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🎬📽️Nine years ago today, I was hiking through the woods with Josh Brolin at the Green River NC 😁 We hiked from the parking lot and deep pool up stream towards the narrows, along with the rest of the cast and crew of the movie we were working on. One of the days there I was able to hire some of the Boy Scouts from Troop 91 to help haul camera equipment and gear a mile up the trail to the filming location! Near the end of filming, I found myself at the Green River parking lot, splashing water in Josh's face in front of a green screen to simulate rafting on the river Lol. Coincidentally, the following video shows that exact area of the Green River, AND the location in Marshall NC, that we filmed. Those areas were forever changed on October 27th 2024. #Helene #WNC BTW, Josh Brolin is the most professional Actor I've ever had the pleasure to work with 👍 youtu.be/oJl1Mm-Lq0c?si…

@johnkonrad I wonder - Have all the men that were brave enough to say something been arrested? What's the average prison sentence over there for pointing out the obvious?

What I struggle with most is the suspension of the inevitable. For the first forty years of my life, if you told me millions of men had crossed the English Channel and raped 250,000 girls, I would have said war is inevitable. An alternative wouldn’t even be conceivable to me. The sky is blue. The sun is hot. Ice is cold. Water is wet. Night follows day. The rape of 250,000 English girls precedes war. And by war I mean death. The kind of death that came to most Japanese soldiers who took part in the Rape of Nanking. Maybe it wouldn’t end with a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, but it would burn hotter than the war that raged in Belfast when I was a kid. And I don’t understand how the inevitable got suspended. Many say cultural programming. But screenwriters still use rape to move a plot from tranquility to war. This isn’t a post about morality or politics. I want to know the mechanism. Whether or not you think war is the best response to the rape of five baseball stadiums full of girls, it would be the most likely outcome. So how did that change? How did we go, in the span of ten years, from the inevitability of war to the inevitability of the government doing nothing?

Holy cow 😳 Take a minute and think about this deeply. This statement is an eye opener for normal people trying to understand what & why this insanity has been pushed on our kids👇

@PolitlcsUK The title alone of this book covers what is going on here 👇 x.com/i/status/20673…

🚨 NEW: The man arrested on suspicion of throwing a 3-year-old boy into a crocodile enclosure at a Cambridgeshire zoo has been released on bail after being deemed "unfit" for interview

@dogwoodblooms Spent a lot of time up in our backyard Mimosa growing up. They grow really fast and if you prune/shape them once a year they can be an incredible shade/climbing/hammock tree. I've got one in a pot ready to go if anyone wants one 🌳

You’ve seen me rage about palm trees and rant about Bradford Pears. I’m a notorious invasive species hater - but even I have my guilty pleasures. Meet the mimosa. I know I should hate them. But I just can’t. Their Dr. Seuss like blooms make me smile and they bring back the best memories. I wrote about them on the blog this morning. The link is in the comments. After you read it, let me know: do you associate mimosas with home, too? If not, what invasive species do you hate to love? 🤔

@CityofAsheville BTW, that is The Whale Outpost on Beverly Rd in the background

Hey @CityofAsheville ! This tree limb is going to fall on to New Haw Creek Rd. If it weren't for the guy wire, it would already have come down. Is there a crew that can take it down before a 400 pound branch goes thru someone's windshield?

🇺🇸 Let's see those flags! Drop a photo of Old Glory in the comments and tell us where you're flying it from. From front porches and farms to boats and businesses, Americans across this great nation are proudly flying the Stars and Stripes. Let's fill this thread with flags from every corner of the country. God Bless America. 🇺🇸 (Venice, FL)

@Real_RobN @SamaritansPurse and @Mercury1Charity were here within a day or two. It was two weeks, with no power/water/internet, before these guys were allowed to show up and help. A couple of them apologized, wishing they had been allowed to come sooner💪🇺🇸 x.com/_SeeMonkeyDo_/…

This is: The United States Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller: “The reason why those Americans in North Carolina, those mothers, those fathers, those precious little children, were left to die begging their government for help that never came is because the Democrats turned FEMA into an illegal alien resettlement agency.” Meaning: The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left fathers to die in Maui. The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left mothers to die in East Palestine, Ohio. The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left children to die in North Carolina. BUT FEMA had an extra $1 BILLION to spend on illegals, including Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, and voter registration. And, as a bonus, they complain that Elon Musk is now a trillionaire.

Another one of my Scouts had his Eagle Ceremony this evening. I'm incredibly proud of the young man he has become. He has exceeded the standard of being an Eagle Scout🦅

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@ScottPresler They are not secure until we get the SAVE ACT and NO machines!

OH MY GOSH! I don’t know what to say. President Trump just called for the SAVE America Act to be attached to budget reconciliation 3.0. Reconciliation packages only require a simple majority in the Senate. This means that we could secure our elections with 51 votes.

Maybe someone smarter than me can answer. If the Save America Act had been passed months ago, like we all wanted, would it have made it harder for CA to cheat on this last round? If so, would it also have made it more difficult to track/investigate all the people involved? Did stalling encourage the cheaters to go all out before it does pass?

President Trump Announces MAJOR Move to Pass the SAVE America Act

@RanaePape We spent a week camping and exploring around Boulder WY. Spectacular! Especially Green River Lake. We spent a day to go to the Elk Preserve and made a brief stop in Hipster Hippy Hole. It was a cowboy version of Asheville NC. Lol

Jackson Hole What a stupid place. ‘I want to go to Jackson Hole to relax and be with nature’ 🙄 Everyone has to have all their amenities and all the shopping of over priced cowboy ‘wanna be’ hats and boots. This isn’t Wyoming. Said what I said. If you wanna snark at me I’ll block you…. Because this isn’t a real place.

@nicksortor Haven't there been some cases where the parents have been held partially responsible for the actions of their children? At the very least, have they not been inciting unlawful behavior? Imagine being raised in an environment of constant incitement.

Here’s the full video of Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother racehustling on the way out of the courthouse It’s almost 5 MINUTES LONG because she was DESPERATELY trying to get more cameras on her by creeping out of the parking lot She’s gotta keep that grift up. Even if that means overwhelming her escort deputies, who were having to deal with a mob that was increasing in size.

🚨 WATCH: Karmelo Anthony’s grandmother riles up the crowd by REPEATEDLY screaming “RACIST, BIASED, PREJUDICED” as she left the courthouse “They sent a MESSAGE that a white person can hit a black boy and get away with it! They can do whatever the F—K they want!” This entire family is disgusting. It’s pretty clear where Karmelo learned to behave the way he did.

@_joshpray One more - Most of the time, you can understand what a redneck says. Most of the time, you will have to get a redneck to accurately translate what the hillbilly said. 😆

Difference between and redneck and a hillbilly

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They don’t belong here. The truth has dropped ➡️ Aliens.Gov

@glennbeck Is there also a chart for pillaging?

One of these things is not like the others. Which one and why? If elmo weren’t part of the the left’s propaganda machine, i know he could solve it.

On the other point, there are quite a few of us that are Constitutionally Conservative and have a hard time with the "Republican" label. As long as the GOP keeps putting forward people like Tillis, IDK. I feel like there was an opening to create a new party and we missed it. But then, organizing conservatives is like herding cats. BTW, if you haven't already, you should check out @PeteKaliner He is pretty excellent :)

@_SeeMonkeyDo_ I agree!

Folks who have moved to North Carolina keep asking me for solid Republican political accounts to follow so they can learn & get involved. I recommend some… only to watch those same accounts slap these eager newcomers like their mama over chores. Y’all, we’re supposed to be BUILDING this community — Lately it feels like the opposite is happening way too much. #NCPolitics #NorthCarolina #GOP #ConservativeCommunity

@TerriNGB1 What is it that you like the most about the oak one? Is it a difference in design or weight?

@_SeeMonkeyDo_ I inherited three of them. My oak one is what I use the most but my blackthorn can really do some damage (if it is warranted)

This is a 98% 🇺🇸American Chestnut tree. The main trunk grew to about 12' before succumbing to the blight. It's just big enough to use for a wood working project. Any ideas?🤔

@MargoinWNC I'm not super well traveled but I've been around. The most racist place in the U.S. that I have been - Los Angeles CA No comparison. Not even close.

How odd. Mostly an Appalachia area is racist? FACT: The mountain region that strongly opposed secession or had major pro-Union populations: Eastern Tennessee Western North Carolina What became West Virginia Eastern Kentucky Parts of northern Alabama and north Georgia I guess you didn't learn that in your New York school, "Roberto". Sources you can research so you can learn something: Books: Divided Loyalties — Richard N. Current Classic overview of Unionism in the South, including Appalachian regions. The Kingdom of Jones — Victoria E. Bynum The Heart of Confederate Appalachia — John C. Inscoe (my favorite) Archival Sources: National Park Service Civil War resources Library of Congress Civil War collections University of North Carolina Civil War collections