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Personal Responsibility and Accountability

by Sam Adams on January 9, 2012

I think one of my biggest pet-peeves now-a-days is that people are taking less and less responsibility for their actions.   And it’s for anything. I would like to say that words mean something but giving your word apparently doesn’t mean anything today.  If you say you’re going to help a friend move, and then don’t show up, [...]

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2012 Bringing in the New Year and Remembering the Past

January 1, 2012
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While its been a slow year on this site it hasn’t been a slow year for us.  On the manly front we’ve seen good progress on all things manly.   In politics we have a good selection of mostly conservative candidates shaping up for the 2012 election. As we come to a close on this [...]

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The Science and History of Moonshine

August 24, 2011
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All of us have heard the term moonshine before, all of us know it’s illegal, but few of us really know what it is or how it’s made.  For most of us it’s just something that they do in the hill country of Arkansas and Tennessee and doesn’t really effect us.  But that’s not really [...]

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July 4th, 1776 We Remember, and Movies to Help Us

July 3, 2011
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The Founders were not grilling hamburgers and hotdogs.  They were crammed into a small room  arguing amongst themselves on whether they should declare independence from the king of England and sign their own death warrants or not.  Think about that.  By signing the Declaration of Independence, they were facing death if they were captured.  So [...]

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Fathers Day Ideas

June 16, 2011
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This year for fathers day think about giving your father the gift of libation, tobacco, or something timeless – non- electronic device/gadget.   Consider a pocket knife.   Pocket knives are timeless.  When taken care of properly they will last a lifetime.   Generally you always need a knife when you don’t have one.  To open [...]

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The previous generation was too wasteful

May 20, 2011
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That’s why we have to have green energy and recycle today because the previous generation was a very wasteful generation.   At least that’s what they are telling everyone.  When you hear someone talk about being wasteful, I want you to remember reading this story: How Wasteful the Older Generation Was In the line at the [...]

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Superman is finished with Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Renounces US Citizenship

April 28, 2011
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From here.  Although he’s traditionally seen as an American hero (remember, though, he is an alien), Superman is fed up with being connected to the USA. According to the Comics Alliance blog (and reported by BoingBoing), in Action Comics #900 Superman tells the president‘s national security adviser that he’s had enough of the Red, White, [...]

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Acts of Manliness: How to Refurbish or Recondition a BBQ Smoker

April 4, 2011
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So you want to recondition or refurbish your old smoker?  So do I. We’ve put together this walk through on how we worked on this old smoker and hopefully it will serve as a guide for any of you out there who are thinking about the same thing.  I was given BBQ smoker by a [...]

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Review: 1928 Reserve from Tinderbox.com

March 2, 2011
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Being gentlemen who enjoy fine tobacco we regularly sample different blends of pipe tobacco.  I recently re-discovered The Tinderbox – online.  Previously I went to their store when they had one in Beaumont Texas, but alas it was closed some years ago.  Now they have an online store, at least they did until today.  Apparently [...]

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The Last American WWI Veteran Frank Buckles Dies

February 28, 2011
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This is pretty sad news and I haven’t seen any of the major news agencies reporting it.  He died at the ripe old age of 110 yesterday the 27th of February.  He died in his sleep at his farm in West Virginia.  Men of this caliber are rarely seen today.  Original Source of his biography [...]

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Muscles Glasses from Epic Meal Time Dies in Tragic Food Related Accident

February 22, 2011
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You know him from the popular Youtube internet cooking show Epic Meal Time.   An internet sensation, Muscles Glasses was brought into the videos as an awe inspiring eating machine.  We have confirmed from an anonymous source that Muscles Glasses did in fact die while working on the cooking shows most daring meal ever. Our sources [...]

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Can you find the budget cuts proposed by Obama?

February 10, 2011
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In a proposed 3.8 trillion dollars President Obama has proposed digging deep and cutting deep and managed to cut $775 Million dollars. As you can see in the picture above, the green section indicates his cuts in the overall pie graph.   What? You can’t find it – here take a closer look (click the article [...]

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Dick Winters Band Of Brothers Inspiration Dies

January 18, 2011
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It didn’t receive much fanfare or note in the media because the other events that have been happening, and for that we lament for a fallen hero.  Dick Winters was an amazing man who defended this country, and trained brave new soldiers after WWII before going to work again in the private sector.  He was [...]

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The Age of the Common Man

January 3, 2011
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The Age of the Common Man, as Cooper termed it, is upon us.  We have created a world of sensitivity and inclusion and community that is slowly choking out older values, values that helped to create this wonderful world we live in. Ideas like community have replaced self reliance, sensitivity has replaced achievement and political [...]

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