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Not likely. But you might think that solving your computer data security problems is very well possible when someone tells you that TCG Opal is the key. According to its website, "The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define and promote open, vendor-neutral, global industry standards, supportive of a hardware-based root of trust, for interoperable trusted computing platforms."
That might take a bit to digest, but think about TCG as a group of companies creating standards to simplify deployment and increase adoption of data security. The consortium has two better known specifications called TCG Enterprise and TCG Opal.
Sorting through the alphabet soup of data security
"Our SED with TCG Opal provides FDE." While this might look like a spoonful of alphabet soup, it is music to the ears of a corporate IT manager. Let me break it down for those who just hear fingernails on the chalkboard. A self-encrypting drive (SED) is one that embeds a hardware-based encryption engine in the storage device. One chief benefit is that the hardware engine performs the encryption, preserving full performance of the host CPU. An SED can be a hard disk drive (HDD) or a solid state drive (SSD). True, traditional software encryption can secure data going to the storage device, but it consumes precious host CPU bandwidth. The related term, full drive encryption (FDE), is used to describe any drive (HDD or SSD) that stores data in an encrypted form. This can be through either software-based (host CPU) or hardware-based (an SED) encryption.
Most people would assume that if their work laptop were lost or stolen, they would suffer only some lost productivity for a short time and about $1,500 in hardware costs. However, a study by Intel and the Ponemon Institute found that the cost of a lost laptop totaled nearly $50,000 when you account for lost IP, legal costs, customer notifications, lost business, harm to reputation, and damages associated with compromising confidential customer information. When the data stored on the laptop is encrypted, this cost is reduced by nearly $20,000. This difference certainly supports the need for better security for these mobile platforms.
When considering a security solution for this valuable data, you have to decide between a hardware-based SED and a host-based software solution. The primary problem with software solutions is they require the host CPU to do all of the encryption. This detracts from the CPU's core computing work, leaving users with a slower computer or forcing them to pay for greater CPU performance. Another drawback of many software encryption solutions is that they can be turned off by the computer user, leaving data in the clear and vulnerable. Since hardware-based encryption is native to the HDD or SSD, it cannot be disabled by the end user.
In April 2013, LSI and a few other storage companies worked with the Ponemon Institute to better understand the value of hardware-based encryption. You can read about the details in the study here, but the quick summary is that hardware-based encryption solutions can offer a 75% total cost savings over software-based solutions, on average.
When is this available?
At the Computex Taipei 2013 show earlier this month, LSI announced availability of a firmware update for SandForce® controllers that adds support for TCG Opal. The LSI suite at the show featured TCG Opal demonstrations using self-encrypting SSDs provided by SandForce Driven™ member companies, including Kingston, A-DATA, Avant and Edge. (Contact SSD manufacturers directly for product availability.)
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Imagine a bathtub full of water and asking someone to empty the tub while you turn your back for a moment. When you look again and see the water is gone, do you just assume someone pulled the drain plug?
I think most people would, but what about the other methods of removing the water like with a siphon, or using buckets to bail out the water? In a typical bathroom you are not likely to see these other methods used, but that does not mean they do not exist. The point is that just because you see a certain result does not necessarily mean the obvious solution was used.
I see a lot of confusion in forum posts from SandForce Driven™ SSD users and reviewers over how the LSI® DuraWrite™ data reduction and advanced garbage collection technology relates to the SATA TRIM command. In my earlier blog on TRIM I covered this topic in great detail, but in simple terms the operating system uses the TRIM command to inform an SSD what information is outdated and invalid. Without the TRIM command the SSD assumes all of the user capacity is valid data. I explained in my blog Gassing up your SSD that creating more free space through over provisioning or using less of the total capacity enables the SSD to operate more efficiently by reducing the write amplification, which leads to increased performance and flash memory endurance. So without TRIM the SSD operates at its lowest level of efficiency for a particular level of over provisioning.
Will you drown in invalid data without TRIM?
TRIM is a way to increase the free space on an SSD – what we call "dynamic over provisioning" – and DuraWrite technology is another method to increase the free space. Since DuraWrite technology is dependent upon the entropy (randomness) of the data, some users will get more free space than others depending on what data they store. Since the technology works on the basis of the aggregate of all data stored, boot SSDs with operating systems can still achieve some level of dynamic over provisioning even when all other files are at the highest entropy, e.g., encrypted or compressed files.
With an older operating system or in an environment that does not support TRIM (most RAID configurations), DuraWrite technology can provide enough free space to offer the same benefits as having TRIM fully operational. In cases where both TRIM and DuraWrite technology are operating, the combined result may not be as noticeable as when they're working independently since there are diminishing returns when the free space grows to greater than half of the SSD storage capacity.
So the next time you fill your bathtub, think about all the ways you can get the water out of the tub without using the drain. That will help you remember that both TRIM and DuraWrite technology can improve SSD performance using different approaches to the same problem. If that analogy does not work for you, consider the different ways to produce a furless feline, and think about what opening graphic image I might have used for a more jolting effect. Although in that case you might not have seen this blog since that image would likely have gotten us banned from Google® "safe for work" searches.
I presented on this topic in detail at the Flash Memory Summit in 2011. You can read it in full here: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Flash%20Storage%20Processors/LSI_PRS_FMS2011_T1A_Smith.pdf
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It may sound crazy, but hard disk drives (HDDs) do not have a delete command. Now we all know HDDs have a fixed capacity, so over time the older data must somehow get removed, right? Actually it is not removed, but overwritten. The operating system (OS) uses a reference table to track the locations (addresses) of all data on the HDD. This table tells the OS which spots on the HDD are used and which are free. When the OS or a user deletes a file from the system, the OS simply marks the corresponding spot in the table as free, making it available to store new data.
The HDD is told nothing about this change, and it does not need to know since it would not do anything with that information. When the OS is ready to store new data in that location, it just sends the data to the HDD and tells it to write to that spot, directly overwriting the prior data. It is simple and efficient, and no delete command is required.
Enter SSDs
However, with the advent of NAND flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) a new problem emerged. In my blog, Gassing up your SSD, I explain how NAND flash memory pages cannot be directly overwritten with new data, but must first be erased at the block level through a process called garbage collection (GC). I further describe how the SSD uses non-user space in the flash memory (over provisioning or OP) to improve performance and longevity of the SSD. In addition, any user space not consumed by the user becomes what we call dynamic over provisioning – dynamic because it changes as the amount of stored data changes.
When less data is stored by the user, the amount of dynamic OP increases, further improving performance and endurance. The problem I alluded to earlier is caused by the lack of a delete command. Without a delete command, every SSD will eventually fill up with data, both valid and invalid, eliminating any dynamic OP. The result would be the lowest possible performance at that factory OP level. So unlike HDDs, SSDs need to know what data is invalid in order to provide optimum performance and endurance.
Keeping your SSD TRIM
A number of years ago, the storage industry got together and developed a solution between the OS and the SSD by creating a new SATA command called TRIM. It is not a command that forces the SSD to immediately erase data like some people believe. Actually the TRIM command can be thought of as a message from the OS about what previously used addresses on the SSD are no longer holding valid data. The SSD takes those addresses and updates its own internal map of its flash memory to mark those locations as invalid. With this information, the SSD no longer moves that invalid data during the GC process, eliminating wasted time rewriting invalid data to new flash pages. It also reduces the number of write cycles on the flash, increasing the SSD's endurance. Another benefit of the TRIM command is that more space is available for dynamic OP.
Today, most current operating systems and SSDs support TRIM, and all SandForce Driven™ member SSDs have always supported TRIM. Note that most RAID environments do not support TRIM, although some RAID 0 configurations have claimed to support it. I have presented on this topic in detail previously. You can view the presentation in full here. In my next blog I will explain how there may be an alternate solution using SandForce Driven member SSDs.
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The term global warming can be very polarizing in a conversation and both sides of the argument have mountains of material that support or discredit the overall situation. The most devout believers in global warming point to the average temperature increases in the Earth's atmosphere over the last 100+ years. They maintain the rise is primarily caused by increased greenhouse gases from humans burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
The opposition generally agrees with the measured increase in temperature over that time, but claims that increase is part of a natural cycle of the planet and not something humans can significantly impact one way or another. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that 90% of world's marketed energy consumption is from non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. Our internet-driven lives run through datacenters that are well-known to consume large quantities of power. No matter which side of the global warming argument you support, most people agree that wasting power is not a good long-term position. Therefore, if the power consumed by datacenters can be reduced, especially as we live in an increasingly digitized world, this would benefit all mankind.
When we look at the most power-hungry components of a datacenter, we find mainly server and storage systems. However, people sometimes forget that those systems require cooling to counteract the heat generated. But the cooling itself consumes even more energy. So anything that can store data more efficiently and quickly will reduce both the initial energy consumption and the energy to cool those systems. As datacenters demand faster data storage, they are shifting to solid state drives (SSDs). SSDs generally provide higher performance per watt of power consumed over hard disk drives, but there is still more that can be done.
Reducing data to help turn down the heat
The good news is that there's a way to reduce the amount of data that reaches the flash memory of the SSD. The unique DuraWrite™ technology found in all LSI® SandForce® flash controllers reduces the amount of data written to the flash memory to cut the time it takes to complete the writes and therefore reduce power consumption, below levels of other SSD technologies. That, in turn, reduces the cooling needed to further reduce overall power consumption. Now this data reduction is "loss-less," meaning 100% of what is saved is returned to the host, unlike MPEG, JPEG, and MP3 files, which tolerate some amount of data loss to reduce file sizes.
Today you can find many datacenters already using SandForce Driven SSDs and LSI Nytro™ application acceleration products (which use DuraWrite technology as well). When we start to see datacenters deploying these flash storage products by the millions, you will certainly be able to measure the reduction in power consumed by datacenters. Unfortunately, LSI will not be able to claim it stopped global warming, but at least we, and our customers, can say we did something to help defer the end result.
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Have you ever run out of gas in your car? Do you often risk running your gas tank dry? Hopefully you are more cautious than that and you start searching for a gas station when you get down to a ¼ tank. You do this because you want plenty of cushion in case something comes up that prevents you from getting to a station before it is too late.
The reason most people stretch their tank is to maximize travel between station visits. The downside to pushing the envelope to "E" is you can end up stranded with a dead vehicle waiting for AAA to bring you some gas.
Now most people know you don't put gas in a solid state drive (SSD), but the pros and cons associated with how much you leave in the "tank" is very relevant to SSDs.
To understand how these two seemingly unrelated technologies are similar, we first need to drill into some technical SSD details. To start, SSDs act, and often look, like traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), but they do not record data in the same way. SSDs today typically use NAND flash memory to store data and a flash controller to connect the memory with the host computer. The flash controller can write a page of data (often 4,096 bytes) directly to the flash memory, but cannot overwrite the same page of data without first erasing it. The erase cycle cannot expunge only a single page. Instead, it erases a whole block of data (usually 128 pages). Because the stored data is sometimes updated randomly across the flash, the erase cycle for NAND flash requires a process called garbage collection.
Garbage collection is just dumping the trash
Garbage collection starts when a flash block is full of data, usually a mix of valid (good) and invalid (older, replaced) data. The invalid data must be tossed out to make room for new data, so the flash controller copies the valid data of a flash block to a previously erased block, and skips copying the invalid data of that block. The final step is to erase the original whole block, preparing it for new data to be written.
Before and during garbage collection, some data – valid data copied during garbage collection and the (typically) multiple copies of the invalid data – is in two or more locations at once, a phenomenon known as write amplification. To store this extra data not counted by the operating system, the flash controller needs some spare capacity beyond what the operating system knows. This is called over-provisioning (OP), and it is a critical part of every NAND flash-based SSD.
Over-provisioning is like the gas that remains in your tank
While every SSD has some amount of OP, some will have more or less than others. The amount of OP varies depending on trade-offs made between total storage capacity and benefits in performance and endurance. The less OP allocated in an SSD, the more information a user can store. This is like the driver who will take their tank of gas clear down to near-empty just to maximize the total number of miles between station visits.
What many SSD users don't realize is there are major benefits to NOT stretching this OP area too thin. When you allocate more space for OP, you achieve a lower write amplification, which translates to a higher performance during writes and longer endurance of the flash memory. This is like the driver who is more cautious and visits the gas station more often to enable greater flexibility in selecting a more cost-effective station, and allows for last-minute deviations in travel plans that end up burning more fuel than originally anticipated.
The choice is yours
Most SSD users do not realize they have full control of how much OP is configured in their SSD. So even if you buy an SSD with "0%" OP, you can dedicate some of the user space back to OP for the SSD.
A more detailed presentation of how OP works and what 0% OP really means was presented at the Flash Memory Summit 2012 and can be viewed with this link for your convenience: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/noindex/LSIPRS_FMS2012_TE21_Smith.pdf
It pays to be the cautious driver who fills the gas tank long before you get to empty. When it comes to both performance and endurance, your SSD will cover a lot more ground if you treat the over-provisioning space the same way – keeping more in reserve.
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Congratulations to Seagate on achieving this monumental milestone of shipping 2 billion hard disk drives (HDDs)! To put this in perspective, if you measured the Earth's circumference in inches, it is only about 1.57 billion.
Those HDDs have used a lot of parts and intellectual property (IP), and LSI has been a very happy, long-time partner to Seagate providing read channel IP for nearly all of the 2 billion HDDs it has shipped. The read channel is a critical piece of technology inside the HDD that translates the magnetically encoded information on the rotating media to electronic signals that can be understood by the host computer. Advances in the LSI read channel IP over the years have also contributed to the continuing HDD capacity increases we depend upon today.
Seagate reported it took 29 years to ship its first billion drives and only 4 years for the second. This jaw-dropping growth is a stark reminder that the global data deluge continues to swell. Now more than ever, IT architects and managers need smarter ways – down to the silicon – to produce new storage and networking efficiencies and reduce costs.
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Most people fully understand that electronics are useless without power, but what happens when devices lose power in the middle of operating? That answer is highly dependent on a number of variables including what type of electronic device is in question.
For solid state drives (SSDs) the answer depends on factors such as whether an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) is connected, what controller or flash processor is used, the design of the power circuit of the SSD, and the type of memory. If an SSD is in the middle of a write operation to the flash memory and power to the SSD is disconnected, many bad things could happen if the right safety measures are not in place. Many users do not think about all the non-user initiated operations the SSDs may be performing like background garbage collection that could be under way when the power fails. Without the correct protection, in most cases data will be corrupted.
According to the Nielsen company, 108.4 million viewers were tuned into the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans only to be shocked to witness the power go down for 34 minutes in the middle of the game. If power can be lost during such an incredibly high profile event such as this, it can happen just about anywhere.
Inside the New Orleans Superdome stadium operations and broadcast server rooms
Enterprise computing environments typically have multiple servers with data connections and lots of storage. Over the past few years, a larger percentage of the storage is kept on SSDs for the very active or "hot" data. This greatly improves data access time and reduces overall latency of the system. Enterprise servers are often connected to UPS systems that supply the connected devices with temporary power during a power failure.
Usually this is enough power to support uninterrupted system operations until power is restored, or at least until technicians can complete their current work and shut down safely. However there are many times when UPS systems are not deployed or fail to operate properly themselves. In those cases, the server will experience a power failure as abrupt as if someone had yanked the power cord from the wall socket.
The LSI® SandForce® flash controllers are at the heart of many popular SSDs sold today. The flash controller connects the host computer with the flash memory to store user data in fast non-volatile memory. The SandForce flash controllers are specifically engineered to operate in different environments, and the SF-2500/2600 FSPs are designed to provide the high level of data integrity required for enterprise applications. In the area of power failure protection, they include a combination of firmware (FW) and hardware circuitry that monitors the power coming into the SSD. In the event of a power failure or even a brown-out, the flash controller is alerted to the situation and hold-up capacitors in the SSD provide the necessary power and time for the controller to complete pending writes to the flash memory. This same circuit is also designed to prevent the risk of lower page corruption with Multi-level Cell (MLC) memory.
Watch out for SSD solutions that provide backup capacitors, but lack the necessary support circuitry and special firmware to ensure the data is fully committed to the flash memory before the power runs out. Even if these other special circuits are present, only truly enterprise SSDs that are meticulously designed and tested to withstand power failures are up to the task of storing and protecting highly critical data.
In the control room and down on the field
The usage patterns of non-enterprise systems like notebooks and ultrabooks call for a different power failure support mechanism. Realize that when you have a notebook or ultrabook system, you have a built in mini-UPS system. A power outage from the wall socket has no impact to the system until the battery gets low. At that point the operating system will tell the computer to shut down and that will be ample warning for the SSD to safely shut down and ensure the integrity of the data. But what if the operating system locks up and does not warn the SSD or the system is an A/C-powered desktop without a battery?
The LSI SF-2100/2200 FSPs are purpose-built for these client environments and operate with the assumption that power could disappear at any point in time. They use special FW techniques so that even without a battery present, as is the case with desktop systems, they greatly limit the potential for data loss.
The naked facts
It should be clear that the answer to the original question is highly dependent upon the flash controller at the heart of the SSD. Without having the critical features discussed above and designed into the LSI SandForce flash controllers, it is very possible to lose data during a power failure. The LSI SandForce flash controllers are engineered to withstand power failures like the one that hit New Orleans at the Super Bowl, but don't expect them to fix wardrobe malfunctions.
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Merging the working cultures of two different companies can be a very complex task. In my past experience with these situations I have not typically found the result to be highly positive for the employees of the incoming company.
As one example, the acquiring company may tell the employees they will be able to keep their startup environment and mentality, but within one or two quarters nearly all of those attributes are eliminated and the employees just become another cog in the bigger machine. After that the drive and creativity that was fostered with that startup mentality often disappears.
Year two and still happily married
In the first week of 2012, LSI completed the acquisition of SandForce, further expanding its growing coverage of flash memory technology IP. SandForce had grown significantly since its emergence from stealth mode in 2009 to become a leading provider of flash controllers for enterprise, cloud and client solid state storage solutions.
The SandForce team was kept in whole and created the Flash Components Division of LSI. The team even continues to reside in the same building it had occupied the prior year, further supporting the internal feeling of their original startup mentality. Most of the original culture of SandForce was kept intact and that enabled the transition into the larger LSI Corporation much easier for most people. Because those changes were spread out over a longer period of time it was easier for the team to digest with minimal disruption to their daily flow.
For the business side of the acquisition, there has been significant upside as a result of the merger. Over the last 14 months, both companies have invested significant time and resources to leverage the SandForce® flash controller technology across the company. LSI had already designed a high-end enterprise solution using the SandForce technology in their PCIe based Nytro™ product line. With both companies now under one umbrella, the engineering teams are free to develop advanced capabilities between the products to enable deeper integration that will result in greater customer benefits.
Greater efficiency … for the sake of customers
As a single larger company, LSI is now able to redistribute engineering and support resources as needed to better align with the quick expansion of flash memory storage solutions for its customers. It is also much easier to ensure a higher level of interoperability between related products and solutions. Many of the customers already purchasing LSI products can use the same sales and support teams already in place to access and incorporate a larger set of solutions from LSI.
Enterprise storage manufacturers have millions if not billions of dollars of revenue and their reputation at stake when they select new and emerging technologies like flash memory to provide storage for their customers. There is always a level of concern when these companies work with smaller startup organizations. The high-technology industry is full of company names that had a great technology, but for one reason or another they could not sustain the business and fell into oblivion. The acquisition of SandForce by LSI adds the support and confidence of a multi-billion dollar company to help assuage any possible concerns of those enterprise manufacturers.
Personally, as one of the early SandForce employees, I have found the acquisition to be very beneficial to everyone involved including employees, customers, and end users. I look forward to further advancements we will make to the flash industry as we continue to drive flash memory into the storage industry.
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Jack Kerouac
Adult Fiction KEROUAC
Summary: In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother . Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road , The Dharma Bums , and Visions of Cody , it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
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Edmond Jabès: Few Read Him, More Should
I discovered Edmond Jabès' The Book of Questions serendipitously. The son of wealthy Egyptian Jews, Jabès' earliest literary friendships were with Max Jacob, Paul Eluard, and Rene Char.
The Book of Questions is the story of two young lovers during the Nazi deportations; not using any traditional narrative, it speaks of Jewishness, silence, dispossession, and writing.
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"There seems nothing strange about the fact that ancient rabbis can converse with a contemporary writer, that images of stunning beauty can stand beside descriptions of the greatest devastation, or that the visionary and the commonplace can co-exist on the same page. From the very beginning, when the reader encounters the writer at the threshold of the book, we know that we are entering a space unlike any other." - Paul Auster
"In the last ten years nothing of interest has been written in France that does not have its precedent somewhere in the texts of Jabès." - Jacques Derrida, 1972
Few read him, more should.
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More Toughts about the Art of Energy Testing
While it is possible to use a pendulum or surrogate testing as a substitute for direct energy testing, I'm noticing i feel a resistance to doing so without careful consideration of what is making testing difficult. The context of the difficulty plays a key role. I'd want to address the person's doubts first of all, and spend more time talking about what we are doing and why. One thing that comes to mind is how often I will suggest to someone that stress is playing a role in whatever symptoms brought them in to see me and they will insist they have no stress. They truly believe that is true. Then it is helpful to be able to demonstrate with an energy test that triple warmer and/or pericardium indicate otherwise. That helps many clients make the connection between mind, energy status, body and symptomology.
Behind every symptom if we dig deep enough, behind every energy configuration that we observe needs 'correction' there is BS (a belief system). The connection may well be less than obvious and indirect in the extreme. But simply assessing and correcting energy may in the end be a slow route to change if not combined with a focus on the underlying thoughts and emotions.
It pays to ask, "What is it that we are testing"? And "why"? Maybe we have an intuitive hit, but we want to find out if it is accurate. Then a pendulum could be used to affirm our 'guess'. But then it's important that we are sure we are neutral about the outcome, and just curious about the answer to the question. We may rather want our findings to seem credible to our client. Demonstrating the energy state with kinesiology has an important visual and kinesthetic impact. But use of a pendulum and/or a surrogate may negate that benefit.
On the other hand there certainly are instances where these alternative ways of testing are useful - with young children for example, or for a person with a shoulder or arm injury.
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The trouble with history isn't that it's apt to be forgotten. The real problem is that it's often remembered at the most inconvenient times.
Last week, several hundred people gathered at the Hilton near the airport to celebrate the alleged sovereignty of Georgia and the other 49 states of the Union.
The Tenth Amendment Summit, named for the portion of the U.S. Constitution intended to crystallize the concept of federalism, was a national gathering of the state's rights movement.
As a group, these are the combatants on the exposed right flank of the Republican party. They can make tea partiers look like pikers — demanding not just restrained Washington spending, but shackles on all aspects of the federal government. At the Hilton, the pitchfork in the crowd was real.
But like the tea party movement, the rhetoric and symbolism harkened back to the American Revolution. The event featured two candidates for governor, though not from the same state.
Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, won fame for his defiance of a federal jurist who ordered him to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments. Ousted from the bench, Moore lost a primary campaign against GOP incumbent Bob Riley in 2006 – but is trying for the post again this year.
Moore recited vast stretches of the Declaration of Independence and the speeches of Patrick Henry from memory.
Ray McBerry spoke slightly longer, but this was entirely proper. His campaign for governor financed the two-day event.
McBerry, a one-time history teacher, challenged Republican Sonny Perdue in the 2006 primary, winning nearly 12 percent of the vote. He's trying again, and makes the six other Republicans in this year's contest a little skittish.
McBerry named two bills he'd had introduced in the Legislature this session, one to assert Georgia's right to decide what federal expenditures it will pay for.
Like Moore, McBerry walked his audience – he's an excellent speaker – to the very edge of the 18th century. McBerry then leaped across the next 100 years, landing in the 1920s for a discussion of the federal government's expanded use of the commerce clause.
The omissions by both men were too spectacular to be accidental. Not in Atlanta, which was once burned in an argument over a state's right to hold a people in bondage. Not in the South, which once used the Tenth Amendment and state sovereignty as a shield for slavery.
Afterwards, McBerry admitted to editing his history. "I've made a real effort in my campaign not to be associated with the war or slavery. That's not what I'm about. I'm Christian. I simply believe in the Constitution. All Americans – white, black or otherwise – we've all lost our liberties," he said. "I genuinely hope and believe that we've moved past that point in our history where standing up for the Constitution has to automatically be tied to racism or anything from the past."
Many would agree. A CNN/ORC poll released Friday indicated that 56 percent of Americans think the federal government has become so powerful that it poses an immediate threat to individual rights – the highest number in 15 years of polling on the topic.
But very few ideas can claim to be born whole, without a past. And in Georgia, where McBerry wants to be governor, the past matters more than words can possibly say.
Asked when America was at its ideal, McBerry picked 1850.
"Ultimately, when the South lost the war, it totally transformed the American republic into basically a federal empire," McBerry said. "And the truth is, that's what we've been morphing into over the last 150 years. In a sense, the old republic died when the South lost the Civil War."
More than a few Georgians would have serious problems with that statement.
But this isn't just about history. Last year, the state Senate passed a resolution declaring Georgia's right to secede — should encroachment by the federal government deepen. One candidate, then-state senator Eric Johnson of Savannah, voted for the measure. Two others, John Oxendine and Karen Handel, joined McBerry and endorsed it.
The bandwagon crashed to a halt when Democratic candidate for governor David Poythress, the former commander of the Georgia National Guard, rebuked his GOP opposition in a YouTube video.
Poythress declared that dissolution of a nation isn't something to be spoken of lightly when U.S. troops were dying overseas. "They would, in effect, ban the American flag, and end the Pledge of Allegiance. They would say to the world that when they don't get their way, they quit," Poythress said. "That's just childish. That's cowardice, not leadership."
That ended the discussion for most Republican candidates. But not McBerry.
"I'm personally in favor of de-funding the Georgia National Guard, and funding the Georgia state guard, which is solely under the authority of the governor and the General Assembly," McBerry said. "I believe that the original purpose for the National Guard was not overseas deployment anyway. I think it's being abused and misused."
This is not a gauntlet other Republicans are likely to pick up, and a vision of America that most of us would have to think twice about.
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February 27th, 2010
3:18 pm
I've been fighting this urge for months, but the closer we get to July the more likely I am to consider voting for McBerry. One of the other 7 dwarfs better do something quick
February 27th, 2010
3:26 pm
Mr. McBerry is right. The nation's fabric began to tear right after the Civil War. We need to get back to the basics of the Constitution whereby these great Southern states ought to have the right to leave the union if it gets too powerful. Now is the time to do just that and with good folks like Mr. McBerry at the wheel. God Bless Ray Mcberry. He is the South's best hope in standing up to Obamacare, Crap and Trade and other Socialistic programs that will weaken American-making her open to a jihadist revolt. I say let these Southern states defend their way of life while those states in the north and west can die on the vine.
February 27th, 2010
3:47 pm
I found that Poythress video on his web site, http://www.poythressforgovernor.com/secession
Way to stick it to 'em, General! It's about time we had a Democrat in this state willing to take it to the Republicans!
February 27th, 2010
3:59 pm
"Prof" McBerry, Karen Handel, Nathan Deal and Eric Johnson are racists. Call it like you see it. We need to move GA forward instead of letting nonsense like this to enter into our debate. Lining up behind this 10th Amendment argument will not create jobs, improve our environment, or make GA an attractive tourist destination. I am an independent who loves this state. I'm embarrassed by these candidates. I do hope people will use common sense when they vote this Nov. We need to clean up this state of politicians like Voter Identification Extremist Handel, birther Deal, and Confederate Johnson.
February 27th, 2010
5:04 pm
All kinds of straw man arguments abound whenever the states rights argument is brought up. It is easy to point at our awful, awful past of race relations and blame it on states rights because that argument was used to justify the enslavement of an entire race far into the 20th century. The fact of the matter is that absolute power in the hands of the states is just as bad as absolute power in the hands of the federal government. Just as the federal government is there to ensure the state government doesn't trounce on the rights of its citizens the state governments are there to ensure that the federal government doesn't abuse its power either.
February 27th, 2010
6:09 pm
McBerry's got my vote.
You failed to explain how the existence of domestic slavery (as opposed to the state slavery now ubiquitous on our soil) in the Southern states somehow negated the constitutional right to secede.
Various New England states, as well as some others, have at times both before and after the War asserted their right of secession, as well. In fact, Lincoln himself, as a senator, declared on the floor of the Senate in a speech meant to encourage Texas' entry into the union, that the right of secession was a right necessary to a free republic. Your attempt to paint states' rights as merely the province of racists is either woefully ignorant or shamefully disingenuous.
Even marriages…a far more sacred bond than any merely political bond…have lawful grounds upon which they may be dissolved.
Wayward governments, like wayward spouses, sometimes may need only the reminder of that possibility in order to repent of their transgressions. I believe most who today are reminding the government of the right of secession hope, as I do, that the reminder will suffice to end the tryst with tyranny that is the cause of the discussion in the first place.
It is not a matter of quitting when one doesn't get one's way. But if the union is left (i.e.–the terms of the union are breached), the party acting in defiance of the terms of the union is the one who has dissolved it, not the offended party.
You don't blame the cheated on wife for destroying the marriage when she divorces her philandering husband, do you?
February 27th, 2010
6:09 pm
I'll go for the Tenth Amendment having meaning if we all agree the Ninth Amendment has meaning. Let's see, Feds, then the states and then the people. 1850 being the perfect year? Who is this guy?
February 27th, 2010
6:18 pm
Today, the doctrine of States' rights is used to cherish local control in terms of social legislation (i.e., school control, criminal statutes, gun control, etc.). Federalism is probably the last defense against an all-powerful, amalgamated central government. Mr Galloway, I think that you would benefit from a careful reading of Jay, Madison, and Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. Also, consider that Montesquieu, Locke, et. al. warned against the concentration of power in the hands of the few, with the idea that such a concentration would lead to tyranny. Human nature seeks power (read Federalist #10). Federalism, along with checks/balances and a number of other constitutional mechanisms are designed to check human nature and prevent tyranny. While I think we can agree that most of those provisions have failed to stop concentration of power in Washington, I don't think that the resurrection of those ideas would be a bad step. Just because a Constitutional provision has in the past been used to support an institution such as slavery doesn't mean that the provision is bad or evil. The idea that the Tenth Amendment would be used to support slavery. I'm supporting McBerry–he's a dumbass (I'm from Henry County). I just think you should read some of those founding documents a little more closely.
February 27th, 2010
6:19 pm
I'm sorry—-"NOT" repeat "NOT" supporting McBerry. My mistake!
February 27th, 2010
6:37 pm
I was at this meeting.
I live in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), but had a business trip that ended the day before in Texas, so when I found out about this meeting a month ago, I added a hop over to Atlanta (fortunately I could change my Texas–>Seattle leg to Atlanta–>Seattle leg at no cost to my employer). I spent the better part of $1K of my own money to do this.
I think it was well worth it, to cast my vote by my attendance. The federal government is way, way, way out of control. I am a Bible-believing Christian who believes that he does not have the luxury of rationalizing away Romans 13. However, any student of history (or even informed layman—a rare commodity lately in our Republic) cannot fail to conclude; IMO; YMMV.
In summary, I felt the meeting was very important. It was a bummer that Judge Nepolitano could not come due to flight cancellations in the Big Apple. But I felt that governer candidates McBerry and Moore both did the constitution well. And common citizens need to say "Enough!" to the ever-encroaching federal government. After all, it was set up to be a limited agent on behalf of the States; i.e. their servant, not their master. If Americans want to dissolve this social compact, then lets do it explicitly, under terms outlined in the Constitution. But not by incremental decrees by unelected Federal judges (including Supreme Court justices).
I know it is quite politically incorrect, but, for all citizens that truly care about our government and the future of our country, let me lay down a challenge for you….
To those who would say the 10th Amendment is simply a truism, I ask you this: why on earth would our Founding Fathers, for more than 3.5 months, labored over the Bill of Rights and yet bother to state a truism such as "of course, the Federal government is [somehow unexplained, undefined, and unenforcable] to be limited in scope"? Inquiring minds want to know….
Its quite similar to those that would claim that the 2nd Amendment only applies to militias. In order to believe this (at least with any semblance of intellectual honesty, a currency in short supply in recent decades), one would have to believe the following. (1) All other amendments are for individual liberty (see below), yet this one is not. (2) Our Founding Fathers were so trivial as to bother to state "an army is allowed to own weapons". Well, duh….!!!!
And, to those who have no problem with unelected judges adding their own personal opinions into the mix, let me ask this: on what basis would you ever say that our Federal government has exceeded its bounds? Does such a condition exist?
Let me add some context from our Republic's raison d'etre, the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
So,. to my PC countrymen, why do you level the (utterly nuclear yet impossible-to-refute) charge of racism against people who would assert their rights viz. the social compact of this Republic? Have ye no shame? Does your mother really know what you do in your spare time? Inquiring minds want to know…
I hope that our great Republic survives the last few generations (and especially the last few years, both Republican and Democrat) with a definable social compact intact. If not, God help us…
… at least consider the words of Patriot Samuel Adams ""If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
Do you really consider your precious First Amendment (at least the free press part) to be at the federal government's whims? Inquiring minds want to know….
February 27th, 2010
6:38 pm
Snow in Hell's chance this clown wins governor–waste of time
February 27th, 2010
7:20 pm
I would vote for David Poythress, DuBose Porter or Jeff Chapman. The rest are scary, or crooks, or in the race to line their pockets, and some are totally unhinged.
February 27th, 2010
7:29 pm
Sounds logical, there's a black man in the White House we must secede from the union. And Republicans wonder why they don't get African-American votes?
February 27th, 2010
8:01 pm
WTF! This dude believes that the 1850's was the greatest moment in USA History? Where did he go to get his PHD BS in American History? " The Calhoun Clemson School of On-Line History and Matchbook Sales"
February 27th, 2010
8:47 pm
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February 27th, 2010
11:16 pm
The lunatics are taking over the asylum.
February 28th, 2010
12:40 am
As an attendee of this summit, I must say that all of you are overreacting.
Firstly, the states rights movement is seen as the "last peaceable approach to reign in an out of control Federal Government." Though secession may cross the minds of some, it is far from my mind. I love my country; that means ALL of it. I do not wish to see it separated by secession, and that is precisely why I support candidates who are willing to fight for the rights of the people and states that are innumerated in the Constitution.
To all of you who despise Mr. McBerry, and believe him to be unlearned, a troublemaker, and a racist, I ask you this: What has your Federal Government done to help you? Social Security to take care of you after retirment? It's almost bankrupt. Medicare and Medicaid to keep you healthy? These two programs are two of the main reasons that those who aren't on healthcare have to pay so much more, and why medical costs for doctors have risen, and continue to rise. They borrowed your money, yes, your tax dollars that they have no right to take, to fund Cash-For-Clunkers, which went bankrupt as well. Now, they want to give you healthcare. My British friends tell me that this is the worst thing that we could possibly do to our country. They live with it, and they have seen the horror it brings. Our country is bankrupt. We are in debt to our enemies, and yet the Federal Government will not listen to the voice of the people in this nation who cry out for freedom that we once shared. We are shackled by the power hungry and money loving bureaucrats that call themselves "public servants", but serve only one thing: their own selves.
My fellow Americans, as I read your statements, I am wholeheartedly saddened by your lack of love for your fellow Americans. Just as someone who breaks the law, steals, and is searched out, is stopped, and duly reigned in, so the Federal Government should also be stopped from unlawful actions and reigned in. Mr. McBerry is not asking for anarchy or secession. He is, of all men, the most fair and loving person towards all human beings I have ever met. Those who throw racism into the picture are trying to throw up a smoke screen to turn people away from truth and freedom, which threaten the bullying government we have today.
February 28th, 2010
1:08 am
@LadyLiberty …and he's a racist.
I love this state and would love to see it join the modern world — not withdraw for it. There is no way we will attract companies to this state if the world see us supporting racists like McBerry and the other gubernatorial candidates who are shouting about the 10th Amendment.
February 28th, 2010
3:03 am
OK, PCBobby, how dare you call LadyLiberty a racist!
Have you no shame?
Do you think that MLK was an unrealistic fool when he wished for a day in which people would be judged by the "content of their character" and not the "color of their skin"?
If you think that anyone who disagrees with you is a racist, then you are ipso facto saying that MLK was an idealistic idiot preaching things that could never be achieved. While YMMV, I do not agree with this.
February 28th, 2010
7:24 am
except for scott, that is one futt bugly group of folks….
February 28th, 2010
8:00 am
Wake up – this isn't only about McBerry! "One candidate, then-state senator Eric Johnson of Savannah, voted for the measure. Two others, John Oxendine and Karen Handel, joined McBerry and endorsed it."
And Galloway forgot to mention that Congressman Deal (who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the UNITED State of America) has never been brave enough to express his opinion on this foolish secession movement. He's been too busy asking Obama for his birth certificate!
Voters need to think carefully about how businesses looking at Georgia will react to these extreme views taking over the GOP. If one of these candidates becomes our next Governor, we won't just be losing jobs to NC, but we'll fall behind Alabama and Mississippi.
February 28th, 2010
8:23 am
Generals Sherman, Grant and many others, under the Commander in Chief (Abe Lincoln) adopted the amendment which prohibits states from seceding. If the power of the Federal Government is to be reigned in, the closure of Forts Benning, Gordon, Dobbins AFB, the submarine base at St. Mary's etc. would have to be closed. Raising an army and navy to compete with the US Army would be difficult. So, Forget it.
February 28th, 2010
9:41 am
Uncle Billy makes a good point. What can each state do in terms of self-defense and raising a militia? I think the states-rights movement is great but it's also a death knell for the age of American superiority. I'm all in favor of each state breaking away and forming 'special interest' zones under free market principals and citizen referendum. "Tree Huggers" like me might be more at home in CA or VT with strong environmental law. Free market religious conservatives might be more at home in KY, OK, LA or TX. Entrepreneurs and biotech firms might gravitate to CT, MA, MD, lawyers in NJ or NY. It would cause a huge migration of people who would move to form 'like minded' communities of interest. The biggest benefit of all to me is it would starve the bloated federal military budget as states refused to participate or allow their citizens to be conscripted. Getting my share of the $1TRILLION defense budget off my back would make me happy to no end, so I say, dissolve the union, let us look more like Europe than a single superpower of 300 million, with a regional VAT that would be the only source of 'federal' funds.
February 28th, 2010
2:11 pm
[...] year 1850 came up recently in a moderately unexpected place – this interview Jim Galloway did with Ray McBerry. In it, McBerry, the former history teacher who is ignorant on [...]
February 28th, 2010
5:03 pm
The 10th Amendment Summit supporters and the majority of Tea Party people have zero idea of what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote our Constitution. They pervert it for their own narrow-minded, bigoted agenda. I often wonder where these "patriots" were when the Bush amdninistration and the Republicans were exploding the deficit, amassing huge debt, passing unfunded government mandates and starting two wars that were off the accounting books of the US budget. Suddenly, now that we have a Democratic president (or "Democrat" president as they like to say) who happens to be African American, these people now claim they want to "take their country back".
I say that any group that wants to follow the unworkable, idealistic policies of Ron Paul, that take their marching orders from the paranoid delusions of Glenn Beck and cheer the inane sniping of the half-Governor Sarah Palin are very dangerous people. And, many of them are racists who try to couch their paranoia in patriotism.
February 28th, 2010
5:30 pm
Anyone seriously speaking of reigning in the U.S. government needs to list first and foremost defunding the U.S. military. If that's off the table, all those other points are just an exercise in hearing yourself blab.
March 1st, 2010
7:39 am
Just another iteration of the Sons of KKKonfederate Veterans.
March 1st, 2010
8:14 am
Oh, yeah. Let's secede from the Union. That's a brilliant idea. We could build a huge wall or fence around Georgia, and place machine gunners at 30-yard intervals, and by God and based on our knowledge of what we think "THE FOUNDING FATHERS" meant, shoot anyone off the fence…especially those who try to escape.
After hearing some of you support nut-jobs like these Repubs who endorse another nut-job like McBerry, I'm more convinced than ever that I'd support secession of Georgia as long as it's populated by none other than all you nut-jobs. Yeah, let's return to the 1850s, a time when attempts to do away with slavery were viewed by so many simply as a violation of State's rights…rather than the violation of human rights that it was. Yeah, and we could go back to the good 'ol days when women weren't permitted to vote…and THE FOUNDING FATHERS would want us to quit flying airplanes because they didn't know or believe that man could fly, and you can prove that by noting carefully no reference to flying airplanes or MRI machines or computers in the THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. Our FOUNDING FATHERS would be mortified to know we had strayed so far from the wording of the THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. And most of you are already convinced that God is angry with us because we strayed fro the wording our FOUNDING FATHERS laid down over 200 years ago. Yeah, we need to return to the good 'l days.
March 1st, 2010
10:09 am
Right on, Mr. Grumpy. Ditto on every word. Is anyone paying attention out there? These Republican candidates are disgusting and embarrassing to the world. And no, we won't move if we don't like it. Folks like Mr. Grumpy and me will speak out against this insanity.
March 1st, 2010
10:20 am
Mr. Grumpy and PCBobby-I will help you both pack your bags so that you can get married up there in Secular Vermont. You both don't understand history and any of the Constitution. You are both "stuck on stupid" Democrats who were probably schooled in government-run schools where they teach Evilution, Junk Science and the Gay Agenda.
The Southern States can exist just fine without interference from the Godless, Secular states to the north and west.
God Bless,
March 1st, 2010
7:36 pm
There was never any mention of ANY state seceding from the Union at the Tenth Amendment Summit. You are all listing to and reading remarks from people that grossly mis-represented the entire proceding. The concern is quite the opposite – it's about preserving the Union and the Constitution and preventing another armed Revolution or Civil War, which some states have groups of people have discussed across the country.
I was at this summit – The Tenth Amendment group crosses political and racial lines and the Tea Party Movement does too.
Yes, past Congresses, Senates and Presidents have violated the Constitution and states rights. Government was meant to work from the bottom up. Why did it take so long? I don't know, but perhaps it was the straw that broke the camels back with this Congress when they took over private companies, bailed them out, printed money with no backing, took Trillions of dollars in loans from our enemies and spent more in a few months and got us farther into debt than any of the prior administrations.
There were no racist candidates at the Summit – they are all God fearing men and women.
What is so wrong with following the Constitution, for that is the key to saving this country. Our forefathers were very insiteful in designing a limited Federal government. Now with all the mandates that have come from those who are abusing their power and trying to turn this country into a socialist swamp, they need to look at history very closely and find out what has happened, who is trying to take over every aspect of your lives. The Tenth Amendment gives the States the right to tell the federal government NO! We will not follow your unconstitutional rules, we will not obey your unfunded mandates and tax our citizen more at your bidding. We know better how to run our schools, spend our tax dollars, raise our children, farm our fields, provide our utilities, etc. The end result will be an improved economy, and less interferance in our lives.
America was founded by pioneers who forged the wilderness with an ax and a rifle and when the people of the several states decided to create a Federal Government, all they asked is to be left alone.
Everyone at the Summit, including myself were Patriotic Americans, many of us have served our country, many have seen other countries fall, and watched the chaos that ensued. We don't want that to happen to America. Aren't we all American's here? Do we not love this country and all Americans? I see no hyphens in AMERICAN . . .and I don't see racists. Trust me, if I'd thought someone there was a racist, my husband and I would have publicly called them on it – we only saw one person who appeared more a politician and opportunist, who looked down on others, and we called that guy on it as soon as he opened his mouth.
Please do not make false accusations against people you do not know. It does not speak well of your nature or your intelligence.
March 1st, 2010
7:50 pm
Ray McBerry was a perfect gentleman and he is a patriotic American. For those of you from GA, he would make an excellent Governor and by supporting the Tenth Amendment as well as the rest of the Constitution he is looking out for your best interest. I grew up in GA, if I were still here, I'd vote for him. If I found out all your accusations were true I wouldn't, but some of you have made accusations with no foundation or fact.
The date mentioned in the article had nothing to do with the Civil War, it was simply the first time in our nation's history that the federal government grossly violated the Constitution. Remember the Civil War didn't begin until 10 years later, and if you knew your history, it wasn't about Slavery – it was about all the tarrifs and additional taxes that the federal government levied on the southern states for their products and their warm water ports. Supplies were sent to the northern industrial states, fabrics and other products were shipped back south and they were taxed again as if they were a foreign country.
At the summit, for those of you who would cry racist – it was mentioned that one of the only bills that have come out in the last 100 years that WAS CONSTITUTIONAL was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and there were more Republicans that pushed that than Democrats.
Before you spout off, learn the history of this country, not the garbage you get taught in school, for the limited learning in public schools leave out a lot of historical facts. There are plenty of books and writings of our forefathers out there to tell you the truth.
This is the best country in the world, we want to keep it that way.
March 1st, 2010
8:15 pm
Holy S**T! These Republicans and conservatives are complete idiots! Jeez, when will the madness and lunatic fringe on the GOP end?? McBerry is a nut, Thank goodness he is not teaching school anymore. Let's pass an amendment… Let's require all members of the GOP to take psychological exams before being able to hold or run for any office. That way, we could be sure that VERY FEW would be able to run!! I am an Atlanta native, and it is sad to see how the GOP has ruined this state over the past 8 years or so. The only logical choice for Governor is General Poythress.
March 2nd, 2010
1:54 am
It used to be said half jokingly that parts of the South are still fighting the Civil War, but based on McBerry's position and that of his supporters posted here, it apparently is no joke!
March 2nd, 2010
6:42 am
Wow, Any candidate espousing STATE's RIGHTS is the one we need absolutely…Ive taken to asking any candidate, 'Are you a Constitutionalist?' … its a question that causes most to squirm and avoid! I highly suggest that you axe every candidate that you encounter and axe them about their STATE's RIGHTS defense…40 out of 50 states are addressing the issue right now!!!!
March 2nd, 2010
6:44 am
Oh, and remember, the Republican Party FREED the SLAVES. The Democrat 'party' seeks to KEEP PEOPLE ENSLAVED by the Government!
March 4th, 2010
12:49 pm
Well said Jan L. I could not have said it better myself. I remember over 11 years ago when I took U.S. History in high school how much I had to challenge my teacher on the 'real' history of this country and not what was taught from a text book. Needless to say, it was her teaching method to get us to challenge her and it paid off for me with the highest grade in class. I was impressed with her and how well she knew her history to make us learn it.
Too bad that many students do not have this kind of teaching today or they would know exactly what the 10th amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights stand for. One is not more important than the other. The 10th is just as important as the 1st and vice-versa. All ten are as equally important to protect our liberty and that is why the founding fathers included them into the U.S. Constitution. It sounds like many who post on this blog need to retake U.S. history.
March 8th, 2010
8:36 pm
GOP voter – I heard they aren't even teaching the Constitution in school anymore, and to think when I was in school, because of the wide variety of my friends, Mom used to call me her 'little liberal'! LOL! Then I went to WORK, something that many on the socialist left know nothing about, and I learned how my tax dollars were being wasted and how the Constitution was being violated.
Sorry, but it is both parties involved in the violations of the Constitution, and there is little difference between them anymore, not like the old days. It is amazing though that is was the Republicans that 'freed the slaves' and that pushed for the Equal Rights Act of 1964, the Dems really put up the biggest fight.
The enforcement of the 10th Amendment will prevent another revolution or civil war and the desire to get back to the Constitution for our governmental guide crosses all racial and social and economic avenues. It's not just for one group, or one race. It's for the truly educated people of America – which it's clear, there are many on this site that know nothing of the subject but are following a Party mantra. Why is it that every time someone speaks of getting back the Freedom for ALL Americans, or dares to suggest work or education or personal responsibility, some idiot cries 'racist'? Hmmm, are they making assumptions about others? Sad isn't it.


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There remains one thing that is of concern to me. Despite these great strides forward, Apple is walking a dangerous line with regard to features that are only available to App Store distributed apps. The two most prominent examples are iCloud and Notification Center. Cabel asked Apple if, thanks to Gatekeeper and Developer ID, App Store-only features would be eventually be available to signed apps that were not distributed through the App Store. There was some shuffling of feet and a "we have nothing to announce at this time". It didn't sound particularly optimistic.That means no iCloud sync for MS Office or Adobe products either as they are not (currently) Apple-signed, but self-signed.
It would be a shame if this trend continues, as it creates an artificial gulf between App Store and non-App Store apps. For example, as things stand today, we won't be able to offer iCloud syncing in, say, Coda 2, when you purchase it directly from us. Only App Store purchasers would get that feature. Making matters worse is Apple offers us no real facility to "cross-grade" you from a direct purchase to an App Store purchase, should you change your mind.
There's no real engineering reason that I can think of for this. It seems marketing or money-driven, and I think it's un-Apple-like to chase the money at the expense of user experience in that manner. We hope they change their minds about that particular facet.
Gatekeeper is another step toward the 'iOSification' of the desktop OSX, and some developers are justifiably getting nervous at where this is heading.The first "must-have" app that appears only on linux will signal the death of Apple -- and I expect the patent suits to start up at that point in earnest. But, I suspect that will not happen for a quite a while.
That means no iCloud sync for MS Office or Adobe products either as they are not (currently) Apple-signed, but self-signed.This is a great example. Dropbox can't be sold on the App Store. I'm guessing they might not even be able to get a cert, we'll see. But this doesn't mean Apple will have it all locked up. If microsoft office and photoshop can't support syncing through iCloud, and people care enough -- they will use Dropbox. And they will hit that checkmark to disable gatekeeper to do it. If the platform becomes locked down such that they can't -- they will find a new platform if that new platform is smart enough to hit Apple's weak points.
We've been waiting 20 years, when is that going to happen.That was my point.
App Store because it was possible to purchase a premium Dropbox account through apps that used it, without giving Apple their 30% cut.Yes, I know the circumstances.
It didn't have anything to do with Dropbox being a competitor to iCloud.Apple just started flunking apps using the SDK on a technicality, they never contacted Dropbox. Dropbox had to do that -- and they had to play customer support telephone to do so. Trust me, Apple knows who makes the SDK. Why do you think iCloud even exists? This is willfully naive.
It is certainly remarkable how strong the reaction against Palladium was compared to current responses to Apple and Microsoft's new efforts.Remarkable... and terrifying. In the short term, yes, Apple's walled garden is pretty nice, but in the long run it's a horrible place to end up. People understood this when Microsoft was the instigator, but now that it's Apple everyone is falling over themselves to explain why it's so great.
wrong : right :: right : wozOr "wrong is to right as right is to woz." Or to paraphrase Mr Spock, "I should say that to be Woz is to be as far above being merely right as we are above the amoeba."
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By S. Thomas Coleman
For the AJC
News and notes from Class A basketball …
Lillie one of state's all-around best. Athens Christian (15-2) may crack the top 10 this week and center Zach Lillie is a major reason why. A 6-foot-9 senior, he is putting together one of the state's best all-around seasons, averaging 16 points, 13 rebounds, seven blocks and five assists, while shooting 70 percent from the field for the Eagles, whose only losses thus far are to Class AAAA East Paulding and Landmark Christian, ranked No. 6 in Class A.
Athens boasts two freshmen standouts. The Athens area is also home to two of the most dynamic freshmen in the state. Lillie's teammate at Athens Christian, Will Jackson, a 6-4 guard, is averaging 17 points and six assists per game. Across town, Athens Academy guard Eric Williams is averaging 19 points and five assists, while shooting 42 percent on 3-pointers. Jackson's team got the best of Williams' on Dec. 9, as Athens Christian won 78-37. They will meet again Feb. 3 at Athens Academy.
The eye of the Tigers. LaBron Glover, a 6-foot senior guard, has Claxton (9-4) in first place and undefeated (4-0) in Division A of subdivided Region 3. Glover is averaging 16 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals per game for the Tigers.
Watch out for Portal. The Panthers are not in the top 10 yet, but the could be soon. Portal (15-1) avenged its only loss of the season last week with a 57-54 victory against Montgomery County, which had won the first meeting 53-48 on Dec. 6. Portal is paced by junior swingman Corey Reese, who is averaging 15 points and 12 rebounds per game, and sophomore point guard Stacey Morgan, who is averaging 17 points and five assists.
No. 1 vs. No. 2 lives up to hype. No. 1 vs. No. 2 in Class A girls basketball was worth the price of admission. No. 1 and three-time state champion Wesleyan finally pulled away from No. 2 St. Francis to earn a 67-54 victory Friday at Wesleyan. Neither has lost to a team in Georgia this season. It was the first time in a long time that Wesleyan (15-2) had been tested by a team in Georgia and in Class A. St. Francis (16-3) was within one point of the Wolves early in the third quarter and trailed by just eight late in the fourth. Wesleyan was led by senior forward Holli Wilkins, who scored 20, and junior Katie Frerking with 14 points, and St. Francis was paced by senior forward Keyona Hayes, who scored 17. They will meet again Feb. 7 at St. Francis.
Charlton County on the rise. The Indians are 12-2 and undefeated (6-0) in Division A of subdivided Region 2. Charlton is on a nine-game streak, primarily behind the efforts of senior guard Courtney Williams, who has signed with South Florida and is the reigning Region 2A Player of the Year.
Trio leads Bryan County. Bryan County is a contender in Region 3, in large part to the efforts of three players scoring in double figures. Junior guard Diamond McGirt is averaging 16 points per game, and is joined by senior forward Satashala Beasley (15 ppg) and senior guard Tiffany Howard (14 ppg).
January 21st, 2012
10:52 am
Where is Lilly going to college? Must be a D1 recruit @ 6′9″ and those kind of numbers, even if only playing in 1A.
January 21st, 2012
11:32 am
Lilly is going to South Carolina upstate
January 23rd, 2012
8:13 am
Lillie is at best 6′7" and is a good player. The interesting thing about this article is that Zach Lillie, Will Jackson and Eric Williams are all from Franklin County. Lillie would have graduated from Franklin last year had he stayed, and Williams and Jackson should be teammates there this year had they not transferred to local private schools as freshmen.
January 23rd, 2012
1:06 pm
Lillie is about 6″7 and a good player. Dont know if he is a big time D1 PLAYER. But everyone knows Link is a crook. But hey they make Private schools look bad!!! He is a dunker.
January 23rd, 2012
4:26 pm
sounds like "coach" is a little jealous that his team is not very good…or maybe he wishes that players would pick up and move for him too. Here's a hint….win a few more games "coach" and players will want to play for your team rather than move away and join another team. If you win…you wont have to "recruit"…the players will come to you.
January 24th, 2012
10:15 am
@S.Thomas Coleman: You are correct on when Eric transferred to AA. He transferred from Franklin County during his 8th grade year.
January 24th, 2012
10:41 am
@S. Thomas Coleman: Actually I was referring to the person who posted the coach was a "crook". People always just assume that its the coach that "recruited" the player when a player leaves to go to a private school or any school for that matter. No one can ever just accept that their parents didnt want them to go to the public school where they live…aka..Franklin County. My point was that its actually rarely the coach that recruits the player…parents move their kids to "better schools" for all kinds of reasons. And even if the kid/parent does move because of the coach…its because the parents and the kid want to play for that coach…not the other way around.
January 24th, 2012
10:49 am
High school basketball has just become an extension to AAU summer leagues. The kids today just team up with their AAU buddies so they can play together and dominate. With the combination of the kids WANTING to play together and parents wanting their kids to be noticed for college scholarships…its irresponsible to say that coaches are "crooks"
January 24th, 2012
11:30 am
And just as a side note…..Athens Christian school has more than 30 students that live in Franklin County….and only 2 of them are athletes
January 25th, 2012
12:50 pm
And just as a side note…..Athens Christian school has more than 30 students that live in Franklin County….and only 2 of them are athletes
COACH- just because u see that don't mean I am a coach. jealousy is a girl name. So first of all if u check the history he has been in trouble with several schools. Sorry you must be his brother, then to get caught with an illegal player this year in Wildgoose. if u check the Athens Banner Herald, there are a lot of people who called him worst. I personally heard him curse and taunt other teams. Then how could you support a person that always get "student athletes" from overseas or from another high school. I can say whatever I want just like you defend a crook. If you can say he run a clean program then the Republicans will vote for Obama in 2012. You can blame AAU in Atlanta and Dekalb for transferring but not in the country like Clarke County. So Thomas I made some good points too.
January 25th, 2012
1:52 pm
sounds like "coach" is a fan of one of the teams that has taken a few licks from acs recently. or got licked every year when that coach was at cedar shoals too. (so clarke central fan maybe?) and actually a serious question here….How are private schools supposed to even get students if they dont transfer from other schools? Should they interview each and every person that wants to come to their school and then say…"wait a second, are you good at any sports?, because if you are then people will think that we recruited you instead of you wanting to come here on your own…sorry you can't attend our school now"
January 25th, 2012
2:16 pm
And im pretty sure that private school gets hundreds of kids from all over the world…and less than a handfull actually play sports. people love to hear what they want to hear and make up things to make feel better about themselves or the fact that their team is not any good. that same school got a kid from germany a few years back as an exchange student….he was also on the basketball team…he never got a lick of playing time so no one ever said anything about him being "recruited". Its only when a kid changes schools and is actually pretty good that people start whining.
January 25th, 2012
7:11 pm
i think he reffering to LINK
January 25th, 2012
7:12 pm
dont act like yall didnt hear about ACS in 2011. Crickets sound
January 25th, 2012
10:04 pm
Just looking for some comments that I read earlier in the bb season about Athens Christian and….came across this-could not help but make one comment. I PERSONALLY have witnessed Coach Link, take a basketball out of the opposing team player's hands and throw it to a ref while waiting on a call from the refs during a region playoff game. Last year in a game when I was at the scorers table at AC his JV coach jumped up and ran onto the court after a foul was called on the opposing team and yelled (not very Christian like) directly at a kid from the opposing team and told him among other things…"get off our court". These are just two of the incidents that I have actually seen with my own eyes over the last five or six years. Is this a good example of sportsmanship for ANY school, public, private, Christian or Non-Christian? I have over the past several years heard them referred to as "dirty" and their coach as dishonest, etc maybe "crook" is an out dated term but dishonest would certainly fit. Regarding Lillie, have seen him play since he transferred, he is a great basketball player but he too was rumored to "transfer" to a Hall County team his sophmore year-does that sound like his is completely loyal to you? I understand why parents transfer their children from public to private (we did) but how many times do you transfer before it becomes questionable? It's a shame that schools (private or public) cannot use the talent they have (if kids transfer legally– them too) to suceed. Regarding AAU team, the attraction for our son to play AAU was to expose him to above average players from other teams (the elite if you will) not to "recruit them".
January 27th, 2012
10:49 am
Just curious as to what your opinion is on this…. If a player or parent from another school goes to a another coach and says that they want to play for him and his school(without the new coach contacting them at all)…do you consider that as "recruiting"? Or what if a player that plays for your high school team initiates the contact with another player at another school because they play on the same AAU team together and they want to play high school together too…is that also "recruiting"? Cause if it is….then every school that is half way decent is doing that.
January 27th, 2012
1:19 pm
And also just curious as to why people freak out when players transfer schools in Class A…but when it happens all the time in Gwinnett County or in Class 5A…no one seems to care? I mean lets get serious…Milton has 3 players that are nominated for the McDonald's All American Team. What are the chances that all 3 of them grew up in that area? But yet no one says a word about them or really cares.
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3:33 am
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