Nobody Remembers Charles Lindbergh
Nobody Remembers
Once upon a time, one of America’s greatest hero’s Charles Lindbergh, spoke out against America getting involved in Europe. The reason? He didn’t think we were ready. Here is a speech he gave in New York on April 23, 1941, as a representative of America First Committee, a group that was trying to keep us out of the war.
Remember as you read this, after we did get involved, he worked hard for the American cause and was named a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve by President Eisenhower in 1954.
Some of that speech:
There are many viewpoints from which the issues of this war can be argued. Some are primarily idealistic. Some are primarily practical. One should, I believe, strive for a balance of both. But, since the subjects that can be covered in a single address are limited, tonight I shall discuss the war from a viewpoint which is primarily practical. Is it not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war: but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability. If the outcome of war depended upon ideals alone, this would be a different world than it is today.
I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionist in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have reasonable chance of winning.
I do not blame England for his hope or for asking for our assistance. But we now know that she declared a war under circumstances which led to the defeat of every nation that sided with her, from Poland to Greece. We know the in the desperation of war England promised to all those nations armed assistance that she could not send. We know that she misinformed them, as she has misinformed us, concerning her state of preparation, her military strength and the progress of the war.
(Is this not happening now in the Ukraine? Were they NOT promised help from Europe and America?)
He goes on in his speech to say that militarily we could not win this war:
Suppose we had an air force that we could send to Europe. Where could it operate? Some of our squadrons might be based in the British Isles, but it is physically impossible to base enough aircraft in the British Isles alone to equal in strength the aircraft that can be based on the continent of Europe.
(Boy, was HE wrong.)
“There is a policy open to this nation that will lead to success….a policy that leaves us free to follow our own way of life and to develop our own civilization.
It is based upon the belief that the security of a nation lies in the strength and character of its own people. It recommends the maintenance of armed forces sufficient to defend this hemisphere from attack by any combination of foreign powers. It demands faith in an independent American destiny. This is the policy of the America First Committee today. It is a policy not of isolation but of independence: not of defeat but of courage.
(Great stuff…keep going.)
We have weakened ourselves for many months, and, still worse, we have divided our own people by this dabbling in Europe’s wars. While we should have been concentrating on American defense we have been forced to argue over foreign quarrels. We must turn our eyes and our faith back to our own country before it is too late.
We have been led toward war by a minority of our people. This minority has power. It has influence. It has a loud voice. But it does not represent the American people.
(Gee, not much has changed, has it?)
During the last several years I have traveled over this country from one end to the other. I have talked to many hundreds of men and women, and I have letters from tens of thousands more who feel the same way and you and I. Most of these people have no influence or power. Most of them have no means of expressing their convictions except by their vote, which has always been against this war. They are the citizen who have had to work too hard at their daily jobs to organize political meetings. Hitherto, they have relied upon their vote to express their feelings: but now they find that it is hardly remembered except in the oratory of a political campaign.
And so, the good news? According to our last election, the America that Charles Lindbergh talked about is still out there.
The bad news? We STILL have no influence or power. If we had any say in any of the wars, Vietnam and Iraq would have been done shorter, with more force, and with finality.
If Charles were alive today, I’m sure he would say: We are not prepared to fight another war:
But…something tells me…we will.
Nobody Reads Dave Barry
Nobody Reads
Dave Barry is one of America’s National treasures. And so…without his permission, I am going to copy a portion of a column that I read before breakfast.
Nobody tell him.
It’s from a column called “The Rules” and to set up the excerpt, it was about the various rules our leaders in Washington make that baffle us all. He made the point that President Reagan in a direct quote after bombing Khadafy said, “We weren’t out to kill anybody.”
“We have large military airplanes fly over there, and drop bombs all over his immediate vicinity: but we weren’t trying to kill him. You want to know why? I’ll tell you why. The Rules.
That’s right. It runs out that we have this law, signed in 1976 by Gerald Ford, who coincidentally also pardoned Richard M. Nixon, under which it is illegal for our government to assassinate foreign leaders. So we can’t just hire a couple of experienced persons named Vito for 100 grand to sneak over there one night in dark clothing and fill up Moammar’s various breathing apertures with plumbers’ putty. No, that would be breaking a rule. So what we do is spend several hundred million dollars to crank up the entire Sixth Fleet and have planes fly over from as far away as England, not to mention that we lose a couple of airmen, to achieve the purpose of NOT killing Moammar Khadafy. We did kill various other random Libyans, but that is OK under the Rules. Gerald Ford signed nothing to protect them. “
I wonder how Mr. Barry would talk about the fact that we spend TRILLIONS of dollars after being attacked by bin Laden, only to have the next President spend another trillion taking us out, only to decide that we need to spend another trillion to go back, and even after bin Laden is dead? Add to that the fact that we are trillions in debt.
And on top of that, we send men over there and tell them the new rule: Don’t shoot your enemy unless he shoots you first! Ha ha ha.
So, hopefully Mr. Barry will forgive me for posting his copyrighted ‘stuff” and if he gets mad, I’ll just have to bake him another pumpkin pie.
Nobody Remembers: Samuel Adams
Nobody Remembers
“For depth of purpose, zeal, and sagacity, no man in Congress exceeded, if any equaled, Sam Adams. ” Thomas Jefferson
The History channel just got through with a mini-series about the start of the American revolution, called, “Sons of Liberty.” And so this week, (being as I hold dear fondness for the Adams’s) I thought I’d do some remembering of Sam Adams.
I had to laugh at how they really romanticized Sam Adams, the man whose name was at the top of King George’s death list. …and yet, they just touched the mere surface of the man.
Sam Adams was unbelievably young and handsome in the series, and while I was very glad to see some homage paid to the Adams family, since Washington D.C., has not YET honored them with any sort of monument…..everything I’ve ever read about the time, suggest they took great creative license with the script.
But…you know what? It might at this time in our history, be necessary. We live in a culture that young people might not watch if a good-looking leading man was not cast. And we WANT the young to learn history. God knows, they are getting crap in the schools.
Sons of Liberty
The television series stopped after the Battle of Bunker Hill (my birthday– coincidently) but the war was not going well for the longest of time. General George Washington kept having to retreat as we all know…
In fact, the Continental Congress had to move out of Philadelphia in 1777, since the British were on the march, and fast.
Things were so depressing that John Adams said this:
“The prospect is chilling, on every Side: Gloomy, dark, melancholy and dispiriting.”
The Continental Congress all left the city in a rush, they would have all been hanged. Or worse yet, like Dr. Warren, Sam’s good friend, beheaded on Bunker Hill.
The real Sam Adams was NOT a young man when the revolution started. He had lost his first wife and four of his children before the war started. The Old South Church where Sam’s father had once worshipped was ripped apart and used as a riding academy by the British. Sam’s house in Boston was vandalized by the British troops so badly that it was uninhabitable.
They left that OUT of the series.
And yet, on September 26, 1777, Samuel Adams…the slightly heavy, gray-haired, 55-year-old, gave his fellow member of Congress a talk, of encouragement.
“If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.”
“Let us awaken the, and evince a different spirit , a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us, a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle, until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock. We have proclaimed to the world our determination “to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.” We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have places out truss. Numerous have been the manifestation of God’s providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity we had had “our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.” We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up. Let us still rely in humble convince on Him who is might to save. Good tidings will soon arrive. We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy if its aid and protections.
Sam & Me
On October 17, at Saratoga, the American General Horatio Gates accepted the surrender of 5,8000 British soldier lad by General John Burgoyne. And this victory brought France to our aid…so Sam was right.
In the year 2000, my mother paid for my airfare to go to Boston, because I couldn’t afford it. It wasn’t until after suffering from a deep depression, did I take my mother’s advice and go to search basically– for myself. I hit Boston, Braintree, Bunker Hill…The gravesites of the Adams’ …all of them.
What I found, was the remarkable story of a few men, in Boston, who dared to say, against all odds, to the might King of England…no. We are not colonists.
“Is not America already independent? Why then not declare it? ” (Sam Adams, 1776.)
Sam Adams was not a rich man…and he truly was, the man who rallied Boston to resistance.
So, while historically speaking, history is twisted here and there by script writers, I can honestly say, I’m very glad Sam Adams got shown on the History Channel last week.
My favorite description of Sam Adams was writing by Mercy Otis Warren, in 1805:
“His mind was replete with resources that dissipated fear….he stood forth earl, and continued firm, through the great struggle, and may justly claim a large share of honor, due to that spirit of energy which opposed the measures of administration, and produced the independence of America. Through a long life he exhibited on all occasions an example of patriotism, religion, and virtue honorary to the human character. “
As you can see from the picture, I got his legs, his big forehead (of which I have been embarrassed all my life) and most of all, much to most everyone I know, an insufferable love of justice and hatred of tyranny.
Which—- as the Nobody that I am, if I must say so, is about as American as you can get.
Pass the beer. 🙂
Nobody Remembers Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nobody Remembers
As Obama sends more troops BACK to Iraq and Afghanistan, and to Africa, with tensions between the West and Islam at an all-time high, many of us wonder exactly when will WWIII start? We are still fighting too many wars with too few soldiers.
“We’re under great threat, because we occupy so many countries,” Ron Paul said. “We’re in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We’re going broke.”
The United States is at its weakest point, and the whole world knows it. So today, I’d thought I’d revisit a President that, makes Obama look like he’s not even out of Kindergarten. Comparing Barack Obama to Ike Eisenhower is like comparing a bagworm to the Milky Way.
Okay. A bit harsh?
Too bad.
One of the most famous speeches given by any President, was the farewell speech given by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on January 17, 1961, and so, I’m going to post a few of my favorite passages from this speech…if for no other reason but to remind us all…
The REAL trouble we are all in, with Barack (Muslim name we will not mention) Obama.
Eisenhower:
ON CONGRESS: In this final relationship, the Congress and the administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling on my part of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
(NOBODY: Whoa. Congress and the President work together for the people? What a wonderful idea! That’s because Eisenhower was a great General and leader among men, something which Obama is not. And compare the brain power between the two. Like I said: Beethoven VS Yoko Ono.
Eisenhower:
ON CRISIS: Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense, development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture, a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research–these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs–balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hope for advantage, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seek balance and progress, lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
NOBODY: These concepts are complexly foreign to Washington D.C., and not just Obama. Nobody cares about balancing the budget anymore, do they?
Eisenhower:
ON THE MILITARY COMPLEX: In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. the potential for the disastrous s rise of misplaced power exist and will persist.
ON TECH: The sweeping changes in our industrial military posture has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central: it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. Partly because of the huge cost involved a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiously. The prospect of domination of the nations’ scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever-present and is gravely to be regarded.
NOBODY WONDERS: Can you even imagine what he would have said about the ‘global warming’ scientists who work for the government? Or the NSA?
Eisenhower:
ON OUR FUTURE: Our government must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.
And so, as we glance at our $18 trillion-dollar debt deficit, we realized…
THEY DIDN”T LISTEN TO HIM!
On the other hand, Ike did have Dulles as his Secretary of Defense.
So, Nobody’s Perfect.
If Dick Morris Is Right About Third Terms…What Does That Mean?
Nobody Wonders
Here Dick Morris gives his insights on the historical record that the American people do not elect third terms, therefore, since Obama is so unpopular, Hillary will not stand a chance.
Nobody Wonders, since the demographics of the country have changed so radically, and with the influx of new immigrants before 2016, if this theory holds up.
We can only hope.
Obama Oroboros
Nobody’s Opinion
Open wounds. It’s a first law of healing: You do NOT pick at the old wound. You let it heal. Pick it, and it bleeds again, and takes even longer to heal, and leaves a much bigger scar. Keep picking at it and it will never heal.
It’s a fact, not only in the physical human body, but also in the psychological part of the human soul. The mind has a wonderful mechanism, it forgets the most painful moments in its life.
Agatha Christie, (the great mystery writer) once totally forgot about 10 days of her life. She got in a car, in a deep despairing moment, and just left the car on the side of the road and walked away. Later she said she did not remember a thing she did during those 10 days.
I too had about 3 days in my life that I have no memory of whatsoever. There was a painful event, and I just had trouble coping with reality. I remember getting off a from a plane coming back from New York, but that’s about it. And no, it was not due to drugs or alcohol, I just closed up.
Like a computer that shuts down due to a power outage, a brain can completely shut off to survive. It’s healing itself. Really remarkable when you think about it.
And now, we have a President who will not allow the nation to heal.
Our President, obviously lashing out in his own pain, and for his own gain, has decided to pick the American wound of hatred, prejudice, and racism, and bring back the bloody memories of our ancestors. He is determined to NOT let the old racial hatred that blacks and whites have for each other heal.
Obama’s words are not only repulsive, they are sadistic.
It’s like the symbol called the Oroboros: the snake eats its own tail. The symbol has been around since the Egyptians, and has been used all over the world, no doubt because real snakes have been known to do this, swallow their own tail. And to me it’s a PERFECT symbol for Obama.
Pretend that Obama, is the snake. (Not hard.)
That circle around his symbolic big O, should be a snake, because who else but a snake would destroy his own country? Who else but a snake would FORCE a country into riots and hatred and therefore cause further economic destruction? He is refusing to let us heal from our past— heal from sins committed by another generation…crimes not even committed by those living now.
What do YOU see when you see that symbol? I see a snake basically eating itself to it’s own final death. I see suicide.
In historical terms the Oroboros means renewal, death and rebirth, but what kind of rebirth are we talking about? A black President is COMPLAINING about how America is raciest—- picking old wounds, stabbing words of deep resentment into people that are simply trying to survive. To me that means that Obama did not really win the election, and he knows it. If America is a racist as Obama claims, he would not be in the White House—so in a way, he just admitted the election was rigged.
And all last week, we talked about the poor black man Eric Garner. 
Was he “choked” to death by that police man? Was he dead before they picked him up in the ambulance? Was this a racial act? Even his wife says it wasn’t because he was black. As you watch the video, the cops are trying very hard not to hurt the guy, and that man who was choking him, was NOT pulling on his vocal chords because Eric was still talking. I’ve heard reports that he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
He was in really bad shape, a heart attack ready to happen. BUT…everyone knows that he certainly didn’t need to be arrested for selling a cigarette. A ticket would have sufficed.
Rush Limbaugh pointed out the fact that it wasn’t the choke hold that killed him, but the stupid law that says people can be harassed for just about anything by the police, and the high cigarette taxes were really the death of the man.
What happened to Garners was not much different than what happened to the Tea Party people who were hunted down and harassed by the IRS…albeit a symbolic chokehold. Both symbolic of a government out of control.
When Obama picks at the bloody wound of race, all his black basketball players and football players pick at it too. And then the blacks and whites stop being nice to each other, in their cars, standing in lines, in everyday encounters, all because the black man in the White House..is basically a snake.
Obama ONCE again, is not blamed:
Arianna Huffington summed it up this way:
The problem is how to fix a broken justice system that has, for obvious reasons, lost the trust of much of our country. The first step is translating people’s anger into political action to reassert accountability and put justice back into the justice system. BlackLivesMatter
(Do they matter enough to stop killing each other?)
So the Oroboros starts all over again….government causes poverty in the inner cities, therefore the police force becomes more militarized, and the people lose more and more of their rights, causing anarchy, and therefore the government must come in with more power, and more rights are lost, and it’s just a vicious circle of cause and effect, with no beginning and no end to the poverty, the lies, the destruction of America.
We saw it happen in Detroit. We saw it happen in Oakland. And now, we are watching it happen all over again, in Ferguson, and all across the country.
We are eating ourselves.
Oroboros.
The only way to stop it is to cut off the head of the snake—-Before he devours us all.
By the way, I dreamt about the Oroboros (Although I didn’t know at the time what it was called,) when I was just 19 and going to college. I was taking a poetry class, having trouble deciding what to write, and so, I was woken from a dream in the middle of the afternoon, with a splitting headache, by the sound of my mother vacuuming.
I wrote down the dream: (Yes, it did have three parts, sorry I’m still weird.) Enjoy! Or not. (LOL!)
A Dream of Disease Or How to Succeed in Dying Without Really Trying.
In slow motion
Two Gigantic Grasshoppers
Swordfight in a Black Bubbling pot.
Two Musketeers
In high waisted military jackets of green,
And silver sheen in eye and sword,
Taking pleasure in being put there
By the man in the chair
Watching,
Unsuspecting as I.
But then, he leaped
And crammed himself down the man’s throat,
Like garbage down a broken disposal.
Bowed legs,
Spastic,
They grouped and joined man’s
Circle of green and blur
Man eats himself.
Semen oozes.
Tammy runs
And I lecture her on the lessons of watching
While puke pours down my hands.
But,
This was not the worst.
II
Tornado picks up house
Of me and the 95the battalion
As I look down
At the perfect green squares
I know I will be dead.
Everywhere there are
Soldiers and slings and screams,
Interns in white,
Soaked in blood,
Wheelchairs, and ambulances, and mud.
Man grits as leg is carefully sawed off.
I lay on my side as if asleep.
Not a scratch.
He sits besides me
Looking at the floor, head in hands.
Everyone knows
I am gone.
But the veteran’s march on.
Nor this.
III
Doctor of learning
He looked the same
Pipe in hand, feet on desk,
Confident,
Our eyes met.
But the angelic voice that had once split atoms
Was not heard,
Woman of Independence and endings
Man who believed in revenge
So I brought it.
Discipline and work and eight years.
I gently nudged the boy forward.
“This is your father.”
“This is your son.”
This was.
I awoke
Head in hands
Ran a year in ten seconds flat
Tried
Knowing that doctors do not come in small doses
Just me
(Where’s Agatha Christie when you need her?)
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Nobody Remembers Levi Coffin
Nobody Remembers
Since the democrats are taking us back daily to rehash ‘slavery’ and the black man’s seemingly endless march to nowhere…I thought its about time we remember some of the white people who sacrificed to end slavery.
So, I’m reprinting the memories of Levi Coffin who was one of the leaders of the Underground Railroad. He worked both in Indiana and in Ohio to help slaves escape: Here’s a few selections from his Reminiscences describing his experiences and how he did it:
I was personally acquainted with all the active and reliable workers on the Underground Railroad in the city, both colored and white. There were a few wise and careful managers among the colored people, but i was not safe to trust all of them with the affairs of our work. Most of them were too careless, and a few were unworthy–they could be bribed by the slave hunters to betray the hiding places of the fugitives. We soon found it to be the best policy to confine our affairs to a few persons and to let the whereabouts so the slaves be known to as few people as possible.
When slave hunters were prowling around the city we found it necessary to use every precaution. We were soon fully initiated into the management of the Underground Railroads matters in Cincinnati, and did not lack for work. Our willingness to aid the slaves was soon known and hardly a fugitive came to the city without applying to us for assistance. There seemed to be a continual increased of runaways and such was the vigilance of the pursuers that I was obliged to devote a large share of time from my business to making arrangements for their concealment and safe conveyance of the fugitives.
They sometimes came to our door frightened and panting and in a destitute condition having fled is such haste and fear that they had no time to bring any clothing except what they had on, and that was often very scant. The expense of providing suitable clothing for them when it was necessary for them to go on immediately, or of feeding them when they were obliged to be concealed for days or weeks, was very heavy.
Added to this was the cost of hiring teams when a party of fugitives had to be conveyed out of the city by night to some underground Railroad depot, from twenty to thirty miles distance. The price for a two-horse team on such occasions was generally ten dollars, and sometimes two or three teams were required. We generally hired these teams from a certain German livery stable, sending some irresponsible though honest colored man to procure them, and always sending the money to pay for them in advance. The people of the livery stable seemed to understand what the teams were wanted for, and asked no questions.
It was necessary to use every precaution and I thought it wise to act, as the monkey did, take the cat’s-paw to draw the chestnut from the fire, and not burn my own fingers. I generally gave the money to a second person to hand to the colored man. We had several trusty colored men who owned no property and who could lose nothing in a prosecution, who understood Underground Railroad matters: And we generally got them to act as drivers but in some instances white men volunteered to drive, generally young and able-bodied. Sometimes the depot to which the fugitives were consigned was not reached until several hours after daylight, and it required a person of pluck and nerve to conduct them to their stopping place. If the party of fugitives were large they were soon scattered among the Abolitionist in the neighborhood, and remained in safe concealment until the next night….
Our house was large and well adapted for secreting fugitives. Very often slaves would lie concealed in upper chambers for weeks without the boarders or frequent visitors at the house knowing anything about it. My wife had a quiet unconcerned way of going about her work as if nothing unusual was on hand, which was calculated to lull every suspicion of those who might be watching, and who would have been at once aroused by any sign of secrecy or mystery. Even the intimate friend of the family did no know when there were slaves hidden in the house unless they were directly informed…
The story goes on…and it’s too long to reprint here, but he did have a devil of a time figuring out how to get a large party of 28, one with women and young babies, across to Canada, so he staged a fake funeral.
It worked.
Today–as you listen to the blacks and their slurs and often obscene shouting’, it occurred to me that I have NEVER heard one single black man OR woman, thank the good white people who gave their lives, and still do, to keep them free, so that slavery never happens again.
But…hope is there. A few black men protected a white man’s store in Ferguson. They stood outside and guarded it. And today, x-military men (white) have volunteered their services to guard the businesses’ of Ferguson. (sitting on the rooftops) All they need is the permission of the property owner. They are still there.
You are NOT seeing these white heroes on CNN.
The day I hear a black man praise and actually THANK…all the whites who gave their lives to free the slaves..(from the democratic slave plantations) that will be the day I that we should ALL mark down in history as the day the black man was on his way finally, to getting off the liberal plantation forever.
Nobody Remembers John Birch
Nobody Remembers
I was thumbing through a few liberals blogs last night, when I came upon a blog called: Liberal America: The article was titled: The Koch Brothers, Ron and Rand Paul, and the John Birch Society.
Whoa. This guy was WORRIED. According to him, the John Birch Society, that evil, radical, right-wing KKK organization from the 1950’s, has been resurrected AGAIN…as the Tea Party. And the Koch Brothers are funding it.
The JBS was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, a Massachusetts Republican Party official, wealthy business man, and board member of the ultra conservative National Review. It was named after a U.S. Intelligence officer who was killed by Chinese Communist shortly after World War II.
He goes on to say that the members of the John Birch Society do NOT want to tax the rich, want regular people to be poor, uneducated and powerless, and union less.
Fred Koch, was an original founding member and backer of the JBS.
In 1980, David Koch was the Libertarian Party Candidate for Vice President.
And now, the Koch Brothers fund the Tea Party Express and Americans for Prosperity.
So, the Tea Party, has taken up the very same principles as the John Birch Society, but they just don’t know it yet. As you can see below, they are almost identical. Most Tea Party people would cringe at the comparison. Why? Because the progressives have been working for years to destroy the common rights of the people, and so, a John Birch Society member was vilified with relentless animosity. The name of John Birch was put right up there with Hitler.
Pure propaganda, and lies.
Still…as we see by the results last election—that poor liberal blogger must be freaking out…so let’s see exactly what is so scary about the John Birch Society? :
Here’s a few lines from their statement of principles, printed in the Congressional Record on June 12, 1962:
With very few exceptions the members of the John Birch Society are deeply religious people. Our hope is to make better Catholics, better Protestants, better Jews,—or better Moslems, out of those who belong to the society. Our never-ending concern is with morality, integrity and purpose.
We believe that communism is as utterly incompatible with all religion as it is contemptuous of all morality and destructive of freedom. It is intrinsically evil. It must be opposed, therefore, with equal firmness, on religious grounds, moral ground and political grounds. Our ultimate quarrel with the Communists is that they insist on imposing that way of life on the rest of us by murder, treason, and cruelty rather than by persuasion.
The present United Nations was designed by its founders for the exactly opposite purpose of increasing the rigidity of government controls over the lives and affairs of individual men. We believe it has become, as it was intended to become a major instrumentality for the establishment of a one world Communist tyranny over the population of the whole earth. One of our most immediate objectives, therefore, is to get the United State out of the United Nations, and the United Nations out of the United States.
We believe that a constitutional republic, such as our founding fathers gave us, is probably the best of all forms of government. We believe that a democracy, which they tried hard to obviate, and into which the liberals have been trying for fifty years to convert our republic, is one the worst of all forms of government. This is a republic, not a democracy: let’s keep it that way.
We are opposed to collectivism as a political and economic system, even when it does not have the police-state features of communism. We are opposed to it no matter whether the collectivism be called socialism, or the welfare state of the New Deal, or the Fair Deal or the New Frontier, or advanced under some other semantic disguises. We believe that increasing the size of government, increasing the centralization of government, and increasing the functions of government all act as brakes on material progress and as destroyers of personal freedom.
It is extremely important in our case to keep our township, city, county, and state government from being bribed and coerced into coming under one direct chain of control from Washington.
We think it is even more important for the government to obey the laws than for the people to do so. But for thirty years we have had a steady stream of government which increasingly have regarded our laws and even our Constitution as mere pieces of paper, which should not be allowed to stand in the way of what they, in their omniscient benevolence, considered to be “for the greatest good of the greatest number.” We want a restoration of a “government of laws and not of men” in this country, and if a few impeachments are necessary to bring that about , then we are all for impeachment.
So, there you go. Fine thoughts, and sound thinking all around. In the tavern of rational logic the pints would raise the toasts to “ALL HAIL the Republic!” would be …
Okay…we could tweet it, and then drink. 
The fight between the progressives (communist/Marxist) and the people who believe in the right to their own freedom, has been going on forever.
They just don’t teach history anymore. And they have made SURE that the “lies” about the Tea Party and the John Birch Society just keep piling up.
Oh…one more thing:
He said this:
William F. Buckley, Jr., widely recognized as the father of modern American Conservatism and the founder of the National Review, became concerned about the growing influence of the JBS over the Republican Party and Conservative politics. Beginning with his February, 1962 essay, Buckley began warning readers of the dangers posed by the JBS, eventually effectively removing it from the GOP and banishing its followers to the far right-wing fringe of American political thought.
Was this the moment the Republican Party joined up with the Progressives and split from the people?
After all, FDR really DID have 17 card-carrying communists in his administration.
Anyway, here’s their website: But let me warn you:
It’s really ….nice.
The Evolution of American Partisen Politics
Nobody Remembers
If you happen to think that politics has NEVER been so partisan, think again. The troubles of the Donkey VS the Elephant began years ago…when George Washington, who was sick of all the partisan fighting said, “I’m leaving this town and you can TAKE this job and shove it.”
Okay, he was a lot more dignified about it. But the fighting started during his last years as President, and it has never stopped. The partisan bickering started: The Virginians VS the Northerners. (Or Federalists.) OR…South VS the North. The Jeffersonian VS the Federalists. Whatever—none of them got along.
In the North, Hamilton had already been working with the banks of England, and his push for a National Bank was seen by the South as a way to transfer power from the agrarian sectors of the South, to the commercial enterprises of the North. They (Lead by Jefferson) thought the National Bank was unconstitutional.
(Jefferson would be the Ron Paul of today.)
Abigail Adam’s keen observance— “I firmly believe that if I live ten years longer, I saw see a division of Northern and Southern states. “
And right when America was just getting her first steps: Along came the French Revolution. (1793) Washington declared the United States neutral. He didn’t want to take sides in the war between the French and the British, because the United States was heavily trading with BOTH countries. Add to that, we had signed a peace treaty with England in 1778.
But the people of the United States, loved the French and hated the British, for obvious reasons. America would not have been able to defeat the British without the French.
And so–the Partisan political divides began: French loving Americans sided with Thomas Jefferson, and basically started the democratic party, which they called Republican, to show you–that Democrats got the habit of saying everything backwards from Thomas Jefferson. (Hey, you tell me. They are STILL saying black is white.)
Now, France was not to let a good crisis go to waste, so getting together with Jefferson, the French Minister, Edmond Genet, started stirring up the masses to get Americans to defy their government and come to the cause of the French in liberty, equality, and fraternity. (Hope and Change to come) People protested and marched in every single city, and newspapers were filled with both sides–yelling obscenities like “You WAGGER FRENCH LOVER YOU!” And “YOU LOVE KING GEORGE AND EAT MY OYSTER”
And thus began partisan politics. Americans have not given it up since. In fact, we have perfected it, and made it a huge part of the American economic engine. (That’s another blog.)
But, back to 1793. Most of the people wanted to go back to war with Great Britain, and anyone who didn’t want to go back to war, was labeled: horrors of horrors: an aristocrat.
Now we can just call them “chicken- shits.”
Hard to believe that the Jeffersonian Republicans (democrats) wanted to go to war back then, but there you go. Like I said, confusion.
Republican editorials blasted Washington and Hamilton. They were both hated.
While Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State, he was orchestrating the Republican opposition to the very government he officially served.
Imagine Harry Reid having secret meetings with the Koch Brothers.
So—-why was Jefferson rallying Americans to go after the British again? History reports he was afraid the government would become bigger than the states.
(Eventually, that DID happen.)
BUT..John Adams thought he knew the real reason:
In John’s opinion Jefferson’s true motives were blatantly self-serving. Like so many of the Virginia planters he was heavily in debt to British creditors, and therefore predisposed toward an anti-British foreign policy that would delay repayment into the indefinite future.
Right. Jefferson did NOT want to give up his dreams of wine, books, architecture, and Sally’s, just to pay back those low life Brits.
And so he spread the rumor that the treaty with Britain, which John Jay arranged, was the big problem. John Jay’s Treaty with Britain removed the British troops from the West, and stopped the British Frigates from raiding American ships in the Caribbean. That was a GOOD thing. The British paid us back for whatever we lost from their Navy raiding our ships, and we agreed that American debtors— chiefly Virginia planters— pay off their prewar debt to British creditors.
How did the American people feel about that Treaty? They burned John Jay effigies in every town.
(Now, you can’t even wear a NRA cap to the voting booth.)
And Jefferson had help. James Madison, was working with Jefferson (who was in hiding in Monticello pretending he was out of politics) and they sabotaged the treaty by denying the funds for its implantation it in the House.
(Something the House NEVER does now…Can you say, Obamacare?)
John believed he was watching the triumph of party politics in its most partisan form…and he said this:
The republican opposition was highly orchestrated, “all moving as one Man, not a dissenting Voice among them, appearing as if drawn by one Cord.”
And that’s what has made the democratic party so successful: That cord has never been broken.
So, how is Congress doing in 2014? They are as far apart as they were in the beginning. Nothing is new here under the sun, and nothing ever changes, except the corruption in both parties borders BEYOND the obscene.
How popular is Congress now? About as popular as they were then. They should be thankful we don’t burn their effigies in the street.
(From FRIST FAMILY and YES–I’m still reading it. )
Ben Franklin: … How to Diminish a Nation.
Nobody Remembers
It’s a pity that our founders are being trashed and forgotten in our schools–so just for fun, here’s some Benjamin Franklin quotes you are NOT likely to see taught anywhere: Each one describes what is happening in America today.
From Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind: 1751
The following things must diminish a nation, VIZ:
(a) The Being Conquered.—- “For the conquerors will engross as many offices, and exact as much tribute or profit on the labor of the conquered , as well maintain them in their new establishments, and this diminishing the subsistence of the natives discourages their marriages, and so gradually diminish them, while the foreigners increase.”
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(b) Law of Territory:— “Thus, the Britons, being driven into Wales and crowded to gather in a barren country insufficient to support such great numbers, diminished until the people bore a proportion to the produce, while the Saxons increased on their abandoned lands: until the Island became full of English. And were the English now driven into Wales by some foreign nation, there would in a few years be no more Englishmen in Britain , than there are now people in Wales.”
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(c) Loss of Trade:” Manufactures exported draw subsistence from foreign counties for numbers, who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families. If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade, and no new employment is found for the people occupied in that branch, it will also be soon deprived of so many people.”
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(d) Loss of food. (I skipped this one it was so obvious.)
(e) Bad Government and Insecure Property.— People not only leave such a country and settling abroad, incorporate with other nations, lose their native language, and become foreigners, but, the industry of those that remain being discouraged, the quantity of subsistence in the country is lessened, and the support of a family becomes more difficult: so heavy taxes tend to diminish a people.
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(f) The Introduction of Slaves:—“The Negroes brought into the English sugar islands have greatly diminished the whites there. The poor are by this means deprived of employment, while a few families acquire vast estates, which they spend on foreign luxuries and education their children in the habit of those luxuries. The same income is needed for the support of one that might have maintained 100. “
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“In fine, a nation well regulated is like a polyp—take away a limb, its place is soon supplied cut it in two, and each deficient part shall speedily grow out of the part remaining.”
“And since detachments of English from Britain, sent to America , will have their places at home so soon supplied and increase so largely here, why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements and by herding together, establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our anglifying, and will never adopt our language or customs any more than they can acquire our complexion? “
“Which leads me to add one remark, that the number of purely white people in the world is proportionally very small. Why increase the sons of Africa by planting them on America, where we have so fair an opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawnies, of increasing the lovely white and red? But perhaps I am partial to the complexion of my country, for such kind of partial is natural to mankind.” —Ben Franklin
And of course, many would say Ben was a racist by this remark.
But then again…so is Obama. He prefers a black Muslim nation.
If you throw a stone at Ben, you might as well throw one at Barack. Tell me, if what destroys a nation was so obvious to Ben Franklin, why is it not obvious to the men and women in Washington?
I think you know.
Which Man Was Right?
Nobody Remembers
I am still reading Joseph J. Ellis’s First Family, and today I found a particular interesting passage that I thought FIT the current political scene today: How conservatives and liberals, “Now called progressives” look at life so differently, and it started way back at our founding, with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Conservatives are pragmatists. Progressives are dreamers. John Adams, was a pragmatist. Thomas Jefferson, was a dreamer. And this Nobody Wonders, if the New World Order progressive got their ideas from Thomas Jefferson. 
Here are some excerpts from the book, that makes it exceedingly clear: ..nothing has much changed.
When Jefferson and Adams were in Paris, representing the United States, Jefferson lived in Adams house, and so the future of the new country, and the direction it was going to take, was discussed at length. Of course, at that time, they were both highly intelligent gentleman, and bonded by the recent revolution….but that didn’t last. As you can see, they were world’s apart when it came to how they looked at the world..
Jefferson On TRADE: With regard to international trade, he described his beau ideal as the permanent elimination of all tariffs and embargoes, in effect the creation of a global marketplace committed to free trade, unencumbered by national restrictions of any sort. He proposed that all commercial negotiations with European powers, most especially Great Britain, proceed from these utopian assumptions, which he was convinced were destined to shape the international economy of the future. It was Jefferson’s anticipation of globalization.
(A view still held by Rockefeller, the Bushes, Obama, the Clintons, and every progressive that has ever had the vision of a one world government. Obama takes all his actions FIRST as a citizen of the world. Ebola is a WORLD problem. That trumps America.)
John believed that nations viewed the international marketplace through the prism of their own sovereign. Great Britain already enjoyed the lion’s share of American exports, so it had no incentive to drop import duties or make concessions to American merchants or shippers.
“We must not, my Friend, be the Bubbles of our own Liberal Sentiments.” said John.
Jefferson’s romantic prescriptions were surely beautiful, but their implementation must await arrival of the Second Coming, when all men became angels at last.
On Muslims: The Muslims were plundering European and American vessels in the western Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, seizing the cargoes as prizes, sending the passengers and crew into slavery, then demand exorbitant ransom for their release.
(This still funds them today…kidnapping has put billions in their pockets.)
Both Adams and Jefferson met with the ambassador of Tripoli to try to solve the problem:
“The Ambassador apprised us that it was founded (the beheadings etc.) on the Laws of the Prophet that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.”
(This has NOT changed, not matter how many times Obama says it’s not so.)
Jefferson proposed an alliance of the United States and all European states victimized by these pirates ante creation of joint naval force in the Mediterranean to destroy their corsair, ravage their ports, and put an end once and for all, to their savagery. He was suggestion an early version of NATO.
John reminded him while noble, the European powers, so jealous of each other, would never agree to such an alliance. Second, the cost of such an enterprise, would be larger than the requested ransom and more than the American government would ever approve, And…America had no Navy.
John than said, “We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever.”
John Adams was the senior in Paris, so he decided to pay the bribe until America could develop a Navy, and John managed to talk the ambassador down (price) by blowing larger smoke rights from a hug Turkish pipe which prompted the ambassador to exclaim, “Monsieru, vous etes un Turc.”
And it wasn’t just John that disagreed with Jefferson’s continual fantasies of a utopian world. Abigail had a different view of internal rebellions. When hearing of the Shay’s Rebellion Jefferson wrote, “I like a little rebellion now and then, It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” Abigail thought such liberal sentiments were only possible from someone safely ensconced in Paris, far from the trauma.
Abigail wrote that Jefferson seemed to take for granted, “Ignorant, wrestles desperadoes, without conscience or principles, have led a deluded multitude to follow their standard. ” They should be punished rather than pardoned, an outcome that Jefferson would be well advised to embrace.
(I’m sure both John and Abigail would say that very same thing about the Ferguson “protest.” )
Jefferson’s ‘party’ became known as the Jefferson Republicans which were really the beginnings of the Democratic party, which faded and was brought back by Andrew Jackson, who formed the party of today.
So next time you see Bill Clinton on TV, remember, his middle name isn’t “Jefferson” for nothing. The progressive idiots have been around for a very looooooooog time. And they continue to try to put the round world in their square hole.
General Sherman Gives Obama Some Pointers
Nobody Remembers
There’s no escaping it: Jimmy Carter just had one of the best days of his life.–President Obama, is being hammered about how badly he is handling the war—by his generals, his x-cabinet members, and all of our allies. Obama really doesn’t have a clue how to be “Commander-In-Chief.” Notice, he hasn’t made that “I’M THE COMMANDER- IN- CHIEF!” exclamation lately.
Obama is SO bad at commanding a war, he just might surpass Carter’s foreign policy failures. Jimmy Carter just said this::
“First of all, we waited too long. We let the Islamic State build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria,” Carter told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in an interview published Tuesday. The 39th president was in Texas working on a Habitat for Humanity project.
“Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned,” he continued.
Carter also argued it would be strategic to have troops on the ground in Syria to help guide the air campaign. Obama, however, has pledged that the United States would not send troops into the country.
The cry is loud…on every doorstep we are hearing, “We need a STRONG leader!” Bill O’Reilly is hoping General Patton was frozen In a Disney Skywalker lab, so he can unfreeze him and send him to ISIS and destroy them all.
Since that’s not possible, I, little nobody, have another suggestion, and all I had to do was open a book. So, here’s a few tips, from a little nobody who lives near Ferguson, MO, and an American General, who actually knew how to win a war:
William Tecumseh Sherman: From his memoirs: Military lessons of the War
SHERMAN: “No army can be efficient unless it be a unit for action: and the power must come from above, not from below. The President usually delegates his power to the commander in-chief, and then to the next, and so on down to the lowest actual commander of troops, however small the detachment. No matter how troops come together, when once united, the highest officer in rank is held responsible, and should be consequently armed with the fullest power of the executive, subject only to law and existing orders.”
NOBODY: It’s been told that Obama did not listen to ANY of his generals. In fact, nobody knows if Obama even gives his generals any other directions than, “Get me some coffee.” “and “Stand DOWN.” Obama leads from the bottom, that way, the blame never goes to the top. HIM.
SHERMAN: “The more simple the principal, the greater the likelihood of determined action: and the less a commanding officer is circumscribed by bounds or by precedent, the greater is the probability that he will make the best use of his command and achieve the best results.”
NOBODY: Here’s a simple principle Obama: WIN THE WAR! Simple. Tell your army to WIN THE WAR. CRUSH ISIS. Sherman says: KISS. (Keep it simple, stupid.) What’s that Obama? You have a plane to catch?
SHERMAN: “At the close of the our Civil War, lasting four years, some of our best corps and division generals as well as staff officers were from civil life: But I cannot recall any of the most successful who did not express a regret that he had not received, in early life, instruction in the elementary principles of the art of war, instead of being forced to acquire its knowledge in the dangerous and expensive school of actual war.”
NOBODY: Okay Obama. We all know you have no clue how to wage a war. Even Paris Hilton has studied “The Art of War.” We realize how hard it must be to go from sitting in Revered Wright’s white-hating, America hating–church, to commanding the biggest military in the world, but, it might help if you stay up a few hours at night, and get a crash course on war. The only war you know how to wage is against the AMERICAN PEOPLE! You are doing a really good job at that…just turn that attention to our enemies. After all, you need us to fund Air Force One’s fuel bills.
SHERMAN: “There is a soul to an army as well as to the individual man, and no general can accomplish the full work of his army unless he commands the soul of his men, as well as their bodies and legs.”
NOBODY: Let’s face it Obama: the men hate you. You have cut their pay, left them in dangerous lands with no bullets, with orders not to shoot, you let them die, did not have their backs, and when they came home, you let them all die while waiting for care. You honored a TRAITOR in the White House. You can’t even call the enemy that has killed your soldiers by his rightful name. And let’s not forget, you personally shut down the WWII memorial while at the same time sending, Morsi, your Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian buddy, billions of dollars worth of OUR weapons.
You couldn’t command the soul of a prodigious tapeworm, face it. Better find your own Sherman, and quick.
SHERMAN: “Time is a most valuable element in all wars.”
NOBODY: And you sure screwed up the timing on THIS war, didn’t you? Jimmy Carter, the worst military commander-in-chief next to YOU, said it, not me: You waited too long, you played too many holes of golf..and ISIS just took over.
SHERMAN: “On the defensive there is no doubt of the propriety of fortifying: but in the assailing army the general must watch closely to see that his men do not neglect an opportunity to drop his precautionary defenses and act promptly on the offensive at every change.”
NOBODY. Obama is on permanent defense. The world is waiting for his offensive. And waiting…and waiting…Las Vegas bets? Obama will go on the offensive….when Michelle Obama actually eats her own lunch menu’s.
SHERMAN: “Other great difficulties, experienced by every general, are to measure truly the thousand and one reports that come to him in the midst of conflict: to preserve a clear and well-defined purpose at every instant of time: and to cause all efforts to converge to that tend.
NOBODY: Is that the problem Obama? Just too many things coming at you at once? IRS, Fast and Furious, Obamacare rollout, thousands flooding the border, terror threats, FBI secrets, Hillary wanting to change the chef already— and it’s getting harder to get a golf game in every day? Or is your clear and well-defined purpose a plan to destroy America?
SHERMAN: “To do these things he must know perfectly the strength and quality of each part of his own army as well as that of his opponent, and must be where he can personally see and observe with his own eyes and judge with his own mind. No man can personally command an army from the rear: he must be “at its front”. Some men think that modern armies may be so regulated that a general can sit in an office and play on his several columns as on the keys of a pinon: this is a fearful mistake.”
NOBODY: I’m pretty sure this means you should stop meeting your generals on your IPAD between sand traps.
SHERMAN: “The effect of his mind and personal energy must be felt by every office and man present with it to secure the best results. Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliations and disaster.”
So there it is: A Union American General is telling it like it is: Obama tried to make the war easy and safe, and look what happened. He is being humiliated by ISIS every day on Youtube, and millions of people are dying, simply because, he just couldn’t pick up a book.
OR…could it be, this has been his plan all along?
Nobody Remembers the Pandemic of 1776
Nobody Remembers
When you have a President who says “If you LIKE your doctor, you can KEEP your doctor..period.”—- And then you find out, it was the biggest lie of his Presidency, you tend not to believe anything else he says: and when he says that Ebola will not become a pandemic in America, he could put a “period” behind that statement, and it wouldn’t matter.
Who in their right mind would believe him?
Ebola has been all over the news today…so naturally, it lead right into my Friday historical remembrances—- of another pandemic in our history, and how it affected MY favorite founder at that time:
The Smallpox pandemic of 1776.
It was the summer of 1776, and the Continental Congress had just celebrated their Declaration of Independence. John Adams was appointed chair of the Committee on War and Ordnance on July 13. John was responsible for all the large and small policy decisions governing the Continental Army. As many of you know, it was John who suggested George Washington be the commander of that army.
And what was going around America that summer? Smallpox.
Washington was coming out of Boston with 12,000 smallpox-infested men, and he faced a British force of over 30,000.
John couldn’t leave his duties in Philadelphia…and he had taken the smallpox vaccination earlier, and survived, so Abigail, on her husband’s advice, took the family to Boston for inoculation against smallpox.
Most of the kids got deathly sick.
John wrote that he felt like “a savage to be here, while my whole Family is sick at Boston.”
From First Family by Joseph E. Ellis
In John’s mind’s eye he could simultaneously envision patriotic celebrations throughout the land, the largest fleet ever to cross the Atlantic gathering in Long Island Sound, and his entire family confined in quarantine amid a raging smallpox epidemic that, according to Abigail, had infected seven thousand people in and around Boston.
She wrote to John:
“Nabby (their daughter) has enough of the small pox for all the family beside. She is pretty well covered, not a spot but what is so soar that she can neither walk, stand, or lay with any comfort. She has above a thousand pussels are large as a great Green Pea. Little Charles in delirium for 48 hours. Has caught the pox in the natural way. ” She told John he should prepare for the worst.
While this was going on, John learned that only half of Washington’s troops were fit for duty.
He wrote back to her:
“The Small Pox had done Us more harm than British armies, Canadians, Indians, Negroes, Hanoverians, Hessian, and all the rest. And now it was threatening to carry off “my little babes.”
While John’s boy lay dying… The Continental Army had suffered a devastating defeat, and retreated up Manhattan.
John desperately wanted to return home, but did not feel he could leave his post with the Continental Army in such disarray. He had been working eighteen to twenty hour days for over two months, his eyes were permanently bloodshot, and his sight was strained, making it difficult to read, especially at night. The emotional l toll of witnessing a colossal blow to the American cause was high, and he knew better than most that Washington’s army had gone through a near death experience. The celebratory mood of early July was now replaced by the somber recognition that it was going to be a long war.
After his great victory, General William Howe told the Continental Congress that he would put an end to it all, and was prepared to offer a new and more acceptable reconciliation.
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutlege of South Carolina met with Howe, and found out that Howe had no authority to negotiate.
John informed him, ( And I LOVE this…sorry amfortas) that American had no need for pardon, because they had done nothing wrong.
Luckily little Charles survived until much later when he killed himself in a drunken stupor, but Abigail pulled the kids through the worst the summer of 1776, and John help pull the new country through its new birth.
And so, the smallpox epidemic that hit Boston, went on around the world—
From Wikipedia
During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness.
Between 20 and 60% of all those infected—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease. During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.
Many are saying that Ebola WILL be the new epidemic and will kill millions…and even the very rich will not be immune.
Let’s hope we all can find the same courage that our forefathers had. As for believing anything that Obama says about Ebola? Let me refer us all, to a more recent reminder, about what to do when politicians lie:
Peanuts, Makeup, and Other Thoughts about Labor
Nobody’s Opinion
Today…is Labor Day. I’m not laboring at all, which is the point of Labor Day. I’m just daydreaming about peanuts and makeup.
Peanuts. And makeup.
The theme for today is THOU SHALT NOT LABOUR! —so I’m just daydreaming. That is the new National Strategy laid down by our ‘President’, who, has not told us lately he is the “Commander-in-Chief” because he’s trying to get out of that job at the moment. He wants to be able to blame Congress should ISIS attack us at home. He’ll say it was because the Tea Party blocked immigration.
It’s getting all too easy to predict, isn’t it? Yes, I can bet you Obama is daydreaming today on some golf course.
But, back to our labor. (Just THINKING of Obama is a labor.)
Basically— Labor Day is a National Holiday invented by Congress to celebrate union workers. They did it to ‘appease’ the unions in order to make up for the ‘deaths’ of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and Marshals during the Pullman Strike of 1894. (Pretty interesting history there, check it out.)
Congress decided to take matters in hand and give the ‘workers’ their own day, making SURE of course, that it didn’t coincide with May 1, which is as we all know, is— Have a Happy Communist Day! What happened is that George Pullmans lowered the wages of his employees but demanded the same housing rent. They went on strike.
(Sound familiar?)
Work in America is not too good right now, is it? Illegal’s are flooding the country, taking the few jobs that Americans will not get.
America is falling behind the rest of the world, because many Americans can’t find good paying jobs anymore. China and India’s middle class is expanding, ours is shrinking. Too many people are flipping hamburgers. Our educational system –lets just say it—-It SUCKS. Why else do you think Obama wants high wages for fast food workers? Due to their education, they are doomed to be in fast food the rest of their lives. They can’t do anything else.
Inventiveness is way down.
I’m thinking: Peanuts. Makeup.
According to the news today, we watch football and riot, and our President plays golf.
He doesn’t work either. Bush wanted us to “shop.” Obama wants us to.. to play golf. Or better yet…watch HIM play golf.
So—- the question on this American Labor Day is: Is the entrepreneurship of the American worker and the spirit that fueled this nation into greatness gone?
Are there any George Washington’s Carvers out there in Ferguson? Do you think he would be burning down a Quickie Mart?
You won’t believe where I found the answer to that:
I was reading a makeup book yesterday, and found a passage, written by the author of the book, whose name is Kevyn Aucoin, which to me, describes perfectly, the real American spirit and WHY America has succeeded in the past while other nations lagged behind—it’s called imagination.
And America’s DNA has been built on it:
Here’s what Kevyn (who is gay) had to say about his success.
While the other boys in my school dreamed of traveling to the moon or winning the Super Bowl, I dreamt of glossy red lips and sparkling skin. By the age of eleven I knew I wanted to be a makeup artist. My first model was my six-year-old sister, Carla, and my first makeup tool was a single tube of tangerine lipstick. Armed with my father’s Polaroid camera and endless curiosity, I enthusiastically began what was to become my career. The fashion magazines I collected had an endless array of talent to choose from, but I only had one girl on my roster, so I set out to create as many looks as my limited resources would allow. Carla became my guinea pig for haircuts, perms, homemade clothing, and endless hours of amateur photo sessions. Over the years she and I experimented with every look imaginable.
And THIS is my favorite part:
Through it all both Carla and I learned not to be afraid of taking chances, and in the process, I learned how to do makeup. We had no real teachers, only photographs from fashion magazines. I would tear out my favorite faces, and try to replicate them on Carla. Learning to do makeup through trial and error taught me that my ‘mistakes’ were often exciting revelations. I came to realized that rules and words like “never’ and “always’ were (and are) sure death for creativity. And while I believe that education is very important, I am grateful for my lack of formal training in makeup. The journey itself may have taken longer but along the way I discovered things I could not have been “taught.” For me, new and exciting ideas are most often created when chances are taken and rules are broken.
Invention. YES! Break those rules! America has been GREAT at it, starting with the invention of the greatest concept of a republic in human history: Our Constitution. ‘Never’ was not in our vocabulary. (Nor in Captain’s Kirk’s.)
The words of Kevyn would have applied to Tom Edison, who dropped out of grade school, the Wright Brothers, who had a bike shop, to Einstein, whom everybody thought was dense, and to George Washington Carver, who was a slave and ended up with hundreds of patents:
In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department. Carver taught there for 47 years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two additional college presidents during his tenure. He taught methods of crop rotation, introduced several alternative cash crops for farmers that would also improve the soil of areas heavily cultivated in cotton, initiated research into crop products (chemurgy), and taught generations of black students farming techniques for self-sufficiency.
America was all about, and always has been: imagination. Invention. Creativity. We NEED to reassert our hero’s.
The Individual, failing, making mistakes, getting up and trying again—-
Enough with the basketball players. The football players. The movie stars killing themselves on drugs. Our kids need new hero’s….inventors. The man. The woman. The lone individual.
Not the “You didn’t build this.” crap.
The good news: The American spirit is an idea. And it can be resurrected. Human beings don’t need to go to Harvard to think of the next cure for cancer. Simple people CAN do great things…if only the government will get out of their way.
Our government is literally choking the creativity out of us all. (Hi Homeland Security! Eat some peanuts!)
I certainly never thought I’d read one of the most profound statements on creatively from a gay makeup artist yesterday, but that’s what great about America still: Somebody tomorrow could think of a way to take a peanut and invent permanent makeup.
Hey, I’m ready.
But getting rid of the progressive liberals? That’s going to take another George Washington Carver, and whoever that man is not going to be on the golf course. He’s going to working, every day will be labor day.
So, CAN America come back to the creative individual spirit that we once had?
Don’t ever say….NEVER.
Now swear….on your mother’s best peanut butter sandwich.
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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