The Founders Warned Us About Some One Some Time...Could Be Right About Now.

"The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
It serves always to distract the public councils and feeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves with in their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

George Washington’s Farewell Address

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FLAHR in, the name of a gold coin first made in Florence in the 1200's. The name comes from the Latin word for flower. The florin bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Saint John the Baptist on the other side. The first English florin was issued as a six-shilling gold coin in the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). A Silver English florin worth two shillings was first coined in 1849.
[The World Book Encyclopedia]
A USA Silver ten cent coin, bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA Pres. 1933-1945) on the other side (Dime).

Jul 1, 2012

Jurney v. MacCracken. Who Knew?

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This says that someone "is" in "it" DEEP!

H/T---Viburnum

6 comments:

Kid said...

They Say, Awesome. And another interesting period in the history of the US. Market crash 5 years prior, banks raping and pillaging, etc.

TS/WS said...

Does anything jolt the People from their slumber?
Do the Young Generation of today have a clue-because if they haven't lived it it just doesn't come into mind?

Kid said...

No, they don't have a clue. Not only have they Not been educated, they've been miseducated.

They have no idea why America is/was great. They know nothing about what it takes. They're Blank.

As the Russian says "Only when the military boot kicks them on their fat bottoms will it occur to them, but not before."

TS/WS said...

I think I see a jack booted thug a coming.

Z said...

What's that about? (I feel like I took dumb pills tonight and everybody else is writing the most fascinating comments EVER tonight...what's wrong with me?)

But, seriously...what IS it about?!!

TS/WS said...

The Suprems wrote that contempt could be strong enough to come down on the LAIR before the Congress.