Since the blog is designed for thoughtful & provacative debate let's look at what National Holiday this date was not too long ago. Lee-Jackson Day.
Also, before I start getting posts calling me a racist. Let it be known that I am NOT. However, I am not partial to hisotrical revisionism either. This should be fun......
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http://americancivilization.net/index.php?itemid=453
Wow, another non-groveling acknowledgment of Lee and Jackson.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BOLLING ISSUES STATEMENT IN RECOGNITION OF LEE-JACKSON DAY IN VIRGINIA
RICHMOND – Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling today issued the following statement in recognition of Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia.
“Remembering the past and those who helped shape it has always been a very important part of Virginia, and today we honor the memory of two great Virginians, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
“Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson served as key figures during the most tumultuous years of our Commonwealth. They were legendary generals who embodied a sense of duty, leadership, courage, dignity and strength that should be respected by all Virginians. They were men of great faith and principle who led exceptional lives that had a profound impact on the direction of our state and nation. They were truly great Virginians.
“I encourage all Virginians to join me on this special day in paying tribute to the memory of General Lee and General Jackson.”
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. What's your strongest memory or impression of King's contributions?
Replacing Lee-jackson Holiday celebrated in the USA:
Lee-Jackson-King Day was a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1984 to 2000.
Robert E. Lee's birthday (January 19, 1807) has been celebrated as a Virginia holiday since 1889. In 1904, the legislature added the birthday of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824) to the holiday, and Lee-Jackson Day was born.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan approved an Act of Congress declaring January 15 to be a national holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Since 1978, Virginia had celebrated King's birthday in conjunction with New Year's Day. To align with the federal holiday, the Virginia legislature simply combined King's celebration with the existing Lee-Jackson holiday.
The incongruous nature of the holiday, which simultaneously celebrated the lives of Confederate generals and a civil rights icon, did not escape the notice of Virginia lawmakers. Legislators protested the holiday by waving pictures of Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, and Martin Luther King, Jr. around the state capitol. In 2000, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore proposed splitting Lee-Jackson-King Day into two separate holidays, with Lee-Jackson Day to be celebrated the Friday before what would become Martin Luther King Day. The measure was approved and the two holidays are now celebrated separately.
Waxahachie Daily Light
Editorial
Our View
In the race for the Republican nomination for the president of the United States, the one candidate we feel offers America’s best hope for much needed change is Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
While candidates in both parties have seized upon the message of change, in reality, with the exception of one candidate, the change being promised is a shift from one special interest group to another.
Largely ignored by the mainstream media, he has trailed the GOP frontrunners in the initial primaries. He has been labeled as a “radical” by the established political guard in Washington. They fear his message because they know, if Paul is elected, things will change in D.C.
When Thomas Jefferson framed the U.S. Constitution, he envisioned a limited, representative form of government that served the general needs of “we the people of the United States.” What we have now is an ever-growing bureaucracy that is slowly stripping its citizens of basic freedoms and wealth to pay for federal programs that benefit special interest; a Congress too busy pandering so it remains in gridlock and an executive branch that continually exceeds its power as outlined by the Constitution.
In one sentence, Ron Paul wants to give government back to the people.
The Democrats don’t like his message. The established Republican guard doesn’t like his message. Certainly, the Washington Beltway doesn’t like his message.
Yet Paul’s support grows. It is gradual, to be sure, and may not be enough to overcome the mainstream political machine. But as Americans hear his platform of limited government, lower taxes, secure national borders and a return to the constitutional form of government our founders built this nation upon, he is energizing the electorate. In state after state, Paul’s campaign is building momentum and empowering citizens to reclaim their voice in the American political process.
Many political pundits place Paul’s chances of winning the nomination a long shot — if there is any shot at all.
Perhaps. But we still believe that, in America, anything is possible.
Should he be elected, there is little question Paul’s initiatives for change will be stymied by those in Washington who are prospering on the status quo. At a minimum, with a Paul presidency, our federal government will not grow, our taxes will not go up and only a declaration from Congress will send our armed forces into harm’s way.
That, in itself, is a “change” worth voting for.
If we, the people of the United States, truly want to reclaim a more perfect union, Ron Paul is not only our best hope, he is our only hope for real “change.”
In the Republican primary for the president of the United States, the Daily Light strongly endorses Ron Paul.
After a long self-imposed hiatus I decided it best to come back to public notice bringing forth the great wealth of knowledge & wisdom I possess to the masses. Thus, please find my first missive. CP
"Ten Conservative Principles". It is as good a summary of the conservative mind as can be found anywhere in so short a compass:
"First, the conservative believes that there exists an enduring moral order. That order is made for man, and man is made for it; human nature is a constant, and moral truths are permanent."
"Second, the conservative adheres to custom, convention, and continuity", not slavishly, for he recognizes room for improvement in all things human, but humbly, for he recognizes also that wisdom grows slowly through ages, and because he prefers the devil he knows to the devil he doesn't know.
"Third, conservatives believe in what may be called the principle of prescription ["that is, of things established by immemorial usage, so that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary"]. Conservatives sense that modern people are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, able to see farther than their ancestors only because of the great stature of those who have preceded us in time."
"Fourth, conservatives are guided by their principle of prudence. Burke agrees with Plato that in the statesman, prudence is chief among virtues. Any public measure ought to be judged by its probable long-run consequences, not merely by temporary advantage or popularity" -- or kind intentions.
"Fifth, conservatives pay attention to the principle of variety. They feel affection for the proliferating intricacy of long-established social institutions and modes of life, as distinguished from the narrowing uniformity and deadening egalitarianism of radical systems.... The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at leveling must lead, at best, to social stagnation."
"Sixth, conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectibility.... To seek for utopia is to end in disaster.... All that we reasonably can expect is a tolerably ordered, just, and free society, in which some evils, maladjustments, and suffering will continue to lurk. By proper attention and prudent reform, we may preserve and improve this tolerable order.... The ideologues who promise the perfection of man and society have converted a great part of the twentieth-century world into a terrestrial hell."
"Seventh, conservatives are persuaded that freedom and property are closely linked. Separate property from private possession, and Leviathan becomes master of all."
"Eighth, conservatives uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism.... In a genuine community, the decisions most directly affecting the lives of citizens are made locally and voluntarily. Some...are carried out by local political bodies, others by private associations: so long as they are kept local, and are marked by the general agreement of those affected, they constitute healthy community. But when these functions pass by default or usurpation to centralized authority, then community is in serious danger."
"Ninth, the conservative perceives the need for prudent restraints upon power and upon human passions.... A state in which an individual or a small group are able to dominate the wills of their fellows without check is a despotism, whether it is called monarchical or aristocratic or democratic."
"Tenth, the thinking conservative understands that permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society.... The conservative knows that any healthy society is influenced by two forces, which Samuel Taylor Coleridge called its Permanence and its Progression.... He thinks that the liberal and the radical, blind to the just claims of Permanence, would endanger the heritage bequeathed to us, in an endeavor to hurry us into some dubious Terrestrial Paradise. The conservative, in short, favors reasoned and temperate progress; he is opposed to the cult of Progress, whose votaries believe that everything new necessarily is superior to everything old."
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
Seldom will a "chiain-email" be worthy of posting.... However, this one might be an exception. No, not every detail is accurate in it's purest form. Yet, the links carry a fair amount of truth...
A conversation between a Customer and Bank of America Customer
Service:
The Bank: Bank of America , can I help you?
Customer: Yes, I want to cancel my account. I don't want to do
business
with you any longer.
The Bank: Why?
Customer: You're giving credit to illegal immigrants and I don't
think
it's right. I'm taking my business elsewhere.
The Bank: Well, Mr. Customer, we don't want to see you do that,
but we
can't stop you. I'll help you close the account. What is your
account
number?
Customer: (gives account number)
The Bank: For security purposes and for your protection, can you
please
give me the last four digits of your social security number?
Customer: No
The Bank: Mr. Customer, I need to verify your information, but in
order
to help you, I'll need verification of who you are.
Customer: Why should I give you my social security number? The
reason
I'm closing my account is that your bank is issuing credit cards
to
illegal immigrants who don't have social security numbers. You are
targeting that audience and want their business. Let's say I'm an
illegal immigrant and you've given me a credit card. I have a
question
about it and call for assistance. You wouldn't be asking me for a
Social Security number, would you?
The Bank: No sir, I wouldn't.
Customer: Why not?
The Bank: Because you would have pressed '2' to speak in Spanish.
We
don't ask for that information when calling in on the Spanish
line.
I provided "snopes" for doubters:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading
them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal
aliens
each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance
programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal
aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of
English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused
by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem
in
the US http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal
aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine,
meth,
heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern
border.
Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost
of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year
period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to
their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whoping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. But on
the
other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck,
then
forward it to every human in the country including every
representative
in Washington , DC, four time a week for a month. And when you
write
your Congressman, remind them that the ONLY rational answer to
this is
to round up every last "illegal" and send them home.
There are plenty of legal ways for them to come here if they
honestly want to become American citizens, as did our recent ancestors, and
not just rape and plunder our system!
The human race continues to frantically charge towards unprecedented stupidity as evidenced by the AP news story below. You know something? With some of the totally stupid crap we're doing in this world maybe "Matthew" should be awarded "person status"
God knows he can't be any more ignorant than the imbeciles trying to pull off this little ploy....
Court won't declare chimp a person
By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press WriterThu Sep 27, 4:12 PM ET
He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
A provincial judge in the city of Wiener Neustadt dismissed the case earlier this week, ruling that the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories had no legal standing to argue on the chimp's behalf.
The association, which worries the shelter caring for the chimp might close, has been pressing to get Pan declared a "person" so a guardian can be appointed to look out for his interests and provide him with a home.
Group president Martin Balluch insists that Pan is "a being with interests" and accuses the Austrian judicial system of monkeying around.
"It is astounding how all the courts try to evade the question of personhood of a chimp as much as they can," Balluch said.
A hearing date for the Supreme Court appeal was not immediately set.
The legal tussle began in February, when the animal shelter where Pan and another chimp, Rosi, have lived for 25 years filed for bankruptcy protection.
Activists want to ensure the apes don't wind up homeless if the shelter closes. Both were captured as babies in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled in a crate to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments. Customs officers intercepted the shipment and turned the chimps over to the shelter.
Their upkeep costs about euro4,800 (US$6,800) a month. Donors have offered to help, but there's a catch: Under Austrian law, only a person can receive personal gifts.
Organizers could set up a foundation to collect cash for Pan, whose life expectancy in captivity is about 60 years. But they contend that only personhood will give him the basic rights he needs to ensure he isn't sold to someone outside Austria, where he's now protected by strict animal cruelty laws.
In April, a district court judge rejected a British woman's petition to be declared Pan's legal guardian. That court ruled that the chimp was neither mentally impaired nor in danger, the grounds required for an individual to be appointed a guardian.
In dismissing the Association Against Animal Factories' appeal this week, the provincial court said only a guardian could appeal. That doesn't apply in this case, the group contends, since Pan hasn't gained a guardian.
There is legal precedence in Austria for close friends to represent people who have no immediate family, "so he should be represented by his closest friends, as is the case," said Eberhart Theuer, the group's legal adviser.
"On these grounds we have appealed this decision to the Supreme Court in Vienna," he said.
Until this summer, the chimp was known simply as Hiasl. However, in the latest court documents, he was identified with a little more dignity — if not humanity — as Matthew Hiasl Pan, with the last name derived from "chimpanzee."
The Association Against Animal Factories points out that it's not trying to get Pan declared a human, but rather a person, which would give him some kind of legal status.
Otherwise, he is legally a thing. And with the genetic makeup of chimpanzees and humans so strikingly similar, it contends, that just can't be.
"The question is: Are chimps things without interests, or persons with interests?" Balluch said.
"A large section of the public does see chimps as beings with interests," he said. "We are looking forward to hear what the high court has to say on this fundamental question."
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that outdoors men don't care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.
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