SEVEN SAINT PADDYs DAY THINGS

1. Leap Year Proposals
According to legend, St. Bridget complained that women were tired of waiting for marriage proposals, so she took matters into her own hands by proposing to St. Patrick on February 29th.



2. Luckiest Day to Get Married
St. Patrick's Day is considered the luckiest day of the year to get married, unless it falls on a Saturday. The Irish proverb goes: "Marry on Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, Saturday for no luck at all."

3. Babies Named Patrick
About 650,000 American newborn babies have been named Patrick over the past 100 years.



4. Guinness
On any given day, 5.5 million pints of Guinness are consumed worldwide. On St. Patrick's Day, that number more than doubles to 13 million.


5. "Kiss me, I'm Irish!"
The Blarney Stone is reportedly kissed by up to 400,000 people a year.


6. Send It In A Letter
Hallmark sells anywhere from 8-15 million St. Patrick's Day-themed cards each year.



7. Seven Places
There are seven places in the United States named Shamrock, the floral emblem of Ireland.





"Happy Saint Paddy's Day!"

- STORMBRINGER SENDS

IRISH HERITAGE

This is a reprint from three years ago - today is all things Irish - S.L.

Possible source of inspiration for those mysterious animals of the Book of Kells:






That dog was my daughter's dog Bella whom we lost in the summer of 2010 - S.L.

SOUL ON SOUL

Carson: Obama Trying to Destroy the Country - NRO

Neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carter bitch-slappped Obama & his cabal at the National Prayer Breakfast. Now he bitch-slaps all those who would have him behave a certain way because of the color of his skin:



“Let’s say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.”

- Dr. Ben Carson's remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Read the rest of it HERE


Keep an eye on this soul brother! Disseminate far and wide!

- STORMBRINGER SENDS

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

Riots in Brooklyn After Police fatally Shoot Teenager



Kimani Gray, 16, died over the weekend. His death triggered protests in Flatbush, a community in Brooklyn where distrust of the police runs deep.

According to police, plainclothes officers were on patrol in their car in Flatbush when they saw a group of men gathered on the street at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

As the officers got closer, Kimani Gray broke from the group and adjusted his waistband. The teen “continued to act in a suspicious manner,” so the officers got out of their unmarked car and tried to get his attention, said a NYPD statement.

Kimani Gray then “turned on them,” it said, and pointed a .38-caliber revolver at the officers. They fired at the teenager, striking him.

The teen died at a hospital, and a loaded .38 was recovered from the scene, the statement said.


Meanwhile, elsewhere in the country:

Virginia Trooper Shot, Killed; Suspect Charged


A Virginia State Police trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Thursday.

Master Trooper Junius A. Walker, 60, was shot multiple times, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Walker, who was patrolling alone, called for backup after being fired upon just before 1:30 p.m. ET.



A second trooper arrived within two minutes and saw a male suspect firing into Walker's marked police vehicle, which was down an embankment off the southbound lanes of Interstate 85, Geller said.

Walker, a 40-year State Trooper veteran, is survived by his wife and two daughters.

“Virginia has lost a brave public servant and hero,” Virginia Governor McDonnell said.

No riots have been reported.



I was just informed that Trooper Walker was conducting his last patrol; he'd submitted his retirement papers the day before. He died in the Line of Duty . . . now he is in Valhalla. Honor him - S.L.

REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY

By now, I'm sure you've probably seen/heard of the technology. This 20 minute conversation, however, is replete with pearls of wisdom, and is worth watching the first 15 minutes for it's own sake . . . S.L.

Breaking Gamechanger: Printable Gun Magazines



What just a few months ago was dismissed as a pipe dream or wishful thinking has today become a reality that will no doubt take the gun control debate, not just nationally but worldwide, to a whole new level.

Infowars.com has been reporting on this 3D printing innovator's amazing work over the last few months. As Infowars breaks this story online, we wonder if the dinosaur press will realize the incredible significance of this -- this technological development will circumvent unconstitutional magazine bans and could end the huge shortages we're seeing. The future is now.

In November's issue of Infowars Magazine, we wrote about Defense Distributed, a non-profit thinktank experimenting with the revolutionary technology of desktop 3D printing.

Defense Distributed's goal is to provide a website that anyone in the world could visit to download the files needed to literally print out a working firearm, aptly dubbed a "wiki weapon," using a 3D printer, a technology that's already available to the average citizen and is also becoming increasingly affordable.

Read it HERE

HOW TO USE AN ANALOG WATCH AS A COMPASS

I mentioned to somebody today that the reason I wear a Rolex is because I can use it as a compass. This information amazed the person I was talking to, which in turn amazed me. I thought everybody knew how to do this . . . S.L.


Step 1: Determine if you are in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.




Step 2: In the Northern Hemisphere:

1. Hold the watch horizontal.




2. Point the hour hand in the direction of the sun.




3. Bisect the angle between the hour hand and the twelve o'clock mark to get the north-south line (substitute 1 o'clock mark during Daylight Saving Time). North will be the direction further from the sun.




Step 3: In the Southern Hemisphere:

1. Hold the watch horizontal.




2. Point twelve o'clock in the direction of the sun.




3. Bisect the angle between the hour hand and the twelve o'clock mark to get the north-south line.




4.North will be the direction closer to the sun, south the other way.





Using a watch as a compass is the Green Beret way . . . but something else I learned in my travels was how to tell time WITHOUT a watch - this is the advanced technique:




- STORMBRINGER SENDS

WHERE DO I STAND?

When they kick down your front door,
how you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun?


The Clash - Guns of Brixton

A Reader writes:

I saw your post about the MRAPs and so forth. I chose not to comment on the blog, but I am asking you, where do you stand? It is getting harder to obey orders when those issuing them are so far from the laws and moral values of our forefathers. The Nuremburg Defense ain’t gonna cut it. Pretty soon we all gonna be drawing a line.


More and more people are asking me this question so I guess I'm going to have to do a post on it one of these days.

There seems to be a lot of despair out there these days. The Left with their pie-in-the-sky 'share the wealth and make everything equal' schemes are trampling all over our individual freedoms. There is a lot of talk of States secceeding from the Union, resistance, etc.

My bottom line is this: as bad as things may be or may get, things will only get ten million times worse if we descend into civil war. We do not want this. We must remain within the rule of law and our political system; which - flawed as it may be - is ten million times better than any other system out there.

I am a law-abiding, tax paying, land owning citizen and I intend to remain so. That snake flag over there is an American flag. It is not a flag of Rebellion.

"But StormBringer! But StormBringer! What about the gun grab? What about: 'If Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns'?"

Well, as far as that goes I do not wish to become an outlaw, but I will not bow to tyranny. If our freedoms are usurped by the Liberals and their good intentions; well, I will be a LOT more effective working it from the inside than I would ever be making active resistance. If the day ever comes where I'm toting a rifle and leading raids and ambushes, that would be an absolute waste of my capabilities and I would be effing up by the numbers.

Consider: Schindler was a million times more effective at saving lives and mitigating Nazi crimes against humanity by wearing a Party lapel badge and working within the system, than he would have had he died in the streetfighting against the stormtrooper brownshirts.

I took an oath to uphold & defend the Constitution against all enemies - but I am not an "oath-keeper" nutjob. It is the job of the Supreme Court to determine legitimacy of government rules, actions, regulations, and orders; not the mob.

Regarding the current themes and efforts toward gun control, registration, etc - here's the STORMBRINGER party line: how about some enforced voter registration and voter identification FIRST - both allowable under the Constitution - before we start hacking away at the 2d Amendment?

Anyway lets be real, people. This is the United States of America - not the UK or Australia - and there is no way on God's Green Earth the American People are going to allow themselves to be disarmed. The Limey's and my Aussie bretheren were satisfied to drop trou, bend over and grab the ankles, spread their cheeks and let the Big Bad Government Bogeyman shove it to them right up the poop chute, but I got a feeling it ain't gonna be that easy here in the good ol' U S of A. I mean, they tried to outlaw alcohol and all that achieved was a nation of alcoholics, and they've been waging the war on drugs for over half a century now and all they got for it is a nation of drug addicts.

Go ahead and outlaw guns and see where it gets you. The American people are very resourceful. Me? I'm an opportunitist, a mercenary, and a laissez-faire capitalist. If they outlaw guns, I'll probably become a millionaire.

Well I guess I just wrote my post.


"That's my story and I'm sticking to it!"

- STORMBRINGER SENDS