The Crossing - Sunday Movie

Sometimes you get lucky in your search for great content to share with everyone.  Today we found this film called, "The Crossing", which is an American Revolutionary War film.  So it's more we get to share with everyone as we go through American History here on this site.  We have not yet seen this film but we are looking forward to it.  It's about 90 minutes long.


The drama is about George Washington crossing the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War. The film opens with the retreat of the Continental Army across New Jersey after repeated losses and defeats during the campaign of 1776.

After the army narrowly escapes across the river to the Pennsylvania shore, Washington, realizing that something must be done or the Revolution will collapse, conceives a plan to cross the river and conduct a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton.

Despite their own fatigue and the winter weather, Washington manages to lift his weary soldiers' spirits, allowing the army to cross the river on Christmas night. The crossing is done in one night, allowing the troops to attack Trenton at eight o' clock on December 26, 1776, and gains a stunning victory, capturing almost all the Hessians to their own advantage.

Emanuel Leutze's depiction of Washington's attack on the Hessians at Trenton on December 25, 1776, was a great success in America and in Germany. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Krazy Kat - Sunday Funnies

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From 1916, Krazy Kat.  Straight out of the Sunday funnies paper.  Krazy Kat came about at about the same time as Felix the Cat.  A very popular cartoon character at the time.  From the Golden Age of yesteryear.  Enjoy.

Rodeo Dough (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Secret of The Seance - Sunday Comics

Secret of The Seance from Chuck Thompson

The Sunday Comics for this week is The Secret of The Seance.  From the Golden Age of comic books.  Enjoy.  Free downloads are available from our SlideShare site.

Beware 01 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Lights Out - State Executioner - Old Time Radio Show

Lights Out.  An old radio show series that was very popular before the days of TV.  This episode is called, "The State Executioner."  This radio show first aired in 1937.  This is a great way to practice your listening skills as you have to listen to this show in order to appreciate it.  A lost art these days it would seem.  Enjoy.

Early '50s AC/DC tabletop radio (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Old Photo Of The Week - Rembrandt, Master of Light

Now I am no Rembrandt, but the above sure is.  From the early master of light, this photo of Rembrandt's painting is truly astonishing.  Lost these days is the appreciation of fine art as it is rarely found in our daily lives anymore.  A true masterpiece.  Enjoy.

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Morbid - Mad Mav - Free MP3 Song of the day

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

Morbid is the name of the song by Mad Mav.  2008 release.  The band is from Germany.  This tune is all instrumental and heavy metal.  Good beat and well done.  It's a top notch recording.  No garage band sound to it.  Check it out.  Play it here.  If you like it, download a free copy for yourself.

Morbid Angel (Photo credit: bighairydave)

Rush Live In Holland, HD Video - Concert of the week.

Rush, Live in Concert in Holland, the Snakes and Arrows tour.  Whether or not you like the band, these guys are world class musicians with a very unique sound.  This particular video concert is well done and in HD.  For those of you who do like this band, please enjoy as it is top notch.

Geddy Lee (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Valley Forge - Battles And Misery

Liberty's Kids episode number 24.  Valley Forge.  Here you get to see some of the many early struggles faced by the continental army.

 Washington, unable to risk a battle, was rapidly retreating through New Jersey. On the 28th of November Cornwallis advanced upon Newark, and Washington fell back upon New Brunswick. On the first of December, as Cornwallis reached the latter place, Washington broke down the bridge over the Raritan, and continued his retreat to Princeton.

 The terms of service for which his troops had been enlisted were now beginning to expire, and so great was the discouragement wrought by the accumulation of disasters which had befallen the army since the battle of Long Island that many of the soldiers lost heart in their work. Homesickness began to prevail, especially among the New England troops, and as their terms expired it was difficult to persuade them to reënlist. Under these circumstances the army dwindled fast, until, by the time he reached Princeton, Washington had but 3,000 men remaining at his disposal.

 The only thing to be done was to put the broad stream of the Delaware between himself and the enemy, and this he accomplished by the 8th, carrying over all his guns and stores, and seizing or destroying every boat that could be found on that great river for many miles in either direction. When the British arrived, on the evening of the same day, they found it impossible to cross. Cornwallis was eager to collect a flotilla of boats as soon as practicable, and push on to Philadelphia, but Howe, who had just joined him, thought it hardly worth while to take so much trouble, as the riverwould be sure to freeze over before many days. So the army was posted—with front somewhat too far extended—along the east bank, with its centre at Trenton, under Colonel Rahl; and while they waited for that “snap” of intensely cold weather, which in this climate seldom fails to come on within a few days of Christmas, Howe and Cornwallis both went back to New York.

Infantry of the Continental Army. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Gloucester, VA To Get Illegal Middle School? Part 2

From what we showed in yesterday's part one post, it looks to us like we are in the midst of a real conspiracy.  In our view we have been able to show intent, implied contracts, what Virginia Code states and what the final intentions of Gloucester officials really are despite what the citizenry wants.

http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com/2013/07/gloucester-va-to-get-illegal-middle.html  This is a link back to yesterday's story, part one, in case you may have missed it.

What we see is Gloucester officials going through the steps to try and keep everything looking legal and them telling everyone what they are doing is legal, but the evidence would seem to strongly suggest otherwise.  The selling of a bond has not even been approved yet to raise the money to construct a new school.  But Gloucester officials have already actively sought bids for the new construction.  According to Virginia state code, Gloucester officials can not place an order for work, even implied order which is what w see they have already done, without having the funds already in place.

  The Virginia codes are posted in part one of this story.  How many times have we shown on this site that Gloucester officials do not follow the rules?  How many times?

Oath of Office;

We gave everyone the tools to fight back from this holdup.  It's the Oath of Office that each government official must take before they are allowed to conduct even one piece of business.  If the Oath of Office is in violation, then each official can be held accountable for their actions outside of government protection.  That means any and all financial costs and responsibilities fall on each individual official and they must pay those costs and damages out of their own pockets and do not qualify for government protection in the courts.

This also means that all contracts are null and void and can not fall back on the citizens of Gloucester County, but instead fall on each Gloucester official involved.  In yesterday's post we linked one of Gloucester's own videos, a propaganda piece in our view, that shows that Gloucester officials are growing local government at a very alarming rate.  This of course means higher taxes for everyone to support this growth.  It also shows their own double speak.  Re constructing one school they said we do not need all the while building another one they say we need.

Every area of that says higher taxes for each Gloucester citizen and it also says you have no voice in your own government.  It states government by the people for the government and special interests and to hell with the people.

It's a violation of everything America stands for and is more of what America is becoming, but only if you let it.  Every fight is important when it's a fight for what American idealism truly stands for.

Stop Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse - The Blue Print from Chuck Thompson

We have put the fight into a blue print form.  Now we know that the blue print form above is not one you would want to print out to use in a fight, so we have created a print version as well.

Stop Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse - The Blue Print - print version from Chuck Thompson

We have also created download links for both of these.

http://www.putlocker.com/file/9743E82CFB281548  Link to the blue print version

http://www.putlocker.com/file/94F2491D508E959E  Link to the print version of the blue print.

Now we are not attorney's and none of this should be considered legal advice, only a competent attorney can legally advice you on these matters.  We are simply presenting our own research and arguing against what we believe to be a conspiracy against the citizenry of Gloucester, Virginia.

What else can you do?  Show up at the public hearing on August 6th, 2013 at the Gloucester Courthouse and argue against the officials and their plans, armed with the right information.  You can also email all of the officials letting them know you are against this plan.

bgarton@gloucesterva.info
cborden@gloucesterva.info
ltheberg@gloucesterva.info
rorth@gloucesterva.info
achriscoe@gloucesterva.info
chutson@gloucesterva.info
jnorthstein@gloucesterva.info
ajames@gloucesterva.info
ewilmot@gloucesterva.info

You can also write to our Delegate, Keith Hodges and ask him to look at all of this.

keithhodges98@gmail.com 

All email links are active.

Holly B Smith is the Commonwealth Attorney for Gloucester, however, there is no available email link for her.

Kim Driscoll is one of the legal assistants for Holly B Smith, so you could always send Kim the complaint to be forwarded to Holly.

kdriscol@gloucesterva.info

The future belongs to all of us.  What legacy will we leave our children?