02-14-2020, 01:26 AM
I found out that most of the Philistines (thanks for that, Ed.) chatter is on the Watauga county end of the main (ha ha) road. I don't care if they mess that end up. Simply by being in Caldwell county which, is deep dark red, is pretty good protection. Watauga county is like the northern Virginia of the mountains, they got the University and all the crap that goes with that. There is a lot of animosity between the town of Boone radical freaks and the free inhabitants of the unincorporated parts of the county who have a thin majority on the county commission, meaning they have a Democrat on it. It's really upside down, it used to be that the Democrats were the conservatives and Republicans really didn't exist. I used to know some Democrats but, they died off. Those of us with a historical perspective are unaffiliated because we remember what Republicans started 150 years ago and can explain things like States rights, the electoral college and why the 14th and 17th amendments are abominations. All the talkers of county secession and 2a sanctuaries don't have a clue. I get irritated by the Hillsdale College graduate youtubers and the Hannity, Beck Limbaugh clones. I agree with them partially but their version of American history is wrong and it creates problems. The defrocked Socialist Baptist preacher who came up with the pledge of allegiance has a lot to answer for. Crap! I'm crossing my fb activity with RF activity. On fb I push my fellow Southerners to abandon the false teachings of 1 nation under God, shining city on a hill, American exceptionalism that they are heavily invested in to their detriment. I don't think God has ever had any use for the USA or that He ever will. A few individual Americans sure but not the Union or it's Imperial foreign policy. On the other hand, I am fully convicted that He wants me to push religious liberty, decentralization and smaller self governing Independent units as the future for America??? I don't get it but, when I walk up the mountain to pray that's where we wind up. Every single time. Why? I don't really care nor do I need to know, I am just a simple preserver of tradition mixed with the new old approach of what we do here soooooo....there must be a link. Many Christians want to believe that God has a big thing planned for them but, I think preserving what I have received and passing it on for some future generation to use is more important than scanning for signs of the second coming. It's certainly more practical. And speaking of practical,at some point, in the next few weeks I will be buying a new 1911 pistol in .45 acp. If you've ever fired one, you'll know that they are LOUD. My current one is an antique and I want one I can shoot. Most of the time, I'm a 22lr man because they are quiet and cheap and I don't want to bother people 5 miles away. I want to see how the Philistines react on that stupid app. I've been present when the county law come out on a complaint of excessive and I stress excessive gunfire twice. The first time was over concern about a bunch of drunks trying to shoot down a tree, blush, and once because we were bump firing an AR 15 a fun waste of ammo that banning bump stocks has 0 effect on because bump firing is a technique and easily done without a bump stock. The 1st "hey, guys y'all can't be drinking and shooting your making old Miss Magillicuddy nervous"...we quit. The second time was similar old person thought we had a machine gun, we quit no consequences. Most of the little old ladies I've known toted a pistol, in fact one time I had forgot my key and knocked on the front door of the boarding house, 90 year old Miss Yates poked a 38 special through the blinds at me "It's okay miss Yates it's Iain"..." I'm sorry, come on in" A pistol pointing a pistol. I liked her, she walked around in a house coat permanently weighed down on one side by her late husband's trusty S&W. She was half blind but, could strip that thing in 5 seconds. "My Daddy taught us girls to shoot, I can still drive a nail with this thing" I believed her.