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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…

@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

@EchoesofWarYT But, but, but . . . . I've been lectured that the war was clearly about states' rights and slavery had little to do with it 🙃

The American Civil War did not start at Fort Sumter. It started in the dark, on May 24, 1856, on a creek bank in Kansas, when a 56-year-old failed businessman named John Brown knocked on five cabin doors and hacked the men inside to death with broadswords in front of their wives and children. This is not a metaphor. This is what actually happened. Kansas in 1856 was not a state. It was a territory, and the question of whether it would enter the Union as a slave state or a free state had been left, under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to a popular vote. The result was that thousands of pro-slavery Missourians and anti-slavery New Englanders had poured into Kansas with one goal each: outnumber the other side and seize control of the future. Both sides came armed. They called it "Bleeding Kansas" because it bled. Three days before the massacre, on May 21, a pro-slavery mob of several hundred men had ridden into the free-state town of Lawrence. They burned the Free State Hotel. They destroyed two abolitionist newspapers. They looted homes. The next day, in Washington, a pro-slavery congressman named Preston Brooks walked onto the Senate floor and beat the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner nearly to death with a cane. John Brown heard about both events on the same day. Something in him snapped. He was already a religious extremist, a Calvinist who believed slavery was an offense against God that could only be answered with blood. He had moved to Kansas to fight. He had five of his sons with him. On the night of May 24, he gathered them, along with two other free-staters, and rode out toward a settlement of pro-slavery families along Pottawatomie Creek. None of the five men they killed that night owned slaves. None of them had participated in the sack of Lawrence. They were chosen because they were pro-slavery in their political sympathies and because they were home. The Browns dragged James Doyle and two of his sons out of their cabin. Doyle's wife, Mahala, begged for the life of her youngest son, who was 14. Brown let that one live. The other three were killed in the road with broadswords, then shot in the head. Allen Wilkinson was pulled out of bed in front of his sick wife and butchered in the yard. William Sherman was hauled out of a third cabin and killed by the creek. His body was found the next morning, partially submerged, with his skull split open and his left hand severed. John Brown was never arrested for it. Kansas was too chaotic. Witnesses were terrified. The free-state press buried the story. The pro-slavery press exploded. What happened on Pottawatomie Creek did not start the Civil War in any direct, single-cause sense. But it did something more important. It ended the idea that the slavery question could be solved by argument, by votes, by the kind of slow congressional compromise that had held the Union together for 70 years. It introduced, into the American political imagination, the idea that the only language left was killing. Three years later, John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was captured by a young Army colonel named Robert E. Lee, and was hanged in Virginia. On the morning of his execution he handed a note to his guard. It read: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." Eighteen months later, the country he had been warning about arrived. Was he a terrorist? Was he a prophet? Was he a murderer? Was he a saint? Americans have been arguing about that for 170 years, and we will be arguing about it long after we are dead.

@TerriNGB1 @disclosetv Wow. I hope someone recorded his stories. Sometimes you just don't know what a fella has been through until you get them one on one and ask the right questions!

@_SeeMonkeyDo_ @disclosetv It's difficult to find those records due to the fire (St Louis?) that destroyed thousands of service records. I had a dear friend who flew the Consolidated B-24 in WWII. He was shot down 5 times and was one of the Army Air Corps rescued in the Halyard Mission!

NEW - ABC News crew: "We have no idea what it is."

@TerriNGB1 I was thinking of a "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!" kind of staff might be nice but a shillelagh might be more practical Lol

@_SeeMonkeyDo_ That might make a nice shillelagh!