Homesteading Alone

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An Island to Oneself

On August 4, 1953 -- ten months after I had landed -- I welcomed my first visitors.

It was unexpected because I had long since stopped wondering whether one day I would wake up to discover a strange yacht or schooner anchored in the lagoon. I had become so engrossed with my life on Suvarov that I rarely gave a thought to the outside world.

They were very happy days. I was never lonely, though now and again I would walk along the reef wishing somebody could be with me -- not because I wanted company but just because all this beauty seemed too perfect to keep to myself.

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SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record

18-point drop (in combined scores) over five years.

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Remnants - Teaser 2

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32nd Battalion - South African Defense Force

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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 09-23-11

Injustice Everywhere

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First, apologies for today’s recap being in short format, which is nothing more than a straight copy from our news feed, but I’m suffering from eyestrain pretty badly tonight and can’t see too well. Anyway, here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, September 23, 2011:

• Eureka CA jury awards $4.5mil to family of man who died after badly beaten by 2 cops then denied medical care [0] bit.ly/n7R1c0

• Honolulu HI cop suspended while under investigation after accused of raping a mentally disabled shoplifting suspect [0] bit.ly/oiNN1S

• Dalworthington Gardens TX cop arrested on allegations he sexually assaulted woman after arresting then helping her [0] http://bit.ly/oJvUdH

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC police sued by man claiming cops fabricated evidence to falsely imprison him for 12yrs [0] bit.ly/qqS2Lm

• Los Angeles Co CA monitor report finds 1/2 of people shot for “reaching for waistband” were unarmed, numbers rising [0] lat.ms/nNU0CC

• Albuquerque NM settles class action suit for a rumored $150k by 13yr-old arrested by school cop for minor outburst [3] bit.ly/qermCk

• New York NY cops ordered to stop arresting people for public display of pot when pot is found during searches [0] bit.ly/oL0KGl

• Hackensack NJ cop suspended w/o pay after charged w/witness retaliation, lying to investigators & hindering arrest [0] bit.ly/q9v2Hg

• 2 New Orleans LA cops get probation/suspended sentences for roles in false arrest & false report, both resigned [0] bit.ly/pgOZzz

• Atlanta GA cop pulls gun on motorist when he mistakes man’s Toyota Camry for his Ford Explorer police SUV [0] bit.ly/nSvcjQ

• New Paltz NY cop indicted on felony grand larceny & workers comp fraud charges involving over $50k [0] bit.ly/psx7Cz

• Dallas TX cop suspended 20days w/o pay for refusing to help cop transport woman he didn’t think needed arrested [0] bit.ly/pTncWA

• Windermere FL police chief takes plea deal on 4 counts, dropping most serious charges for hindering child sex case [0] thesent.nl/nFx9yo

• 2 Bradenton FL cops subject of complaint by homeless man alleging they demanded ID w/o cause & threatened arrest [3] bit.ly/qxWvKv

• Nashville TN cop arrested on agg assault charges for attempting to strangle girlfriend until her dog saved her [0] bit.ly/q3fWu8

• Houston TX cop sentenced to 20yrs prison after pleading to stealing over $800k from police union over 7yr period [0] bit.ly/pUpuCD

• Broward Co FL deputy arrested on grand theft & official misconduct charges for robbing undercover posing as dealer [0] bit.ly/n4LafH

• Escondido CA settles suit for $20k to non-profit hired for FHA study but fired for criticism of police checkpoints [3] bit.ly/oDc0ho

• Milwaukee WI cop sentenced to 2yrs after sting op caught him taking $1k to help transport 4lbs cocaine & drug money [0] bit.ly/nav9ji

• Central Michigan Univ MI cop charged w/official misconduct for talking drunk college students into exposing breasts [0] bit.ly/r5UhsH

• East Point GA cop fired & charged w/theft by taking, violation of oath & false statements on unspecified allegation [2] bit.ly/nNuNlS

• 3 Houston TX cops apparently chatted on cruiser laptops about being high after eating arrested teen’s pot brownies [0] bit.ly/nQUH9C

• Austin TX cop suspended 90days, lied before video showed him being rude to resident who called about discarded hypo [0] bit.ly/ny2F4O

That’s it for today, stay safe out there!

A message from Sipsey Street Irregulars to the Gun Rights Policy Conference. +

If you don't want a second term of murderous, Constitution-subverting gunwalking, open a second front.

The next hearing of the Issa committee on the Gunwalker Scandal will begin sometime early in October. We are promised one more after that before the end of the year. The format of previous hearings, although understandable, is unwieldy and too truncated for in depth truth-getting from a particular witness.

The modified limited hangout release by the White House of selected emails between "Gunwalker Bill" Newell and NSC staffer Kevin O'Reilly and then the admission that O'Reilly's boss Dan Restrepo was briefed on Fast and Furious (all the while denying that the anybody in the White House knew anything about gunwalking), demonstrates their abject fear that this scandal will, at least, destroy the chances of a second term.

Understand, the "unidentified" White House senior staffer quoted in the various stories could not have opened his mouth without the personal approval of Obama. He is now getting regular updates on what might be truthfully, if uncharitably, described as his administration's cover-up of the Gunwalker Plot. Indeed, sources say that there are now daily damage control meetings being held in the White House.

There will be no more unscripted press moments from Obama such as the one on Univision earlier this year. The attack on Issa by the New York Times, as oafish and clumsy as it was, suggests that these people are now getting advice from the Clintonistas -- and probably Hillary herself -- on how to handle a cover-up -- by attacking the trurh seekers.

The selective release of the emails proves that the Obamanoids are now in full damage control mode, for as Ben Franklin quoted Samuel Johnson, "Nothing concentrates the mind so wonderfully as the prospect of being hung in morning."

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U.S. has yet to explain Fast and Furious to Mexico

The stonewalling has to stop — but it appears the Department of Justice would rather abolish the ATF than answer questions. Not that the evaporation of a government agency in general seems all that problematic to me — but it’s imperative that Issa and Grassley arrive at answers before everyone who knew anything — and who can confirm Eric Holder knew about the program, too — is out of office.

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9-11 Cop Breaks Silence

Via California Tree of Liberty

The New Jersey police officer responsible for capturing five Israelis who filmed and celebrated while the World Trade Center towers burned has broken his silence, agreeing to a Sept. 16 exclusive interview with AMERICAN FREE PRESS.

As AFP readers are no doubt aware, these are the same Israelis who were working under the direction of Urban Moving Systems, a Mossad front company at the center of Israeli involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Sgt. Scott DeCarlo has never spoken to the media about the details of that day except for two 30-second cameo appearances in Internet videos from undetermined sources. In fact, DeCarlo confirmed that this is the first, and last, interview he will ever grant in regard to this subject.

DeCarlo revealed to AFP hidden details about the events of 9-11 that mainstream media venues should have uncovered 10 years ago, if not for their near-total blackout of meaningful coverage where Israel is concerned.

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Boys From The South

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Maybe he's in Texas, maybe this town
Maybe Oklahoma plowin' up some ground
Southern Carolina, somewhere on the coast
Maybe Alabama drivin' through Montgomery
Right now, there's somethin' 'bout a boy from the South.

Maybe he's in Florida, somewhere in the pines
Maybe on the delta throwin' out a line
Maybe he's in Georgia, starin' at the stars
Maybe Tennessee pickin' on a guitar
Right now, there's somethin' 'bout a boy from the south

Yea, the first time I felt it I was only 16,
And he kissed me underneath the chinaberry tree.
Said "Goodnight darlin," with a sweet southern drawl.
Man, I think I might just have to love them all –
The boys from the South.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Maybe in Kentucky, workin' in the mines
Maybe down in Little Rock, just to pass the time
Maybe he's somewhere in New Orleans,
Livin' it up in the Big Easy
Right now, there's somethin' 'bout a boy from the South

Yea, the first time I felt it I was only 16,
And he kissed me underneath the chinaberry tree.
Said "Goodnight darlin," with a sweet southern drawl.
Man, I think I might just have to love them all –
the boys from the South

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Maybe he's in Texas, maybe this town.
My boys from the South

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh yeah, yeah!

Common Myths about the Civil War. Part 6 of a Series

Mike Scruggs

The most common misconception about the Civil War, and perhaps all of American history, is that President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Several years ago, when I was Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school comprising school grades K through 12, one of the fourth grade classes voted Abraham Lincoln their favorite U.S. president. The reason for their favor was because they had been taught that Lincoln had freed the slaves. Lincoln was against slavery, and he did sign the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but this did not free any slaves in Union, Southern or Border States under U.S. military control. Lincoln did not free a single slave in Union held territory. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territory over which he had no control. In effect, he really did not free any slaves.

Although Lincoln was against slavery, he did not believe that most blacks were compatible with American society and hoped they could be voluntarily resettled in Africa or Central America. Late in the war, he believed that some, especially those who had served in the Union Army, could stay.

On August 30, 1861, Union Major General John C. Fremont (the 1856 Republican presidential candidate) placed the State of Missouri under martial law and decreed that the slaves of Missouri Confederates were to be freed. Lincoln ordered the general’s emancipation of Missouri slaves rescinded on September 11. Lincoln then removed Fremont from command of the Department of the West on October 22.

The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until January 1, 1863, nearly two years after most Southern States had seceded and over 20 months after Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to invade the South and put down “the rebellion.”

Lincoln had promised in his inauguration speech on March 4, 1861 that he had no intent of interfering with slavery in the Southern States:

“Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern states that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.”

He then quoted from a former speech that:

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

Then Lincoln read from the 1860 Republican platform:

“Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.”

He also promised that he would “cheerfully” abide the fugitive slave laws (and thus slavery) imbedded in the Constitution:

“There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:

‘No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”

Also in his inaugural address, Lincoln endorsed an amendment to the Constitution—the Corwin Amendment, sometimes now referred to as the First 13th Amendment—which would have forever prohibited any future Constitutional amendment interfering with slavery. It would have guaranteed slavery as Constitutional forever and without remedy! The war effectively mooted the process ratification by the states. .

Lincoln’s inaugural address was conciliatory on the issue of slavery—pointing out that the “only substantial dispute” was over the extension of slavery to new states. In previous articles, I have shown by Lincoln’s own words and the laws of several Northern states including Illinois that this difference rarely touched upon the moral implications of slavery. Several Midwestern and Western legislatures passed laws that treated all blacks as undesirable immigrants.

While conciliatory on slavery, Lincoln’s inaugural was hard as nails on collecting tariff revenues from Southern States, most of which had resisted the painful burden of what they believed to be unjust taxation and economic exploitation for nearly 40 years. His other hard line was on Union, which if analyzed, would frighten most Constitutional conservatives. He also makes a statement that contradicts Anglo-American traditions on contract law: “One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak—but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?” The Anglo-American tradition is that if one party to a contract breaks it, the other is not required to meet its terms.

Why did Lincoln sign an Emancipation Proclamation that contradicted his inaugural statements and in reality did not free any slaves? He had been under pressure from the Radical Republicans and (radical) abolitionists—largely the same people—to do so. To his credit, he abhorred the ideology of both, but he needed their support to maintain a working majority in Congress and in the 1864 elections. He also wanted to make it politically difficult for anti-slavery Britain to openly ally itself with the Confederate States. However, Lincoln admitted that it was primarily a war measure. By freeing slaves behind Confederate lines, Lincoln hoped that slave revolts would cause Confederate troops to be diverted from the front lines and cause the Confederacy to collapse. The vast majority of Southern slaves, however, remained loyal to their Southern masters. Contrary to another popular myth, most Southern slaves were well treated, and strong bonds of mutual affection between master and slave resulted in loyalties that baffled most Northern abolitionists.

Slavery was not officially ended until a new 13th Amendment was ratified after the war. Only then did Union General-in-Chief U. S. Grant give up his personal slaves.
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Common Myths about the Civil War

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