JForte

"In The Old Virginia Gentleman (1877), the apologist George Bagby decreed that the way of life that in his era was defined by the term Old Virginia had ended with the death of Robert E. Lee in 1870. When Lee, 'the last Virginia gentleman was laid to sleep,' Bagby wrote, 'the heroic age of Virginia ended.' What could not have been predicted was that Lee's death ironically spurred the consolidation and ultimate rise of Old Virginia as an imaginative construct. To some postbellum southerners, the immediate, incredibly painful past was quietly remembered; in Virginia it was glorified. The many catastrophic episodes of the Civil War that were fought on the soil of the Old Dominion demanded remembrance, and the attempted restructuring of the society by outsiders demanded resistance. The old ways were thus kept in the minds and hearts of postwar Virginians. Their loyalty to their fallen brethren, and their pride in their own survival, built an imaginative Elysium from the ashes of the Confederacy. "No generation of Americans experienced more societal upheavals than did the Virginians of the Civil War era. The war had ended in defeat, emancipation had reconfigured their social order, and reconstruction had set in motion a democratic movement that bred Readjusters and Populists who threatened to change forever what had been America's most aristocratic society." -Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal by William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton

This is what we are really like

My favorite part of the VA discussion tonight is that not even five months ago I watched one of my Marines rapidly develop and get destroyed by rectal cancer that was linked to swimming in burn pits. He was one of several guys from that deployment that died that way almost twenty years later. Me and the boys are all pretty much waiting our turn at this stage. We had a company Gunnery Sergeant that was an absolute piece of shit on my first deployment. His hobbies included eating all of the Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, and finding menial and pointless tasks for the Marines to do when they could instead be sleeping. One of his favorite ways to pass the time was to sit on the hood of his gator inside of FOB Omar while the React Marines police called the burn pit looking for “non-burnables.” You see, the cool thing about a burn pit is that after a while they just stay on fire, like pretty much forever. They get real soupy in the less hot parts, and you can walk on top of the plastic soup. Sometimes, lazy Marines will throw pen flares, lithium batteries, SAW drums full of 5.56, and other random fun things in there instead of disposing of them properly. It was easier to toss the shit than it was to deal with Gunny interrogating you on why you needed to get rid of a dead battery. Most of the time, those things just pop on their own anyways. It’s no big deal, since it’s all just trash and it’s usually sequestered away from sleeping areas. For Gunny Diaz though, this was unsightly. You could see the “non-burnables” in the burn pit. What if the Battalion Commander, or someone from higher up the chain of command were on the OP when one of those things popped, or worse, what if they saw a radio battery!? Well, that would bring Gunny Diaz’s reputation as a Company Gunnery Sergeant into question. Can’t have that. His solution was pretty simple. Take the Marines from react, whenever they weren’t busy escorting Iraqis into the OP to get free money from “Captain Tom,” and have them wade into the burn pit to pick out the non-burnables. Easy. Gunny got a Navy Commendation Medal. We all get to have cancer twenty years later. Fuck you Gunny Diaz. You were and always will be a useless fat piece of shit, undeserving of the 0369 MOS and title of Company Guns. It wasn’t a very kinetic deployment. It wasn’t just us infantrymen that got to swim in the burning plastics. The cooks got a turn. The comm guys got a turn. The mechanics got a turn. Everyone got a bit of cancer swimming in. Great fun for everyone. Kevin died in November. He left behind a family who was entirely abandoned by the VA once he passed. They haven’t received any of the help his widow was promised. But yeah, financial Jerry Springer really do be doing the hard hitting investigative journalism on the massive VA fraud numbers.

Find a wife that looks at you like you’re Elvis Presley

"The Professor from Virginia" by Mort Künstler

one of the most essential things any man can do is to make himself so unpleasant to fuck with that when he's on his deathbed, his enemies will still wait until he's been cold for a few hours before they start up again

Mytho Ohio

The Phantom Menace was ahead of its time.

Along with Connery and Burt. This one hits hard.

The great Tom Woods has been nothing but kind to be despite my relentless abuse of libertarians (yes they deserve it) Anyone impugning his character is only issuing a confession

@AuronMacintyre Tom is one of our guys and if you are too stupid to see that then I'm sorry

Legend

Is that all you got?

This maniac erected a crudely-built fence made of wooden palleta, supported by whatever random pieces of junk he could find to stick in the ground and nail to trees. I also think it’s like, 7’-10’ over onto his neighbor’s property. Insane.

He saved that????

gonna kms

Today's youth cannot comprehend this

@runawaycyborg @nc_reformed I've had chitlins but I much prefer cracklins

@nc_reformed Is the fat Elvis a peanut butter and bacon sandwich or mayonnaise and banana sandwich or both?

Livermush is very good.