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The board decided last month to boost the inspection fee from 90 cents a head to $1. The increase is intended to keep the brand inspection program in the black for a few more years.
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A fellow blogger Ngozi Kanwiro expressed her rage through her blog in an open letter to Cossy Orjiakor and Tonto Dikeh. In the letter she mentioned these two actresses are living reckless lives and attracting bad comments and reputation to the Igbo community and Nigeria at large. She calls for their ban in the entertainment industry, mentioning that Cossy has posted semi-nude pictures over the internet and considers it a bad influence to young Nigerians.
One of my blog readers drew my attention to this and asked my take on it. In his email he wrote: "Dear egosentrik, you are one of those rare bloggers that are intellectually sound when analyzing issues, and not partial when passing judgments on things. You stand for men and women equally and I've not perceived any act of feminism in your write ups when dealing with relationships and other love related issues. Please kindly respond to my request and I wish to be referred to as anonymous. Thank you"
Below is the semi-naked pic of Cossy:
Cossy has been in the media for a long while now and unfortuantely only for negative press, for example in the clip above about 6mins in she is seen flashing her puppies in a sex scene and further down she is also shown having sex with a dog… these are not real sex scenes but ….Hmmn
Cossy Orjiakor has this to say via twitter:
1. Ngozi has responded back at Cossy's tweets and can be read on her blog if you wish. I've read Ngozi's response and I say thumbs up to that, but will advice her not to go any further in order not to bring her self down to the level of public display of ignorance as could be seen on the above tweets.
2. Ngozi made a mistake by making this an Igbo issue! This is applicable to all ladies in Nigeria who would do anything for money and cheap popularity.
3. I can imagine that one of Cossy's fans claim Nigerians don't comment on Ngozi's site? How dumb? Who cares? Blogging industry is about quality comments and feedback and not just quantity and hero worshiping comments. Blogging industry is about international presence and not some myopic thinkers who think because one is a Nigerian then only Nigerians should visit and comment on your blog, arrant nonsense. While I appreciate and love my Nigerian readers, I equally love and appreciate my international readers.
4. God shouldn't have been dragged into this issue in the first instance, cos most Nigerians are over religious people and not true Christians, even an armed robber prays before operation, a prostitute prays for customers before she goes out, doctors pray for people to fall sick and coffin makers pray for people to die so they can sell their coffins. A terrorist or suicide bomber believes they are killing for their God who will reward them with virgins when they die. So what are we on about here?
5. In my candid unbiased opinion, Cossy's particular picture that is causing mayhem isn't a good one to showcase publicly, I've seen some good pics of hers. Any blogger promoting such pics is equally a bird of the same feather. I want to read a blog and read a blogger's analysis on things and not just some news headlines or copy and paste posts that are all over the web. What is is your take? What does your blog stand for? Lets see your personal articles and intelligent write ups for your readers, even controversial topics like what Ngozi did, it's part of the industry. Then I'll respect your blog and pass nice comments…LOL. Enough said.
6. Ngozi would've privately contacted these ladies with her request and hint them of showing her letter openly, otherwise her letter would've generalized to actresses that are displaying such pics.. even though she has made her point clear on her targeted individuals.
Lastly, as for Tonto Dikeh, if she's being slated over the roles she chose to play in movies, then it's her life her choice…maybe some day she'll rethink her actions and adjust, perhaps follow the path of Chioma Chukwuka as someone mentioned on one of the comments in Ngozi's post….but believe me, let Tonto decide that.
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Nevertheless, copper, lead, magnetic iron, and tin were discovered by explorer Henry R. Schoolcraft in 1818; Dr. John C. Branner, state geologist, & Herbert Hoover found outcroppings of lead and zinc in 1896. Nevertheless, it was on these shoals of the White River & Bruce Creek that de Soto's men discovered fertile valleys with herds of buffalo and sustenance for the journey.
The buffalo pictured in this photo are a few survivors that escaped from the starving de Soto scouting party.
Still, with references listed in books, it is always nice to see it in person.
Since time is a nice commodity, I decided to do a little homework & sleuthing in order to make the most of our time. I pulled up Bruce Creek on Google Earth and took a small snapshot & geological survey of the area. I placed "Bruce Creek" & "Baxter County, Arkansas" in the search engine, and this is what I got.
An interesting feature caught my attention when looking at the map. It was the faint straight line trekking from Baxter County Road #1/Denton Ferry Road straight over to Bruce Creek. Looking at a U.S. Geological Survey Map, the line is labeled, "Railroad Grade."
Quickly looking at the history of this area, tracks were laid on this grade for equipment to be hauled for the construction of Bull Shoals Dam.
With map in hand, we headed to Monkey Run, Arkansas & Baxter County Road #1.This is the first area we came into heading down into Bruce Creek. The steel tracks and wooden ties are missing today, but the raised grade makes a beautiful trail.
Coming to the end of the grade, we peered off its' precipice that's about 25 feet above Bruce Creek. Using our mind's eye, we imagine the train bridge that once traversed Bruce Creek below.
Scaling down the bank, through the bamboo, thistles, and ground hog holes, we hastily discovered the six concrete foundations that once supported the trestles of the Bruce Creek Bridge.
My son and I are dreamers. We not only talked about the men, the blood, the sweat in building the railroad grade and bridge, but how this was one of the first ways dependable transportation was established in the Ozarks. Not to belittle the importance of the White River and its' steamboats. The river was fickle due to drought & flood. This railroad was the consistent artery of commerce and travel everybody was praying for.
Next, we wanted to see if it's possible to see any evidence of mining debris or a slag pile. While at the bridge, we couldn't find evidence of mining. Unfortunately, the answer was, "No." It wasn't going to be that easy. It was probably up stream. Well…it finally came to the decision of crossing the creek and going up its' tributary. It has been raining quite a bit lately, and the creek is thoroughly flushed and swift. In our "preparation," we didn't think of bringing wading boots. Oh well...since we're here, we decided to make the best of it. I hated for both of us to get our feet wet. So, Alex climbed on my back, and we headed up stream for the first small shoal. This probably looked hilarious. Alex is only about a half an inch shorter than I am. Thankfully, he's only 115 pounds. We really wanted to see evidence of de Soto's men and mining.
Was this the true evidence of de Soto? Well..he didn't leave a sign or business card.
Had there been some activity in the past there? Yes.
Author Frances Shiras McClelland references of personally finding three places of crude smelting efforts and the writer has found both magnetic iron & copper in them that fused but didn't run out.
If you have read my past blogs concerning mining in Baxter County, the Bruce Creek District contained 19 mines, which were the: McCracken, Hawkeye No. 2, Cedar Gap, Rocky Hill,
With all the activity on this creek and trying to discover the originator of the rubble, it kind of reminds me of the old Tootsie-Pop commercial..."How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop?" - "The world may never know."
Opposite of the slag pile & rubble was a small level field that could have easily become a camp. Looking at the composition of the rocks in that area there was a nice mixture of limestone with chert, calcite, and quartz with traces of iron and red marble. Here's Alex sifting through the rocks looking for remnants of the slag pile and mining traces.
As we were preparing to leave, we came upon a "Discovery!" Remember…every good adventure has an element of surprise, a mystery, or a discovery. This is was a "Discovery!"


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Grace is not about going to church. Grace is not about being "saved" or "unsaved." Grace is not about righteous acts. Grace is not about right belief. Grace is about our one-on-one connection with God.
Grace is a free gift. It cannot be earned by any effort on our part -- by fasting, celibacy, acts of kindness or by prayer vigils. Whatever the value
we place on our time or our energy we cannot suppose that God will ever be
indebted to us.
God makes the promise of
reconciliation in Christ Jesus, and if we believe it, we have salvation. We
do not have to live according to a certain set of rules and standards, nor
do we have to do anything except believe in order to gain God's love.
I offer these thoughts not as some expert in theology and faith, but rather as a lowly fellow seeker. As one who sees the pearl of great price and is actively, if feebly, selling all I have to possess it. And yet, grace
is already mine without effort. Perhaps the first among the many
paradoxes of the Christian faith that collectively frame the narrow way to
To me God's Grace is not about sparing me, the miserable sinner,
from hell, but about telling me that I am not a miserable sinner but a Child
of God, and that the only hell is a result of turning away from God and
letting fear create the false illusion that God does not love me or is not
there for me.
Boy, have I got
grace! I just got grace delivered to me from God in a big Fed Ex Overnight
Express package. I opened the box and there was a beautiful, big red bow on a gift box that was wrapped with all-occasion wrap. (I guess I was expecting
birthday or Christmas wrap). The gift tag said, "To Betty, Love, Jesus."
Grace gives faith to the weakest person. It gives hope to the backslider.
It gives encouragement to the person who has failed over and over again,
and when a fallen person turns to the Lord, the first thing they must learn is
not to change themselves, but to release the grace that they have received.
Conservative churches are built on foundations of "ungrace." In theory, they believe in salvation by Grace. In practice, they do something entirely different.
We are to show forth "agape." To the degree that the Church condemns
gay relationships, it is to that degree that the Church is culpable in the
atrocities of bashing, discrimination, and killing of GLBT people.
I've often called Mama the goddess of practicality. Growing up in the
Depression will do that, I suppose. We grew up in a household that knew
how to do without. I never thought of my parents as tight with money, but
they certainly knew how to stretch a dollar farther than you average
I beg you in this correspondence to please make the necessary, long overdue, rightful, Godly, Christian decision to accept our GLBT brothers and sisters into the Church as equal and fully participating members, both lay and religious, deserving of all the love, respect, and acceptance that any one else receives in the Catholic Church, as I am sure Christ Himself would do if He were here this day. Surely you cannot do less than this?
I cannot believe in what literalism, legalism, and fundamentalism preach and teach. I know only too well what those kinds of beliefs and practices did to my mother and me and that it was, and still is, very wrong. If that is the only kind of Christianity there is, I want no part of it.
One can imagine Soulforce replying that gay Christians have always traditionally been infected
with Uncle Tom's Cabin Fever Syndrome, and that this is precisely why Soulforce is in existence in the first place. Still, it's not clear to me
whether Soulforce advocates for little more than a more humane brand of what David AJ Richards calls "moral slavery" ...
We are committed to the nonviolence teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, and King.
We refuse to demonstrate violence of the heart, tongue, or fist. We will
bring truth in love relentlessly to those who misunderstand and condemn us.
We will love our adversaries and take on ourselves any suffering that our
direct actions may cause.
No longer
would we sit silently by and watch the church send messages of antipathy
and apathy as our brothers and sisters are defrocked, dehumanized, and
devalued by the church.
I did not plan to join the protesters. Most certainly, neither Diane nor I
intended to be jailed in Cleveland during the General Conference. But the
Holy Spirit moved us and here I am in the Cleveland jail for the second day
in a row.
The United Methodist Church, broken and bigoted as it is, is our
church. We are not going away; we will not be silenced; we will intensify
our efforts.
Leaders of Dignity/USA, the nation's leading advocate for gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered Catholics, said they understood the sense of
rejection gay and lesbian Methodists would be experiencing.
Rev. Troy D. Perry states, "We regard this as yet another 'missed
opportunity' on the part of a major Christian denomination to overthrow
long-standing injustice in their midst.
Over 100 people had gathered together to protest church policies which
exclude GLBT individuals from leadership in the church and to worship and
stand together in solidarity during a Revival and Renewal Service prior to
the arrests.
Because of the prevailing Baptist opinion that the Bible is the "word of
God" and is infallible in every detail, words have become absolute and
worshipped in place of God.
... for my friends who cling so desperately to the Bible as the infallible word of God, this is a tough lesson! The church has changed over the centuries. A once exclusive church has changed to welcome eunuchs, foreigners and even Gentiles! For those who cling to the Bible as the word of God, the precedent has been set ... the church must change.
There are many people who reach out to us. Some want our time, others
want our money. Still others desire us as a means to satisfy them physically
or emotionally. But only Jesus desires us because he made us out of love and
paid for us with his blood, shed for love of us.
We are being conformed to the image of our God. Like the old hymn says, "and I can't feel at home in this world anymore." It makes sense, then, that we should behave as the Lord behaves.
All things are set forth in Christ. All the purpose and plan of God is seen and revealed in Christ. We cannot separate ourselves from the purpose in Christ. What is true concerning Him is true concerning us as we are in Christ.
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Archive for the 'Saturday Night Genealogy Fun' Category
It's Saturday Night – time for lots of Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November 14, 2009
Here, thanks to Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings, is your Saturday Night Genealogy Fun writing mission, if you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible music…):
1. What is the Nicest Thing another genealogist did for you, or to you, in the last week or so? (If you have no examples for this past week, go back in time – surely someone has done a nice thing for you in recent years!).
2. Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a comment on Facebook, or in a tweet on Twitter.
In the past few weeks, two Twitter friends helped me navigate the rocky-for-me road of how to 'do stuff' on my WordPress blog!
I tweeted for help…
In late September, I tweeted for help in finding a Blog Roll so I could add other folks blog addresses to my blog!
And GeneaBloggers (@geneabloggers on Twitter) tweeted me the instructions for how to do it, then tweeted me a "why don't you blog about it message later." (I still plan to!)
It took @geneabloggers about six tweets at 140 characters to send me the info, but the instructions were perfect.
I found the Blog Roll I wanted, and next thing you know, I had a blog roll on my blog! Woo Hoo! Thanks, GeneaBloggers! Now, I just need to find the time to add everyone's blog on there.
Yesterday, I followed a link…
Just yesterday, I followed a link on Twitter from @Bonnie67 that led me to her post at Bonnie67′s. (Bonnie isn't a genealogist, yet, but I'm 'recruiting' her.)
Bonnie had a link to a music video, the very same song by Sam the Sham and the Pharoah's that I wished I could have added to my first Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post.
When I mentioned that I wished I knew how to post music video's on my site, Bonnie got busy and wrote a blog post to show me how!
Awesome! Thanks, Bonnie!
And though this was a long time ago and I'd have to dig through a lot of old genealogy to find her name, there was a wonderfully kind woman who was the first woman I wrote to to try to find information about my husband's Kline family.
This wonderful woman looked up some information in the newspaper, located a description about the farm animals owned, crops grown, and the orchard on the farm, and found information about the two children of James and Elizabeth Kline that had passed away while they lived there.
I was able to locate some information at the library in Wichita that helped her out some, too, information that told her that some of her family had been founding members in the small cattle town that was Wichita in its early days.
It was the help from this woman, and others like her that helped me have those early successes in piecing together the family histories that weave together and make up the fabric of who our family is, and fueled my desire to learn more, and more.
Thank you!
Hey there, "Lil Red Riding Hood"… More Adventures in Blogging
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November 14, 2009
One of Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges for September was to blog about our favorite songs. See that SNGF post here.
That was a tough assignment!
I love music, and so many of my favorite songs are tied with memories, some good, some bad, some inspirational, and some sad.
There's too many favorites to count, but Randy's challenge brought to mind one song that we had such fun with while we were in high school because it brings back so many fun memories. And of the time right before high school graduation, before we went off to college, or to war, or for some to get married. It was a time when we had few responsibilities.
Sam the Sam and the Pharoah's "Lil Red Riding Hood" was 'the' song to sing with a carload of teens dragging Main Street in the '60's.
You Could Howl Out the Window…
You could sing at the top of your lungs, howl out the window at passing cars and pedestrians, and in general, just act silly.
It was right before most cars had seat belts and there were no seat belt laws, so even my mom's little white Ford Fairlane 500 might have six passengers. (No alcohol was involved in our little group, it was just a bunch of silly teens having fun.)
Anyway, thanks to Twitter buddy @bonnie67, who read my "I don't know how to embed a video" Tweet, and offered these instructions at Bonnie67's Blog!
Thank you, Bonnie!
So here, thanks to Bonnie, are Sam the Sham and The Pharoah's.
(And please – Feel free to sing along, and howl at the appropriate times….)
P.S. I had to go into my WordPress HTML tab to add in the coding for embedding the code. I apologize, but I don't know how any other blog hosts require it done!
Stocking Surname – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
November 7th, 2009
It's Saturday Night and time for the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge! The following comes from Randy Seaver, http://www.geneamusings.com/. Once again, Thanks, Randy!
Hey, genealogy fans – it's Saturday Night, and time for some Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music…), is:
1) Find out the geographical distribution of your surname – in the world, in your state or province, in your county or parish. I suggest that you use the Public Profiler site at http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/, which seems to work quickly and easily. However, you cannot capture the image as a photo file – you have to capture the screen shot, save it and edit it.
2) Tell us about your surname distribution in a blog post of your own (with a screen shot if possible), in comments to this post, or in comments on a social networking site like Facebook and Twitter.
It was interesting to see where the Stocking surname was scattered, and also where it is predominant. It still appears to be more dominant in the United Kingdom, where it originated.
My Stocking immigrant ancestor, George Stocking, came to America in the 1630's on the ship Griffith from Suffolk, England. It appears there are still many family members in England today.
It was interesting to see the break down for the FPM or Frequency of Family Members Per Million by Countries of the Stocking Name:
United Kingdom 9.72
United States 8.53
Canada 5.73
New Zealand 1.41
France 0.05
The following is what the map looks like by Regions:
Idaho, United States 76.85
Utah, United States 62.83
West Midlans, United Kingdom 30.65
East Anglia, United Kingdome 24.78
Wyoming, United States 24.36
And then the Stocking surname in my State! And if you look to the county just south of Wichita, which is Sumner County, you will see there are several of the Stocking family represented in this area!
Halloween in Mayfield, Kansas – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 31, 2009
The following is the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings! Thanks, Randy!
Hey boys and girls, it's Hallowe'en, and time for some Saturday Night Genealogy Fun! Play either before or after your trick or treating experiences, or even on Sunday morning after your extra hour of sleep (you did remember to set your clocks back, didn't you?).
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along – cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Think about your most memorable Hallowe'en – was it when you were a child (candy, games, carnivals), a teenager (tricks and treats), or an adult (perhaps a party)?
2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post.
3) Have fun!
Looking back at my own memories I realize how lucky we were. We lived in, or in my case near, a wonderful small town where the residents were patient and the bank roof was sturdy.
What was so important about the bank roof being sturdy?
The goal each Halloween, for at least two generations, was to block off the three-block Main Street so no traffic could get through, (at all) soap car and business' windows, (there were five in my time prior to that six or seven) and to …
Pile as Much Stuff on the Bank Roof as Possible!
In our defense, it didn't start with my generation.
In my father's time, horse drawn buggies were pushed, pulled, and hauled up on the bank's roof.
In my time, for whatever reason, it became the preacher's kid's swing sets that made their way onto the bank roof each Halloween.
Just in case one of the p.k.'s (preacher's kids) read this someday it didn't mean we didn't like you or your folks, i.e. it was not a negative reflection on the preacher's popularity, it was probably because the family was well liked.
And, it was also because the swing sets were handy to the bank and very easily moved.
In Mayfield, in the 1950's, it was safe…
In Mayfield, in the 1950's, it was safe for children to go around by themselves. Maybe it wouldn't be now, maybe not even in Mayfield which is still has about 100 residents, and isn't that a sad commentary on our times.
My very first Halloween memory is when I was about three or four years old and not much taller than the paper grocery sack my mom sent me off to trick or treat with.
One of the 'big girls', Anita Biles or Ginny Barry, took me by the hand, and walked me around the town along with a crowd made up of all ages and sizes. I felt very short, very small, and kind of scared.
My next memory is being big enough not to hold anyone's hand and going around with friends in home-made costumes. I remember being a hobo often, because the bandannas and ratty clothes were easy to come by.
By the Time We Were Old Enough, the Privy's were gone…
By the time my generation was big enough to join in with creating havoc, some of the buggies and horse drawn wagons still sat in yards and town fields, but the outhouses (privy's) were gone. My dad's generation was known to push over outhouses.(Occasionally some resourceful person moved the outhouse, and the prankster's fell IN the outhouse hole) and one Hallowwen someone was actually IN an outhouse when it was pushed over.
Looking back, I marvel at the patience of the men who got up the next day, and took everything back to its proper home, because if it was movable, if it could be drug, rolled, pushed or pulled, it made its way to Main Street on Halloween night amidst joyous laughter and much camaraderie. (And for those who cleaned up the next day, please know that I'm grateful.)
We Were 'Too Old' to Go Trick or Treating…
As teen-agers, though we considered ourselves too old to go trick-or-treating, we were still expected to make an appearance in each of our town "Grandma's" homes to receive our treats.
We started out at Grandma Mabel Stayton's, where my mom, Dorothy Stocking, and my best friend's mom, Wanda Stayton, both farm wives, sat with Mabel to hand out candy along with Mabel. From there, we traveled to visit at Grandma Eva Downing's, Grandma Jenny McCreary's, Valley Heasty's, Mrs. Washburn's, Dode and Bonnie Anderson, and Nancy and Rosa Weber's home.
At each home, we were welcomed with candy and choruses of "My how you've grown!", "What grade are you in now?" and "Be sure and come back next year!"
We had no idea then, how lucky we were to grow up in a small town with such a family friendly atmosphere.
But Traditions Change…
It wasn't too many years after we Tricked and Treated that the traditions were changed to ones that were safer and were less work for all involved, but looking back, well, memories just don't get any better than the ones we were lucky enough to create.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – My Most Unique Ancestral Name
The following challenge comes from Randy Seaver of http://www.geneamusings.com/
Hey, genealogy fans – it's Saturday Night – time for more Genealogy Fun!
In honor of Surname Saturday (the new, official genealogy blogging prompt for Saturdays), let's consider this, assuming you accept the challenge to play along (is it Mission Impossible?):
1) What is the most unique, strangest or funniest combination of given name and last name in your ancestry? Not in your database – in your ancestry.
2) Tell us about this person in a blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a comment on Facebook.
3) Okay, if you don't have a really good one – how about a sibling of your direct ancestors?
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 24, 2009
Because Most folks laugh when I tell them my maiden name, Stocking, I picked an ancestor from that side of the family.
When folks asked me how to spell my maiden name, I'd say "Just like you wear, just like it sounds." When my brother was in high school, his friends nicknamed him "Sox" a name that stuck with him, and after he graduated and I entered high school a few years later, my friends called me "Sox" as well.
The ancestor's name that I've been curious about ever since I read it in the family history book, was Deacon Samuel Stocking, son of George and Anna Stocking who immigrated from Suffolk, England on the ship Griffith in the 1630's, and traveled to Hartford, Connecticut with Thomas Hooker's party. George became one of Hartford's founders.
According to family records, Deacon Samuel married Bethiah Hopkins on May 27th, 1652. A quick Google search brought his will to light in several places on the internet. Awesome, considering 10 years ago, it was only available in one place.
My question has been, was Deacon Samuel his name, or was Deacon his church title? And I realized when I re-read the wills, one after the other, (for what was NOT the first time) that George's will refers to his son Samuel, not his son, Deacon Samuel.
So surely Samuel's "Deacon" is a church title. On the other hand, Deacon Samuel's will does refer to him as Deacon Samuel, sen.
So, while I think the question is answered tonight, I'd be happy to hear comments from those with more experience.
A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford district, 1635-1700
By Charles William Manwaring
Page 136.
Stocking, George. He died 25 May, 1683. Invt. £257-09-00. Taken by Nath. Willett, Tho. Bunce, John Easton. Invt. in Middletown taken 8 June, 1683, by Nath: White & John Warner.
Court Record, Page 73—6 September, 1683: An Inventory of the Estate of George Stocking was exhibited in Court. Adms. to Samuel Stocking.
Page 78—18 December, 1683: This Court haveing viewed that presented as the Last Will & Testament of George Stocking in the circumstances of it, together with what George Stocking hath declared to George Stocking & Capt. Allyn, & his declaration of his will in part contradicting, doe Judge that the will presented is of no value, & therefore the Court distribute the Estate as followeth: To Samuel Stocking, £100; to Hannah Benton's children, £41; to the wife of John Richards, £41; to the wife of Samuel Olcott, £41; & to John Stocking, who hath lived with George Stocking, his grandfather, for some years, the remainder of the Estate, being £34, we distributed to John Stocking; and desire & appoint Marshall George Grave & Thomas Bunce to make this Distribution. (See Will, Vol. III.)
Page 168-9.
Stocking, Deacon Samuel sen., Middletown. Died 30 December, 1683. Invt. £648-08-08. Taken by Giles Hamlin, William Ward. The children: Samuel 27 years of age, John 23, George 19, Ebenezer 17, Steven 10, Daniel 6 years old, Bethia Stow 25, Lydia Stocking 21 years. Will dated 13 November, 1683.
I Samuel Stocking of Middletown do leave this my last Will & Testament : I give unto my loveing wife Bethia Stocking my whole Homestead lying on the both sides of the Highway with all ye Buildings thereon thereunto belonging, with my whole Lott in the Long Meadow, with my Lott at Pistol Poynt, & half of my Meadow lying on the other side of the Brook, that part of it that lyeth next to the Great River, with all my Meadow Lands at Wongunk, together with all my Stock & Moveables; these I give my wife during her Widowhood, and upon marrying again I Will to her £4 yearly to be raised out of that Estate which I have agreed to my son Daniel Stocking.
I give to my son Samuel Stocking my whole Allottment upon the Hill between the Land of Lt. White and Israel Willcox, only excepting 6 acres adjoining to the Land of Lt. White, which I give to my daughter Bethia. Moreover I give to my son Samuel the remaining half of the Meadow over the Brook, with 10 acres of the Swamp adjoining to it. I give him my whole Allottment at the Cold Spring on the west side of the Way to Hartford. I give to him, sd. son Samuel, the whole of my Lott at Pipe Stave Swamp, with the half of my Allottment next unto Wethersfield Bounds, with the halfe of my Lott at Pistol Poynt, upon his Mother's decease.
I give unto my son John Stocking the whole of the Land and Buildings at my Father Stocking's decease bequeathed me by his last Will, within the Bounds of Hartford. I give unto my daughter Lydia my Lott lying next unto Thomas Ranny's, and butting upon ye Commons West and Dead Swamp East, with a good Milk Cow, to be delivered her within 12 months after my decease.
I give to my sons George & Ebenezer all my Lands on the East side of the Great River, to be equally divided between them, excepting the y2 of my Great Lott next unto Haddam Bounds.
I give to my son Steven my whole Lott upon the Hill, bounded upon ye Lands of Thomas Rannie North, the Commons East, West & South, with my whole Allottment in Boggy Meadow, with all my Meadow & Upland in the farther Neck, giving the Improvement of the Boggy Meadow unto my son Samuel till the abovesd. child is of age to inherit.
I give to my son Samuell (Daniel, see original paper on File) my whole Homestead lying on both sides of the Highway, with my Lott in the Long Meadow, with half my Lott at Pistoll poynt, with ^ of my Lott lying on the West side of the way as you goe to Hartford, adjoining to the Land of Anthony Martin on the North, the Land of Thomas Ranny South, the Highway & Commons West.
This I say I give to my son Daniel, that is to say, the West end of it, the other halfe of sd. Lott to be to my son Samuel. These aforementioned parcells of Land as specified I give to him my sd. son Daniel & his heirs forever, with the other halfe of my Lott next Weathersfield Bounds.
I give to our Pastor, Rev. Nathaniel Collins, £3, my son Samuel to be sole Executor.
After the decease or marriage of my wife, my Estate to be equally divided amongst my children. I desire Mr. Nath. White & John Savage sen. to be Overseers. Witness: Nath: White, Samuel Stocking Sen.
John Savage sen.
A Codicil, without Change of the above, signed 25 December, 1683.
Court Record, Page 85—6 March, 1684: Will proven.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Or How Many Descendants Does my Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Great-Grandparents Have Now?
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – A Family's Increase
By Randy Seaver
Click here for Randy's original post.
Hey, genealogy fans, it's Saturday Night! Time for some Genealogy Fun!
Your task, if you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music), is to:
1) Pick one of your four great-grandparents – if possible, the one with the most descendants.
2) Create a descendants list for those great-grandparents either by hand or in your software program.
3) Tell us how many descendants, living or dead, are in each generation from those great-grandparents.
4) How many are still living? Of those, how many have you met and exchanged family information with? Are there any that you should make contact with ASAP? Please don't use last names of living people for this – respect their privacy.
5) Write about it in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or in comments or a Note on Facebook.
How Many Descendants Do My Great-Grandparents Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Stocking Have Now?
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 18, 2009
My Great-Grandparents were Roderick and Frances "Fanny" Stocking. Roderick was born in Butler, Michigan on Dec 25, 1853, and his wife, Frances Hitchcock, was born November 9, 1858 in Crescent City, Illinois.
They had four children, all sons, Elmer, Ralph, Roderick Porter, and John.
Elmer had nine children, one of which died at birth.
Ralph adopted three children, one died young.
Roderick had three children, one son and twins, a boy and girl. He died young. He was electrocuted while working on high lines. Electricity was fairly new to the area then, and people often did their own wiring, and so accidents happened.
John and his wife did not have any children.
Generation 1 – 4 children – all dead (Roderick Remine's Children)
Generation 2 – 15 children – 12 dead 3 alive
Generation 3 – 33 children – 4 dead 29 alive
Generation 4 – 39 children – 3 dead 36 alive
When I printed this report out and looked at it, I was shocked that I had so many new entries that needed to be made in my Family Tree Program.
91 members to generation 4, and I think there are at least 30 more individuals that could be added. It has been quite some time since I've sent out questionnaires to the families and asked them to fill them out.
We plan to have a family reunion next summer, so it looks like I certainly have my work cut out for me! Now I've got to get busy and get those questionnaires sent out so that I can learn just how many descendants Great-grandma and Great-grandpa Stocking really do have!
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – The Day the Genealogy Serendipity Angels Smiled!
The following is from Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings website! Thank you, Randy!
Yes, it's Saturday Night, and time for some Genealogy Fun!
My friend, Leland Meitzler, posted his Top Ten list of "Most Satisfying Genealogy Events" yesterday – and it's a good list – please read it and respond to it if you want to.
For today's SNGF, if you choose to participate (cue the Mission Impossible music!), please:
1) Tell us about one (or more) "Satisfying Genealogy Moments" from your family history and genealogy research. What was it, and how did it make you feel? You can make a Top Ten list if you want to!
2) Write your own blog post, or make a comment on this post, or make a comment on Facebook, and tell us about your "moment in time."
The Day the Genealogy Serendipity Angels Smiled!
by Sherry Stocking Kline, October 10, 2009
My Number One favorite all-time Genealogy Experience was one of those "ahhh moments" when Serendipity and the Angels smiled on us.
It was July of 2005, and my husband and I were leaving soon to visit our son in Illinois, and we were taking my mom who was 93 at the time, to Barren County, Kentucky for a day or two and try to locate my Mom's dad's childhood home.
I did some research before I left. I re-checked on library hours, wrote down addresses, packed up a notebook (and laptop), and called the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center in Glasgow, Kentucky to talk to the wonderfully helpful woman I had spoken with on a previous occasion.
I nearly hung up the phone…
I nearly hung up the phone when I learned that the woman who had been so warm and friendly before was not working.
That would have been a mistake.
I sighed to myself, decided to take a chance, re-state my facts and share my story with the woman who had answered the phone.
"I'm looking for information," I said, "about my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Willis Washington Jones and his wife, Martha Ellen Smith and her parents, Charles and Virginia Hawley Smith."
There Was Dead Silence…
There was dead silence for at least three heartbeats.
And then she said (and here I still get goosebumps) "Charles and Virginia Hawley Smith are my great-great grandparents, too."
"Oh. My. Gosh." I thought.
"Hello, cousin!" was my astonished reply. The genealogical angels had not deserted me; they had given me a wonderful gift!
My brand-new cousin's name was Nancy Bertram Bush, she was 'into' genealogy, and she invited us to give her a call when we got to Glasgow.
A couple of weeks later, we were in Glasgow. I stopped at the courthouse, looked up some land records, and learned more about my great-great grandfather Smith's land holdings.
When we arrived at the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center, I gave Nancy another call and we were in luck, she was home.
Nancy Had a Gift for Mother…
She hurried over to the Center to meet us, (and a nicer new cousin I can't imagine meeting). She brought along a treasure, a photograph of my mother's grandparents (complete with the names) that had been mailed back to the family from Kansas and presented it to my mom.
Mom had never seen photographs of her grandparents and when we brought the photograph home, we were able to identify Willis and his wife Martha in two other photographs that we had.
Nancy offered to take us around Barren County with her husband to try to locate the former home of Willis and Martha Ellen. We went up hill and down dale, we stopped at one family farmstead that had Smith family buried there, and we tramped through tall grass to record names and take photographs, but this was not our destination.
Our next stop proved to be the home of Charles and Virginia Hawley Smith, and we were able to visit with the family and see the land and outbuildings, some of which might have actually been standing during Charles & Virginia's time.
The Family Cemetery Had Been Returned to Farmland…
Thanks to researching cemetery books we already knew that their family cemetery had been returned to farm land, which was disappointing.
Next we stopped at the Caney Fork Baptist Church and cemetery and walked through the cemetery and paid our respects to cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles.
When we watched my mother get out of the car and in her words "stand on the land her father had played on as a child" and look around and see "where he came from," it was a meaningful moment for us all.
We were grateful we were able to help her do this.
Thank You, Cousin, Nancy…
It was with deep sadness that we received word about two years ago that our new-found cousin, Nancy Bertram Bush, had suffered a heart attack and passed away.
Thank you for a wonderful Genealogical Moment in Time, cousin Nancy.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Building a Pond and the Leaky Tin Bathtub!
Here is the Saturday Night – time for some Genealogy Fun! Assignment from Randy Seaver at http://www.geneamusings.com/
"We all have childhood memories, but if you're like me, you're concentrating on getting the family history of your parents and earlier generations. Let's think about ourselves here.
Here's your mission if you want to accept it …
1. What is one of your most vivid childhood memories? Was it family, friends, places, events, or just plain fun?
2) Tell us about it in a comment to this post, a Comment or Note on Facebook, or in a blog post of your own."
Building a Pond in the Pasture and the Leaky Tin Bathtub!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 4th, 2009
And there was the time we kids built a pond in my folk's pasture.
We weren't supposed to. We weren't even supposed to be home from school.
My Nephews Were Out of School With Colds
But my nephews (who were nearly my age) had stayed home sick with colds, and so, because they were coming to visit, my mom allowed me to stay home from school, too.
Since it was a mild spring day following several days of rainy weather and since we weren't very old we headed outdoors as fast as we could and headed for the pasture to see if we could find some water.
We had some pretty deep buffalo wallows in our pasture when I was growing up, and they were a constant source of tadpoles and good place to wade after a rain.
We were in luck that day, the buffalo wallows were full and spring rains had filled the little creeks till we were wading in water that was nearly up to our (four, six and eight-year-old-high) knees.
Soon We Were In Water Over Our Knees
But we wanted it deeper! So we grabbed tree limbs, branches, old boards, and whatever else we could, and dammed up the creek. Awesome, pretty soon we were wading in water over our knees. One of us scrambled back up to the house, and drug back an old tin bathtub to be our makeshift boat.
We set the leaky old tin tub afloat and for quite awhile we took turns, using an old board for a paddle.
We Had a Lot of Fun Till…
We had our own little pond, and our own little boat (bathtub), in our own (huge) backyard. We were so happy. We were going to have fun forever.
We had a lot of fun that day.
Till we got caught. You know how sometimes when you were a kid your mom would be so annoyed she'd take a whack at your backside, and you'd get another one with each step she took and each word she said?
Well, let's just say my mom was annoyed, and so was my nephew's mom. We heard "I'll never let you stay home from school again," "you ought to have known better than that," and "you kids could have drowned."
I don't think I ever did get to stay home from school like that again. But that day was a lot of fun even if I did have to sit kinda easy in the chair later that night.
Unfortunately, though I'm sure it was for our safety, our little makeshift dam was dismantled, and the Good Ship 'Tin Tub' never sailed again.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – My Favorite Song(s)
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Your All-time Favorite Song
(I borrowed this first part from Randy Seaver's blog at http://www.geneamusings.com/
It's Saturday Night – time for some Genealogy, and Family History, Fun!
Here is your assignment for the evening – if you wish to participate in the Fun (cue the Mission Impossible music):
1. What is your all-time favorite song? Yep, number 1. It's hard to choose sometimes. If you made your favorite all-time Top 40 music selections, what would be #1?
2. Tell us about it. Why is it a favorite? Do you have special memories attached to this song?
3. Write your own blog post about it, or make a comment on this post or on the Facebook entry.
Here's my Favorite Songs – For Tonight Anyhow!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
This is much harder than last week's blog where all I had to do was try to figure out how to make Family Tree Maker spit out an Ahnentafel report and then figure out which one was "the one" to write about. (by the way, I flunked that test, but did write about an interesting ancestor! Check that out here)
Well, I'm going to 'flunk' this week, too, because I can't just write about one!
I was in high school in the 60's, and grade school in the 50's, so there's a lot of great songs to choose from, and it seems like all have memories attached.
This isn't my Number One song, but it is one with some great memories attached.
It's "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, and if I've done it right, you can listen to a short clip by clicking on the title. (Well, I wasn't able to pull that off..)
"Li'l Red Riding Hood" was one of those fun-to-sing-along-with songs, so picture if you can, me and three high-school girl partners in crime, some of us with our boyfriends (this was before seat belt law, and before all cars even had seat belts!) all crammed into a small, white, 63′ Ford Fairlane 500, dragging main street with the windows down singing this song and howling at all the appropriate times, and at some of our good friends in passing cars.
(This was back when you could drag main all night after a football game or movie for just $1, and you could stop at Dick's Drive-In for 15 cent French Fries)
And no, no alcohol was involved or being consumed! Just a lot of fun between friends who are still friends today.
The boyfriend with me became my husband, and that song was one we laughingly sang on road trips when our kids were little bitty, and they sing to their children today! Memories don't get any better than that.
My favorite number one song? Toss-up between Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" in the 50's and John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads" in the late 60's.
Raised on a wheat and dairy farm with a 160 acres of land to roam over, and lots of animal pets, I'm a country girl at heart, and whenever I hear "Take Me Home Country Roads" it takes me back home in memory. And whenever I hear "Stand By Me" I think of grade school, high school, sock hops and good friends.
Thanks for another SNGF of fun!
My First Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!
By Sherry Stocking Kline
written for FamilyTreeWriter.com on September 19, 2009
Hello all! This is my first foray into Saturday night genealogy fun, (see Randy Seaver's website at http://www.geneamusings.com/) and I will most ashamedly admit that although I've done genealogy for 20 years and written about it for 10, I've not taken the time to understand the ahnentafel numbers.
Mea culpa. What is it Johnny Carson used to say "so many lashes with a wet noodle?" Anyhow, I'm not sure, well, actually, I'm pretty darn sure I played the game wrong, but I tried.
Like R. J. Seaver, my father was born in 1911, but he would have been 98, almost 99 by now. So I began with me, and went back almost to 19 back from me. Got to George before 19. If someone can explain to me how to do an ahnentafel in Family Tree Maker 16, and have it tell me what numbers are what, I'll re-do my entry here.
My Ancestor is George Stocking
Anyhow, My ancestor is George Stocking, who emigrated to America in 1633. The following is the info from my Stocking Ancestry Book, compiled by Hobart Stocking by research and previous books!
George Stocking, born about 1582, Suffolk, England, married Anna ?
He emigrated to America on the ship Griffith, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built a house there in 1635 at the corner of the present Holyoke and Winthrop Streets.
George joined the Thomas Hooker Party
On May 6, 1635, he was made a freeman. (I don't know what he was indentured as) He joined the company of the Reverend Thomas Hooker (one hundred in number according to family history) and traveled on foot through the wilderness to the Connecticut River in 1636.
Helped Found Hartford, Connecticut
He was one of the original founders of the city of Hartford, CT, and you can see his name on the stone of founders in the city there, as well as find his tombstone in the cemetery.
George was a prominent proprietor there, and "in the general distribution of land, he received twenty acres, "on the south side of the road from Geoge Steel's, to the south meadow," other grants being made later on.
On the death of Anna, whom he had married in England, he is understood to have m. 2d. Agnes (Shotwell) Webster, widow of John Webster, governor of the colony. The Stocking Ancestry Book states "It does not seem probable: Agnes is not mentioned in the 1683 court distribution of George's property.)"
He took from the first an actiave part in local affairs; was selectman in 1647; surveyor of highways in 1654, and '62; chimney viewer in 1659, and was excused from military duty in 1660, owing to "great age."
George became a freeman, October 4, 1669. (again?? I wonder what this means?)
Living to 101 is Pretty Good for those Times!
He died May 25, 1683, aged 101 years, and his name is inscribed on a large monument erected to the memory of Hooker's party, and which now stands in the old Center Church burying-ground in Hartford.
"15 July, 1673.
"George Stocking of Hartford upon the River of Connecticut planter dos in this my last Will and Testament Give unto Anne my Wife all my housing barn orchards homelott upland and meadow & swamp land cattles and all other estate for her to use during the time of her life, and after her decease to be disposed of as follows. I doe give to my daughter Lidia Richards the wife of John Richards The sum of (pounts) 14. and do also give to my dau Sarah Olcott the wife of Samuel Olcott the sum of pounds 10. I doe also give unto the six children of Andrew Benton, that is to Andrew Benton, Jr., John Benton, Samuel Enton, Joseph Benton, Mary Benton, and Dorothy Benton, the sum of (pounds) 12. to be divided among them I doe hereby give unto Hannah Camp one Mare. My will is that these legacies be discharged within one year next after my wifes decease. My will also is that my wife shall keep the housing and barn in repair unless something more than ordinary befall any of them. The remainder of my estate to my son Samuel Stocking and make him my executor. The land to pay its due proportion to the Ministry of the New Meeting house. I desire Gregory Wollerton and St. Bull to be oversers.
"George Stocking (seal)
"Gregory Wollerton
"George Grave,Sen."
"December 1683. This Court (at Hartford, CT.) haveing viewed that presented as the last Will & Testament of George Stocking in the circumstance of it, together with what George Stocking (#1) hath declared to George Stocking (a granson, #11) & Captain Allyn & his declaration of his will in part controdicting, doe Judge that the Will presented is of no value, & therefore the Court distribute the Estate as followeth: to Samuel Stocking (Pounds) 100; to Hannah Benton's children (Pounds) 41; to the wife of John Richards (Pounds) 41; to the wife of Samuel Olcott (Pounds) 41; to John Stocking who had lived with George Stocking, his frandfather, for some years, the remainder of the Estate, being (Pounds) 34, we distributed to John Stocking; and desire & appoint Marshall George Grave and Thomas Bunce to make this distribution."
It's Definitely A Small World
One interesting aside note, or interesting to me, anyhow. When six of us gathered here in Sumner County, Kansas some 300 years later to form the Sumner County Genealogical Society, FOUR of us could trace our history back to Hartford, CT founding fathers, and one of us descended from the man Hartford was named for.
Small world indeed, and when we did closer research, a librarian friend and I discovered that our ancestors had witnessed each other's wills back and forth.


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Jenna Huffstetler found inspiration for her science project in a lifelong love of snacking on sugar cookies. But she also had a higher goal of helping fight childhood obesity.
Jenna Huffstetler found inspiration for her science project in a lifelong love of snacking on sugar cookies. But she also had a higher goal of helping fight childhood obesity.
The Ashbrook High School senior entered her project in the Gaston Regional Science and Engineering Fair and won first place in the physical science category.
Her research discusses how different types of artificial sweeteners affect the appearances of sugar cookies. She concludes that natural sugar creates a more aesthetically-pleasing cookie but there are healthier alternatives.
Born with a sweet tooth, the project came naturally to her but the research proved time consuming. She ultimately baked several batches of cookies and selected 40 people to judge taste and appearance.
�I did this project because of the obesity that is common in everyday life now, particularly in children because they really like eating cookies,� Huffstetler said. �So you want to see maybe if there�s a different, better choice for them to eat in their foods.�
In the future, she�d like to study business management and operate a bakery. She thought the experiment was a good one but didn�t expect to win first place.
�I am very excited and very surprised. I was hoping to place but I wasn�t expecting it. I�m very blessed,� she said.
New competition
Experiments in the science fair fall into four categories � science, life science, earth science and technology and engineering.
Projects range in subject matter from the affect of the environment on bean plants to how to remove permanent ink from surfaces.
Grier Middle School students Kasey Carpenter and Kaitlyn Walton took on the permanent marker challenge and won the overall award in the middle school division.
They researched project ideas online and found one for creating permanent ink. But then they had an idea.
�We thought it would be a neat idea to find out how to remove it in case you were baby-sitting someone and they started writing on their T-shirt or on the wall with a marker,� Carpenter said. �And we were going to find out if there was a way to remove it.�
They conducted removal experiments on T-shirts and Sheetrock using various chemicals and cleaning products, then reported the results.
Winning projects were announced at a ceremony Wednesday at the Schiele Museum. Some of them will now be entered into the Region 6-A Science Fair in Salisbury for competition on Feb. 9.
Projects designed by local students are on display at the museum on East Garrison Boulevard in Gastonia until Feb. 1.
Tammy Mims, director of the Gaston Regional Science and Engineering Fair, congratulated participants at Wednesday�s ceremony.
�You�re all winners and you�ve all achieved a great product,� she said. �You�ve all done wonderful research and I couldn�t be more proud to see all of the wonderful projects that have been placed in the lobby here at the Schiele Museum.�
Gazette reporter Wade Allen can be reached at 704-869-1828; twitter.com/gazettewade.
Overall Middle School- Kasey Carpenter, Kaitlyn Walton
Navy Award - Kasey Carpenter, Kaitlyn Walton
Honorable Mention - Dia Ray
1st Earth Science- Jordan Owens, April Pennington
2nd Earth Science - Andrew Lee
3rd Earth Science - Jeffrey Smith
1st Physical Science - Slayten Fletcher
2nd Physical Science - Katelyn Kiser, Molly Koehler, Kasen Lindsay
3rd Physical Science - Sarah Leiva
1st Life Science - Grace Erwin
2nd Life Science - Joseph Sugrue
3rd Life Science - Ty Richards
1st Tech / Eng - Dalton Harmon
2nd Tech / Eng - Bianca Houser
Overall High School- Mary Yavelak
Navy Award High School - Chifo Nwachukwu
Navy High School - Daniel Bortolussi
Honorable Mention - Adina Girmay, Angelica Mejia
1st Earth Science - Will Gallman
2nd Earth Science - Cydni Fowler, Yash A. Patel
3rd Earth Science - Claire Paluszak
1st Physical Science - Jenna Huffstetler
2nd Physical Science - Daniel Bortulussi
3rd Physical Science - Yash S. Patel
1st Life Science - Meagan Mallonee
2nd Life Science - Garrett Heath
3rd Life Science - Brooks Churn
1st Tech / Eng - Pooja Deva
2nd Tech / Eng - Daniel Nelli
3rd Tech / Eng - Jake Kennington


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Hillary Clinton is not the most hawkish foreign policy Democrats among 2008 hopefuls. Barack Obama, who suffers from that Kennedy inferiority complex, is. At least that's the conclusion one is forced to draw after reading their respective white papers in Foreign Affairs. Obama's preceded Clinton's by several months. Maybe Clinton is softening her image. She is all about adaptation, triangulation, obfuscation. And she gives few specifics. That said, her Foreign Affairs piece projects a more human, less bombastic Clinton foreign policy than we're generally led to believe. But it also projects an astonishing reverence for the status quo and a fatal misunderstanding of how American power is perceived abroad: she makes no distinction between the way Americans want it perceived, and the way it actually is perceived. The question is not whether she can be trusted. It is whether she considers her education complete. If yes, we-the United States and the world-have not seen the end of their American-enabled troubles.
The usual presumptions are all there: "The world still looks to the United States for leadership. American leadership is wanting, but it is still wanted." Who she means by "the world" isn't clear: The 50-odd countries of the Arab and Muslim world want American leadership? The European Union wants American leadership? The 2 billion people of China, India and Indonesia want American leadership? What Clinton means is that 300 million Americans want the world to want American leadership, but that moment is past.
What the world wants, more likely, is a little less American leadership, which the world interprets as unilateral Father-Knows-Best Americanism, and more American responsibility: America, in other word,s should do its part, from cutting its own nuclear weapons stockpiles to its own carbon emissions to its own arms exports to its own proclivities for meddling. Clinton is still hung up on "leadership," a term increasingly locked and loaded. The proof is in Clinton's kicker: "I will rebuild our power to ensure that the United States is committed to building a world we want, rather than simply defending against a world we fear." A world we want? I have visions of a three year old at the dinner table commanding the spread before and beyond him: I want this, I want that, I want it all, and expecting the convicts around the table to jump at his every command. That, it seems, is how Clinton sees her world, with herself its 3-year-old head.
Clinton is right to note the obvious: the "next president will be the first to inherit two wars," actually three, although she calls the "war on terror" by its more accurate name: "a long-term campaign against global terrorist networks." That's one of the more encouraging small details in her approach: there's no mention of a "war on terror," certainly no mention of Giuliani's harebrained "War Against Us" or John McCain's apocalyptic, and apoplectic, vision of a civilizational clash. But the open-endedness that Clinton gives her campaign, in time and targets, is no different than that of Clinton or McCain, even if her overriding principle is not: "We must return to a pragmatic willingness to look at the facts on the ground and make decisions based on evidence rather than ideology." Maybe we'll be spared pre-emptive wars in a Clinton presidency. Here she is at her principled strongest:
Avoid false choices driven by ideology. The Bush administration has presented the American people with a series of false choices: force versus diplomacy, unilateralism versus multilateralism, hard power versus soft. Seeing these choices as mutually exclusive reflects an ideologically blinkered vision of the world that denies the United States the tools and the flexibility it needs to lead and succeed. There is a time for force and a time for diplomacy; when properly deployed, the two can reinforce each other. U.S. foreign policy must be guided by a preference for multilateralism, with unilateralism as an option when absolutely necessary to protect our security or avert an avoidable tragedy.
She cannot, however, resist the Rambo imagery every one of her rivals has embraced: "We cannot negotiate with individual terrorists; they must be hunted down and captured or killed." Note the distinction between terrorist nations (which she deems Iran to be) and "individual terrorists." She'll negotiate with Iran, as we'll see in a moment. She won't negotiate with individual terrorists. Why the distinction, especially when she recognizes, as we all do, that individual terrorists have just as much power as states? Clinton (and all establishment candidates) are still hopelessly stuck in a rather childish mode of perceptions that seeks to appease public presumptions more than tackle international problems in earnest.
What of Iraq? That's the big question. Here, one finds her at once in her safest, vaguest mode. She recognizes that ending the war "is the first step toward restoring the United States' global leadership," but that immediately raises a red flag. As noted earlier, restoring American leadership, as opposed to restoring American credibility in the world, are two currently contradictory motives. Clinton opts for leadership.
On withdrawal from Iraq, here are her best proposals:
- "I will convene the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council and direct them to draw up a clear, viable plan to bring our troops home, starting within the first 60 days of my administration."
- "While working to stabilize Iraq as our forces withdraw, I will focus U.S. aid on helping Iraqis, not propping up the Iraqi government. Financial resources will go only where they will be used properly, rather than to government ministries or ministers that hoard, steal, or waste them." (Good, but corruption is rampant at every level of Iraqi society.)
- "I will convene a regional stabilization group composed of key allies, other global powers, and all the states bordering Iraq. Working with the newly appointed UN special representative for Iraq, the group will be charged with developing and implementing a strategy for achieving a stable Iraq that provides incentives for Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey to stay out of the civil war." (To stay out of Iraq, of course, is the wrong word: all those nations are up to their missiles' neck-deep in Iraq as it is.)
It's good to see Clinton recognizing the plight of 4 million Iraqi refugees, and wanting the United States to do more than it's doing, but she doesn't say what or how.
On Israel and Palestine, she's scant and imprecise. She repeats the usual platitudes: Palestinians must have a nation of their own, they must recognize Israel, they must renounce violence (never once, of course saying that Israel would do well to renounce violence and end its occupation of Palestinian lands). And she puts a premium on American mediation, which is what's lacked most during the Bush years. Beyond that, nothing.
On Iran: She doesn't call for nuking Iran here, but she leaves the option open: " Iran must conform to its nonproliferation obligations and must not be permitted to build or acquire nuclear weapons. If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table." Those musts raise the question: what if Iran didn't do any of these things? And why should it not acquire nuclear weapons? Still, there's an adaptive approach. Clinton notes that one of the best ways to strengthen American credibility on convincing Iran to verge off nuclear armament is to cut its own nuclear stockpiles. A good, original suggestion (at least among presidential candidates, most of whom seem to have forgotten that America's stockpiles are still massive and massively dangerous).
Obama has adapted his outlook too. In his Foreign Affairs piece, he all but endorsed war on Iran if it carried on with nuclear ambitions. He has since tempered his approach, talking of engaging Iran diplomatically first and foremost, including a promise of not seeking "regime change," if Iran agrees to renounce terrorism and meddling in Iraq in return, and abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. That's a tall order. It amounts to telling Iran who and what to be. How can the United States tell Iran not to meddle in Iraq when American troops are occupying the country? But don't get hung up on specifics. Candidates are painting an image of themselves, not setting out agendas. So what's more important is the shift in tone. Obama may be realizing that he went too far with the war talk. Clinton, aside from her silly reminder that she's as nuke-trigger-happy as the next guy, was always a step ahead of him.
But Clinton's hawkishness was in full force a couple of weeks ago when Bush announced sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds division. The Senate went further. It declared the Guard a foreign terrorist organization (which is no different than declaring the U.S. Marines an American terrorist organization). And Clinton voted for that silly initiative, as did 74 other senators. None of the other Democratic candidates supported the resolution.
On China: Here too, Clinton is taking the establishment line that China is America's next great challenge, if not enemy: "Our relationship with China will be the most important bilateral relationship in the world in this century." Then she makes a startling statement: "The United States and China have vastly different values and political systems, yet even though we disagree profoundly on issues ranging from trade to human rights, religious freedom, labor practices, and Tibet, there is much that the United States and China can and must accomplish together." Strange. Why doesn't that standard apply to Iran? China sponsors terrorism, too. In Darfur. Which Clinton in this very essay declares a "genocide" (it'll be interesting to see if she maintains that designation when she's elected president. One of her husband's most shameful legacy is his tap-dancing around the word when it came time to see the Rwandan genocide for what it was-and his withdrawing of U.N. troops from Rwanda once the genocide became known.) China is repressive. China meddles.
Ah, but China holds more than $1 trillion in U.S. public and private debt. Let's not upset the tiger. Let's cozy up to the cage, especially since we're the ones in the cage.
On the rest of the world: Clinton has cursory recognition for India's rise as an economic power, but barely a few lines for Africa, the eternal step-child of foreign affairs. She declares education "the foundation of economic opportunity" the world over, and that it should lie "at the heart of America's foreign assistance efforts," but that will require a fundamental shift away from what's at the heart of America's foreign assistance efforts today: arms sales. She has a few good words for fighting global warming, but her clearest suggestion is as tame and unconvincing as her market=-based approach to health care reform: "a market-based cap-and-trade approach."
Her reprise of the old Jimmy Carter theme is encouraging: "We have undercut international support for fighting terrorism by suggesting that the job cannot be done without humiliation, infringements on basic rights to privacy and free speech, and even torture. We must once again make human rights a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy and a core element of our conception of democracy."
But in the end, while one's not surprised by anything, Clinton comes off as a Lieberman-like equivocator who'll do what's necessary to protect the American status quo first and foremost. Her foreign policy recognizes that massive mistakes have been made, but her program includes nothing like a retraction as opposed to an adjustment, a retreat-with-honor sort of bet that, if we still deploy American might all over the world but do it more carefully and less bombastically, the world would love us all over again. She forgets the biggest lesson of all-not 9/11, but the 1990s, when her husband was president and American forces and power was projected in exactly the sort of ways she now projects. It was those projections that gave rise and reason to al-Qaeda's followers, and to their attacks on the Cole, on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, on the embassies in Africa, and so on.
Clinton, in other words, has learned very little. She wants education for the rest of the world. The best place to start is Hillary Clinton.
Pierre Tristam is a News-Journal editorial writer. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or through his personal Web site at www.pierretristam.com .
© 2007 Pierre Tristam


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This Full Revision script (meaning it is a complete rewrite of the original proposed first draft) is from Boston Legal Season1 episode "Race Ipsa". The front of the script shows the date of February 28, 2005. This is the Full Blue Version
This script was one of the scripts personally used my Mr. Shatner during his portrayal of Denny Crane in the series. This script comes packaged in an acid free bag along with a Certificate of Authenticity attesting that the script is from Mr. Shatner's personal collection. Image portrays an example of the front and back of the packaged script different revisions of scripts come in different colors depending upon what revision number the script is.
This is a one of a kind and would make a fantastic gift for the Boston Legal fan or even your own legal eagle lawyer in your life. Please do not ask if the script can be signed. We do not offer a signing service and the script is already packaged.