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Some more photos of Rondeau

What bridge is that in the pics?

You will never see this, because all the drug makers have been given complete immunity from liability if anything happens to you after getting the shot.

"In a recent Gallup survey, Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question: What are the chances that someone who gets COVID will need to be hospitalized? The answer is between one and five percent — 41 percent of Democrats thought it was over 50 percent. Another 28 percent put the chances at 20 to 49 [percent]. So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn't liberal media have to answer for 'How did your audience end up believing such a bunch of crap about COVID?'" —Bill Maher Also heard almost 3500 people have died after getting the vaccine and we are led to believe zero were the result of the vaccine. None. Remember, liars can figure.

Maybe if the government put more effort into a public education campaign that informs people how their idiotic actions can get them justifiably killed, there wouldn't be so many morons doing moronic things where cops have to shoot them. When police inform you that you are under arrest, that's the end of today's story. Comply or you might die. When did people start thinking they could tell a cop they are not under arrest after they have been informed they are? Doing that creates a case where the cop may be in a life threatening situation, and that gives the cop the RIGHT to shoot that person. Period! I'm sick of idiots trying to tell police how to do their job, when none of them have ever done, or could ever do, that cop's job. You cannot have a lawful society when people do not respect the authority of the police. I'm also sick of the media hiding half the facts of a shooting incident in order to incite hatred of the police and discord in the streets. There are very, very few cases of unjustified police shootings. Just because most of the justified shootings are happening to one protected class of Americans that seem to think it's OK to resist arrest, doesn't mean they aren't justified. It's a cultural thing, and that culture needs to educate itself to respect and comply if it doesn't want people to die.

Noah John Rondeau Mayor: Cold River City (Population 1) Noah John Rondeau is perhaps the most well-known of the Adirondack Hermits. And there were many: Don Williams, in his book Inside the Adirondack Blue Line, comments that "It was not uncommon in an Adirondack village to see a bewhiskered, shabby, sometimes smelly old man walking into town ... He was quickly identified as the "resident" hermit at that settlement." Alvah Dunning, French Louie, Daniel Wadsworth, Ebenezer Bowen, the list goes on and on. Some may have lived more solitary lives than Rondeau, but he was a true Adirondack Hermit. Born in 1883 and raised near Ausable Forks, Rondeau ran away from home to escape an abusive father during his teenage years. Much about his early life is unknown; despite the fact that he kept extensive journals, much of the writings contained therein are in indecipherable code. Rondeau did begin writing an account of his early childhood, however. Unfortunately, it ends abruptly in mid-sentence and only focuses on several events of his pre-teen years. NJR achieved nothing more than an eighth grade education, but he educated himself, was well-read, and kept a supply of books in his hermitage. He was especially interested in astronomy, which he no doubt was able to put into practice on many a crisp, cool Adirondack night. He also played the violin, performing for whomever may have wandered up through the Cold River valley, or in the absence of other humans, he serenaded the deer. Before moving away from civilization, NJR lived in Corey's on the Raquette River, where he learned the ways of the woods from Daniel Emmett, a member of the Abenaki Indian tribe from Canada. Two other well-known Abenakis were Sabael Benedict, after whom Indian Lake and the hamlet of Sabael on its shore derive their name, and Lewis Elijah, who brought a plug of iron ore he found to the men who established the McIntyre Iron Mine. It was here in Corey's that Rondeau had his first run-ins with the fledgling Conservation Department (the predecessor of today's Department of Environmental Conservation), and a particular game warden who would cause him problems for years to come. NJR rarely had pleasant remarks for the Conservation Department in what journals he recorded in plain English. At any rate, Rondeau was a regular visitor to the beautiful Cold River area of the western High Peaks in the early 20th century, but did not begin spending his winters at his hermitage until 1929. He set up several buildings in "Cold River City," including the "Town Hall" in which he resided, a "Hall of Records," and a number of "wigwams:" teepee-shaped structures which were made out of timbers he had cut to be used for firewood during the long Adirondack winters. NJR, despite being a hermit, often received visitors and for the most part openly accepted them, even if he was a bit slow to trust others. Some of his visitors are well-known Adirondackers, including Dr. Orra Phelps and Grace Hudowalski (Rondeau actually corresponded with Hudowalski, among others, on a fairly regular basis). NJR's longest stay at the Cold River was 381 days, during World War II. Some outsiders unfamiliar with NJR assumed him to be a draft-dodger trying to escape the war by holing up deep inside the Adirondack wilderness. Truth be told, by the time the United States became involved in WWII, Rondeau was nearly 60 years old, and had been living at the Cold River for over 10 years. In fact, NJR remarked in a letter dated 4/8/43, printed in the Ausable Forks Record-Post that I never went to Cold River to dodge anything, unless it was from 1930 to 1940 when it might be said I dodged the American labor failure at which time I could not get enough in civilization to get along even as well as I could at Cold River under hard circumstances in the back woods. Since I'm not evading I did not make my first appearance at Cold River on the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed. What I'm doing toward the war effort looks like nothing, but that's all I can do and I'm doing it and it is this -- I'm self sustained. In what probably contributed most to his fame, NJR appeared in numerous sportsmen's shows across the Northeast during the late 40's and early 50's. His first appearance was at the National Sportsmen's Show in New York City in 1947. The Conservation Department was so determined for Rondeau to appear that they flew NJR out from his hermitage by helicopter. He was a huge hit at the show, and immediately began scheduling appearances at other shows. Intermingled with these appearances were brief trips into the Cold River valley. His fame was relatively short-lived, and after several years the spotlight began to fade. Unfortunately, the "Big Blow" of 1950 leveled much of the forest around his hermitage. The Conservation Department closed the area to the public for the next 3 years due to the widespread and near-complete destruction. Sixty-seven years old at the time, Rondeau never would return to the Cold River. For the remaining seventeen years of his life, he lived in the Lake Placid - Saranac Lake - Wilmington area, outside the wilderness he loved so much. His health gradually deteriorated until his death on August 24, 1967. Noah John Rondeau was never granted his final wish: to be buried at his hermitage; his remains lie in the North Elba Cemetery.

Shiny Winchester

A real "go anywhere" hunting truck

Kingman AZ?

Military Rifles vs Lever Winchester

High Altitude Hunt

Mule Deer with a Savage 99

Incremental encroachment, which has been responsible for more restrictions on freedom and liberty than anything else.

We're not scared of needles. We're wary of an unproven chemical cocktail the government is pushing hard for us to get. I for one, am well aware the government is NOT my friend, so anything it pushes so hard on people makes me wary. Especially when there have been serious side effects and who knows if we are hearing about all that has happened to people who got the shot.

Recent mass shootings have once again put guns at the center of national debate, and President Joe Biden has announced new executive orders on gun control. At the center of the discussion is a question: do gun control measures prevent crime or do they actually do the opposite? This video does a great job of looking into it. https://crimeresearch.org/2021/04/on-american-thought-leaders-why-gun-control-doesnt-reduce-crime-breaking-down-the-data/

USPS is running a "covert operations program" that monitors Americans' social media posts (Yahoo! News) "The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what [a] document describes as 'inflammatory' postings and then sharing that information across government agencies. ... Civil liberties experts expressed alarm at the post office's surveillance program. 'It's a mystery,' said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone, whom President Barack Obama appointed to review the National Security Agency's bulk data collection in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks. 'I don't understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues.'"

Not even if they put a gun to my head.

John Lott studied economics at UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1980, M.A. in 1982, and Ph.D. in 1984. Lott has held positions in law and economics at several institutions, including the Yale Law School, the Hoover Institution, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, Texas A&M University, and Rice University. A mistrial is going to be declared on appeal. Here's why. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/why_maxine_waters_wanted_a_mistrial_for_derek_chauvin.html "Had Maxine kept her mouth shut, a simple conviction without a strong basis for a mistrial on appeal would cut short the mayhem in the streets. A pause in the bedlam is not good for the left, whose entire existence and justification is predicated on being the party of racializing everything — especially relationships between black communities and white cops. On the other hand, a conviction accompanied by overt threats of violence reeking of jury intimidation, from a political figure, keeps alive the likelihood of a mistrial on appeal and could extend the rioting all the way to the 2022 elections. This is a tempting insurance policy that would allow the Democrats to continue to foment racial division and milk dry other white cop–black victim scenarios until their goals are reached of defunding the police, reimagining the criminal justice system, getting rid of police and replacing them with civilian security, eliminating bail, unleashing untold numbers of violent criminals back onto the streets, and disarming the public so they cannot protect their families."

No pass through either. No worries about people past the perp or on the other side of the wall.

I do. I'm Jewish.

LOL! I didn't delete it. Right back at you pal.

But you're willing to accept whites all being prejudice, systemic racism and all police being racist? Seems a lot of racial stereotyping, even when it's false, is OK with those who are easily offended, because you're easily manipulated. Get a sense of humor, it will be better for your health.