Trump is right about Orlando – but not in the way you think: "Something is Going On" – And It's Worse Than You Thought

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I used to wonder why in the heck right-wing commentators on Fox News kept repeating the same mantra over and over again: sitting through the Republican debates, my eyes glazed over when I heard each and every candidate denounce the Obama administration for refusing to say the Sacred Words: “radical Islamic terrorism.” What are these people talking about, I thought to myself: they’re obsessed!

In short, I wrote it off as Fox News boilerplate, until the other day when, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Donald Trump said the following on Fox: “Something is going on. He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It’s one or the other.” Reiterating this trope later on in the same show, he averred that the President “is not tough, not smart – or he’s got something else in mind.”

The Beltway crowd went ballistic. Lindsey Graham had a hissy fit, and other Republican lawmakers started edging away from the presumptive GOP nominee. The Washington Post ran a story with the headline: “Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting.” Realizing that this level of bias was a bit too brazen, the editors changed it an hour or so later to: “Donald Trump Seems to Connect President Obama to Orlando Shooting.” Not much better, but then again we’re talking about a newspaper that has a team of thirty or so reporters bent on digging up dirt on Trump.

In any case, Trump responded as he usually does: by doubling down. And he did it, as he usually does, on Twitter, tweeting the following:

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My Most Memorable Flag Purchase

 

When I recently drove to North Carolina I knew it would be a unique and memorable experience. I was unprepared for the genuine acts of kindness, the high level of character, and the southern pride I had the pleasure to be around. I found the simplest of purchases and attendance to events to be very rewarding and great examples of class regarding southerners.

I decided to attend the 2016 Coca Cola 600, one of NASCAR's biggest races on one of the United States most sacred holiday weekends. I had already spent three hours meeting absolutely terrific people, and that was just parking my car! The following took place as I waited to cross the street in Concorde North Carolina, in front of the Charlotte Motor Speedway:

I noticed an elderly gentleman had set up a booth selling flags, and was selling all types of flags to honor Veterans for Memorial Day.

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John Wayne on Liberals

Via comment by down but not out  on Archie Bunker's Editorial on Gun Control

 Audio excerpted and condensed from TonyMacklin.net, 1975. Interview conducted by Tony Macklin. Audio interview originally published on February 15, 2009 on tonymacklin.net. The interview was in Wayne's home in Newport Beach, California. Published in the Summer 1975 issue of Film Heritage.

"Hell yes, I'm a liberal. I listen to both sides before I make up my mind. Doesn't that make you a liberal? Not in today's terms, it doesn't. These days, you have to be a fucking left-wing radical to be a liberal. Politically, though ... I've mellowed."
- John Wayne, 1973

Liberty or Laws? – The First Line of Defense

 

As much as many disagree with the Founder’s intent of the Second Amendment, there is little doubt that there were two primary purposes.  The first, of course, was be able to respond if, should the need arise, as had then recently occurred, the government had begun taking their rights.  It was to assure that the People would have an adequate means of defending against those encroachments and complying with the duty set out in the Declaration of Independence:

“But when long trains of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide for new guards for their future security.”

There was a second intent that is, in this day, perhaps a bit more obscure.  However, there was a constant threat, especially in the fringes of the American civilization, of attack by Indians, and on occasion, by foreigners such as the French.  Though most often, fighting such battles was conducted by militia units, armed and equipped by the local government, those who of necessity, to protect life and property, were operating within the capacity of the intent when they acted, as individuals or small groups without the organized structure, were no less militia than the units, or even the standing military force.  There was never a consideration that individuals must rely on the government to afford them and their property protection.

Even during the expansion of the country, especially after the Civil War, military forts were few and far between.  The first line of defense had to be the armed citizenry.  It could be days, weeks, or there might never be a response by the military when there were attacks made on the People.

As the West was settled, the need for the militia and the armed citizenry was diminished.  Since that time, that historical necessity had all but gone away.  By 1903, with the passage of an Act “To promote the efficiency of the militia“, also known as the “Dick Act”, the militias was redefined as the National Guard and the Reserve Militia.  Within that Act, only the National Guard could be called to national service.

That Act did not deny the existence of any right secured by the Second Amendment.  However, it did mandate (shall) that:

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SBC supports building of mosque after denigrating the Confederate Flag and our Ancestors. LEAVE!

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The Southern Baptist Convention threw down a gauntlet at the feet of Republican nominee Donald Trump and many conservatives, adopting a resolution encouraging churches and families “to welcome and adopt refugees into their churches and homes.”

But at least one senior pastor from within the organization is telling the Southern Baptist Convention to stop meddling and leave the issue up to citizens who are impacted by the influx of refugees.

Though Resolution 12 also called for the “strictest security measures possible,” the measure specifically referred to the “85,000 refugees coming into the United States in 2016 from four continents and the Caribbean” that are expected.

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Duane Eddy-Theme From Dixie

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“Died of Political Correctness.”

Via Jeffery

"Gents,

Right now we are in the eye of the storm and as bad as it is, we still don’t see all of the picture.   In another 20 years, the epitaph on the tombstone of this nation will read: “Died of Political Correctness.”  Almost overnight, up has become down, black has become white, right has become left, etc.

All manner of deviancy is now regarded as acceptable and honorable while those clinging to tradition or conservative morals are said to be evil and unfeeling.

When I was in high school one of the worst things you could be called was a “queer.”  Now, it is considered courageous and proper to publicly announce homosexual feelings.  Back then one thing that was concrete was the gender that you were born with. Currently, one is considered brave and a social leader to decide to identify as actually being the other gender, make a physical change and announce it to the world.  Such people are anointed and given “Person of the Year” awards by the media.

We are denigrated if our children dare pray in school or in public functions or if the Bible is even given credence in discussions, but just let someone want to bow to the East and pray to “Allah” or want to study the Koran, and everyone falls all over themselves to accommodate their wishes.  Then, when they expand upon the teachings of said religion and spew out their hate for us and our way of life and kill our citizens, it is quickly shouted that such heinous acts are actually the fault of the tools that they used and not the evil people themselves or their twisted beliefs.  Furthermore, any who do not embrace them with love and tolerance for blowing the hell out of our buildings and citizens, are considered the bigots and hate-mongers.

There was a time that the greatest shame a woman could be accused of was to be in an inter-racial relationship.  Now, it is a “badge of honor” to not only have such a relationship but especially if they can have several “multi-racial” children, preferably outside of wed-lock.  By the time of the reading of the epitaph of the dead nation mentioned above, 70% of the population of this country will be the color of the inside of a 3 Musketeers bar!!  Is it honorable to either race to water down the integrity of said race?

Even our language has been attacked to the point that many words have been stolen and censored from use.  All in the attempt to not “offend” someone who may not like what is being said.
The very essence of a free nation or society carries with it, by pure definition, the fact that someone else may be offended by something that is said or done.  But, that is part of freedom.  This is not a padded room….. it’s not a rose garden……it is life!

Well, gentlemen, this action by the SBC is just one more brick in the wall that will ultimately support the tombstone of this nation.  This is the Roman Empire ca. 475 A. D. and the Huns and Barbarians are at the gate of the city.  So, what should we do????  I know, let’s start by buying in to the lying media-machine with their "yellow journalism" and let’s elect another “anti-Christ” as President so that they can continue to fertilize the filth that we are now wallowing in and can replace the rest of the Supreme Court with liberal fools……………. That’ll do it!"

Archie Bunker's Editorial on Gun Control

Via Jeffery

 Seems reasonable to me. :)

 

3rd graders face retention after parents opt out of tests

Via comment by Anonymous on Failing Another Common Core Test

 

Some Central Florida parents who had their third graders skip Florida's standardized reading test now find their children threatened with being held back, even if they are strong readers who finished the school year with good report cards.

The parents, part of the "opt out" movement opposed to high-stakes testing, are furious.

They are convinced school districts are not following state law and are instead retaliating against families who refused to take part in the Florida Standards Assessments. They did so as an act of civil disobedience to protest what they view as the state's over-reliance on an unproven standardized test.

"There's no reason for a third grader with straight As to be retained," said parent Rhonda Nickerson, whose 9-year-old daughter may be barred from fourth grade at a Seminole County elementary school. "What are they going to do with her in third grade again?"

Nickerson's daughter did not take the FSA. Her report card shows the girl earned As in all her academic subjects. But it also reads, "Student Retained in Grade 3."

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Rebuttal to Alexander Stephens' "Cornerstone Speech"

Via comment by Anonymous on  Victims of the Confederate Fury

Portraits and picture of some of Alexander Stephens' servants

American Renaissance

Petronius JohnEngelman 

 

"Alexander Stephens' so-called cornerstone speech is a weak historical reed to lean on.
There was no written text for Stephens' cornerstone speech, as he spoke extemporaneously. The only record is that of a Savannah journalist who attended the speech. It is impossible to determine how accurately this journalist represented Stephens' remarks. Stephens often complained about being misquoted in the press. In any case, this was a stump speech of political rhetoric, aimed at a populist audience, and not the thoughtful, definitive word on the formation of the Confederacy. I should add that the racist remarks attributed to Stephens would have been acceptable to all Americans of the day except the most radical of the Northern abolitionists.

One final matter deserves comment. Early in 1865, about five weeks before Appomattox, Lincoln requested a meeting with a Confederate delegation led by Vice President Alexander Stephens. The Confederate peace commissioners met with Lincoln and Seward on board a steamer in Hampton Roads. Lincoln promised compensation for slaves if the Confederates would lay down their arms, stop fighting, and give up their independence. But the Confederates -- well knowing that their fate was already sealed -- refused the offer because independence, and not slavery, was what the South was fighting for. They were not dying by the hundreds of thousands because they didn't want to give up their servants. Rather, they gave their lives because they didn't want to be conquered and ruled by foreigners.

By the end of the War, there were still more slaves in the Union than out of it. When Lincoln was killed, blacks were excluded from his funeral in New York. Alexander Stephens' emancipated slaves remained loyal to him, and continued to work his farm while he was imprisoned in the North. When Stephens was released from the Yankee prison, they continued to work for him for little or no money.

When Stephens died, hundreds of them attended his funeral."