Patrick Payne

Which way Western Man?

New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley

This country rules. I’ve seen quite a bit of it.

@AZ_RE_Digest Because it’s much more than an action novel (although there’s plenty of that). It weaves in theology and philosophy while touching on topics like loss, loyalty, regret, life after death, and man’s relationship with the animal kingdom and the natural world.

@kpatrickpayne I always love a new book. Without spoilers, why is it one of your all-time favorite novels?

One of my all-time favorite novels

@tavi_chocochip @TechWorldInnov8 @elonmusk @PolitlcsUK You could definitely do a better job right now of not posting stupid nonsense

@TechWorldInnov8 @elonmusk @PolitlcsUK They could’ve definitely done a better job, and it’s upsetting to see them take so long to realise something’s seriously wrong with that kid. But I don’t see “racism” in their action, just them trusting too much what they’ve been told by that evil family.

🚨 BREAKING: Bodycam footage of the arrest of Henry Nowak, who had been stabbed moments prior by Vickrum Digwa

@goldengoatguild Embarrassing really

@kpatrickpayne Absolute piece of shit backyard forge trash knife too.

Anarcho tyranny: laws for you and lawlessness for your enemies

@chef4funlisa @HenryEyring Hahaha

@HenryEyring Is that a child with a gun??? Or the other one holding a venomous snake???

rattlesnake slayers out protecting the family

The “don’t harm the venomous viper lurking in proximity of your most vulnerable assets” responses to this post are a near perfect encapsulation of the inverted morality, colored by either inexperience with or indifference towards dangerous things, that exists out there.

@BeuwenDragon @pantry_bandit @MossbergCorp Can you find a single recorded case of a homeowner running a shotgun dry in a home invasion?

@pantry_bandit @MossbergCorp How about a Tenth Burglar invading your home after you’ve shot the 9th? How about any damned reason you cannot conjure at the moment until it comes?

Is a side saddle a must on a home defense shotgun?

@ZaxxonGalaxian @RachelVT42 Yeah it’s almost like different places have different cool things about them

@RachelVT42 No one doubts the US has more natural diversity, just it’s also clear that European cities are more interesting than American ones.

Unpopular opinion, apparently: As a European who has been to all the states in green in this map, I can say that the natural diversity in the US is much higher than in Europe.

@Sagebrush_Inst I've seen him wear this hat

Braxton loves spring for one reason and one reason only…

Well I know who I'm cheering for

@JesperSode To whom? I just went to the doctor the other day and got X-rays and an injection and it cost me $20.

@kpatrickpayne Yes it does.

There are two types of people in the world: problem solvers and complainers. All of the former left Europe for America centuries ago.

@actionxander @DrHassdenteufel TBF the meme I posted insinuated you were *almost* an environmentalist 😂

@DrHassdenteufel @kpatrickpayne Funny enough I've only ever been called an "environmentalist" thrice and each time was on X by guys on our side 😂

“He just wants to be left alone… pretty cool snake.”

@actionxander @DrHassdenteufel Glad you had a good sense of humor about this. I enjoy what you post.

@DrHassdenteufel @kpatrickpayne Elite use of this meme

Patriots 🇺🇸

@braxton_mccoy Maybe you should ask your neighbor how to build a proper fence

Another one of those mornings where I hear "Braxton, a horse is loose" before I have coffee. Might still be winter because I swear it starts snowing every time this particular horse gets out. Like a damn Punxsutawney Phil of the mountains.

@bmitori @hoplopfheil @MischiefMach So is it a race gun or a carry gun? Because a metal framed Glock is trying to be both and succeeding at neither.

@kpatrickpayne @hoplopfheil @MischiefMach Inexplicable reason? Heavier guns are softer recoiling.

It turns out people have strong opinions about the Ruger RXM