Men -think it through

men not accustomed to getting their fingernails bloody, or at least dirty, can hardly be expected to remain manly. Indeed this, more than any other factor, has softened men’s hands and feminized their behavior. Though it’s fashionable among conservatives today to blame feminism for creating metrosexuals, the truth is sissified males aren’t the result of women donning suits and toting briefcases. Males don’t get manicures, have highlights put in their hair, and have their eyebrows plucked because a woman has the corner office. No, the cause is a lack of concrete connection to the earth. Just travel to any third-world country where men still have to till the earth with their hands and hunt to fill the pot, and look around and see if you can find a “girlyman” admiring his reflection in a stream like Narcissus and wishing he had a fuller-bodied shampoo. Such men don’t exist far off the pavement. So the domesticated man asks, does shooting a pheasant really give an understanding of nature? Not necessarily. But really studying pheasant hunting, learning where the birds move and feed and hide, is necessary to becoming a good hunter, and it’s those things that connect a man to nature and his place within it. The reality is that being environmentally responsible is manly when it’s based on reality—a reality in which we are an active participant—and not on emotional idealism. Men, after all, are supposed to be the rational ones.

Miniter, Frank (2009-04-14). The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Manhood (Kindle Locations 886-896). Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.

The price of our liberty

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his Ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General, Cornwallis, had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots.

Eviction, not Succession

Succession - no, I don't think so. Rather, it is coming time for eviction. Eviction of New York, Los Angeles (and most of California), and Boston (ironically enough) from the Union. For far too many years, the social degradation of these locales, compounded by the piling up of population in them and the removal of personal accountability from them has drug this nation down into the pits through forced electoral compromise. They have acted like gravity wells around black holes sucking everything down around them. Evict them and let them create their own European Socialist modeled country I say. We are collectively better off without them

The Silver Lining - not so obvious...

So, the craftier-than-I-thought John Roberts just turned the mandate into a tax and simultaneously shot the misuse of the Commerce Clause (since 1946) in the head while sucking the wind out of the liberals sails on "it is a party line supreme court ruling" all the while violently waking up the ENTIRE right. Now it is our turn. Taxes can be repealed in the Senate under reconciliation with just a simple majority. This means 51 seats in the senate kills this monstrosity, and the left can not use the commerce clause to resurrect it - time to get out the vote, and take both the senate and the executive branches back. Put it in High Gear people, we have work to do