Congress votes to ban Confederate flag from 3 federal cemeteries

Via Billy

 

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South.

The low-profile move came Tuesday evening after a brief debate on a measure funding the National Park Service, which maintains 14 national cemeteries, most of which contain graves of Civil War soldiers.

The proposal by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., added language to block the Park Service from allowing private groups to decorate the graves of southern soldiers with Confederate flags in states that commemorateConfederate Memorial Day. The cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and
 Mississippi.

More @ AL

Will Congress Stop the Obama Administration from Disarming our Military Veterans?

 

We just celebrated Independence Day last week.  From that initial struggle against the British to the present day, we have honored our military veterans for their courageous sacrifice in helping keep us free.

Sadly, many of these veterans have recently seen their courage “rewarded” with a gun ban. And this concerns all gun owners, because what is happening to veterans through the VA can happen to you someday through ObamaCare.

More @ GOA

NYSE, United Airlines, WSJ.com hit with computer issues

Via Jeffery

 

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was halted around noon Wednesday after officials reported a major technical issue.

The computer problem comes a few hours after a major computer issue forced United Airlines to temporarily stop all takeoffs, and the Wall Street Journal confirmed that its website -- WSJ.com -- was experiencing technical difficulties.

More @ Fox

FINAL NOTICE (18 September) : 8th NC PATCON September 30 - October 5th 2015

 

 

Event will follow schedule of PATCONS before and will be updated as events/speakers/classes/sponsors/raffle items are added. (See below)

7th NC PATCON May 6th - 11th 2015

 

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PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS POST, SO YOU WILL BE KEPT UP TO DATE!

Southern Manners Are Expected From all.  As my mother would say, if you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all.  Thank you. :)

 Under 7, free

 

7-12, $14

13 and up, $25

Includes world famous East Carolina *Pig Pickin' on Saturday! 

*Pulled pork, Southern fried chicken, black eyed peas, string beans, slaw, hush puppies, tea, water and banana pudding.

If you are planning to attend the October PATCON,  please remit your fees ASAP, but NLT 18 September.  Please send check to Cape Carteret address below.  I do not deposit checks until the week before and I would appreciate all remit funds now.  Thank you.

Brock Townsend
319 Holly Lane
Cape Carteret, NC 28584

The funds will be used for seating, tables, porta potties, Eastern North Carolina Barbecue with all the trimmings, equipment and tent. We would like to encourage company sponsors to donate money for this event. Any company donating $50 or more will be listed as a sponsor on the website and at the PATCON.

 Camping available Wednesday - Sunday.

No animals, please, as my Peacock is more than sufficient to annoy all but us.:)

The PATCON will be held at *94 Roberson School Rd

Tarboro, NC 27886 

*Use the front entrance for those camping. As you cross the second set of cattle guards, camp to the right in the area with fruit trees alongside the fence and a fire pit in the middle.  For those not camping,  come in the side entrance by the graveyard and parking will be in the area of the two tobacco barns.

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Sponsors

 

CADD Graphics 

 

Assembly and Design

 Dante Acoustic Intruder Deterrent

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 Friday's Schedule

 Ronnie and Kelly Coleman: Raising meat rabbits 4:00 to 5:00

Downeast Hillbilly on Honey Bees: Their continuing decline, fundamentals of and alternative methods of keeping 5:00 to 6:00

 

Peter White: BDOC Exercise: Training exercise featuring a simple Base Defense Operations Center in a WROL scenario. Attendees will see how BDOC personnel, practices, and technology are essential in conducting successful operations by your neighborhood protection team. 6:00 to 7:00

 

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 Saturday's Schedule

Meet and Greet Until 11:00

 Michael Downing: Welcome and Introduction 11:00 to 11:15

Ron Newman: Neighborhood protection teams 11:15 to 12:00

 

Cousin John Blessing 12:00   

Pig Pickin': 12:00 to 1:00

 

John Ainsworth:  State Constitution 1:00 to 2:00

KrisAnne Hall: The Constitution as it exists today 2:00 to 3:00 

Publius Huldah: Original Constitutional Constraints 3:00 to 4:00 

  

John Ainsworth, KrisAnne Hall and Publius Huldah: Constitutional Roundtable 

4:00 to 5:00
 

Raffle: 5:00 to 5:30
 
Moderator Peter White: Roundtable of questions 5:30 to 6:00

Peter White: BDOC Exercise: Training exercise featuring a simple Base Defense Operations Center in a WROL scenario. Attendees will see how BDOC personnel, practices, and technology are essential in conducting successful operations by your neighborhood protection team. 6:00 to 7:00

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 Saturday's Raffle

Bushmaster 90289 XM-15 30+1 223REM/5.56NATO 16

 Winner can have the NC PATCON Logo as above (CADD Graphics) engraved on the condition that the rifle will not be sold.

 

 MTAC™ Riflescope 1-4x24mm | Burris Optics

 
 1,000 rounds of  Bronze 223A | PMC Ammunition

Above donated by NC PATCON

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  Kershaw assisted opener pocketknife, Ken Onion design, Daniel Defense signature knife

Donated by Lo Kee Mechanical, LLC

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MOSSBERG 500 PERSUADER 12 GAUGE

MOSSBERG 500 PERSUADER 12 GAUGE

 MOSSBERG 500 PERSUADER 12 GAUGE

 

 Ruger 10-22 TACSTAR 22LR BL/SYN 

Above two generously donated yet once again by

 Michael Downing

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12 PATCON key chains

NC PATCON FALL 2015 .45

Donated by Bill Horvat of Bill's Custom Wood Products

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Uniden Home Patrol II Scanner/Monitor

Donated by  Peter White

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Bushmaster 90289 XM-15 30+1 223REM/5.56NATO 16" A2 TRPE - See more at: http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_60/products_id/13230#sthash.QWphPFTd.dpuf

Bushmaster 90289 XM-15 30+1 223REM/5.56NATO 16" A2 TRPE - See more at: http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_60/products_id/13230#sthash.QWphPFTd.dpuf

The giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban have returned with 3-D light projection

 

The Taliban thought it had destroyed one of the world's wonders, the monumental Buddha statues of the Bamiyan Valley.

But the Buddhas shine again in the towering cutouts in the mountainside where they stood for centuries. They are back, thanks to 3-D light projection. And they look great.

More with video @ PRI

1965 Plymouth Belvedere I Super Stock: Butch Leal California Flash

 

One of the most noted proponents of Plymouth’s big 1965 drag racing effort was a young West Coast driver named Butch Leal, whose nickname was ‘The California Flash.’ Leal had come from Ford to the Plymouth team in 1965, and was one of the only racers to actively campaign both a factory altered-wheelbase car and an NHRA- legal Super Stock entry. A noted 4-speed driver, Leal would win the S/S class title at the U.S. Nationals in 1965, and return to win class again at the 1966 Winternationals. Moreover, he often match raced this car at open events, and, as a result, it shows up in numerous magazine stories.

Leal’s legal Super Stocker, VIN R051199756, was one of 13 four-speeds Plymouths built for the 1965 racing program and according to research by Darrell Davis, this was also the final Plymouth Super Stocker built, constructed in February 1965.

Like all RO51 Super Stockers, this is an all-steel ‘business coupe’ body delivered new with the rear seat deleted.

More @ MECUM

FBI Data: Background Checks for Gun Purchases Soared in June

Via avordvet

 

Background checks for gun sales spiked 11 percent last month compared with last year, making it the busiest June ever, FBI data show.

The Firearm Background Checks report showed the FBI conducted nearly 1.53 million such checks – required for all in-store purchases, but not for sales at gun shows or between individuals.

More @ Newsmax

New Docs Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Colluding to Prosecute Obama Opponents

Via avordvet

 

Documents released today by Judicial Watch show the Department of Justice colluding with the Internal Revenue Service to cook up criminal prosecutions of targeted non-profit conservative groups.

The newly obtained records include an official “DOJ Recap” report detailing an October 2010 meeting between Lois Lerner, DOJ officials and the FBI. The documents also reveal that the Obama DOJ wanted IRS employees who were going to testify to Congress to turn over documents to the DOJ before giving them to Congress.

More @ PJ Media

Home News Local News Wal-Mart refuses to order class ring because of West Morgan's Rebels mascot

Via Jeffery

West Morgan High graduate Aaron Browder said he was at a loss for words when he and his mother were turned away from Wal-Mart’s jewelry counter in Decatur and told by an employee his class ring could not be ordered because his high school mascot — the Rebel — is controversial and is a symbol of racism.

“I just stood there and thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ ” Aaron Browder said.

But it was no joke. Brenda Browder, Aaron Browder’s mother, said the sales associate at the Wal-Mart on Spring Avenue told them the ring could not be ordered with the school’s name or mascot on it.

“We didn’t even know how to react,” Brenda Browder said. “We stood there looking at each other in complete disbelief, and then we just walked away. It took a while for the anger to set it.”

The incident happened Sunday.

More @ Decatur Daily

A leader of Georgia’s Civil War Commission has drawn a line in the sand over the recently renewed debate about Confederate war emblems.

Via Carl

The commission also faced a request for an investigation after a link on its Facebook page was tied by a left-leaning group to a website that has posted racist and anti-Semitic messages.

The commission’s vice chairman, Charles Kelly Barrow, said in a dispatch linked to his Twitter account that current efforts to remove the Rebel flag will lead to the elimination of all cultural references to the Confederacy.

Barrow, who is also head of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans, said that “we are facing the greatest threat to our heritage in modern times.”

The state commission is charged with planning and preserving the state’s Civil War battlefields and monuments, while the Sons of Confederate Veterans has been outspoken in defense of Rebel emblems amid new scrutiny into the symbols of the Old South.

More @ Portland Press Herald