie this July 12, 2014!!!  Cannon Fires kickoff at 3:00 PM.We are planning a DOUBLE-BARREL CELEBRATION  this year...we have a VICTORY against the City of Selma...we have the deed to Confederate Circle as of Jan 27, 2014 and our crew has been back at work since April 16, 2014!!! 
 
We are planning a special day for General Forrest this year & we hope that you will make plans to come celebrate with us. I am attaching my annual newsletter to this message so that you might read in detail the update on our situation here in Selma. If you cannot open the attachment please send me an e-mail & I will copy & paste it to you.  I have mailed out several hundred packages via snail mail to our supporters which includes drawing tickets for the bronze mini bust of General Forrest. If you would like tickets & have not received a package from me in the mail, please send me an e-mail & I will send you the page of tickets via pdf attachment & you can print them off & send tickets & check back to me. Print as many as you would like to buy and also let your friends know about the drawing if they would like to participate. All proceeds go to our Security & Beautification & Enhancement project in Confederate Circle.
 
I would like you all to know that since this case has ended and our men have been back at work in Confederate Circle, we have had no problems with Rose Sanders or her footsoldiers. The judge has maintained jurisdiction over this case for 365 days to make sure the settlement stipulations are complied with.
 
Again, I want to thank everyone for their support during this THIRD BATTLE FOR SELMA...we could not have prevailed had it not been for your prayers, friendship, moral and financial support. Thank you for believing in our cause here in Selma to pay homage to General Nathan B. Forrest which he is so honorably deserving for his valiant defense of Selma.  We are very thankful that we had a federal judge who obviously respected the rule of law!
 
If any of you have any questions about our case, please don't hesitate to call me. I will be happy to discuss it with you!  If you need directions to Fort Dixie, send me an e-mail & I will send the directions to you.
 
The Spirit of Nathan Bedford Forrest
Lives in Selma, Alabama! 
We Have a Victory in Selma!
Y’all Come!


15th Annual Birthday Celebration of
Lt Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest at
FORT DIXIE!

HOME OF BUTCH & PAT GODWIN
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SATURDAY JULY 12, 2014
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GEORGE WILL ON MIRACULOUS IRS COINCIDENCE OF CRASHED HARD DRIVES: "Religions Have Been Founded on Less"

Via avordvet

 
Anonymous said... 
 
I run a data center. Disk drives that are left running continuously last between two and three years. Three years is about 36 months.

The odds of a disk failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. The odds of three drives failing in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656. The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month is 37 to the 7th power = 1 in 78,664,164,096.

Of course this is very simplified because disk failure modes are more at end-of-service-life rather than linearly spread over median life. So what if I am off by a factor of 4X? This crude calculation gets us into the same astronomical ballpark. You could insure against this event happening by buying lottery tickets.

--theBuckWheat

More @ Doug Ross

Skydiver cheats death after colliding with PLANE as he comes in to land

Roundabout via Cousin Colby


Dated.

John Frost, 49, was hurled 75ft into the air and slammed into the ground but amazingly escaped with minor injuries. 

More @ Mirror

Kurds offered to help stop ISIS months ago — but didn’t hear back from the White House

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It’s not some shadowy anonymous source from the peshmerga’s middle management who’s claiming this, do note. It’s Nechirvan Barzani, the Kurds’ prime minister. That’s the second time in four days that a major foreign official has accused Obama’s America of being a fickle, disengaged ally.

Thoughtfully considering the Kurds’ offer and declining so as not to get sucked back into Iraq would be one thing, but that’s not what happened according to Barzani. Apparently, we simply didn’t respond.

The Kurds became especially alarmed at signs that ISIS had already formed a shadow government in Mosul, weeks before initiating the carefully preplanned takeover of the city 10 days ago. According to the same Kurdish military sources it was accomplished with ease and without serious fighting after local Iraqi commanders agreed to withdraw.

More @ Hot Air

NC: Red State Dems to Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly: Please Stay Away

 

Red state Democrats who are fighting to overcome their support of gun control and get re-elected are asking gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly to stay out of their states.

This comes after Breibart News' June 4 report that Giffords and Kelly planned to help Senators Mark Udall (D-CO), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Kay Hagan (D-NC) get re-elected this November.

Now Udall, Landrieu, and Hagan are pushing Giffords and Kelly to stay away from their races.

More @ Breitbart

“Well-Regulated”

 militia

We hear it constantly from droning citizen control cultists.

The argument goes something like this.
“You want to listen to the last part of the Second Amendment where is says ‘shall not be infringed,’ but you ignore the part where it says you have to be a ‘well-regulated militia.’”
Invariably, they argue that “well-regulated” means “subject to extensive government regulations.”
But what does “well-regulated really mean?

Constitution.org argues:

More @ Bearing Arms

LA mayor exemplifies America’s decline

 LA mayor exemplifies America's decline

Last week, during the official celebration of the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup, the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, told a jammed Staples Center that “there are two long-standing rules for politicians . … They say never, ever be pictured with a drink in your hand and never swear.

But this is a big f—–g day,” he said, holding up a bottle of Bud Light.

You read that right. In front of 18,000 people at Staples and hundreds of thousands of others watching on television — many of them, of course, children — the mayor of the second-largest city in America held up a beer bottle and used the F-word.
This was not a whisper overheard by reporters. This was not an accidental loss of self-control. This was a planned use of obscene language in a public forum.
The question is: Does it matter?

More @ Human Events

Bowe Bergdahl Out Of The Headlines, Hospital

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Now that the heat has died down, it’s safe to start letting Bowe Bergdahl reintegrate into the society he hates. With all the other Democrat Party scandals to cover, who cares about a deserter we got back in exchange for five terrorists?

Chris Carroll, Stars and Stripes:

NC: Docs Uncomfortable Judging Patients’ Competency to Carry Guns

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Some U.S. jurisdictions are now requiring a doctor’s OK for people to carry a concealed gun, but a new survey suggests many doctors aren’t comfortable with that role.

The survey, of 222 North Carolina doctors, found that 21 percent had been asked in the past year to sign “competency permits” for patients to carry a concealed weapon. By signing, the doctor attests to the patient’s mental and physical ability to safely carry a firearm.

The problem, experts say, is that there are no standard definitions of physical or mental “competence,” and doctors have been left to make those calls on their own.

“There are no guidelines on this,” said Dr. Adam Goldstein, the senior researcher on the study and a professor of family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Laws vary, but in many U.S. states people who apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon have to be deemed physically and mentally competent. In some jurisdictions, the sheriff’s office contacts the applicant’s primary care doctor.

More @ Health

Iraq inks deal to pave way for US return


The Obama administration secured two diplomatic concessions from Iraq’s government on Monday: an immunity deal for U.S. special operations forces and a commitment from Iraq’s prime minister to begin forming a new government.

The immunity agreement paves the way for 300 special operations forces to begin training and advising Iraq’s army, which has repeatedly folded in the face of a charge by the radical Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that has taken over a territory stretching across both countries.

More @ Townhall

ISIS threatens to storm Jordan with 15,000 fighters


Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are claiming on jihadist websites that the group is preparing an operation in which more than 15,000 of its militants will storm into Jordan, WND has found.

The claims were made on Arabic jihadist websites in which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is known to be active.

While it was unclear whether or not the ISIS could fulfill its threat to storm Jordan, the al-Qaida-inspired group on Sunday reportedly seized control of Iraq’s main border crossing with Jordan.

Alongside its capture of the Turabil border crossing, three more towns in Iraq’s western Anbar province fell to ISIS, putting the jihadist group within reach of Jordan.

According to informed Middle Eastern security officials, Jordan has been holding emergency meetings since Sunday to discuss a possible military response, while the Jordanian air force was placed on high alert.

More @ WND

Trey Gowdy OWNS smug IRS Commissioner: Learn the law before you spew talking points

Via Billy

Trey Gowdy, R- South Carolina came down hard on IRS Commissioner John Koskinen at a Monday night hearing on Capitol Hill.

Gowdy showed his chops by educating the commissioner on “spoliation of evidence,” a legal term meaning the jury can draw a negative inference if a party fails to preserve evidence that could be damaging.

“It’s common sense, right?” Gowdy asked.

After a making sure Koskinen had a firm understanding of the concept,  Gowdy continued by saying the Internal Revenue Service is not above the law and that this principle applies to the agency the same way it applies to the American people.