tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109498142024-03-14T04:24:21.833-04:00KerfufflesThe Best Named Blog On The WebEdna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.comBlogger662125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-60913841892720638612019-04-23T20:19:00.007-04:002020-07-09T09:43:18.343-04:00CONFEDERATE VETERANS ARE U.S. VETERANS!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;">For the record: Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines who fought in the American Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Sec 410, Approved 23 May, 1958. This made all Confederate Army/ Navy/ Marine </span><span style="color: #1c1e21;">Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans. Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 February 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War Dead grave sites. Just for the record the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. So, in essence, when a person, organization, or government agency removes a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, they are in fact, removing a statue, monument or headstone of a United States MILITARY VETERAN.</span></div>
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The fathers and grandfathers of Confederate soldiers had fought and died in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812, helping to preserve the United States of America. Since the end of the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederacy, descendants of Confederate soldiers have supported and volunteered to fight in all the wars of the United States since that time, many with great distinction and many more paid the ultimate price for their sacrifice to their country.</font></div>
<br />Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-73258395592642124722017-09-18T18:49:00.003-04:002017-09-18T18:54:36.450-04:00Confederate War Horse Memorials Dishonored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In the dead of an August night this past summer, Baltimore officials unceremoniously removed from Wyman Park, near Johns Hopkins University, a magnificent equestrian statue of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The monument was a gift from a local citizen and its 1948 installation had been delayed for twenty years due to the Great Depression and World War II. Maryland was a border state during the Civil War; Maryland was a slave state that did not secede from the Union. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">However ... there is an untold story here. That story is when the statue was ripped from its mountings, two magnificent war horses, Traveller and Little Sorrel, were also dumped as dishonored rubbish. Equestrian statues standing in American parks were meant to honor all war horses that served faithfully--and suffered mightily--during the American Civil War. Indeed, civilized people should remember these noble animals, especially as ignorant voices of today clamor to destroy them because they carry a warrior rider of the losing side. Once destroyed, these war horse monuments will be forever banished from our view, as never again will Americans ever erect equestrian statues.</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.civilwarprofiles.com/traveller-and-little-sorrel-the-war-horses-of-lee-and-jackson/" target="_blank">Traveller and Little Sorrel – The War-Horses of Generals Lee and Jackson</a></h3>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-82080930589546191382017-06-13T18:00:00.000-04:002017-06-13T18:00:52.983-04:00Status of MLK's Dream, 2017?<big><b>Senator Kamala Harris celebrated for being the First Woman, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Californias-next-A-G-citys-pride/article15719053.ece">First Non-White Woman</a>, First Hindu American, First Jamaican American, First Asian American, First Indian American, First African American, First Biracial Woman!</b></big>
<blockquote><big>"<i>I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.<b></b></i>" - Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.</big></blockquote>
Fast forward from 1963, to over half a century later, when we read the Wikipedia biography of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, female United States Senator from California, Kamala Harris:
<blockquote><big><i>"Harris was elected California's Attorney General in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris was the first woman, the first Jamaican American, the first Asian American, the first Indian American, and the first African American attorney general in California.<br /><br />
On November 8, 2016, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 U.S. Senate election ... becoming the first Indian American, and one of the first biracial women (alongside Tammy Duckworth and Catherine Cortez Masto) elected to serve in the United States Senate."</i></big></blockquote>
A multitude of "biracial" persons have been born on American soil since the 1615 birth of Thomas Rolfe, son of American Indian Princess Pocahontas and her English husband John Rolfe. The "biracial" Thomas Rolfe became an officer of the Colony of Virginia in the early 1600s, causing one to ponder, over 400 years later, why being born "biracial" is heralded and celebrated amongst elected candidates to public office in a Democratic Republic in the year 2017. We still await the Dream of Martin Luther King Jr. to come to fruition in America where someday, sometime, people will be judged by the "<i>content of their character</i>" rather than the color of their skin.
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"Indeed I have and let me tell you I've made so many Monkeys Dance. I'm the greatest Monkey Dancer ever known."</div>
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"In fact, I've got politicians in Washington who are my own Dancing Monkeys. And you know what? When I become President, I am going to throw out all the other Monkeys, the dumbest Monkeys, the low-energy Monkeys, the lying Monkeys, the bad and terrible ones, the ugly, the chokers, the Little Monkeys, the Big-eared Monkeys. The only Monkeys left in<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> Washington DC will be Trump's Dancing Monkeys."</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">"And you know what else? Mexico is gonna PAY for all my Dancing Monkeys. Mexico will PAY to capture them, to train them, to feed them, to clothe them, to house them. And it will be a beautiful thing - the Dancing Monkeys. The people will say 'OMG this Trump man is making Dancing Monkeys Great Again, and Mexico is footing the bill.'"</span></div>
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<pre style="background-color: #fff0cc; color: #330000;"><i>"Not everything you see is what it appears to be."</i></pre>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-74836588043748258132016-02-29T09:28:00.001-05:002016-02-29T09:28:21.702-05:00Make Donald Drumph Again by John Oliver<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is unbelievable insight into the man Donald Trump by a comedian John Oliver. Did you know that $3 Billion of Trump's net worth comes from his name "Trump?" That is the valuation that Trump has put upon his trademark name. When he says he is "self-funding" his campaign, what he means is that he is making a loan to his campaign, which he expects to collect later.</span></span><br />
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<strong>Discrimination Bordering Upon Bigotry! Only ‘natural born’ Citizens Need Apply!</strong></div>
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<strong>It is right there in the United States Constitution</strong> in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, which states: “<em>No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.</em>”</div>
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Discrimination upon the basis of national origin, discrimination upon the basis of age, and discrimination upon the basis of residency status! How about that?</div>
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In this past presidential election we had two candidates running for the office described above who admittedly were born on foreign soil, one in Panama and one in Nicaragua. The candidate who won, Barack Obama, describes himself as born in the state of Hawaii, however he has released no proof of his birthplace other than a generated Certificate of Live Birth, and there are reports that his own family members, and Kenyan government officials are conflicted over where exactly he was born.</div>
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Some Constitutional scholars spout off the legal definition of “natural born citizen” is one who was born within the jurisdiction of a national government, i.e. in its territorial limits, or born of citizens temporarily residing abroad. However, I found NO legal definition of “<em>natural born citizen</em>.” The phrase is not defined anywhere in the Constitution. In 1790, the Congress, attempted to make clarification with the Naturalization Act of 1790 that stated “<em>And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.”</em>Seemingly this definition would have covered John McCain as a “<em>natural born citizen</em>,” except that in 1795, the Congress made another clarification, the Naturalization Act of 1795, which removed the words “<em>natural born</em>” and stated that children born to citizens beyond the seas are citizens of the U.S., but are not legally considered “<em>natural born citizens</em>” of the U.S. This confusion over the meaning of the Constitution’s “<em>natural born citizen</em>” is why the United States Congress passed a bill endowing Senator John McCain with “<em>natural born citizen</em>” status, so that, if elected President, he would be legal under the Constitution.</div>
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This murkiness over the Constitutional definition of “<em>natural born citizen</em>” has caused considerable scenarios to be proffered as to why Barack Obama is not Constitutionally qualified to be President, even if born in Hawaii. Some of them even have to do with the young age of his mother at his birth, who would not have had enough years of standing as a United States citizen to automatically confer American citizenship upon him, if he had been born in Kenya. It sounds far-fetched to you and me, but someone, somewhere has found some quirk in the law that seems to state that.</div>
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Other deniers claim that because Barack Obama was born a British citizen, as a son of a British father, regardless of where Obama himself was born, he cannot be considered a “<em>natural born citizen</em>.” That came as a shocker to me, as I had always considered myself a “<em>natural born citizen</em>,” even though I was born in Maryland of a British father. But, apparently, I am not only NOT a “<em>natural born citizen</em>,” according to some, I am not even a citizen of the USA, an interesting fact to discover at my age. At least I am in good company. It’s me, President-elect Barack Obama, and President Chester A. Arthur. It must be true as I read it at a <a href="http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/urgent-historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">BLOG</a>.</div>
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If the Constitution were truly the Law of the Land, certainly a definition of “natural born citizen” would have been offered by the Supreme Court or the Congress by now. Or there would have been a law passed by the Congress that no candidates could run for president unless first vetted for eligibility according to Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. Of course, any American with a brain knows that we no longer live under rule of the Constitution, hence all of this kerfuffle over where Barack Obama was “really” born matters not one wit. He will be inaugurated President of the United States and will remain so, regardless of where in the world he was born.</div>
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Here is a long, involved treatise written by Constitutional scholar <a href="http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/01/legislation-introduced-to-remove-mccains-panama-problem-in-seeking-presidency/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Turley</a> to try and convince us that, oh yes, we are a nation of Constitutional laws, and as such it would have been “Unconstitutional” for John McCain to serve as United States President as he is NOT a “natural born citizen.” Turley describes how he and his cohorts, while wrapped in the mantle of the U.S. Constitution, were all ready and willing to go to court to stop McCain’s “Unconstitutional” inauguration. Of course, the election happened a bit differently, and <a href="http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/04/eligibility-questions-can-clinton-serve-obama-and-can-obama-serve-the-country/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Turley’s erudite but laughable opinion</a> on “natural born citizen” suddenly turns 180 degrees as applied to Turley’s favored candidate, Barack Obama.</div>
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If we were truly living under the Constitution, Hillary Clinton would be unqualified to be appointed from the United States Senate to Secretary of State. Yet, no one, not Barack Obama, nor the American media, is offering any explanation of how her appointment can be Constitutional. Other American Presidents who disregarded the “Emoluments Clause” of the Constitution were Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, who both got away with it, as will Barack Obama. President George W. Bush who wanted to nominate Senator Orin Hatch for the Supreme Court was told that would be Unconstitutional and he accepted that ruling and did not nominate Hatch. All of the above support my view that the United States Constitution is just a quaint and moldering document under glass at the National Archives, existing only to hammer heads, when needed, of those with unpopular ideas. It is now generally disregarded as little more than a venerated historic document.</div>
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According to what I have read of the birth certificate conspiracy, I believe Barack Obama was born in the United States. Deniers - think about this. Is it possible that Barack Obama, himself, created this smokescreen over his birth certificate to drive you to distraction as a way to divert attention from the more serious and controversial plans he has for his new nation?</div>
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UPDATE: <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/08/supreme-court-turns-down-obama-citizenship-appeal/" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">The Supremes Sock it to the Deniers</a>, according to Michelle Malkin.</div>
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T<b>he Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Must Go Now!</b><br />
As soon as the Black Lives Matter movement succeeds in removing all memorials to President Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University in New Jersey, we expect the anarchists will head South to the greatest memorial of all to their despised Democrat President - The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge.<br />
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Here the protestors can spread themselves from the Maryland Shore, crossing a bit of Washington DC, to the bustling metropolis of Virginia's northern counties. Their disruptive presence will be duly noticed by the 250,000 daily crossing motorists for however many days they can endure the elements of life above the Potomac River.<br />
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The Wilson Bridge is the only bridge in the United States crossing the borders of three jurisdictions, i.e. Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia.
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<a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/wwrambler.cfm" target="_blank">Why is the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Named after Woodrow Wilson?</a></h4>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0Virginia, USA38.77988602017183 -77.00501838125001137.196184520171826 -79.586805381250016 40.363587520171833 -74.42323138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-6751338420396556492015-07-13T08:18:00.000-04:002015-07-13T09:19:06.359-04:00Descendants of President Jefferson DavisIt is quite easy to know if you are a descendant of Jefferson Davis, as there are few of them; his descendants are rare. If you are an adult in 2015, you must have one parent or grandparent with the surname WEBB, YOUNG, HAYES, or HAYES-DAVIS, born in Colorado, as all of Jefferson Davis' grandchildren or great grandchildren were born, raised and died in Colorado. No descendants have been found in South Carolina in the 1970s as SC Representative Jenny Horne has claimed.<br />
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Bertram Hayes-Davis had at least one qualification others lacked: his hyphenated surname, created by an act of the Mississippi Legislature on Feb 21, 1890, to preserve the name of the president of the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Confederate+States+of+America" style="color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" title="More news, photos about Confederacy">Confederacy</a>. Jefferson Davis had six children, but only his daughter Margaret married (to a man named Hayes) and had children.</div>
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In his ancestor, Hayes-Davis found his calling: to show that Davis' life was about more than slavery. Because Davis led the Confederacy, he says, "everything else about him was obliterated" — West Point graduate, successful planter, member of the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/U.S.+House" style="color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" title="More news, photos about U.S. House">U.S. House</a>and Senate, wounded Mexican War veteran, early advocate of the transcontinental railroad and secretary of War (1853-1857). </div>
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Hayes-Davis says it's not just Davis who is misunderstood; Confederates in general are tarred by slavery. "What about everything else they did?" he asks. "We want to tell the world we still have that integrity and those values today."</div>
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Those values include states' rights. Hayes-Davis is a member of the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Sons+of+Confederate+Veterans" style="color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" title="More news, photos about Sons of Confederate Veterans">Sons of Confederate Veterans</a>, which calls the South's secession in 1860-61 "the Second <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/American+Revolution" style="color: #00529b; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" title="More news, photos about American Revolution">American Revolution</a>," motivated not by slavery but "the preservation of liberty and freedom."</div>
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Over the past three decades, Hayes-Davis has made more than 1,000 speeches and appearances, many at the kind of functions where <i>Dixie</i> is sung, the Confederate flag is flown and the Confederate "Lost Cause" is mourned.</div>
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He says that if Americans knew Davis better, they'd respect him more: "Ignorance is our barrier. It's what we get up for every day. This is something I believe in."</div>
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When he sought support for observations of Davis' 200th birthday in 2008, he was rebuffed by dozens of museums and organizations. Even Mississippi, where Davis lived, declined to establish a bicentennial commission. </div>
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Hayes-Davis, who lives in Dallas, has a son and a daughter. He hopes the family name will continue, because even though Davis has hundreds of great-great-great-grandchildren, "it means more when one of the descendants has the name."</div>
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<a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-04-07-civil-war-anniversary-ancestors_N.htm" target="_blank">The above comes from "USA TODAY" 5/9/2011</a><br />
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-88661210967201476602015-07-11T14:52:00.002-04:002015-07-14T14:32:54.059-04:00Stolen Confederate Heritage<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">Representative Jenny Horne was frustrated in the debate over removal of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina. Descendants of Confederate soldiers were claiming the flag as their heritage. Horne had heard enough about <i>"Southern Heritage"</i> and she approached the lectern to lecture them about her far more impressive heritage - direct descent from the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. As the modern-day emissary of her self-appropriated ancestor, she demanded removal of his <i>"SYMBOL of HATE off these grounds."</i> Although Southerners are usually reticent about bragging on their famous forebears, Jenny Horne was unabashed.</span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">“I have heard enough about heritage. I have a heritage. I am a lifelong South Carolinian. I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis, okay?"</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">Yes, it is okay, if it is true. Those who have "heritage" in their family's Confederate service, not only know the names of their ancestors, but the battles they fought, the units they served under, the battle flags they carried, and their lineage from father to son down to present day. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">Horne told "The Post and Courier" that she is a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis — a claim she said she never researched but was told to her by her grandfather, who was proud of the fact. Regardless, there is nothing that supports her enrobing herself with the respected mantle of a well documented historic American family. Jefferson Davis left few descendants, therefore Representative Horne would have found the genealogical research quite simple, for all four of Davis's grandchildren came of age during the twentieth century. In </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">addition, there is a Davis Family Organization that keeps tract of its descendants.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">High birth is disparaged by those who lack it. Those who are boastful of high birth have little else to their credit. </span></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">--Old Virginia Saying</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">Heritage in the South is not based upon the rank of one's ancestor in history, it is based upon his honor, duty and service. Jefferson Davis, who was destined to become America's most maligned leader, was in fact a man of great integrity, honor and principle, an American Patriot. It is disrespectful to Jefferson Davis and his true descendants for him to be made into a fake ancestor by those seeking aggrandizement of themselves and furtherance of their political goals. Before serving as President of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, Jefferson Davis proved his great dedication to the nation of his birth.</span><br />
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<li>1824 - 1828 West Point</li>
<li>1828 - 1835 US Army</li>
<li>1845 - 1847 US Congress</li>
<li>1847 - 1848 Mexican War</li>
<li>1848 - 1853 US Senate</li>
<li>1853 - 1857 US Secretary of War</li>
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<i style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;"><b><a href="http://kerfuffles.blogspot.com/2015/07/jefferson-davis-descendants.html">Jefferson Davis Descendants</a></b></i></span></span>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-61026957264682122872015-07-11T08:09:00.000-04:002015-07-13T00:12:03.811-04:00Jefferson Davis Descendants<span style="font-size: large;">It is rare to encounter a descendant of Jefferson Davis, as he left only four grandchildren, born in the late 1800s. If your parent or grandparent is not on the chart below, you are <u>NOT</u> a descendant of President Jefferson DAVIS, Confederate States of America! It is that simple, as he left few descendants.</span><br />
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All of Jefferson Davis's grandchildren were raised and married in Colorado Springs, Colorado and died less than one hundred years ago, in the twentieth century. If you are an adult descendant of Jefferson Davis, it is quite easy to trace your lineage back to one of his four grandchildren, or his twelve great grandchildren, as that person would be your parent or grandparent.<br />
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8361669" target="_blank"><b>Joel Addison HAYES Memorial at Find A Grave</b></a> covers Margaret, the daughter of Jefferson Davis, her husband, children and grandchildren and there is not one with a South Carolina connection. In fact ALL their children and grandchildren were born and died in Colorado, except one who died in California. How Representative Jenny Horne can trace her South Carolinian roots to these Coloradans is quite a mystery.<br />
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-17787308877234665862015-07-10T17:26:00.000-04:002015-07-11T18:03:05.330-04:00Is Jenny Horne a Descendant of Jeff Davis?<h3>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">As other South Carolina legislators recounted their heritage of the Confederate flag that their ancestors had carried into battle, Representative Jenny Horne who wanted the flag removed from courthouse grounds, trumped them all with her statement of direct ancestral descent from the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis.</span></div>
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<i style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">“I’m sorry. I have heard enough about heritage,” Horne said during the debate. “I have a heritage. I am a lifelong South Carolinian. I am a descendant of Jefferson Davis, okay? But that does not matter. It’s not about Jenny Horne. It’s about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the statehouse grounds.”</i></blockquote>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">Although Southerners are usually reticent about bragging on their famous forebears, Representative Horne's statement won the day. But was it true? I have a hunch that South Carolina Representative Jenny Horne is no more a descendant of Jefferson Davis than Senator Elizabeth Warren is of the Cherokee Nation. My hunches are various.</span>
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">I will begin with the fact that to be a descendant of Jefferson Davis one has to trace lineage back to one of four grandchildren of Jefferson Davis who were born 1879 - 1889, and raised and married in Colorado Springs, Colorado.</span><br />
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The above chart is from <a href="http://dgmweb.net/JeffDavisHome.html" target="_blank">Genealogy of Jefferson Davis, President CSA</a><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">President Jefferson Davis had six children, but only one child, a daughter, Margaret who married a man named Hayes had children, four of whom reached adulthood and they all married in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1890, the Mississippi Legislature allowed her children to preserve the name of her father, the president of the Confederacy, by using the hyphenation of Hayes-Davis.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">South Carolina Representative Jenny Horne's maiden name is Jenny A. Anderson, born in South Carolina 1972, to Danny and Cindy Anderson, indeed, a "life-long South Carolinian" as she described herself. The Jefferson Davis family was from Mississippi where they lived and where their older children were born.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">Wikipedia:"<i>Margaret Howell was born February 25, 1855, and was the only child to marry and raise a family. She married Joel Addison Hayes, Jr. (1848–1919), and they had five children. They were married in St. Lazarus Church, nicknamed "The Confederate Officers' Church", in Memphis, Tennessee. In the late 19th century, they moved from Memphis to Colorado Springs, Colorado. She died on July 18, 1909, at the age of 54.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">Margaret and Joel Hayes had five children, with four living to adulthood. The four Hayes-Davis children were born 1879 - 1889, and raised and settled in Colorado. All four of Jefferson Davis's grandchildren married in Colorado Springs, Colorado between 1904-1913. So far I have found no connection of their descendants to the Anderson family of South Carolina.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">This is the most detailed pedigree chart of Jefferson Davis's daughter Margaret (Davis) Hayes available, and I found no indication of any of her descendants who lived in South Carolina, where Representative Jenny Horne was born and raised. Perhaps Representative Horne can elucidate to help us understand her connection. Which one of Margaret's four children were the great grandparent of Representative Jenny Horne. Was it Varina, Lucy, Jefferson or William Hayes-Davis?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;">Only those who descend from Varina, Lucy, Jefferson or William Hayes-Davis can claim descent from President Jefferson Davis. It is that easy. Census records are readily available to prove lineage, and if Representative Jenny Horne can tell me how she connects I will verify and report it here.</span><br /><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; line-height: 32.400001525878906px;"><a href="http://kerfuffles.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-jenny-horne-descendant-of-jeff-davis.html" target="_blank"><b>Is Jenny Horne a Descendant of President Jefferson Davis?</b></a></span><br /><br />
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<b>Joel Addison HAYES, Jr. & Margaret Howell DAVIS GENEALOGY</b></a></span><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/Genealogy.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Rice University Genealogy of Jefferson Davis</b></a></span></span>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-54312211828538105992015-07-02T14:20:00.001-04:002015-07-02T14:29:43.771-04:00Democrats' Horrible Racist Past<div>Democrats want to pin the Confederate Flag, KKK, Great Depression, urban decay, and harsh marriage laws on the GOP. Here are the historical truths, which you can prove yourself at Google.</div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5wz_0utCrm0" width="480"></iframe>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-20331080261949935602015-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:002015-06-28T15:27:17.671-04:00Let a Thousand Rainbows Bloom<b>#LoveWins Rainbows and turns its back on Evil.</b>
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<div>On Friday, in Sousse, Tunisia, more than fifty European sunbathers were gunned down by an Islamist; in France an American factory was bombed with a worker’s head mounted on a pike; in Kuwait, a suicide bomber left 27 worshippers murdered in a Shiite mosque. But in America, there was no mourning those victims, only celebration for a newly found Constitutional human right - Dignity. Inside offices, schools, churches, synagogues, homes, Americans were tacking up Rainbows. Facebook, Twitter were awash with Rainbows. By Friday night, the White House was aglow in LGBT Rainbow colors. Justice Scalia's photograph was morphed into the Devil because it is so much easier to pretend, and to photoshop Rainbows than to stand face to face with real evil.</div>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-34178922014831835762015-06-27T10:54:00.000-04:002015-06-27T11:15:15.224-04:00Get Government Out of Our Bedrooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TFz3bhKWZAAODa05QcBg_Ya7StqJIIZD61B5muV1PBe1OV8v9bZTyjLqCTJrxfLO75-ELzJt-4EgjPFgHANFgn9GrfTjh0NkoldzoM6g7dp590nNNLBKDgCgy7Nc_mZzNTnhmA/s1600/CIgRS2WUEAAuD23.png-large.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TFz3bhKWZAAODa05QcBg_Ya7StqJIIZD61B5muV1PBe1OV8v9bZTyjLqCTJrxfLO75-ELzJt-4EgjPFgHANFgn9GrfTjh0NkoldzoM6g7dp590nNNLBKDgCgy7Nc_mZzNTnhmA/s320/CIgRS2WUEAAuD23.png-large.png" /></a><br>President Barack Obama Tweeted his Same Sex Marriage Victory as #LoveWins,<br /> with the People's House bathed in Gay Pride Colors, 26 June 2015.</div><br />
<div>There is a way around this overbearing legislating of the Supreme Court Nine. Individual States should get out of the marriage business. <i>"Get the government out of our bedrooms"</i> as some used to rail. Lawyers can draw up marital contracts; DNA tests can prove paternity; women of today have jobs and can support themselves; and when all that fails there is government largess (the Welfare State) for all. For those who believe in the sanctity of marriage and marriage as a religious sacrament, there is their church that can marry them according to that church's rites.
Elizabeth Scalia wrote it this way: <blockquote>“. . . the churches should reconsider their roles in authenticating marriage. Governments issue birth certificates; churches issue baptismal certificates. Governments issue death certificates; churches pray the funerals. Governments issue divorces; Churches annul. Both work within their separate and necessary spheres, serving the corporeal and the spiritual. It is only in the issue of marriage that church and state have commingled authority. That should perhaps change, and soon. Let the government certify and the churches sanctify according to their rites and sacraments.”</blockquote></div>
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What does "social justice" actually mean? Jonah Goldberg of the American Enterprise Institute pins this catchall phrase to the wall. In doing so, he exposes the not-so-hidden agenda of those who use it.</div>
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<b>BARACK OBAMA on his Christian Faith, Easter Prayer Breakfast 2015</b>: "<i>On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am supposed to love. And I have to say that sometimes, when I listen to less than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.</i>"<br />
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<b>MARK STEYN: </b><i>Well, if I'd been at that prayer breakfast, I would have shouted out "shame." And I think it's a pretty poor reflection even on presumably loyal liberal Democrats in that audience that no one objected to it because it is time for people to object to it. This is part of a conscious strategy. Just before he stood up and made that condescending remark -- and by the way, he's no more an expert on Christianity than he is on Islam. ... 148 young students in Kenya have just been killed, slaughtered, their bodies on the floor, by Muslim fanatics who asked the students in that university, Are you Christian or are you Muslim? And they let the Muslims go and they slaughtered the Christians. Now, this is a guy who's happy to draw general lessons when a black youth gets killed in Ferguson, Missouri. That apparently has wide application for black people all over America. But 148 black corpses has no general application!
Well, Mr. President, #blacklivesmatter when they're Christian, too. And the biggest story of our time is the extinction of some of the oldest Christian communities on the planet at the hands of Islam remorselessly. You dishonor those Kenyan students in death by not identifying them as Christians, as you dishonored the Egyptians only a couple of weeks earlier.</i><br />
- See more at: <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/04/09/mark-steyn-slams-obama-dishonoring-dead-christians-media-still">NewsBusters</a>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-4122346617535097052015-03-31T09:52:00.000-04:002015-03-31T09:55:44.121-04:00Religious Freedom in America?You will not merely accept that Same Sex Marriage is the Law of the Land, but you WILL celebrate Same Sex Marriage in your business, in your church, in your schools, and in your home!<br />
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You can tell by the uproar over the recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana that the Homosexual Rights Lobby is not at all about Homosexual Rights. They now have more Homosexual Rights than they know what to do with. What the Gay Mob is about is the destruction of the Christian Church in America. Christians are no longer permitted to tolerate, live and let live, or look the other way, but as said in the <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/02/24/you-cant-buy-my-freedom-florist-barronelle-stutzman-legal-battle-refusing-service-gay">Florist's case</a>: <i>"the government will bring about your personal and professional ruin if you don't help CELEBRATE same-sex marriages."</i> It is about removing protection for Freedom of Conscience from the US Constitution. The Gay Mob is about amending the First Amendment by eliminating: <i>"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."</i><br />
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-11629335884461002282015-03-09T13:31:00.001-04:002015-03-09T13:33:37.861-04:00Obama's Foreign PolicyThis is not a game. This is Barack Obama's foreign policy.
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-45849088609695194962014-12-27T09:24:00.001-05:002014-12-27T09:25:15.721-05:00Obama MessiahJust Wondering -- do the worshippers of the Obama Messiah feel betrayed when they see their Messiah embrace Satan? Apparently not, as Barack Obama's support never falls below the 35% of misguided Americans who follow his Religion, who see the Reverend Al Sharpton as standing at the right hand of their Messiah.<br />
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-91714704658888372912014-11-24T08:57:00.000-05:002014-11-24T09:00:03.775-05:00Obama's Sunni America<div style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21.1200008392334px;">
Those Americans who read Senator Barack Obama's TWO autobiographies published before his run for President could have accurately predicted Obama's foreign policy. However, after his election, any of us who dared to quote from Obama's writings were silenced with charges of Racism from Obama worshippers and Democrats. Now with Obama's six successful years of transforming America behind us, we are ridiculed for having been so gullible.</div>
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As a child, Barack Obama was adopted by his mother's second husband, Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetero. When the family lived in Indonesia, Obama went by the name of Barry Soetero, where on his school registration form his religion was recorded as Muslim. There is nothing he has done that could convince one that he is not a Muslim. It is permitted for Muslims to lie to infidels and sitting in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years could be just another as a form of lying. Or it could be that Reverend Wright himself was acceptable to Sunni Muslims, as he himself had been indoctrinated into the Black Muslim faith before opening his so-called Christian church.</div>
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Barack Hussein is a Sunni Muslim. Saudi Arabia is the preeminent Sunni Muslim nation and that is the reason our brand new American President showed his fealty to Saudi Arabia's king by bowing to him. Saudi Arabia supports the Muslim Brotherhood as does President Barack Obama. Ignoring the Egyptians who were clamoring for freedom, the US helped depose our ally Mubarak so that the Muslim Brotherhood could take over the governance of Egypt. Saudi Arabia supported the rebels in Libya, so Obama's America went to war against Khadaffi. Saudi Arabia supports the rebels in Syria so the Obama Administration has been transferring weapons from Libya to those rebels. America's transferring M-1 tanks and helicopter gunships to Egypt is not about America's need for oil, it is about what any good Sunni nation would do.</div>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-89796819373248918872014-11-03T08:31:00.000-05:002014-11-24T08:19:04.974-05:00Obamaism, a Quasi-socialist Colossal Failure<div class="tr_bq">
<b>Obama is a failure! But for all his narcissism, he didn’t make this mess alone.</b></div>
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<b>He was aided and abetted by every Democrat in Congress. And every Democrat voter from 2008 and 2012!</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #2e2e2f; font-family: pt-serif, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"They marched in lockstep with his cockamamie policies, from ObamaCare to open borders. They protected corrupt leaders in numerous federal agencies, from the IRS to the General Services Administration. They stymied efforts to find the truth about Benghazi and the Fast and Furious gunrunning debacle.</span> </blockquote>
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"With painfully few exceptions, Democrats put their loyalty to him above their duty to America. And now they must be punished. All of them.<a class="modal-trigger" data-modal-type="image" href="https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/obama.jpg" style="background-image: url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/nypost/static/images/sprites/nypost-mobile-sb5eb5d7d91.png); background-position: 0px -1557px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #345cc6; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 32px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9999px; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 32px; z-index: 1;">Modal Trigger</a>"Normally, I am not a partisan advocate. I am a registered Democrat, though I vote as an independent. Not this year. This is a national emergency and the only responsible action is to vote Republican for every federal office. </blockquote>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-6608238327139250782014-10-09T09:31:00.002-04:002014-10-09T09:31:22.651-04:00Virginians Lose Health Care Insurance<b>Virginians - Senator Mark Warner wants you to re-elect him because he supports your President Barack Obama only 97% of the time:</b> "<i>If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.</i>" "<i>If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "First and foremost, I want the American people to know ... the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low."</i> "<i>ISIS is the JV team</i>"
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In you like Barack Obama policies, vote for Mark Warner to continue them as he is an Obama Clone. Here is Senator Mark Warner’s annual percentage and his ranking in presidential support among all the Democrat senators:
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<li>97 percent in 2010, 30th out of 58</li>
<li>99 percent in 2011, tied for 1st out of 53</li>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-73838603461302825912014-09-13T19:49:00.001-04:002014-09-13T19:58:35.021-04:00The Clinton Legacy<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Arial, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<strong>Waco, The 2002 World Trade Center Attack, Oklahoma City Bombing, The Khobar Towers Bombing, Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Al Queda Attack on USS Cole.</strong></div>
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Louis Freeh never forgot about the Khobar Towers bombing and the more than 400 casualities among United States airmen. He wrote about it in the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060319004919/http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003518" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">Wall Street Journal</a>:</div>
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On June 25, 1996, Iran again attacked America at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, exploding a huge truck bomb that devastated Khobar Towers and murdered 19 U.S. airmen as they rested in their dormitory. These young heroes spent every day risking their lives enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; that is, protecting Iraqi Shiites from their own murderous tyrant. When I visited this horrific scene soon after the attack, I watched dozens of dedicated FBI agents combing through the wreckage in 120-degree heat, reverently handling the human remains of our brave young men. More than 400 of our Air Force men and women were wounded in this well-planned attack,</div>
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<strong>Mr. Freeh has written a book revealing that the American president at the time of the bombings, Bill Clinton, gave the Saudis a pass in exchange for a donation to his Presidential Library.</strong> One can only wonder what other favors Clinton was able to extract from our enemies for his forebearance towards them. Time will tell all and that will be Clinton’s legacy.</div>
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On June 25, 1996, Iran again attacked America at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, exploding a huge truck bomb that devastated Khobar Towers and murdered 19 U.S. airmen as they rested in their dormitory. These young heroes spent every day risking their lives enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; that is, protecting Iraqi Shiites from their own murderous tyrant. When I visited this horrific scene soon after the attack, I watched dozens of dedicated FBI agents combing through the wreckage in 120-degree heat, reverently handling the human remains of our brave young men. More than 400 of our Air Force men and women were wounded in this well-planned attack,</div>
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Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, “<em>Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.</em>” Says Freeh, “<em>That’s a fact that I am reporting.</em>” (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060319004919/http://drudgereport.com/flash2cbs.htm" style="color: #8a3207; text-decoration: none;">The Drudge Report</a>)</div>
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<strong>The Clinton Legacy:</strong></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/wp-inst/wp-content/sitetemplates/GreenTrack/img/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-left: 1.5em;">February 26th 1993 - Terrorism first came to America with the first bombing of the World Trade Center. Clinton treated it as a “<em>criminal act</em>” instead of an act of war.</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/wp-inst/wp-content/sitetemplates/GreenTrack/img/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-left: 1.5em;">17 April 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing which seems to have had a middle-eastern terrorist connection, which the government did not pursure, but prosecuted and put to death Timothy McVeigh.</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/wp-inst/wp-content/sitetemplates/GreenTrack/img/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-left: 1.5em;">The next year saw the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia where 19 American’s were killed.</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/wp-inst/wp-content/sitetemplates/GreenTrack/img/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-left: 1.5em;">In 1998, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by terrorists.</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/wp-inst/wp-content/sitetemplates/GreenTrack/img/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-left: 1.5em;">In October 2000, Al Qaeda struck again, attacking an American warship, the USS Cole, while docked in Yemen. Fifteen American sailors were killed in a Yemen port and the ship seriously damaged. The Clinton government did not consider it an act of war and did nothing in response. Two months later, in December of 2000, the Central Intelligence Agency was within 24 hours of apprehending Bin Laden. Clinton pulled them off the trail when the American Ambassador to Yemen complained that the investigation was causing trouble for US/Yemen relations. The CIA was pulled out of Yemen, and Osama Bin Laden got away.</li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Georgia, Arial, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">This post was originally published by Kerfuffles Blog on December 21, 2005. </span></span></div>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949814.post-86383285423963002672014-09-13T19:41:00.001-04:002014-09-13T20:42:50.075-04:00Remember the USS Cole?<strong style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em;">Remember the USS Cole? No? Well, you are not alone. The bombing of the USS Cole was a part of <a href="http://kerfuffles.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-clinton-legacy.html" target="_blank">“The Clinton Legacy.”</a></strong><br />
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<strong>The Clinton Legacy included the killings of dozens of American children by their government at Waco, the 2002 World Trade Center Attack, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Khobar Towers Bombing, the Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and Al Qaeda Attacks on the American warship USS Cole.</strong></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">February 26th 1993 – Terrorism first came to America with the first bombing of the World Trade Center. President Clinton treated it as a </span><em style="line-height: 1.4em;">criminal act</em><span style="line-height: 1.4em;"> instead of an act of war.</span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">17 April 1995 – The Oklahoma City bombing seemed to have had a middle-eastern terrorist connection, which the government did not pursue. Instead, they arrested, prosecuted and promptly executed Timothy McVeigh.</span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">The next year saw the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia where 19 innocent Americans were murdered.</span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">In 1998, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by terrorists.</span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">In October 2000, Al Qaeda struck America again, attacking an American warship, the USS Cole, while docked in Yemen. Fifteen American sailors were killed in a Yemen port and the ship seriously damaged. The Clinton government did not consider it an act of war and did nothing in response. Two months later, in December of 2000, the Central Intelligence Agency was within 24 hours of apprehending Bin Laden. Clinton pulled them off the trail when the American Ambassador to Yemen complained that the investigation was causing trouble for US/Yemen relations. The CIA was pulled out of Yemen, and Osama Bin Laden got away.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Remember the USS Cole" was originally published by Kerfuffles Blog on February 6, 2009.</span></div>
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