Coup de Guerre November 23, 2007
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Search uncovers relics of historic 1861 battle
Archaeologists picking through the wooded ridges east of Boonville, Mo., have unearthed enough old bullets and buttons to map out parts of the first battle of the Civil War in Missouri.
The searchers used sophisticated metal detectors to look for evidence of the battle on June 17, 1861, in central Missouri between Union soldiers from St. Louis and state militiamen allied with then-governor Claiborne Jackson, who wanted Missouri to join the Confederacy. The Union soldiers routed the militiamen in what the victors called the “Boonville races.”
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The site is about five miles east of Boonville along the old Rocheport Road. Union soldiers under Gen. Nathanial Lyon had moved up the Missouri River by steamboat from St. Louis and chased Jackson and the militia out of Jefferson City. They clashed near Boonville more than a month before the first Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Va., regarded as the first major battle of the Civil War.
This wasn’t a battle, this was a military coup de guerre. Gen. Lyon, by “chasing Gov. Jackson and the militia out of Jefferson City,” was overthrowing the duly-elected Missouri state government that wanted to secede from the union and join the Confederacy, and Gen. Lyon was obviously doing so at the behest of President Adolph Lenin. The Boonville Races were an attempt that the military arm of the deposed but legitimately-elected state government to break the invading army, and return to Jefferson City. Obviously, they failed, and the legitimate Missouri government was exiled to Texas.
Fun With Headlines November 23, 2007
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London Sunday Times: Mugabe grabs platinum and diamonds
Diamonds are a thug’s best friend.
WBBM-CBS-2 Chicago: Congressman Accuses Police Of Racial Profiling
An alternate explanation is that he violated the law. Nobody in Chicagograd’s PC PD would dare profile these days.
UK Daily Mail: Meet the women who won’t have babies - because they’re not eco friendly
They’re all white women. Last I looked, neither the world nor its ecology wasn’t suffering because of too many white people.
The Blotter by ABC: Feds May Fund Terror, Report Says
Just call it the USAID (United States Agency for Intentional Destruction)
Lew Rockwell Blog: Re: John Edwards’ Plan to Fight “Widespread Hunger” in America
Convert his estate to a farm.
AP: ‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder claims abuse
Perhaps the jail guard who supposedly abused him had a daughter that Joe Francis made “wild.”
Vulcan Blazers November 23, 2007
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A note with racial overtones and a knotted rope found in an East Baltimore firehouse early yesterday triggered a probe by the city’s fire and police departments, and the FBI has begun its own preliminary investigation into possible civil rights violations.
The note and the rope were discovered by two Fire Department employees — one black, one white — at the Herman Williams Jr. fire station at East 25th Street and Kirk Avenue. It was the second time in five months that the station has been hit with racial allegations.
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Yesterday, the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Vulcan Blazers — a group that represents black city firefighters — demanded a federal investigation into the rope and note, while the fire union’s president said critics should not jump to conclusions.
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The discovery at the firehouse again threw a beleaguered department into turmoil over issues of race. In 2004, the department was criticized for hiring an all-white recruit class, and was pressed to change its testing and recruiting practices.
The department also is awaiting a report by the city’s inspector general, who investigated allegations that several black firefighters cheated on a promotion exam. That report is expected to be released next week, a City Hall spokesman said.
This sounds so familiar. Then again, since St. Louis is going through most of the same issues, don’t be surprised if a F.I.R.E. member hangs a noose at some firehouse in St. Louis City to gain sympathy. That said, one can already see where this writer’s accusatory mind is running with this Baltimore incident.
Though I should say that, if nothing else, the black rabble-rousing firefighters’ union in Baltimore chose a cool name for themselves.
Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff November 23, 2007
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(1) While it was a great thing that Americans were motivated to lobby their politicians to strike down the soft-amnesty “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” earlier this year, and several backdoor legislative attempts at the same later on in the year, e.g. DREAM Act, the dirty and unfortunate little secret is that the current President of the United States is for open borders, and so will the next President probably be. I could easily forsee a situation where President Bush grants a mass pardon to all and any future illegal aliens, though that drastic step would probably get him impeached. However, he is essentially doing just that, by neutering the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. After all, even if murder is still a crime on the books, if the cops never arrest anyone for murder, is it really still a crime?
(2) The AP profiles the saga of one Oscar Ayala-Cornejo, a young illegal alien from Mexico who, as a teenager, deliberately lifted the identity of his then-deceased second cousin, who was born on American soil and thus an American citizen, and who died of stomach cancer at age 7. He wanted to become a cop, but had to clear the background check. He eventually did become a cop in Milwaukee, and thought he was home-free. The only reason he was found out is that someone called ICE to snitch on him.
To read the AP article carefully is to think that they approve of identity theft by illegal aliens.
Remember, if you’re a white American that lives in Milwaukee, you couldn’t sneak into Mexico and become a cop in Mr. Ayala-Cornejo’s native Guadalajara. There are probably dozens of differences between the Mexican immigration system and the American one that would preclude it.
(3) David Brooks, writing an op-ed in the NYT, uncovers the Giuliani/sanctuary city smoking gun. In doing so, he unearthed this little RG gem from a UN immigration conference from 1995:
“Sometimes leadership means taking unpopular positions, rejecting harmful political fads.”
If that’s what he really believes, then why doesn’t he take that “unpopular position” now, and quit trying to deny that NYC under himself was a sanctuary city? Obviously, he wants the nomination of a political party dominated by the “dangerous” mobs of “Know-Nothings” that he hates so much.
If the Republican Party nominates him, then the whole party has lost its soul. Anyone who poodles along with him, either now or after he might have the nomination in the bag, deserves to be kept a million miles away from any hint of political power, and the same distance away from a talk radio microphone.
(4) Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is now starting to organize her Senate colleagues to reject President Bush’s nomination of Julie Myers to head ICE permanently.
