When I heard this I was impressed and moved.
For a lot of us, joining the SEALs was something like joining the French Foreign Legion: the expression of a thirst for adventure. As Dave Scott said, “I get to shoot guns and jump out of planes … and get
paid for it?” For me, it was more the allure of being part of such an elite group. My teen years hadn’t been easy, and I needed to prove to myself that I could do something of real worth. My decision to become a SEAL had not been driven by an especially strong sense of patriotism or, to be brutally truthful, even by the impulse to serve. For me, the SEALs offered the chance to be part of something great, something special, to reach a level of achievement that put me among the best of the best. And as aspirational as that was, I also had to admit it was all about
by Paul Haeder / January 10th, 2021
The number of gun sales in Oregon by Christmas Day, 2020, was a whopping 4,000,000. The year before, an anemic 300,000.
It is the law of the gun. Guns in jets, guns in bombers, guns in schools, guns here on the streets, in Salem, at the Capital, guns in
Grand Theft Auto V, guns in purses, guns in boudoirs, guns in locker-rooms, guns in nurseries, guns in churches, guns in cars, guns in drones, guns guns guns.
Dalton Trumbo, quote from
Johnny Got His Gun :
An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already)….
Community members buy BBQ take-out to support DANA Adobe & Cultural Center in Nipomo
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Community members are helping raise funds for a historical site and the oldest home in San Luis Obispo County.
The Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos (DANA Adobe) and Cultural Center hosted a drive-thru barbecue fundraiser at Cool Hand Luke s in Santa Maria as way for community members to support the historical site.
The non-profit has had to close its office due to California s extended stay-at-order orders, but the surrounding trails and gift shop remain open to the public.
The non-profit was established in 1999 with a focus on saving the crumbling adobe and getting national recognition.
Inside The World s Toughest Prisons: The Truth About Brandvlei Correctional Centre
In terms of prison stories, there s
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), starring Paul Muni, and
Cool Hand Luke (1967), with Paul Newman (now streaming on Netflix), and the ever-referenced
The
Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King short story, with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman sharing the screen. And, of course, the seven seasons of
Orange is the New Black on Netflix. While
Fugitive and
Orange are based more or less on true stories, the other two are fiction, though no less powerful in their parables about unconquered human spirit. And speaking of prison stories and Netflix, the fifth season of
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 angry Trump patriots stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. to protest a corrupted Presidential Election. These patriots were angry and frustrated that elected officials across the nation shirked their responsibilities and permitted the Democrats to steal an election from Donald Trump. Violence ensued and one young lady was shot and subsequently died, apparently at the hands of the Capitol police. While that poor woman was bleeding out on the polished marble floor, Senators and Congressmen were whisked away to the safety of a basement bunker.
Immediately, everyone clutched their pearls and blamed Trump and his supporters but the resentment and anger that erupted at the Capitol has been simmering for four years since Trump was elected. Apparently, no one was listening to the angry men and women in this country, continuously outraged by the shameful way the media and Democrats treated our beloved President. 74 million Americans love Trump an