It will also be aired on PBS stations whose views are supportive of educating people about the true history of Russia and its' deadly encounter with socialism/ communism.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
movie, The Soviet Story
This movie can be purchased for personal , educational or resale @ http://www.neoflix.com/store/PER53/ or watched FREE at the link below
Monday, June 21, 2010
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Codes to live by
A Tale of Personal Integrity
As told, with considerable pride, by my father George A Rice.
The time frame of this story was the late 1800's as best as I can figure. My grandfather, George W Rice, was born in 1860 and his age and the method of building timber frame barns places it about this time.
Mr. Alonzo Dingman, retired at the time and living in the village of Herkimer, owned a dairy farm situated in the town of Minden, Montgomery County N.Y. The dairy barn burned and Mr. Dingman, aka Lon Dingman, wished to have the barn replaced. He met, in the lobby of the Fort Plain Hotel, with my Grandfather and the tenant farmer who ran the farm for him. I am sorry that I do not know the name of this man as he was just as crucial to this endeavor as the other principals. I understand that they ordered a bottle of whiskey and proceeded to calculate the cost of building a new barn. The agreement was that the tenant was to cut the logs in the farm's woodlot and haul the logs to the barn site. Other logs were hauled to a saw mill for boards, planks and other smaller framing members. Granddad and his crew would hew the timbers square, build the timber frame and finish the barn for a certain sum.
The three men shook hands and left. That was the total contract, just a handshake.
Granddad finished the barn, got his horse and buggy and went to Herkimer to see Mr. Dingman about being paid. He told Mr. Dingman that the barn was finished and would he come see it that he might be paid. Mr.Dingman replied "if you say the barn is finished it is finished". He paid granddad what was owed on the spot.
Such was the value of personal integrity!
Charles W Rice
John Scallion’s integrity
When I was a child of 6 or 7 years a man came walking up our driveway. Dad was called and came out and talked with him.
Dad and mom had purchased a narrow strip of land on the east of our property with a 20 foot by 20 foot shed on it.
This man, John "Jack" Scallion wanted to live there. Dad knew that Jack was a drinker but didn't hold that against him. Dad was afraid that he might have drunken friends in with him and so refused his request.
Dad went back in the house and talked with mom who said "you know that if Jack promises to let no one in there he will keep his word" Dad came back out and and called Jack back. He promised to let no one in and was given permission
to live there. Jack kept his promise to the day he died.
Many times I saw men come to talk with Jack in all kinds of weather and he always stood in the doorway with a hand on each door jamb. No one ever got in !!!
In the winter of 1934/35 my youngest brother. Gerald was a toddler when
Jack came to the house to ask if my mother needed anything from
Bessie Schuyler’s store at Indian Castle. Gerald heard his voice and came out from the living room. Jack said "I’m going to the store and will bring you back some candy". It was a cold and stormy day and he left to get mother a loaf of bread. When he returned with the bread Gerald came out from the living room Jack realized he had forgotten the candy. Although he was plastered with snow and freezing he, immediately, turned around and walked back to the store, a distance of about a mile, and got my brother a few cents worth of candy. His excuse was "you must never lie to a child".
I ,personally, witnessed this entire episode.
Such was the integrity of this humble man. My father, always, held up this type of person, regardless of their faults,
As someone to be admired.
Charles W Rice
As told, with considerable pride, by my father George A Rice.
The time frame of this story was the late 1800's as best as I can figure. My grandfather, George W Rice, was born in 1860 and his age and the method of building timber frame barns places it about this time.
Mr. Alonzo Dingman, retired at the time and living in the village of Herkimer, owned a dairy farm situated in the town of Minden, Montgomery County N.Y. The dairy barn burned and Mr. Dingman, aka Lon Dingman, wished to have the barn replaced. He met, in the lobby of the Fort Plain Hotel, with my Grandfather and the tenant farmer who ran the farm for him. I am sorry that I do not know the name of this man as he was just as crucial to this endeavor as the other principals. I understand that they ordered a bottle of whiskey and proceeded to calculate the cost of building a new barn. The agreement was that the tenant was to cut the logs in the farm's woodlot and haul the logs to the barn site. Other logs were hauled to a saw mill for boards, planks and other smaller framing members. Granddad and his crew would hew the timbers square, build the timber frame and finish the barn for a certain sum.
The three men shook hands and left. That was the total contract, just a handshake.
Granddad finished the barn, got his horse and buggy and went to Herkimer to see Mr. Dingman about being paid. He told Mr. Dingman that the barn was finished and would he come see it that he might be paid. Mr.Dingman replied "if you say the barn is finished it is finished". He paid granddad what was owed on the spot.
Such was the value of personal integrity!
Charles W Rice
John Scallion’s integrity
When I was a child of 6 or 7 years a man came walking up our driveway. Dad was called and came out and talked with him.
Dad and mom had purchased a narrow strip of land on the east of our property with a 20 foot by 20 foot shed on it.
This man, John "Jack" Scallion wanted to live there. Dad knew that Jack was a drinker but didn't hold that against him. Dad was afraid that he might have drunken friends in with him and so refused his request.
Dad went back in the house and talked with mom who said "you know that if Jack promises to let no one in there he will keep his word" Dad came back out and and called Jack back. He promised to let no one in and was given permission
to live there. Jack kept his promise to the day he died.
Many times I saw men come to talk with Jack in all kinds of weather and he always stood in the doorway with a hand on each door jamb. No one ever got in !!!
In the winter of 1934/35 my youngest brother. Gerald was a toddler when
Jack came to the house to ask if my mother needed anything from
Bessie Schuyler’s store at Indian Castle. Gerald heard his voice and came out from the living room. Jack said "I’m going to the store and will bring you back some candy". It was a cold and stormy day and he left to get mother a loaf of bread. When he returned with the bread Gerald came out from the living room Jack realized he had forgotten the candy. Although he was plastered with snow and freezing he, immediately, turned around and walked back to the store, a distance of about a mile, and got my brother a few cents worth of candy. His excuse was "you must never lie to a child".
I ,personally, witnessed this entire episode.
Such was the integrity of this humble man. My father, always, held up this type of person, regardless of their faults,
As someone to be admired.
Charles W Rice
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Deriving intent from the founders
Any judge with an ounce of fidelity to his oath would and should discover the truth about Obama and his qualifications since no other law must be satisfied before the supreme law, the constitution. Should any judge discover a violation or abrogation it would then be an entirely different case and legitimately delay or even settle the case being brought. The ONLY reason a sworn upholder of the law would place artificial rules, common law, states laws, congressional law or any other barrier between the supreme law and the upholding of it would be to diminish that constitutional law by removing its protections from the people. Courts may very well function within their rules however it is clear the prime goal of all laws are to protect that constitution not protect those who are in violation of it or even seeking to violate it as a result of some other indirect act. Since all courts have the power of subpoena they can all seek to uphold the constitution by merely demanding the proofs required by the supreme law be made public. It is their duty to do this whenever a valid question comes in front of them.
Two brief quotes from Hamilton;
“In short, when human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.”
Alexander HamiltonThe Founders ConstitutionVolume 1, Chapter 3, Document 5http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
It is not otherwise to be supposed that the constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
Alexander HamiltonFederalist #78Founders ConstitutionVolume 1, Chapter 17, Document 24http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch17s24.html
Two brief quotes from Hamilton;
“In short, when human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.”
Alexander HamiltonThe Founders ConstitutionVolume 1, Chapter 3, Document 5http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
It is not otherwise to be supposed that the constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
Alexander HamiltonFederalist #78Founders ConstitutionVolume 1, Chapter 17, Document 24http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch17s24.html
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
A heritage in arms
I am proud to share with my fellow Americans my Oath of service to my country together with its constitution. As an honorably discharged USN veteran I add myself to a long line of veterans who served this nation. My roots begin with Daniel Frederick Bakeman, the last surviving veteran of the Revolution, and continue all the way to my father who served in the Korean War. Along this family tree are immigrants who made themselves Americans and raised good men who also served both in peace and war.
To live in this land of liberty and enjoy its protections we must never take for granted that they are permanent or secure simply because we have a constitution that states so. Our freedom stems from the will of men to abandon all else to procure it for the future generations. To constantly guard against enemies both foreign and domestic as a patriot, one must never lose sight of the fact that evil is not known by color, shape or name but by subtle acts disguised such that it mingles between us undetected and at its time of choosing may rise to take something precious away should we lower the guard in complacency. That all people not suffer the responsibility of keeping that watch while enjoying this land we entrust to certain individuals, known to themselves as patriots and keepers of the oath, to defend the constitution should it come under attack or be usurped.
That all may know the words and provisions of the constitution, it is made public and while not required of a citizen to know or understand all of it, to be an informed citizen one should at the least read it, read the Federalist Papers and the Declaration of independance as well for they are your heritage. They are the cause of liberty for which so many souls passed and many more aim to follow. I am proud to join that line and keep that oath so long as I shall live.
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