Bravo Billy

Talking about Getting Your Spouse to Listen - MSN Relationships

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:16:54 GMT

Just when I start to get lonely. I remember all this mess.

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Getting Your Spouse to Listen - MSN Relationships

TAX POEM

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:37:07 GMT

Be sure to read all the way to the end!
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers, Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (44.
75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the
most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middleclass in
the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?!?!?!?
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!!!! YOU can help it get there!!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!

Taken off Schedule at Radio Shack

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:49:12 GMT

Yesterday I was taken off the schedule at Radio Shack. I guess I made one mistake too many. Sunny decided to take me off the schedule. That's Radio Shack's way of firing. They add of things and then justify why they are doing what they are doing, but do not fire. They take you off the schedule. She had promised me she would not cut me down to 10 hours, so she just took me off the schedule. I took a 20 dollar bill in for a customer and did not give him the correct change back. Why the customer waited to get home is beyond me. I had prayed that I did not have the gas to get down there and that was answered. LOL.

I now have to get out and look for a job and look a the finances to see if I can make it on just my SS money. I may have to cut back drastically. Are there any money's available to SS income?

A terrorist comments on the war on terrorists

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:14:41 GMT

Aw hell, let's just bring the boys back home from Afghanistan and Iraq where the terrorist seem to be fighting them and fight them on your own soil. Then you can get to be a terrorist. Then you can see the war up close instead of on TV. Gosh, 9/11 is too far away in time and you need another reminder here your own soil with some real blood.

How about the Chicago Sear's Tower? How about Disney Land or World, that would be a lot of bloody mess there. Let's see, we have to figure out something that is going to attract a lot of attention and create havoc. Indianapolis has an insurance center....Darn you Americans, I know we can shut down the Internet and cable systems across the US and that will really freak them out....Now where is major satellite system? Hmmmm. We can do it on one of our religious holidays and no one will question us... and if they do then we will scream prejudice. I know! we will take over all of there pizza delivery places and introduce a nasty flu virus into their systems. They will never figure out where it came from.

Come on bring all the troops back, We want you to bring them back so you can fight us here!!! Stupid shits!!! Obama is my buddy

I want to go home

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:55:16 GMT

I live in a new place and I really like it. But, some how, I keep feeling like I want to go home. I graduated from high school from New Orleans and both my parents died there. I was an Army Brat following my father's posts from Georgia to Germany back to Georgia to New Orleans. I left New Orleans for a job that I quit and found other jobs...I stayed there after someone told me why don't I go back where I came from.

I kept looking for help from the Church either Catholic or Protestant. It wasn't until I committed myself to AA that I realized that no one was going to help me. Help came from various places when I did not ask for it. I am now 63, overweight, and my body falling apart. I found this place I am living in now from a lead from my sponsor in AA surprising. But I still have to find a job and and I am dragging my feet. I am broke and have to wait until tomorrow to do anything.

More stopped up plumbing

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:09:20 GMT

Once again the plumbing is stopped up. I called Mike but it was a Friday and he was not able to get hold of the owner and so all weekend I have had to wake up and go down to the clubhouse to have bowel movement. What fun. Now the whole area knows my routine....Got to get ready to go to work ....

Leaving Radio Shack

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:47:22 GMT

Most of my whole life has been in and out of electronics. I really liked Radio Shack. I was a customer of Radio Shack as a customer way back when I was 13 years old, 50 years ago. I enjoy dealing with the customers of all ages coming in and solving their problems. But, somewhere, the Shack has lost touch with their customers and their employees. No longer do they care about either one of them. I met my district manager and the only thing he wanted from me was to get some training thing done by the end of the day. There was no mention of transfer. I was so intimated, that I did not mention my transfer either. Therefore, I am left with no option than to quit Radio Shack and look for another job closer to home since the gas prices are now $4.00 a gallon. I can no longer afford to work in a place that I enjoy and use the skills that I have had most of my life.

Radio Shack also only cares whether one sells cell phones. They do not want prepaid but the ones with a contract. Once again, they don't care about the customer, but are looking for revenue coming in. It is difficult for me to work in an environment that is against my principles. Principles before personalities.

Quick and effective acting

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:17:50 GMT

After Dave's actions could not unplug the toilet,etc. I called him and he told me the next step was to get hold of the handyman for the property. I went across the way and his words were, "If I see him...." I chose not to rely on him since I had seen him drinking beer in the afternoons. I introduced myself to another one of the guys who turned out to be an Army veteran. I told him I was an Army brat and my first memory was eating a piece of bread from the back seat of a car. The next thing I knew he was going to find Mike, the handyman. Mike showed up and tried to snake out the drain for the plumbing and had to call a plumber. They came and fixed the plumbing.

Had I been living with Wei, Pat would have gotten pissed off or on finally, threatened Wei with nonpayment of rent or called the plumber himself and deducted it from the rent. So, it really is better here, after all...LOL

Trading frustrations of one place for another

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:54:51 GMT

Whenever you think that you can escape things like landlords not fixing sewer lines at one place, and you move then you might find that you are faced with the same problem only worse at the other. When I lived with Wei, Pat and I kept smelling sewer smell every time the dish washer would be run or the laundry would be run.

The first thing I faced was the shower was backed up. So I thought could just pour bleach down it and solve the problem. Well, then I used some stuff I got at Dollar General. It seemed to have solved the problem...Then, I noticed on the way to work, the shower had leaked. I did not know there was an overflow drain...and the drain was actually stopped up...There was a time when I had to go get a plunger for the toilet and had to plunge the toilet, because it was stopped up....it kept getting worse....Finally when I went to work I noticed that there was toilet paper all over the place.... So I called Dave, the guy, I pay the rent on this thing. He came out and we got some heavy duty drain cleaner stuff and he poured it down the drain. We I came home and flushed the toiled and guess what....still a problem...during the night..I forgot not to flush and not there is toilet paper all over...This morning I needed to move my bowels big time. Can I flush? Hell no. Here I am with a toilet full of feces aka shit, paper, piss and I have to pee again...LOL I feel like going back to Wei. I did not have to drive 45 minutes, or have a stopped up toilet.

Changes I wanted to make in my life

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:24:47 GMT

As I moved into my new place, I found a list I had made. It was diet, place of living, transportation, income, exercise. I had lost the list and gotten involved with my everyday life. I had written on it Keep it Simple! and First things First! Because there are times I tend to run around like a chicken with my head cut off.

So all of a sudden in the program, my sponsor suggested that I get in touch with this person who was going sailing and looking for someone to rent his single wide trailer. Normally, I procrastinate with things. But, I called him.

I now have my own place. No longer do I share a bath or kitchen. No longer do I have to sit and watch guys drink beer in a house full of alcohol with a temptation sometimes to say fuck it and just guzzle something down. But, I told my roommate, I did not know what would happen. I would probably wind up in New Orleans and not know how I had got there.

It was fun at first living there: eating pizza, watching wrestling and movies. But, there were times that I found myself wincing a bit when my roommate could test my sense of propriety. I had to wash my dishes daily just to have a dish to eat off of, now I wash them daily because I like a clean kitchen and house.

In my house, there are no mountains of pizza boxes. In fact, I have not had a pizza since I went by to pick up mail and ate some pizza. I put on weight blaming it on the guys...But, now I find myself eating muffins from next door at the bookstore.

But, I am able to cook salmon dinners for myself when I have time off. It is nice eating off of a kitchen table. LOL I used eat off of a counter or in my room.

So what is next....Diet? Exercise...I think I will start taking walks?

Noise of Truckers Strike

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:59:08 GMT

As A Viet Nam veteran, I support the trucker's strike.

Packing and getting ready to move

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:12:22 GMT

I am getting ready to move. I had saved boxes, but roaches like to nest in cellulose and that is what cardboard is made of. So I put all of my saved boxes out last recycling day. Now I am having to collect more boxes. I am struggling because the dust is pretty bad here and I am allergic to dust. So I am wearing a mask. I am now getting tired and slightly hungry. Wei is off also and not sure what he is doing. Most of the time he fixes something to eat, but I don't see him cooking this time. I think I will jump in the shower and go out to get some bleach to pour down the drains to see if that helps the shower not back up. And I want to see if there are any more boxes.

Descendants of William J. Dunn

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:37:45 GMT

Descendants of William J. Dunn

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM J.¹ DUNN was born Abt. 1816 in Ireland., and died 12 May 1885 in Miller Co., GA.. He married ELIZABETH CHARITY FAIRCLOTH Abt. 1843, daughter of REDDEN FAIRCLOTH and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN. She was born 1826 in GA., and died 28 Jun 1897 in Miller Co., GA..

Children of WILLIAM DUNN and ELIZABETH FAIRCLOTH are:

i. MINERVA A.² DUNN, b. 28 Jan 1844; d. Unknown; m. J.L. GRANTHAM; d. Unknown.

2. ii. AMBROSE RANSOME DUNN, b. Abt. 1845, Miller Co., GA; d. 1897.

3. iii. IDELLA DUNN, b. 28 Jun 1847; d. 1931.

4. iv. HENRY T. DUNN, b. Mar 1849; d. Unknown.

v. KIZA H. DUNN, b. Abt. 1851; d. Unknown.

5. vi. HEZEKIAH DUNN, b. 12 Apr 1854, Baker Co., GA; d. 15 Jun 1931, Henderson Co., TX.

6. vii. BETTIE DUNN, b. Abt. 1858; d. Unknown.

7. viii. LUCY ELIZABETH DUNN, b. 14 Jan 1859, Miller Co., GA; d. 27 Mar 1904, Miller Co., GA.

8. ix. ELAFAIN DUNN, b. Abt. 1862, Baker/Miller Co., GA.; d. Dec 1933, Miller Co., GA..

x. EFFIE JANE DUNN, b. Abt. 1863; d. Unknown; m. JORDAN FOLDS; d. Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2. AMBROSE RANSOME² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1845 in Miller Co., GA, and died 1897. He married PERMILIA UNKNOWN Bef. 1870. She was born Mar 1841, and died Abt. 1900.

Children of AMBROSE DUNN and PERMILIA UNKNOWN are:

i. HENRY DINK³ DUNN, b. Abt. 1869; d. Unknown.

9. ii. THEODORE DUNN, b. 15 Dec 1870, Colquitt Co., GA.; d. Abt. 1957, Colquitt Co., GA..

iii. MINNIE DUNN, b. Abt. 1874; d. Unknown.

10. iv. ALICE DUNN, b. Abt. 1877; d. Unknown.

v. ANNIE W. DUNN, b. Abt. 1879; d. Unknown.

3. IDELLA² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born 28 Jun 1847, and died 1931. She married ELIJAH THOMPSON. He died Unknown.

Children of IDELLA DUNN and ELIJAH THOMPSON are:

i. LEONA³ THOMPSON, b. 1875; d. Unknown.

ii. NORA THOMPSON, b. 1876; d. 1957; m. LEWIS HATCHER; d. Unknown.

4. HENRY T.² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born Mar 1849, and died Unknown. He married NANCY LUCINDA CLEVELAND 21 Dec 1876 in Miller Co., GA.. She was born 1855, and died 1920.

Children of HENRY DUNN and NANCY CLEVELAND are:

11. i. CHARLES T.³ DUNN, b. Abt. 1878; d. Unknown.

12. ii. EVA DUNN, b. Abt. 1879; d. Abt. 1972.

13. iii. WILLIAM PEARL DUNN, b. Apr 1882; d. 1925, Miller Co., GA..

14. iv. AILEY ANDREW DUNN, b. Sep 1883; d. Abt. 1938.

15. v. JOHN DUNN, b. Abt. 1884; d. Unknown.

16. vi. CLAYTON DUNN, b. Abt. 1886; d. Unknown.

17. vii. JAMES GRADY DUNN, b. Abt. 1889; d. Abt. 1936.

18. viii. ELLA DUNN, b. Abt. 1891; d. Unknown.

ix. JEFFERSON RUTHERFORD DUNN, b. Abt. 1894; d. Abt. 1930.

19. x. WYATT E. DUNN, b. Abt. 1897; d. Abt. 1972.

5. HEZEKIAH² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born 12 Apr 1854 in Baker Co., GA, and died 15 Jun 1931 in Henderson Co., TX. He married SABRINA FRANCES GRIFFITH Abt. 1879 in Miller Co., GA. She was born 14 Jul 1859 in NC or SC, and died 01 May 1925 in Rusk Co., TX.

Children of HEZEKIAH DUNN and SABRINA GRIFFITH are:

i. LILY³ DUNN, b. Rusk Co., TX; d. Unknown; m. JAMES SMITH; d. Unknown.

ii. SUSAN DUNN, b. Rusk Co., TX; d. Unknown; m. RUFUS SHEFFIELD; d. Unknown.

20. iii. DORA CHARITY DUNN, d. Unknown.

21. iv. WILLIAM IRVIN DUNN, d. Unknown.

22. v. JESSE DUNN, b. 16 Nov 1879; d. Abt. 1925.

vi. LONNIE DUNN, b. Jan 1880; d. Unknown; m. LIZZIE MAE GREEN; d. Unknown.

23. vii. ZULA DUNN, b. 03 May 1884, Rusk Co., TX; d. 17 Feb 1952, Smith Co., TX.

viii. EFFIE JANE DUNN, b. 06 Sep 1885, Rusk Co., TX; d. Abt. 1969; m. TOM W. SMITH; b. Abt. 1881; d. Abt. 1954.

ix. CARRIE ELIZABETH DUNN, b. 16 Jul 1887, Rusk Co., TX; d. 14 Oct 1963, Greg co., TX; m. STEVEN A. DOUGLAS BURNS; b. Abt. 1875; d. Abt. 1947.

24. x. CHARLES RUFUS DUNN, b. Abt. 1889; d. Abt. 1971.

xi. LAURA EMMA DUNN, b. Abt. 1893; d. Unknown; m. (1) J. R. SPILLAR; d. Unknown; m. (2) FRANK F. GRINDLE; b. Abt. 1884; d. Abt. 1909.

6. BETTIE² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1858, and died Unknown. She married JEFFERSON DAVIS CLEVELAND. He was born Abt. 1862, and died Unknown.

Children of BETTIE DUNN and JEFFERSON CLEVELAND are:

i. MARTIN³ CLEVELAND, d. Unknown.

ii. BILL CLEVELAND, d. Unknown.

7. LUCY ELIZABETH² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born 14 Jan 1859 in Miller Co., GA, and died 27 Mar 1904 in Miller Co., GA. She married JEFF D. CLEVELAND. He died Unknown.

Children of LUCY DUNN and JEFF CLEVELAND are:

i. MARTIN W.³ CLEVELAND, b. 02 Nov 1881, Miller Co., GA; d. 22 Nov 1905, Miller Co., GA.

ii. WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND, b. 25 Aug 1884, Miller Co., GA; d. 23 May 1947, Miller Co., GA.

8. ELAFAIN² DUNN (WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1862 in Baker/Miller Co., GA., and died Dec 1933 in Miller Co., GA.. She married GEORGE WASHINGTON CARTER Abt. 1878 in Miller Co., GA., son of RICHARD CARTER and SUSANNAH UNKNOWN. He was born 25 Jan 1856 in GA., and died 04 Jun 1937 in Miller Co., GA..

Children of ELAFAIN DUNN and GEORGE CARTER are:

25. i. CHARLES B.³ CARTER, b. 15 Feb 1880; d. 05 Sep 1949.

26. ii. DONIE CARTER, b. 06 Aug 1886, Miller Co., GA.; d. 02 Jan 1938, Miller Co., GA..

27. iii. GEORGE GUYTON CARTER, b. 16 Oct 1889, Colquitt, Miller Co.,GA.; d. 18 Feb 1968, Colquitt, Miller Co., GA..

28. iv. THEODORE D. CARTER, b. 23 Apr 1892; d. 15 Jul 1965.

v. JAMES H. CARTER, b. Sep 1893; d. Unknown.

29. vi. ELZIE ARVIN CARTER, b. Jan 1897; d. Unknown.

Generation No. 3

9. THEODORE³ DUNN (AMBROSE RANSOME², WILLIAM J.¹) was born 15 Dec 1870 in Colquitt Co., GA., and died Abt. 1957 in Colquitt Co., GA.. He married MUSA DORA SMITH Abt. 1891 in Miller Co., GA. She was born Jul 1875, and died Abt. 1951.

Children of THEODORE DUNN and MUSA SMITH are:

i. FLORENCE ALMA⁴ DUNN, b. Apr 1895; d. Abt. 1937; m. GRAY EUGENE HAIRE; b. Abt. 1893; d. Abt. 1951.

ii. WALTER BURON DUNN, b. Jan 1898; d. Unknown.

iii. EFFIE DORA DUNN, b. Abt. 1900; d. Abt. 1907.

iv. ESSIE NORA DUNN, b. Abt. 1902; d. Unknown; m. CLARNECE PHILLIPS; d. Unknown.

v. JULIAN IDUS DUNN, b. Abt. 1905; d. Abt. 1987.

vi. DOROTHY JEWEL DUNN, b. Abt. 1908; d. Abt. 1987; m. (1) WILLIE B. YATES; d. Unknown; m. (2) UNKNOWN TURNER; d. Unknown; m. (3) UNKNOWN HINES; d. Unknown.

vii. HENRY G. DUNN, b. Abt. 1911; d. Abt. 1911.

10. ALICE³ DUNN (AMBROSE RANSOME², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1877, and died Unknown. She married JESSIE W. HAIRE 01 Jul 1896. He was born Abt. 1874, and died Abt. 1940.

Children of ALICE DUNN and JESSIE HAIRE are:

i. BLACKSHEAR⁴ HAIRE, b. Private; m. KITTY SHEFFIELD, Private; b. Private.

ii. TEEM HAIRE, b. Private; m. (1) GUSSIE SHEFFIELD, Private; b. Private; m. (2) FREDDIE LOU CARTER, Private; b. Private.

iii. ALVIN HAIRE, b. Private.

iv. ETHELDA HAIRE, b. Private.

v. GOLDEN HAIRE, b. Private.

vi. RHUIE HAIRE, b. Private.

11. CHARLES T.³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1878, and died Unknown. He married LELLER KING 04 Sep 1897 in Miller Co., GA. She was born Abt. 1879, and died Unknown.

Children of CHARLES DUNN and LELLER KING are:

i. JULIA⁴ DUNN, b. Abt. 1898; d. Abt. 1904.

ii. LOU C. DUNN, b. Abt. 1901; d. Unknown.

iii. HENRY J. DUNN, b. Abt. 1903; d. Unknown.

iv. BILL DUNN, b. Abt. 1906; d. Unknown.

v. JESSIE MELTON DUNN, b. Private; m. GLADYS HAIRE, Private; b. Private.

vi. LOTTIE DUNN, b. Abt. 1911; d. Abt. 1983; m. (1) W. T. JOINER, Private; b. Private; m. (2) D.C. COOK, 23 Oct 1926; d. Unknown.

12. EVA³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1879, and died Abt. 1972. She married (1) PAT O'NEAL. He died Unknown. She married (2) EDGUS W. KING 30 Sep 1894 in Miller Co., GA. He was born Abt. 1875, and died Abt. 1907.

Children of EVA DUNN and EDGUS KING are:

i. EUNICE E.⁴ KING, b. Abt. 1897; d. Unknown.

ii. BETTIE KING, b. Abt. 1899; d. Unknown.

iii. ZULA M. KING, b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown.

13. WILLIAM PEARL³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Apr 1882, and died 1925 in Miller Co., GA.. He married RUTH DIXON. She was born 20 Jul 1888, and died 01 Jul 1911.

Child of WILLIAM DUNN and RUTH DIXON is:

30. i. WILLIAM PEARL⁴ DUNN, d. Unknown.

14. AILEY ANDREW³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Sep 1883, and died Abt. 1938. He married CARRIE BELL COOK 08 Oct 1905 in Miller Co., GA. She was born Abt. 1885, and died Abt. 1934.

Children of AILEY DUNN and CARRIE COOK are:

i. VIRA BEATRICE⁴ DUNN, b. Abt. 1906; d. Abt. 1935; m. JACK GRANTHAM, 22 May 1921; b. Abt. 1903; d. Abt. 1931.

ii. EDWARD TURNER, b. Abt. 1909; d. Abt. 1999; m. (1) MYRTLE LURA HARRIS, Private; b. Private; m. (2) NELLIE MAUDE, Private; b. Private; m. (3) ROSE CLEMMONS, Private; b. Private.

iii. ANDREW JEFFERSON DUNN, b. 23 Feb 1917, Miller Co., GA.; d. 17 Dec 1997, Miller Co., GA.; m. (1) MATTIE AUDREY MCCORMICK, Private; b. Private; m. (2) GIRTHA BERA JACKSON, Private; b. Private.

15. JOHN³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1884, and died Unknown. He married CLIFFORD HARRELL. She died Unknown.

Children of JOHN DUNN and CLIFFORD HARRELL are:

i. ANNIE LOU⁴ DUNN, b. Private; m. BRASHER RICH, Private; b. Private.

ii. ENNIS DUNN, b. Private.

16. CLAYTON³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1886, and died Unknown. He married VICTORIA BABER. She died Unknown.

Child of CLAYTON DUNN and VICTORIA BABER is:

i. VICTORIA ANN⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

17. JAMES GRADY³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1889, and died Abt. 1936. He married EDITH OLA DEESE. She was born Abt. 1892, and died Abt. 1975.

Children of JAMES DUNN and EDITH DEESE are:

i. JOHN F.⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

ii. EDNA DUNN, b. Private.

iii. LEWIS J. DUNN, b. Private.

18. ELLA³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1891, and died Unknown. She married WILL JOHNSON. He died Unknown.

Child of ELLA DUNN and WILL JOHNSON is:

i. LEMUEL⁴ JOHNSON, b. Private.

19. WYATT E.³ DUNN (HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1897, and died Abt. 1972. He married IRA CLARA CLENNEY. She died Unknown.

Children of WYATT DUNN and IRA CLENNEY are:

i. BOBBY⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

ii. PAULA DUNN, b. Private.

20. DORA CHARITY³ DUNN (HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) died Unknown. She married (1) WES ESTES. He died Unknown. She married (2) CHARLES JOHNSON. He died Unknown. She married (3) WILBUR MORRIS. He died Unknown.

Child of DORA DUNN and WES ESTES is:

i. KATHERYN⁴ ESTES, b. Private.

21. WILLIAM IRVIN³ DUNN (HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) died Unknown. He married (1) BEULAH BRIGGS. She died Unknown. He married (2) MARY ELLIE ETHEL WAITS. She died Unknown. He married (3) NELLIE WIGGINS. She died Unknown.

Child of WILLIAM DUNN and BEULAH BRIGGS is:

i. NANNIE FAYE⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

Children of WILLIAM DUNN and MARY WAITS are:

ii. ELLIE DEE⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

31. iii. NANNIE FAYE DUNN, b. Private.

22. JESSE³ DUNN (HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) was born 16 Nov 1879, and died Abt. 1925. He married (1) JULIA HENDERSON. She died Unknown. He married (2) NICEY JANE HOWARD 30 Mar 1904 in Rusk Co., TX. She was born Abt. 1882, and died Abt. 1954.

Children of JESSE DUNN and JULIA HENDERSON are:

i. MARY VIRGINIA⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

ii. JESSE DUNN, JR., b. Private.

Children of JESSE DUNN and NICEY HOWARD are:

iii. ALTON HOWARD⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

iv. DONALD ROSS DUNN, b. Private.

v. JESSE MONROE DUNN, b. Private.

vi. HORACE EDWARD DUNN, b. Private.

vii. H.C. DUNN, b. Private.

viii. MABEL JOYCE DUNN, b. Private.

ix. ANNA DORIS DUNN, b. Private.

x. JOHN WILTON DUNN, b. Private.

23. ZULA³ DUNN (HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) was born 03 May 1884 in Rusk Co., TX, and died 17 Feb 1952 in Smith Co., TX. She married (1) W. D. WASHBURN. He died Unknown. She married (2) ROMULUS HOLLAND YOUNG 05 Nov 1902. He was born Abt. 1879, and died Abt. 1920.

Child of ZULA DUNN and W. WASHBURN is:

i. WILLIE DEE WASHBURN⁴ WASHBURN, b. Private.

24. CHARLES RUFUS³ DUNN (HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1889, and died Abt. 1971. He married EUNICE GRAY. She was born Abt. 1891, and died Abt. 1969.

Children of CHARLES DUNN and EUNICE GRAY are:

i. LOLA BELL⁴ DUNN, b. Private.

ii. CHARLES EMORY DUNN, b. Private.

iii. EAFE AARON DUNN, b. Private.

iv. EUNICE CHARLEY DUNN, b. Private.

v. LURENE MAY DUNN, b. Private.

vi. BETTY SUE DUNN, b. Private.

vii. ARTHUR THOMAS DUNN, b. Private.

viii. EAFE AARON DUNN, b. Private.

25. CHARLES B.³ CARTER (ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born 15 Feb 1880, and died 05 Sep 1949. He married MINNIE J. GRIMES. She was born 05 Apr 1882, and died 22 Oct 1967.

Children of CHARLES CARTER and MINNIE GRIMES are:

i. LOUIE⁴ CARTER, b. Private.

ii. RUTH CARTER, b. Private; m. BUNCH HAIRE, Private; b. Abt. 1894; d. Unknown.

iii. CLYDE CARTER, b. Private.

iv. FLORENCE CARTER, b. Abt. 1904; d. Unknown; m. (1) GROOVER C. DUNCAN; d. Unknown; m. (2) UNKNOWN GLASS; d. Unknown; m. (3) UNKNOWN TINER; d. Unknown.

26. DONIE³ CARTER (ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born 06 Aug 1886 in Miller Co., GA., and died 02 Jan 1938 in Miller Co., GA.. She married WILLIAM THOMAS LAWRENCE 26 Oct 1902 in Miller Co., GA. He was born Abt. 1880, and died Abt. 1961.

Children of DONIE CARTER and WILLIAM LAWRENCE are:

i. ANNIE RUTH⁴ LAWRENCE, b. Private.

ii. GEORGE THOMAS LAWRENCE, b. Private; m. CORA BELLE WILLIAMS, Private; b. Private.

iii. EUNICE LAWRENCE, b. Private; m. BRYANT CHAPMAN, Private; b. Private.

iv. MYRTLE LAWRENCE, b. Abt. 1906; d. Unknown; m. JOHN B. SUGGS; d. Unknown.

v. EAGEA LAWRENCE, b. Abt. 1908; d. Unknown.

32. vi. LOUIE LAWRENCE, b. Abt. 1919; d. Dec 1977.

27. GEORGE GUYTON³ CARTER (ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born 16 Oct 1889 in Colquitt, Miller Co.,GA., and died 18 Feb 1968 in Colquitt, Miller Co., GA.. He married MARGARET MARY SHOLAR 24 Nov 1913 in Decatur County GA; according to daughter Margert Carter Crawford they married on the 24, of November 1913., daughter of JOHN SHOLAR and ALMA MATTHEWS. She was born 12 Nov 1898 in Decatur Co., GA., and died 30 Nov 1944 in Topeka, KS..

Children of GEORGE CARTER and MARGARET SHOLAR are:

33. i. INDIA PAULINE⁴ CARTER, b. Private.

34. ii. MARGARET HAYS CARTER, b. Private.

35. iii. EARL RUFUS CARTER, b. Private.

iv. JAMES CARL CARTER, b. Private; m. MARJORIE WILLIS, Private; b. 05 Oct 1925, Decatur Co., GA.; d. 13 Apr 1996, Colquit, Miller Co., GA..

36. v. VIRGINIA LOUISE CARTER, b. Private.

37. vi. ELEANOR JEAN CARTER, b. Private.

38. vii. ALMA MARCELLE CARTER, b. Private.

28. THEODORE D.³ CARTER (ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born 23 Apr 1892, and died 15 Jul 1965.

Children of THEODORE D. CARTER are:

i. DEWITT⁴ CARTER, b. Private.

ii. FLORRIE CARTER, b. Private.

iii. CRISTINA CARTER, b. Private.

iv. CATHALINA CARTER, b. Private.

29. ELZIE ARVIN³ CARTER (ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Jan 1897, and died Unknown.

Child of ELZIE ARVIN CARTER is:

i. SHERRY⁴ CARTER, b. Private; m. DANIELS, Private; b. Private.

Generation No. 4

30. WILLIAM PEARL⁴ DUNN (WILLIAM PEARL³, HENRY T.², WILLIAM J.¹) died Unknown.

Child of WILLIAM PEARL DUNN is:

i. WILLIAM PEARL⁵ DUNN, JR., b. Private.

31. NANNIE FAYE⁴ DUNN (WILLIAM IRVIN³, HEZEKIAH², WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married UNKNOWN TOON Private. He was born Private.

Child of NANNIE DUNN and UNKNOWN TOON is:

i. ROGER⁵ TOON, b. Private.

32. LOUIE⁴ LAWRENCE (DONIE³ CARTER, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Abt. 1919, and died Dec 1977. He married RUTH STEPHENSON Private. She was born Private.

Child of LOUIE LAWRENCE and RUTH STEPHENSON is:

i. DALE⁵ LAWRENCE, b. Private.

33. INDIA PAULINE⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married ROBERT LOFTON Private. He was born 03 Jul 1911 in Colquit, Miller Co., GA, and died 29 Oct 1978 in Colquit, Miller Co., GA.

Child of INDIA CARTER and ROBERT LOFTON is:

39. i. INDIA ROBERTA⁵ LOFTON, b. Private.

34. MARGARET HAYS⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married CECIL HARRISON CRAWFORD Private, son of HARLEY CRAWFORD and MINNIE TALLENT. He was born Private.

Child of MARGARET CARTER and CECIL CRAWFORD is:

40. i. HARLEY CARTER⁵ CRAWFORD, SR., b. Private.

35. EARL RUFUS⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. He married DOROTHY CLENNY Private. She was born Private.

Child of EARL CARTER and DOROTHY CLENNY is:

41. i. BETH⁵ CARTER, b. Private.

36. VIRGINIA LOUISE⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married WILLIAM WEBB INGRAM Private. He was born 12 May 1925 in Seminotle Co., GA, and died 28 Sep 1978 in Colquit, Miller Co., GA.

Children of VIRGINIA CARTER and WILLIAM INGRAM are:

42. i. MARY SUSAN⁵ INGRAM, b. Private.

ii. WILLIAM WEBB INGRAM, JR., b. Private.

37. ELEANOR JEAN⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married WALTER L. WILSON Private. He was born Private.

Children of ELEANOR CARTER and WALTER WILSON are:

43. i. PATRICIA LYNN⁵ WILSON, b. Private.

ii. WALTER L. WILSON, JR., b. Private.

38. ALMA MARCELLE⁴ CARTER (GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married J.C. HOUSTON Private. He was born Private.

Children of ALMA CARTER and J.C. HOUSTON are:

44. i. JOEL CARTER⁵ HOUSTON, b. Private.

45. ii. ROBERT HOUSTON, b. Private.

Generation No. 5

39. INDIA ROBERTA⁵ LOFTON (INDIA PAULINE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married BUFORD LA VONE TAYLOR Private. He was born 29 Oct 1933 in Lakeland, FL, and died 15 Jan 2001 in Colquit, Miller Co., GA.

Children of INDIA LOFTON and BUFORD TAYLOR are:

46. i. LANA ANN⁶ TAYLOR, b. Private.

ii. PAULA KAY TAYLOR, b. Private; m. JOHN HANINGTON, Private; b. Private.

47. iii. INDIA MARCELLE TAYLOR, b. Private.

40. HARLEY CARTER⁵ CRAWFORD, SR. (MARGARET HAYS⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. He married (1) TERRI LISA SLAPPEY Private, daughter of WILLIAM SLAPPEY and WYNELLE ROWELL. She was born Private. He married (2) NANCY CLAIRE GAY Private, daughter of JOHN GAY and KATHRYN HARRINGTON. She was born Private.

Children of HARLEY CRAWFORD and TERRI SLAPPEY are:

48. i. HARLEY CARTER⁶ CRAWFORD, JR., b. Private.

ii. MARY WYNELLE CRAWFORD, b. Private; m. WILLIAM ALFONSO COPE, Private; b. Private.

Children of HARLEY CRAWFORD and NANCY GAY are:

iii. JOHN JENKINS SNOW⁶ CRAWFORD, b. Private.

iv. CLARK HARRISON CRAWFORD, b. Private.

49. v. CLAIRE HAYS CRAWFORD, b. Private.

41. BETH⁵ CARTER (EARL RUFUS⁴, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married BUTCH DUBBERLY Private. He was born Private.

Child of BETH CARTER and BUTCH DUBBERLY is:

i. ANITA⁶ DUBBERLY, b. Private.

42. MARY SUSAN⁵ INGRAM (VIRGINIA LOUISE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married DALE PULLEN SELEY Private. He was born Private.

Child of MARY INGRAM and DALE SELEY is:

i. CARLA ELIZABETH⁶ SELEY, b. Private.

43. PATRICIA LYNN⁵ WILSON (ELEANOR JEAN⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married R.C. "CHRIS" ELLIS Private. He was born Private.

Children of PATRICIA WILSON and R.C. ELLIS are:

i. KELLEY⁶ ELLIS, b. Private.

ii. KRISTIN ELLIS, b. Private.

iii. KATELYN ELLIS, b. Private.

iv. KARI ELLIS, b. Private.

44. JOEL CARTER⁵ HOUSTON (ALMA MARCELLE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. He married CINDY Private. She was born Private.

Child of JOEL HOUSTON and CINDY is:

i. LAUREN⁶ HOUSTON, b. Private.

45. ROBERT⁵ HOUSTON (ALMA MARCELLE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private.

Children of ROBERT HOUSTON are:

i. DIANE⁶ HOUSTON, b. Private.

ii. KELLY HOUSTON, b. Private.

Generation No. 6

46. LANA ANN⁶ TAYLOR (INDIA ROBERTA⁵ LOFTON, INDIA PAULINE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married (1) ROBERT HAIRE Private. He was born Private. She married (2) WILLIAM STUART Private. He was born Private.

Child of LANA TAYLOR and ROBERT HAIRE is:

i. LAURA LYNN⁷ HAIRE, b. Private.

47. INDIA MARCELLE⁶ TAYLOR (INDIA ROBERTA⁵ LOFTON, INDIA PAULINE⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married PARKER DAVID MILLER Private. He was born Private.

Children of INDIA TAYLOR and PARKER MILLER are:

i. INDIA ASHTON⁷ MILLER, b. Private.

ii. SHELBY LAN MILLER, b. Private.

iii. PARKER MILLER, b. Private.

48. HARLEY CARTER⁶ CRAWFORD, JR. (HARLEY CARTER⁵, MARGARET HAYS⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. He married REBECCA JOANNE LOWERY Private, daughter of CHARLES LOWRY and BARBARA BOYD. She was born Private.

Children of HARLEY CRAWFORD and REBECCA LOWERY are:

i. KENNETH LOWERY⁷ CRAWFORD, b. Private.

ii. KATLYN SAVANNA CRAWFORD, b. Private.

iii. HARLEY CARTER CRAWFORD III, b. Private.

49. CLAIRE HAYS⁶ CRAWFORD (HARLEY CARTER⁵, MARGARET HAYS⁴ CARTER, GEORGE GUYTON³, ELAFAIN² DUNN, WILLIAM J.¹) was born Private. She married (1) JACKIE EDWARD BEASLEY Private, son of LESTER BEASLEY and CHERYL KEELIN. He was born Private. She married (2) ANDREW JONES Private, son of GLENN JONES and BECKY KONKLE. He was born Private.

Children of CLAIRE CRAWFORD and JACKIE BEASLEY are:

i. GUYTON GAY⁷ BEASLEY, b. Private.

ii. SARAH PATTON BEASLEY, b. Private.

Child of CLAIRE CRAWFORD and ANDREW JONES is:

iii. EMMA CLAIRE⁷ JONES, b. Private.

Going to Work, Bah, humbug

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:06:07 GMT

I have to go to work from 6 to 9. It was my choice of 5 to 9 or 6 to 9. there was no keyholder scheduled. I wonder what is being planned for me...to do???

Woman Earns Silver Star in Afghan War

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:06:19 GMT

Spc. Monica Lin Brown from Lake Jackson Texas of 82 Air borne stands guard at a forwarded operating base in Khost, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 8, 2008. Brown, will be the second female soldier awarded the Silver Star since World War II, for her role in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Woman Earns Silver Star in Afghan War

By FISNIK ABRASHI – 1 day ago

CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan (AP) — A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.

Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said.

After the explosion, which wounded five soldiers in her unit, Brown ran through insurgent gunfire and used her body to shield wounded comrades as mortars fell less than 100 yards away, the military said.

"I did not really think about anything except for getting the guys to a safer location and getting them taken care of and getting them out of there," Brown told The Associated Press on Saturday at a U.S. base in the eastern province of Khost.

Brown, of Lake Jackson, Texas, is scheduled to receive the Silver Star later this month. She was part of a four-vehicle convoy patrolling near Jani Kheil in the eastern province of Paktia on April 25, 2007, when a bomb struck one of the Humvees.

"We stopped the convoy. I opened up my door and grabbed my aid bag," Brown said.

She started running toward the burning vehicle as insurgents opened fire. All five wounded soldiers had scrambled out.

"I assessed the patients to see how bad they were. We tried to move them to a safer location because we were still receiving incoming fire," Brown said.

Pentagon policy prohibits women from serving in front-line combat roles — in the infantry, armor or artillery, for example. But the nature of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with no real front lines, has seen women soldiers take part in close-quarters combat more than previous conflicts.

Four Army nurses in World War II were the first women to receive the Silver Star, though three nurses serving in World War I were awarded the medal posthumously last year, according to the Army's Web site.

Brown, of the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, said ammunition going off inside the burning Humvee was sending shrapnel in all directions. She said they were sitting in a dangerous spot.

"So we dragged them for 100 or 200 meters, got them away from the Humvee a little bit," she said. "I was in a kind of a robot-mode, did not think about much but getting the guys taken care of."

For Brown, who knew all five wounded soldiers, it became a race to get them all to a safer location. Eventually, they moved the wounded some 500 yards away and treated them on site before putting them on a helicopter for evacuation.

"I did not really have time to be scared," Brown said. "Running back to the vehicle, I was nervous (since) I did not know how badly the guys were injured. That was scary."

The military said Brown's "bravery, unselfish actions and medical aid rendered under fire saved the lives of her comrades and represents the finest traditions of heroism in combat."

Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, of Nashville, Tenn., received the Silver Star in 2005 for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq. Two men from her unit, the 617th Military Police Company of Richmond, Ky., also received the Silver Star for their roles in the same action.

McCain Endorsed by Over 100 Admirals and Generals

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:58:44 GMT

I was getting unsure about the candidates. Then I decided to look at McCain. In looking aside from being endorsed by over 100 admirals and Generals, there all kinds of other leader that I have respect for. So I am saying to myself, "Well, if he is backing him, I'll vote for him for sure." It really sucks how the media can fuck with your mind. And I have to keep going to find out the truth for myself. If I had not been taught to seek the truth at Franklin, by my father and mother, I would be in trouble and at the mercy of the media. I used to think that that TV and Radio, and Newspaper was the media and now I know that the Internet is another media that they are addressing. I get most of my mail and news from the Internet. I thought I was unbiased because I was getting it off of the Internet. LOL.

Time to start packing and throwing stuff out

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:40:01 GMT

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
¹There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
²a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
⁶a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

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This is my season to begin tearing down all the things in my room and throwing out all the things I don't need. I will have to do it right away or I will procrastinate as usual. It also a time for me to be silent at work. I will no longer say anything to Ray anymore. Ray will not realize how little I am talking to him because I will just be busy. I will be polite to him. No more coffee's.

Barack Obama's Word Games

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:46:15 GMT

Barack Obama's Word Games
By Frank Salvato
February 29, 2008

Much is being made of Barack Obama's oratory skills. True, he is quite good when it comes to captivating a crowd of sycophants and this includes the lemmings in the mainstream media. But if words matter, as Obama (and surreptitiously Duval Patrick) claims they do, then we must acknowledge that in this case words do make the man, in this case Mr. Obama must be judged in his words and in the deeds that back-up those words.

Ironically, I agree with Mr. Obama when he says that words matter. One of the harshest criticisms I have had of the Bush Administration is that communication between the presidency and the American people has been, at best, horrible. While I can lay much of the blame on a hateful mainstream media who wouldn't cover the White House if it was on fire, a gaggle of journalistic abortions hell-bent on achieving an anti-Bush/anti-Republican agenda, so too blame must be laid at the feet of an administration that failed to use all the tools available to the bully pulpit to get its message across.

Words do matter. In a society that has grown so delinquent in teaching its populace critical thinking skills, words -- and the choice of words -- have become the upper-tier chess pieces in the tactical game of attaining and holding on to power. Of course, this is nothing new.

Great people through time have understood the importance of words, their meaning and their successful communication. Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes certainly knew the importance of words. Through their philosophy the seeds of our uniquely American ideology were planted. Those who understood the importance of their message, their words -- Franklin, Adams, Jefferson and Madison -- were able to manifest the American experience, to motivate a people to the quest of freedom and liberty. These great men -- our Founders and Framers -- also had a penchant for words as is evidenced by the Charters of Freedom, which stand alone in their ideology of liberty.

But just as there were great people who used words to move humanity to good, so too were their very evil, narcissistic men who used words to manipulate masses of people into ideologies of oppression and inequity, who used words to capture power from people, who used words to steal liberty, usurping the Natural Law of man.

Adolph Hitler used words to cajole a nation into ceding their collective will to a tyranny that would affect a litany of horrors perpetrated on the innocent, simply because of their religions, their skin colors and their birth origins. Josef Stalin used words to motivate an oppressive class to -- as we now understand -- eclipse the horrors of Hitler. And the totalitarian rhetoric of Pol Pot and Chairman Mao Zedong served to ideologically and physically imprison generations of people from freedom while filling graves beyond capacity.

While the tyrants and murderers listed above left their legacies in blood, slaughter and the destruction of humanity, still other despots -- ideological despots -- worked to enslave the minds of millions of people.

One such ideological despot is Karl Marx, whose code of belief culminated in the Marxist-Leninist dogma of Communism, commonly considered a faction of the broader Socialist Movement. This oppressive ideology brutally discouraged liberty of the individual, many times to the point of torture and execution, and placed the State above all else. The goal of this oppressive and maniacal creed, a socio-political system in which property, the rights of the individual and the distribution of wealth were subject to control by the community; "It takes a village to raise a child."

Today, we experience the pain of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the unlegislated tenets of political correctness, a belief system that has crept into the mainstream thinking of the Democrat, Progressive-Left political community.

Yes, words -- and the deeds that ratify words -- do matter. It is because of this truth that two issues surrounding the life and candidacy of Barack Obama strike me as disturbing.

Let me reiterate something that I stated in a recent piece, Can an American President Be a Muslim Apostate. I believe Barack Obama when he says that he is a Christian. I do not subscribe to the idea that he is a "clandestine jihadi" just waiting to be inaugurated so that he can hand the country over to Wahhabism. That said, it really doesn't matter what Barack Obama declares at all. What matters is what the fundamentalist Islamists believe. What matters are the words of their belief system.

To a fundamentalist Wahhabi -- the belief system of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudi royal family -- Barack Obama is a Muslim apostate and, therefore, lower than any other form of human life. In the ideology of Wahhabism Obama's punishment for leaving his Muslim birthright is death and he is not to be seen as an equal under any circumstances. Further, by the Wahhabist tent of al Taqiyya, it would be permissible for a fundamentalist Islamist, i.e. the Saudi royals, etc, to disregard any accords or treaties made with Obama. It would be permissible and, in fact, encouraged, to deceive the "infidel" in an effort to promote the well being of Islam and Muslims anywhere and everywhere.

That said, the words of the Wahhabists matter more than Barack Obama's declaration of Christian faith.

To remain in the realm of religion, we need to address Barack Obama's own words when it comes to his past, specifically his declaration that he was not influenced by his "brief" Islamic indoctrination.

Recently Jonah Goldberg wrote about a 2007 New York Times interview of Barack Obama with Nicholas Kristof, who documented,

"Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated...Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.'"

For someone who wasn't "influenced" by his "brief" stint in the Islamic faith, Mr. Obama certainly has command of a difficult language (words) and fond memories of a prayer that translated literally means,

"Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Hasten to the Prayer, hasten to the Prayer. Hasten to real success, hasten to real success. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is none worthy of worship but Allah."

Of course, these are "just words," like, "I have a dream..." and "...We hold these truths to be self evident..."

Another disturbing element to Barack Obama's past is his loose association with William Ayers, a former member of the domestic terror group the Weather Underground. Ayers and his Weather Underground terrorists bombed the US Capitol building, The Pentagon and the US State Department building. The group literally declared war on the United States. In a September 11, 2001 New York Times interview (strange how these "words" always grace the pages of the New York Times) Ayers said of the bombings,

"I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough."

In 1995, Barack Obama, in the Chicago tradition of paying respect to political "Godfathers," paid homage to Williams Ayers, doing so at Ayers' residence on the commencement of Obama's political career. In essence, Barack Obama courted the political blessing of a self-avowed domestic terrorist who holds no regrets that he declared war on his own country; "I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough."

Of course, these are "just words," just words like,

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Or...

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."

Or...

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Yes, words matter, Mr. Obama, they matter quite a bit...and so far your words -- through your speech and your deeds -- ring hollow of substance. They lead me to believe that you are dangerous for our nation.

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Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for Basics Project a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. He can be contacted at newmediajournal@comcast.net.

Secret GOP Weapon The Scots-Irish vote.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:41:27 GMT

CAMPAIGN 2004
Secret GOP Weapon
The Scots-Irish vote.
BY JAMES WEBB
To an outsider George W. Bush's political demeanor seems little more than stumbling tautology. He utters his campaign message in clipped phrases, filled with bravado and repeated references to God, and to resoluteness of purpose. But to a trained eye and ear these performances have the deliberate balance of a country singer at the Grand Ole Opry.

Speaking in a quasirural dialect that his critics dismiss as affected, W. is telling his core voting groups that he is one of them. No matter that he is the product of many generations of wealth; that his grandfather was a New England senator; that his father moved the family's wealth South just like the hated Carpetbaggers after the Civil War; that he himself went North to Andover and Yale and Harvard when it came time for serious grooming. And as with the persona, so also with the key issues. The Bush campaign proceeds outward from a familiar mantra: strong leadership, success in war, neighbor helping neighbor, family values, and belief in God. Contrary to many analyses, these issues reach much farther than the oft-discussed Christian right. The president will not win re-election without carrying the votes of the Scots-Irish, along with those others who make up the "Jacksonian" political culture that has migrated toward the values of this ethnic group.

At the same time, few key Democrats seem even to know that the Scots-Irish exist, as this culture is so adamantly individualistic that it will never overtly form into one of the many interest groups that dominate Democratic Party politics. Indeed, it can be fairly said that Al Gore lost in 2000 because the Democrats ignored this reality and the Scots-Irish enclaves of West Virginia and Tennessee turned against him.

Why are the 30 million Scots-Irish, who may well be America's strongest cultural force, so invisible to America's intellectual elites? It is commonplace for commentators to lump together those who are descended from British roots into the WASP culture typified by New England Brahmins, or the Irish, who are overwhelmingly Catholic. But it is political nonsense to consider the Scots-Irish as part of either.

The Scots-Irish are derived from a mass migration from Northern Ireland in the 1700s, when the Calvinist "Ulster Scots" decided they'd had enough of fighting Anglican England's battles against Irish Catholics. One group settled initially in New Hampshire, spilling over into modern-day Vermont and Maine. The overwhelming majority--95%--migrated to the Appalachians in a series of frontier communities that stretched from Pennsylvania to northern Alabama and Georgia. They eventually became the dominant culture of the South and much of the Midwest.

True American-style democracy had its origins in this culture. Its values emanated from the Scottish Kirk, which had thrown out the top-down hierarchy of the Catholic Church and replaced it with governing councils made up of ordinary citizens. This mix of fundamentalist religion and social populism grew from a people who for 16 centuries had been tested through constant rebellions against centralized authority. The Scots who headed into the feuds of 17th-century Ulster, and then into the backlands of the American frontier, hardened further into a radicalism that proclaimed that no man had a duty to obey a government if its edicts violated his moral conscience.

Matched with this rebelliousness was a network of extended family "clans," still evident among the Scots-Irish, built on an egalitarianism that measured a person by their own code of honor, courage, loyalty and audacious leadership. Noted Scottish professor T.C. Smout said it best when he observed that these relationships were "compounded both of egalitarian and patriarchal features, full of respect for birth while being free from humility." They demanded strong leaders, but would never tolerate one who considered himself above his fellows. Andrew Jackson, the first president of Scots-Irish descent, forever changed the style of American politics, creating a movement that even today is characterized as Jacksonian democracy.

The Scots-Irish comprised a large percentage of Reagan Democrats, and contributed heavily to the "red state" votes that gave Mr. Bush the presidency in 2000. The areas with the highest Scots-Irish populations include New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, southern Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of California, particularly Bakersfield. The "factory belt," especially around Detroit, also has a strong Scots-Irish mix.

The Scots-Irish political culture is populist and inclusive, which has caused other ethnic groups to gravitate toward it. Country music is its cultural emblem. It is family-oriented. Its members are values-based rather than economics-based: they often vote on emotional issues rather than their pocketbooks. Because of their heritage of "kinship," they're strangely unenvious of wealth, and measure leaders by their personal strength and values rather than economic position. They have a 2,000-year-old military tradition based on genealogy, are the dominant culture of the military and the Christian right, and define the character of blue-collar America. They are deeply patriotic, having consistently supported every war America has fought, and intensely opposed to gun control--an issue that probably cost Mr. Gore both his home state of Tennessee and traditionally Democratic West Virginia in 2000.

The GOP strategy is heavily directed toward keeping peace with this culture, which every four years is seduced by the siren song of guns, God, flag, opposition to abortion and success in war. By contrast, over the past generation the Democrats have consistently alienated this group, to their detriment.

The Democrats lost their affinity with the Scots-Irish during the civil rights era, when--because it was the dominant culture in the South--its "redneck" idiosyncrasies provided an easy target during their shift toward minorities as the foundation of their national electoral strategy. Their long-term problem in having done so is twofold. First, it hampers their efforts to carry almost any Southern state. And second, the Scots-Irish culture has strong impact outside the South. This is especially strong in many battleground states. It is no accident that many political observers call the central region in Pennsylvania "northern Alabama." Scots-Irish traditions play heavily in New Hampshire--the only New England state that Mr. Bush carried in 2000. Large numbers of Scots-Irish settled in the southern regions of Ohio (called "northern Kentucky"), Indiana and Illinois. They were among the principal groups to settle Missouri and Colorado. They migrated heavily to the industrial areas in Michigan, which is one reason that George Wallace, ran so strongly in that state in 1968 and 1972.

But other than with those who identify with the Christian right, it would be wrong to think that the Republicans have their firm loyalty. For every Lee Atwater or Karl Rove who understands the Scots-Irish, there are others who privately disdain them. And sometimes not so privately--the most vicious ethnic slur of the presidential campaign came from Charles Krauthammer, after Howard Dean suggested that the Democrats needed to reach out to the "guys with the Confederate flags on their pickup trucks." Mr. Krauthammer, who has never complained about this ethnic group when it has marched off to fight the wars he wishes upon us, wrote that Mr. Dean "wants the white trash vote . . . that's clearly what he meant," and that he was pandering to "rebel-yelling racist rednecks."

As with other ethnic groups, those inside the culture know how to read such code words, and there may come a time when the right Democratic strategist knows how to counter them in the manner that Mr. Dean contemplated. John Edwards is at his visceral best when his campaign rhetoric seems directed at doing that.

The decline in public education and the outsourcing of jobs has hit this culture hard. Diversity programs designed to assist minorities have had an unequal impact on white ethnic groups and particularly this one, whose roots are in a poverty-stricken South. Their sons and daughters serve in large numbers in a war whose validity is increasingly coming into question. In fact, the greatest realignment in modern politics would take place rather quickly if the right national leader found a way to bring the Scots-Irish and African-Americans to the same table, and so to redefine a formula that has consciously set them apart for the past two centuries.

Mr. Webb, a former secretary of the Navy, is the author of "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," just published by Broadway.

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:16:27 GMT

Blogs and Milblog

Soldiers Perspective
Soldiers from Iraq and family Bloq viewppoints
MilBlogs
Free Speech from those who make it possible
Gateway Pundit
Understanding that A Strong America Means a Peaceful World
Michelle Malkin
"Firecracker" The New York Times
Iraq The Model
New points of view about the future of Iraq.
Ranger Up
Providers of Military Apparel with a View Point
The Huntington Post: Paul Rieckhoff
Rieckhoff is a nationally recognized authority on the war in Iraq and issues affecting troops, military families and veterans.
MetBlogging New Orleans
Rebuilding Lives and Community After Katrina
Civilian Irregular Defense Group
Blogs re just what it sounds like!
BlackFive
Former Paratrooper and Army Officer, Matthew Currier Burden started Blackfive upon learning of the valorous sacrifice of a friend that was not reported by the journalist whose life he saved.
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age Toward a broader vision of military history
Operation Air Conditioner
Sending Supplies to Our Troops
Michael Yon: OnLine Magazine
Michael Yon a journalist writing and taking pictures right along side of the the combat troops.
Veterans for Freedom
A website and blog for veterans supporting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
Far From Perfect
The Journal of a Combat Medic
The Victory Caucus
Deliver the perspectives and news on the war effort which the mainstream media neglects to help the American public understand the nature of our conflict and its true progress Provide tools and infrastructure to help citizens who are committed to victory

Book List: Book List

Thu, 10 May 2007 22:24:13 GMT

Chuck Norris with Ken Abraham: Against All Odds
my story
Ann Coulter: How to Talk to A Liberal
"Historically the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parent's home, get a job, and start paying taxes. But if this doesn't work, you might have to actually argue with a liberal."
Oliver North: Mission Compromised
Novel about Truth, Treason and Stolen Honor
LTC (Ret) Brian Birdwell & Mel Birdwell: Refined by Fire
A Soldier Story of 9-11
Ann Coulter: The Church of Liberalism GODLESS
"If A Martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, He would have to conclude it Liberalism, while Christianitity and Judaism are prohibited by law."
John Eldredge: Wild at Heart
Discovering The Secret of Man's Soul

Music List: All Music

Fri, 19 May 2006 17:43:58 GMT

All Music

Rebecca St. James: Above AllLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Joel Engle: Agnus DeiUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Steven Curtis Chapman: All About Love [*]Dove Hits 2004
Joel Engle: As the DeerUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Ray Boltz: Awesome GodThe Classics
Joel Engle: Better Is One DayUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Rebecca St. James: Blessed Be Your NameLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Chris Smither: Can't Shake These BluesLive As I'll Ever Be
Chris Smither: CavemanLive As I'll Ever Be
Joel Engle: Days of ElijahUltimate Worship Collection Disc 3
Joel Engle: Draw Me CloseUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Chris Smither: Dust My BroomLive As I'll Ever Be
Joel Engle: ForeverUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Joel Engle: Glorify Thy NameUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Joel Engle: God of WondersUltimate Worship Collection Disc 3
Joel Engle: Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing)Ultimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Newsboys: He ReignsDove Hits 2004
Chris Smither: Help Me NowLive As I'll Ever Be
Rebecca St. James: Here I Am to WorshipLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Chris Smither: Hold in ILive As I'll Ever Be
Rebecca St. James: I Adore YouLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Chris Smither: I Am the RideLive As I'll Ever Be
Joel Engle: I Bow DownUltimate Worship Collection Disc 3
Joel Engle: I Can Only ImagineUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Joel Engle: I Could Sing of Your Love ForeverUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Robert Randolph: I Need More Love [*]Dove Hits 2004
Smokie Norful: I Need You NowDove Hits 2004
Joel Engle: I Sing HolyUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Jeremy Camp: I Still BelieveDove Hits 2004
Ray Boltz: I Wouldn't Go BackThe Classics
Ray Boltz: If That Isn't LoveThe Classics
Chris Smither: IntroLive As I'll Ever Be
Chris Smither: Killing the BluesLive As I'll Ever Be
David Byrne: Like Humans Do (radio edit)Look Into The Eyeball
Joel Engle: Lord I Give You My HeartUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Joel Engle: Lord I Lift Your Name on HighUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Joel Engle: Lord, Reign in MeUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Joel Engle: More Love More PowerUltimate Worship Collection Disc 3
Joel Engle: More Precious Than SilverUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Joel Engle: My GloriousUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Chris Smither: No Love TodayLive As I'll Ever Be
Chris Smither: No Love Today (Intro)Live As I'll Ever Be
Ray Boltz: O Lord, You're BeautifulThe Classics
Joel Engle: Open the Eyes of My HeartUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Ray Boltz: People Need the LordThe Classics
Rebecca St. James: Quiet You With My LoveLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Joel Engle: Shout to the NorthUltimate Worship Collection Disc 3
Michael W. Smith: SignsDove Hits 2004
Chris Smither: Slow SurpriseLive As I'll Ever Be
Chris Smither: Small RevelationsLive As I'll Ever Be
Kristy Starling: Something More (I Need to Praise You)Dove Hits 2004
Joel Engle: Take My Life (Holiness)Ultimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Chris Smither: Thanks to YouSmall Revelations
Chris Smither: The Devil's RealLive As I'll Ever Be
Ray Boltz: The King Is ComingThe Classics
Original Cast: The Music of the NightPhantom of the Opera [Highlights Original London Cast]
Rebecca St. James: The Power of Your LoveLive Worship: Blessed Be...
Joel Engle: The Wonderful CrossUltimate Worship Collection Disc 2
Ray Boltz: Through It AllThe Classics
Joel Engle: Trading My SorrowsUltimate Worship Collection Disc 1
Chris Smither: Winsome SmileSmall Revelations
Joel Engle: You Are My King (Amazing Love)Ultimate Worship Collection Disc 3

Bravo Billy

Talking about Getting Your Spouse to Listen - MSN Relationships

TAX POEM

Taken off Schedule at Radio Shack

A terrorist comments on the war on terrorists

More plumbing problems

I want to go home

More stopped up plumbing

Leaving Radio Shack

Quick and effective acting

Trading frustrations of one place for another

Changes I wanted to make in my life

Noise of Truckers Strike

Packing and getting ready to move

Descendants of William J. Dunn

Descendants of William J. Dunn

Going to Work, Bah, humbug

Woman Earns Silver Star in Afghan War

Woman Earns Silver Star in Afghan War

McCain Endorsed by Over 100 Admirals and Generals

Time to start packing and throwing stuff out

Barack Obama's Word Games

Secret GOP Weapon The Scots-Irish vote.

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