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Comment by Dvora Fairfield on July 25, 2011 at 10:52pm

B"H.  How deeply inspiring, Billie.  Your words and the video.

Thank you. It was so nice to meet you. 

This is truly a battle of the will and truth. 

"And then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.

And this be our motto, In G*d is our trust."

(from the 4th stanza of our national anthem)

 

Shalom,  dvora

Comment by DURWIN WALTER DAVIS on July 25, 2011 at 12:45pm

Which government public school did Jefferson attend?  I believe free public schools existed from an early time in our colonial period.  I just don't know what reason would exist at that time that would compel a fledgeling colony to support a free public school?

Comment by LOTTO NICK ! on July 25, 2011 at 9:50am

An important lesson considering what is going on in Washington DC today!

 

 

Subject: This is your history lesson for today

 

THOMAS JEFFERSON



At 5,
began studying under his cousins tutor.

At 9, studied Latin,
Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and
additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and
Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George
Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25,
was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote
the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British
America " and retired from his law practice.

At 32, was
a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the
Declaration of Independence .

At 33, took three years to revise
Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public
Education bill and a statute
for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor
of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress
for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and
negotiated commercial
treaties with European nations along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary
of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice
President and was elected president of the American
Philosophical
Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the
active head of
Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the
third president of the United States .

At 60, obtained the
Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

At 61, was
elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to
Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe
Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University
of Virginia and served
as its first president.

At 83, died
on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of
Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew
because he himself studied the previous failed
attempts at
government. He understood actual history, the nature of God,
his
laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most
understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the
past
to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a
dinner in the white House for a group of the
brightest minds in the
nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is
perhaps
the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in
the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone."

When we get piled upon one another in large
cities, as in Europe, we shall
become as corrupt as Europe .

Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you
take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who
would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A
principle which if
acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas
Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of
them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too
much gove

Comment by Joe Story on July 25, 2011 at 8:16am

Have you ever wondered what happens when you take the challenge to run an alpine slide from top to bottom with no brakes in an attempt to set a new course record? Now consider that you have never run the course before and have no experience running / sliding down mountains on plastic lugeway 's or concrete. It hurts because sooner or later the unexpected happens the equipment is not right, the person riding the sled is oversized for the sled, the speed is too fast for the design of the lugeway banked curves and finally the brakes are applied from an outside unexpected source. Time between recognition of the impending disaster ( Stimulus) and the pause or space to plan for action is just to short for corrective action. The result of running the course full speed ahead without  regard to the early warnings signs surely presents the prospect of making the news highlights with the most spectacular crash ever recorded.

That was not my objective but I accomplished it non the less. My body was not prepared for the stress. I couldn't compensate for being oversized. My mind did not react to the warming signals ahead when my, so called safety boots, did not fit inside the luge cart. My conversations with the people around me prompted a constant one upmanship game, where anything you can do I can do better. That is not the best way to Take Action!  Everything about my spirit said don't do this. I ignored all the prompts, all the near misses followed by even greater warnings only to arrive at the point where my creator was in total control. My life was in his hands, beyond anything I could do and even with all my rejections of his calls to modify my actions, he saved me. God loved me so much that he allowed me a new live too show others what can be accomplished when you align  body, mind, heart and soul to accomplish His objectives not mine.

I now know what my purpose in life is to be! The question is have you reached the same point in your life? Do you see that our country is coming around the bend and facing a point of no return? Where if every thing we have been taught is simply ignored we as a nation will be just another black mark on the lugetrack of world history, a very big one as illustrated by the attached picture of going through the experience the only sign of my passing being the largest black-mark on the course. It was a great run and will forever be remembered by those who witnessed it but I did not let God have control even though He tried to get my attention many times and in many ways. My objectives were not His objectives for my trip.

Maybe those that follow will learn something from my experience. Life should be lived with expedient corrections  from Spiritual promptings to Take Action and thus avoid the crash coming around the next bend in the course of life.

Pictures of the crash itself will be available for your viewing pleasure later, after I figure out how to secure a copy. They have been the talk of the resort for days and I have yet to see them. Sure have meet a lot of people as a result of my infamy however.

From whitefish, Montana
July 25, 2011
Rick Story

Sent from my iPhone

Comment by DURWIN WALTER DAVIS on July 25, 2011 at 6:56am

We are, indeed, in dire straights.  We need to do as you stated, call our representatives often, INSTRUCTING THEM, "1.) do NOT raise the debt CEILING.  Stop needless spending for spending's sake.  2.) Prioritize you budget for our Financial Obligations, Military; then social security and medicare.  Freeze ALL "foreign aid".  Barter for oil; e.g, 1 bushel for one barrel.  All federal hiring should cease.  As a regular practice, have a bi-annual pink slip event, federally, in all non-essential executive departments, such as Interior, Agriculture, etc.  We need to start electing officials to federal positions to start dismantling "the great society".  The MAIN POINT is call your federally elected officials as liberals vote; very often.

 

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