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To be forgotten

To be forgotten? - Reflecting on the hysteria to obliterate America's history: After all is said & done, what are we but memories?  When we die, how long do you continue to exist?  I believe in an afterlife, hopefully in Heaven; however, earthly wise, when the last memory of you fades from those you left behind, what becomes of who you were?  We as Americans, we as country, are but a compendium, a cornucopia of all things gone before.  If we are to lose those shared memories, their ripples coursing across our society, ...we will have not only lost who we are but would have been.  We are, for now, all that we were, good & bad, which if forgotten leaves us nothing of value, with no steerage from the past.  We would be lost, adrift, alone, directionless ...a passing moment in time, forgotten whisps, without meaning to the future.  I, for one, want to be remembered, if not for myself but for the trail of heritage from which I was born and which I follow. -- rfh.
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"VI. 
'But what has been will be -
First memory, then oblivion's swallowing sea;
Like men foregone, shall we merge into those
Whose story no one knows.'
-- from Thomas Hardy's 'The To-be-forgotten'" 
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173598/

Biography: Thomas Hardy, poet & novelist, England, (1840-1928)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hardy/

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WARNING: HUD to Force Massive Housing Changes (Shades of Agenda 21?)

WARNING [Agenda 21?]: (article quoted)

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420896/massive-government-overreach-obamas-affh-rule-out-stanley-kurtz/

by STANLEY KURTZ July 8, 2015 10:47 AM

"Today, HUD Secretary Julian Castro announced the finalization of the Obama administration's "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule."

A front-page article preemptively defending the move appears in today's Washington Post. The final rule is 377 pages, vastly longer than the preliminary version of the rule promulgated in 2013. AFFH is easily one of President Obama's most radical initiatives, on a par with Obamacare in its transformative potential. In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood - imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education.

Not only the policy but the political implications are immense - at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels. It is a scandal that the mainstream press has largely refused to report on AFFH until the day of its final release. The rule has been out in preliminary form for two years, and well before that the Obama administration's transformative aims in urban/suburban policy were evident.

Three years ago, when I wrote about Obama's policy blueprint in Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, the administration's efforts to keep this issue under the radar were evident. Only last month, an admission of the stealth relied on by advocates to advance this initiative was caught on video. Obama has downplayed his policy goals in this area and delayed the finalization of AFFH for years, because he understands how politically explosive this rule is. Once the true implications of AFFH are understood, Americans will rebel. The only prospect for successful imposition is a frog-boiling strategy of gradual intensification. The last day the frog will be able to jump is Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

Fundamentally, AFFH is an attempt to achieve economic integration. Race and ethnicity are being used as proxies for class, since these are the only hooks for social engineering provided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Like AFFH itself, today's Washington Post piece blurs the distinction between race and class, conflating the persistence of "concentrated poverty" with housing discrimination by race. Not being able to afford a freestanding house in a bedroom suburb is no proof of racial discrimination.

Erstwhile urbanites have been moving to rustic and spacious suburbs since Cicero built his villa outside Rome. Even in a monoracial and mono-ethnic world, suburbanites would zone to set limits on dense development. Emily Badger's piece in today's Washington Post focuses on race, but the real story of AFFH is the attempt to force integration by class, to densify development in American suburbs and cities, and to undo America's system of local government and replace it with a "regional" alternative that turns suburbs into helpless satellites of large cities.

Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies the feds will empower. Over time, AFFH could spell the end of the local democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville rightly saw as the foundation of America's liberty and distinctiveness.

At this point, municipalities across the country need to seriously consider refraining from applying for Community Development Block Grants and other grant programs sponsored by HUD. Take one dollar of HUD money and you will be forced to submit to its demands, which can reach far beyond housing. Unfortunately, this is a highly imperfect solution, and not only because municipalities would be surrendering money taxed from their citizens' pockets.

The recent Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project has provided the federal government with a second club to use against municipalities seeking to escape HUD control. (See my piece on Inclusive Communities in the latest issue of National Review.) Ultimately, only a Republican president acting in concert with a Republican Congress can stymie AFFH and undo the damage of the Supreme Court's recent housing decision.

This brings us to politics. As noted, AFFH is a largely unacknowledged attempt to force economic integration on every neighborhood in America. Yet in a recent Rasmussen poll, 83 percent of respondents said it was not the government's job to diversify neighborhoods by income level, while only 8 percent say that this is an appropriate task for government. Now you know why the Obama administration and a compliant press corps have kept this initiative quiet. It will take time to collect the data on which HUD's new demands for local governments all over America will be based.

While important enforcement will begin under the Obama administration, the major impact of AFFH will come under President Hillary Clinton, should she be elected. And Obama's AFFH enforcer, Julian Castro, is widely touted as a likely vice-presidential running mate for Hillary. That means AFFH is going to be an issue in the next presidential campaign. And the political implications go deeper still, to every level of government. Westchester County, New York, where AFFH has had a dry run of sorts, is now administered by Republican county executive Robert Astorino. Many forget that before the Obama administration tried to force Westchester County to cast aside its own zoning laws and build high-density, low-income housing at its own expense, Westchester was a liberal Democratic county run by liberal Democrats. After all, this is where Bill and Hillary Clinton live. At the local level, the Obama administration drove Westchester into the arms of the Republicans.

The same thing could happen nationally, at every political level. But only if the frog wakes up and jumps by November of 2016.

Even with AFFH now public, the Obama administration and the press corps will do everything in their power to obscure the real issues at stake in the massive AFFH power-grab. Don't let that happen.

 

- Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He can be reached at comments.kurtz@nationalreview.com."

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"The Experiment"

 

From: bb Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 Subject:  The Experiment

'The Baltimore Sun' is definitely not known as a Conservative newspaper, so this very well written assessment of the situation in USA comes as something of a surprise.  Some great thoughts about other races that have come to the USA and successfully integrated into our society. This will obviously be called racist, and will upset the liberals, but they should really think about the message and this interesting point of view.

"For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.

The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?

The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.

Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedmans Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.

Their new laws intruded into peoples lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice-versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless hand wringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to Celebrate Diversity! and Say No to Racism. Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.

Some thought that what W.E.B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of.

There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.

Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.

Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn't mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.

But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue its a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.

But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country's violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.

The experiment has failed. Not because of white culture, or white privilege, or white racism. The fundamental problem is that American black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden mess. *They do not want to change their culture or society, and expect others to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior. They have become socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not because of the racism of others - but by their own hatred of non-blacks.*

Our leaders don't seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. *They don't understand that white people aren't out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.*

The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point."---

"You can't legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government doesn't first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don't have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

attributed to, but not verified as the author: Ian Duncan,
'The Baltimore Sun', May 30, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IVRPA Silhouette Shoot & BBQ Su.14Jun15 7am setup & practice, 9am Start

Imperial Valley Rifle and Pistol Association Inc.'s
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GovExec Breaking News Problems viewing? View as a web page June 5, 2015     OPM To Send Data Breach Notifications to Federal Employees Next Week // Tom Shoop The Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday that next week it would begin sending 4 million current and former federal employees notifications that their personal information has been breached in a massive hacking incident that investigators discovered in April. In an announcement posted on its website, OPM said that beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19, the agency will send notifications to the millions of people whose personal data was compromised in the breach. "The email will come from opmcio@csid.com and it will contain information regarding credit monitoring and identity theft protection services being provided to those federal employees impacted by the data breach," OPM said in the announcement. Read the entire story here. Get breaking news updates with GovExec and Nextgov free mobile apps: - GovExec iPhone app - GovExec Android app - Nextgov iPhone app - Defense One iPhone app   GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE // CUSTOMER SERVICE // CONTACT US // PRIVACY POLICY This message was sent from Government Executive. Thank you for reading GovExec Breaking News. Government Executive Media Group, 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037

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History of the Revolver (InfoGraphic from Gun Vault)

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GOA - Talk with Presidential Candidates Directly!

From: Gun Owners of America Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015Subject: Here is Your Chance to Talk with the Presidential Candidates Directly!





GOA Sponsoring Tele-Town Hall Meetings with Presidential Candidates
-- First up, Sen. Ted Cruz

We don't have to tell you how crucial the 2016 Presidential election is.

The constitutional rights that Americans enjoy have come under repeated attacks from a President who ignores the Constitution on a continual basis.

Thankfully, there are several pro-gun candidates who are running for the Oval Office during this election cycle. Although some are not so pro-gun.

GOA is surveying and interviewing all of the candidates, but we also want you to be involved in the process.

So beginning this month, Gun Owners of America is sponsoring the first of several Tele-town Hall Meetings to bring the candidates right into your living room.

The first candidate to agree to get on the phone and talk to the GOA activists is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who will appear with GOA Chairman Tim Macy on Wednesday, May 27 (6:30 EST/5:30 CST).

If you want to participate in the call to ask a question or just listen in, simply provide your name and phone number by clicking here, and we will call you on Wednesday, May 27th at the scheduled time.

The next President will likely determine the direction of the Supreme Court for the next generation, and will be in a position to sign into law GOA-sponsored legislation such as Constitutional Concealed Carry. The next President will be able to reverse anti-gun Executive Orders (such as the import ban on many semi-automatic rifles) as well as rolling back the UN small arms treaty, which was signed by President Obama.

So join GOA and get answers to these and other questions firsthand from the candidates themselves.

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GOA - Talk with Presidential Candidates Directly!

 

From: Gun Owners of America Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015Subject: Here is Your Chance to Talk with the Presidential Candidates Directly!

GOA Sponsoring Tele-Town Hall Meetings with Presidential Candidates -- First up, Sen. Ted Cruz  We don't have to tell you how crucial the 2016 Presidential election is. The constitutional rights that Americans enjoy have come under repeated attacks from a President who ignores the Constitution on a continual basis. Thankfully, there are several pro-gun candidates who are running for the Oval Office during this election cycle.  Although some are not so pro-gun. GOA is surveying and interviewing all of the candidates, but we also want you to be involved in the process.  So beginning this month, Gun Owners of America is sponsoring the first of several Tele-town Hall Meetings to bring the candidates right into your living room. The first candidate to agree to get on the phone and talk to the GOA activists is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who will appear with GOA Chairman Tim Macy on Wednesday, May 27 (6:30 EST/5:30 CST). If you want to participate in the call to ask a question or just listen in, simply provide your name and phone number by clicking here, and we will call you on Wednesday, May 27th at the scheduled time. The next President will likely determine the direction of the Supreme Court for the next generation, and will be in a position to sign into law GOA-sponsored legislation such as Constitutional Concealed Carry.  The next President will be able to reverse anti-gun Executive Orders (such as the import ban on many semi-automatic rifles) as well as rolling back the UN small arms treaty, which was signed by President Obama. So join GOA and get answers to these and other questions firsthand from the candidates themselves.   Click here to RSVP (and don't worry, your phone number will be used ONLY for this call.) Please do not reply directly to this message, as your reply will bounce back as undeliverable. Please forward this e-mail to friends and family Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 703-321-8585 www.gunowners.org Contact Form

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2nd Amendment App from 2nd Vote.

From: 2nd Vote Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 Subject: Announcing the 2nd Vote 2nd Amendment App!

Today we are announcing the latest member of the 2nd Vote family of conservative shopping apps: 2nd Vote 2nd Amendment. Specifically geared towards 2nd Amendment supporters and firearms enthusiasts, the new 2nd Amendment App is available as a free download at the Apple App Store and Google Play.   CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 2ND VOTE 2ND AMENDMENT   This new app features the latest research from 2nd Vote highlighting where corporations stand on gun rights, better helping 2nd Amendment conservatives to align their shopping dollars with their values. Along with the latest research, 2nd Vote 2nd Amendment has new features for all gun owners and firearm enthusiasts: State gun laws specific to the user?s current location Reciprocity agreements for carry permits A NEWSFEED with the latest information on 2nd Amendment issues from 2nd Vote    Download the 2nd Vote 2nd Amendment App today to make sure your shopping dollars help protect the right to keep and bear arms.   Follow 2nd Vote on Facebook and Twitter to get the latest updates.

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