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
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.
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
![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
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