Sherman is a great guy! Just ask John Hawkins at Rightwingnews.com

Q&A Friday #50: Why Are You A Fan Of William Tecumseh Sherman?
Question: "Why would a southerner put Sherman on his list (of Greatest Americans)? I assume Hawkins is from the South?" -- libliever
Answer: First of all, I am from the South. I was born, raised, and live in North Carolina today. However, that doesn't mean I can't appreciate talented generals on both sides of the Civil War. After all, they were all Americans -- and Sherman was brilliant. You can actually see his influence on the strategies of generals like Patton and even Tommy Franks.
Next, I think Sherman actually did the South a big favor by rampaging through the countryside, although most people don't realize it. Grant may have been a brilliant general, but he was content to beat the South in a war on attrition. In other words, he intended to keep forcing men and materials on both sides into a sausage grinder because he knew the South would break first.
On the other hand, Sherman broke the South's will to fight without having to needlessly butcher Southern soldiers. The Southern troops out in the field were fighting to protect their homes and after Sherman made it clear that they couldn't, it helped bring the war to an end. You can rebuild cities and houses, but you can't bring back men who die on the field of battle. Because of Sherman's actions, a lot more Southerners lived to reunite with their families.
Last but not least, some people think Sherman's style of total warfare was some sort of illegitimate or dishonorable tactic. However, I'm not among them. If anything, I think that over the last few decades the Western world has given far too much deference to civilians who support our enemies. In my book, there is nothing whatsoever wrong with trying to break the will of the enemy's civilians, especially if, like Sherman, you refrain from massacring them.
Put it all together and you can see why I'm a big fan of Sherman, even if that's a bit unusual amongst Southerners.

Go get on em' my Southern Brethren!

Quote of the day

"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded."

-Franklin Pierce(1804-1869) U.S. President-

You do not have the right to be offended.

Stereotypes Are Fun. But Not As Much When You Are Forbidden From Using Them

GO FIGURE! A new doll is set to take the US by storm — farting, beer-swilling Jer Wayne Jnr.
The 12inch, £20 toy is boyfriend to the world’s first trailer trash doll, pregnant Turleen launched last year. Jer Wayne has a mullet, missing teeth and an earring.
A button in his chest lets him say phrases, including: “Fifteen of them beers and yer still ugly.”
Makers Arsenic and Apple Pie explained: “It’s having a laugh at stereotypical American images.”

If it was a Yankee, not an Englishman, marketing this doll, he would include a Battleflag to degrade the symobls of the South and a white hood to drive home the point that people in the South are racist and shouldn't have any say in what is going on in the country and the world if they do not accept the liberal, ruling class, globalist offendentitis which is so pervasive in the chic and sophisticated world of unrelenting tolerance of everyone --except the Southerner-. I'm not one to get offended by a simple doll, but I do realize the double standard in contemporary society. This is the image of the South most non Southerners hold of our people and our region. It makes me wonder why they would even want to be associated with us; kick us out of the union now. We aren't deserving.

Make sure to visit the link to see the actual doll. The description just doesn't do it justice.

Quote of the day

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government , and to provide new Guards for their future security. ...

--The Declaration of Independence--

The Natural Course.

To Be Free One Must Fight The Government. For the Kurds that Means Both the U.S. and Iraqi Governments

ARBIL, Iraq, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish regional government raised the threat of secession on Wednesday if the Baghdad government did not withdraw claims to a say in the development of oil resources in their northern districts.

"The people of Kurdistan chose to be in a voluntary union with Iraq on the basis of the constitution," Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said in a statement on his official Web site.

"If Baghdad ministers refuse to abide by that constitution, the people of Kurdistan reserve the right to reconsider our choice."

Secession: It really makes it difficult to champion self-determination when one is an avowed enemy of its natural out come. That is why we'll soon be hearing how evil the secessionist Kurds are, akin to what Bush said about Taiwan in relation to China. There is no splitting countries. Don't worry about tyranny, war, and theft. They are just the price one must pay to live in a solidified country, and are preferable to being able to choose your own government. We'll also be treated to our American president and his cronies lecturing the Kurds that they couldn't survive if left to their own devices. If you are not a Yankee then you are not deserving to live in this world. That's what I keep hearing.



Maybe they should adopt a new flag. I suggest the original secessionist flag.

Of Course!

This is what happens when you Ban Free Speech

Not that they will learn that lesson from this case, but this is what happens.

STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Prosecutors urged a German court Wednesday to fine a German man for displaying Nazi symbols, even though he was campaigning against Nazism.
Prosecutor Bernhard Haeussler urged a Stuttgart state court to fine Juergen Kamm $7,600 for selling anti-Nazi merchandise, via his mail-order business, that carries swastikas and other Nazi symbols.
He argued German law strictly forbade the use of symbols associated with the Nazi regime no matter how they were used, the Deutsche Welle broadcaster reported.
Kamm, owner of the Not Good mail-order company, shows what Nazi symbols, but with a circle with a line over them signifying "no."
"Every citizen should take a stand against the extreme right," he said.
Germany's federal court of justice ruled in 1973 it was legal to produce a swastika provided it had clearly been altered for the purposes of protesting against Nazism
A verdict in the case is expected this week.

Isn't this the perfect example of modern political thought?

And I'll post this image even when they outlaw it.

I really hate to do this

Did I Say That?

I know that people are human and make plenty of mistakes in their lives, especially regarding language, but I just couldn't resist posting these language errors by El Presidente Bush

5) "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

4) "They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

3) "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

2) Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

1) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

Everyone mangles the language every once in a while and it is neither a sin nor something to judge one on. But you should see what he does get right; there's no laughing at his traitorous policies.

(Visit the link for the 5 others)

Barbara Boxer has this one right.

I Don't Trust Any Computer With My Vote. Do You?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Three Senate Democrats proposed emergency legislation today to reimburse states for printing paper ballots that can be ready at polling places in case of problems with electronic voting machines on Nov. 7.
The proposal is a response to grass-roots pressure and growing concern by local and state officials about touch-screen machines. An estimated 40 percent of voters will use those machines in the election.
“If someone asks for a paper ballot they ought to be able to have it,” said Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a co-sponsor of the measure with Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconson.
Republican leadership aides were skeptical about the prospects for the measure. It would have to advance without opposition from any senator and then make it through the House in the short time available before Election Day.
Dozens of states are using optical-scan and touch-screen machines to comply with federal laws intended to phase out lever and punch-card machines after the hanging-chads confusion of the 2000 presidential election. Widespread problems were reported with the new technology and among poll workers using the machines this year in primaries in Arkansas, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio and elsewhere.

I have my own theory about proper voting practices. I think everyone should write down who they want to vote for on a piece of paper, sign it, and turn it in at the polls with their photo ID or a voter registration card. How many people does it really take to count votes? No so many that it requires a machine. We don't need the results the next day. That makes for good television but not good government.

Quote of the day

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.

-Henry Morgenthau-CFR, Secretary of the Treasury under FDR

More on the SPP

Are You a Mexican-American-Canadian North American? You Will Be!

Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.
The documents, a total of about 1,000 pages, are among the first to be released to Corsi through his FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, which describes itself as an initiative "to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation."
"The documents clearly reveal that SPP, working within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is far advanced in putting together a new regional infrastructure, creating a 'shadow' trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure," Corsi said.

Among the initial discoveries, said Corsi, is the existence of an internal Intranet website that never has been revealed to Congress or the public.
"This private internal website," he claims, "undoubtedly contains a wealth of documentation that the FOIA request has so far intentionally excluded."
Corsi told WND the documents reveal hundreds of internal meetings, memoranda of understanding and other referenced agreements that have not been disclosed.
"We have here the beginnings of a whitewash," he said, "in which SPP evidently thinks the public will be hoodwinked by a 'Myths vs. Facts' document posted for public relations purposes on their public website."
Among the documents is an organizational chart accompanied by a listing of trilateral Mexican, Canadian and U.S. administrative officers who report on multiple cabinet level "working groups."
The government watchdog Judicial Watch announced today it has received some of the same documents, including the organizational chart, which can be seen in this pdf file, on page seven.
"There is no specific authorization for this massive administrative-branch integration with Mexico and Canada other than what amounts to a press conference jointly issued by President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 23, 2005, at the end of their summit in Waco, Texas," Corsi said.
Corsi added that even the "Myth vs. Facts" blurb on the SPP.gov website admits the SPP is neither a treaty nor a law.
"The Bush administration is trying to create the infrastructure of a new regional North American government in stealth fashion, under the radar and out of public view," Corsi claims. "Where is Congress, asleep at the wheel?"

Those who have taken the time to look into the SPP can see that something just isn't right about it. The SPP is being forwarded by people who do not want the public to know what they are doing, hiding their activities within shadow commitees and never speaking a word as to its nature or intent. Bush hasn't said one word about the actual activities he is trying to implement, he just throws out some tired old cliche' about integration without laying down the facts as to what that integration means.

What is most important for the people to know is that the SPP and the North American Union has been decided upon and will be initiated in the near future. You, dear American citizen who believes in the republic, autonomy, and sovereignty, will just have to find out what the politicians have already decided upon when they are kind enough to break the news to you that we are not a soverign country any more. We are not a soverign country any more; everyday we don't move to recapture our soverignty makes it all the harder when we'll finally wise up.