From Reno, Nevada:
That's a K-BAR Fighting Knife he used to cut down Old Glory; commemorative engraved edition.
I only hope when the day comes I'm confronted with a patriotic challenge like this, I'll have as much class and balls as this guy displayed.
- S.L.
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Showing posts with label Nevada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nevada. Show all posts
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
NEVADA
My buddy FallschirmJaeger sent me this nice presentation about the beautiful state of Nevada, out west . . . Enjoy!
If the portrait in your mind of Nevada begins with a barren wasteland of tumbleweeds and desperate thirst you have only begun to paint.
Nevada is more brutal and vast than you can imagine. One need only to insert themself into a picture of Nevada 200 years ago. Jedediah Smith was the first white man to cross the (future) state of Nevada. What do you imagine he saw? What possessed him to go there . . . what would possess anyone to ever go there?
For many . . . the picture of Nevada is shades of brown and grey . . . the long hours of tedium and boredom fighting fatigue on the open road. The early settlers used these same routes because they were featureless and presented few obstacles. Modern highways use these routes for economical reasons.
For many, Nevada is a death sentence . . . a place for people to go whom don't play well with others . . .
Let's paint a picture of Nevada . . .
Why come here?
It's just a hot desert where you will die of thirst . . .
A place of great loneliness . . . and severe hunger.
Hot sun, dry heat, a place where you could fry an egg on a rock.
The natural wonders in Nevada are only a short distance from the Interstate.
Nevada is 500 miles long and 300 miles wide. It has mountains, lakes and yes, desert.
The Bristlecone Pines have made Nevada their home since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Bristlecones can grow as old as 5,000 years. This ancient life-form has been perched on this mountain for millenia. This very tree was probably here the day God told Noah to build the ark.
Yes it is a wasteland . . . it is a waste of beauty because most people never see its majesty.
Ask any Nevadan why they love the desert . . .
They may use words like "freedom", "wide open spaces", "peace". "quiet", "solitude".
Or they might use words like "opportunity", "adventure", "challenge".
Myth:
"Nevada is nothing but a vast barren desert".
Facts:
Nevada has more mountain ranges than any other state.
Lake Tahoe is one of the deepest mountain lakes in the world. It is so clear you can see the bottom.
"When floating on the lake I have sensed a feeling of agoraphobia when looking down to the bottom."
Next time in Nevada . . . take a closer look . . . it is much more than you ever imagined.
When I die, bury me in the Lahontan Valley. In five thousand years, I will still be here. And the desert will still be beautiful.
The desert is forever . . . don't waste it . . . . FallschirmJaeger
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If the portrait in your mind of Nevada begins with a barren wasteland of tumbleweeds and desperate thirst you have only begun to paint.
Nevada is more brutal and vast than you can imagine. One need only to insert themself into a picture of Nevada 200 years ago. Jedediah Smith was the first white man to cross the (future) state of Nevada. What do you imagine he saw? What possessed him to go there . . . what would possess anyone to ever go there?
For many . . . the picture of Nevada is shades of brown and grey . . . the long hours of tedium and boredom fighting fatigue on the open road. The early settlers used these same routes because they were featureless and presented few obstacles. Modern highways use these routes for economical reasons.
For many, Nevada is a death sentence . . . a place for people to go whom don't play well with others . . .
Let's paint a picture of Nevada . . .
Why come here?
It's just a hot desert where you will die of thirst . . .
A place of great loneliness . . . and severe hunger.
Hot sun, dry heat, a place where you could fry an egg on a rock.
The natural wonders in Nevada are only a short distance from the Interstate.
Nevada is 500 miles long and 300 miles wide. It has mountains, lakes and yes, desert.
The Bristlecone Pines have made Nevada their home since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Bristlecones can grow as old as 5,000 years. This ancient life-form has been perched on this mountain for millenia. This very tree was probably here the day God told Noah to build the ark.
Yes it is a wasteland . . . it is a waste of beauty because most people never see its majesty.
Ask any Nevadan why they love the desert . . .
They may use words like "freedom", "wide open spaces", "peace". "quiet", "solitude".
Or they might use words like "opportunity", "adventure", "challenge".
Myth:
"Nevada is nothing but a vast barren desert".
Facts:
Nevada has more mountain ranges than any other state.
Lake Tahoe is one of the deepest mountain lakes in the world. It is so clear you can see the bottom.
"When floating on the lake I have sensed a feeling of agoraphobia when looking down to the bottom."
Next time in Nevada . . . take a closer look . . . it is much more than you ever imagined.
When I die, bury me in the Lahontan Valley. In five thousand years, I will still be here. And the desert will still be beautiful.
The desert is forever . . . don't waste it . . . . FallschirmJaeger
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Monday, March 29, 2010
SITREP PARROTHEAD JEFF
Friend of STORMBRINGER and loyal Team Member Parrothead Jeff was at the Tea Party Rally in Searchlight, Nevada. His incredible report, with photo imagery at his site Parrothead Jeff & Friends (or click on his "license plate" over in the rack to the right there)
It's like a remake of The Road Warrior, only this time they're all properly groomed, well-dressed and gainfully employed - we've all heard the stereotypes they throw out there about Republicans.
SEARCHLIGHT TEA PARTY
This is aerial footage of the big Tea Party rally held this weekend in Searchlight, Nevada - Harry Reid's home town - forwarded to me from the American Border Patrol - (not to be confused with the U.S. Border Patrol).
The video (scroll down) shows traffic flowing south on Nevada State Route 95 leading from Las Vegas to Searchlight. Some of the backup is due to the traffic trying to enter the rally site, but a lot of it consists of people trying to get to the site.
Sarah Palin on stage.
Another shot of the stage.
The crane over the stage.
Panning out now.
Panning WAY out.
This thing was probably visible from outer space!
There was one report that a group from Bullhead City, Arizona had to walk 4.5 miles from where their bus had to park. Many probably chose to pass on by realizing there was no place to park.
Bear in mind - this political rally took place in the middle of nowhere - makes me wonder; was Barack Obama's movement pulling these kind of crowds two and a half years out from the '08 elections?
- S.L.
The video (scroll down) shows traffic flowing south on Nevada State Route 95 leading from Las Vegas to Searchlight. Some of the backup is due to the traffic trying to enter the rally site, but a lot of it consists of people trying to get to the site.
Sarah Palin on stage.
Another shot of the stage.
The crane over the stage.
Panning out now.
Panning WAY out.
This thing was probably visible from outer space!
There was one report that a group from Bullhead City, Arizona had to walk 4.5 miles from where their bus had to park. Many probably chose to pass on by realizing there was no place to park.
Bear in mind - this political rally took place in the middle of nowhere - makes me wonder; was Barack Obama's movement pulling these kind of crowds two and a half years out from the '08 elections?
- S.L.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
FALSE ACCUSATIONS ON THE TEA PARTY
Last week on the eve of the historic coup in the House, I posted DO NOT BREAK THE WINDOWS in response to some radical thought patterns being expressed out there on the right-wing blogosphere. I followed up urging calm & restraint.
True to form, all this past week the Mainstream Media has been repeating the story of racist and anti-homosexual catcalls & slurs yelled at Democrat Congressmen last Sunday, as they walked past crowds of Tea Partiers:
“Tea Party” protesters allegedly hurled racial slurs at Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat. Mr. Carson said that "hundreds of people" were chanting, "Kill the bill," and he heard "at least 15 times" the "n – word" being thrown around.
I have a problem with this misconduct - particularly since nobody can produce any proof that any of this ever took place. I’m not from Missouri but I say it anyhow: "SHOW ME."
The videos above and below were taken as Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson walked toward a crowd of protesters, and racial epithets from the crowd appear to be absent from the different scenes captured.
A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman said she was unaware of any law enforcement inquiry into the incidents.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, Missouri Democrat, who is black, claimed he was spat on by a protester. Mr. Cleaver's office reportedly said Capitol Police arrested the protester, but his office did not press charges. However, Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the U.S. Capitol Police said in an e-mail to the L.A. Times, "We did not make any arrests today."
This is a classic case of Goebbell’s Primary Law of Propaganda:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
SOMEBODY has been throwing bricks through windows this past week. I’m willing to bet when the dust settles we’ll find some kind of Liberal Dirty Tricks Squad has something to do with this. When Rahm Emanuel saw those idiotic blog postings calling for bricks to be thrown through windows, you know he thought right away: “WOAH – this one is right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook."
I can just see Ol' Dead Fish Emanuel sliding over to Bill Ayers and saying, "Hey Bill, how about getting some of Bernadine’s anarchist trolls to toss a few bricks?”
I often wonder what readers of my blog think of the relationship between conservative-Tea-Partier-pro-Sarah-Pahlin STORMBRINGER and moderate FrumForum? It’s about engagement; I don't always agree with David Frum but he represents votes - and the way to win elections by including people, not shutting them out.
American elections are won not by the solid block of registered party members on either side of the spectrum, but rather by the great big sector in the middle; Joe Six Pack is middle class, working class, often a union member or black who votes Republican but would never admit it in the light of day for fear of reprisal from their own kind.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan won a landslide on the Democratic vote. These were the same “Reagan Democrats” who gave us Republican victories throughout the eighties, nineties and up until 2006, when the endless stream of left wing propaganda that constantly spews out of the so-called ‘Mainstream Media’ finally turned the electorate.
The Democrats didn’t win in ’06 and ’08 because of any new ideas; they won because they successfully masked their identities and their agenda. The masks are off at last and the American people do not like what they see.
There WAS bipartisanship in the healthcare debacle, by the way; it was on the side of the people who were against it. 34 House Democrats who voted WITH the Republicans; AGAINST the healthcare monstrosity which passed by the squeakiest of margins and only AFTER a LOT of bribery and Chicago thug strongarm tactics.
Right now common wisdom is that a lot of Reagan Democrats are going to vote Republican in the Federal Elections this November and again in 2012, and the Democrats are going to experience their greatest upset since the Republicans took Congress in ’94. We’ve already seen the Chicago Way conducted right before our very eyes in Congress; you can bet your bottom dollar “Dead Fish” Emmanuel is going to be pulling some stunts that make the nude shower confrontation look like a visit from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This is THEIR idea of a class act:
This is ours:
Images from the HUGE Tea Party Rally at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown in Nevada, yesterday - 27 March 2010.
This IS class - The WORKING CLASS:
True to form, all this past week the Mainstream Media has been repeating the story of racist and anti-homosexual catcalls & slurs yelled at Democrat Congressmen last Sunday, as they walked past crowds of Tea Partiers:
“Tea Party” protesters allegedly hurled racial slurs at Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat. Mr. Carson said that "hundreds of people" were chanting, "Kill the bill," and he heard "at least 15 times" the "n – word" being thrown around.
I have a problem with this misconduct - particularly since nobody can produce any proof that any of this ever took place. I’m not from Missouri but I say it anyhow: "SHOW ME."
The videos above and below were taken as Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson walked toward a crowd of protesters, and racial epithets from the crowd appear to be absent from the different scenes captured.
A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman said she was unaware of any law enforcement inquiry into the incidents.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, Missouri Democrat, who is black, claimed he was spat on by a protester. Mr. Cleaver's office reportedly said Capitol Police arrested the protester, but his office did not press charges. However, Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the U.S. Capitol Police said in an e-mail to the L.A. Times, "We did not make any arrests today."
This is a classic case of Goebbell’s Primary Law of Propaganda:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
SOMEBODY has been throwing bricks through windows this past week. I’m willing to bet when the dust settles we’ll find some kind of Liberal Dirty Tricks Squad has something to do with this. When Rahm Emanuel saw those idiotic blog postings calling for bricks to be thrown through windows, you know he thought right away: “WOAH – this one is right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook."
I can just see Ol' Dead Fish Emanuel sliding over to Bill Ayers and saying, "Hey Bill, how about getting some of Bernadine’s anarchist trolls to toss a few bricks?”
I often wonder what readers of my blog think of the relationship between conservative-Tea-Partier-pro-Sarah-Pahlin STORMBRINGER and moderate FrumForum? It’s about engagement; I don't always agree with David Frum but he represents votes - and the way to win elections by including people, not shutting them out.
American elections are won not by the solid block of registered party members on either side of the spectrum, but rather by the great big sector in the middle; Joe Six Pack is middle class, working class, often a union member or black who votes Republican but would never admit it in the light of day for fear of reprisal from their own kind.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan won a landslide on the Democratic vote. These were the same “Reagan Democrats” who gave us Republican victories throughout the eighties, nineties and up until 2006, when the endless stream of left wing propaganda that constantly spews out of the so-called ‘Mainstream Media’ finally turned the electorate.
The Democrats didn’t win in ’06 and ’08 because of any new ideas; they won because they successfully masked their identities and their agenda. The masks are off at last and the American people do not like what they see.
There WAS bipartisanship in the healthcare debacle, by the way; it was on the side of the people who were against it. 34 House Democrats who voted WITH the Republicans; AGAINST the healthcare monstrosity which passed by the squeakiest of margins and only AFTER a LOT of bribery and Chicago thug strongarm tactics.
Right now common wisdom is that a lot of Reagan Democrats are going to vote Republican in the Federal Elections this November and again in 2012, and the Democrats are going to experience their greatest upset since the Republicans took Congress in ’94. We’ve already seen the Chicago Way conducted right before our very eyes in Congress; you can bet your bottom dollar “Dead Fish” Emmanuel is going to be pulling some stunts that make the nude shower confrontation look like a visit from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This is THEIR idea of a class act:
This is ours:
Images from the HUGE Tea Party Rally at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown in Nevada, yesterday - 27 March 2010.
This IS class - The WORKING CLASS:
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