Let’s Spin Him/Her/It Up Again–Vote!
13th Saying in the Gospel of Thomas
Jesus said to his disciples, “Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like.”
Simon Peter said to him, “You are like a righteous angel.”
Matthew said to him, “You are like a wise philosopher.”
Thomas said to him, “Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like.”
Jesus said, “I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out.” And he took him and withdrew and told him three things.
When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, “What did Jesus say to you?” Thomas said to them, “If I tell you one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up.”
Fanning the Flames
A few days ago I posted a video that discussed the merits of a pocket pistol over a ‘strapped on’ concealed carry. Each choice has its merits and each its own downside that are independent of the caliber of the weapon, including; accuracy, dependability, ease of use, ease of carry, capacity, etc.
But what is the best caliber?
From My Neighbors to the South
S&Z Grocery is in Athens AL, about 20 miles south of my homestead. Pay them a visit when your in their neck of the woods.
Boston Globe Corrections
Correction Reads: Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. The generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American
In other words, as Breitbart’s Joel Pollak summarizes, this “falls within Warren’s reported range, and suggests she may be no more Native American than the average white American. Full Story at Breitbart
The DNA test also offers no proof that Warren is in any part Cherokee.
Virtue Signalling Scum
This from a University of Alabama Law Professor, MSNBC Contributor AND Obama appointed US Atty in Birmingham. She has 25 years of professional experience as a federal prosecutor
What’s missing from this is NBC’s later retraction of the report .
They issued a correction Sunday after reporting that President Trump described Gen. Robert E. Lee as “incredible,” acknowledging that the president was referring to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Retractions reads: “An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as ‘incredible’ at a rally in Ohio,” said the network’s correction. “It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee.”
Cynically, I suggest the Fake News crowd intentionally blasts out this blather, allows the twiterverse to rapidly distribute it, then quietly backtracks once it’s in the public domain–Mission Accomplished.
Interlude with Schubert
White Women are Failing the Nation?
As disruptive as these lunatics are, you have to admit the **it show they put on is as entertaining as it gets. Can you imagine how dull and bland the world would be if they were not here to entertain?
Painting Immigration with a Different Brush
Upon Their Ruins
“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty …. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
– Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts
Original Intent -from an Originalist
“On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Loreena McKennitt- Kecharitomene
Damning by Faint Criticism (vice Praise)
In a brief interview with TMZ at Reagan National Airport, Sen. Graham was asked for his thoughts on a tweet Handler sent Thursday, in which she said Republicans likely “took a sick day today” because it was National Coming Out Day, an annual awareness day for LGBTQ members to celebrate coming out as gay. “Looking at you @LindseyGrahamSC,” Handler added, suggesting the senator planned to reveal he is gay to colleagues on the Hill.
“I don’t think about much about what she says at all,” Graham said of Handler’s tweet. “If she wants to live her life that way, it’s up to her.”
“A lot of people struggle with that issue, do you think she’s equating homosexuality with being evil?” the cameraman asked the lawmaker.
“She knows zero about me. To the extent that this matters, I’m not gay,” Graham replied. “These comments, they don’t reflect well on her. I don’t know how this makes us a better country. That’s up to her, not me.”
TMZ asked Graham if he thought making jokes about one’s sexuality was the “lowest kind of bar” in today’s culture. “Yeah, I just think we’re moving on from that,” Republican said as he made his way to his gate.
“Belittling people is not as fun as it used to be and that’s a good thing.”
18th Saying in the Gospel of Thomas
The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.” Jesus said, “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”
Sunday Cabin
Consumption
Checking in with Liberal Central
An excellent read on plantation live and liberal control is posted at the American Spectator. In part it reads:
The media’s meltdown over Kanye’s trip to the Oval Office reflects nothing more than its horrified realization that Trump is eating the left’s lunch, poaching more and more voters from once-monopolized lib constituencies. Apparently Kanye West is supposed to check with the central office of the Left’s Ministry of Truth before opening his mouth. Anything less is “surreal,” according to the media. What a bunch of totalitarian creeps.
A Little Pink Floyd: Shine on Crazy Diamond
Conspiracy in Space?
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has gone into safe mode and halted all its science operations a few days after Hubble shut down. According to NASA, Chandra’s transition into safe mode was possibly triggered by an issue that has something to do with its gyroscope, the component in charge of pointing and stabilizing the telescope.
Roll Tide
As usual, things turned out just fine for the top-ranked Crimson Tide.
Tagovailoa passed for 265 yards and three touchdowns but didn’t return after aggravating a right knee injury in No. 1 Alabama’s 39-10 victory over Missouri on Saturday night.
The Tide (7-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) shrugged off another would-be challenger in the league, but the star quarterback went down after sliding at the end of a run in the third quarter.
“Tua could have went back in the game,” Tide coach Nick Saban said. “He wanted to go back in the game. I didn’t think it was worth it.”
The only thing Yahoo gets right is sports. More college football results here.
Sufficient Arms
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
– George Washington
Homestead Redone
This picture is a modified photo that I took of an old homestead on AL Hwy 207 near the Tennessee line. It is one of several that I placed on this page
The picture was modified using a program called paint.net, the version is 4.4.1 The ‘effect’ used is called Oil Paint.
Given that the program is free, powerful, and scary easy to use, if your into playing with pictures I highly recommend it.
American Woman
The Guess Who had it right when it comes to this ‘piece of work’.
American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Don’t come hanging around my door
Don’t wanna see your face no more
I don’t need your war machines
I don’t need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else’s eyes
Pocket Pistol Defense
I now carry a pocket pistol instead of a side arm. My reasons are simple:
-I should be able to get out of any bad situation with 12 rounds (including a magazine exchange).
-I can carry without dressing like I’m carrying
-I can carry and no one knows, and thus less likely to try and separate me from my weapon
-A well placed shot from a 380 is just as lethal as any other round.
Go, Please Just Go
This woman could not do enough damage to this country when she was a Senator or Secretary of State. Now she has to sow the seeds of division as a washed up and failed politician. Can you imagine the damage this scum would have done as President?
Our Fears Realized
Heaven’s Window – Peter Kater
Liberty’s Teeth
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
– George Washington
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Wisdom
Buckle Up and Grab the Popcorn
Twitter wars begin
Bishop: White women kneeling during the anthem to protest ‘rape culture’ is hijacking a movement you took no risks for. You didn’t kneel in solidarity to protest the murder of Black people, don’t co opt & make it about your victimization. That’s white supremacy in the name of feminism.”
Feminist: “D***, this is harsh. I understand the point you’re making however, women are victims are same systems that hurt the black communities as well. So unless your going around asking each individual why they are kneeling? You’re making assumptions. I kneel for injustice for all.”
Bishop Here’s a hard dose of reality, white women are part of the system that oppresses black people. They willingly and happily play their role in that system. It’s not the same. Never has been. Never will be.
Feminist: Honestly bishop, u can f*** off…why because I don’t allow ANY man to disrespect me…PS. Black men had the right to vote in this country BEFORE any women…so yeah we didn’t have a lot of pull for quite a few years politically. .
Bishop: You CANNOT “kneel for injustice for all” bc kneeling has been a BLM protest from jump.
Crazies
Sagan: Should We Listen to the Left?
“The fact that someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true. Doesn’t mean they’re lying, but it doesn’t mean it’s true.
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based – or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven’t thought of, or demonstrates that we’ve swept key underlying assumptions under the rug – it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.
In his celebrated book, ‘On Liberty’, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the “opportunity of exchanging error for truth”; and if it’s wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its “collision with error.” If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
– Carl Sagan
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Good Guess
When Men Were Free
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and passed on … or we will spend our sunset years telling our children’s children what it was like in the United States when men were free.”
– Ronald Reagan
Launching
Here is a shot of my Jeep and Triton as I prepare to launch on the Elk River. The boat is about 19 ft and powered by a 115 HP Mercury 4 stroke. Caught no fish!
Ask The Mountains – Vangelis
On the Alabama Side
I took this photo as I was leaving my property on Tuesday Morning. The fog was laying in on the gently rolling hills of the front pasture. This is as far south in Tennessee as you can go without crossing into Alabama.
Around the Farm
This old farm home sits next to my property on the very southern most tract in Giles County Tennessee. The elderly gentleman that lived here died at age 93 two years ago.
Another neighbor (SL) bought the house and roughly 45 acres that it sat on. Along with the acreage he previously owned, SL now has about 500 acres. All of these acres, less those purchased along with this house, are in timber. He is a big hunter, and so planted the acreage around the house in soy beans to draw the deer in.
In My Neck of the Woods
From Breitbart
Campaign staffers for Tennessee Democrat Senate nominee Phil Bredesen say he lied on Friday when he released a statement saying he would have voted “yes” to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, according to a new undercover video released by Project Veritas Action on Wednesday night.
Bredesen campaign field organizer Maria Amalla was captured on video by a female journalist sent undercover into one of the Bredesen campaign’s Nashville offices describing Bredesen’s statement on Friday as “a political move” that was necessary because “he’s trying to make up points.”
CNN and the Token Negro
A CNN panel hosted by anchor Don Lemon took turns lacing into Kanye West on Tuesday evening, joking that his embrace of President Donald Trump has caused him to be tokenized. Several referred to him using the term “negro.”
Tara Setmeyer: He’s an attention whore — He clearly has issues. He’s already been hospitalized.
Bakari Sellers: Kanye West is what happens when negroes don’t read,
Full story and good read at The Wrap
The Lovely Brooke Baldwin of CNN
Diogenes Sarcastica (Diogenes Middle Finger) has an excellent article on the Left’s application of mob violence and CNN’s efforts to run blocks on those who call it out. This good read here.
Fake News @ Yahoo
Now We’ve Gone and Done It.
Why I live in Rural Tennessee
Gospel of Thomas: 11th Saying
Jesus said, “This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?”
11th Saying in the Gospel of Thomas
It’s Our Job
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
– George Orwell
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