One of my readers and occasional contributor is now running his own engineering consulting company focused primarily on plastics design, material selection, tooling, and so on.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
David O. Hunt,PE
One of my readers and occasional contributor is now running his own engineering consulting company focused primarily on plastics design, material selection, tooling, and so on.
NC Senate Delivers Stunning Abortion Defeat, Overrides Gov’s Veto of Bill To Protect Newborns from Infanticide
Via Billy
Republicans in the North Carolina state Senate, joined by a single Democrat, voted Tuesday to overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that would protect newborn babies from infanticide.
Now, it’s up to the state House of Representatives.
Republicans in the North Carolina state Senate, joined by a single Democrat, voted Tuesday to overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that would protect newborn babies from infanticide.
Now, it’s up to the state House of Representatives.
More @ WJ
Alan Dershowitz: Barr is right, Mueller is wrong
Despite efforts by Democratic senators and some in the media to cast the dispute between Attorney General William Barr and special counsel Robert Mueller as political, or even as a personal argument between close friends, it actually is much more about the substance of the law than it is about whether Barr accurately summarized the Mueller report.
Barr and Mueller fundamentally disagree about the law governing obstruction of justice by a president.
More @The Hill
Rep. Meadows Files Criminal Referral Against Nellie Ohr After New Emails to DOJ About Russian Collusion Surface
Nellie Ohr, wife of twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr was criminally referred to the Justice Department Wednesday by House Republicans after hundreds of new emails surfaced, contradicting her previous statements to Congress.
A series of “Hi Honey” emails from Nellie Ohr to her top DOJ husband Bruce Ohr surfaced and suggested Hillary-funded oppo research was being funneled into the DOJ during the 2016 election through a backchannel between the happily married Ohr couple.
More @ The Gateway Pundit
AG Barr: 'We Have Multiple Criminal Leak Investigations Underway' After Russia Probe
Via Billy
On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched many investigations into the constant leaks to the media during the Trump-Russia investigation. The DOJ is examining just exactly how mainstream media outlets had scoops on the investigation long before Congress had heard anything about the subject matter.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Barr about the leaks in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched many investigations into the constant leaks to the media during the Trump-Russia investigation. The DOJ is examining just exactly how mainstream media outlets had scoops on the investigation long before Congress had heard anything about the subject matter.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Barr about the leaks in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
More @ PJ Media
Results of Confederate Independence
War against the South commenced in April 1861 was not the only option open to Lincoln. He could have followed his predecessor’s view that he had no constitutional authority to wage war against a State – which is treason. The proper option would have been for a president to facilitate peace and call a convention of States to iron out differences, and find compromises all considered best. This is how the federation of States was created by the Founders.
Neither was war the only solution to African slavery in the United States – recall that Lincoln offered Southern States no interference with slavery if they would return to the Union. The South was seeking independence, and wanted to solve the riddle of slavery within State boundaries as the Northern States had done – in their own time, and at their own pace.
www.Circa1865.org The Great American Political Divide
Results of Confederate Independence
“It is legitimate to inquire, in view of all the facts discussed, what would have been the effect on our condition, our institutions, and our future relations if the Confederate States had established their independence. I can, of course, only give my opinion, founded on certain physical features of the country, on certain racial characteristics of the people North and South, and on the sentiments of other nations, as well as on the fundamental principles for which we contended.
Emancipation. – There would have been certainly the gradual emancipation of the slaves on the following grounds:
The sentiment of the civilized world was opposed to slavery; and though our system was misunderstood and misjudged, yet no nation can hold out against a universal moral sentiment.
There was a feeling throughout the South from the beginning of the republic favorable to emancipation as soon as it could be done without danger to all concerned. If the abolition propaganda had not aroused opposition by its unjust misrepresentations and denunciations of slaveholders, the Border States would have brought it about several years before the war. A
s it was, throughout the South there was a growing effort to correct to confessed evils of the system. The example of the Border States would have necessitated some form of emancipation, some modification of the system in the States farther south that would have preserved the white man’s control, while giving the Negro freedom. The conduct of the slaves during the war while left in charge of the master’s family was without parallel in history; and this not only deserved freedom, but it called forth the sentiment of the Southern people favoring it.
Gen. R.E. Lee freed his slaves in 1863.
I believe that emancipation would have come in such a way as to avoid the dangers of race conflict, of social equality, and of giving the Negro a political franchise to which he was not fitted. The South would have given him his liberty and every right necessary to the development of his manhood, and it would have secured him the hearty interest and help of the white man. No doubt political rights would have been granted gradually as the Negroes became prepared for their exercise.
A Restored Union – There would have been ultimately a restoration of the Union on terms that would leave no ground of misunderstanding as to the several spheres of Federal and State sovereignty. The rights of the States would have been thoroughly and clearly guarded. The rights of the central government would have been definitely marked and limited. This would have been the old Union as originally intended by the fathers. The Constitution could not have been set aside by the interpretation of a majority of a Supreme Court appointed by a partisan executive.
The Taxing Power Guarded. – The Constitution of the new Union would have so guarded the taxing powers of the central government that it would not have been possible for it by tariffs to build up one section of the country at the expense of the others, nor to build up great trusts to levy tribute on the whole country for the benefit of the few.
The Confederate Constitution was simply a revision of the old, or rather the clear statement of the real meaning of the old.”
(Results of Confederate Independence: The Failure of the Confederacy – Was it a Blessing? James H. M’Neilly, D.D., Confederate Veteran, April 1916, excerpts pp. 164-165)
The Real Cause
“Old Abe Lincoln was inaugurated today amidst bayonets bristling from the housetops as well as streets. His speech was just what was expected from him, stupid, ambiguous, vulgar and insolent, and is everywhere considered as a virtual declaration of war.” (Mar. 4,1861, p. 11)A review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford, 1997) by James McPherson
Miss Emma Holmes of Charleston, SC, and a survivor of the War Between the States, has left us one of innumerable diaries from the South about the conflict of 1861-1865 (see The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866 edited by John E Marszalek [Baton Rouge: LSU, 1979]. A few quotes from this source will serve to introduce Prof. McPherson’s latest work which is also a much needed corrective analysis of what the Civil War was all about.
“‘The United States,’ now alas broken into fragments through the malignity and fanaticism of the Black Republicans….Doubly proud am I of my native state, that she should be the first to arise and shake off the hated chain which linked us with Black Republicans and Abolitionists. . .” (Feb. 13,1861, p. 1)
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Freedom vs. Liberty: How Subtle Differences Between These Two Big Ideas Changed Our World
Via Alex
The terms "freedom" and "liberty" have become clichés in modern political parlance. Because these words are invoked so much by politicians and their ilk, their meanings are almost synonymous and used interchangeably. That's confusing – and can be dangerous – because their definitions are actually quite different.
“I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity. Out of liberty, then, stem the glories of civilized life.”
Murray Rothbard
The terms "freedom" and "liberty" have become clichés in modern political parlance. Because these words are invoked so much by politicians and their ilk, their meanings are almost synonymous and used interchangeably. That's confusing – and can be dangerous – because their definitions are actually quite different.
More @ Ammo.com
30/4/1975: RIP
Re-Post 2010
The Fall of Saigon Slideshow - Powerful
Click on "Show Info" on the top right for a full description of each picture
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Via Nguyễn Vũ
(58,220 - USA, South Korean 4,407, Australia 500; Thailand, 351; and New Zealand, 83). B.T.
2 million innocent Vietnamese people died of smoke and fire
1 million south Vietnamese soldiers in prison for reeducation
600.000+ dead people left their bodies in the sea.
Via Nguyen
Via Phuong
"Come light incense on a sad day." 30/4/2019
There is an old Biere Larue bottle on the left.
Binh An Cemetery
Binh An Cemetery
Via Tôi Yêu Miền Nam
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