History has shown us time and again that calamities fall upon societies such as ours, often without warning. Individuals suffer personal disaster because of certain choices they make. A nation of people may suffer corporately for the same reasons. With the emergence of a global economy, a global culture, and a global government, all nations and people will now experience the collective results of their collective choice to participate in the trends of this time -- even if their choices are apathy or ignorance.
Why did the tens of millions die during the world wars? Why have paroxysms of pain, suffering, and death burst so suddenly upon unsuspecting populations around the world? These events seem so removed from our time, mere stories told by history books and old photographs. Time has softened the memory of these tragedies. Some say we are in a new day of progressive ideas.
A wise man once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." History repeats itself because people will not learn from it. To forget is an essential trait of human nature, as is ignorance and apathy. So is cruelty. These work together to reincarnate the horrors of the past. By comparing the trends of our present day with history, we cast a prescient gaze into our future.
Political scientist R. J. Rummel calculates that in this century alone governments have killed more than 119,400,000 people during times of peace. This is four times the casualties of combat in this century's wars and more than all the people killed in religious persecution in all history. This is the wretched fruit of a political madness and fanaticism to which mankind seems so prone. It is the fruit of Statism, or the worship of the State. It is a religion in and of itself.
Statism is a religion that goes back to man's early existence when he first built a tower on the Chaldean plain. It has asserted itself in every civilization where true Christian principles were absent or in decline. Statism was dealt a blow on the American continent where, for a time, a nation recognized that the rights of man were endowed by his Creator, not by other men. But the Creator was forgotten, in practice if not in theory, and Statism reared its head once again.
From the beginning, statists have proffered solutions for human suffering. These solutions have failed because they spring from a false premise -- that of force -- which is the quintessence of Statism. The Creator is the God of the individual and of freedom of choice. Statism destroys individuality and freedom to choose. Its only method is force. One degree of force invariably leads to another until rivers of blood result. The Creator required the blood of one Man to atone for the misdeeds of many, thereby bringing peace to all. Statists require the blood of millions, and yet they are never satisfied. This is another hallmark of the statist religion--an insatiable blood-lust.
The Unchanging Goals of Statism
Statists of this century differ only in dress, language, and symbolism. They share the fundamental belief that the State is supreme--the end in itself. The individual must submerge his interests in the interests of the state or community. Individualism is the enemy. Statism is flourishing in the world today with a new twist; there is now a universal State, the dream of all statists of the past. Thus we begin to see the universal calamity that lies ahead as Statism produces its wretched fruit on a global scale.
President and Hillary Clinton are consummate statists. In 1993 Hillary said, "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." In 1993 Bill Clinton said, "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...."[1] "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans.... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."[2] This is what he is doing--gradually.
In 1956 Clinton comrade Nikita Khrushchev boldly declared, "Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."[3] In 1933 comrade Hitler said:
It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual.... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man.
Hitler also said, "There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it." He may have said the same of The New Deal. He would love corporate fascist America today. It must be seen that there are no significant differences between the statists of today and those of the past. Their premise is the same.
The French Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the leading French philosopher and statist during "The Enlightenment" period of the 18th century who helped shape the modern statist philosophy. He wrote:
Once there is a society it is necessary to have a coercive force to organize and coordinate the movements of its members so that the common interests and reciprocal ties are given the solidity they would not be able to have by themselves. [4]
This "coercive force" is directed by what Rousseau called the "general will" of society, the community over the individual. In this cult there is constant agitation for "equality" in order to maintain an atmosphere where individual differences will not be tolerated. Few are aware that the full slogan of the French Revolution was "Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood -- or Death."
Historian Arnold Toynbee wrote of statist cult in Revolutionary France:
In the Revolution a sinister ancient religion which had been dormant suddenly re-erupted with elemental violence. This revenant was the fanatical worship of collective human power. The Terror was only the first of the mass-crimes that have been committed ... in this evil religion's name."[5]
This statist religion is propagated today by so-called "human rights" groups who attack non-conforming segments of the population while sanctioning the human rights violations of the State. Race is not the issue. They operate from the collectivist premise that the State is supreme and infallible and any opposition to state crimes is "hate" and "intolerance." While professing a love for "diversity," these groups urge on the campaign of state terror against heretical elements, proving that their "tolerance" is reserved for those who conform to their statist world view.
France on the eve of revolution closely resembles America today, as well as pre-Nazi Germany. Historian Otto Scott writes:
French intellectuals, middle and upper classes had grown ashamed of their country, history, and institutions. Such a phenomenon had never before arisen in any nation or race throughout the long history of mankind, and deserved more attention than it received.[6]
A great loosening began; the country slowly came apart.... For the first time since the decadent days of Rome, pornography emerged from its caves and circulated openly in a civilized nation. The Catholic Church in France was intellectually gutted; the priests lost their faith with the congregations. Strange cults appeared; sex rituals, black magic, Satanism. Perversion became not only acceptable but fashionable. Homosexuals held public balls to which heterosexuals were invited and the police guarded their carriages.... The air grew thick with plans to restructure and reconstruct all traditional French society and institutions.[7]
Scott writes that "...the heirs of the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century ... launched the first revolution in all history against the idea of Christianity, and Christianity's God."[8] Christianity stood in the way of the statist's Utopia on earth. The destruction of Christian values resulted in the destruction of cultural norms of behavior. Christianity held the nation together, and now it would come apart.
So it is in America. Statists are destroying the dominant, White Christian culture and supplanting it with multi-culturalism -- a false theory that simply cannot exist. In France the target was the church, the monarchy and the aristocracy. In America it is Christianity and everything White. The federal government has undertaken the promotion of homosexuality and abortion which are crimes against nature and nature's God. The aim is always to destroy the cultural cohesiveness and bring a revolution. The press plays its major subversive role. Scott writes of France:
The press ... was the spearhead, font, and fuel for these discussions ... the journals were mixtures of politics and smut. They admired agitators extravagantly and never discussed the Church without mention of scandal nor the government without criticism. They relied heavily on tales of sin in high places and high-handed outrages of the Court; no name, however highly placed and illustrious, escaped.[9]
Through its journals and pamphlets ... it could distort, color, plead, argue, lie, report, and misreport the information upon which the balance of the realm depended. In recent years it had used this weapon with unscrupulous force to arouse and direct the mobs as well as the intelligentsia.[10]
The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington hardly lets a day pass without bashing traditional American culture. The bold headline in its July 13, 1998 edition reads: "What's it like being white?" The article pities the poor Caucasians who are "struggling with their identities ... in an increasingly multicultural society. 'I've realized that I have a color called white ... that scares me'" said one Spokane resident quoted in the article. "Whiteness is subtle yet pervasive" it reads. "Nearly everyone [in the Inland Northwest] is White. 'We are so immersed in white culture that we know so little else,'" one expert lamented.
Such blatant race-baiting is the norm at many newspapers such as The Spokesman-Review. It is acceptable and even commendable because, like 18th century France, Americans have been trained to hate their culture. American culture is not exclusive to skin color or national origin, but the race-baiters in education and the media have turned it into a racial issue, confusing and dividing Americans and making coherent discussion impossible. These statists are simply continuing the war against "Christianity, and Christianity's God" as Scott writes.
Left wing ideologues dominate the information media today, some under the cover of "neo-conservatism." It was in the French revolution that the terms "right wing" and "left wing" were coined. Those on the "left" were the radicals who proudly adopted the designation as a symbol of their "revolutionary defiance of Christian tradition, which had always represented those on the right hand of God as saved, and those on the left as damned." [11] Some things never change.
The Collapse of American Culture and the Second American Revolution
Statist ideas never originate with the working class. They emanate from power and privilege. The French Revolution began with the aristocracy. Hitler's National Socialism and the Sixties counter-culture began on university campuses. Sixteenth century reformer Martin Luther warned that the universities could become "great gates of hell." They did.
In his book Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Judge Robert Bork writes, "It is important to understand what the Sixties turmoil was about, for the youth culture that became manifest then is the modern liberal culture of today."[12]
During the Sixties, American culture and institutions were assaulted by leftist student radicals who committed vandalism and arson, seized administrative offices, assaulted and terrorized faculty, and disrupted classes. Terrorist groups such as the Black Panthers and the Weathermen flourished on campuses coast to coast. Protests were characterized by a dark, revolutionary nihilism and totalitarian behavior. Pitched street battles between radicals and police eclipsed the 1968 Democratic Convention. Drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, hedonism, and hatred of law and order became rampant in the Sixties. The social fabric was coming apart.
University administrators either caved in to the demands of radicals who seized them and their offices or sympathized with them outright. So divorced were these institutions from the mainstream that they often would not even ask for the police to restore order on campus.[13] Bork writes:
University establishments collapsed under moral, and sometimes physical, assault, and often publicly accepted the Left's indictments of themselves and of America. In this, Yale and Cornell were entirely typical. Scenes such as these, and worse, were played out on scores of campuses. Almost nowhere did the faculty and the administration stand firm.[14]
Nihilism is an extreme skepticism that rejects all distinctions of moral and religious values and sees the destruction of all existing moral and social institutions as necessary for future improvement. The Enlightenment softened up the French intelligentsia until they became guilty about everything in their own culture and gave themselves up to nihilistic sophisms. Modern liberalism, a reincarnation of the Enlightenment, has done the same to America's upper crust.
British journalist
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard observes:
The American elite, I am afraid to say, is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. [15]
Judge Bork summed up the nihilistic philosophy that was the essence of the Sixties counter-culture. All that mattered to the radicals was the destruction of society's institutions. He writes:
Radical groups, even as they grew more violent in their effort to destroy the white, bourgeois world, were without any notion of what was to come after. As one of the apostles of violence put it, "The idea was not to create a perfect state operating by the clock-work principles of Marxist law but to promote a chaos that would cripple America and ultimately cast it into a receivership that would be administered by the morally superior third world.... People shouldn't expect the revolution to achieve a Kingdom of Freedom; more likely, it would produce a Dark Ages."[16]
It would appear that the virulent counter-culture of the Sixties has sputtered out of existence. War is fashionable, students are back in class, and women are wearing bras again. The radicals finally came to their senses and got a life. Unfortunately, this is not the case. As Judge Bork observes, many of the student radicals graduated and even pursued advanced degrees at the institutions they tried to burn down. Instead of entering business or the conventional professions they joined "the chattering class," the army of talkers that fill the ranks of influence. [17]
They comprise the bureaucratic elite in America. They are teachers and university professors. They occupy positions in the major news organizations, journalism, foundation staffs, and public policy organizations. They run Hollywood. They gravitate to any position where opinions may be influenced. These are now called "coat and tie" radicals who are not attacking the social order on the streets, but are destroying it from within.
For example, Berkeley radical Ron Dellums was elected to Congress in 1970, retiring in February after twenty-seven years in the House of Representatives. Gone are the bell bottom pants, shaggy beard and afro. He looks much more distinguished now with his short, gray hair and well cut suits. Dellums personifies the "coat and tie" radical in appearance and philosophy. "I learned not to think like a sprinter but as a long-distance runner," said Dellums when he announced his retirement in 1997. [18]
The Politics of Terrorism
Dellums also said that his proudest moment as representative was when he escorted a Communist and convicted terrorist to the House floor to receive a fawning ovation from the U.S. Congress. In the Sixties police caught this terrorist plotting a violent overthrow of government while in possession of a large cache of weapons and enough explosives to kill thousands of people. This terrorist is Nelson Mandela, who is now the President of
South Africa.
While Mandela was in prison, his wife Winnie was busy advocating the "necklacing" of other blacks who were disloyal, the practice of forcing a tire filled with gasoline over an unfortunate person and setting it alight. As the victims burned, their families were challenged by the mob to pull the burning tire off. "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country," Winnie shouted before television cameras. According to sources in South Africa, hundreds died in this manner. International TV crews captured footage of a necklacing where the mob smashed the victim's head with large stones.
Of course, bombing, necklacing, torture, and murder are acceptable if your politics are in order. At most you may become president and at least you will stay out of jail and live comfortably. This is a major plank in the radical manifesto. The only crimes are political crimes. You may commit perjury, molest children, cheat, rob, steal and murder without guilt so long as you are a good radical. The desecration of the rule of law by the black government in South Africa has produced a surge in violent crime that has brought that nation to the verge of anarchy and ruin. The government reserves its moral outrage for the remaining symbols of the former white establishment, not the murderers on the streets.
South Africa's criminal justice system is on the verge of collapse. Over two percent of the total population is behind bars--more than twice the number imprisoned under white rule. South Africa has a murder rate that is seven times greater than that of the United States, with rapes, carjackings and home invasions epidemic. Black on white crime is epidemic. Thirty-four thousand prisoners escaped from jail over the past four years, and many accused are never convicted due to police ineptitude, corruption, or inadequate resources.[19] President Mandela asserts that reports of an increase of crime under his administration is nothing more than propaganda put out by by political opponents. This is another plank in the radical manifesto--"Don't confuse me with the facts."
Nelson Mandela was a leader in a terrorist conspiracy in the Sixties. His organization, the African National Congress (ANC), carried out a campaign of bombings and assassinations in a campaign to overthrow the government. The ANC killed many innocent civilians, as well as several of their own people suspected of disloyalty. The government offered to release Mandela from prison early if he would renounce terrorist acts, but he refused. In May of 1997, the ANC publicly apologized for killing civilians, claiming they did not intend to do it. Forty top ANC officials have applied for amnesty.[20]
Mandela's terrorist past was no secret to Vice President Al Gore and First Lady Hillary Clinton when they attended his presidential inauguration in 1994. Mandela held up his clenched fist, a symbol of the iron rule of Communism. Al and Hillary applauded enthusiastically. Killing civilians doesn't matter as long as you promote the radical agenda. The only crimes are political crimes.
Back at home this radical philosophy has destroyed the ideal of the American legal tradition, "equal protection under the law." While there has been an exponential increase in crime over the past two decades, the federal government increasingly throws its unlimited resources into those cases that have political overtones.
For instance, Eric Robert Rudolph is the subject of a massive manhunt in North Carolina. His alleged crime? He is suspected of a bombing, killing one person and wounding another. If murders are committed everyday, why has this one elicited such an overwhelming response from the federal government? An abortion clinic got bombed. That's a big federal no-no. So is bombing gay bars. The body count doesn't matter. It's the political statement made by these bombings that makes it such a grave offense in the eyes of radicals. Mandela can bomb people and be president. Rudolph, who may view himself as a "freedom fighter", could be executed because he isn't carrying the correct political baggage. But as Evans-Pritchard wrote, "Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists."
Political seduction of the law spells the end of justice--and the beginning of a great social unraveling.
When They Say 'Peace and Safety'
Pre-revolutionary France resembled America in other ways. Even though the government was almost bankrupt, the nation's economy was booming, the result of borrowed capital. A popular national lottery was created. The finance minister theorized that the appearance of prosperity would create the real thing. France was Europe's leading military power as well as eminent in science and the arts. The future seemed to glitter with promise. Concerning the national mood Scott writes:
Socially the trend [of equality] was promising.... a sort of leveling took place ... [as] the ideas of Rousseau suffused the land.... A season of peace seemed to envelop the land. It was as though the misty and dreamlike ideas of Rousseau had, for the nonce, taken tangible form.... The fact was that the situation was grim beyond anyone's knowledge.[21]
Volumes may be written about the parallels between America today and pre-revolutionary France. There are many parallels, as well as some differences. There will be differences in the final outcome as well, but the immutable results of Statism will be the same. They may be even more horrifying this time.
Then Sudden Destruction
Soon France's dream-like state was shattered by a loud crash. Their financial house of cards collapsed, resulting in flight of capital and economic depression. A series of events combined to create food shortages and hunger. Agitators fanned out across the countryside to destroy grain stores and terrorize the inhabitants. Hired mobs staged "spontaneous" riots in Paris. The powers of government weakened and then collapsed. Everything fell apart with astonishing coordination.
The appalling thing in the French Revolution is not the tumult, but the design. Through all the fire and smoke we perceive the evidence of calculating organization. The managers remain studiously concealed and masked; but there is no doubt about their presence from the first.[22]
The resulting political changes were not brought about by the majority of hungry peasants. As in America today, Frenchmen were a herd of cattle controlled by a minority of leftist radicals. Scott writes:
Paris, like the nation, was divided into the politically active and the passive, between the many confused, disorganized, and abstracted, and the highly concentrated, organized, and intent few.[23]
A common bond between statists of every age is the element of romantic occultism -- a satanic blend of nihilism, hocus pocus, and eastern mysticism. French revolutionaries, Communists, and modern liberal statists in government today share this common faith. Romantic occultism teaches the Big Bang theory of social science. If you blow everything to smithereens, you will have, presto, instant Utopia.
Romantic occultism fired the French Revolution through secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Order of the Illuminati. Rousseau taught it would be necessary "to reap the harvest of perpetual peace by ... [the] bloody trial of sharp war." Perpetual peace, he said, "can only happen by means that humanity might find violent and fearful.... We will not see [world government] except by revolution....[24] Statists only use gradualism to the point where society is near collapse. Then they blow it up. Eighteenth century historian John Robison writes:
[Illuminati founder Adam] Weishaupt grants that 'there will be a terrible convulsion, and a storm -- but this will be succeeded by a calm -- the unequal will now be equal-- and when the cause of dissension is thus removed, the world will be in peace. [25]
European federalist Fisher Ames said that Illuminists had a "strange heat in the heart, but no light in the brain" as they set about "to kindle every thing in the state that is combustible, into a blaze." Ames lamented that a "slender hope" for world peace "is all that the Illuminists have proposed as the indemnity for all the crimes and misery of France, and all the horrors of the new revolutions that they wish to engender in Europe from the Bosphorous to the Baltic."[26]
In the 19th century Hegel refined the fanaticism of the Illuminists with his widely accepted theory of dialectics, which essentially teaches that conflict is the engine of historical change.
"The joy of destruction is a creative joy," enthused radical Hegelians Bakunin and Proudhon (p. 233). This was not just youthful indulgence in graphic metaphors. They knew they were calling for violence, that their much-lauded 'flow of history' was to be a river of blood. It is just this doctrine of creative destruction which is at the core of the modern revolutionary faith.[27]
The extreme nihilism of this faith is found in this statement by a influential student activist proceeding the violent Bolshevik Revolution, a statement that resonates ominously as one views the youth of today:
Everything is false, everything is stupid, from religion to the family.... a revolution, a bloody and pitiless revolution must change everything down to the very roots ... we know that rivers of blood will flow and that perhaps even innocent victims will perish...[28]
Some may remember the segment broadcast on National Public Radio during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. A woman commentator, speaking with almost erotic ecstasy, described the beauty of the scene as the poor, oppressed classes shook off their oppressors and burned their city down. This segment aroused considerable protest from some listeners. The L.A. riots (themselves the product of considerable coordination) as well as the broadcast on NPR, are further evidence that creative destruction is very much a tool of statist master planners today.
Little does America appreciate the lessons of the past. What passes as "enlightenment" in this day is nothing more than the reoccurring fanatical Statism of the past. What promises liberation and equality brings repression and slavery. The future, appearing to glitter with promise, brings only death and destruction. Such are always the results of departing from the time-honored truths embodied in true Christianity.
As the old order in France collapsed, Frenchmen freely exercised sexual as well as political freedom. The old morality was considered part of the bondage of the past. Churches were invaded and turned into temples of debauchery. Fornication was committed in the aisles. Homosexuality, bestiality, and every other perversion imaginable flourished. Christianity and all its symbols were outlawed while witchcraft, blackmagic, and demon worship were widespread. Indescribable disorder resulted. The Christian age was dead. The Age of Reason had arrived.
Immoral sexual practices always bring darker passions in their wake. In ancient times the worship of Baal, the god of sensuality, was followed by the worship of Molech, the god of human sacrifice. The mobs of France were seized by a demonic blood-lust, causing them to commit atrocities that are beyond description, all in the name of "Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood."
On July 14, a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille prison. This fateful day marks the beginning of the Revolution, as well as a macabre orgy of human butchery. Several unfortunate soldiers and the Bastille's governor were slaughtered, their heads severed, stuck on pikes, and paraded through town. Other body parts followed--torsos, hands, genitals, and entrails were bobbing along the street on pikes. Later members of the Swiss Guard were torn apart, their internal organs used for batting practice. The crowds who witnessed it cheered. These scenes would be repeated countless times throughout the revolution, scenes of unthinkable barbarity committed by humans stripped of every decent impulse.
The number of prisons in Paris increased from nine to twelve. Two-hundred thousand prisoners languished in France, most accused of vague crimes against the Revolution. The work of execution proceeded too slowly. The government, fearful of an outbreak, hired goons to slaughter inmates in what is known as the September Massacres. Men and women prisoners were shoved into the courtyard where they were butchered. More grisly parades began.
The infamous Reign of Terror began when the "Law of the Suspects" was passed by the Assembly. It condemned to death "all who by their actions, by their connections, speakings, writings, have shown themselves to be ... enemies of freedom." France was turning into one large, grisly graveyard. Of this cult of death David Chilton writes:
The Reign of Terror, that eminently logical application of the Enlightenment claimed 40,000 victims in 1793-1794, but that was only the beginning. For, as the Revolution progressed, its leaders calmly calculated the number of citizens who would have to be exterminated, laying elaborate plans for the methodical liquidation of two thirds of the population -- more than sixteen million people (see Nesta Webster, The French Revolution; A Study in Democracy, 1919, pp. 423-429)[29]
The "coat and tie" radicals in Washington and elsewhere might want to consider the fate of their counterparts in Revolutionary France. Those that led at the beginning of the Revolution were later beheaded in the guillotine they set up for others. They were replaced by other, more radical elements who later met a similar fate. Even the Duke of Orleans, the wealthy patron of the Revolution who supported and financed its subversive activities during the monarchy, literally lost his head. The blade of the guillotine fell without prejudice. This reveals another plank of the radical manifesto--"everyman for himself."
There is a group of Americans that the Washington elite mockingly call "the black helicopter crowd." Some in this group may mistakenly identify certain facilities as FEMA detention centers. Some may be wrong about the mission of certain helicopters flying on the horizon, but they are not mistaken in their fears of history repeating itself. Their fears are justified. This century has produced more terrors in the name of Utopia than the two centuries before it. Face it. It is happening again.
Now from Roanoke Island there's one more bridge to cross to get to the Outer Banks, come rain or shine. This is the Washington Baum Bridge. As you can see, eastern N.C. is a beach, boating and fisherman paradise. I've only scratch the surface of the many rivers, creeks, lakes, inlets and sounds you can cross. A true water world. Next time, the Outer Banks.
William B Umstead
Standing at entrance of the old bridge and behind me is the new Virginia Dare bridge
The Virginia Dare Bridge. Longest in the state.
Once you got off the Alligator River ferry you made a mad dash to Manns Harbor to catch the second ferry to Roanoke Island and the town of Manteo. Then in 1957 they built the 2.8 mile long William B Umstead bridge. This bridge along with the Alligator River bridge in 1960 ended the ferry system on U.S. 64 to reach Manteo and Nags Head. Due to heavy traffic and congestion in downtown Manteo, in 2002 a new 4 lane bridge was open that bypass downtown Manteo. This was the 5.2 mile long Virginia Dare bridge.
Federal court says Christian-themed license plates unconstitutional
Archaeologist always jump for joy when they find some bones in a cave. Next thing you know they discovered it was one of our ancestors. Thru their "holy grail" carbon dating, they find out that this cavemen is 2.5 million years old, give or take a million. With just a few bones they create a complete skeleton. And now they decide that all of our ancestors were cavemen.
Heading for the Outer Banks on U.S.64 you come to the Alligator River. This was the location of the first of two ferries you had to take to get to Nags Head. Today a replica of the Hatteras Lighthouse is located where you use to catch the ferry. In 1960 they built the Lindsay C. Warren bridge across the 2.8 mile wide river. This was the beginning of the end to what use to be an adventure to get to the Outer Banks. Instead of the Outer Banks being a pristine wilderness, massive development began.
Marriage–God Must Be Involved
Ferries were a common method of transportation through the swamps surrounding the Albemarle Sound throughout the history of the region. One ferry that linked the towns of Edenton and Mackeys, North Carolina, continued in service from 1734 to 1938. A railroad bridge was built across the sound in 1910. Then in 1938 a 3.5 mile long bridge was built across the Sound next to the railroad trestle. This was the first major road bridge in eastern N.C. and a vital link to the Outer Banks. Finally, the 1938 bridge was replaced by a new bridge in 1990. The old highway bridge and railroad trestle were demolished.
A dark day for American Christianity
Columbia N. C. is on U.S. 64 in Tyrrell County. U. S. 64 is central North Carolina's main highway to the Outer banks. The population was 819 at the 2000 census.
The I-40 Bridge Disaster was a bridge collapse that occurred in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma on May 26, 2002. Joe Dedmon, captain of the tugboat Robert Y. Love, experienced a blackout and lost control of the ship. This, in turn, caused the barge he was controlling to collide with a bridge support. The result was a 580 foot (180 m) section of the I-40 bridge plunging into Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River. Fourteen people died when several automobiles and tractor trailers fell from the bridge.
The 'Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962' occurred on March 6-8, 1962 along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. In an area accustomed to a hurricane season from late August to early November each year, and the periodic major winter storms known as "Nor'easters", the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 was unlike anything anyone living could recall. It was considered by the U.S. Geological Survey to be one of the most destructive storms ever to impact the mid-Atlantic states. One of the ten worst storms in the United States in the 20th century, it lingered through five high tides over a three day period, killing 40 people, injuring over 1,000 and causing hundreds of millions in property damage in six states.
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (GM) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 7 people steering and 2 people rowing. Feeling a deeper study was in order; American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 2 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 2 people rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rowers.vThere was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses. The pension program was trimmed to 'equal the competition' and some of the resultant savings were channeled into morale boosting programs and teamwork posters. The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American management laid-off one rower, halted development of a new canoe, sold all the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses. The next year, try as he might, the lone designated rower was unable to even finish the race (having no paddles,) so he was laid off for unacceptable performance, all canoe equipment was sold and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India. Sadly, The End.
Sebastiano Conca Italian, born circa 1676-1764. One of his greatest paintings was the one of 'Alexander the Great in the Temple of Jerusalem'.
300,000 Silent Churches
Just recently, The History Channel had a program on 'The Founding Fathers'. I don't know if you caught it but during one conversation they made the statement about Jefferson's 'separation of Church and State' and said that these were the same words that we find in our Constitution. SHOW ME! History is being rewritten one sentence at a time. Just slow enough that most people believe them to be Truth. The American media is far greater than anything Nazi Germany could have imagine. The Internet might be a two edge sword but it's the last place you can find the truth if you search hard enough. Once it and Talk Radio comes under government control truth will be gone forever.
Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. National Parks was an American Idea. If they hadn't been established, there would be no buffalo, no sequoia trees, no redwood trees or wolves left in America. John Muir could be considered the father of conservation of out National treasures. He was instrumental in the saving of Yosemite. At first, Yosemite was a State Park, later to become a National Park.
Flagship drops Michael Savage show 
Christianity has power over religion
KAULBACH, Wilhelm von 1846. Cornelius, Schadow, and Schnorr were pioneering in monumental history painting, which was to play so great a role in the second half of the 19th century. Huge panoramic paintings were installed in nearly all the public buildings to make them centres of culture. They taught history and were intended to have a didactic influence as historical models Kaulbach's huge painting, The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, is the most mature example of the new theatrical history painting. The artist does not show the real event, rather this is idealistic didacticism. We are given an interpretation that transcends time and is intended to be of significance for the whole world.
How free Americans became pigs at a trough
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40th anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s drowning at Chappaquiddick...Kennedy's story still doubtful
64% of Israelis want Temple rebuilt
CERN, a 17 mile long super collider located on the border of France and Switzerland. The latest in a series of projects covering the last 50 years and costing over 10 trillion dollars so far. This super collider is a consortium of European and Asian countries. Whats it all about? They are trying to prove how life began. Just like the space program, in which all the money is being spent in hope of finding life on another planet so they can say that thru a natural process life began. Then they can say, " You see, the Bible is wrong. Life is everywhere and it's a natural process. It has nothing to do with God." They are now in the process of starting it up. So far, even though they claim freedom of information about the project, things have been pretty quite. I guess God still has them stumped.
http://thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/2005/09/forgotten-national-tragedy-bill.html
Socialist America sinking
During the Clinton regime, the Senate voted in a known communist, Ruth Darth Vader Ginsberg by a vote of 98 to 3. If our Government back then was that much a Socialist in hiding Gov. then you can be sure that today, Sotomayer; another known Socialist is a shoe in.
A reprint. A Diary Review: Moving South, 2007 May 30, 2007 :Just moved to Atlanta, Georgia from Chicago, Illinois. Now, this is a city that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park while lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.June 14, 2007 :Really heating up. Got to 95 degrees today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.June 30, 2007:Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today.Lots of cactus and rocks. The yard is a breeze to maintain! No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love living in Atlanta.July 10, 2007 :The temperature hasn't been below 97 degrees all week.How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.July 15, 2007:Fell asleep by the pool.(Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do.I learned my lesson, though.Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.July 20, 2007:Morgan (our cat) snuck into the car before I left this morning.By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather upholstery.I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and shits.I learned my lesson, though. No more cats in this heat.July 25, 2007:The wind sucks.It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!And it's hot as hell!The home air-conditioner is on the fritz,and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order the parts.July 30, 2007:Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. The monthly house payment is $1,500 and I can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?August 4, 2007:It's 105 degrees...again! Finally got the air-conditioner fixed todayfor a cost of $900.The temperature gets down to 78 degrees, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95 degrees.I hate this stupid city.August 8, 2007:If another wise ass person cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to choke him to death. Damn heat; 107 today.By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!August 9, 2007:Tried to run some errands after work.Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car.I thought my rear end was on fire.I lost two layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and rear.Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.August 10, 2007:The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for two damn months,and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert?Water rationing will be next, so I might as well watch $1,700 worth of cactus just dry up and blow into the damn pool. Not even cactus can live in this damn heat.August 14, 2007:Welcome to HELL!!! The temperature got to 111 degrees today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the car.The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?"My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail. Freaking South. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?
Al Gore shows more evidence of global warming. The first picture was taken in 2004, the second in 2009. What was the opinion of the penguins? Well, they found out that it was a lot easier to raise babies at 34 degrees than at 70 below zero.
Obama, who are you and where were you born? Inquiring minds want to know.
"I think the reason General Motors is bankrupt is because in all of their years of manufacturing cars, they have never been able to successfully design a cup holder that holds a drink in place when you turn a corner."
Who's your daddy? Evolution over Creation, I just don't see it. Talking about faith, which is easier to believe? Romans 1:22
Geologic changes to the planet happens faster than you think. 1279 AD - 2009 AD
Judge: U.S. Deep-Sea Explorers Must Return Shipwreck Treasure to Spain
One day soon, socialist liberals in America will change the dating system of how we keep time. The plan calls for beginning on Jan. 1, 2012 the date will read 2012 AC. Any date before 2012, like 2004 or 1978 will be 2004 BCE or 1978 BCE. What will cause this historical event? It will be the results of their 50 year effort to rid the world of cars. AC denotes 'After Cars'; BCE is 'Before Cars Eliminated'. Rising gas prices, no drilling, environmental rules, stupid laws and regulations have seceded in the elimination of the automobile. From now on citizens will walk and Government officials will fly to where ever they need to go. The National Anthem, "Oh say can you see----" wording will be change to reflect the new vision for America, an unlimited vision at that.
U. S. auto makers answer to Obama's mandate for a car that gets 40 miles per gallon.
America as the Founding Fathers envision does not exist anymore. It's freedom and greatness has been buried in Socialism. The symbol of America searches again for the "Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free".
