Sunday, January 29, 2012
Black is Gray: MS Rep. John F. Harris
In Mississippi on February 1, 1890, an appropriation for a monument to the Confederate dead was being considered. A delegate had just spoken against the bill, when John F. Harris, a Black Republican delegate from Washington, county, rose to speak:
"Mr. Speaker! I have risen in my place to offer a few words on the bill.
I have come from a sick bed. Perhaps it was not prudent for me to come. But sir, I could not rest quietly in my room without contributing a few remarks of my own.
I was sorry to hear the speech of the young gentlemen from Marshall County. I am sorry that any son of a soldier would go on record as opposed to the erections of a monument in honor of the brave dead. And, Sir, I am convinced that had he seen what I saw at Seven Pines, and in the Seven Day's fighting around Richmond, the battlefield covered with mangled forms of those who fought for this country and their country's honor, he would not have made the speech.
When the news came that the South had been invaded, those men went forth to fight for what they believed, and they made not requests for monuments. But they died, and their virtues should be remembered.
Sir, I went with them. I, too, wore the gray, the same color my master wore. We stayed for four long years, and if that war had gone on till now I would have been there yet. I want to honor those brave men who died for their convictions.
When my Mother died I was a boy. Who, Sir, then acted the part of Mother to the orphaned slave boy, but my old Missus! Were she living now, or could speak to me from those high realms where are gathered the sainted dead, she would tell me to vote for this bill. And, Sir, I shall vote for it. I want it known to all the world that my vote is given in favor of the bill to erect a monument in HONOR OF THE CONFEDERATE DEAD."
When the applause died down, the measure passed overwhelmingly, and every Black member voted "AYE."
(Source: War For What? by Francis Springer)
Soros: Obama, Romney 'Not Much Difference'
Soros offered the reassuring news to liberals across Europe during an interview this week in Davos, Switzerland.
As policymakers from Hong Kong to Canada pressed Greece and its creditors to strike a deal to cut the nation’s debt, Soros pressed in on GOP presidential candidate Romney:
"Well, look, either you’ll have an extremist conservative, be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case I think it will make a big difference which of the two comes in," Soros told Reuters in a videotaped interview.
"If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them."
Radically Changing the Historical Profession
The American cultural revolution of the 1960’s deeply affected our historical profession in much the same way as the earlier Russian cultural revolution altered their traditional institutions. The rigid cultural Marxism and speech codes predominant at American universities today appears related to the Russian pattern.
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
“It is also well known that Stalin in 1931 personally intervened in the historical debate with his letter to the editors of Proletarskaia revoliutsiia…the writing of Party history constituted a form of power. The history of the Party was too important to be left entirely in the hands of historians.
[There emerged] efforts of rival groups of Marxist historians to win a mandate from the Party Central Committee to guide historical research and publication, to control the staffing of institutions, and to enforce professional norms.
But in the field of history, a local factor was also involved: the militance of the Marxist students. Almost simultaneously with this student campaign came a political fight within the Party organization of the Institute of Red Professors. In the course of 1928, an increasingly vituperative public campaign was mounted against non-Marxist historiography. By the beginning of 1929….[attacks began] on the institutional base of non-Marxist historians.
At the First All-Union Conference of Marxist Historians…a proposal to liquidate [the] Institute of History [was made] and create in its place a new institute under the Communist Academy. [Thus came the] Society of Marxist Historians, the forum for Marxist discussion in the profession and source of many of the attacks on “bourgeois historians.”
[After Stalin criticized many historians commitment to Marxism]…The Society of Marxist Historians demanded a review of all existing historical literature, and students of the Institute of Red Professors were formed into brigades preparing assessments of large portions of the existing literature for publication in the press. [Then], extermination of cadres of historians began. Many historians were slandered, then repressed. Many were compelled to admit “errors.”
The [Russian] cultural revolution…radically changed the historical profession. From the mid-thirties, all historians had to pay lip service to Marxism, just as they did (despite the contradiction involved) to the glories of the Russian national tradition. The old factions [of traditional historians] were dissolved, or went underground.
(Marxist Historians During the Cultural Revolution, George M. Enteen: Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Indiana University Press, 1984, pp. 154-168)
Man threatens, follows woman during road rage incident
John Davis was on his way home from his club security job on North Kingshighway when he told me that a driver cut him off. Police say that made him so mad that he not only threatened to shoot another driver over it but that he also had the guns and ammo to do it.
Police say they pulled four loaded handguns from the off-duty security guard's car minutes after he allegedly threatened to shoot a woman in a fit of road rage. It started on Interstate 64 and escalated on an off ramp in Caseyville.
"He rolled down his window and shined a spotlight in my eyes -- an insanely bright spotlight -- so I couldn't even see his face," the victim said. "And he started screaming about that he had four guns in his car and that he was going to kill me."
The victim asked me not to use her name or show her face for fear of retaliation, but she told me that she then sped off, with the guard on her tail. She then called 911.
"At this point I'm so frightened I can't hardly move," she said.
By then, she says the guard had followed her into Belleville. She said she was too scared to go home, so she stayed on the phone with police as she drove around until they could get to her.
Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?
U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.
In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad.
The NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus.
The NDI is one of several agencies, dating to the 1980s, that were set up to subvert communist regimes. With the end of the Cold War, however, these agencies were not decommissioned, but recommissioned to serve as something of an American Comintern.
Where the old Comintern of Lenin sought to instigate communist revolutions across the West and its empires, post-Cold War America decided to promote democratic revolutions to remake the world in the image of late 20th century America.
In 2002, McFaul wrote a book: Russia's Unfinished Revolution.
Vladimir Putin's men are not unreasonably asking if he was sent to Moscow to finish that revolution. Putin has already accused Hillary Clinton of flashing the signal for street demonstrations to begin—to protest Russia's December's elections.
Nor is it surprising the Putin's people are suspicious of McFaul, who added to his problems by meeting with anti-Putin dissidents the day after he presented his credentials.
McFaul says this is part of his "dual-track engagement" with Russian society. Before leaving for Moscow, he told NPR's Morning Edition: "We're not going to get into the business of dictating (Russia's) path (to democracy). ... We're just going to support what we like to call 'universal values'—not American values, not Western values, universal values."
But what, exactly, are these "universal values"?
And who are we to impose them on other nations? Did Divine Providence assign us this mission? Who do we Americans think we are?
American Bible translators bowdlerize scriptures to avoid offending Muslims: no "Father" and "Son"
The Fact Check with replies to all of Wycliffe’s comments can be found in its entirety here: Fact Check: Biblical Missiology’s Response To Wycliffe’s Comments On “Lost In Translation”(PDF).
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'Rep. Allen West - "Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Get The Hell out of the USA'
Via Battle of Atlanta
Afghan parents & brother of 3 teenage girls convicted of first-degree murder
“It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable and more honourless crime,” Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger said Sunday after the jury foreman had read aloud the verdicts.
Looking directly at Mohammad Shafia, 58, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42 and their oldest son Hamed as they stood before him in the prisoners’ box for the last time, the judge concluded with a stinging denunciation.
“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameless murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your twisted notion of honour, a notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”