Saturday, October 20, 2018

VOA: Pompeo: Migrant Caravan Traveling To U.S. ‘Not Organic’

Caravan 'being created by outside forces and supported by them,' he says

 

Caveat, America, Emptor

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Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for, republicanism than Thomas Jefferson. It was the common belief that a true republic had to be of a fairly limited size, on the model of the Greek republics, in which Athens, at perhaps 200,000 was the largest, or the Italian republics of the middle ages, which generally numbered no more than 70,000 or 80,000 people. The point was that since these operated not by face-to-face democracy but by representation, the deliberative body to which citizens sent their delegates had to be limited—in the hundreds, but certainly no bigger than the Athenian assembly that was 500 at its largest. But Jefferson, then President of a nominal republic of 5 million people, still believed that the American system was a republic: first, because each state was sovereign and could nullify Federal laws that it thought unconstitutional, second because the popular legislative body (the House) was limited to one representative for every 30,000 people, so that even the redistricting after the 1800 census would limit the number to about 178 representatives, a workable body.Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for, republicanism than Thomas Jefferson.

It was the common belief that a true republic had to be of a fairly limited size, on the model of the Greek republics, in which Athens, at perhaps 200,000 was the largest, or the Italian republics of the middle ages, which generally numbered no more than 70,000 or 80,000 people. The point was that since these operated not by face-to-face democracy but by representation, the deliberative body to which citizens sent their delegates had to be limited—in the hundreds, but certainly no bigger than the Athenian assembly that was 500 at its largest. But Jefferson, then President of a nominal republic of 5 million people, still believed that the American system was a republic: first, because each state was sovereign and could nullify Federal laws that it thought unconstitutional, second because the popular legislative body (the House) was limited to one representative for every 30,000 people, so that even the redistricting after the 1800 census would limit the number to about 178 representatives, a workable body.

Disruptive and Inharmonious Boston Abolitionists

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The aristocratic cotton manufacturers who supported Henry Clay’s “American System” organized the Massachusetts Whig party out of the chaos of Andrew Jackson’s reelection in 1832. They and their allies saw high tariffs as job insurance, and resented Jackson’s appeal to immigrant labor, farmers and urban workers. These Massachusetts Whigs had grown wealthy from Eli Whitney’s invention and slave-produced cotton from the South, and considered abolitionists as enemies of the Constitution and peace. Both Whitney and the mill owners were responsible for perpetuating slavery in the South as they made cotton production highly profitable.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.org   The Great American Political Divide

Disruptive and Inharmonious Boston Abolitionists

“The leaders of the Whig party, for a number of reasons, were particularly responsive to the abolitionist threat. Several members of their class, including Sewall, Edmund Quincy, Ellis Gray Loring, Francis Jackson, James Russell Lowell, William Ellery Channing, and Wendell Phillips, had entered abolitionist ranks and so threatened the newly-restored [upper Boston] class unity.

Although the aristocrats were engaged in a great many reforms, abolitionism never became fashionable or even acceptable to the social elite as a whole, and aristocrats who associated with the abolitionists were quickly ostracized. Consequently, many of the leading abolitionists came from less socially-distinguished families and were most successful in their appeals to the middle class.

The Whig leaders, who regarded abolitionism as a disruptive influence in American society and deplored the abolitionists’ opposition to harmony with the South and the maintenance of the Union, seldom distinguished the moderate abolitionists from the Garrisonian extremists.

Worst of all, from the Whig point of view, the abolitionists, in their demand for immediate, uncompensated emancipation, had attacked property right which the conservative Whigs regarded as fundamental to every other right.

The Whig leaders opposed all denunciations of slavery and slaveholders, many of whom were personal friends, business associates, and political allies. They considered slavery a redundant issue in Massachusetts politics and anti-slavery propaganda worse than meaningless in the North. Although most of them, to be sure, considered slavery an evil, they emphasized that it was an institution wholly controlled by the States, and as such was protected by the Constitution, which was no to be tampered with.

Anti-slavery agitation in the North would only bring about sectional disharmony and, in addition, worsen the condition of the slave in the South. Abbott Lawrence summed up the conservative Whig position when he wrote:

“I am in favor of maintaining the compact as established by our fathers. I am for the Union as it is. I have no sympathy with the abolition party of the North and East. I believe they have done mischief to the cause of freedom in several States of the Union. The abolition of slavery in the States is exclusively a State question and one with which I do not feel that I should meddle or interfere in any shape or form.”

(Cotton Versus Conscience: Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southwestern Expansion, 1843-1848, Kinley J. Brauer, University of Kentucky Press, 1967, excerpts pp. 22-24

Lost my job



  

 
One of my regular contributors, "David," and the owner of davidhuntpe.blogspot.com, has lost his job thanks to a "Special Snowflake SJW."  He's a Mechanical Engineer in New Hampshire and while looking for a new full-time job is also starting a consultancy.  His specialization is plastic product design, and can also help with obtaining competitive-priced molding tools.  He has a focus in designing products for manufacturing and assembly.  Check out his portfolio at
https://davidhuntpe.wordpress.com/portfolio/

One of his prior consulting customers said: "This is the first time [in launching such products] that the first housing prototype went together well."

For reference, this is the product being discussed: http://sage-design.net/GenGuard.html

He is in the process of getting a computer with CAD, but once that is up and running he can do CAD modeling and production drawings.  His current client - he has one - has gotten not only designs and drawings, but detailed assembly instructions.  He is also good at DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), Value Analysis / Value Engineering, and helping to identify potential areas for cost reductions.

 He's hoping to scrounge up enough business to make a go of being independent.  Also, please take a look at his linkedin profile:www.linkedin.com/in/davidohuntpellc


Denver? I thought it must be Portland...............

Via Craig

JOBS NOT MOBS


'Gosnell' Being Dropped From Movie Theaters Despite Solid Performance: "It’s hard not to believe it isn’t about the content of the movie."

 

"Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer" surpassed box office expectations upon its release last week by entering into the Top 10 grossing films with a revenue of $1,235,000 on just 668 screens.

Despite the solid performance for an independent film of this sort, nearly 200 theaters have inexplicably dropped the film, including those in major cities where it was performing the strongest.

Coming into its second week, "Gosnell" has dropped from 668 theaters to 480 theaters – a full 188 theater drop, 15 of which were top-performing multiplexes. 

According to John Sullivan, the film's marketing director who also served as a producer, the drop cannot be written off as a mere coincidence or "business as usual."

12,500 People Change Affiliation to GOP In Wyoming – 6,000 Were Dems & 4,355 Unaffiliated

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The state of Wyoming is becoming increasingly red.

A new report shows that over 12,500 people have switched their party affiliation, with more than 6,000 Democrats becoming Republicans.

Also, over 4,300 “unaffiliated persons” registered as Republicans, as well.

Migrant caravan halted on Mexico-Guatemala border, pressure to turn back mounts

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(Updates with comment from Mexican president)
By Delphine Schrank

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people in a caravan of migrants that crossed from Honduras into Guatemala staged a dramatic bid to breach the Mexican border on Friday, as local governments began preparing to disperse the convoy under pressure from Washington.
Migrants poured through Guatemalan border posts in the town of Tecun Uman and onto a bridge leading to Mexico, only to be halted by dozens of Mexican police in riot gear. Mexico's president sharply rebuked the migrants for the border surge.

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned the Central American caravan must be stopped before it reaches the United States, and Honduras and Guatemala said late on Friday they were mobilizing to assist the return of Honduran migrants to their homeland.

                                                            More @ Thomson Reuters