Thursday, June 14, 2012
3 days until the Virginia Sam Davis Youth Camp
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living to the dead.
-- Aristotle
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When and Where?
Lincoln the Presidential Dwarf
President John Tyler’s son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was incensed in 1917 by a New York Times editorial which compared Southern planters to Hohenzollern autocrats plaguing the world. In 1928, Tyler was provoked again when the Virginia legislature adjourned on Lincoln’s birthday and he declared publicly that Lincoln did not merit the honor. Time magazine fired back that President Tyler was a dwarf in comparison to the rail splitter, and Lyon published a book in 1929 defending his distinguished father – who had met Thomas Jefferson as a boy.
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
Lincoln the Presidential Dwarf:
“The reader of [Dr. Tyler’s] book will also have called to his attention the fact that in the recent World War this country had its flag fired upon time and time again and its citizens killed on the high seas without resorting to war, and Lincoln knew that the capturing of a fort guarding and controlling the most important city of South Carolina meant merely protection for that city and not an attack on the North.
It could be likewise been shown here that just a matter of weeks before the ballyhoo about “firing on the flag” at Sumter had been set to work to enrage the North, the flag had been fired upon when the Star of the West was shot at and turned back, but under Buchanan’s calm rule there was practically no excitement.
As to Lincoln’s cabinet [in contrast to John Tyler’s], “the accounts teems with the insubordinate actions of Seward, Stanton and Chase, to say nothing of Welles, while Stanton and Chase reveled in insults to Lincoln.”
As to the ideas of the two men in regard to personal responsibility and family obligations…”Lincoln wrote to Grant in February 1865 (the war almost over), asking that his son, aged twenty-two, who had been kept at Harvard in spite of the draft, should be put on his staff and “not in the ranks.” President Tyler had four grandsons in the Confederate army, one of whom was killed and another wounded, and two sons by his second marriage who surrendered at Appomattox, aged sixteen and seventeen.”
“When [Beast] Butler issued his notorious “Order N0. 28” at New Orleans (an order that shocked decent humanity), which Lord Palmerson, the Prime Minister of England declared in the British Parliament was “unfit to be written in the English language;” Lincoln did not revoke the order, but on the contrary promoted Butler to responsible positions and wanted him as his running mate for the vice presidency in 1864. Yet Butler is the man who, Dr. John Fiske declared, “could not have understood in the smallest degree the feelings of gentlemen.”
(John Tyler and Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Lyon G. Tyler; book review by A. H. Jennings, Confederate Veteran, June 1929, pp. 213-214)
Lawmakers lose election but refuse to leave in Quartzsite, Ariz.
Remember this?
What would happen if an election took place, and the incumbent losers refused to leave office?
That’s exactly the situation in Quartzsite, Ariz., where two winning candidates for the positions of mayor and town councilman are not being allowed to be seated.
Quartzsite is the town that gained national attention last June when police grabbed a woman who was speaking at a town-council meeting and frogmarched her from the event. (Scroll down for video).
The 2012 municipal election took place May 15, but the old town council in Quartzsite has since refused to seat Ed Foster as mayor and Mark Orgeron as councilman.
Foster collected 56 percent of the vote to easily defeat opponent Jerry Lukkasson, but officials claim he cannot be seated because of an unpaid debt to the town, and so Jose Lizarraga remains at the helm for now.
Orgeron defeated Vice Mayor Barbara Cowell, but is not being seated, as officials dispute his residency in the town.
“This is outrageous,” says Chris Rossiter of the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots. “The tea party will not tolerate corruption in public office.”
More @ WND
Grand jury to get case of Texas dad who beat alleged child molester to death
Pathetic.
A Texas prosecutor said the case of a rancher who beat to death a man he caught allegedly molesting his daughter will go to a grand jury to decide whether the killing was justified, or an act of excessive force.
The father, whose name has not been released by authorities, claims he caught the man trying to molest his 4-year-old daughter on his ranch Saturday. Although Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said the girl’s father is unlikely to be arrested, District Attorney Heather McMinn told FoxNews.com the case remains under investigation and that the Texas Rangers have joined the probe.
“Once completed, [results of the investigation] will be forwarded to the district attorney’s office and it will be taken to a grand jury,” McMinn told FoxNews.com. “They’re still investigating what happened at this point.”
The grand jury will ultimately decide what charges -- if any -- the girl’s father will face, McMinn said.
More @ Fox News
Holder faces corruption scandal, too
At a time when millions of Americans are losing their homes as a result of questionable or fraudulent mortgage banking practices, Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department is being accused of blocking prosecution of a high-visibility real estate deal.
Holder, who is under pressure by Congress members investigating the Fast & Furious gun-running scandal to resign, allegedly aims to protect a high-profile international bank client of his former law firm and shield Democratic Party operatives implicated in the scheme.
WND has obtained several hundred pages of documents alleging that Holder and Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s criminal division, have intervened to block recommended federal prosecutions in an ongoing dispute involving the exclusive Yellowstone Club, a private golf and ski resort now owned by supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle and international bank Credit Suisse.
Allegedly, Holder and Breuer want to shield from federal criminal prosecution the bank, Credit Suisse Group AG, a client of the Washington-based law firm Covington & Burling, as well as key Democratic Party operatives suspected of playing a role in allegedly fraudulent mortgage financing and bank lending practices.
More @ WND
HOA's Rules v. Bastiat's Natural Rights
RegT on said:
I have thought a lot about those things. There are no easy answers. I have to go back to my Grandpa’s generation and how they handled these problems. Grandpa was born in 1890, before all these codes and HOA’s. Grandpa taught my Dad about personal responsibility, and Dad taught me. A large part of what I was taught was that I don’t have a right to harm someone else unless he is harming me. I was 6 or 7, mid to late 60′s, Grandpa had a neighbor that raised Red Bone coon hounds. The guy had one dog, his main stud, that liked to chase cows. Grandpa went over and warned him he would kill the dog if he didn’t get it under control. It happened a second time, Grandpa went back and told him it was his last warning. About a week later I’m standing in Grandpa’s front yard when I hear his 3030 in the back yard. Grandpa got the dead dog and throw him over the fence back on the guys property. The guy came by and talked to Grandpa and he was not happy. Grandpa told him that he meant what he said, he should have never doubted him. The guy complained to a couple of the neighbors about it and I guess made some threats against Grandpa, all the neighbors stood with Grandpa. The guy ended up coming back and apologizing to Grandpa. This day and age I would be surprised to see that happen.
I seriously doubt Grandpa could get away with that today. But there is a huge difference between his generation and ours. When they had a problem it wasn’t the states problem, the counties problem, or the cities, it was theirs and they had to deal with it. They didn’t depend on law enforcement back then like we do today, they depended on themselves and each other. Grandpa knew all of his neighbors and visited them regularly, my neighbors run inside when I walk down the street, they don’t want to know me or talk to me.
Our society has changed drastically since I was a kid and not for the better. I grew up in a mountain farming community where everybody knew everybody. To a certain extent we all depended on each other. We did barn raising, put up hay together, helped each other out when it was needed. That sense of community has been lost for the most part in our society today. It is every man for himself, it is very selfish. I think that is a lot of the reason why our country is going down the tubes. I think we could get rid of some of this code today, but due to the condition of our society we would not be able to get rid of all codes and let the people self govern as we are supposed to. If they did you and I would be forced to cap some idiot because he just didn’t know when to stop and correct his actions. You will do me no harm.
If you know your neighbors and they are reasonable and responsible people most problems can be resolved peacefully. Of course even in Grandpa’s day not all disputes were settled peacefully, I grew up in the same neck of the woods as the Hatfields and McCoys. Blood feuds were not that uncommon in that part of the country. And most started over next to nothing. Some people are just hell bent on fighting and where I grew up you either put with them or did something about it.
Bottom line, I would love to see our country get back to that place where we had a measure of respect for each other. The community I grew up in was very good at self governance but everybody had a respect for the other man. Today we do not have that, I hope and pray that it is not lost for all time and without it I think it is very hard to be self governing. We need a spiritual reformation as well as governmental and financial. Until we do I am afraid we will have to live with some code enforcement.
I know its not a great answer and it is not the answer I want to give. I hope I have given you food for thought.
CDP
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.........What if I have a neighbor that trashes his yard so badly it smells and draws flies and roaches? What if he keeps blue-tick hounds which howl all night long, or – G-d forbid, beagles? What if he burns trash and the smoke blows right across my backyard where my family and I are trying to enjoy some BBQ on the deck or patio? What if the creek runs through both our properties, and he dumps used motor oil and dead livestock into it?
How do we handle stuff like that? No, I don’t want a bunch of laws, code enforcement, CC&R’s and such. Part of me says the answer is to ask him nicely not to, and then cap his ass if he continues anyway, but I know that isn’t realistic either. Have you thought about this and come up with any ideas? I really don’t want to shoot his dogs or even his nasty ass, but if I can’t afford to move, what do I do?
As Jefferson said, “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.” My rights include not being poisoned by this cretin, nor driven insane by his barking dogs, nor having to smell his burning trash with every mouthful of shredded pork. How do I protect my rights?