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Big Government : The Haunting Slave Children Photo And The Meaning Of Our Revolution

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:09:37 +0000

In addition - when the first Dutch slave trading ship anchored off Virginia - to sell off their "excess" or remaining cargo so as to avoid British Naval Ships - the Virginians who purchased the slaves had never had experience with "slaves" and considered them indentured servants (the most common form of labor pool at the time) - and after serving a ten year contract - stand exchange for their "owner's payment of their passage" - we all set free and given the customary 50 acres of land for their years of service. Also - there were NO slave ships were owned by southerners - ALL slave trade and slave trading companies were NORTHERN companies - and the two major slave ports - New York and Boston.

Big Government : The Haunting Slave Children Photo And The Meaning Of Our Revolution

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:41:14 +0000

I thought the overall mood of this piece was excellent - HOWEVER, Several things to keep in perspective - the analogy "which three million fellow Americans were held as slaves literally in chains and shackles, with no more legal rights than a goat." is one that is commonly held by us today - but I don't believe is accurate. Consider just the information given concerning the photo - "accompanied by a document detailing the sale of “John” for $1,150 in 1854" - This means that if "John" were purchased in today's dollars, it would have cost his owner (using the last complete year for calculation- 2009) $27,123.86. If his "brother" cost anywhere near that amount - and we can assume that the "owner" had a number of slaves ... this captive workforce represented a sizable investment - so the goat analogy hardly applies. One must remember too that "slaves" where not exclusive to picking cotton on plantations ... serving as everything from household staff and workers in other fields of employment throughout both the North and the South. Also, when you read the official records and diaries of that time - you will find that most all were provided for in the wills of their "owners" - everything ranging from and including their Freedom, and often financial reward. One commenter pointed out that "The United States: 1865, after the American Civil War (Many states abolished slavery for themselves at various dates between 1777 and 1864)" this is correct - But it must be noted that Slavery was abolished in the Confederate Constitution in 1861. Also mentioned above 0"many states abolished slavery prior - true, however these northern states who did - also passed legislation that while freeing the slaves - also preventing them from residing in their state. As abhorrent as slavery is - it must be considered (when looking back) in the context of the times. It was one of two primary sources of labor (and actually the lessor of the two) - companion to it was indentured servitude. (usually passage to this country was provided for a specified period of time. Conditions for both varied depending on the individual that was the provider. The war of 1861-1865 was NOT fought over the issue of slavery - it is doubtful that most who fought for the south ever even seen a slave in their lifetime. At the time, BOTH indentured servitude and slavery were passing from the scene - as Kulak pointed out - worldwide - the primary reason - it was ECONOMICALLY not feasible any longer. Peteee raise a point that I would almost agree with that of "we are getting back to it. what do you think taxation is?" I would add to his/her point - to also consider this desire to allow illegals to fluidly come into this country. While we - as humanity - have "abolished" formal slavery and indentured servitude from the books - we see it continue in the mindset of the species, except now we practice it without cost - or at least minimal cost to the "owner" - or even profit with literally NO cost to the owners. consider The politicians in Washington to the populace Union leaders to their rank and file (collection of dues - in return for little or no real service in return) and to a lesser degree Employers to their employees

Big Government : Breaking: Miles of Oil Containment Boom in Warehouse- Just Sitting- Waiting For BP or US to Collect

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:19:27 +0000

This is not surprising since the GOVERNMENT is in charge of the clean-up. Their perfect track record of screwing everything up that they touch remains in tact.

Big Government : America's Deficit Spending Addiction

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:13:05 +0000

I think I have reached a point where I believe that we, as a species, we have a "circuit breaker" somewhere buried in our collective DNA that will prevent us from ever passing beyond a certain point in development before we collapse, plunging into a "dark age" and have to begin again. This notion appears to have a historical track record and we are witnessing it happen again. This story lays it out so clearly, yet the masses go about their merry way - heads so firmly planted up their @#%@# that the seemingly are oblivious to all that is around them.

Breitbart.com : Brown demands to be sworn in earlier than planned

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:25:09 +0000

Wasn't it just last week that there began a swelling outrage that while the senate was voting on three measures (including raising the debt limit) Brown was out on the talk-show circuit? Brown had initially said that the Feb 11th was fine - but now wants to be sworn in immediately .... Sorry, I am beginning to think he is no more than politics as usual ... just slide along, hoping no one will notice ... problem is WE are noticing. Wasn't it also last week that he touted the fact that he was "his own man" - perhaps, at times voting with the Dems ... and/or the Republicans ... that he wasn't beholding to anyone - now that has GOT to miff the people of Mass. who elected him ... I was under the assumption that he worked for them. Also last week wasn't there a flurry of talk around the republican party that Brown might make the perfect candidate for the presidency in 2012 - Are we to assume the trend of thought withing the Republican Party is to "fight fire - with fire"???? By putting forward their own totally unqualified, inexperienced candidate. It just becomes increasingly obvious that there is NO difference between the reds and blues

Big Government : Saturday Open Thread: Alhambra Edition

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 03:35:30 +0000

Then there is Loreena McKennitt "Nights from the Alhambra" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WSr0pNLNy0

Tenth Amendment Center : Our Dead Constitution

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:17:10 +0000

Came across this yesterday in the European Union Times yesterday; "U.S. Forces Plan Direct Action Against American Citizens" http://www.eutimes.net/2009/12/us-forces-plan-dir... Here is a youtube link to the audio that the article refers to; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyFgS3G90Q This is frightening - frightening because what he is saying is highly plausible - However, I think perhaps the only caveat to this is that I wonder if the US Military would even side with the central government considering how it has been so maligned by this administration. I would wonder if they would react in the opposite direction. - At least I would hope so. I have had a growing sense that perhaps - just perhaps one of the reasons that Congress seemingly acts in total disregard to the will of the "people" is not that "the American people will forget all this by next November's elections" - rather, that they don't envision elections even begin held next year. I so hope I am wrong.

Tenth Amendment Center : Our Dead Constitution

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:42:49 +0000

The deeper one dives into history the more amazed you become ... I recently was speaking to a group of students about why it was that the Germans supported Hitler ... it was fascinating in that during the discussion that followed, they began drawing analogies between the mood or mindset of the citizens of Germany then and the Citizens of this country today. One student who most assuredly was a Liberal Democrat and most likely an Obama supporter chided me and the other students for comparing Obama to Hitler. I NEVER mentioned anything in a present tense .... I reminded him that the Third Reich under Hitler was in power around ten years or so BEFORE WWII broke out and that in the pre-war years, Hitler, Roosevelt, and Mussolini were often compared (in a positive sense) and ALL three in a sense admired one another. I also reminded him and ALL the students that an important thing to remember is that to compare is NOT to equate. Perhaps one of the reasons that history repeats, is that we attach so much credence to the characters on stage at the moment of history, rather than recognizing that PATTERNS that caused the moment. The trend toward fascism was wide spread in the world (including the United States)- really since just before the turn of the century .. 19th into the 20th - like anything it ebbs and flows .. advancing and reseeding. Personally, I don't attach a moral judgement to any of the "ocracies" or "isms" ... to me they are "things" I was a journalist for over 20 years ... and during that time made many close friends in BOTH political parties ... what is sad in a way is that I have been retired for 15 years and many of those "friends" ARE STILL IN WASHINGTON! But the Democrats I know would swear to you I am a Republican ... and the Republicans would bet their first born, that I was a Democrat. In truth .. I am a Political Atheist. Or perhaps a more crass way of putting it is that I am not politically bigoted at all ... I don't like ANYONE - Equally.

Tenth Amendment Center : Our Dead Constitution

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:41:04 +0000

Great piece - I would perhaps argue on close examination that it began to die, even before the ink had dried in 1789. An excellent book - if I may recommend - The Rise and Fall of Society by Frank Chodorov. It is available through the Ludwig Von Mises Institute - in hardcover, paperback - or one can download it free in .pdf format. I thought this highly interesting -- from the first chapter; "The story of the American State is instructive. Its birth was most auspicious, being midwifed by a coterie of men unusually wise in the history of political institutions and committed to the safeguarding of the infant from the mistakes of its predecessors. Apparently, none of the blemishes of tradition marked the new State. It was not burdened with the inheritance of a feudal or a caste system. It did not have to live down the doctrine of "divine right/' nor was it marked with the scars of conquest that had made the childhood of other States difficult. It was fed on strong stuff: Rousseau's doctrine that government derived its powers from the consent of the governed, Voltaire's freedom of speech and thought, Locke's justification of revolution, and, above all, the doctrine of inherent rights. There was no regime of status to stunt its growth. In fact, everything was de novo."

Breitbart.com : EPA head: US must make up for lost time on climate

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:33:35 +0000

Is there anyone - or anyone in this administration that hasn't apologized for ALL the "sins" of this country .... I have heard rumors that there is even a plan in the works to change our national anthem to the old Brenda Lee song ... I'm Sorry, So Sorry

Breitbart.com : Palin's plans questioned as she stops in Iowa

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:07:11 +0000

"Veteran Republican activist Tim Albrecht says politicians don't just happen to stop in Iowa..." Tim is correct ... it is a little known fact that Iowa, much like Brigadoon ... is a mythical place that only emerges from the early morning mist, once every presidential election cycle. GOOD GRIEF, Albrecht - nothing it seems exists beyond the world of politics .... BOTH parties ... I guess it "don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that (political) swing" .... It is this profession of politics that - along with an extraordinarily lazy and apathetic public that got us to where we are today. SO both parties can take a bow (bowing out, would be hoping for too much) ... for nearly 35 plus year (20 as a journalist and nearly 15 since I retired) I have practiced Political Atheism ... and I see nothing from EITHER party that dissuades me from that course.

Breitbart.com : Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:37:25 +0000

Larsinkima nailed it ... NOTHING is permanent. When you look at ALL the weather data over history - we have been basking in a very, very mild climatic period. That the cycle moves one way or another within a major climatic period is NOTHING. To live on this planet is like most anything else in life - a crap shoot. The species has been experiencing - adapting - and getting on with things since the beginning of the beginning. I think one of the reasons for this success is that up until recent years, they didn't have to endure the sanctimonious rantings of the clergy of the church of science whose pronouncements I would argue are more to reaffirm their self-described importance than it is anything else.

Big Government : Obama Job Summit: Another Manufacturer Opts Out of U.S.A.

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:03:37 +0000

Reading the comments here and comments that follow most ANY story regarding what is happening to this country, they are ALL so remarkably similar. While I will make no attempt to gauge the level of discontent .... I would not be surprised to say that it may well already surpass that of another period of similar turmoil in this country 234 years ago. This first time it took around ten years for the “pot to boil over” - when you set aside “party politics” we are presently running along the same timeline. It is interesting to note that the average of the world’s greatest civilizations has been in the neighborhood of 220 - 250 years ... I am sure most all have heard this before ... let me put some names and numbers to that assertion; Assyria - 247 year reign (859-612BC) Persia - 208 year reign (538-330BC) Greece - 231 year reign (331-100BC) The Roman Republic - 233 year reign (260-27BC) The Roman Empire - 207 year reign (27BC-180AD) The Arab Empire - 246 year reign (634-880AD) The Mammeluke Empire - 267 year reign (1250-1570AD) The Ottoman Empire - 250 year reign (1320-1570AD) Spain - 250 year reign 1500-1750AD) Romanov Russia - 234 year reign 1682-1916AD) Great Britain - 250 year reign (1700-1950AD) The United States - ?????????? (1790-2009AD and counting) NOTHING IS FOREVER - especially when it is expected that it runs on some automatic pilot.

Breitbart.com : US medical task force 'fumbled' mammogram message

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:55:24 +0000

Charles, I would agree - in reading the report when it was released my reaction and concern is that no mater whose "watch" it was under, this is more an issue of the "experts" just not getting it right when it comes to communicating OR content - as we are seeing now with "Climategate." I wonder if anyone would have "clarified" if this report was just accepted at face value? We tend to readily accept "theory" as dogma. Darwin's theory is perhaps the best example - it pushed out in Victorian England - and at the time one couldn't find a more ego-centered society - so anything promoting linear development was bond to be a winner. A Nobel prize winning physicist once told me (and I think this really says it all) - "throw theoretical bull sh$# against a wall, and what sticks becomes dogma."

Tenth Amendment Center : Nancy, Are You Serious?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:27:08 +0000

Monoprise - it would be a wonderful thought ... but, we are well past any "tipping point " ... what has most fascinated me is that it isn't any one factor ... and it is this multiplicity of factors and it is the myopic way we approach things that are only serving to exacerbate the dilemma. Even the notion of "secession" is fast becoming an "argument" or "discussion" that I am fast tiring of. If states feel the the central or federal confederation of governments (or club as I am beginning to prefer) then darn it ... pull out. YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT ... and really that obligation to your citizens. I am failing to see the logic in any counter argument that the participants are some how obliged to remain in this contractual agreement until one and all go down in flames. Any terms of "contract" or "constitutional" that prohibits them from doing so would also imply that the contract or constitution was so iron clad as to obligate those who are joined in it to adhere to its tenants. To argue that would be to ignore that the central or federal government has consistently adhered to it as well. They haven't - and haven't for DECADES and DECADES - I always thought a contract was a contract and if you violated the terms of such a contract, the contract would become void. There was reason for this agreement or constitution and I doubt that the reason was that its terms be used or ignored at the convince of those involved. It either is or isn't. I really think it is near past time necessary for individual state that are participants in this contract we term the constitution to decide (not debate, it is time to close the dialog - we are talking it to death) whether they think that there is even a valid and binding agreement. If their choice is that it is in valid, then pull out - if you think you are somehow still obligated to participate in this union forever .. then live with that choice as well.

Big Government : Sunday Open Thread: New Beginning Edition

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:22:54 +0000

LOL, yeah - his name just is just there, ins't it? I have this sense that "GS" is at the center of all this and has been "at the center" of A LOT of things for a long time. I would wonder - would it be for wealth? for power? or perhaps just for the fun of "control?" ---just to see if he can. Perhaps it might be more complicated than that, but I can remember back LONG, LONG ago - my senior year in HS into my first couple of years of college - a few friends of mine and myself were members of YAF (Young Americans for Freedom) AND SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) AT THE SAME TIME. We always were "in the shadows" ... never wanting the limelight - but neither chapter EVER voted to do anything that we didn't manipulate them into doing. Why did we do it, thinking back, to be honest - just to see if we could ... and we could. I sometimes wonder if being from Glen Ellyn, Illinois had something to do with it? LOLOLOL (and yes I remember Billy - knew him before he moved.)

Big Government : Sunday Open Thread: New Beginning Edition

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:13:03 +0000

One of other “multitude of threads” that Rayvet briefly mentioned, one person posed this question.. “What do you think the remaining WWII veterans would think of this photo? What do you think of Obama bowing to Japan's Emperor ??” They would have great difficulty with it all. LONG ago, I produced a documentary (then WWII was only 45 years old) - it was a retrospective, so really it was the memories and experiences and with those of the ones who waited their return. Among the many vets I spent a great deal of time with were several who were survivors of the Bataan Death March and more heinous than that the imprisonment that followed - first on the islands and then as the Allies readied to take back the islands - they were shipped to mainland Japan and the work camps (one survivor, was dying of cancer, as he and other prisoners (and Japanese solders) were sent in to Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped for clean up. After the war, they knew the Japanese were our allies and many had friends who were Japanese-while they knew it didn't make sense, they still harbored deep resentment, bordering on hatred of the Japanese. GregZ - you so nailed it ... “our Community Organizer in Chief” - he truly is! So much is made of the “First BLACK American” elected to the office of the president. (To me it has always been the least credible of reasons for electing or not electing someone to office - the “color of their skin” - except for people who are PLAID .. Sorry, might sound a bit bigoted, but something about Plaid People that I just don’t trust.) - but I think we have the dubious distinction of having elected our first “Straw Dog” as a president. It is more telling and more important to know who the “handlers” are, for it is they who are the one’s who are making this “power grab” and in a real sense raping our country in the process.

Tenth Amendment Center : Nancy, Are You Serious?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:15:19 +0000

Amanda I would agree, as "civil war" is generally defined as "a war between factions in the same country" - But I do maintain that secession may well be, at this point, the only viable alternative to total ciaos or collapse - secession or withdrawal - "formal separation from an alliance or federation/" We, in my opinion, have ceased to be a "republic" - and have become over the decades an oligarchy "a political system governed by a few people" - or "a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society.

Tenth Amendment Center : Nancy, Are You Serious?

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:57:30 +0000

Lost amid the flood of posts last night at the Glann Beck Group page at Face Book was a suggestion from one of the many "fans" that perhaps it is time to begin showing up on the capitol steps each week, but he suggested the steps of YOUR state capitol - and I think he is right. Perhaps only secession of the states might be the only recourse for resting our country back from this oligarchy in Washington. Many -perhaps here at this fan page- still think that to "secede" is "unconstitutional" - well it is not. Even for the timid, if it were (and you think that the Constitution is the "contract" that binds this union together, then understand that the contract has been broken by the central government-repeatedly. For many years implicitly, and in the run up to last night's vote OPENLY by members of this central government. In a very real sense, thee is no longer any valid contract.

Big Hollywood : NEWLY UNCOVERED EMAILS REVEAL: Federal Volunteer Agency Misrepresented Involvement in White House, N

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:57:25 +0000

You know it wasn't all that long ago I would say that a thought like that put forward by father_moray - "Civil War is nigh at hand." while plausible was not a likelihood. However, I have begun to feel that it may well be more likely than not. We all seem to expect that this present track that the central government and the administration has taken can be reversed in in the elections of 2010 or 2012 - I really would not be surprised that the election of 2008 turns out to be the last election or what we call "free" election we will have. I sense that the upcoming elections of 2010 will be, if even held, will be the most corrupt and/or tainted elections in this nation's history. In many respects, secession might well become the only orderly and plausible method of ending this race to "fundamental change" that is being forced down our throats. In addition the notion of one party over another is also fast becoming .. if not already has become a thing of the past. In addition - the idea of "third party" - is, in my mind, as stupid - FORGET the party ... the house we call America is collapsing all around us ... WE NEED people of character and integrity - that see serving in government is just that SERVING. That they might have been "registered" as a Democrat or a Republican - or consider themselves a "conservative" or a "liberal" ... or are from this ethic group or that gender group - or this sexual persuasion or pedigree mean absolutely nothing to me. I would love to see people who run for office who are dedicated to what this country was intended to be ... to SERVE with honesty - not only to try to do what is best, but also to say that they were wrong about a particular issue when that happens. But the notion of this party or that party, at this point is totally idiotic - we are nearly 105 trillion dollars in debt - a debt fostered by BOTH parties ... and by liberal and conservative alike. Even if the economy were to in an instant turn 180 degrees from its present course... THEN WHAT???? We ARE collapsing (it has happened before-it will happen again) what we need concern ourselves with setting into place the foundation for the re-birth of a new and strong republic .. and that DOESN'T involve Political (or tailgate) ... let take this by the numbers and do it correctly.