Important Stuff -- Or Not: This Day in Republican History 03/03/05

Thursday, March 03, 2005

This Day in Republican History 03/03/05

March 3, 1865 Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves. The Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department and supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate States, border states, District of Columbia, and Indian Territory. The bureau records were created or maintained by bureau headquarters, the assistant commissioners and the state superintendents of education and included personnel records and a variety of standard reports concerning bureau programs and conditions in the states. Records relating to murders and outrages and reports of murders, outrages, and riots were submitted by subordinate and field officers in either tabular or narrative form. Although the term "outrage" meant any criminal offense, it usually referred to violent crimes by or against freedmen. The reports usually included the date of the incident and the county in which it took place; the names and race of the injured and accused parties; a brief description of the incident and the action taken, if any, by civil authorities and by the bureau; and the outcome. Most of the reports pertain to crimes committed by whites against freedmen, but crimes of whites against whites, freedmen against freedmen, and freedmen against whites were also reported. In addition to the reports, for some states there are registers of murders and outrages that contain the same type of information as the reports, and may have been compiled from them. There are also lists of murders of freedmen and lists and reports of arrests.

As an example, here is a list of murders in the counties of Maury and Marshall, Tenn. from July 1^st, 1867 to July 1^st, 1868. Keep in mind that the Ku Klux Klan back then was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. As you can see, the only change in Democrat tactics is that back then they assassinated people and now they assassinate only character. I guess that's why they call themselves "progressive."

Date of Murder	Name of Person Murdered	Color	Name of Murderer	Color	Action taken by Civil Courts
Dec. 1867	John Courtney, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
Feby. 29, 1868	Bicknell, shot	White	Pitts alias Waters	White	Arrested by volunteer squad & lodged in Jail
March 3^rd, 1868	Pitts alias Waters, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
March 13^th, 1868	Ruth Jones, shot	Colored	McKinley	White	In Jail awaiting trial
April 7^th, 1868	Henry Fitzpatrick, hung & shot	Colored	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
April 7^th, 1868	Rev. Littleton Lincoln, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
May 1868	Colored field hand, shot	Colored	Jas. Campbell	Colored	No arrests made, warrant issued. Fled
Date not known	John Washington, shot	Colored	Lou Perry	Colored	In Jail awaiting trial
Date not known	Tom Jourdan, shot	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made
Date not known	Alf Rainey, hung	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made
Date not known	Tom Kelley	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made

Four other murders in the County by "Ku Klux" have been reported but dates and names cannot be procured.

Very Respectfully H. A. Eastman Agt. Bu. R. F. & A. L.

Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.