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A 391 Year Tradition

Here's a complete list of who was on the

 Mayflower when it arrived in 1620

John Alden	Richard Clarke	John Howland	Myles Standish
Isaac Allerton	Francis Cooke	John Langmore	• Mrs. Rose Standish
• Mary (Norris) Allerton	• John Cooke	William Latham	Elias Story
• Bartholomew Allerton	Humility Cooper	Edward Leister	Edward Thompson
• Remember Allerton	John Crackston	Edmund Margesson	Edward Tilley
• Mary Allerton	• John Crackston	Christopher Martin	• Ann (Cooper) Tilley
John Allerton	Edward Doty	• Mary (Prower) Martin	John Tilley
John Billington	Francis Eaton	Desire Minter	• Joan (Hurst) Tilley
• Eleanor Billington	• Mrs. Sarah Eaton	Ellen More	• Elizabeth Tilley
• John Billington	• Samuel Eaton	Jasper More	Thomas Tinker, wife, and son
• Francis Billington	Thomas English	Richard More	William Trevore
William Bradford	Moses Fletcher	Mary More	John Turner, and two sons
• Dorothy (May) Bradford	Edward Fuller	William Mullins	Richard Warren
William Brewster	• Mrs. Fuller	• Mrs. Alice Mullins	William White
• Mrs. Mary Brewster	• Samuel Fuller	• Priscilla Mullins	• Mrs. Susanna White
• Love Brewster	Samuel Fuller	• Joseph Mullins	• Resolved White
• Wrestling Brewster	Richard Gardinar	Degory Priest	Roger Wilder
Richard Britteridge	John Goodman	Solomon Prower	Thomas Williams
Peter Browne	William Holbeck	John Rigsdale	Edward Winslow
William Button	John Hooke	• Alice Rigsdale	• Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow
Robert Carter	Stephen Hopkins	Thomas Rogers	Gilbert Winslow
John Carver	• Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins	• Joseph Rogers
• Katherine (White) Carver	• Constance Hopkins	Henry Samson	"Mr. Ely"
James Chilton	• Giles Hopkins	George Soule	Dorothy, Carver's maidservant
• Mrs. Chilton	• Damaris Hopkins
• Mary Chilton	• Oceanus Hopkins

The bullets by some of the names are simply used to visually indicate family structure--those with bullet points are the wife and/or children of the earlier-listed individual.

Below are the names of the 53 that survived 

long enough to attend the 1st Thanksgiving.

4 MARRIED WOMEN :

Eleanor Billington, Mary Brewster, Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White Winslow.

5 ADOLESCENT GIRLS :
Mary Chilton (14), Constance Hopkins (13 or 14), Priscilla Mullins (19), Elizabeth Tilley (14 or15) and Dorothy, the Carver's unnamed maidservant, perhaps 18 or 19.

9 ADOLESCENT BOYS :
Francis and John Billington, John Cooke, John Crackston, (2d), Samuel Fuller, Giles Hopkins, William Latham,Joseph Rogers, Henry Samson.

13 YOUNG CHILDREN : 
Bartholomew, Mary and Remember Allerton, Love and Wrestling Brewster, Humility Cooper, Samuel Eaton, Damaris and Oceanus Hopkins, Desire Minter, Richard More, Resolved and; Peregrine White.

22 MEN : John Alden, Isaac Allerton, John Billington, William Bradford, William Brewster, Peter Brown, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Francis Eaton, [first name unknown] Ely, Samuel Fuller, Richard Gardiner, John Goodman, Stephen Hopkins, John Howland, Edward Lester, George Soule, Myles Standish, William Trevor, Richard Warren, Edward Winslow, Gilbert Winslow.

A tip of the hat to Caleb Johnson who's site Mayflower History has become the definitive website as it regards virtually all things Mayflower. 

For a hands-on walk through history, visit the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Mass. 

 You can also find them on Facebook:  .

Key words: Mayflower Pilgrims Hopkins 

2012 Election by Counties

Thanks a million Reince

You stabbed your boss in the back, 

got his job, and blew it big time.
You owe Mike Steele 
and the party an apology.
Do the honorable thing:
Resign.

Obama sets new record!

Oops!

Big Bird cost you almost a half billion a year.

Public Broadcasting receives only 15% of their annual budget from the federal government (Read: Your tax dollars)

However that 15% amounted in 2012 to just shy of a half billion; $445,000,000 

Meanwhile, thanks to the poor business practices employed by PBS they failed to cut themselves in for any royalty from "collateral sales". (Muppets)

Thus they broadcast what amounts to a Muppet infomercial while the late Jim Henson died leaving an estate of over 90 million.


If you don't feel short changed by all of this, you're not paying attention.....but we're all paying for Big Bird.

More lies about the Mayflower Pilgrims

Seems no one can look anything up before proclaiming who the Mayflower Pilgrims were, or what they believed.

Please, should you wish to sanctimoniously pontificate as 

it regards the nations history; 

GET IT RIGHT.

Here comes the next one.
While probably a good movie, Last Ounce of Courage includes this ad-lib which was included without anyone doing even quick Google search.

Had someone, they would have found this:

  The Pilgrims [...] considered marriage a civil affair to be handled by the State (not a religious sacrament).  The legitimacy of [.....] and church hierarchy were rejected, as was the veneration of relics.  Icons and religious symbols such as crosses, statues, stain-glass windows, fancy architecture, and other worldly manifestations of religion were rejected as a form of idolatry......

From: Mayflower History 

January 3rd 2007

DO YOU REMEMBER JANUARY 3, 2007 ?

 

This is a clarification to remind us all of the correct facts.

 

Remember that on October 9, 2007, 11 months before our "economic crisis" occurred (that was actually created), the Dow hit its highest point ever, closing at 14,164.53 and reaching 14,198.10 intra-day level 2 days later.  

Unemployment was steady at 4.7%.  But things were already being put in place to create the havoc we've all been experiencing since then. 

Are you tired of hearing why Bush was so "bad" at the end of his term?  Don't just skim over this, it's not very long,  read it slowly and let it sink in. 

 

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007, which was the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.

 

The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

 

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007

was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.

 

At the time:

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77

The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%

The Unemployment rate was 4.6%

George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH

 

Remember the day...

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.  

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? 

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

 

Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the

 economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

 

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.

Who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? 

OBAMA and who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress.

 

So when someone tries to blame Bush.  REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007....  THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"

 

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007

is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.

 

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat

 belatedly got tough on spending increases.

 

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. 

At that time, they passed a massive omnibus-spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

 

And where was Barack Obama during this time?

He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive

spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

 

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. 

That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

 

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I

voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

 

Let's do bulk mail right

    During the 2012 cycle a candidate for state senate sent the same mail piece out twice.

   The first mailing went to only 450 and was done in house by the campaign at a cost of roughly $400 inclusive.

      It was a merge piece, each one was hand signed and that mailing resulted in a typical 3.5% return. 

     (A return of over 5% generally requires a  well timed follow-up phone call in addition to the letter itself.)

      

      The second mailing went out to 2200 and was done per the directions of a long ago office holder who has simply failed to keep up with technology, trends, or so long as we can see; anything at all.

       It cost $1977 and resulted in a return of .05%  That’s 7 times lower despite an almost identical per-unit cost .

Let’s see what went wrong.

Here's a short video so you can avoid 

the same mistakes.

Sunday liquor sales - the winner is...

Democrats screw Mom & Pop businesses......again.

After ramming through Sunday liquor sales over
 the objections of  the majority of Connecticut's Package Store owners, who's the winner?

The winner is - big business!

No substantial business increase. 

Read all about it in this Greenwich Times article:

Sunday liquor sales a mixed cocktail