Republicans were against slavery since the party was founded, before Lincoln. The southern Democrats switched, and only southern Democrats. Southern Democrats including LBJ were adamantly racist; they flipped for pure political strategy. Northern Democrats not so, e.g. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Emmanuel Celler (D-NY) and Mike Mansfield (D-MT.) Northern Democrats favored equal rights. It was Republicans who fought for the right of women to vote, the end of slavery, the right of blacks and Indians to vote, and the several civil rights acts. They have not changed. Equal rights under the law was a GOP founding principle. In 1856, before the Civil War, Republican Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was beaten senseless on the floor of the Senate after a fiery speech against slavery. He was beaten by a southern Democrat U.S. Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina. Sumner never fully recovered. So-called progressive Democrat President Woodrow Wilson also fought against all of the above civil rights, until he flipped to avoid losing his re-election. Republican President Eisenhower pushed through the civil rights act of 1957 written by Democrat Representative Emanuel Celler of New York and sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce integration of public schools. The civil rights acts of ’64 and ’65 that were passed during LBJ’s administration had been previously sponsored by JFK but were written and pushed through by Senator Everitt Dirksen and northern Democrats and all Republicans.

Republicans have not switched sides on civil rights.  Southern Democrats flipped sides on slavery, voting rights and many other issues and every time they attempt to re-write history with the propaganda that Republicans are not for equal rights.  Democrats are very good liars apparently.

Democrats one hundred fifty years ago, fifty years ago, and today vote every time to keep people enslaved.  Only their method of enslavement has changed.  Today, Democrats vote consistently to enslave minorities and poor people to the government by making these people dependent on a network of welfare programs that are nearly impossible to get off. It has always been hard to leave the plantation if you are dependent on the master.  The benefits of today’s myriad welfare programs pay more than the entry level jobs available to these people.  These programs are growing rapidly, which means slavery to the government is growing rapidly…thanks to Democrats.  Families live their entire lives on welfare, slaves to the state.  In return, most of them vote for Democrats.  They are addicts, slaves.  Just like many of the slaves in the old south and old north, many do not want to leave the plantation.

But today, the population of government slaves is much more diverse.  Equal slavery for all.  Kumbahya.

https://www.loc.gov/…/civ…/civil-rights-act-of-1964.html

“The United States government is now distributing thousands of “Syrian” “refugees” all over the country as part of the Refugee Resettlement Program. A lot of small communities are having culture-enrichers dumped on them without having any say-so in the process. The government puts the new arrivals in public housing and hands them their EBT cards, and the feds pay the tab for the first six months. After that the local authorities are on their own, and have to find the money themselves — for more police officers, medical care, interpreters, special needs teachers, whatever their new guests require.

In an interview published Tuesday, May 31 by the German press, the Tibetan spiritual leader said that “too much” of refugees were now on European soil since the wave of influx of last year, believing that these seeking safety migrants were to stay on the mainland for a limited period.

“When we look at the face of every refugee, especially children and women, we feel their suffering and a human being who has better living conditions has the responsibility to help them.

“There’s so that it becomes difficult in practice. And morally, I also find that these refugees should not be accepted provisionally. The goal should be that they return (to their countries) and help rebuild their country, “also considers the Dalai Lama.

Above is a translation from the French article in Atlantico  found here. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlantico.fr%2Fpepites%2Fcrise-migrants-selon-dalai-lama-trop-refugies-se-trouvent-en-europe-2717579.html&anno=2&sandbox=1  

Hat tip to Mark Stradley at http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/

If we equate the Americans who gave their lives in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq wars, the Afghanistan War and more with the evil they were fighting, then we render their sacrifice worthless.

It is not the fault of the soldier that diplomacy failed or was subverted. It is not their fault of the soldier that American political leadership failed or was subverted. It is the fault of voters who hear what they want to hear and ignore the rest, like the convenient cell phone music app, instead of digging for facts on candidates, laws and history which are hidden by highly paid media consultants behind red-meat issues like bathrooms, gender, abortion, religion, liberty, guns, climate, taxes and never-ending half truth promises.

The character disorders of candidates and the corruption of natural law are there for your eyes and ears, but most of you have already lost your will to survive. You just don’t know it yet. This is the intended effect of moral equivalence or moral relativism. This is how collectivism, socialism, and communism work and are intended to work. Obama is merely the current pope.

Most of you have lost the ability to determine for yourself right from wrong, yet you believe you made an informed decision. But the horse left the barn and barn burned down. Most of you have lost the ability to discriminate right from wrong and you believe that discrimination itself is wrong, though it is the only thing that can save you now. It won’t be long before you are wearing the uniform, comrade.

Politicians, anxious to protect their power and cushy life, have turned the government and law against you and yet call themselves public servants. Government has turn the law upside down. That which was designed to protect you from government is now protecting government.

You accept the government-promoted premise that the 0.3% of the population who are gender confused should be admitted to their restroom of choice when the President commands it without considering that the other 99.7% of the people lost freedom by being forced to behave against their innate, natural right to privacy. In doublespeak, that is called social justice.

You accept the government-promoted premise that more guns cause more murders therefore government should control guns, but you never looked for the evidence beneath the carefully manicured media campaign that shows murders and violent crimes declining where and when guns are not controlled. It is the politicians, bureaucrats and criminals who fear your guns and they will still have guns when you give up yours.

You accept the government-promoted fiction that women’s rights equal the right to kill a child without questioning the motive for such an unnatural act.

You accept the government and politician-promoted propaganda that we need more military, more police power, more secrecy and more spying to fight and kill to restore and protect liberty overseas and at home, until or unless you or a loved one are strip-searched, home-invaded or cyber-assaulted under color of authority. You are a pawn and you know it.

You think it can’t happen here, not to you. You think you have nothing to hide. You believe in social justice. You think I am arrogant. You have been assimilated. http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/…/obamas-ho-chi-minh-trail.…

“Cambridge University electrical engineering professor Dr. M.J. Kelly concluded in a peer-reviewed journal article (at the link below) that attempts to fight global warming with green energy will impoverish the world.”

“It is important to note the scale of the perceived problem. The entire history of modern civilization that started with the first industrial revolution has been enabled by the burning of fossil fuels. Our mobility, our health and lifestyles, our diet and its variety, our education system, particularly at the higher level, and our high culture would be quite impossible without fossil fuels, which have provided over 90% of the energy consumed on the earth since 1800. Today, geothermal, hydro- and nuclear power, together with the historic biofuels of wood and straw, account for about 15% of our energy use. 18 Even though it is 40 years since the first oil shocks kick-started the modern renewable energy developments (wind, solar, and cultivated biomass), we still get rather less than 1% of our world energy from these sources. Indeed the rate at which fossil fuels are growing is seven times that at which the low carbon energies are growing, as the ratio of fossil fuel energy used to total energy used has remained unchanged since 1990 at 85%. 19 The call to decarbonize the global economy by 80% by 2050 can now only be described as glib in my opinion, as the underlying analysis shows it is only possible if we wish to see large parts of the population die from starvation, destitution or violence in the absence of enough low-carbon energy to sustain society.”

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FMRE%2FMRE3%2FS2329222916000039a.pdf&code=5f88866466d0918f7fc0936b8a4b398c

https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2016/05/27/like-germany-denmark-admits-wind-power-generation-expensive/

Temperatures during the period from about 1944 to 1975 directly contradict the global warming hypothesis. This was the period of recovery from WWII when industrial growth was very fast, and gasoline engines were in mass production and use. Little attention was paid to combustion efficiency in vehicles, factories or homes. CO2 emissions and atmospheric concentration of CO2 as well as actual air pollution was growing consistently. But the temperature trend declined for about 30 years.

According to hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and the CO2 forcing parameter, the temperature trend should have been rising, not falling. At the time, the press and experts were reporting global cooling and many expected a new ice age.

Now in 2016 climate experts want to “adjust” the data for this cooling period, so that the cooling disappears, because it reveals their alarmist claims of global warming/climate change are a fraud…a way to extract money and political power from citizens, companies and states.

You might keep this graph to compare as the data are “adjusted.”

Newsweek, 1975

References

(1)  For graph:  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/110/0/tavg/1/4/1944-1975?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1895&lastbaseyear=1944&trend=true&trend_base=100&firsttrendyear=1944&lasttrendyear=1975

(2) About NOAA adjusting data:  http://www.examiner.com/article/how-noaa-rewrote-climate-data-to-hide-global-warming-pause

One is wisdom, knowledge and virtue.

Be one with the river, but never loose the last line.  Then, there is no choice and soon the river becomes ocean.  Be aware of that line lest you stretch it too far.  Then, the relation is lost and inevitably we build a cross.

“The longest NOAA tide gauge data record is at the Battery, New York with a 160 year long measurement period. This location along with all other U.S. coastal locations show no sea level rise acceleration.”

“Climate alarmists continue to try and mislead the public by claiming  that the Statue of Liberty is in “imminent jeopardy” because of rising sea levels but the unchanging rate of sea level rise present at the Battery would require more than 20,000 years to cover the base.  That time period hardly qualifies as “imminent jeopardy”.”

It is well to remind readers that if there were a trend of increasing global warming caused by the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration that results from the increased combustion of fossil fuels by humans that began during the industrial revolution, then, if that were true, water in the oceans would be expanding and an acceleration in the rise of sea level would be measured. The fact that there is no acceleration is yet another confirmation that there is no increased global warming due to humans.

At the following link is the excellent post of the May 28, 2016 blog in WattsUpWithThat dot com.