Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Why are Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson honored at Washington National Cathedral?
Via SHNV
“It’s easy for people to pass judgment on history,” Mackowski
said. “I don’t think that’s particularly constructive. I don’t think
it’s fair to the people back then, and I don’t think it’s useful to us
now.”
Rather, Mackowski said, the niches should force us to ask
questions: What was the context in which they were created? How is that
different from today?
Cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg said he’s not aware of any criticism of the niches. He said: “In its iconography, the cathedral depicts not only religious history — the story of Christianity — but also tells the story of American history. The Civil War is part of American history.
Not doing well in the comment area.
“To have them enshrined in this national place of reflection can be really disconcerting,” said Chris Mackowski, a St. Bonaventure University journalism professor and author who has written about the niches on the Emerging Civil War blog.
Cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg said he’s not aware of any criticism of the niches. He said: “In its iconography, the cathedral depicts not only religious history — the story of Christianity — but also tells the story of American history. The Civil War is part of American history.
More @ The Washington Post
NC: Special Interest Reform Is NOT Reform
Tillis urges agricultural industry short session should focus on immigration reform
Commentary on Raleigh News and Observer Article
Patriots Beware NC Legislature Short Session
The Raleigh News and Observer article following mentions NCHB 786, which Governor McCrory vetoed because it left a wide gap for illegal immigrants to obtain seasonal jobs without having their immigration status checked by the E-Verify system. Republican House Speaker Tillis led the fight to override the Governor's veto. McCrory was serving the public interest and protecting American jobs, taxpayers, national security, and public safety with this veto. Who was Tillis serving? The original NCHB 786 was supposed to be a tough immigration control bill, until it was commandeered by agricultural and other special interest lobbies to pave the way for more cheap foreign labor at the expense of North Carolina workers and taxpayers. North Carolina already has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.
One of the original NCHB 786 provisions was to give drivers permits to illegal immigrants! Tillis and other backers of this provision claimed it would improve public and highway safety. Common sense and several legitimate studies proved this to be nonsense. The drivers permit part of NCHB 786 was a "red carpet" for illegal immigration and was fortunately killed, but that does not exonerate those who backed such a special interest outrage against North Carolina workers, taxpayers, and public safety. As far as allowing illegal immigrants to take seasonal jobs, no one with much of a brain believes this is not a dangerous gap in national security and public safety. And why should we be making it easy for employers to hire illegal immigrants? Why should we allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to slip into the North Carolina's work force so agricultural special interests can prosper at the expense of North Carolina workers, taxpayers, and families?
Republicans have a chance for a sweeping victory in November. But that victory will not be achieved unless Republican primary voters sternly rebuke Republican candidates who back special interest lobbies instead of the best interests of all North Carolina citizens. We had better be able to tell the difference between candidates loyal to large campaign contributions and candidates loyal to the rule of law and the larger interests of North Carolina.
Mike Scruggs
Reconstruction’s Poisoned Air
| Union League Terrorists-Reconstruction |
| Union League |
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The
immense racial discord and animosity sown by the Republican party’s
Union League was incalculable and much of its sad residue remains with
us today. With their military victory over Americans in the South
complete, and to rule the desolated South politically, Republicans used
the black race to deliver their votes to unscrupulous Northern men and
scalawags who plundered what was left and impoverish future generations.
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
Reconstruction’s Poisoned Air
“The
freeing of the slaves left a strong impression upon Clarence [Dixon],
Tom’s older brother, who said many years later: “It was a pathetic
occasion when father told the slaves they were free. But the most
pathetic part was nearly a year afterwards when they sent a committee to
beg father to take them back on the plantation on the old terms, and
look after them as he had done before.”
Of
course, the poverty-stricken Mr. [Thomas] Dixon [Sr.] could not see
means of supporting his own family, to say nothing of the numerous Negro
families now asking aid. In the fall of 1865, the Dixons, now stripped
of all their possessions, not knowing how or where to find the
necessaries of life from day to day, and faced with the prospect of no
harvest because of a lack of laborers to till the soil, gave up the farm
and moved to an old-fashioned white house facing the public square in
Shelby [North Carolina].
Then
came the terrors of Reconstruction. The young Thomas Dixon was never to
forget the impressions he received during this chaotic period, for he
was to say over three-quarters of a century later: “The dawn of my
conscious life begins in this strange world of poisoned air. My first
memories still vibrate with its tense excitement.”
When
Lincoln was assassinated, the most powerful political figure among the
Northern leaders was Thaddeus Stevens . . . [and his] determination to
subjugate the South became almost an obsession. The two main
instruments by which Stevens hoped to bring about the subjugation were
the “Union League” and the “Freedmen’s Bureau.” Stevens planned to
confiscate the farms of the South and give them to the Negroes. By
offering food, clothing, and free land, the agents hoped to induce the
poverty-stricken Negro to cease working for the white man.
In
the fall of 1866 throughout the next year, many men from the Union
League of Philadelphia and New York filtered through the Negro
population, sowing discontent. [In] an effort to consolidate their
[Republican] party, they were seeking the Negro vote in the South. The
agents of the Leagues wandered about the plantations, seeking the Negro
in field and cabin, promising him preposterous wealth and privilege if
he would turn against his white neighbor and vote himself free of the
[Southern] white man’s restraint.
Unscrupulous
agents took advantage of the ignorant, illiterate Negro populace, often
inciting it to acts of treachery and violence. The enmity, fear and
distrust thus aroused between the white and Negro populations resulted
in a reign of terror that is still remembered as one of the darkest
periods in American history.
The
corruption of the Reconstruction period can scarcely be exaggerated.
[Thomas] Dixon said in his old age, “We are too close to realize the
tragedy. The scholar and historian must have the perspective of a
hundred years in which to tell this story to make it credible.”
Unscrupulous political leaders, interested only in the wealth they could
obtain from the disrupted government of the south, aroused antagonisms
that never died among those who experienced the terrible years after the
Civil War.”
(Fire from the Flint, The Amazing Careers of Thomas Dixon, Raymond Allen Cook, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1968, pp. 9-13)
Top 10 Greatest Things Overheard at a Gun Shop
Glock is the easiest gun to clean
10 - You can rack this one much faster -as the sales person racks the slide on a Taurus 709 violently demonstrating the racking capability to a 65 year old elderly lady.
9 - This clip is smaller so it won’t weigh as much – There is so much wrong with this statement – well actually 2 things – 1 while technically the “clip” will weigh less since it holds less, I wouldn’t say less bullets is a selling point for a self defense gun and 2 – its a f#*%^ing MAGAZINE!
More @ Ammoland
McCarthy: “Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.”
Idiot.
Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy made his authoritarian views on the Second Amendment quite clear in September when he announced that he’d have his officers shoot concealed carriers first and ask questions later.
You know, because the Chicago PD’s anti-gun zealotry has made the city so incredibly safe and not the murder capitol of the United States.
Oh, wait.
McCarthy is now attempting to claim that a new initiative to take guns off the street is a success, even though it’s very “success” shows how much of a miserable of a failure Chicago’s anti gun laws really are:
More @ Bearing Arms
BB gun control: In New Jersey, kids’ rite of passage could mean felony
Not only could you "shoot your eye out, kid," you might also go to jail for owning that BB gun in certain states.
New Jersey and other jurisdictions make little or no distinction between Daisy's classic Red Ryder BB gun immortalized in the film "A Christmas Story," and real guns. They must be registered and are subject to the same laws as any firearms.
“In all honesty, kids who are charged are looking at mandatory jail time,” said New Jersey attorney William Proetta, adding that under the state’s Graves Act, a conviction could lead to prison time.
“The only defense is to request a waiver but if that’s not granted, young kids can get a felony charge and their lives are basically over.”
More @ Fox
LTC Bob Bateman: Less Manly Than a Little Girl
Via avordvet
You threaten to ignore the Constitution based on your own retarded misreading, to ignore SCOTUS, threaten military violence against dissenters, and you wonder why you're getting death threats? Guess what: That's EXACTLY the purpose of the Second Amendment—so fascistic little shitweasels like yourself can be shot, tossed into a ditch, and anointed with beer, after it takes a short detour through our kidneys. There are about 100 million gun owners and families. Want to bet on the odds of one of them shooting you down like a rabid dog?
Unbelievably brave or nuts
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New tensions between Georgia and Russia
Georgia news South Ossetia Russia tensions
After a year of the war between Georgia and Russia, tensions between the two countries have risen again. In recent days there has been exchange of gunfire in the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia. Russia has called on the authorities in Tbilisi to prevent an escalation of violencia.Tanto Georgia and South Ossetian sides accuse each other of starting the hostilities. The one year war between Georgia and Russia erupted when Georgian ago troops entered South Ossetia. Moscow came to the defense of the rebel region and other provinces also invaded Georgia.
Georgia news South Ossetia Russia tensions
After a year of the war between Georgia and Russia, tensions between the two countries have risen again. In recent days there has been exchange of gunfire in the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia. Russia has called on the authorities in Tbilisi to prevent an escalation of violencia.Tanto Georgia and South Ossetian sides accuse each other of starting the hostilities. The one year war between Georgia and Russia erupted when Georgian ago troops entered South Ossetia. Moscow came to the defense of the rebel region and other provinces also invaded Georgia.
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