Garrison Hardke

Agricultural Enthusiast | Razorback Homer | Political Contrarian | Amateur Chef & Bartender

[RiceTec US @RiceTec_US]

Thursday night lights! District Manager Derrol Grymes and crew planting a RiceTec yield trial near Garwood, TX #ricetec #rice #riceresearch #texasrice #planting #plant24 #ricefarming

[RiceTec US @RiceTec_US]

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[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

@ClayTravis Not the most overhyped, but they’re up there with some Tennessee teams.

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

* Using American weapons left behind in Afghanistan

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

House Foreign Affairs chair warns Taliban wants to join fight against Israel | Just The News https://t.co/OHC57LQkeb

[Ethan Smidt @EthanSmidt32]

Saw this and just had to laugh 🤣🤣 #harvest23

[RiceTec US @RiceTec_US]

Big thanks to RiceTec customer and friend Nathan Pribble, for allowing us to get some great harvest footage on his farm! #ricetec #fullpage #ricefield #ricefarming #ricefarmer #eatrice #rice

[RiceTec US @RiceTec_US]

Thanks to our great friends and customers at Riverside Farms in Parkin, AR for allowing us to capture some great harvest footage! #ricetec #ricefarming #rice #ricefields #harvest #eatrice #xp753

[Tyler Hydrick @TylerHydrick]

Good luck finding the stalks in this row rice. It’s nothing but heads! @rsullivan12 got it right this year 😳

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

@3YearLetterman Coach jumped the shark with this one. Wondering if you ever lettered at all.

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

Post on Twitter that the crop is burning up.

[Cale Carlson @LEAADFarms]

What do farmers do all summer without irrigation?

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

Folks can expect more 👎from me in the future

[Clint Fischer @clintwfischer]

Canadian farmer just lost a contract dispute in court.

--> Owes $82,000 to grain buyer

For failing to deliver 86 metric tons of flax. (~3,100 bu)

The twist?

He responded to a text message picture of the contract with a 👍

Court said the thumbs-up emoji was as good as a signature.

Farmer said the 👍 just meant he received the picture, not that he agreed with the terms of the contract.

Court didn't buy it.

The price of flax went from $17/bu to $41/bu when he was supposed to deliver them.

Agree with the ruling or not, it's a wild example of confirming every verbal agreement in writing.

And now, an emoji can be seen as confirmation.

Article: https://t.co/Fig65Px6AQ

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher famously once said, “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characteristic, but America was created by exiles united in voluntary assent to shared political beliefs. That’s why British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time and remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church,” not because of its religiosity, but because of a common creed enshrined in “sacred texts” of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

In 1776, a near-miraculous stew of ideas and leaders came together to form a Declaration of Independence, and 11 years later an equally miraculous gathering formed the Constitution, both centered on a belief in universal human dignity.

Government does not grant you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest, or redress of grievances. We believe that these rights are inalienable and government’s role is simply to protect those rights and ensure human dignity. Government is just a tool, not a source. That’s really a remarkably profound idea we take for granted and fail to celebrate enough.

Of course, the sad irony is that the very Founders who argued these ideas so frequently fell short of those same principles. Some owned slaves, and nearly all opposed equal rights for women. So it naturally caused upheaval when nineteenth century Americans increasingly adopted a view held that “All men are created equal,” including black Americans, and a few generations later it came to encompass women as well.

Abraham Lincoln believed that the Declaration of Independence did not necessarily proclaim people equal in all respects. Instead, it meant that all people were created with certain equal, inalienable rights—they are ours by right of simply being human—among which are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A free society should always strive to achieve these equal rights, even if, as in the case of the Founders, it fell short of that goal in the past. The Declaration’s concept of equality is an aspiration, Lincoln said, “constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere.”

That is the genius of Lincoln’s argument: that the Constitution is concrete (at least until amended), but the Declaration of Independence is aspirational, and the American project is a move toward the aspiration.

Despite its roots in American independence, the 4th of July is incomplete without understanding and celebrating Lincoln too. His unique view of the Declaration as an aspirational goal helped properly frame American independence for what it was and what it was bound to be.

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

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[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

@TylerHydrick @rsullivan12 @RiceArkansas @RiceFarming @RiceTec @JHardke @usaricenews What a difference the right rain makes!

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

@t_tom92013218 @Micajahmc @ArFB I’ll sponsor MissCo Fight Night if you’re headlining!

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

Sweet Jesus! After the billions we’ve spent controlling the cocklebur, they’re going to want us to grow it.

https://t.co/Ge1aj44MDk

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

Weeeelllll… you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow!

[Jenna Ellis 🐊 @realJennaEllis]

Caption this

[Garrison Hardke @GHardke]

La Huerta Razorback Stadium

[Jacob Davis @jacobdaviscfb]

Frank Broyles Field at “____” Razorback Stadium.

What company or donor will have naming rights of Razorback Stadium in 2025?

Give me your guesses!