Posted on 06/21/2012 6:43:08 PM PDT by neverdem
I’m thinking Obama will find his little Wag the Dog War somewhere in sub-saharan Africa... where Black Muslims are killing Black Christians. Bet you can’t guess which side we will be on?
I’ve been thinking that this region will host a war sooner rather than later ever since the Pentagon stood up a joint command for the area. Like what strategic purpose did that serve?
“I recently discovered that my great grandfather wasn’t the Austrian immigrant we believed him to be but a Polish Jew. My uncle is trying to find the best way to “break the news” to my liberal cousins.” LOL
BOL, genealogy can be very disturbing to the oral legends we are often reared on.
A couple of decades ago, my Dad died, and we realized that we knew nothing of his side of the family.
Fortunately, a cousin of his on his mother’s side with a memory like a healthy computer gave us a some data that started me looking. She let us know that my Dad’s dad was a no good Scottishs coundrel. She let me copy the key pages in her dad’s bible with a promise, I would trace the good side of my Dad’s Family. She died a few months later, and we lost her as a resource.
The search for my Dad’ father, actually got me into Genealogy, and I became a librarian at the local Mormon Temple, even though I was not a Mormon then or now.
My Dad’s mother’s genealogy was fascinating and well established to the Revolutionary War, into Devon England. I went decades without finding anything on my Dad’s father.
He appeared in a 1880 census and that was basically the paper documentation we could find. He and his immediate ancestors avoided censuses and other documentation. He didn’t show up again until the 1920 Federal Census.
That side of my family was Scottish as per my Dad and his cousin, and she basically sneered, when she told us that. Then she refused to tell us anymore. She did allow me to photo copy the front pages of her family bible. Which helped me to trace the English side back through our history, including a famous sea trip from England to New England. The ship was the MayFlower.
A few years ago, my wife read a book about Scottish Soldiers fighting in the War of 1812 in Canada on England’s side. She wondered if my ancestor might have been one of those Scots.
I asked a friend in Genealogy about those Scots if they migrated to America during or after the War of 1812. He had labeled some of these migrators as Moss Backs, who came over to the states after the War of 1812 or even before it was over to avoid going back to Scotland and being Royal Scot mercs.
He said many of them avoided censuses or any paper that might trace them back being Scot Mercs. He said that some became POWs and deserted the Royal Scots and surrendered to the Americans during the War of 1812.
Some became citizens, who just blended in without a lot of family history.
That enabled me to find my Dad’s father’s birthplace/date, which was 50 years after the War of 1812. He was possibly a grandson of a former Scottish Merc in the War of 1812.
One of my first cousins on my Mother’s side and I did a good Genealogy run on my Mother and her sister, his mother’ family.
Then, he decided to do one on his dad’s side and an elderly cousin on our side of the family tree warned him about uncovering horse thieves and worse. Apparently, a few of his ancestors on his Dad’s side were hung or shot as rustlers and/or horse thieves.
http://search.comcast.net/?cat=web&con=homepage&q=Royal+Scots+in+war+of+1812
Parson Weems appears to have waited until after George Washington's death before writing about the cherry tree. Similarly, John Smith never told the story about Pocahontas saving his life until after her death.
FYNWO.
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I was reading about what many of the signers went through. It wasn't pretty. They all put their lives on the line.
It doesn't seem like we have many politicians like that any more.
I think I’ve missed something... I thought Chavez and Obama were buds...why Venezuela in particular? Just curious. No other targets present themselves? (Not that I want any!)
The Masters of the Universe.
This is just a theory of my own head and nothing else. I thought Chavez, Obama and Iran's "ImANutJob" were all buds. But when there's an election to be won, you gotta do what you gotta do. The only connection I make is that Chavez and Iran are buddies. Sort of like Vietnam was to the Soviet Union. A proxy war with Iran. Political theater.
Like you, I do not want any of it either but we're talking about a power hungry man in the WH.
Thanks for the ping,neverdem, interesting read.
Re: 3. What do you mean “will”?
We heard nothing but racism 24/7 for the last four years.
Re: 3. What do you mean “will”?
We heard nothing but racism 24/7 for the last four years.
PFL
Thanks. I see the possible rationale now. Fervently praying for God’s mercy and mitigation of all dangerous circumstances!
Easier and cheaper - to just make it up. It is what they do.
Ancestery.com may have figured out, who best serves - and is served by- their service.
not gonna happen.
I’ve got a few hard core leftist friends that now can’t stand Obama and they really don’t care about Romney.
Therefore no get out the vote.
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