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Posted on 03/09/2002 6:16:02 PM PST by corsair
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Martinez -- Don't let her lilting voice and prim, schoolmarmish demeanor fool you. You mess with Betty Maffei, you dis her volunteer staff at Contra Costa Historical Society, you have the temerity to cast aspersions on their filing acumen, and you're in for a world of hurt, my friend.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Not to mention a group of fast-talking G-D liars capable of talking obscurely out of both sides of their mouths at once and lying out of both sides simultaneously.
Why are these people teaching our children?
Why aren't the living in the gutter, shunned by decent society?
Come to think of it, why aren't they dangling from a rope?
'rude' isn't the word I would use, but works
Leave it to the SF Chronicle to take a nasty shot at all those brave academics who stood up for the truth and wouldn't let Bellisles get away with his treachery. Jealous of Bellisles? Some of them are more accomplished than he is.
My husband said:"JUST WHERE did that jerk Bellasiles think all the guns the MILITIA used at Lexington and Concord came from??? Out of the clouds???"
Somebody on FR wrote a very funny parody a while back on much the same point. He told of how early Americans, since they had no guns, must have "coaxed game in the woods into pots of boiling water above the hearth by promising it a nice, soothing, warm bath."
__Original Message___________________________
Thursday, March 7, 2002
The beginning of the end of the left
By Craige McMillan
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
The recent high-profile unraveling of leftist icons, including historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for plagiarism in parlaying the past, Professor Michael Bellesiles for concocting fantasy firearms statistics about yesterday's America in an attempt to disarm today's nation, even as far back as Alfred Kinsey, the would-be sexologist who cooked the books on America's sex habits way back in 1948, is just the tip of the iceberg.
When we look at these events in isolation, we miss the key message: all are elements of the same frayed tenets of leftist philosophy, now accelerating in a tailspin from which there is no recovery.
How could it be otherwise?
The left has built their intellectual, philosophical and political foundation on fantasy and fluff. They have taken the blessings of God given to a nation that unabashedly proclaimed His message to the world, and subverted those foundations and appropriated those blessings of peace and material prosperity to sustain the lifelong leftist campaign of lies and deceit.
To see Goodwin, Bellesiles and Kinsey in less than the full context of their unraveling is to miss history changing the world before our very eyes! The left's intellectual facade is now in level-three collapse: The end of their great social building program is upon us.
During stage one, the leftists overran college campuses, destroyed academic standards they couldn't meet and, as graduate students -- then full professors -- began producing the elementary and secondary school teachers who would spread their fluff-based curriculum through two generations. Their mantra when faced with conservative challenges to their agenda? "There is no scientific evidence to support your demands." As colleges and universities bulged at their tax-supported seams with career leftists, "no evidence" seemed like a permanent delaying tactic.
But a funny thing happened as the leftists erected their facade over schools and colleges across the nation: Rebels within academia found their own funding sources for research -- and cracks began to appear in the newly erected facade. The mantra was revised. Evidence unsupportive of the leftist agenda was now "tainted." The left became increasingly vicious -- "Borking" was born, a warning to good men and women to stay out of the public arena if they valued their reputations. But the timbers holding up the left's facade continued to rot, more from the left's corrosive venom then anything else.
Goodwin, Bellesiles and Kinsey are evidence that we have entered phase three -- the facade has begun to fall backwards upon those who have erected it, crashing down upon the heads of those who struggle with all their might to hold it in place. The cries of "no credible evidence" have been silenced. The left is into damage control: manufactured evidence, the twisted, tortured theft of colleagues' thoughts and written words. The left has nothing of value to say.
The left's religion was godless communism; their heaven was the collectivist state, and their hell the state's enforced drudgery as the working class toiled to support the politically anointed in government and academia who knew what was best for everyone else -- but who couldn't seem to put their own lives in order. With their faith dead, leftists have nothing to sustain them but the raw power of the institutions they've seized. Now their hatred and venom is destroying even these.
We should not be surprised. Jesus described their fate long ago, in one of his famous parables:
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete. (Luke 6:46-49)
As of Tuesday, we could also ask Gary Condit, the seven-term congressman of Chandra Levy fame who lost in a landslide to challenger Dennis Cardoza in California. Richard Riordan, would-be Republican governor, lost on taxes, gun control, abortion and protection of marriage in the same primary election to a real conservative: Bill Simon, Jr.
The left erected their fantasy world of political correctness, homosexual "marriage," the myth of single parenthood and equal outcomes for all in a universe that never existed. Only the money, hope and time they stole from the rest of us sustained it. Now it is all coming down, and we need to mark well our Lord's words: "it collapsed and its destruction was complete." Do not pity the left. Rather, stand up to lead as their phony world collapses.
Craige McMillan is a commentator for WorldNetDaily. He is the founder of CC&M, an exciting new initiative to reshape the way America looks at and interacts with people of faith.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26737
By D. Michael Ryan, company Historian with the Concord Minute Men, an 18th Century volunteer historic interpreter with the National Park Service and Associate Dean of Students at Boston College.
"No, I am not and I haven't a man that is!"
Thus on 19 April 1775 did Capt. Isaac Davis respond to the query if he was afraid to lead his Acton minute company and the colonial column "into the middle of the town (Concord) for its defense or die in the attempt".
Details of the moments just preceding the eventful Bridge fight are limited or shrouded in the silence of time and report. It is certain that upon sighting smoke rising from Concord, Col. Barrett ordered Maj. Buttrick to march the assembled force into the town. How and why the Acton minute company led this expedition have been debated and interpreted for years even to the point of tirades in support of Acton by the Hon. Josiah Adams in 1835 and 1850.
Several explanations of Acton's activities at the Bridge have been set forth. Rev. Ezra Ripley wrote that upon arriving at the muster field, Davis' company "... passing by the other companies, took the right of the whole, which placed him nearest the Bridge, and in front, when they marched toward the enemy." Was this an act of brashness or military ignorance? Davis and his company were junior in rank and the place of senior honors was on the right.
Lemuel Shattuck and several others claim that the colonials were in the process of marching when Acton arrived on the west road, passed in front of the column, moving toward the Bridge and halted. Capt. Brown's Concord minute company then moved two abreast up the north side of the road equally in front. This might indicate that both the Acton and Concord units advanced to the Bridge alongside each other. Indications exist that discrepancies in the manner of march might have been due to the way in which the old roads meandered to the Bridge. Yet even Shattuck admits that precise positions of each company present could not be fully ascertained.
What most likely occurred can best be surmised through participant depositions, first hand accounts, letters and other documents. Upon receiving the alarm, Davis mustered his company noting, "I have a right to go to Concord on the King's highway and I will go to Concord." His men were perhaps the best trained and equipped each with a musket, cartridge box (to facilitate rapid firing) and bayonet supplied by gunsmith Davis. Since November 1774, they had trained twice weekly including marksmanship at a firing range behind Davis' house.
Acton's route of march took it over the Strawberry Hill Road near Barrett's farm where they turned east, passing the Widow Brown's tavern. Charles Handley, age 13, watched them disappear up the back road (upper or east) to Buttrick's farm and the Bridge. Upon reaching the high ground, Davis noted the troops aligned as they had been at the 13 March regimental muster (minute companies on the right, militia on the left facing the Bridge) and thus took his assigned position on the appropriate left of the line. He then joined the officer's conference in progress.
Barrett listened as officers and supposedly civilian representatives nervously discussed the situation and possible courses of action. It was a tense moment for citizen soldiers making military decisions. What should be done about the stores at Barrett's farm? Would the British attack? If so, would they fire or charge bayonets? As smoke rose from town, the decision was made to march. Capt. Smith volunteered his Lincoln minute company to dislodge the British from the Bridge. Buttrick, commander of the column, supposedly offered the lead to a Concord captain who allegedly noted that he would rather not. As bayonets had been discussed and only Acton was so equipped and best trained, Davis was asked if he was afraid to go and gave his famous answer.
Tales have circulated that the veteran warrior Barrett, not Buttrick, selected the energetic, respected, thoughtful, fearless Davis for the task since trouble was expected. Suspected frictions (maybe political and/or church related) among the officers has been put forth as a basis for decisions. Regardless, Davis drew his sword, wheeled his company from the line to the right and proceeded down the hill to the causeway leading to North Bridge. With him marched Buttrick and LTC Robinson of Westford. During the insuing fight, Davis was killed immediately, perhaps snatching the spirit from the colonial troops. In April 1875, Rev. Grindall Reynolds stated that to debate the position of units belittles and insults a great event and those who participated. Whether Acton led or marched alongside Concord; whether it was chosen due to courage or bayonets, will never fully be known. The courage of Concord's men and their captains (3 of 4 would be wounded by day's end) cannot be doubted.
It is enough that in fact Acton men joined forces with fellow citizens of Old Puritan Concord to which they had once belonged and that their captain "sealed devotion to liberty as the first officer to shed blood" because neither he nor his men were afraid to go.
End of article
My remarks: His men were perhaps the best trained and equipped each with a musket, cartridge box (to facilitate rapid firing) and bayonet supplied by gunsmith Davis. Since November 1774, they had trained twice weekly including marksmanship at a firing range behind Davis' house. The minute man statue may be a composite, but the plow was Isaac Davis' which is now on display at Acton Town Hall, along with Isaac Davis' blood-stained shirt and Abner Hosmer, the fallen 15-year old drummers' headband and other relics of that battle.
So much for only a few weapons in poor condition.
Rather appropriate when you consider that both of them are liars.
And university professors hate to apologize for ANYthing!
This bodes ill for Professor Bellesiles.
Hehehehe...
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