Talk about the kettle calling the pot black!
(And NO, folks, that’s not racist!!!!)
Have a gander at this statement from the head of the NRA down in that insane asylum called The United States.
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Eustace Conway has spent his entire adult life in the Appalachian Mountains where he built a town called “Turtle Island” that depicts how early settlers lived and worked in what was then the ‘frontier!’
Yup, you heard right folks, this guy can’t show us frontier life because he doesn’t have flush toilets!
And you wonder why I call it the land of the insane!
(And NO, folks, that’s not racist!!!!)
Have a gander at this statement from the head of the NRA down in that insane asylum called The United States.
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By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News
Wayne LaPierre’s critics have called him a lot of things in the past few months: A lunatic, crazy, a gun nut. But from his perspective as the executive director of the National Rifle Association, he’s the only sane guy in the room.
As an outspoken gun-rights lobbyist, LaPierre has faced heavy scrutiny for his defense of firearm ownership in the aftermath of a recent string of mass shootings. Through the NRA, LaPierre has vehemently opposed new proposals in Congress to build a more robust system of background checks on gun sales and curtail ownership of some firearms.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, the day after a Senate panel considering new gun legislation approved an assault weapons ban, LaPierre argued that despite his opponents’ criticism, they’re the ones out of step with reality, not him.
“It’s time for us to take a sane look at the insanity that’s consumed all too much of the media and the political class in this town. They wag a finger condemning the NRA. They call us crazy,” LaPierre told the group of conservative activists, before reciting one-by-one the list of the NRA’s gun safety, training and education programs. “Each year we teach millions of law-abiding people how to use, store and defend themselves with firearms. We’ve been training America’s military and law enforcement officers since NRA’s founding in 1871. And they call us crazy?”
He added, “I’m still standing, unapologetic and unflinching. They can call me crazy or anything else they want.”
LaPierre went on to list some of the ideas that have been proposed in defense of imposing gun restrictions. Use scissors to defend against an office gunman, he said the Department of Homeland Security advises, an idea LaPierre called “shear madness.” (Get it?) Also, he noted, the vice president says women should fire a shotgun in the air to spook would-be attackers. “Have they lost their minds?” LaPierre asked. And, he said, congressional Democrats have proposed requiring universal background checks, even for private sales. LaPierre, right on cue: “Are they insane?”
He added, “It’s as if insanity itself has been sequestered in Washington. They call me crazy, and yet the people doing the finger-pointing are saying things that are absolutely bizarre.”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nra-wayne-lapierre-critics-crazy-not-us-171507216–politics.html
Wayne LaPierre’s critics have called him a lot of things in the past few months: A lunatic, crazy, a gun nut. But from his perspective as the executive director of the National Rifle Association, he’s the only sane guy in the room.
As an outspoken gun-rights lobbyist, LaPierre has faced heavy scrutiny for his defense of firearm ownership in the aftermath of a recent string of mass shootings. Through the NRA, LaPierre has vehemently opposed new proposals in Congress to build a more robust system of background checks on gun sales and curtail ownership of some firearms.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, the day after a Senate panel considering new gun legislation approved an assault weapons ban, LaPierre argued that despite his opponents’ criticism, they’re the ones out of step with reality, not him.
“It’s time for us to take a sane look at the insanity that’s consumed all too much of the media and the political class in this town. They wag a finger condemning the NRA. They call us crazy,” LaPierre told the group of conservative activists, before reciting one-by-one the list of the NRA’s gun safety, training and education programs. “Each year we teach millions of law-abiding people how to use, store and defend themselves with firearms. We’ve been training America’s military and law enforcement officers since NRA’s founding in 1871. And they call us crazy?”He added, “I’m still standing, unapologetic and unflinching. They can call me crazy or anything else they want.”
LaPierre went on to list some of the ideas that have been proposed in defense of imposing gun restrictions. Use scissors to defend against an office gunman, he said the Department of Homeland Security advises, an idea LaPierre called “shear madness.” (Get it?) Also, he noted, the vice president says women should fire a shotgun in the air to spook would-be attackers. “Have they lost their minds?” LaPierre asked. And, he said, congressional Democrats have proposed requiring universal background checks, even for private sales. LaPierre, right on cue: “Are they insane?”
He added, “It’s as if insanity itself has been sequestered in Washington. They call me crazy, and yet the people doing the finger-pointing are saying things that are absolutely bizarre.”
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nra-wayne-lapierre-critics-crazy-not-us-171507216–politics.html
Eustace Conway, 51, has been called “The Last American Man.” He left his suburban upbringing and literally walked out into the Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived for 30 years. In that time, he’s faced down wild animals and entitled children. But the proprietor of Turtle Island may have finally met his match in the form of red tape.
Eustace Conway, 51, has been called “The Last American Man.” He left his suburban upbringing and literally walked out into the Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived for 30 years. In that time, he’s faced down wild animals and entitled children. But the proprietor of Turtle Island may have finally met his match in the form of red tape.
“Modern inspectors know how to measure a board, but not how to build a building,” Conway shoots back, saying the very point of Turtle Island is to offer visitors an experience free of modern trappings.
“Codes don’t apply to what we’re doing,” he said.
Conway’s supporters have started an online petition on Change.org asking North Carolina to exempt Turtle Island from the state’s building codes. That petition has already collected more than 10,000 digital signatures.
On the Turtle Island website, Conway explains his vision in offering a location where people can learn and practice the ways of the past:
“We orient to the basic foundation of where things come from and where things go. We plant and harvest in our gardens, milk goats, make butter, soap, bowls, spoons and tools of all size and description. We hunt and gather wild foods and medicines and natural resources abounding in our huge natural preserve. We cook on a fire, gathering our own wood. We completely made the many buildings of our farmstead; carved literally from the wilderness.”
However, Turtle Island is not entirely free of modern contraptions. For example, the scene has been the setting of an ongoing History Channel television series, “Mountain Men.”
Eustace Conway, 51, has been called “The Last American Man.” He left his suburban upbringing and literally walked out into the Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived for 30 years. In that time, he’s faced down wild animals and entitled children. But the proprietor of Turtle Island may have finally met his match in the form of red tape.
That’s because, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the Watauga County planning department has created a 78-page report detailing the various health and sanitary violations at Conway’s nature paradise.
“These buildings aren’t fit for public use,” Joseph A. Furman, county planning director, tells the WSJ, describing toilets made of sawdust and open-air kitchen facilities.
“Modern inspectors know how to measure a board, but not how to build a building,” Conway shoots back, saying the very point of Turtle Island is to offer visitors an experience free of modern trappings.“Codes don’t apply to what we’re doing,” he said.
Conway’s supporters have started an online petition on Change.org asking North Carolina to exempt Turtle Island from the state’s building codes. That petition has already collected more than 10,000 digital signatures.
On the Turtle Island website, Conway explains his vision in offering a location where people can learn and practice the ways of the past:
“We orient to the basic foundation of where things come from and where things go. We plant and harvest in our gardens, milk goats, make butter, soap, bowls, spoons and tools of all size and description. We hunt and gather wild foods and medicines and natural resources abounding in our huge natural preserve. We cook on a fire, gathering our own wood. We completely made the many buildings of our farmstead; carved literally from the wilderness.”
However, Turtle Island is not entirely free of modern contraptions. For example, the scene has been the setting of an ongoing History Channel television series, “Mountain Men.”
And you wonder why I call it the land of the insane!
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