Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Goodies From Ol' Remus
Rome, like America, had an expanding welfare state. It started with "subsidized grain. The government gave it away at half price. But the problem was that they couldn't stop there ... a man named Claudius ran for Tribune on a platform of free wheat for the masses. And won. It was downhill from there." Soon, to appease angry voters, emperors gave away or subsidized olive oil, salt and pork. People lined up to get free stuff.
John Stossel, comment on warning by Foundation for Economic Education Pres. Lawrence Reed at reason.com
The State has developed so great an appetite for the wealth and freedom of its host that the host will soon cease to struggle for life. For a short time thereafter, the United States will most resemble the terminal stages of the nation portrayed in Atlas Shrugged: It will be hagridden by openly thuggish rulers, beneath which will swarm a second tier of parasites.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com
Race is not the issue in America. The destruction of the black community by black leadership in conjunction with white liberals, now that is the issue.
The DiploMad at thediplomad.blogspot.com
I cringe every time I hear someone who supposedly supports gun rights – from politicians to the head of the NRA
– calling for the feds to "enforce the laws already on the books." The
fact is, the gun laws that are already on the books are a labyrinth of
confusion and booby-traps full of open-ended mandates, ambiguous
definitions, and unbridled bureaucratic discretion. Many innocent
people have had their lives and livelihoods completely destroyed when
federal agencies have decided to "enforce the laws already on the
books."
Jeff Knox at ammoland.com
Jeff Knox at ammoland.com
Can't solve the problems because the problems are cultural. You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have three percent of fourth graders reading at the national math standards. Forty-seven percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. Seventy-nine percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse... For 60 years, they voted for incompetents, malcontents and in some cases, criminals.
George Will, at ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, quoted by Jeff Poor at dailycaller.com
The Constitution of the USA has become over time and a hundred Supreme Court decisions ...a collectivist document. It allows forced redistribution of income, direct government investments in business, transferring money from individuals to favored businesses (not the same as tax breaks), control and abrogation of all private contracts like labor and property and so on. There are no real limits to government intervention in any part of life, now. None. It has been done plainly, in full sight an ounce at a time by the statist-collectivists.
FreedomGuy, comment 3813677 at zerohedge.com
Education -
If anyone could make the argument that the standard "stand and deliver"
lecture style teaching of the basics of language, arithmetic, science
and literature that took place in the 1940s, 50s and 60s was replaced
and supplanted and we got better results as a consequence I might be
willing to listen. But you can't make that argument.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
New York Times -
House Republicans investigating Obama scandals must be viewed as an
assembly line for organized character assassination, not congressional
oversight. This is especially true at the Times, which sees the
president as a far too special historical figure to get the punishing
scrutiny applied to people the Times thinks are slack-jawed country
bumpkins, such as Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. They see Obama as a
Jackie Robinson figure, a racial pioneer who endures the angry, spitting
fury of the right-wing mobs with great courage and flair.
Brent Bozell at creators.com
Brent Bozell at creators.com
The cure for Detroit
It's late evening in Detroit. Here and there we see
the first flickers of random arson, the pale yellow flash of gunfire,
the glint of moonlight off copper and aluminum as it's spirited away. In
the distance a pack of feral dogs barks. Nearby we hear the happy trash
talk of a gang rape in progress. The murderometer totals up at a
somewhat more urgent pace. Detroit is settling into its lunatic
nighttime routine.
Tonight will be different. A low rumble seems to
well up from the ground, dishes dance in the cupboards as heavy aircraft
approach from every nation with wit enough to save itself, menacing
and ponderous, arriving in waves from horizon to horizon. The ground
erupts in marching ranks of explosions, continuous concussions roll
across the land, buildings and bridges and streets disappear outward
and upward. Later, teams with flamethrowers and bulldozers crisscross
the ruins. Then, quiet. Beneath the acrid ground fog not one brick
stands on another. Dawn reveals a far horizon in all directions, ready
for farm-fresh, Too Small To Fail homesteaders. Detroit has found its
rightful destiny, and only a little sooner than if unassisted.
Dear Museum of the Confederacy Board Members,
Via Billy
MOC Merger
MOC Merger
Dear Museum of the
Confederacy Board Members,
It
is with deep sadness that I write this letter to you, as it is my understanding
that there is a merger in the works, and possibly already underway that will
merge the MOC (Museum of the Confederacy) with the VHS (Virginia Historical
Society), and the CWC (Civil War Center) at Tredegar, and the name “Museum of
the Confederacy” will no longer exist under this new merger. As a history buff
and son of Virginia, I was fortunate to be born and grow up in a small rural
section in the southeastern part of Virginia known as Princess Anne County, today's modern day Virginia Beach. I was also fortunate in attending a small
elementary school in Princess Anne County near the County Courthouse, thus the
name, Courthouse Elementary School. While in the sixth grade at Courthouse
Elementary I had the pleasure and honor to go on a class field-trip to the MOC,
as we were studying Virginia History at the time.
In growing up I had always
heard my mother, my grandmother, and my great grandmother (the latter being the
daughter of my great, great grandfather, a Confederate Veteran) talk about how
our relatives from Princess Anne County fought in the War Between the States on
the side of the Confederacy, and that one in particular, my great, great, great
grandfather, was an officer in the Confederate Army. I had grown up very proud
of the fact that I was the descendent of an officer in the Confederate Army, a
Major nonetheless. When the day came when our class went to the MOC, I was so
excited that I could hardly sleep the night before, and was up bright and early
waiting in anticipation for the school bus that morning. Once at school, and we
were on the bus headed to the MOC my excitement grew, and all I could talk about
to my classmates surrounding me on the bus was my Confederate ancestors, and how
my great, great, great grandfather Major Edgar Burroughs from Princess Anne
County died at the hands of the enemy in Portsmouth, Virginia after being
captured in Princess Anne County, serving his country as my great, grandmother
put it.
She spoke of what a brave and noble man her grandfather was, and how he
exhausted all of his means for the war effort, including paying (out of his own
pocket) and equipping his men in his Partisan Ranger Company from Princess Anne
County. My mother had given me five dollars before leaving the house that
morning, along with my bag lunch that we were required to bring for the field
trip, and when I got to the MOC I couldn’t wait to make that last stop at the
souvenir shop, for as the old saying goes, that five dollars was burning a hole
in my pocket. I remember, oh so well the tour guide leading our class through the
museum explaining everything, and so happy to answer any questions we had as I
looked on with excitement. I remember stopping at an exhibit and before the tour
guide could explain what was in the case behind her, I shouted out, “That’s JEB
Stuart’s hat, my great, great great grandfather knew him”, (my g,g,g,
grandfather was a Major in the 15th VA. Cavalry prior to commanding his own
Partisan Ranger Co. in P.A. County) the large plume in the hat being the obvious
give way. Everyone in the class chuckled a bit, including the tour guide, but
she immediately responded by saying, “Why yes, you are absolutely correct young
man, that is JEB Stuart’s hat”.
After the tour through the museum, which
included getting to see the Princess Anne Cavalry Flag, and in my humble opinion
is one of the most beautiful flags in your collection, we went to the
gift/souvenir shop. I remember buying a Confederate stick flag, and Confederate
Kepi, wearing it all the way home on the bus (and still had enough change to buy
a soda pop and other goodies before leaving the museum). When I got home that
evening I couldn’t wait to tell my mother and father about what a day I had at
the MOC, and how I had seen JEB Stuart’s hat and uniform, along with Robert E.
Lee’s and Stonewall Jackson’s. It’s a day I will always treasure and remember
for the rest of my life.
After my great grandmother passed away in the early
60’s, the conversations surrounding our Confederate ancestors in the family
seemed to die out over the years, but my curiosity about my Confederate
ancestors and that God awful war continued to grow until eventually, after ten
years or so of extensive research, I decided to publish a book several years ago
about not only my great, great, great, grandfathers war experiences, but also
the horrors of war the over seven-hundred other men that mustered into the
Confederacy from Princess Anne County experienced. The title of my book is;
“Princess Anne County Virginia; Its Contributions and Sacrifices to the War
Between the States”, (a copy can be found in both the MOC, and the Library of
Virginia in Richmond). In my book, I tell about the horrors and sacrifices the
good folks of Princess Anne County faced, and how they suffered dearly at the
hands of their Union occupiers, all the while losing their loved ones on the
battlefields of their home State of Virginia. Out of the over seven-hundred men
that mustered out of Princess Anne County for the Confederacy, more than a third
would not return home to their loved ones (dying either on the battlefields, in
prison camps, and hospitals), and of the two-thirds that did return to Princess
Anne County more than half were either physically or emotionally scared for the
rest of their lives, eventually falling into deep states of depression and or
alcoholism, which caused serious family problems for a lot of these returning
Confederate soldiers, all due to the sights and horrors of that God awful war.
We, as a society, talk about our “Wounded Warriors” of today, and what we can do
to ensure they live as normal lives as possible considering what they’ve seen
and been through on the battlefields, with programs, rehab, counseling, prosthetics, even homes provided by Habitat for Humanity. The Confederate
soldier got none of that, yet had to suffer through far worse conditions on the
battlefield, sometimes lying on the battlefield for days before being
administered to. The Museum of the Confederacy is the last and only shrine
dedicated to the South’s “Wounded Warriors” of that God awful war, and if our
country couldn’t or wouldn’t aid them then, then by God please come to their aid
now by keeping the name “Museum of the Confederacy” alive and well, as this is
the only true shrine of the Southern soldier and his culture. As an adult I
continued to visit the MOC from time to time, including research work for my
book, and can’t help but smile every time I walk in, reminiscing about the day
of my sixth grade field-trip. I would urge and ask please that each and every one
of you consider in your hearts to keep the name “Museum of the Confederacy” as a
shrine to our Confederate dead, as it is a part of our history, and changing the
name won’t change history.
Respectfully submitted
with warmest Southern regards,
Kenneth
Harris,
Historian/Author,
&
Heritage Defense
Coordinator, Virginia Division Sons of Confederate
Veterans.
The Clinton criminal-cabal cover-up
Via Billy
After 17 years of investigating a criminal cabal at the top of the Clinton administration and Department of Justice, which included my indictment and trial for investigating them, I finally gathered a comprehensive fact-set any rookie prosecutor can take to a grand jury and obtain indictments. First comes the low-ranking people that keep their federal jobs by engaging in willful blindness – sycophant savants, a common affliction within the FBI and Department of Justice. Then comes the middlemen, and so on up the line.
Such indictments will never happen, however, because the United
States has become little more than a very large banana republic coasting
along on its crumbling capitalist past. The story even includes two
federal judges, one currently on the United States Supreme Court, who
assisted the criminal cabal.
Before today the story has only been partially told, only in bits and pieces, allowing the criminal cabal to live worry-free. Much of what you read below has never before been revealed. What has been told before is part of the glue necessary to tell the comprehensive story.
This is the story, from beginning to end in its natural order: July 17, 1996, 12 minutes after takeoff from New York’s JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 was blown out of the sky, killing all 230 people onboard. “Significant Naval units” were in the area, according to a Navy document. Three radar picked up a missile launch. Navy radar observed the missile closing in on the TWA 747, per a Navy radar database uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act. Two key witnesses observed the same missile merge with the aircraft. What happened is not too difficult to determine.
After 17 years of investigating a criminal cabal at the top of the Clinton administration and Department of Justice, which included my indictment and trial for investigating them, I finally gathered a comprehensive fact-set any rookie prosecutor can take to a grand jury and obtain indictments. First comes the low-ranking people that keep their federal jobs by engaging in willful blindness – sycophant savants, a common affliction within the FBI and Department of Justice. Then comes the middlemen, and so on up the line.
Before today the story has only been partially told, only in bits and pieces, allowing the criminal cabal to live worry-free. Much of what you read below has never before been revealed. What has been told before is part of the glue necessary to tell the comprehensive story.
This is the story, from beginning to end in its natural order: July 17, 1996, 12 minutes after takeoff from New York’s JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 was blown out of the sky, killing all 230 people onboard. “Significant Naval units” were in the area, according to a Navy document. Three radar picked up a missile launch. Navy radar observed the missile closing in on the TWA 747, per a Navy radar database uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act. Two key witnesses observed the same missile merge with the aircraft. What happened is not too difficult to determine.
More @ WND
Bright For Liberty: Attempts to Unseat Neo-Con Graham
Go for it!
Today the anti-establishment, pro-second Amendment, pro-life, pro-civil liberties state senator Lee Bright launched his campaign landing page. Conservatives and liberty activists throughout the state have been waiting for a sign to settle everyone’s mind about whether or not he’s running against Lindsey Graham or not. Well that day is here. His formal announcement will be coming soon, but this move is to signal those in the grassroots that he is indeed running. This morning the Bright team has launched his official campaign landing page: BrightForSenate.com .
“Conservatives and those in the liberty movement are excited about Bright running because he is the only challenger with an impeccable voting record, and we will stress this throughout the campaign,” one Bright supporter said. Talbert Black with Campaign for Liberty and founder of the Palmetto Liberty PAC which monitors S.C. legislators’ voting records said,
More @ Freedom Outpost
Top Fuel Dragster Facts
-One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. They have over half again as much horsepower in one cylinder as a Dodge Viper has in all ten. No one has ever successfully run one long enough on a dyno to get a horsepower reading. Current estimates are right around 6,000 horsepower.
-Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of
nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the
same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
-A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the
dragster supercharger. The fuel pump alone requires more horsepower
to turn than the average street car produces.
-With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on
overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before
ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full
throttle.
-The 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane produces a flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
-Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above
the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, disassociated from
atmospheric water vapour by the searing exhaust gases.
-Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
-Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After the
run, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust
valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by running
the car out of fuel. There is no way to cut off the fuel; the engine
stops only when it blows or the tank runs dry.
-If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up
in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to
blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
More @ Way Up North
TNW Aero Survival Rifle (ASR), Semi Auto, 45ACP, Black
This is a TNW Aero Survival Rifle it is semi auto in 45ACP caliber. Features a black finish, 16.25'' take-down barrel, integral child safety lock, upper and lower accessory rails, vent barrel shroud, black synthetic stock and pistol grip with storage compartment. Accepts Glock style magazines (Some fitting may be required). Pictured with a short mag but current batch actually includes one long 27rd magazine. Receiver is marked "Multi". #ASR-SA-045.
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