Today I am returning from a few days in Nashville. I have always loved this city and came back with two of my sons as part of my book tour. We had a ball from the great food to the amazing music to the outstanding historical sites. Even with temperatures at 100 (and even higher with humidity), we loved every minute in Nashville.
When we arrived in the city, we immediately went to a local favorite, Hattie B’s. While Prince’s is another favorite, the sauces at this “chicken shack” are a crowd pleaser. However, be warned: when they say “hot” they mean it. There are three categories of heat with the middle being the range that most of us are used to.
I went with the “hot” option in the middle category and, despite liking hot and spicy food, it was a bit too hot for me. However, it was delicious. I particularly liked the Pimento Mac & Cheese.
For dinner, we went to Jack’s Bar-B-Que in the middle of the music scene on the West End. It was awesome. The boys had the brisket sandwiches and found them addictive. I had the ribs and loved them. (I think, however, I might go with the brisket the next time after tasting their dishes). This is some of the best Bar-B-Que that you are going to find.
That night, we went to various bars to hear the live music. When you walk down the street, it is a cacophony of sounds from live music in dozens of bars. We went to various bars and had a great deal until I let the boys head off without their buzz-kill father (There were some perfunctory objections before they ran off to a loud bar down the street).
The next day we visited the Tennessee State Museum, which has a fantastic collection. It has a impressive collection that stretches across time, including informative films on everything from the geologic history of Tennessee to the Civil Rights period. It is free and I could not recommend it more highly. (For military history buffs like myself, it was also fun to see the rifle and kit of Sgt. Alvin York from World War I). There is also a great farmer’s market and food court next door.
Near the museum is also the State Capitol. We loved the visit. You can walk into the House and Senate floor as well as the original Tennessee Supreme Court chamber. There is also the burial place of James Polk (one of three Tennessee presidents with Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson). It is a beautiful building and the staff could not be more friendly.
We also ate at a new place that is a favorite among locals. On the way back from the museum, our cab driver said that he and many locals go to Peg Leg Porkers. We immediately asked him to drive us and it was awesome. (I was a bit less enthusiastic about the pull pork string rolls). The pulled pork and ribs were fantastic and it is clearly popular with locals.
My only regret is that our trip was too short to visit the Civil War locations. However, that just gives me an excuse to come back to this wonderful city.
Thank you, Nashville.
My son lives in Nashville and treated us to Hattie B’s & Peg legs off the charts good
Number one son lived there until just recently. Loved it.
Your sharing your visit was wonderful – and your photos brought it alive. Our family spent too short a time in Nashville years ago on a cross country trip but the city never disappoints — we spent time walking the Vanderbilt campus – my son was interested in colleges at the time –
Thanks for sharing.
Spike Cohen
@RealSpikeCohen
“My message to @realDonaldTrump:
There’s not a shot in hell that this shooter got on the roof of that building without SS seeing him.
No way.
You have to know that.
They’re going to keep at this until you’re dead.
There is no reforming the alphabet mafia.
They were created to be criminal organizations.
SS, CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, DHS, IRS, all of them.
And at the top of it all, the Federal Reserve.
They assassinate people. They traffic drugs. They traffic guns. They traffic humans. They prop up drug cartels and terrorist organizations. They topple foreign governments.
They work directly with the worst of the worst.
And they do it so they can run up endless debt to enrich themselves and their friends, and stick us all with the inflation and debt bill they ran up.
And they want you dead.
Replacing Dem-appointed agency heads with people who stroke your ego won’t fix it. It didn’t last time.
Giving them more funding and personnel won’t fix it. It didn’t last time.
Trying to get them on your side won’t fix it. It didn’t last time.
Deferring to the “experts” won’t fix it. Remember what Fauci talked you into?
Criminal organizations can’t be fixed.
They can only be ended, or allowed to become more dangerous.
If you’re re-elected, those will be your two options.
They want to end you.
End their agencies first.”
12:35 AM · Jul 14, 2024
Another “criminal organization” par excellence is the U.S. Supreme Court.
“CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION, U.S. SUPREME COURT”
The destruction of the United States of America began at the inflection point of the Supreme Court’s corrupt and abject failure to strike down Lincoln’s wholly unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession.
Southern States must have seceded of their own volition, ultimately reuniting after failing.
Long-suffering abductees who became slaves must have been morally, safely, and compassionately repatriated per existing immigration law, the Naturalization Act of 1802.
Never should the illicit and improper “Reconstruction Amendments,” as part of Karl Marx’s “reconstruction of a social world” (Letter Marx/Lincoln 1865), have been ratified under the duress of brutal post-war military occupation and dictatorship.
Confederate George, the constitutional racist, blew this right out of his Democrat Kluxxer bugle:
The destruction of the United States of America began at the inflection point of the Supreme Court’s corrupt and abject failure to strike down Lincoln’s wholly unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession. Long-suffering abductees who became slaves must have been morally, safely, and compassionately repatriated per existing immigration law, the Naturalization Act of 1802.
Confederate George says Blacks kidnapped and brought here as slaves should have been deported – along with the generations born in America.
1. How do you “repatriate” people who have never set foot in any country other than America?
2. If they weren’t legally here after the Naturalization act of 1802, why didn’t his fellow Confederate Kluxxers deport them right after 1802 – instead of keeping them enslaved?
George REALLY is pissed that all the n1ggers weren’t deported that he believes are a stain on his white sheets. In this, he has common cause with Bribery Biden, who said he didn’t want his kids in jungle bunny schools.
Well George, you Confederates lost the war. You don’t make the rules anymore.
Meh. If this was a CIA job, they have become awfully sloppy over the past 56 years. I will tell you that Thomas Matthew Crooks should be a prime candidate for a “Loser of the Century” award. First he is dead. Second, he has guaranteed that Donald J. Trump will be the next President (barring another, successful, assassination attempt).
@JackPosobiec
“You really want to turn down the temperature in this country, Joe Biden?
Pardon Steve Bannon and let him out of jail right now
You could do this in 5 minutes”
this is THE question:
“How could the shooter possibly have known that that roof was going to be ignored by the dozens of secret service / LE agents?!”
https://x.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1812288411765490134/photo/1
the other question:
Does anyone really believe the Gestapo FBI under Chris Wray will do anything but a coverup operation?
The Deep State tried to kill President Trump tonight. Never forget. Never surrender.
One things for sure this night. I am glad the former President is alright, and wasn’t hurt badly.
The bystanders being killed is heartbreaking but I am and I hope all Americans are thankful President Trump is ok.
Thank f#$k…, finally some honest opinion polling.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Brings to mind the failed attempt on Hitler…
And in keeping with that particular thread of history, trump will be gone by suicide within one year.
Trump doesn’t seem like a potential suicide case. Remember the defiant fist bump? As long as there are Big Macs and porn stars he’ll be a happy camper. But we need to find an island for him and his toys.
+100
“Emergency Warning Deep State Will Try To Kill Trump Again!
We are in the middle of a Deep State hot coup.”
LISTEN —>
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1812281896203932056
THESE MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS calling themselves “journalists” ARE DELUSIONAL.
Just like President Biden is delusional. There is no difference. They are all delusional.
THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEIR OWN BULLSH*T LIES.
THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY ARE MENTALLY ILL.
>>>>>>>>
Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer
This is a bonkers. A mental illness. Only one side’s rhetoric ever matters to these people, and what really matters most is the rhetoric of people who have LITERALLY BEEN SHOT. “Now that you’ve been shot, sir, don’t you think it’s a bit uncivil to be bleeding everywhere?”
Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
CBS’s Margaret Brennan lectures Steve Scalise, who was nearly assassinated in 2017 by a leftist: “Have you specifically instructed members…to rein in some of the rhetoric…some are using online that is somewhat incendiary…really blaming this, somehow, on the administration?”
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1812323488851427504
Sheryl Attkinson is onto the DEI issue too and has posted this video.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1812311858788859904/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/jZoZ3KNr8FpKWUWY.mp4?tag=12
One of the DEI hires tries to holster her gun, can’t and gives up. Three of them running back and forth like panicked chickens. Did they receive any training at all or were they hired only because of their admittedly attractive swishy ponytails?
BREAKING: A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells
@FDRLST
that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
DHS, which oversees Secret Service protective detail “wasn’t responsive to those requests” for more resources, the source said.
Was Biden’s regime behind the attack, or did it deliberately do everything it could to allow it to happen?
Developing…
Making assumptions and pushing conspiracy theories without evidence is how false narratives are born.
Trump is not the president and his secret service detail is limited by priority and costs.
Trying to lay blame on Biden for operational decisions made at the departmental level is truly a poor attempt at a cheap shot.
This is rich. George doesn’t like it when other people make shit up.
“limited by priority and costs” What has higher priority than protecting the next President?
As some of us here suspected, the head of the Secret Service has been heavily committed to DEI hires. It’s true according to CBS news. https://x.com/MattBatzel/status/1812315650955542940
Women have an important asset to bring to the SS and it isn’t having a shrimp stand in front of Trump with his head in full view to a shooter.
Most assassins are likely to be male [despite Hollywood bs] and men instinctively see every other male as a potential threat. They don’t see women as a threat so an undercover female agent can cruise a crowd and spot and neutralize a dangerous person more easily than a man can. Use them for their strengths not to pretend they can function as large men.
Society has gone insane.
This from RFK, Jr’s running mate:
Nicole Shanahan
@NicoleShanahan
“When we treat our political rivals like they are the enemy of the state, we radicalize our country. I am very glad Trump is safe. The demonization of his image by the DNC and legacy media is responsible for the hysteria that is ripping this country apart. Now having been on the receiving end of the DNC’s campaign of lies, I know most of what they’ve said about “Trump’s danger” is an absolute falsehood. My heart breaks for the family of the individual whose life was lost at the rally in such a violent way. Let this be a lesson to all political leaders: when you dehumanize your opponent and radicalize your base, you are responsible for the violence that inevitably ensues.”
THIS IS 100 PERCENT ON BIDEN and DEMOCRATS and their FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA PRESS. 100 percent.
This is not a “both sides” issue. THIS IS AN MSNBC issue. THIS IS A FAKE NEWS CNN issue.
This is a DERANGED DEMOCRAT DEEP STATE ISSUE.
“Every American should watch this video, especially those on the left who are about to start preaching about “lowering the temperature.”
This was the President of the United States dehumanizing and vilifying 35% of the country on primetime TV.
This is the rhetoric to blame.”
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1812299410660880501
President Biden also used a prime time TV address to vilify, delegitimize, and personally attack the United States Supreme Court because he did not agree with their rulings.
Biden IS THE PROBLEM. He is a demented, vicious, evil puppet in the pocket of the Communist Chinese.
We have no leadership in this country right now. We are a lawless banana republic.
The Democrat Party IS THE PROBLEM.
“Time for debate is over. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
Joe Biden, July 8th, 2024
July 13, 2024:
Trump shot in the head.
One dead.
Two critically injured.
No matter what spin the fake new puts out, this violence is on Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the Democrat Party of lying thugs, and the Lying Fake News Media. 100 percent.
“Time for debate is over. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
Joe Biden, July 8th, 2024
“This election is about choosing good over evil.”
Jill Biden, on The View.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Jill Biden is a wretched harridan
and a truly despicable human being,
just like her husband and the rest of the biden family.
Navy Joan would agree.
Abso-fvcking-lutely correct!
Watching the video of the murder attempt several times now I realise this is great footage for new agents to see how to completely f**kup a security detail.
One wonders if their masters purposely encumbered President Trump with the poorest performing most easily confused agents in the service.
Having the FBI investigate it might be like having Willy Sutton hired to solve a bank robbery. Not to be trusted. Remember the Whitmer ‘kidnapping’ plot. Remember the Las Vegas shooting. Remember the fake pipe bombs on the night before Jan 6, remember the Jan 6 gallows. Before they are done they may try to convince us he was a Trump supporter or pro-lifer or Catholic.
Okay, I’m not the only one. Rep. Massie is having similar thoughts.
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1812327281731215841
I have been awoken by a friend, that the Donald Trump has been shot. I will say a prayer for him today at Mass, and light the candle for the person who was innocently slain by the assassin. I can not say that I am amazed by this, and I spit on the American newspapers and the American television persons who tell the lies about Mr. Trump.