Ain't my president

In behavior that is certainly less than appropriate for a state funeral, Obama acts like a teenager, taking selfies with a blond woman who I hear is some mucky in the Danish delegation.   O's beard certainly looks pleased with his antics, doesn't she?  At least he wasn't embarrassing the nation by shaking hands with some tin pot dictator.  Or shouting back at adolescent fans like some boy band singer.

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The luckiest man alive

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

NC: Carbine Williams, an amazing story

Via comment by Mike  on Object of desire: M1941 Johnson rifle

Visitors to the NC Museum of History who view the workshop of inventor David Marshall "Carbine" Williams get only a glimpse of the colorful character who died 37 years ago this month.

Raleigh Times staff writer D.I. Strunk described some of the story in Williams' obituary.

He was a colorful backwoods man turned inventor-genius. But he also was a man who lost his freedom and then regained it, in a sense, with guns.

In 1940, in 14 days, he developed the weapon that became the M-1 Carbine. He was honored by the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who praised the weapon Williams invented as "one of our strongest contributing  factors to our victory in the Pacific."

A motion picture, "Carbine Williams," released in 1952 and starring Jimmy Stewart, was based on Williams' life.

More @ News and Observer

Read more here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/pasttimes/behind-the-carbine-williams-story#storylink=cpyMmm

The Cotton Was in the South, the Action Was in the North

Not only did Eli Whitney’s invention revolutionize the labor-intensive cultivation of cotton, but Massachusetts textile mill owner Francis Cabot Lowell’s vision of extreme wealth and financial empire fueled the need for African slave labor to till Southern plantations essential to his industry.  Karl Marx observed in 1846, “Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry,” and he saw clearly who and what was perpetuating African slavery in the United States.

 Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
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The Cotton Was in the South, the Action Was in the North:

“The explosion of raw material from the South that followed [Eli Whitney’s invention] soon enriched New England’s textile aristocracy whose mills were partially responsible for driving up the number of slaves fivefold between 1800 and 1860. In that year close to four million slaves accounted for nearly 40 percent of the South’s population. Seeking new arable cotton acreage, Southern growers by then had relentlessly expanded westward into virgin territories that would become Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Missouri.

In the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, England and the United States agreed to suppress the slave trade. So much for policy positions. In reality, Baltimore builders designed faster clipper ships to carry and deliver cargoes of slaves for Liverpool’s thriving slave traders. Slave-produced cotton created many of England’s most prestigious banks, including the giants Barclay and Lloyds. Liverpool’s towering skyline of massive Victorian commercial buildings stands as a monument to [slave-produced] cotton supremacy.

[New England] cotton mills were well on their way to producing $115,000,000 worth of cotton by 1860, or three times as much as the country imported, and every ounce of it relied wholly on slave labor. A US Census in 1790 counted nearly 697,124 slaves, with almost as many in New York (21,234) as in Georgia (29,264). Despite the Constitutional ban on further importation in 1808, by 1820 there were 1,533,086 slaves, almost all now in the South, and Virginia alone accounted for 425,757.  By then the South produced an astonishing 2.275 billion pounds of raw cotton, and the crop accounted for 60 percent of the country’s exports. The South now supplied over 80 percent of the cotton manufactured in Britain, two-thirds of the world’s total supply, and all the cotton used in New England’s mills.

Cotton was New York’s leading export; the South depended on New York as well as for European home furnishings and high-quality imported fabrics including silks and linens. The irony in all this was that although a New York stopover required ships to travel 200 miles out of their direct lane between Liverpool and Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans, there was no logistical reason for its involvement. “The combined income from interest, commissions, freight, insurance, and other profits were so great that, when Southerners finally awoke to what was happening, they claimed that New Yorkers with a few other Northerners were getting forty cents for every dollar paid for Southern cotton,” one historian reported. Southern States that had fought to win their independence from the British crown now relinquished it economically to the North.

New York did more than ship Southern cotton; it provided much of the funding for it. Hundreds of Yankee cotton factors from New York blanketed the South every year, working with Manhattan banking houses that had the capital to make loans. Acting as independent intermediaries, the factors advanced long credit at high interest against next year’s crop, usually from 7 to 12 percent, and took their cut. Southern banks played a minor role. [Planter] Debt was chronic.

It resulted primarily from the growers’ need to expand their acreage and buy more slaves. That in turn gave financiers from England and New York the power to monitor their operations, squeeze out higher interest rates…bales became payment; they quickly turned into cash as New Yorkers sold that raw cotton to Liverpool to supply Lancashire’s mills. The cotton fields were in the South, but the action was in the North for speculators and businessmen.”

 

(Cotton, Stephen Yafa, Penguin Books, 2005, excerpts pp. 121-136)

NC: The William Dorsey Pender Civil War (sic) Roundtable will sponsor a free lecture by Ed Bearss

 

The Edgecombe Community College History Department and the William Dorsey Pender Civil War Roundtable will sponsor a free lecture by Ed Bearss, National Park Historian Emeritus on Friday, Jan 10, 2014 at the Mobley Atrium in the Fleming building on the Tarboro campus of Edgecombe Community College.  He will speak on Gen Pettigrew of North Carolina. 
 

 The public is invited to the lecture, which will begin at 7:30 PM after dinner, which is at 6:30 PM.  The cost of the dinner is $12.  Students and all others are welcome to attend the lecture for free after the dinner.  

Reservations are requested for those planning on attending the dinner.

Please contact Monika Fleming at the college 823-5166x241 by Jan. 7 to make reservations. (During the Holidays the College is closed, call Ken Lautzenheiser at 955-3472)

The Hanging Of Mary Surratt–Judicial murder and government dirty linen–part two

Via Billy

The “trial” of Mary Surratt and the Lincoln conspirators is still something that is debated about even today. If you want to see some of the arguments, check out the Internet. I read several articles awhile back about the involvement of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the man who set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg.

Mudd claimed he did not know Booth. He was still sent to the Dry Torgugas as a prisoner. Others have claimed that Mudd “was in it up to his eyeballs.” So the argument is anything but settled.

The question has arisen–was it even a legal trial or not?  Reverdy Johnson, Mrs. Surratt’s first attorney, had contended that the military court that tried the conspirators was without proper authority to do so as long as the civil courts were sitting.

More @ Revised History

Snapshot of Mandela’s South Africa

Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) adopted a Soviet-inspired Freedom Charter which promised that “All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose,” which signaled open season on white farmers and their land.  Author Ilana Mercer writes of how the ANC attempts to tame and rewrite South African history mimics the efforts by American elites to “deconstruct American history and memory.”  The new dispensation is multiculturalism and “the denunciation of America’s Western foundation and a glorification of non-Western cultures.”   Mercer’s book is well-worth reading.   Bernhard Thuersam

Snapshot of Mandela’s South Africa 

“[Former Police Commissioner J.B.] Vorster resigned from the Prime Ministry in 1978 to make way for P.W. Botha . . . [and] Although Botha modified apartheid legislation, sometimes softening it,  the international campaign against white rule – involving shrill demands for disinvestment – intensified.

In 1984 Botha (made President under a new constitution) declared a state of emergency; but the domestic situation grew worse and worse, while the practice – particularly among the Xhosa – of “necklacing” suspected police informers attained international ill repute.  

“With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country,” proclaimed Mandela’s increasingly deranged wife Winnie to the New York Times of February 20, 1989. 

A severe stroke forced Botha from power in 1989.  Nothing in the background of his successor, President F.W. de Klerk, indicated the revolutionary policies he would pursue. De Klerk scrapped the ban on the ANC and other opposition parties; freed Mandela from incarceration; acceded to Namibia’s independence; and junked the nuclear weapons. 

[A] 1992 referendum, asking white voters if they favored de Klerk’s reforms, resulted in sixty-eight percent of the respondents saying “yes” . . . [as de Klerk promised negotiations with the opposition] “would only be about power-sharing.”  With Mandela, de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize [in 1993] . . . [and a general election in 1994] brought Mandela to power with over sixty percent of the vote.

Even the election report of the Library of Congress, hardly a hotbed of Afrikaner sentiment, admitted that “in ANC-controlled area, some of the party activists intimidated [opposition] party organizers and disrupted their campaign rallies . . . The harsh truth is that “large scale intimidation made it nearly impossible to for rival parties to campaign in the African townships.”

So much about South Africa is reminiscent of the famous line in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:  “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

(Into the Cannibal’s Pot, Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ilana Mercer, Stairway Press, 2011, pp. 63-65)

Social justice indoctrination in math class courtesy of Common Core

Via avordvet

 

 To ensure that not a single minute of precious indoctrination time is wasted in the school day, liberal educators have incorporated brainwashing into every course subject, including math.

Next month, the organization, Creating Balance in an Unjust World, will hold its annual conference on “math education and social justice”.

The conference is sponsored by Radical Math, an organization founded by Jonathan Osler, a math and community organizing teacher at a Coalition of Essential Schools high school in Brooklyn, NY.

The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is the progressive education reform movement expanded by President Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers through their work with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the 90′s.

As I explained here, Common Core ‘architect’ David Coleman’s Grow Network also worked with Chicago Public Schools, Obama, and Ayers during that time.

More @ EAG News

Jobs Report is Fraud, Greatest Ponzi Scheme in History Continues

Via avordvet

 

I am a small businessman at “ground zero.” I don’t need Obama, the Fed, economists, or the media to tell me how the economy is doing. I live it. And I’m telling you, we’re all being lied to. The economy is not getting better, it’s getting worse. 
 

Back in late 2007 and early 2008, I publicly predicted (numerous times) that we were entering the deepest recession since the 1929 Great Depression. At the exact moment I wrote about this, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was testifying in front of Congress that the economy was fine, we were not in recession, and there was little threat of a serious economic decline. It turned out he was dead wrong about everything. A small businessman always knows.

In my national bestselling book, ”The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide“ I predicted all of this: the decline of the economy, the death of jobs, the disaster of Obamacare, and the murder of the middle class. It’s all happening in front of our very eyes.

More @ The Blaze

Robber In Custody And Another Shot And Killed By Hold-Up Victim

 

A man who was shot during an apparent robbery at the Highway 58 Bi-Lo parking lot on Wednesday has been taken into custody.

Galen Lawayne Allen Jr., 26, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.

Police said he initially was in critical condition.

The other robber, Calvin Ward, a juvenile, was shot and killed.

Police said the shooter will not be charged.

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