Allison Woods Celtic Highland Games

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• Heavy athletics, children's events, food, merchandise, traditional Celtic music and Celtic jam on Friday night. sheepdog and falconry demonstrations, Clans and Societies, and much, much more! This is a fundraiser for Allison Woods Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization. This will enable us to continue offering educational programs on historical and environmental subjects! http://www.allisonwoodsfoundation.com/ Call for additional information 704.873.5976 or email selena@allisonwoodsfoundation.com Saturday admission $10 adults Kids 12 & under free Friday night admission $5 adults Kids 12 & under free

Presidental poll from Edgecombe county

Edgecombe is 58% black and more than 50% of my house tax goes to welfare.

"........a recently concluded dailysoutherner.com online poll favors Romney with 244 votes to 194 for Obama. Thirty-five pollers were undecided.

The slight edge for Romney is somewhat of a surprise considering that out of 38,430 registered voters in Edgecombe County, 28,557 are Democrats compared to just 6,054 Republicans. There is also a large disparity between black registered voters (23,158) and white (14,556).

In 2008, Obama carried Edgecombe with 67 percent of the vote to beat Republican candidate John McCain, but this election may result in a tighter race based on the president's complicated healthcare plan and his backing of a controversial gay marriage amendment. Some religious leaders have openly voiced their opinions against Obama because of the amendment."

More @ The Daily Southerner

IDF update

Via hefferman1

A white wedding dress, white flowers, a happy groom and ... an Iron Dome rocket defense battery in the background. More @ Love of the Land

IDF has called up some units. They did this a few months back, and then again just a few days ago.

They also have deployed Iron Dome in more than one area. In Sinai, and around some major cities.

It was most likely a couple of Iron Dome units Walfred's brother saw. It takes several missiles to make up one unit. It is 20 rockets in three pods to make one unit. That means it is ten units he can see.

If armor units are moving up, that is more worrisome. When infantry moves up with the armor, it is time to batten down the hatches. Large numbers of people can not stay in the desert for long periods of time, without a huge supply train. Israel doesn't fight that way. It is lightening warfare that the IDF is known for. They have too many enemies to move slowly.

I am waiting to hear back from my friends, or hear they are not there.

Ron Paul’s Reaction to Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve

Via NC Renegade

2 US troops killed in resuce attempt

Via Don

U.S. rescue mission to Benghazi hit by 'professional' ambush

- A squad of U.S. troops despatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters.

Accounts of the mayhem at the U.S. consulate, where the ambassador and a fourth American died after a chaotic protest over a film insulting to Islam, remain patchy. But two Libyan officials, including the commander of a security force which escorted the U.S. rescuers, said a later assault on a supposedly safe refuge for the diplomats appeared professionally executed.

Miscommunication which understated the number of American survivors awaiting rescue - there were 37, nearly four times as many as the Libyan commander expected - also meant survivors and rescuers found themselves short of transport to escape this second battle, delaying an eventual dawn break for the airport.

More @ Reuters

White House Refuses To Cut Off Aid To Muslim Brotherhood-Run Egypt…

Weasel Zippers

VERBATIM POST

Will sanity ever prevail?

Via Politico:

Despite calls for ending foreign aid to Egypt in the wake of an attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo, the White House is standing by funding commitments.

Asked on Air Force One Thursday if the United States would withhold aid, White House press secretary Jay Carney said simply: “No.”

Carney also told reporters that the partnership with Egypt continues as the country transitions into democracy — in the wake of President Obama’s comments Wednesday that Egypt was neither an ally nor an enemy.

Unreal: On Day Following Libya Assassinations, Obama Skips Another Intel Briefing

Is anyone surprised by this revelation? Our Commander Campaigner-in-Chief has made his priorities crystal clear:

How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya? After all, our adversaries are known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States. According to the public schedule of the president, the last time the Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting was Sept. 5 — a week before Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our ambassador to Tripoli. The president was scheduled to hold the intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks, but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the State Department — as well he should. But instead of rescheduling the intelligence briefing for later in the day, Obama apparently chose to skip it altogether and attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election campaign. One day after a terrorist attack.

On Monday the same Washington Post columnist, Marc Thiessen, reported that the president has missed 62 percent of his daily in-person intel briefings in 2011 and 2012.

More @ Townhall

Colonel "Red Coat" Benson

Photo via Craig

Re-post from August 5.

Some Pictures of the Marxist professors

Rant for September 14, 2012: Pressure Cooker Days in the Middle East

Via Bill

Pressure Cooker Days

SUMMARY and PREDICTION: An Israeli strike on Iran either on Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 17^th) or Yom Kippur (Sept 26^th) is more likely than not. Top off your gas tanks this weekend, because such a strike will give us $8/gal gas here in the US.

1861. 1914. 1941. 2012?

Do these dates mean anything to you? The first three are the start dates for major wars. Is 2012 going to be the same?

More @ Hype and Fail

Minister: Libyan Security Showed Radicals Where to Attack Ambassador

Ain't convinced.

Meanwhile, senior diplomatic sources told The Independent that the U.S. State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi and the embassy in Cairo that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert or "lockdown,” under which movement is severely restricted.

It is also suspected that the killings of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, an information officer, private security guard Glen Doherty and one other American may have resulted from a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent reports.

Stevens had been back in the country only a short while, and the details of his visit to Benghazi were meant to be confidential, The Independent reports.

Sensitive documents are now missing from the consulate in Benghazi – some of which are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

As for the raid on the consulate, it was a two-pronged attack, said the eastern Libyan security official, Deputy Interior Minister Wanis el-Sharef. He said that hours after the crowd stormed the consulate Tuesday night, the militants raided the safe house.

That raid occurred just as U.S. and Libyan security arrived to evacuate the staff, suggesting infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off the militants to the site of the safe house, about a mile from the consulate. It’s a villa inside the grounds of the city's equestrian club. The location of the safe house was supposedly secret, The Independent reports.

More @ Newsmax