Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”
Monday, January 19, 2010, is the 202nd birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.
What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?
January 16, 2009 - Lately I have been feeling, quite literally, sick to my stomach. I wake up with tension headaches and my stomach is so tied up in knots that I feel nauseous. What ails me is not the flu, it is stress brought on by my thoughts about our governments complete abandonment of Constitutional principles, and the subsequent erosion of our once great republic.
Over two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson made the following statement, “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” Can you imagine what Jefferson would say if he were alive today?
As his eyes penetrated the darkness, a point of light streaked across the sky. He followed it with his eyes until it disappeared over the horizon. All at once several more streaks of light flashed past him and they followed the last streak, until they too vanished into the night. The time it took for each streak of light to appear and then disappear was measured in fractions of a second. He stood there in utter silence as he drank in the splendor of the night sky that glittered and twinkled from horizon to horizon. It was hard for him to believe that so much more existed out there than existed on this mere tiny spec of a planet upon which was the platform for this of points-of-light display. As he contemplated the darkness, a tiny spec of moving light appeared on the East horizon with a path from East to West. It moved in a steady pace across the sky, much slower than the meteorites he had just witnessed. He didn’t know it at the time, but he had just observed the first man-made satellite to join the star-studded night, The Soviet Union’s “Sputnik”. Homer stood in awe of what he saw. He vowed, right then and there, that he wanted to make rockets.
~ Paulson’s Financial Bailout ~ January 14, 2009 – It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.
“Give me control of the nations money, and I care not who makes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe.
January 12, 2009 – The United States Congress, and the Goldman Sachs Gang, just scored the biggest heist in history. A $750 Billion dollar heist. Wow, that’s the biggest score I can remember since the Purolator Security Company heist in Chicago, back in 1974.
That’s right! Everything is on the chopping block. Your life, your unalienable rights, your property, your money, your land, your food, your water, your energy, the constitution and our very sovereignty, are for sale to the highest bidder, or the money changers. As far back as the middle 19th Century, the wealthy and the powerful (Rothschild’s, Rockefellers, etc.) have been trying to strip America of its wealth and its resources and take control. America has been for sale for a long, long time and the money changers found willing accomplices in the government.
January 12, 2009 – With the meltdown of the American economy, what better time to ask: Can libertarianism come to the rescue? Perhaps the most interesting statement in the Wikipedia discussion of libertarianism is that “There is no single theory that can be reliably identified as the libertarian theory, and no single principle or set of principles on which all libertarians would agree.”
Nevertheless, I think it is fair to say that libertarianism includes the belief in economic freedom that emphasizes removing corporate subsidies and other favoritism to special interests and provides maximum freedom to individuals to pursue financial success and security.
The heated debate about global warming has suddenly cooled off. It’s no longer between the fanatic adherents of global warming (AGW’ers: Anthropogenic – human caused – Global Warming adherents) and the more sober minded so-called “deniers.” It’s now between the warmiacs and Mother Nature, and she’s winning handily.
If you doubt that take a look a national temperature charts that show below-zero temperatures as far south as the nation’s lower mid-section, a blizzard in Las Vegas and snow in New Orleans and fire-ravaged Malibu and all happening before winter really sets in.
We are well into a major Recession and I think most people are betting on the stupidity and cupidity of our nation’s leaders, elected and appointed, to ensure that it happens. One need only look at previous efforts to effect some control over the economy while, at the same time, running it into the ground.
From the day — August 15, 1971 — that President Nixon took the nation off the gold standard, detaching the dollar from the enduring value of gold, America became a place where the dollar was worth whatever anyone thought it was worth. It’s a lot like those holiday and post-Christmas sales where a sweater priced at $50 prior to the onslaught of the financial meltdown was priced down to $15. Same sweater, different value. Two suits, one free was the offer of a local retailer.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
Monday, January 19, 2010, is the 202nd birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.
January 16, 2009
As his eyes penetrated the darkness, a point of light streaked across the sky. He followed it with his eyes until it disappeared over the horizon. All at once several more streaks of light flashed past him and they followed the last streak, until they too vanished into the night. The time it took for each streak of light to appear and then disappear was measured in fractions of a second. He stood there in utter silence as he drank in the splendor of the night sky that glittered and twinkled from horizon to horizon. It was hard for him to believe that so much more existed out there than existed on this mere tiny spec of a planet upon which was the platform for this of points-of-light display. As he contemplated the darkness, a tiny spec of moving light appeared on the East horizon with a path from East to West. It moved in a steady pace across the sky, much slower than the meteorites he had just witnessed. He didn’t know it at the time, but he had just observed the first man-made satellite to join the star-studded night, The Soviet Union’s “Sputnik”. Homer stood in awe of what he saw. He vowed, right then and there, that he wanted to make rockets.
January 14, 2009
January 12, 2009 – With the meltdown of the American economy, what better time to ask: Can libertarianism come to the rescue? Perhaps the most interesting statement in the Wikipedia discussion of libertarianism is that “There is no single theory that can be reliably identified as the libertarian theory, and no single principle or set of principles on which all libertarians would agree.”
The heated debate about global warming has suddenly cooled off. It’s no longer between the fanatic adherents of global warming (AGW’ers: Anthropogenic – human caused – Global Warming adherents) and the more sober minded so-called “deniers.” It’s now between the warmiacs and Mother Nature, and she’s winning handily.
We are well into a major Recession and I think most people are betting on the stupidity and cupidity of our nation’s leaders, elected and appointed, to ensure that it happens. One need only look at previous efforts to effect some control over the economy while, at the same time, running it into the ground.
