Followed by all the best robots/Livin’ on the wrong side of history/cognitive dissident/theo-not-neo. And that is a picture of Auden, I look nothing like that.
Our family arrived in Montana in the earlier days of COVID in June 2020. We had ditched California the year before due to cultural and political incompatibility and were traveling the world as a family the long way around (we made it from California to the Sahara desert without once getting on an airplane) until the restrictions made it impossible to travel any more.
We had known before we left the USA that we were moving somewhere in the Northern Rockies when we got back to America but didn't decide on Montana until we arrived back in the States.
A few days after we arrived in Montana was Independence Day. While we looked for a new home, the seven of us were temporarily living in a three bedroom one bath basement apartment, which was the only lodging I could find in town on almost no notice.
We saw that despite COVID, a rodeo was still going on as scheduled in Ennis, Montana (population 950 or so) a bit more than an hour from where we were living, and as our whole family enjoyed the rodeo, we decided to check it out-- not sure of whatever circumstance it would be going on in.
When we arrived, the place was packed, and COVID restrictions were nowhere to be seen. It was (and is) a local rodeo from the Northern Rodeo Association-- drawing cowboys from throughout Montana but mostly in the immediate area.
It was patriotic, exciting (as rodeo always is) and heavily geared towards the locals. It was filled with people who celebrated our freedoms as Americans, including the freedom not to live in fear and have a virus dictate the course of our lives.
It was a magical return to the world of normal after facing months of restrictions in America and abroad.
And ever since then, our family has headed out to Ennis every year on July 4th for the rodeo to remind us of our birthright as Americans. On our long drive home we pass miles of open ranch land and rivers before cresting a hill that overlooks the beautiful Gallatin Valley where residents welcome us home with a fireworks show being put on one house at a time.
Happy 250th America.
We're so blessed to live in Montana, a place that values our culture and our freedoms.
Lost this little guy. We're gutted.
That said, losses aren't a sign to give up; they're expected. Among those we've faced and seen friends endure, this is trivial.
Wish people posted about them more (not sympathy baiting, just fact sharing). Reality shouldn't be sugarcoated.
@jeffreytucker@USCCB Jeffrey can you be specific? Are they paid for an impramatur or nihil obstat? Do they charge a premium for an “official” bible? I’m not arguing and frankly consider the USCCB to be a criminal conspiracy. I just want to understand the issue.
Most humans in most places lived in the dirt.
Socialism *is* the natural state of man. Pull down the able and distribute their resources until there's nothing left.
Some rare civilizations have rose above. Unfortunately, it requires constant vigilance not to return to dirt.
American men were feeling a bit too much sympathy for Saxon women this week, so this video had to be released as a necessary counter-balance.
Are you prepared for a good old-fashioned English scolding for your HVAC unit, fellas?
CAPTAIN JAMES FANELL: The CCP unleashed a bioweapon that killed Americans, then used the WHO to export its model of social control, shutting down churches and separating families from dying loved ones.
The next time President Trump meets Xi Jinping, he should put the bill for those damages on Xi's desk.
The NYT is having trouble reconciling that the things people like most about America aren't always the things coastal elites value.
I'm sorry but if you think Buc-ee's and Bass Pro Shops are anything but a modern marvel, you're way out of touch.