Forever is the Wind

A large percentage of our country doesn’t know of, or care about Normandy. A few weekends ago, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes into the sand, representing fallen soldiers. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide. 9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day. What is surprising is that nothing about this was seen here in the U.S. Someone from overseas had a friend who sent it with a note of gratitude for what the U.S. started there. Please share with others who understand “freedom is not free – nor has it ever been”

russians…they are the scariest white people. 

insanity

This is the only dream

yup…relationship goals. 

i just ride…

this is literally a crash bandicoot level

Boris Groh is one of my favorite artists, mostly because of his works that feature LARGE skeletons just doing their thing

Bruh they some power rangers

ON CONCRETE

Puppy attempts to reclaim bed from cat

I’ve never seen any animal be so thoroughly unimpressed by the efforts of another animal.

CATS DONT CARE.

When you have to defend your little brother 🥊 🤣❤️

hmmm

I spit out my tea

~ Ares (the so-called “Ludovisi Ares”). Dating: Roman copy of the A.D. 2nd century after a Greek original of the 2nd century B.C., presumably by Scopas Minor. Restored in 1622 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Medium: Pentelic marble, restored with Carrara marble. Provenance: Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps (Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Altemps)

You won’t see this on @cnnpolitics

This is also a great argument for school choice.

Out of all places, VICE News recently put out a video exposé about this small private Christian school in Albuquerque, NM.  Not only does it have trained concealed carry faculty, but it also actively runs aggressive student drills and combat training in the case of a mass-shooter scenario.

But VICE always has to run the liberal counter-narrative on any positive story like this. Enter the public teacher union rep to rebuff the entire thing, just like the EPA bureaucrat in the original Ghostbusters. Her best argument against students actively engaging in self-defense against a mass-shooter?  “The pastor is creating a false case of security.  They’re training kids to actually be vigilantes.”

Leave it to a public education union thug to not know what the term “vigilante” means.  Let me help, self-defense is not illegal law enforcement.  And no, I’m sorry, the only false sense of security is believing that stopping law-abiding citizens from being able to purchase certain kinds of firearms and prohibiting them from carrying them on certain premises will somehow keep children safe from deranged psychopaths who do not care about following laws.

Here are some great quotes from the piece:

And lastly, my favorite line from VICE reporter, Thomas Morton, in a moment of journalistic honesty:

“From a rational perspective, what New Life is doing is probably severe overkill. The odds of dying in a school shooting are infinitesimal, just shy of being struck by lightning.  Unfortunately, the debate over guns and school safety isn’t governed by rational perspectives. And thanks to the media’s emotional over-the-top coverage of shootings when they do occur, what weird about New Life now could easily become the new normal.”

Parents should have more options to send their children to schools like New Life, instead of the vulnerable, monotonous, prison-esque public schools that the teacher’s unions have run into the ground.

Something else I noticed about this video is how the former police chief who is interviewed essentially makes the argument that normal civilians, like teachers and faculty, can’t handle the pressure of a violent attack like a mass-shooting. He and the union rep both claim that only police officers can properly handle that kind of situation.

Yet, as we just saw in the last two major shootings, an ordinary civilian with a gun stopped the Sutherland Springs church shooter from killing more innocent people and an unarmed teachers and faculty shielded their students in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting while the local deputy sat outside the doors waiting.  

When are people going to realize that these people are only protecting their own professions and they are dead wrong in their assertions?  The true first responders are the victims, not the police.  Therefore, they are the ones that need a means of self-defense.  And the ultimate equalizer in these situations is a firearm.

Anti-gun liberals are waging a losing battle by trying to convince law-abiding Americans to give up their rights to self-defense in a effort to theoretically prohibit an assailant from obtaining a weapon through a legitimate means. They are just incredibly ignorant in this regard or are living in a fantasy world.