The Confederate battle flag is staying on a redesigned Georgia license plate in a deal reached with state officials.

The Georgia Department of Revenue and the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans struck an agreement on the redesign that could be available as early as next week, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Thursday.

The redesigned license plate eliminates the faded Confederate emblem in the background. It retains a small "blood red" version of the emblem in the foreground, the paper said.

Gov. Nathan Deal ordered a redesign of the license plate in June after the shooting of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church by a suspect that police have identified as a white supremacist.

He stopped short of calling for the Sons of Confederate Veterans tags to be phased out entirely as has been ordered in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

"We did agree to remove the faded backgrounds as most of the Camps indicated that they would be willing to do as long as the SCV logo was in its place of prominence on the tag," Tim Pilgrim, a Sons of Confederate Veterans leader, said, according to the paper.

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This week's featured trivia question for Trivia Today was 4 questions about the Emancipation Proclamation. The questions reveal that even yankees, when presented with facts, are hard-pressed to admit that Abraham Lincoln failed to free a single slave.
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DIXIE
One of my favorite singers is Bob Dylan. I know, a little odd for a Southerner. When I was a kid I do not remember ever riding in the car with my Dad when Dylan was not on the stereo. When he died, he had every LP, 8-track, reel-to-reel, cassette, and CD ever released by Dylan.

Anyway, I was reading Southern Heritage News & Views the other day and they featured a link to Bob Dylan's rendering of Dixie. I'm sharing it because its good to know I'm not the only Southerner who likes to listen to Dylan.

In the early 80's, Dylan accepted Christ as his personal Saviour. He released 3 gospel albums, mainly of self-written songs. If you are interested eMail me.

And as Dylan has aged he has become more conservative. Back in 2003 or 2004 he released a 9 minute eulogy song on the death of Stonewall Jackson. I may share that in a coming week. Enjoy the Dixie video below:

The Little Rock Planning Commission unanimously recommended Thursday that the city Board of Directors approve changing the name of Confederate Boulevard to Springer Boulevard. Rev. Horace Springer was one of the first black property owners in the Granite Mountain area to which the road leads.


The two businesses that have been most vocal about their opposition to the name change - Burger House LLC and H.F. Scruggs Inc. - didn't have representatives at Thursday's Planning Commission meeting, where the request was approved in a 10-0 vote.
The matter will now go to the city board for final approval. Several board members already have indicated their support.


By the Associated Press | September 25, 2015 | 1:07 AM EDT

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Marine archeologists say they've recovered another cannon from a Confederate warship that's been at the bottom of the Savannah River since the American Civil War.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon - the second of its type recovered from the CSS Georgia in recent months - was raised from the water last week.

Military officials say archaeologists are raising other relics from the ironclad as well, such as leather shoes, wrenches, ceramic bottles and an anvil.

The CSS Georgia is being recovered as part of a $703 million deepening of the Savannah harbor.

Confederate soldiers, fearing the Union Army might seize the boat and use it against them, intentionally sank the CSS Georgia as Union troops approached Savannah in December 1864.



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The Cost of Total War in the South 

New scholarly works on these topics suggest startlingly higher numbers of people who lost their lives as a result of the War of Northern Aggression.

The traditional number of soldiers who died as a result of this epic War, 620,000 (360,000 Northern and 260,000 Southern) has been revised to 750,000 (400,000 Northern and 350,000 Southern).   An estimated 35,000 white Southern civilians died, numbers very seldom even considered in the costs of the War.

Perhaps most astonishing of all, because heretofore very little attention has been paid to the deaths of black people caused by the War, the number of blacks who died in the Confederate States from the War's causes may well have reached 200,000, primarily a result of the policies of the "Union" government both during the War and Reconstruction, including the severe hardships brought on the Southern People by the blockade.

The Southern loss of life was so great that the prominent historian James McPherson believes that the total mortality rate of the South from this war - without counting the huge number of blacks who died - was greater than that of any country during World War I, a war so devastating that the West has been in decline ever since.  In World War II, only the region between the Rhine and the Volga suffered greater total mortality than did the South during the War, and this region included the Nazi death camps.

Almost 30% of all Southern white men between the ages of 18 and 48 died fighting for Southern Independence.   This ratio of deaths in a war fought today by the United States would result in 21 million deaths, virtually incomprehensible to modern Americans.  This rate of mortality is 300 times that of the Vietnam War, in which 58,000 Americans died.  Even World War II saw "only" 405,000 American deaths, itself a huge number, though paling in comparison with the comparable Southern losses during the War.

You can download the research by going to www.southernhistorians.org  

YOUTUBE VIDEOS

The largest church in Harlem is a Baptist church pastored by Dr. James Manning. Yes, Pastor Manning is black. I remember watching Dr. Manning on Fox News back in 2008 when he called then candidate Obama, "a long-legged mack daddy." And then he said, "and for all you white people who don't know what a 'mack daddy' is its a PIMP." Then he want on as only a black preacher can about how Obama was pimpin' hope, he was pimpin' change, and he was pimpin' Hillary Clinton. Go to youtube and look up those OLD James David Manning videos.

I'll give you a start: https://youtu.be/U4-TZspqlOs is a youtube video of Manning preaching on "Obama's Mamma."

Here is a video where he says Michelle Obama "looks like King Kong's baby sister." He said that if Michelle and Whoopie Goldberg were in a beauty contest that Whoopie would win: https://youtu.be/F1sJDhJ-6iE

Now Manning has a daily TV and radio broadcast in New York City and he has been coming out in support of the South and Confederate Flag.

Below is a youtube video that Dr. Manning broadcast right after the flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse. 

Here is a second video that you just have to watch once or twice. Pastor Manning suggests that God will raise up Confederates to save America from liberalism and gays.

An Indiana TV station reported this week that a woman stripped at roadside over the weekend to protest a Confederate flag "appreciation ride."

On Sunday, members of a Facebook group promised that over 100 vehicles would rally for a "Confederate flags, American flags, Don't Tread On Me Flag Appreciation ride"

The ride was set to begin at Hideaway 2 Bar & Grill until the restaurant owner suggested that they were not welcome, forcing them to gather at an abandoned CVS parking lot in Lafayette.

A woman named Maddie said that she decided to strip down to her bra and underwear to pull attention away from the group.

She told told WLFI that the ride participants were committing "an act of domestic terrorism" aimed at minorities by flying the Confederate flag.



Flagging in San Antonio, Florida (Pasco Co.)

  On Saturday, October 17, 2015, there will be a flagging event scheduled for the 2015 San Antonio (yes, Florida) Rattlesnake Festival.

The Rotary Club of San Antonio decided to deny the application of the General Jubal A. Early Camp and the Florida Confederate Memorial Wall because, in their words, it was not appropriate for their event.

Members of the SCV, SCV Mech Cav, Hardcore Confederates, and numerous flagging groups are all invited to attend.  We will be meeting at the Village Square Shopping Center in Wesley Chapel at the corner of Highway 54 and Bruce B. Downs. (just east of I-275 at the Zephyrhills exit, behind Waffle House) between 10:30am and 11:00am.  At 11:15 we will conduct a rally convoy to the San Antonio City Park area where we will dismount, grab our flags, and enjoy our day showing our pride and enjoying this FREE festival, open to the public.

Kevin O. Hobson
Jubal A. Early Camp #556 Adjutant
http://www.tampascv.org



An Indiana TV station reported this week that a woman stripped at roadside over the weekend to protest a Confederate flag "appreciation ride."

On Sunday, members of a Facebook group promised that over 100 vehicles would rally for a "Confederate flags, American flags, Don't Tread On Me Flag Appreciation ride"

The ride was set to begin at Hideaway 2 Bar & Grill until the restaurant owner suggested that they were not welcome, forcing them to gather at an abandoned CVS parking lot in Lafayette.

A woman named Maddie said that she decided to strip down to her bra and underwear to pull attention away from the group.

She told told WLFI that the ride participants were committing "an act of domestic terrorism" aimed at minorities by flying the Confederate flag.


 
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TODAY FOX NEWS REPORTS:

More than 20 western Virginia high school students were suspended Thursday after holding a rally to protest a new policy banning vehicles with Confederate flag symbols from the school parking lot and refusing to take off clothing displaying the symbol.

Christiansburg High School Senior Houston Miller, who organized the rally, said he doesn't believe the administration should be able to tell students what they can wear or put on their vehicle. He said he doesn't intend to back down and is encouraging more students to show their support for the flag Friday.


"I feel like I should have the right to wear whatever I want, and I'm standing up for this," Miller said.


The dress code at the school in Christiansburg - south of Blacksburg along Interstate 81 - prohibits students from wearing articles that reflect adversely on people because of race, gender, or other factors. A new policy this fall bans students from having Confederate symbols on their vehicles in the parking lot.

The 21 students who refused to remove their Confederate flag clothing were initially given in-school suspensions, said Brenda Drake, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County Public Schools. But 15 of them were sent home for the day after being loud and disruptive. Another two students were suspended for additional days.

Senior Morgan Willis attended the rally but decided to comply with the rules because she feared a suspension would prevent her from representing the school at an event this weekend. She had a Confederate flag draped across the top of her car until she was told on the first day of class to remove it, she said.

Willis said that for her and for other students, the flag is central to their Southern heritage.

"I understand some people take it as hate, but none of us out there were racist or anything," Willis said. "I don't see it as hate. If I did, I wouldn't own it. I see it as this is your Southern heritage, and if you can't have that, then what can you have?"

The new policy regarding Confederate flags on cars has also angered some parents, including Josh Akers, whose child attends the grade school in the school district. He started an online petition that has more than 1,200 supporters urging the school board to reverse the policy.

Richmond-based Attorney Jonathan Arthur said he has been talking to some of the students about potentially filing a lawsuit against the school, arguing that they have a Constitutionally-protected right to wear clothing emblazoned the flag.

Douglas Mertz, an attorney in Juneau, Alaska, who works on civil rights cases, said the courts have been divided over the issue. It often comes down to whether the school can point to concrete and specific problems that the symbol has caused, like a fight that broke out between students.


"The Supreme Court has said that you don't speculate that there might be a substantial impact on the education process. It has got to be really clear," Mertz said. "School officials can't simply go in with the belief that symbols are trouble and therefore can be banned," he said.

 

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A 1900 article in The Chautauquan described General Lee as:

"...a man of prayer, he had his regular hours of secret devotion which he allowed nothing else, however pressing, to interrupt."  

General Lee always had his family alter and read family prayers every morning just before breakfast.

A daughter-in-law, after her first visit to General Lee, spending three weeks there, said that she did not believe he would have an entirely high opinion of any person, even General Washington, if he could return to earth, if he were not in time for family prayers.  

General Lee's son was quoted as saying, "family prayers were read every morning just before breakfast."  
During the war, General Lee issued many orders in the field calling his troops to prayer. Here is an example of such an order:     

Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the supreme call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray. Believing that prayer is the greatest contribution that our people can make in this critical hour, I humbly urge that we take time to pray - to really pray.   Let there be prayer at sunup, at noonday, at sundown, at midnight - all through the day.  Let us pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for our churches.   Let us pray for ourselves that we may not lose the word "concern" out of our Christian vocabulary.  Let us pray for our nation.  Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders.          Let prayer be our passion.  Let prayer be our practice.

General Lee was an avid reader. The writings of E.M. Bounds (who was a Confederate Chaplain), Charles Spurgeon (an English pastor) and Andrew Murray were all familiar to the general. As were the writings on prayer by the late Patriot preacher George Whitfield and the French theologian Guyon.

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO

This week we have uploaded a new video to our youtube page. It is a video by retired 10-term US Congressman and 3-time presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul. Dr Paul explains that secession is a very American idea.

Confederate Flag Rally!
 
On September 18, 2015, Heritage Action for America will host a special presidential candidate forum in Greenville, South Carolina at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. In addition to candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016, the forum will feature South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, and Heritage Action CEO Michael A. Needham.

We are asking all Flaggers to be at the arena (former Bi-Lo Arena) at 1:00 pm. Please bring your flag, your signs (especially those noting Haley) and dress casual. Please portray a good attitude and do not give the press any reason to call us hicks, or any other dismissive names! We want to continue flagging until 7:00 pm. Those willing can stay until it ends at 10:00 pm.
 
WHERE: Bon Secours Wellness Arena (Follow I-185 downtown) 650 North Academy Street Greenville, SC 29601

WHEN: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:00 p.m.    
Doors Open 4:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.


PETITION IMPERIAL POTENTATE TO LIFT SHRINER BAN OF BATTLE FLAG 

On August 10, 2015 Jerry G. Gantt, Imperial Potentate of Shriners International issued Special Order #4 prohibiting any Shriner to display a Confederate flag in public or in private, AND prohibits any Shriner to participate in ANY event where a Confederate flag is displayed. The link below is a petition which you can sign telling the Imperial Potentate that the ban is an insult to your ancestors and asking him to lift the ban:  

https://www.change.org/p/imperial-potentate-jerry-g-gantt-shriners-don-t-dishonor-confederate-veterans-by-banning-their-flag?recruiter=28887230&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive&rp_sharecordion_checklist=control

A few weeks ago, when we published the order from the International Headquarters of Shriners banning any Shriner from displaying the Battle Flag or belonging to any organization that does, etc. it quickly became the most replied to item we had ever published. Several of you sent eMails of shock and many rightfully wrote that they would suspend support of Shriner's charities until the ban was reversed.

Myself, our local Shrine put on two BIG rodeos and a circus each year. Events that we are now passing on advertising in and attending.

I have spoken to a few local Shriners who were actually embarrassed by the order and who will ignore it. If they are called out for that or suffer an "consequences" we'll be sure to report on it. But it does not seem that the order from the Potentate is going away any time soon. And I am yet to see any published replies to it from or by Shriners.

But there are Masonic replies to the order. We received one such reply, from a 32nd degree Master Mason who is also a subscriber to this newsletter. It was temporarily lost in my inbox. That is why we are just now posting it:


SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL 
2900 Rocky Point Drive 
Tampa, FL33607-1435 

Re: Special Order No. 4           13 August, 2015 

Dear John H. Ambrose, Sr. - Potentate 2015, 

I am not a Shriner, but am a 32nd Degree Master Mason and take exception to your edict of banning the Confederate Battle Flag being displayed. You are jumping squarely on the cultural genocide bandwagon, agreeing with those who are grossly uninformed and uneducated as to our true history. It is especially sad to see such action take place in the South. This is a direct "slap in the face" to our brave Confederate dead who fought to repel the illegal invasion of Lincoln; that invasion which resulted in the rape, murder, looting, and burning of property across the South at the hands of the Yankee socialist invaders. The North was not fighting to end slavery, and the South was not fighting to protect or perpetuate slavery. The South was fighting for independence from an overgrown, intrusive, overtaxing, tyrannical government. 

  To equate any Confederate symbol with racism, hate, or slavery and forbid its display is beyond ignorant, and aligns those who do it with the likes of Nazis and ISIS. Our Marxist rewritten history has polluted millions of minds for 150 years with lies and propaganda, which has be reinforced by Hollywood, the media, NAACP, and politicians. You say the pledge of allegiance don't you? The flag you are pledging to flew on the slave ships built in New England. It flew back and forth across the Atlantic carrying cargoes of human flesh which the Yankees sold to both Northerners and Southerners, but it is the South that always gets the blame for slavery. No Confederate flag ever flew on a slave ship. The Confederate Battle Flag does not represent racism, hate, or slavery, but represents a people fed up with tyranny, seeking individual liberty and self-government. It has been flown in other countries around the world to represent the same thing, as was done when the Berlin Wall came down.  

  My donations to the Shriners Hospitals (and probably those of many other brothers) will stop until this "politically correct" (Marxist thought control) edict is rescinded. Enclosed you will find one of my True History CDs which will enlighten you to the true accounts of our history since you seem to be greatly lacking in that area.

Deo Vindice 
Jeff Paulk
Tulsa, OK

FLORIDA CITY TO REMOVE BATTLE FLAG 

For about 3 years I lived in Lake City, Florida. During that time I failed to notice the city seal. Even though it was on the town sign, the city vehicles, the police cars, etc. Amazing how you can fail to pay attention to things. So this was really surprising when a reader of this newsletter eMailed to ask if I knew what was happening in Lake City. I asked him to share so here is his take on another sad attack on our heritage:

Lake City:  Very nice town... we live about 25 miles South in O'Brien.... that is where we go to 'big shop' and also some very nice restaurants... as a matter of fact that have had a 'boom' in big name restaurants moving into town, which makes their logic on the flag even more perplexing.  Anyway, with all the universal hoopla about the Confederate Battle Flag, some folks went to the town council and asked that it be removed from the City logo... the Flag is about one-fourth of the city logo... after a month ... 2-3 meetings.. the city council voted to remove the flag as part of the logo and are now in the process of having to develop a new logo... change city letterhead, all forms that have the logo; the logo on police cars, fire vehicles, trucks, etc... lots of $$$$$ 
 
And all based on lies and "offended parties."  One of the arguments was that if they didn't change the logo, new businesses would not come to town... the usual other argument - symbol of racism, hate, discrimination;  a few people did speak out in favor of keeping the flag on the logo using the truth, all of which are in your book... it looked like (for a week or two) the council was going to leave it as is, but in the end, they caved to the pressure.
 
I am from Pennsylvania, and even though raised in Florida, I consider myself a Northerner and even I know that the Civil War was a war of money ... or, for money; Lincoln simply couldn't keep the country economically going without Southern Money.... so, like so many government officials today, when there is a serious economic problem, a good war will solve it.... (sarcastic? I suppose, or cynical);  
 
Anyway, truth be told it is probably our fault; when they started hiring all the liberals in the universities and we allowed them to remove the 'true' History of Western Civilization out of the High Schools and Colleges, we should have stopped them.


Darlington offers flag exchange: Confederate for American

Darlington Raceway will give out American flags to those who want to turn in a Confederate flag, continuing an initiative that began in Daytona soon after nine people were killed at a church in Charleston.

Track president Chip Wile says he hopes fans attending the Southern 500 on Sunday will ''join us in creating an inclusive atmosphere'' at NASCAR's oldest superspeedway.

Darlington Raceway owners, International Speedway Corp., began the flag exchange at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway in July. Other ISC tracks have followed suit.

OCALA, FLORIDA FLAG UNDER ATTACK AGAIN

On September 1st a group presented themselves to the Marion County Board of Supervisors and asked that the battle flag be removed yet again from the Veteran's Memorial. The County has tabled the request but will un-table it at the next meeting. So this victory is still a fight.


UPDATE ON AMAZON BAN OF CONFEDERATE MERCHANDISE

As you know Amazon banned the sale of Confederate Merchandise. Then they lifted that ban and are now selling it again. Today an independent news agency in Europe is claiming to have a statement from an unnamed employee at Amazon that the ban was ordered by the U.S. Federal Government. The claim is that Federal Agents visited Amazon's headquarters in Washington State and ordered them to join eBay and Sears in pulling the sales of all things "confederate." What is not certain is if these agents were acting under orders or if they were acting independently when they made the visit.

I decided to look a little deeper into this and found some screenshots on Alex Jones' infowars.com where Amazon employees are stating that eBay, Sears, Wal-Mart, etc. were also ordered by the government not to sell "Confederate" merchandise. 

I am not certain if the journalists in Europe have new information or if they are just rehashing stuff that was in US alternate media a few weeks ago? Did the employees texting in the screenshots actually know what they were talking about or not? Amazon is not commenting.

You can make up your own mind as to what you think about the above. I still have not made up my mind. Just find it all interesting enough to share.



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YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flag to everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!

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Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed