I dreamed Romney was Abraham Lincoln

Via Cousin John

Nancy Pelosi recently claimed she’s been visited by the spirits of famous American women of the past.

“If I ever had a vision like Nancy Pelosi did,” Savage told listeners, “I’d have to call 911 and ask to be relieved of my duties.”

That said, Michael Savage admitted to having a dream about American politicians past and present that gave him plenty to think about.

“I dreamed that Mitt Romney was Abraham Lincoln,” Savage said, adding:

Now, Lincoln was not such a decent man. He was a pretty vicious, horrendous murderer, incidentally.

But image-wise, I somehow morphed Romney and Lincoln.

If you actually study Lincoln, he was a ruthless politician. He decimated the South for no reason. He had his generals burn Southern cities to the ground.

Yet he’s seen as the great liberator. You have to see the bigger picture.

There are arguments that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, or very little to do with it; that it was more of an economic war between the North and the South. I don’t want to get into that right now.

What’s relevant is the fact that I dreamed that Romney was Lincoln.

That means that, in my mind, he’s coming across as sort of a tragic figure. That’s the whole point.

We’re no longer living in 1860. Back then, if you had a tragic look about you, it was somewhat appealing to a nation that still had morality and still understood that there was a God in heaven.

But America no longer has any sympathy with a man who has a tragic look. Today, everybody wants a winner.

They want a fake winner with fake teeth and fake hair, fake heart, fake soul.

In other words, they want a complete phony.

Therefore, with Romney as the GOP candidate, and a liar on the other side, we have real trouble on our hands.

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On 15 August 1863 the Confederate States Ship Tallahassee captured six yankee schooners. I bet the yankees were hot about that.

If I hang around here I don't see anything but my family and cows, sheep, pigs, & chickens, but travelling shows me the faces of America -- well, and lots of other body parts as well. My trip revealed to me two of America's great dilemmas. First, there is clearly a shortage of mirrors around the country, so people have no chance to look at themselves before they leave the house. I think this calls for Federal Government Mirror Stamps for everybody -- Mirror-Care, Obamer ought to call it. Second, the women's fashion industry is suffering a terrible cloth shortage. Poor things, I don't know how they keep from freezing to death, & lots of 'em are so desperate they've taken to wearing their underwear OUTside their clothes.

On 15 August 1947 after 200 years of British rule Indian became independent and was divided into India & Pakistan.

On 15 August 1861 East German workers began constructing the Wall of Shame, the Berlin Wall, to keep all the workers in the Workers' Paradise, or make it easier to shoot 'em when they tried to leave.

Maine’s Gov Threatens RNC Boycott Unless Ron Paul Delegates Seated

Last week Romney supporters sought to try and challenge the seating of Maine’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. Team Romney has been behind the scenes in various states, including Nevada, Arizona and Massachusetts trying to remove official delegates in an attempt to silence those of the liberty caucus who support GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul.

However Maine GOP Chair Charlie Webster made an attempt to compromise with the Ron Paul contingent, but those supporters rejected the compromise. The agreement really was one sided in the fact that it would have bound delegates to vote for Mitt Romney and prevented them from voicing their opinions publicly.

The compromise laid out to Maine National Delegates is as follows:

1. A majority of the delegates sign a statement agreeing that, if Ron Paul is not on the ballot, they will vote at the Convention for Mitt Romney.

2. Instead of Brent Tweed, Charlie Webster or Paul LePage would serve as the spokesperson for the delegation and announce the votes cast for president. That spokesperson would also handle all media on behalf of the Maine delegation.

3. There will be nothing negative said about Mitt Romney or positive said about Obama (especially to media)

4. The Delegation will be admitted to the Convention, and to all committee assignments, without barrier.

5. The Contest brought by Jan Staples and Peter Cianchette will be withdrawn

Now ladies and gentlemen, this is no compromise at all. This is only to benefit Mitt Romney and that is all. It is a stifling of these people’s First Amendment rights to speak their consciences in public and on the floor of the RNC. Personally, I find it offensive that such a thing would even be presented as a “compromise.”

Not only that, but Romney supporters are apparently in favor of unseating Paul delegates, though they are not making the same attempts with Santorum or Gingrich delegates. A.J. Higgins writes:

(Charles) Cragin is a government affairs counselor with an Augusta lobbying firm who has extensive experience in Washington in military affairs and national security. He lost his bid to become chair of the GOP state convention this spring when Paul supporters elected Tweed. He said the Maine challenge to the Paul delegates is the result of a failure between members of the Romney and Paul organizations to reach a compromise. Romney is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, but Paul’s supporters maintain their candidate still holds a plurality in at least five states. That’s the minimum threshold he must meet in order to be on the ballot at the convention. Paul has not endorsed Romney, nor has he suspended his presidential bid and his supporters want him to have a prominent speaking role at the convention. Cragin said Romney’s supporters do not want their candidate’s victory diminished by a competing message from Paul.

“This is Mitt Romney’s convention,” Cragin said. “He’s the presumptive nominee and he will be the nominee and therefore his folks are very engaged in making determinations as to who will speak at the convention, when they will speak at the convention and to a great extent what they will said when they speak at the convention. So when you’re dealing with outliers, there’s a substantial negotiating process that takes place.”

Outlier is hardly a word that Matt McDonald, a GOP national convention delegate from Belfast and Paul supporter, would use to describe his candidate. He expects all 14 of Maine’s unbound delegates who support Paul will be seated by the convention committee. But Paul’s delegates to the national convention are facing challenges in other states and McDonald said there will be some unhappy people in Tampa if they are not allowed in.

This is the Republican National Convention. It is not Mitt Romney’s convention and the people should have their say at the convention whether Romney supporters like it or not. They don’t want people to disagree with anything that Mitt Romney would say apparently.

Mr. Tweed has it absolutely correct when he said, “The national convention was never intended to be a coronation. It was intended to be the place where the nominee was chosen.” He also went on to point out in a statement that,

“It is unreasonable for the Republican Party at either the national or state level … to attempt to pressure the Maine delegation to vote any particular way. We will not be intimidated into signing political deals under threat of being unseated. We are accountable to the Maine Republicans who elected us, not the Mitt Romney campaign.”

Mike Tipping writes,

Tea Party leader and Ron Paul delegate Pete “The Carpenter” Harring even took to YouTube fully-eagled to speak out against the proposal.

Today, conservative talk show host Ray Richardson announced on Faceboook that Governor Paul LePage, the only elected member of the delegation not challenged by Romney’s supporters, has announced that he will boycott the convention if the Ron Paul delegates are not seated. From Richardson’s post:

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Law Abiding Gun Owner Saves Police Officer In Shootout

Freedom Outpost
VERBATIM POST

Mr. Charles Conner 58 years old became angry and commenced to kill his neighbor, his neighbor’s live in partner, and their dogs. Mr. Connor became angry about David House’s dogs using the bathroom in certain places located in the Peach House RV Park located in Central Texas where they resided.

and had previously filed several complaints about the dogs using the bathroom on the tree. On July 29, 2012 (actual date unknown) Mr. Connor went into his place of residence retrieved a gun, shot and killed Mr. David House, Ms. Iris Calaci 53, and their family dogs.

Sgt. Steven Means was the first officer on the scene. When Sgt. Means arrived on scene he was ambushed by Mr. Connor with an array of gunfire. Vic Stacy (a local law abiding citizen and gun owner) heard the shooting, and went to his door to find out what was going on. Mr. Stacy saw two people had already been shot, and that Sgt. Steven Means was in trouble. “I knew if I didn’t do something that the officer was going to be killed.” That is when Mr. Stacy retrieved his (LEGAL) gun to help the trapped officer. Mr. Stacy shot Mr. Conner several times helping to save Sgt. Means life.

Sheriff Bobby Grubbs of the Brown County Sheriff’s Department stated that he was very thankful for Mr. Stacy and “had he (the concerned citizen) not had his gun, there is no telling what the outcome may have been”.
Thank God for Law abiding citizens with a gun. Thank you Mr. Stacey for helping a police officer in need, and proving once again that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens are a necessity not a desire. Thank God for our Second Amendment to the Constitution giving us the right to bear arms.

Editor’s Note: Mr. Stacy shot Mr. Connor from 165 yards! Kudos to Mr. Stacy!

Requiem Aeternam

This should be viewed in full screen. If not, you will miss many details such as the cartridge wrappers at around one minute.

Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
Breaks my heart.

My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.

*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.

*The Attack On Fort Stedman

His Colored Friends"

Lee's Surrender

My Black NC Kinfolks

Punished For Being Caught!

Bill O’Reilly – A New & Powerful Anti-Gun Advocate

Via Don

Buffoon

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Ammoland
VERBATIM POST

Moderate (never a conservative) Bill O’Reilly has as demonstrated through his comments over years, and those of the last couple of weeks, especially those on air this last Tuesday, August 14 2012, now easily established himself as the strongest and most powerful anti-gun, anti-NRA and anti-Second Amendment (which he claims to support) advocate in the Country.

His all-knowing, arrogant, impossible to correct and flat out lying (he knows the facts) in the face of facts, given to him by those who can contact him, are typical of the anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment comments we have heard for decades.

Statements such as “AK-47s and AR-15s are heavy-weapons” and “assault weapons and bazookas should not be available to people”, “AR-15/AK firearms can be easily be converted to machine guns”, “anyone can get a machinegun”, “people should not be allowed to have such guns” and so much more.

It all displays his left leaning arrogant anti-gun advocacy. BUT it is not ignorance—in his position he knows the facts from well informed people, he know the truth and yet he continues on his own personal propaganda war against firearms and the Second Amendment.

We can ask why, but then again why ask?

The pompous arrogant nature of this buffoon and his lies cannot be corrected, even by his on and off air friends. So why support his show and his advertisers any longer? If you do—don’t, (I never did because of all of the above on air character issues).

Tell your friends too, because while he may blow off in his blowhard way efforts of this type –the FOX network does not.

He needs to get a new job at MSNBC. Pass it along.

Jim Shults: A proven supporter of our Constitution and Bill of Rights–while we still have one (how about you?)

Americans Are Snatching Up Russian AK-47s In record Numbers

Via Don

Business Insider
VERBATIM POST

I'll never forget the first thing my ex-wife's father said to me: "Wanna go shoot an AK?"

I obliged.

It turns out Americans are turning to AK 's in droves to fill their home armories.

Russia doesn't mind, and neither do it's arms companies, like Izhmash, which are quickly shifting from military to civilian fabrication in order to fill all the orders.

Overall it's been a good deal for American enthusiasts, and for Russian investors, since existing laws banning Chinese imports essentially subsidizes Russian businesses.

Andrew E. Kramer of New York Times reports "And in the United States, Izhmash cannot be underpriced by Chinese competitors. The federal government has banned most imports of Chinese handguns and rifles since 1994.

Selling Saigas in the United States is integral to the enterprise’s evolving business model of making single-shot civilian guns to occupy workers and equipment in between government orders for fully automatic assault rifles. About 70 percent of the factory’s output is now civilian rifles, up from 50 percent two years ago. Of the civilian arms, about 40 percent are exported to the United States."

To be clear, we're talking about perfectly legal to import, and to own in some states, civilian versions of the AK-47. One shot, semi-automatic. These companies have cut back on their fully automatic, military versions in order to supply the U.S. market.

Due to the Second Amendment and America's widespread culture of gun ownership, the US market for civilian weaponry is among the largest on the globe. The AK has not only a violent history, but a history of consistency and reliability.

Kalashnikov rifles can be buried in beach sand, dug up, loaded, and fired. Rinse, repeat, and it'll fire still. Russian brandname Saiga AK's saw a sales rise of 50 percent just last year.

Josh Laura, a former Marine from Maryville, Tenn., told the Times, "I bought a Saiga because it was made in Russia, right beside its big brothers, the AKs. No rifle in the world has been as reliable as this one.”

Even in combat, Marine have been known to use confiscated Kalashnikov 's instead of their own general issue M16's. The preference, no doubt, is due to consistency of performance and caliber, which, at 7.62mm, packs a bit more of a punch than the NATO 5.56 mm.

Sunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

Via Billy

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

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Possible Chick-fil-A Link to Shooting at Family Research Council

A security guard at the Family Research Council was shot and wounded in the arm Wednesday morning after a scuffle with a man said to be carrying a Chick-fil-A bag in the lobby of the organization's headquarters in Washington.

The shooter walked into the lobby and was confronted by the security guard, according to The Washington Post. The man had a gun and opened fire at at the guard but the guard and bystanders wrestled him to the ground.

Fox News reported that the case is being treated as a case of "domestic terrorism."

The FBI is investigating and they have the shooter, who received bullet wounds himself, in custody. His identity has not been released, but Fox News said he was "posing as an intern." The name of the guard, whom police are calling a hero, has also not been released.

Fox News said the man, said to be in his 20s, "expressed disagreement with the organization's conservative policy poistions," and when the guard asked him where he was going he opened fire. Sources told Fox the man may have been carrying a Chick-fil-A bag and after the guard took his gun said, "Don't shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for."

“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. ”He did his job. The person never made it past the front.”

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