America - the Right Way!! Keeping informed!

various news sources | January 1, 2012 | all of us

[lysie]

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” — Mark Twain

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” ― Patrick Henry

[lysie]

A very important new year. A new thread.

[lysie]

Post away!

[cripplecreek]

Thomas Jefferson letter to John Norvell (Michigan's first senator) on advice sought about publishing a newspaper.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, `by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

Entire letter

[Old Sarge]

Here's how I keep informed:

[Jemian]

Happy New Year!

I have to report that after a week of many family get-togethers, everything was very civil and we had open and honest discussions. PTL!

I am sad to report that in the future, I will be exercising my third ammendment rights to all unmarried personnel.

[EDINVA]

Better than 2nd, I guess (at least for relatives).

[JRandomFreeper]

Well, another year, and I'm still alive. Many, including me, are suprised. ;)

/johnny

[Jemian]

That is also considered. If they leave, that one won’t be applied.

[SnarlinCubBear]

3rd amendment rights? And they are?

[Jemian]

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

[Iowa Granny]

Happy New Year lysie!! Thanks for starting a new thread.

It’s really, REALLY windy out there tonight,, but the temps are in the mid 30’s,, and there’s no snow. So I shall not complain.

~~~wavin’~~~~ to all my ATRW friends.

[Citizen Soldier]

Happy New Year to y’all here and I pray we have a better year than last year, namely a change of administrations in November.

[prairiebreeze]

Happy New Year to all, thanks for the ping lysie.

May 2012 bring us all good health, prosperity and happiness.

And may Barack Hussein Obama be relegated to his rightful place in the ash bin of history.

[jtill]

I received this from a friend and thought you might get a chuckle out of it:

To my liberal, Politically Correct friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, & any other synchronous holidays practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make this country great. Not to imply that this country is necessarily greater than any other country anywhere in the world.

Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee(s).

To my Conservative Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

—
eschew obfuscation,
espouse elucidation

[JRandomFreeper]

Becoming a pest, is he? Time to untie the apron strings and use them for whips?

First time I read the third amendment, my heart stopped briefly after the 2nd comma.

Not that I mind sleeping outside.. but I can authorize sleeping in the house, if it's my house. ;)

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I remember that. That's about the time we started making fun of liberals and PC. Lord, it took us a long time to drive PC into joke land.

But it is, now, mostly, around here.

I was going through some papers, and found some menus that ATRW folks had sent me.

I want to say thanks again to all those folks.

[Jemian]

Became a pest. One wore out his welcome within 2 hours, the other waited 24 hours before his obnoxious qualities were known. They’re gone now. They will not be back.

[JRandomFreeper]

No snow is good in my book. I don't like the slip/fall part ;)

No commercial pig this year. I've been strongly encouraged to cull some of the ferals here in Texas.

I don't think I'm going to bootleg any of them here (alive and fed up on corn) this year. The city is getting pissy about fines.

And bootlegging Miss Piggy was too stressful.

I do hope all is well with you and your crowd. I know ya'll had some weather a while back, and I know you are locally politically active.

I miss your Iowa caucaus reports.

/johnny

[Jemian]

I reread it.

Butchering is done out back near the smokehouse.

[JRandomFreeper]

"Single men in barricks (SIC) don't grow into plaster saints", Kipling.

Give 'em time on their own, and they'll shape up.

I assume you are talking about your own brood.

I don't know if you are in CONUS or in the field.

/johnny