Saturday, June 27, 2015
More On The Battle Flag, For What It's Worth.........
Sent in by one of my readers:
Take it with grain of salt if you want. Just wanted to share.
As I talked to my friend the other night, a few more details of what happened to him in regards to the recent hysteria over the "flag" have come to light.
The day before this all happened, Wednesday, his company's internet system went down all day - but the cable TV and land-line phones still worked.
His high speed internet service is carried by the same wire that has the capacity to also provide basic telephone and cable-TV programming. How can the TV work but internet be out? The cable company said that he was nuts, and had a router / modem problem. Basically treated him like an idiot, had no idea of what the issue could be, and that he was the only one that was experiencing it. Magically, right at 6:00, they both came online. Just as the store closed.
He thought it odd and thoroughly irritating, but beyond the hassle of no connectivity he thought nothing of it. At least, until Thursday.
After seeing the news of the orders to remove flags all over the South, Wednesday evening, he and his wife were posting items they had in stock on eBay. The problem was, they were getting pulled down, as fast as they could list them. The reason, was that the sale of Confederate items on eBay, were in "violation of eBay's terms of service." More specifically, eBay stated: "eBay has made a decision to no longer permit Confederate battle flag listings...we believe that the image of the flag itself has become a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism."
Nazi memorabilia is still all over the place, but any reference to the CSA is verboten! Using a few different tricks, they did manage to get a few to stay up - for how long is up in the air.
In the morning, he got an email from his three major suppliers - Confederate flags of any type were no longer available. He then called each in turn, offering to buy up their remaining stock. Oddly, each gave him the exact same answer. One company took it one step further and said Confederate flags were not for sale because they were ..."quarantined."
That's when the hair went up on the back of his neck. That's a rather OFFICIAL term for the "independent and voluntary" discontinuing of a legal product by major retailers. That's when he hit the web.
Typing up Confederate flag + buy yielded NO hits - NONE! To top it off, all of the sponsored ads, that link to related products, that are usually there to generate revenue for Google, were missing as well. He had a hell of a time finding anything that managed to slip past the censors. While I was there, he had a local newspaper call. In the course of conversation, he mentioned the Google thing to the reporter. When the reporter did a search and came up empty, ads and all, all he could say was; "Well, that's strange."
An hour before the store opened, the phones started ringing - everybody wanted / needed a "General Lee" flag. When the doors opened, it was a steady stream of people looking to buy a CSA flag, of one type or another. Some were buying stuff just to resell at a profit, others to get one because someone said they weren't allowed to have one. The width and breadth, of the cross section of people that came in to get one, was the most amazing to him. Some..., well some, just scared the living hell out of him - not in a crazy eyes, wackadoo way either; but by been-there, done-that, people-in-the-know way. Those people when asked, said that this was a test - a trial run of sorts. For what exactly, no one really knew - or would say.
Then, he started putting together all the events:
Potentially, a pre-emptive denial of service attack, in regards to information - internet and phone service had occured but the local news affiliate was still available. He had a disruption, regarding communicating to the outside world but was afforded the luxury of receiving cable-TV.
Dissemination of information control?
Potential disruption of commerce due to denial of service attack?
A disapproved item is suddenly unavailable for unknown reasons, why?
If someone can do this to just a flag, what else can they shut down?
Denial of information. Certain info on Google just vanishes down the memory hole?
Major retailers, by the dozens, suddenly have an attack of conscience? When was the last time a corporation dropped a product line, without trying to recoup at least some of its costs? Somebody with the power to strong-arm major corporations, disrupt communications, and control information has exerted a tremendous amount of effort, to pull down a flag. I wonder whom that might be????
Another item of note would be a conversation he had with another retailer of flags, in a more populated area down in a Southern locale. This shop owner was in fear that he was going to be the next, "Memories Pizza" for selling the CSA flag. The man was genuinely afraid that the "Brown Shirts of the Obamawaffen SS" would descend on his business and shut him down. So he dropped the sales of CSA flags altogether. This is pure Alinskyism, at its darkest.
Then, there is the other issue of the TPP getting rammed through, while this controversy dominates the news. There is speculation, that this will have a direct impact on healthcare in this country as well, essentially making all generic products illegal. Only brand name stuff from now on, Comrade . With the verbal gymnastics that Roberts went through to push Obamacare, the skyrocket, of health-care cost just got its fuse lit. Antonin Scalia, was the only dissenting judge, and his retort about the decision is scathing!
The Lib's are about to understand the consequences of their electoral actions.
What the F***? How is this even allowed and why?
The Justice Department will fast track the sending of $29 million to South Carolina to help families of victims of the mass murder of nine churchgoers at a historic black church in Charleston, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.
Huh?
LINK HERE
The Apropriation of Cultures.....
I got an email the other day that had a youtube link to "The Appropriation of Cultures" by
Percival Everett.
It is a fictional short story about a young black man that buys a pick-up truck with the confederate flag on the back. In the story he drives around and gradually undermines the flag by making it so popular that it loses it's meaning. That was my take anyway. Yours may be
different.
Here are a couple links if you want to listen to it being read or if you want to read it.
The reading of the story HERE and the text of it HERE.
Go listen to it or read it. Think about the context of it, not the outcome.
Now think about the following:
( Bear with me I'm not an english major. I don't review stories and read into deep hidden
meanings into what the author really meant. Like SCOTUS does)
(The "WE" , in the following statements, are the people that see and understand what is happening in this country and the direction that "the powers that be" are trying force us)
What if we all flew rainbow flags or put rainbow stickers on our cars?
What if we all use the gender neutral bathrooms?
What if we all bought and wore Che T-shirts?
What if we all bought and wore Black Power T-shirts?
What if we all greeted our friends with "What up n****r?" ?
If someone asked "How are you?" say "Gayer than a tree full of chickadees!"
What if we filled out forms and put something other than your true race, or sex?
If questioned just say that's how you identify. Tell them to disprove it.
As in the fictional story that started this, imagine the outcome if everyone was doing some
of the above and it just became so common that it loses it's meaning?
You can add more ideas in the comments if you want.
I need more coffee.
Percival Everett.
It is a fictional short story about a young black man that buys a pick-up truck with the confederate flag on the back. In the story he drives around and gradually undermines the flag by making it so popular that it loses it's meaning. That was my take anyway. Yours may be
different.
Here are a couple links if you want to listen to it being read or if you want to read it.
The reading of the story HERE and the text of it HERE.
Go listen to it or read it. Think about the context of it, not the outcome.
Now think about the following:
( Bear with me I'm not an english major. I don't review stories and read into deep hidden
meanings into what the author really meant. Like SCOTUS does)
(The "WE" , in the following statements, are the people that see and understand what is happening in this country and the direction that "the powers that be" are trying force us)
What if we all flew rainbow flags or put rainbow stickers on our cars?
What if we all use the gender neutral bathrooms?
What if we all bought and wore Che T-shirts?
What if we all bought and wore Black Power T-shirts?
What if we all greeted our friends with "What up n****r?" ?
If someone asked "How are you?" say "Gayer than a tree full of chickadees!"
What if we filled out forms and put something other than your true race, or sex?
If questioned just say that's how you identify. Tell them to disprove it.
As in the fictional story that started this, imagine the outcome if everyone was doing some
of the above and it just became so common that it loses it's meaning?
You can add more ideas in the comments if you want.
I need more coffee.
Friday, June 26, 2015
That's One Nasty Beaver....
BEND, Ore. (AP) - Two Central Oregon men were taken to the hospital after they fell into the Deschutes River after being attacked by a beaver near Lava Island Falls.
LINK
h/t to wildriver
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries."...wait...What?
Tunisian officials say a gunman is still at large after a deadly attack on two hotels packed with British tourists left 27 dead.
coauthor Jeffery wonders if it's due to Confederate Flags being flown in North Africa?
Has anyone seen one of these ....
.... in Tunisia? They seem to cause mass casualties.
Are White Men Gods? (II): Getting the Facts Straight
From "Fredoneverything":
I find Cornel West, a black professor, complaining of White Supremacy, which he believes our black President needs to remedy. Obama, he says, is “niggerized.”
“A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy,” West said.
I would like to explain to Professor West a few things about this dread supremacy:
We have White Supremacy, Professor, because for 2500 years we, whites, have produced the best minds on the planet, the greatest flourishing of the arts and sciences ever seen, the most complex and organized societies. We have White Supremacy, whatever exactly it may be, because we have been the earth’s most successful race. No other has come close. Deal with it.
READ THE REST HERE
h/t to Jeffery
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Army officer from Alabama nails it: ‘I’m offended that everyone is offended by something!’
Jordan Thompson is an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and a University of Alabama graduate currently attending Samford’s Cumberland School of Law. Read the whole story here at Yellowhammer News.
Every Day Gets More And More Bizarre In This Country......
I think we can cause some libtard head explosions with this......
RULES FOR A GUN, KNIFE, BASEBALL BAT OR FIST FIGHT
Blog Buddy Skybill ( who likes to jump out of perfectly good planes) sent this along:
Drill Sergeant Joe B. Fricks Rules For A Gunfight
RULES FOR A GUN, KNIFE, BASEBALL BAT OR FIST FIGHT
1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap - life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap - funerals are expensive.
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker and go to cover. Distance is your friend. (Bulletproof cover and diagonal or lateral movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a semi or full-automatic long gun and a friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running. Yell "Fire!" Why "Fire"? Cops will come with the Fire Department, sirens often scare off the bad guys, or at least cause then to lose concentration and will.... And who is going to summon help if you yell "Intruder," "Glock" or "Winchester?"
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work. "No battle plan ever survives 10 seconds past first contact with an enemy."
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible, but remember, sheetrock walls and the like stop nothing but your pulse when bullets tear through them.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don't drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. Practice reloading one-handed and off-hand shooting. That's how you live if hit in your "good" side.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. Smiles, frowns and other facial expressions don't (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.)
19. Decide NOW to always be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet if necessary, because they may want to kill you.
22. Be courteous to everyone, overly friendly to no one.
23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with anything smaller than "4".
25. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel blows the powder from the flintlock of your musket." At a practice session, throw you gun into the mud, then make sure it still works. You can clean it later.
26. Practice shooting in the dark, with someone shouting at you, when out of breath, etc.
27. Regardless of whether justified or not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.
28. The only thing you EVER say afterwards is, "He said he was going to kill me. I believed him. I'm sorry, Officer, but I'm very upset now. I can't say anything more. Please speak with my attorney."
Finally, Drill Sergeant Frick's Rules For Un-armed Combat.
1: Never be unarmed.
2: If you have your hands, your feet, your mind and your Spirit as an American Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine or Coastie, you are never unarmed.
3. I would add "Bringing a Good Jewish Girl" wouldn't hurt either!
VIA HERE
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
If You Would Like To Support Our Allies, Unlike Obama...
Charity Bleg :
Blog buddy and fellow Patriot Hunt, PE is on my blogroll, and has occasionally forwarded me good leads and other articles. He’s asked me to put out a charity bleg request, specifically for an Israel-based 501c3 charity, Connections Israel, where he is on the Governing Board; he has other charities he supports as well. (Note that he puts his own money to work there; among his many contributions to the group was to send three care packages of kosher goodies, plus custom-embroidered hats, to the IDF Navy ship Achi Kidon. Here’s the video where these boxes and hats were delivered.
He just got an email requesting funds for protein and energy bars for the soldiers on maneuvers. Apparently the Israeli defense budget focuses on necessities, but not small luxuries like this. (If you’re really ambitious and want to send protein bars directly, please make sure they have a kosher certification marking. If you do this, David recommends you buy an unopened box as it’s easier to ship than loose bars.
David thanks you in advance.
You never know, you might get a personal thank you note:
OH, THE HYPOCRISY!
It will only end when the poison filled vipers in power are de-fanged or squashed.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
RACISM STOPS TODAY FOREVER!
Well, it is official and in case you have not heard, an inanimate object is to blame for the nations racial strife! Once again libtards and rinos are tripping over themselves in an effort to banish forever from the halls of history, state house lawns and Confederate Memorials the Confederate Battle Flag. From South Carolina to Mississippi "do gooders" are calling for the flags removal! Hell, even WalMart has got in on the act announcing they are pulling merchandise that bears the dreaded "Stars and Bars". I wish there was some way I could apologize for that social misfit-drugged-zombie-killer being under the "spell" of the flag and shooting those people in their Bible class, but I cannot. Neither can I blame the 1911 .45 a.c.p. handgun. I would love to ask these politically correct wannabes this question; Once the flags are gone and the division of the races fails to disappear, who or what will be to blame? Shame on all of these politicians and the pundits who have turned this tragic event into a media circus and are using it to promote their agendas.
Some Links From This Mornings Surf..........
Here's a few posts worth sharing:
Islam is Islam, There Are No Modifiers
Storm Clouds Gathering
California: Running on Empty
( which has this scary thought in the comments:
JustAl
The
worst part of it all is that it will lead to Kalifornians spreading out
across the country like locusts spreading their destructive ideology.)Why I'm Not Gonna Write About The Deadly Mass Murder In South Carolina
This comic was in my inbox this morning (h/t to Mr N):
Monday, June 22, 2015
By Request.. More Of The Girl That Put Us Over 7,000,000
Her name is Katee Owen and her site is Kateelife if you want to "google" some more.
The better clip is below the fold...........
The media is complicit in all of this....
Taxi hack..."So much for “new tone”. When the time for The Realignment comes, don’t forget these mutherfuggers… the media is complicit in all of this. Know them by name. They allowed this, they abetted this, they are the ones creating this atmosphere, and they deserve to be put against the wall first."
Go read the rest and enjoy his art work HERE > I Just Despise Liberals
Believe it or not, this gives you one of the best explanations of the current unemployment stats
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America .
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 7.8%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 14.7%.
COSTELLO: You just said 7.8%.
ABBOTT: 7.8% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 7.8% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 14.7% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 7.8%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 7.8% or 14.7%?
ABBOTT: 7.8% are unemployed. 14.7% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Congress said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how it gets to 7.8%. Otherwise it would be 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an Economist.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like a Politician.
sent in by Rich St.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Happy Summer Solstice...12:38 PM
Overcast and rainy here today. The sun and blue sky are hidden, for now.
