Carolina Blue

Child of God 😇 Christ follower ✝️ UNC Tar Heels 🏈

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@Mikehomeseller Solid album. Not quite the caliber of the first two, but I would still rate it 8/10.

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@end3of6days9 That’s not right.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Oct 12, 1870: Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, five and a half years after he surrendered at Appomattox.

When the war ended, Lee was the most famous man in the South and he had nothing. His family home at Arlington had been seized by the federal government and turned into a cemetery for Union dead. He was 58, his health was failing, and he was under indictment for treason, though he was never tried.

Offers came in. Businesses wanted to put his name on their letterhead for big salaries. He turned them down. Instead he took a job as president of Washington College, a tiny school in the Shenandoah Valley that had been looted by Union troops during the war. It had a few dozen students and a handful of professors. The salary was $1,500 a year.

He threw himself into it. He knew most of the students by name. He added courses in engineering, business, and journalism, which were unusual for the time. He replaced a long list of rules with an honor system and told students the school had only one rule: every student must be a gentleman.

He spent those years telling Southerners to accept the result of the war. He told former soldiers to go home and rebuild. According to an often-told story, when a widow complained bitterly to him about the Union, he told her not to raise her sons to hate the United States and to make them Americans. In 1869 he paid a short visit to President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House.

His heart was giving out. In the spring of 1870 he took a long trip south, partly for his health. Crowds met him at every stop. On Cumberland Island in Georgia he visited the grave of his father, Revolutionary War hero Light-Horse Harry Lee.

On Sept 28, a cold, rainy day, he went to a long meeting at his church about raising money for the minister's salary. When they came up short, Lee pledged the difference himself. He walked home in the rain and sat down to dinner with his family. When he tried to say grace, no words came out.

He had suffered a stroke. They made a bed for him in the dining room. For two weeks he lay there, mostly silent, while one of the worst floods in Virginia history swept through the region outside.

He died around 9:30 in the morning on Oct 12. He was 63.

Accounts written later said his last words were "Strike the tent," along with an order for A.P. Hill to come up, as if he were back on the battlefield. Doctors who have studied the case think the stroke had taken his ability to speak, and many historians doubt those words were ever said.

The flood had washed away the town undertaker's stock of coffins. Some were found downriver, and the only usable one was too short. Lee was buried in his suit without shoes.

He was laid to rest in a crypt beneath the chapel on the college grounds. Within days the school's trustees voted to rename it Washington and Lee. His horse Traveller, who walked behind the funeral procession, is buried just outside.

After the war Lee had signed an oath of allegiance and applied for a pardon. The oath was lost and never acted on. It was found in the National Archives a century later, and in 1975 Congress restored his citizenship.

Americans still argue over how to remember him and the cause he fought for, and they probably always will. But in the last five years of his life, he chose to spend what he had left teaching young men, rebuilding a broken school, and telling a defeated people to put down their anger and become Americans again.

156 years ago today. Rest easy General.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

More than five centuries ago, the son of a wool weaver from Genoa sailed westward to widen the boundaries of the known world. Across a vast and punishing Atlantic, the voyage exhausted the patience of its crew, but never the conviction of its captain. Christopher Columbus kept going.

Two hundred and fifty years after America’s founding, we still marvel at the restless spirit of discovery that revealed the New World to the Old. President Trump has defended Columbus against the radical left’s campaign to erase his legacy. Now, Columbus again stands where he belongs – within the great procession of figures who shaped our national story.

Happy Columbus Day. Sail On.

[Daily Bible Verses @Bible_Reposts]

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
-2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! The federal fraud investigation into Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar has been nicknamed "WORLD WAR ELEVEN" within the Trump admin because of the "uproar" it would cause, per WaPo

Derived from the MAJOR gaffe in which the Somali pirate read "World War II" and thought that meant "11" 😭😭

Freaking hilarious.

What goes around comes around. The raid happened on Columbus Day no less!

SHE'S COOKED!

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home raiding by HSI (investigative arm of ICE) this morning.

This is big.

Remember, Ilhan Omar is probably NOT a validly naturalized citizen. Yes, she obtained naturalization. BUT, it was seemingly obtained fraudulently. How?

Ilhan Omar’s father claimed asylum in the United States for his family in the 1990s. He was from Somalia and claimed his life was in danger after the Somali people toppled the violent regime. The violent regime was gonna kill him? Sounds legit right? Nope.

Turns out, Ilhan Omar’s father was a MEMBER of the violent Siad Barre regime, a Colonel in the military, likely specializing in propaganda.

He feared for his life probably because the people who toppled the regime were holding accountable corrupt govt officials LIKE HIM.

Yet on his asylum application he allegedly did not disclose that he was a Colonel in the violent Marxist Somali regime.

He obtained citizenship based on his fraud, and so did his daughter Ilhan Omar.

It was fake the whole time.

Additionally, Ilhan Omar is credibly accused of committing marriage fraud (marrying her brother) to get him residency in the United States.

This doesn’t even count the weird financial reports Ilhan Omar submitted and then retracted to Congress, disclosing her net worth at $30M and then revising it to $18k and blaming it on an “accounting error.” LOL. The real reason for the absurd financial gymnastics is probably her third husband (she had an affair with him while paying him campaign funds) who’s shady “consulting” specializing in Somalia (he’s white) appears more like pay to play than any legitimate advice.

Ilhan Omar deserves every ounce of justice the U.S. govt can mete out.

She hates America anyway, she says herself she’s Somali first. Well then, send her back.

She should be denaturalized and deported.

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@AJTarHeel247 I understand it’s out of your control, but it appears to me that this is the kind of nugget you might want to offer for free. I don’t see a lot of people becoming subscribers for a story of this nature. JMO

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@GenTXer2 A New World Record

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just said that North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper released 83 M*RDERERS, 51 of which had LIFE sentences — and they committed 25 m*rders "immediately after being released"

North Carolina MUST elect Michael Whatley to the Senate!

"They ended up committing 25 m*rders immediately after being released, and Roy Cooper’s reputation will never be the same. He is a TOTAL FRAUD!"

"The reason for releasing them, believe it or not, was because Governor Cooper didn’t want them to catch COVID while in prison."

"Repeat Violent Offender DeCarlos Brown, Jr., who was put on the streets through release by Cooper, is the infamous murderer of Iryna Zarutska. He violently slashed Iryna from behind, for all to see, while she was innocently sitting on a train."

"NORTH CAROLINA, VOTE FOR MICHAEL WHATLEY. HE HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE, AND WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"

This is insane. Roy Cooper is a traitor to North Carolina!

Voters need to prove the pollsters wrong in North Carolina and elect Whatley — Trump won it ALL 3 TIMES

Roy Cooper is horrible news for law and order.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Time for @jamestalarico to drop out.

It’s really true. The Democrats only run jihadists, communists and mentally ill people as their candidates.

[iamtheREALMURPHDAWG @RealMurphdog916]

Mike Evans checking to see who was talking to him might be the most GOAT’d thing I’ve ever seen

[KJofTikTok @TheKJofTikTok]

🔥 Now this is how you field the questiond about the war in Iran. The crowd's response is epic.

GOP Senatorial candidate Justin Murphy's response was pure gold. Senator Cory "Spartacus" Booker's face tells the entire story as Democrats have seen no one come Out swinging like this.

"Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some
a$$...and get this done and get this done right"

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@GenTXer2 Running On Empty

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@GenTXer2 Sticky Fingers
Exile
Some Girls

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@JVMonte2 1️⃣ Boston
2️⃣ Led Zeppelin
3️⃣ Ten
4️⃣ Van Halen

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@unc_zone Better than expected. I like the offensive scheme. Need our run game to step up. The passing game is what it is. Defense is much improved. Special teams have been fairly solid. I think this team makes it to a Bowl.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that freight brokers can be held LIABLE if they negligently hire unsafe trucking companies — including those with ILLEGAL ALIEN and FOREIGN drivers who violate CDL rules and cause accidents

LFG! Start cracking down on the companies 🔥

The opinion, delivered by Barrett, confirms that federal law does not shield these brokers from state negligence lawsuits.

This will likely help force brokers into being MUCH more careful about which carriers they use, because they want to avoid lawsuits

PURGE THE CDL SYSTEM and hold all trucking companies liable!

Non-English foreigners all over the roads needs to end.

[Carolina Blue @TobaccoRoad]

@GenTXer2 Led IV

[CFP @CFBPlayoff]

Tar Heels retake the lead with a 75-yard TD pass‼️

📺 ESPN x @ACCFootball