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Let me give a few examples to show the reasons things went downhill.

Let's take The Boy Scouts for example. Let's ridicule it and force homosexuals into it, even though not one parent is going to want a homosexual taking little boys out into the woods and sleeping in a tent with them. Organization crashes.

Let's take the Episcopal Church. Let's criticize it, call it homophobic! Let's fill it with Homosexual priests who don't believe in the religion, but in a political system called Marxism. Organization crashes.

Let's fill the Country with 30 or 40 million illegal aliens that take job away from citizens and vote increasingly Socialist. Now those citizens have to have both mother and father work just to have a home they own and a retirement. Let's tax mom and Dad to the point that they never get ahead and are supporting the 30 or 40 million illegals with food stamps, ETB, Health Care, Section 8, AFDC, on and on.

Now let's add another 30 or 40 million African-Americans. No Wait, that's not enough! Let's fly in millions more from Somalia, Nigeria, Uganda and drop them in, Illinois, Wyoming, etc.

Now let's fill the land with laws and regulation so that people of average I.Q. could never start or run a business. Let's make sure they can't hire the people they want, but people the government wants them to hire. Now let's make their competition be able to import cheap labor from overseas on H1B visa's like Bill Gates and Amazon.

Finally, let's kill family farms with EPA regulations, Endangered Species Act regulations like the Spotted Owl fiasco and the destruction of Tree Farms in the Northwest or the Central Vally in California or Alar (Europe still uses Alar).

I could go on and on with inflation and how it kills the elderly (fixed income plus inflation and other government interference means steak this year, ground beef in five years, Cat food in 10 years.) or sending manufacturing overseas, but you get the point by now.

Common Core?

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........ Common Core has been one of the most “non-transparent” initiatives foisted upon American citizens.

The standards are the work of a joint effort by political elites, corporatists, and progressive nonprofits who were able to get 45 state boards of education to adopt them – sight unseen – and without any proof of their acclaimed “rigor.” Not one person who supports the Common Core knows whether the standards will actually achieve what they claim because they have not been tested or proven in any way.

The real academic standards experts – such as Drs. Sandra Stotsky and James Milgram – were invited to be members of the Common Core Validation Committee but were then sworn to secrecy about committee meetings and, ultimately, ignored. While experienced educators like Stotsky and Milgram were invited to serve as nothing more than “window dressing,” the standards themselves were written by individuals who never taught a math or English class.

 Stotsky, who is credited with developing one of the nation’s strongest sets of K-12 academic standards in Massachusetts, told Breitbart News in January, “Everyone was willing to believe that the Common Core standards are ‘rigorous,’ ‘competitive,’ ‘internationally benchmarked,’ and ‘research-based.’ They are not.”

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Time to do it again

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Why Aren’t All Flight Safety Videos This Awesome?

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Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Jessica Gomes, Chrissy Teigen, Hannah Davis and Ariel Meredith lay out the flight safety rules for Air New Zealand. Since this video is also meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated‘s Swimsuit Edition, they’ve even incorporated the legendary Christie Brinkley, who is looking pretty darn good at 60 years old (thanks to Chuck Norris and the Total Gym).

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Boehner out by next January

 

One of the tea-party leaders in Congress believes the days of Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, as speaker of the House of Representatives are numbered.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told WND he predicts Boehner will no longer be speaker “by next January,” regardless of the outcome of the midterm election in November.

The Texan doesn’t think it will take a coup to remove Boehner, believing the tide is already moving in that direction, and saying, “I think people are ready for a change.”

And Gohmert would see that as a change for the better, because, he says, “We’ve got to have someone who is smart enough to realize” it was (Sen. Majority Leader) Harry Reid (D-Nev.) who shut down the government, not the GOP.

In addition to predicting the downfall of Boehner as speaker, Gohmert also told WND:

    He believes the majority of GOP voters have tea-party values

    He approves of GOP primary challenges to establishment incumbents by conservatives

    He suspects the establishment GOP is at war with the tea party because of “fear”

    He feels it is realistic to believe a tea-party candidate could win the presidency 

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Texas police double as Mahmoudberg's militia

 

Exclusive: Pamela Geller examines law-enforcement connection to U.S. terror compound

The jihad terror-trainings compounds in the U.S., a news story I first broke back in 2007, are growing. And now I have obtained exclusive information showing that one of them has placed members on local police forces, ensuring that nothing is done to stop or even monitor their activities.

PJ Media reported, “Federal Bureau of Investigations documents detailing a 22-site network of terrorist training villages sprawled across the United States. According to the documents, the FBI has been concerned about these facilities for about 12 years, but cannot act against them because the U.S. State Department has not yet declared that their umbrella group, MOA [Muslims of the Americas]/Jamaat ul-Fuqra, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

The Texas compound is called “Mahmoudberg,” located in south Texas’ Brazoria County on County Road 3 near the town of Sweeny, which has a population of about 4,000. Jamaat ul-Fuqra was the jihad terrorist organization that murdered journalist Daniel Pearl – he had gone to try to interview its leader. According to an informed source, one of Pearl’s murderers now lives at Mahmoudberg.

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Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris talks about the Dresden Holocaust: Filmed in 1977, but released February 11, 2013

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Elk attacks snow mobile, shot and abandoned

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Lawsuit: Cops Hit Man’s Car, Check To Make Sure They Aren’t On Camera, Arrest Him To Cover It Up

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Two police officers are being accused of hitting Robert Jackson‘s car and then arresting him to cover it up. Surveillance footage shows police cars driving the wrong way down a street and sideswiping the SUV. Officers then exited their vehicles and appeared to search for cameras before arresting Jackson for destruction of city property.

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Concealed carry “hero” saves woman being mauled by a dog in Cincinnati

A dog attack ended in Cincinnati yesterday after a passerby drew a concealed weapon, killed the dog mauling a woman, and then simply walked away:

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Where Have all the Flower (Children) Gone?

That silence you hear issues from the media/celebrity axis regarding the massive protests in Venezuela where hip college kids are being beaten, tear-gassed and shot down in a manner to shame anything done by Mayor Daley’s police in 1968 or the Ohio National Guard in 1970. Six Venezuelan youths are confirmed dead and hundreds have been injured and/or arrested.
 
Forget looking in the mainstream media for the nitty-gritty of this communist repression. The Venezuelan regime —under the (literal!) and expert tutelage of their Cuban colonial overlords--is easily censoring the sheeplike mainstream media. The truth is getting out through social media.

Please don’t miss these dramatic videos.

 But these are Communist police and National Guardsmen doing the beating, gassing and shooting, you see. Hence the silence. Worse still, these Venezuelan storm-troopers are “practiced at the art of repression” thanks to hands-on training by the best in the business: Castro’s police.

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Living History Event at Oak Grove Plantation, Averasboro Battlefield: “The House With the Cannonball Holes”

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Saturday, 1 March – 10AM to 4PM, Sunday, 2 March – 10AM to 3PM

Oak Grove Tours, Food/Vendors, Potter, Blacksmith, Farm Animals; Confederate Troops Encampment, CSA Field Post Office, Drills, Demonstrations, History Interpreters. Meet and speak with Generals Hardee and Johnston in-character interpreters!

General William J. Hardee and his Field Headquarters will be on-site; General Joseph E. Johnston will be visiting General Hardee both days.

     

8640 Burnett Road, Godwin, North Carolina (Averasboro Battlefield) -- $5 Parking Fee

 

For more information: 910.323.1903

NC: SUPPORT PRO-GUN REP. LARRY PITTMAN

 

For those of you who have signed up, please accept out thanks. If you have not, are you not willing to defend a legislator who stuck his neck out to bring you HB 937?

GRNC's "Larry Pittman Benefit Shoot" is almost here (Feb. 27), and there's still a chance to get tickets for this important event. Attending means that you're supporting North Carolina's most pro-gun legislator, but there is a lot more to it than even that. This benefit, held at Eagle Guns, in Concord, will allow you the opportunity to do all of the following:

• Meet NC's most pro-gun legislator, Representative Larry Pittman.
  
• Meet GRNC President F. Paul Valone.
• Compete for GRNC apparel in the centerfire handgun steel plate match (9mm or greater).
• Compete for GRNC apparel in the rimfire handgun "darts" match.
• For an inexpensive rental rate, shoot a sub-machine gun.
• Test the new Glocks! (models 41 & 42).
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Voter wearing pro-gun shirt turned away in Texas

Chris Driskill is a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But this week he found out that his pro-gun support cannot be proudly proclaimed on his clothing if he wants to cast a ballot at the Waller County Courthouse or any other Texas voting location.

Driskill, employed as a private security guard in Houston, went to the Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead on Tuesday to cast his early-voting ballot in the Republican Primary. He was wearing a black T-shirt with a logo on the front and back that says “2nd Amendment – America’s Original Homeland Security.” The words circle a skull and crossbones where the “bones” are short-barrel pistol grip shotguns.

"I heard a gentleman's voice over my shoulder say ‘he can't vote with that shirt on. You'll have to either turn it inside out our you'll have to leave,’” Driskill said of the polling place encounter.
Driskill says he thought maybe the polling place staff was either anti-gun, liberal, or over-reacting.

"I didn't quite understand it at first,” he said. "I was thinking they just didn't like something about the 2nd Amendment."

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Free 10-week online Constitution course beginning February 24, 2014

 

In this critical year for America, it’s more important than ever that EVERYONE understand our Constitution.

That’s why Hillsdale College is offering a new, ABSOLUTELY FREE, online course:

“Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution”

This 10-week course begins February 24 and is taught by the same professors who teach our students here on campus.

Refresh your understanding of the Constitution with brand new lectures, a lively discussion board, Q&A sessions, weekly quizzes, and more.

All of the lectures are archived, so you can watch them at your convenience.

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Retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin: Forget the sword; Jesus will return with an AR-15

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A former Army general believes that when Jesus returns, he’s gonna be packin’ heat.

Retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, now the Family Research Council’s executive vice president, says the Son of God will be armed with an AR-15 assault rifle when he returns, in a speech at the Pro-Family Legislators Conference in Dallas.

“[Jesus is] coming back as a warrior, carrying a sword,” Boykin said. “And I believe now, I’ve checked this out — I believe that sword he’ll be carryin’ when he comes back is an AR-15.”

Many in the audience laughed and some applauded, according to audio of the speech released Tuesday.

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Brush Fires and National Emergencies

Lots of fires this week around the world.  Ukraine, Venezuela, Bosnia.  Plenty of people around here playing with matches, too.

 

 

This is a little history lesson for those new members of the resistance that seem to think the assault on their personal liberties is something that happened to them only two election cycles ago.

 

Let us begin with a little recent history — back in the fall of the year 1969.

 

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The Most Outstanding Combat Pilot Of All Time

Hans Rudel is not the kind of "Panzer Ace" such as Wittmann or Barkmann, simply because he was "Stuka Ace" and destroyed enemy armored fighting vehicles from the air. During his career, as Stuka pilot he managed to destroy enormous number of enemy equipment, including 519 Soviet tanks. 

Hans-Ulrich Rudel was born in 1916 in Silesia.He was the son of a clergyman - minister. He was never good at school and received limited education. Rudel was a teenager when the NSDAP took charge and became indoctrinated at very early age.Since young age, Rudel showed interest in sports and did not do well in school. 

In 1936, he joined the Luftwaffe as an cadet officer as a way to continue and develop his sporting activities. After passing his flying training course and becoming a pilot, Hans Rudel applied for further training in the technique of the dive-bombing but was turned down. 

Instead, he received reconnaissance observer's training and flew long range reconnaissance missions during Polish Campaign in September of 1939 as a Lieutenant. 

On October 11th of 1939, Rudel was awarded Iron Cross 2nd Class.At the same, Rudel continued applying for Ju-87 Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug - dive bomber)training course and was finally admitted in May of 1940. After the completion of the course, Oberleutnant Rudel was posted to Stuka Training Wing near Stuttgart, where he spent the French Campaign. Afterwards, Rudel was transferred to 1st Staffel (1st Squadron) of Stukageschwader 2 (Dive-Bomber Group 2) and took part in the airborne invasion of Crete in May of 1941, although not in the battle zone. 

In preparations for the Operation Barbarossa, Rudel's Group was transferred to the Eastern Front and on June 23rd of 1941 at 3:00am flew his first combat dive-bombing mission. 

During next 18 hours, he flew total four combat missions. On July 18th of 1941, Rudel was awarded Iron Cross 1st Class.

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 Metapedia

After the war, Rudel became a close friend and confidante of the Argentine president Juan Perón Rudel wrote a book titled In Spite of Everything, and a book of memoirs called Stuka Pilot that supported the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Even without a leg, he remained an active sportsman, playing tennis, skiing, and even climbing the highest peak in the Americas, Aconcagua (6,962 meters or 22,841 feet). He also ascended the second highest volcano on Earth three times, the Llullay-Yacu in the Argentine Andes (6,739 meters or 22,109 feet). In addition, Rudel's input was used during the development of the A-10 ground attack aircraft. 

Rudel returned to West Germany in 1953 and joined the German Reich Party. He became a successful businessman in post-war Germany. He died in Rosenheim in 1982, and was buried in Dornhausen.

In 1976 Rudel was involved in what came to be known as the Rudel Scandal. Two high ranking Bundeswehr generals, Karl Heinz Franke and Walter Krupinski, were forced into early retirement.

Rudel was a teetotaler and non-smoker. His fellow pilots coined the phrase "Hans-Ulrich Rudel, ...er trinkt nur Sprudel!" ("Hans-Ulrich Rudel, ... he drinks only mineral water!").

The Museum of the Confederacy selects William T. Sherman as the Person of the Year for 1864

 

The Monster

More, thanks to the Scalawag Rawls HERE

Arnold M. Huskins As Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" in the late 1930's, Sherman is the MoC's "Person of the Year" for 2014!

Trevor Benson "There is a class of people men, women and children [in the South], who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." 
- General William T. Sherman, in a letter to US Secretary of War Edwin Station, June 21, 1864.

Trevor Benson "To the petulant and persistent secessionists, why death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better . . . . Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people will cripple their military resources" 

- General William T. Sherman

 

Trevor Benson "The war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people." 

- General William T. Sherman

 

 Trevor Benson "We are not fighting against enemy armies but against an enemy people; both young and old, rich and poor must feel the iron hand of war . . ."  

- General William T. Sherman