Tuesday, January 19, 2016
A Person I Admire, By Dixie And Daddy
A Person I Admire
By Dixie Townsend
Nine Years Old
Rocky Mount Telegram
March 3, 2006
More @ Free North Carolina
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records
Via Billy
A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim.
"There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the
revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive
decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public
revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been
self-inflicted," Jackson wrote. "The Department itself has already
publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now
seeking to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures
sought here would be merely incremental, the records must be produced."
A federal judge has rejected President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, a gunrunning probe that allegedly allowed thousands of weapons to flow across the border into Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim.
More @ POLITICO
Former Confederate monument contractor finds $200K Lamborghini burned
Via Billy
The contractor who pulled out of the job to remove Confederate monuments in New Orleans after citing death threats found a $200,000 Lamborghini charred beyond recognition in the company's parking lot Tuesday morning, according to WDSU.
An attorney for the company, Roy Maughan Jr., told WDSU that while an investigation into the burnt vehicle is ongoing, its discovery was "extremely suspicious" considering the threats company owner David Mahler and his staff have received in recent days.
Keep pushing collectivists. The pendulum can only go so far one way.
The contractor who pulled out of the job to remove Confederate monuments in New Orleans after citing death threats found a $200,000 Lamborghini charred beyond recognition in the company's parking lot Tuesday morning, according to WDSU.
An attorney for the company, Roy Maughan Jr., told WDSU that while an investigation into the burnt vehicle is ongoing, its discovery was "extremely suspicious" considering the threats company owner David Mahler and his staff have received in recent days.
More @ NOLA
Caught On Tape: 1,000 Dutch Villagers Storm Town Hall In Anti-Migrant Melee
Via comment by Quartermain on Pro-immigrant filmmakers robbed and beaten filming...
Now, right-wing movements like PEGIDA in Germany and the
Soldiers of Odin in Finland are gaining popularity as nationalism rises
from the ashes of Europe’s checkered past.
As regular readers are by now acutely aware, Europeans are
growing increasingly frustrated with officials’ response to the bloc’s
worst refugee crisis since World War II.
To be sure, some countries were skeptical from the very
beginning. Take Hungary for example, whose firebrand PM Viktor Orban
built a series of migrant-be-gone fences late last summer and defended
them with tear gas and water cannons.
Be that as it may, most Europeans were willing to give
refugees the benefit of the doubt. That began to change after attacks on
Paris killed some 130 people in November and sentiment took a decisive
turn for the worst earlier this month when scores of sexual assaults
allegedly perpetrated by men of “Arab origin” on New Year’s Eve created a
bloc-wide scandal.
More with videos @ Zero Hedge
The General
January 19, 1807 -
October 12, 1870 (aged 63)
In honor of General Robert E. Lee's birthday here is a bit of information on the 4-4-0 locomotive "The General".
More @ Terry's Trains
The Remarkable Robert E. Lee
Via Billy
In March of 1870 General Robert E. Lee began his two-month journey to visit two family graves – daughter Annie and that of his father, “Light Horse Harry” Lee of Revolutionary War fame. He wrote his son Fitzhugh that “I wish to witness Annie’s quiet sleep . . . and to feel that her pure spirit is waiting in bliss in the land of the blessed.”
The Remarkable Robert E. Lee
“The train now puffed into North Carolina . . . With only a ninth of the South’s population, North Carolina had furnished a fifth of all the soldiers who fought, and a fourth of all that died in action. [Scalawag Reconstruction Governor] Holden would be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” found guilty and removed from office.
"Holden's impeachment is demanded by a sense of public virtue and due regard to the honor of the state. He is an exceedingly corrupt man and ought to be placed before the people as a public example of a tyrant condemned and punished."
[A staunch Republican] admitted: “One of the greatest evils affecting society in North Carolina is the incompetent and worthless State and federal officials now in power. They are for the most part pestiferous ulcers feeding upon the body politic.”
[At Charlotte] the ovation was overwhelming. By now, word had been flashed ahead by railroad telegraphers. The General, moving south on the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad, would soon be in South Carolina. On they rolled over the clicking track, into the deeply wounded and largely unreconstructed Deep South. Lee watched the landscape change, smelled the west spring flowers, saw the woodlands rich in magnolia trees and red buds . . .
If the physical situation was lovely, the human landscape was not. Sidney Andrews, an early visitor, had found in South Carolina “enough woe and want and ruin and ravage to satisfy the most insatiate heart.” [Sherman] had done more damage in South Carolina, pillaging a path across the State forty miles wide.
A New York Herald correspondent who followed the whole campaign wrote:
“As for wholesale burnings, pillage and devastation committed in South Carolina, magnify all I have said of Georgia some fifty-fold, and then throw in an occasional murder, ‘jis to bring an old hard-fisted cuss to his senses,” and you have an idea of the whole thing.”
Corruption still permeated Statehouse, courthouse, courtroom and city hall. Dixie had been subject to such immorality and private plundering that government seemed transformed into an engine of destruction.
The antics of the South Carolina [Reconstruction] legislature scandalized the nation. Having installed two hundred six richly embossed cuspidors, the carpetbaggers and Negroes stripped he cupboard clean. “They took everything they desired,” noted the Senate clerk, Josephus Woodruff, “from swaddling cloth and cradle to the coffin and the undertaker.” The “Rule of the robbers” had begun and it would last long after General Lee had come and gone.
Lack of ability, as well as lack of morality, brought on the sorry mess. In South Carolina’s 1868 Convention, seventy-six of the delegates were newly-emancipated Negroes, of whom only seventeen were taxpayers. Their governor, Ohio-born R.K. Scott, was induced to sign one of the more notorious pieces of legislation while he was intoxicated.
Knowing some of these things, Lee must have been sick at heart as he pulled into decimated Columbia. Rain was pouring down. Confederate veterans, used to rainy musters, defied the weather and marched smartly to the railroad station. Alexander Haskell, who had commanded the Seventh South Carolina Cavalry, was there; so was General Porter Alexander who had conducted the Gettysburg bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge.
After the usual acclaim and bravado, the train continued its journey westward through Lexington and Aiken counties toward the Georgia border. Besides all her man-inflicted woes, Georgia had suffered almost total crop failures in 1865 and 1866. Natives had tried to survive on roots and berries; the weak had starved to death. The stately rice plantations had disappeared, along with the larger cotton plantations. The problem was not how to plant new crops, but how to survive at all.
One thing, at least, was left to those who crowded to the stations whenever the train stopped; their respect for Robert E. Lee. What a burden it must have been for him to have realized this! That he could see this, understand it, and yet not be puffed up by pride, is one of the remarkable and admirable features of Robert E. Lee.”
(Lee After the War, Marshall W. Fishwick, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1963, pp. 188-192)
In March of 1870 General Robert E. Lee began his two-month journey to visit two family graves – daughter Annie and that of his father, “Light Horse Harry” Lee of Revolutionary War fame. He wrote his son Fitzhugh that “I wish to witness Annie’s quiet sleep . . . and to feel that her pure spirit is waiting in bliss in the land of the blessed.”
The Remarkable Robert E. Lee
“The train now puffed into North Carolina . . . With only a ninth of the South’s population, North Carolina had furnished a fifth of all the soldiers who fought, and a fourth of all that died in action. [Scalawag Reconstruction Governor] Holden would be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” found guilty and removed from office.
Tyrant Holden
My great great grandfather, Bartholomew F. Moore, Father Of The NC Bar, words below.
"Holden's impeachment is demanded by a sense of public virtue and due regard to the honor of the state. He is an exceedingly corrupt man and ought to be placed before the people as a public example of a tyrant condemned and punished."
[A staunch Republican] admitted: “One of the greatest evils affecting society in North Carolina is the incompetent and worthless State and federal officials now in power. They are for the most part pestiferous ulcers feeding upon the body politic.”
[At Charlotte] the ovation was overwhelming. By now, word had been flashed ahead by railroad telegraphers. The General, moving south on the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad, would soon be in South Carolina. On they rolled over the clicking track, into the deeply wounded and largely unreconstructed Deep South. Lee watched the landscape change, smelled the west spring flowers, saw the woodlands rich in magnolia trees and red buds . . .
If the physical situation was lovely, the human landscape was not. Sidney Andrews, an early visitor, had found in South Carolina “enough woe and want and ruin and ravage to satisfy the most insatiate heart.” [Sherman] had done more damage in South Carolina, pillaging a path across the State forty miles wide.
A New York Herald correspondent who followed the whole campaign wrote:
“As for wholesale burnings, pillage and devastation committed in South Carolina, magnify all I have said of Georgia some fifty-fold, and then throw in an occasional murder, ‘jis to bring an old hard-fisted cuss to his senses,” and you have an idea of the whole thing.”
Corruption still permeated Statehouse, courthouse, courtroom and city hall. Dixie had been subject to such immorality and private plundering that government seemed transformed into an engine of destruction.
The antics of the South Carolina [Reconstruction] legislature scandalized the nation. Having installed two hundred six richly embossed cuspidors, the carpetbaggers and Negroes stripped he cupboard clean. “They took everything they desired,” noted the Senate clerk, Josephus Woodruff, “from swaddling cloth and cradle to the coffin and the undertaker.” The “Rule of the robbers” had begun and it would last long after General Lee had come and gone.
Lack of ability, as well as lack of morality, brought on the sorry mess. In South Carolina’s 1868 Convention, seventy-six of the delegates were newly-emancipated Negroes, of whom only seventeen were taxpayers. Their governor, Ohio-born R.K. Scott, was induced to sign one of the more notorious pieces of legislation while he was intoxicated.
Knowing some of these things, Lee must have been sick at heart as he pulled into decimated Columbia. Rain was pouring down. Confederate veterans, used to rainy musters, defied the weather and marched smartly to the railroad station. Alexander Haskell, who had commanded the Seventh South Carolina Cavalry, was there; so was General Porter Alexander who had conducted the Gettysburg bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge.
After the usual acclaim and bravado, the train continued its journey westward through Lexington and Aiken counties toward the Georgia border. Besides all her man-inflicted woes, Georgia had suffered almost total crop failures in 1865 and 1866. Natives had tried to survive on roots and berries; the weak had starved to death. The stately rice plantations had disappeared, along with the larger cotton plantations. The problem was not how to plant new crops, but how to survive at all.
One thing, at least, was left to those who crowded to the stations whenever the train stopped; their respect for Robert E. Lee. What a burden it must have been for him to have realized this! That he could see this, understand it, and yet not be puffed up by pride, is one of the remarkable and admirable features of Robert E. Lee.”
(Lee After the War, Marshall W. Fishwick, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1963, pp. 188-192)
Quote Of The Decade
“Years of such have contributed irreplaceable harm to the movement, our enemies are laughing and rightly so.”
More @ WRSA
Pro-immigrant filmmakers robbed and beaten filming immigrants
Via comment by Quartermain on Rush busts NCGOPers for efforts to sabotage Trump ...
If a neo-conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, what do you call a European who goes to welcome Muslim immigrants and gets savagely robbed? Besides a fool? I guess I will have to leave that up to the Europeans, who will first have to agree on a language for the term. Esperanto?
If a neo-conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, what do you call a European who goes to welcome Muslim immigrants and gets savagely robbed? Besides a fool? I guess I will have to leave that up to the Europeans, who will first have to agree on a language for the term. Esperanto?
More @ American Thinker
After Cologne, Feminism is Dead
Via WRSA
If German history in general is short on laughs (even Schopenhauer’s explanation of the psychology of humour in The World As Will and Representation
is unrelentingly miserable) the period 1933 to 1945 is emphatically
joyless. Though one of the few tragi-comic chapters in the horror story
of Nazism concerns a strange little organization called the Association of German National Jews. They
were a pro-National Socialist Jewish group whose membership not only
welcomed Hitler’s accession but actively promoted the self-eradication
of Jewish identity and its absorption into the new, heroic,
master-culture represented by the Nazis (it was said of them, tongue
only partly in cheek, that their motto was “down with us”). In 1935,
predictably and forcibly, the group was disbanded. Whereas Stalin had
his useful idiots, for Hitler there could be no useful Jews.
With the above in mind, Marx needs revision.
With the above in mind, Marx needs revision.
More @ Quillette
Donald Trump Speaks at Liberty University Convocation
Via Frank "Trump calls for Christians to unite, promises to protect Christianity, recommends home schooling, praises 2nd Amendment.
But the best part is Falwell’s introductory speech which deserves some type of award. Falwell nearly cries making the speech.
Trump also brings up the insane US debt, shocking trade deficit, decaying infrastructure, dominance of Super PACs, and wasteful foreign policy. And he promises to “bring back Merry Christmas”. I can’t imagine any election video topping this video.
Negative: Trump promises to build US military up and replace Obamacare with... something (worse?)
Trump is definitely my conman for this election - so much better than conman Cruz."
But the best part is Falwell’s introductory speech which deserves some type of award. Falwell nearly cries making the speech.
Trump also brings up the insane US debt, shocking trade deficit, decaying infrastructure, dominance of Super PACs, and wasteful foreign policy. And he promises to “bring back Merry Christmas”. I can’t imagine any election video topping this video.
Negative: Trump promises to build US military up and replace Obamacare with... something (worse?)
Trump is definitely my conman for this election - so much better than conman Cruz."