Jefferson Reflects Upon Massachusetts

 

 Henry Dearborn 

New England, and Massachusetts in particular, was supplying the French as General James Wolfe was enroute to the Plains of Abraham in 1759. In 1814 and the United States at war with the British, New England’s Federalist Party refused troops to repel the enemy, contemplated a separate peace with England, and came near secession from the Union in the December, 1814 Hartford Convention.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com   The Great American Political Divide

Jefferson Reflects Upon Massachusetts

“Oh Massachusetts! How I have lamented the degradation of your apostasy!

Massachusetts, with whom I went with pride in 1776, whose vote was my vote on every public question, and whose principles were then the standard of whatever was free or fearless. But she was then under the counsels of the two Adams’; while Strong, her present leader, was promoting petitions for submission to British power and British usurpation.

But should the State, once more, buckle on her republican harness, we shall receive her again as a sister, and recollect her wanderings among the crimes only of the parricide [Federal] party, which would have basely sold what their fathers so bravely won from the same enemy. Let us look forward, then, to the act of repentance, which, by dismissing her venal traitors, shall be the signal of return to the bosom, and to the principles of her brethren; and, if her late humiliation can just give her modesty enough to suppose that her Southern brethren are somewhat on par with her in wisdom, in patriotism, in bravery, and even in honesty, although not in psalm-singing, she will more justly estimate her own relative momentum in the Union.

With her ancient principles, she would really be great, if she did not think herself the whole.”

(Letter to General Henry Dearborn, March 1815; The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Funk & Wagnall’s Company, 1900, pg. 5)

Marshall County man arrested for allegedly abusing 3-year-old girl

Via Jeffery

 

AL

A Marshall County man has been charged for allegedly abusing a child, Albertville police said.

Diego Sebastian, 27, of Albertville, became a suspect after officers responded to a call from the Marshall South Medical Center Emergency Department on Wednesday about a 3-year-old girl with injuries. Police said the girl is related to Sebastian. The child was transferred to Children's Hospital in Birmingham with life-threatening injuries, police said.

Enough evidence was collected during a joint investigation involving the police department and the Marshall County Department of Human Resources to obtain a warrant for Sebastian. He was charged with aggravated child abuse Friday and was booked into Marshall County Jail on a $250,000 bond.

Desperation

Via David

The pathetic attempts to undo Donald Trump’s victory are signs of desperation, not strength, in the Deep State.

The post World War II consensus held that the USSR’s long-term goal was world domination. That assessment solidified after the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in 1949. A nuclear arms race, a space race, maintenance of a globe-spanning military, political, and economic confederation, and a huge expansion of the size and power of the military and intelligence complex were justified by the Soviet, and later, the Red Chinese threats. Countering those threats led the US to use many of the same amoral tactics that it deplored when used by its enemies: espionage, subversion, bribery, repression, assassination, regime change, and direct and proxy warfare.

Scorning principles of limited government, non-intervention in other nations’ affairs, and individual rights, the Deep State embraced the anti-freedom mindset of its purported enemies, not just towards those enemies, but toward allies and the American people. The Deep State gradually assumed control of the government and elected officials were expected to adhere to its policies and promote its propaganda. Only John F. Kennedy directly challenged it, firing CIA Director Allen Dulles after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was assassinated, and whether or not CIA involvement is ever conclusively proven, the allegations have been useful to the agency, keeping politicians in line. The Deep State also co-opted the media, keeping it in line with a combination of fear and favor.

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The Appalachian Messenger December 30, 2016

 

This week’s edition of the Appalachian Messenger has articles by:

Robert Gore
Desperation

T.L. Davis
Descent Into Madness

Paul Rosenberg
So What If It Was The Russians

Click here for the December 30, 2016 edition.

A tally of Iran sanctions relief includes more than $10 billion in cash, gold

Via Billy

In the three years since a preliminary nuclear deal was struck with Iran, Tehran has received more than $10 billion in sanctions relief from around the world in the form of cash and gold, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The large shipments of gold and cash, from oil funds unfrozen in numerous countries, represent the kind of financial relief that made Iran's leaders eager to complete the international nuclear accord. 

Some of the cash and gold went to Iran while the U.S. and other world powers negotiated with Tehran on a final nuclear deal. More shipments took place after final deal went into effect last January.

More @ 24 Hour Gold

Trump: Putin ‘very smart’ for not retaliating against U.S. over latest round of sanctions

Via Billy

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very smart” for not retaliating against a new round of U.S. sanctions against the former Cold War foe.

“Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!” tweeted Mr. Trump, who weathered unrelenting criticism during the campaign for heaping praise on Mr. Putin.

The tweet suggested that Mr. Trump, who made his deal-making skills a chief argument for his presidential run, will be open to negotiating with Russia over the status of the sanctions once he takes office Jan. 20.

More @ The  Washington Times

2016: The Worst of MSNBC and HGTV Beats CNN In Ratings

Via Billy

CNN Was Beaten In 2016 TV Ratings By HGTV

Freedom Caucus urges repeal of Michelle's nutrition rules

Via Billy

The House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction of Republicans in the House, has issued a 23-page list identifying 200 rules and regulations it wants to see gutted in a Donald Trump administration, and nutrition is a key target. Among the items identified: the FDA’s update to the Nutrition Facts panel and updated nutrition standards for school meals, both priorities championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

“The regulations have proven to be burdensome and unworkable for schools to implement,” the document says of the standards that mandate more fruits and vegetables and whole grains while cutting back on salt, sugar and fat. “Schools are throwing food away that students are not eating.” On the flip side, USDA maintains that schools are in near universal compliance, and health advocates argue that kids have largely adjusted to the changes.

More @ POLITICO

Mexican man charged with rape had 19 deportations, removals

Via Billy

A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

Three U.S. Republican senators — including Kansas' Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts — demanded this month that the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a bus in Geary County. He is being held in the Geary County jail in Junction City, which is about 120 miles west of Kansas City.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, from Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee, co-signed a Dec. 9 letter with Moran and Roberts to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calling it "an extremely disturbing case" and questioning how Martinez-Maldonado was able to re-enter and remain in the country.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article123768739.html#storylink=cpy

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Trump Inaugural Parade Brings Out ‘Best Of America’, Liberals Hardest Hit

Via Billy

 

Young Conservatives

There’s been a lot of media about Hollywood types and entertainers supposedly not wanting to perform at the inaugural because they have issues with the new president-elect.

Trump’s response was classic Trump: that he didn’t care about A-list celebrities, but he would rather have ‘the people.’

That’s exactly whose being invited, says one of the officials in charge of the parade, Boris Epshteyn, according to Newsmax.

In Epshteyn’s words, the ‘Best of America’.

President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade will include over 8,000 participants and 40 organizations, Boris Epshteyn, director of communications for the inaugural committee told Fox News.

Epshteyn said the participants represent “the truly best of America.” He noted they include representatives from the New York police department, as well as the military.

Several veterans service organizations will also be joining in the parade, The Hill reports.

American Veterans, Disabled American Veterans and Wounded Warriors are among the groups participating, according to the website which attributes the information to Trump’s inaugural committee.

These groups weren’t at Barack Obama’s inaugural, which while it had some veterans, leaned more heavily on Hollywood actors, musicians, and entertainers.

According to The Hill, other groups include a cross section including several college and high school bands, US Border Patrol Pipes & Drums, NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, The Freedom Riders, North Carolina Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, and the Boy Scouts of America.
It’ll be good to have a President interested in working for America again…

Paul Ryan welcomes Obama’s ‘overdue’ Russia retaliation

Via Billy

How do we get rid of this worthless Neocon?

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., thinks the Obama administration was justified in retaliating Thursday against Russia with sanctions for interfering with U.S. institutions. But he said it should’ve been done long ago.

Far from a full-throated endorsement of Obama’s actions, Ryan’s statement condemned the commander in chief for eight years of what he considers “ineffective foreign policy” that left the United States more vulnerable than it was when he took office in 2009. Nevertheless, Ryan agreed that Russia is a threat to global security. (The Obama administration is/was a far a larger threat)

More @ Yahoo

Rudy Giuliani: ‘Of course’ Obama is trying to box in Donald Trump

Via Billy

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Friday that President Obama’s late-term moves on Russia and Israel show Mr. Obama is trying to “box in” President-elect Donald Trump.

“Of course, he is,” Mr. Giuliani said on “Fox & Friends.”

“The 18 months of hacking — why didn’t he do something about it 10 months ago? It never would have happened,” said Mr. Giuliani, a top ally of Mr. Trump.

“There’s a certain pettiness that I hadn’t seen before,” he said.

“To do this after 18 months when you could have prevented it 10 months ago, to double-cross Israel in [the] last hours of his administration, after pretending he was a friend of Israel — which no one believed,” he said.

“To do those two things, to basically reduce the leverage of the next president,” Mr. Giuliani said.

More @ The Washington Times

Is Obama's Last Chore To Start A War With Russia? (Short and on Target)

Via Billy

A friend called me tonight after watching the TV "news" and told me that Comrade Obama was imposing more sanctions on Russia to their alleged plot to influence the US elections. Knowing Obama, such an action comes as no real surprise.

Having watched his actions in the past month I am convinced that he is in the process of trying to throw a monkey wrench into whatever gears of normal government may still remain in Washington. He wants, as do his bosses in the Ruling Establishment, to hand Trump the proverbial "hell in a hand basket" when he takes office. And part of that hell may be starting a war with the Russians. After all, it's what Hillary wanted to do and now that she seems to have been put aside, at least temporarily, Obama has got to do the whole chore on his own. Of course he will have plenty of guidance in the effort from those above him. A war with Russia that he could pass along to Trump would be his last great coup--sort of a "I'll spit in your eye" kind of departure. Somewhat akin to "dancing on your grave!"

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Law allows huge expansion of Petersburg National Battlefield

Via Bob

 

 Lest Darkness Fall

The Petersburg National Battlefield, a climactic site in the collapse of the Confederacy in the Civil War, has been cleared for a huge expansion under a new law that would authorize it to become the nation’s largest protected battlefield.

The park commemorates sites in the war’s longest battlefield conflict, marked by bursts of bloody trench warfare spanning some 10 months between 1864 and 1865.

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George Soros: Trump is a 'would-be dictator'.......? :)

Via Billy

Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros says President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is a threat to democracy.

“Democracy is now in crisis,” he wrote in a Project Syndicate op-ed Wednesday. "Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president.”

“Although Trump has toned down his rhetoric since he was elected, he has changed neither his behavior nor his advisers,” added Soros, a business magnate and Holocaust survivor. "His Cabinet comprises incompetent extremists and retired generals.”

More @ The Hill

The Facade Is Gone

The waning days of the Obama Administration have revealed what has always been evident, had the fake news media not covered it up and Democrats had not supported it: Barack Obama is a Muslim, who was elected president on the basis of a fake birth certificate. Everything he has done in office is a fraud and should be thrown out immediately upon the assumption of power by Donald Trump.

While I have always believed this, it was not too much of an issue with me, since the real problem was and is the fact that the un-American Democrats elected him, the anti-American media covered up his real agenda and the globalist Republicans refused to make it an issue. It is not the fraud of Barack Obama that is the problem, it is that there are so many enemies within the populace that allowed it, encouraged it and continue to support it.

So, I have always engaged the real problem, not the symptom of Barack Obama. George Soros is more of a threat to internal peace than Barack Obama. Obama is largely a failure on any number of issues. He did not destroy the United States of America; he did not inspire the race war he so desperately sought; he did not subjugate the United States to the United Nations. All he has done is a lot of my work for me.

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Deported Immigrants Get Taxpayer-Funded Grants From Obama Administration

Via Billy

The Obama administration is using a taxpayer-funded program to award business grants to Salvadoran migrants deported from the United States.

Run by the nonprofit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante and funded through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American Foundation, the program “facilitates [deportees’] reintegration into their communities and supports their enterprises by offering financial education, technical advice, and assistance with business plans.”

“So, if you break the rules and get deported, we’ll help you start a business back in your home country. How absurd,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

More @ The Daily Signal

9 Graphs Perfectly Sum Up What 8 Years of Obama Has Done to America…

Via Billy

Young Conservatives

Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election

Via Billy

The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.

The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.

Nor has it corroborated subsequent leaks from anonymous officials contending that the CIA believes the campaign was an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure Donald Trump’s victory.

More @ The Hill

Spicer: 'Business as usual is over'

Via Billy

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer says "business as usual is over" when President-elect Donald Trump assumes office.

"And I think what I mean by that is that you know, the president-elect looks at this and says what’s best for the country?" Spicer told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday.

"How do we put America and Americans first and stop trying to figure out how we cater to you know, pundits and the establishment class, big donors?"

Spicer said the president-elect will put everyday people "first and foremost."

"And when he talks about Americans first, he means I don’t care what a bunch of elites tell me or people at a dinner party," Spicer said.

 

More @ The Hill