I was killing time the other day in my office looking through human interest websites (because I’m human, and I was, you know, interested), when I found an article called “25 Things Every Man Should Know How To Do,” or something like that. I forgot the exact wording because I didn’t bookmark the article, and I didn’t bookmark the article because it confused me. And it confused me because, at first, I thought the article was a joke. The entire list of 25 important manly things didn’t include a single thing that I didn’t already know how to do. And what was more important, the list was so basic and obvious, that pretty much every person I know also knows how to do everything on the list – including a lot of women I know, too.
It was almost like reading an article describing how important it is to breathe air if you want to stay alive. Duh. The list included things like changing a tire, changing the engine oil in a car, building a fire, reciting the military phonetic alphabet, fixing a toilet, chopping down a tree, reading an electric meter, jumpstarting a car, etc. Seriously? Who doesn’t know how to do all that? I even know a doggone hairdresser that knows how to do all those things.
And then it hit me. Yankees. Yankee men are the ones who can’t do this stuff. I mean, for all their enlightened nosiness into other people’s business, they really don’t know much about anything that really counts. Or, as my daddy would have said, “Yankees ain’t got no sense, y’all.” I’m not even sure how Yankee men are even able to reproduce, because what woman would be attracted to any man who couldn’t do all those things? Well, a Yankee woman, I guess. The only thing I can figure is that Yankee women must be swooned by socks with sandals.
So, the result of all that is my creation of a separate (and much more advanced list) of 10 Things Every Southern Man Should Be Able To Do.
This morning, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 12-6
to approve the dangerous UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD). Every Democrat on the committee voted for the
treaty. Republican senators John McCain (AZ) and John Barrasso (WY) also
voted in favor of it.
HSLDA extends our sincere thanks to the senators who voted against
the CRPD: Bob Corker (TN), Jim Risch (ID), Marco Rubio (FL), Ron Johnson
(WI), Jeff Flake (AZ), and Rand Paul (KY). Please call or email their
offices and thank them for standing against the UN, and for U.S.
sovereignty and parental rights.
Ongoing Battle
This battle now moves to the full Senate where a vote on the treaty
before the August recess appears unlikely. We are hearing rumors that a
vote could come up after Labor Day or even during a lame-duck session
following Election Day.
We are heartened that both Senator Menendez and Senator McCain
admitted publicly that they do not have the votes to ratify the treaty
at this time.
The only reason why they do not currently have the votes is because
of you. It is imperative that your senators keep hearing from you. Our
friends on the Hill tell us that supporters of the treaty are calling
and emailing in high numbers. Our elected senators need to hear from we,
the people, that this UN treaty must be rejected.
Send a Strong Message
Please call and email your senators and urge them to reject the UNCRPD.
You can reach your senators by calling the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. You can also use HSLDA’s emailing tool to send a prewritten letter to your senators by filling out your information and then clicking the red “take action” button.
Nearly eight years ago, I wrote The Third World Cometh…and Soon. The third world has now arrived, and America - as you and I know it - is all but gone.
The Obama-engineered “humanitarian” border crisis is the latest shameful example of just how far the government that is supposed to protect its own citizens will go, in order to further the total destruction of a once great nation. Once again the politically correct have pulled out a well-worn page from their playbook to implore that it is “for the children”- children who are “undocumented”.
Many of these so-called “undocumented children” are disease ridden with scabies, lice and worse. In addition, it has been reported that a number of them are teenagers who are members of criminal gangs such as MS13 or members of jihadist terrorist groups.
Yesterday Texas Governor Rick Perry announced the deployment
of 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas border with Mexico. Last
night in an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Texas Attorney General
and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott stressed that the focus of the
troops will be to stop cartels and criminals who have been operating
with impunity as Border Patrol resources continue to be overwhelmed.
"This is one of the most important things I can convey. The purpose
of adding more boots on the ground is not to address women and children,
it's to address this growing reality that a lot of people coming across
the border are here for criminal purposes. They're killing, they're
raping, they're robbing, they're doing all kinds of harsh criminal
activity," Abbott said. "Right now you should consider them [National
Guard troops] to be a force multiplier."
After
the fall of his government, Jefferson Davis only asked of his captors a
fair trial on the merits of his case. This he was denied after being
held in close confinement and torture for two years, his tormentors
“vaunted their clemency in not executing their victim.”
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
No Sacrificing Convictions to Expediency
“The
policy of Reconstruction devised by the victors of the North, was that
the men of the Confederacy should pursue no vocation until a pardon had
been asked of the President of the United States and granted by him.
Our men considered it a form instituted merely for their humiliation,
and as such complied with it as the means of feeding their helpless
families, already spent with hardships they had endured.
Necessitas
non habet legem is a maxim acceded to by mankind, and [Jefferson Davis]
felt that the men who asked pardon did it for a holy and legitimate
end. My husband, even in his letters from prison, combated the idea of
our people expatriating themselves, and since they could not en masse
move out of the country . . . they must do the only thing left for them,
try to forget in toil and the care of their families the misery which
had settled over them and their people.
Throughout
this period Mr. Davis had endeavored to preserve silence about
everything political, though letters came by hundreds asking his opinion
on all political subjects. As he had not asked pardon for an offence he
had not committed, he was disenfranchised, and as he could not be held
responsible for acts in which he was forbidden by law to participate,
his opinion, if given, was perfunctory. So far, however, from being
wounded by his disenfranchisement, he felt rather proud that Congress
had testified to the steady faith he had kept with his own people.
He
had not changed his beliefs in the least degree . . . So to the end, he
who had served his country in tented field, and in the halls of
legislation, and merited and received the acclaim of soldiers and the
esteem of statesmen and legislators throughout the United States, kept
the dignified tenor of his way, unheeding the sectional clamor when his
own conscience approved.
His
asking for pardon as the leader of the Confederacy would have been more
significant than the petition of one who had held a less high position,
and he would not sacrifice his convictions to expediency, even in
seeming.
The
people of Mississippi, kind and trusting as of old to the man they had
honored with their confidence, wished Mr. Davis to allow his name to be
used for the Senate. They said: “The franchise is yours here, and the
Congress can but refuse you admission, and your exclusion will be a test
question.”
Mr.
Davis responded: “I remained in prison two years and hoped in vain for a
trial, and now scenes of insult and violence, producing alienation
between the sections, would be the only result of attempting another
test. I am too old to serve you as I once did, and too much enfeebled by
suffering to maintain your cause.”
(Jefferson Davis, A Memoir by His Wife, Varina, Volume II, N&A Company, 1990, (original 1890), pp. 816-818)
Exactly where are the happiest places in America? The answer apparently has nothing to with Disney.
According to a working paper
from researchers at Harvard University and the University of British
Columbia, the five happiest cities in the U.S. all happen to be located
in one state: Louisiana, which also ranks as the happiest state.
Specifically, the list-toppers are Lafayette, Houma, Shreveport-Bossier City, Baton Rouge and Alexandria.
Rounding out the top 10 happiest cities are Rochester, Minnesota;
Corpus Christi, Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee;
and Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
It is OK, we all have opinions, and there should be nothing wrong in
discussing opposing opinions. It is good to do that, because we can spot
some things that we did not think about and somebody else did.
I prefer to find myself in rural settings when SHTF. I am subjective
with that opinion simply because I experienced urban survival in urban
setting once and can not imagine that it can be worse on country side.
In fact, relatives who survived in rural setting simply had much better
time.
But we all need to consider the actual pros and cons of choosing
between these two options and we need to be objective, it is hard but we
can try.
In July, welearned
that a Google search of the word “bigotry” turned up a definition that
equated the word to “right-wing.” The sample sentence from the Oxford
Dictionary set off a small firestorm of anger by conservatives, who
don’t consider themselves bigoted and don’t think it should be part of
any dictionary definition of the word.
Well, it seems Merriam-Webster also thinks conservatives are bigots.
Joel Gilbert’s new documentary feature film “There’s No Place Like Utopia”
is advancing to nationwide distribution in August based on strong box
office results at its premiere showing over the weekend in Denver.
Final results show gross ticket sales of $31,710 for the
Friday-through-Sunday showings at the Regal UA Colorado Center Stadium 9
& IMAX, making it the nation’s highest-grossing movie per screen.
Gilbert’s film distributor, Rocky Mountain Pictures, also launched
Dinesh D’Souza’s first documentary, “2016: Obama’s America,” in a
single-screen premiere in Houston, Texas.
On July 13, 2012, D’Souza’s “2016” went nationwide and ultimately
played in more than 2,000 theaters, grossing about $36 million, making
it the second-highest grossing political documentary feature film ever.
Vepr (“Wild Boar”) 12 is a Russian magazine-fed shotgun imported Mach 1 Arsenal.
Based on the RPK light machine gun receiver, it improves on the
original with the addition of a magazine feed tower enabling
straight-line insertion.
One of the plaintiffs, David
Klemencic, who has a retail carpet store in Ellenboro, W.Va., said: “If I
have to start paying out for health insurance, it will put me out of
business. As Americans, we should be able to make our own decisions in
matters like this.”Credit
Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times A
federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government could not
subsidize health care premiums for people in three dozen states that use
the federal insurance exchange, a ruling that could upend President
Obama’s health care law.
The
2-to-1 ruling could potentially cut off financial assistance for more
than 4.5 million people who were found eligible for subsidized insurance
in the federal exchange, or marketplace.
A man was shot to death in his bedroom by a SWAT team that had
stormed in uninvited looking for contraband plants. The violence —
which netted only trace amounts of illegal vegetation — adds another
casualty to the death toll in America’s bloody Drug War.
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The raid occurred the night of May 27th, 2014, in the Tampa
neighborhood of Seminole Heights. Jason Westcott, 29, and his housemate
were asleep in separate rooms when the Tampa SWAT team arrived to
search the premises.
Police claimed that they knocked, received no answer, then barged in
when they discovered the door was unlocked. The individual sleeping on
the couch was quickly detained and the intruders made their way to Mr.
Westcott’s bedroom.
In the split-second confusion of being jarred awake by strange
noises, Westcott picked up his pistol in a futile effort to defend
himself. It would be the last decision he ever made. Police skillfully
entered his sleeping quarters and opened fire on the man that
supposedly “threatened the officers.”
Shocking video released by police in Indiana that went viral online
sparked outrage after footage showed an officer toppling over a man in
his wheelchair.
The incident happened on October 1, 2013. The video was later released by police in Lafayette, Indiana.
According
to a report, officers responded when they were told 25-year-old
Nicholas Kincade, who is also a paraplegic, was armed with a gun near a
charter school.
