A Little Pre-Vacation Inspiration

Yes, blogging will be light until after August 9th as I'll be heading north for a little R&R. I leave you with a bit of inspirational music and hopefully Proof will be cross posting selected pieces of his writing for the very humble Lady Cincinnatus. Thanks, Proof!

Star Spangled Banner Amazing 7 yr old Rhema Marvanne @ Yahoo! Video

President Obama Would Do Well To Learn From His Black American Forefathers

Excerpts from Frederick Douglas's July 5th speech commemorating American Independence

Citizens, your fathers made good that resolution. They succeeded; and to-day you reap the fruits of their success. The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate this anniversary. The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history - the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny.

Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen. Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! That bolt drawn, that chain broken, and all is lost. Cling to this day - cling to it, and to its principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight.

The coming into being of a nation, in any circumstances, is an interesting event. But, besides general considerations, there were peculiar circumstances which make the advent of this republic an event of special attractiveness.

The whole scene, as I look back to it, was simple, dignified and sublime.

The population of the country, at the time, stood at the insignificant number of three millions. The country was poor in the munitions of war. The population was weak and scattered, and the country a wilderness unsubdued. There were then no means of concert and combination, such as exist now. Neither steam nor lightning had then been reduced to order and discipline. From the Potomac to the Delaware was a journey of many days. Under these, and innumerable other disadvantages, your fathers declared for liberty and independence and triumphed.

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They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times.

How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defense. Mark them!

Fully appreciating the hardship to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep the corner-stone of the national superstructure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you.

Of this fundamental work, this day is the anniversary.

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For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body?

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Fellow-citizens! there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither...Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading...

Best Political Ad Ever.

Celebrating the Heterosexual White Male

Deadliest Catch, one of the better "reality" shows on television-I'm a fan-loses one of their hartiest of captains.

R.I.P. Captain Phil Harris

Photo from http://www.corneliamarie.com/wp-content/gallery/ngg_cm/phil_harris_ad3.png

Oh Yeah, I Want To Go

Image and video from www.wizardingworldharrypotter.com

Evangelical Christians in Germany Seek and Win Political Asylum in Tennessee....

The whole article is worth reading here.

But here's a highlight for the Telegraph in Lodon talking about the Tennessee case...

Judge Burman's remarks] offers a useful insight into how Americans, living in a free country, view the creeping totalitarianism that has engulfed Europe. For this is not just a German issue: we are all helots under state control. Why did the German homeschoolers not seek political asylum in Britain? Because our rulers subscribe to the same tyrannical statist philosophy, is the answer. Every possible obstacle is put in the way of homeschooling parents in Britain.

The mentality is that the state – not parents – is the natural controller and shaper
of children’s lives and beliefs. When a schoolgirl can be given an abortion without her parents’ knowledge, we know that, while public utilities may have been privatised, children have been nationalised. The Romeikes who fled from Germany objected to their children being forced to follow a curriculum that they believed was anti-Christian. The same would apply in British state schools, where pornographic sex education is increasingly being made compulsory. Is that a new idea? Not at all. It was first implemented as government policy in 1919, during the short-lived communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in Hungary, when Georg Lukacs, as deputy commissar for “culture”, enforced his system of Cultural Terrorism, force-feeding children pornographic sex education, teaching them to laugh at their parents and at monogamy and to reject the family and religion.

Lukacs was a founder of the Frankfurt School of Marxism, later popularised by
Herbert Marcuse, whose demented notions are today called Political Correctness
and, as such, have colonised Western governments.

It takes the forthright remarks of an American judge, in a country where the culture war has not yet been lost, to bring home to us in Europe that we already inhabit the Gulag. The Berlin Wall did not “fall” – it was just moved further west.

The Pelosi Congress and It's Case of Attention Deficit Disorder

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom...

Photo by storm chaser, Jim Reed posted on Mail Online

A Little Labor Day Story Called "We Are Americans!"

For those of you who read this blog and know me, you will know that I am an avid lover of history. So, it will come as no surprise that every Labor Day I attend a little festival that celebrates a battle in which an American colonial General and his merry band of militiamen, fight and defeat a British-backed band of Indians thus further securing more land west of the Appalachians for those damned Yankees.

During this year's "re-enactment" there was a group of about ten little guys all dressed in their colonial finest in ages from about six to eleven. You can see two of them in the picture above--one storming the fence and the other standing at attention. They were having fun storming up and down a particular hill and conducting various raids on unsuspecting tents and parents and dividing up and charging each other--they being heavily armed with wooden swords, wooden rifles and wooden pistols.

I've never seen truer patriots which was a breath of fresh air from the ObamaNation creepiness speech to America's school children today. But I digress, so, these little guys, upon winning some battle against each other, marched off announcing "We are Americans! We are Americans!" while those playing the British writhed around in the grass in mock injury before hopping up again and joining in the battle line, "We are Americans! We are Americans!" When they ventured close to the tent I was manning for the day, I asked the one with the long, dark hair and the tricorn if he was out hunting Indians. Rather smartly, he informed me that, "No, we are hunting macaronis'." Hah. For those of you who are not familiar with the 18th century term macaroni...well, I'm sorry, I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll just have to look it up.

What is so perfect about this display of politically incorrect play was seeing these little guys up to their noggins in mud and dirt (Swine flu? What swine flu? The swine is in the barn), armed to the teeth with wooden implements of war, and running about the "field" completely free to pretend to be little colonial militiamen. In other words, FReeeeeeedoooom!! Something I'm sure you won't see in Obama's classrooms. In fact, the father of one of the little guys, I'll call him "Ben", informed me that unfortunately, recruiting little bands of 18th century colonial militiamen at historical reenactments is something his son also likes to do during recess for his kindergarten class. "Ben" told me he was called to the school to meet with teacher and Principal to be informed that "despite the fact that you're a history professor and you like doing historical reenactments, your son can not turn the entire male population of his kindergarten class into various colonial brigades." Heh. How much you wanna bet Obama's speech is not going to make any lasting impressions on this little guy.

A Little Motivation

If This Is As Good As Deadliest Catch, Then I'm In.

I hope Mike Rowe is the voice over. Heh.

R.I.P Michael Jackson

A little ode to the 80's and my favorite off his classic Thriller album.

"You Mean Like Democrats?"

Hand it to Proof Positive to find this classic.

American Virtue

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government." ~George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

"What is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?" Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

Vintage 1948

Is it just me or does the "ISM" snake oil salesman look like a cross between Obama, and Rham Emanuel. I'm just sayin'

I'm going and I'm sitting in the stands. Time to buy a hat.

Oh No You Di'nt. Uh, yeah we did.

Yeah, that's the cannon that shoots tennis balls at the words "TAXES" "PORK" and "DEBT" and Big Government Corn Hole. Yes, we had some fun at the Bluegrass Tax Liberation Day festival.

Tea Party Sign o' The Day

Radio Free Cincinnati

Headline: 5,000 + crowd Tea Party gains huge media coverage.

Ah. Just kidding. But Circle City Pundit has some good coverage.

http://circlecitypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/nations-largest-tea-party.html

Tea Party Cute-ness!

Picture from Gateway Pundit