ELKMONT SUMMER GAMES

Our Elkmont athletes are already hard at work to get ready for next year.  The cross country teams are running the trail several mornings a week.  The football team is conditioning and weight-lifting.  The girls basketball team has practice for the next two weeks before heading off to camp. The Lady Devils Basketball program has a twitter account so you can follow them @girlselkmont

Yesterday, our middle school baseball team played East Lawrence in a double header, winning 11-3 and 20-8. The varsity softball team hosted Brooks and Athens.  The Lady Devils tied Brooks, 3-3, before beating Athens, 5-2.

Our varsity men's basketball team traveled to Priceville to get a few games in as well. They played Priceville and West Morgan.

19 Baby Steps Toward a Self Sufficient Lifestyle - THREE

Here is the third of nineteen easy steps you can take to to start helping you being prepared for life's storms.  These are steps that do not require a farm, do not require acreage and do not require a lot of money.  They are practical steps that you can select from and learn to be able to take care of your family by being ready.... 

 

3.  Know how to build and start a fire

Just because you live in the city and have electricity does not mean you will never have to build a fire.  Learn how to build a fire and keep it lit for an extended period.  Collect biomass, dryer lint and other materials that can be used as tinder to help get a fire going then practice starting a fire without the benefit of matches or a lighter.  Remember you don't learn how to build a fire once you really need it; practice before hand. Look on youtube and find a video on how to build a fire.  One video for learning how to build a fire (very, very basic) is How to Make a Fire

19 Baby Steps Toward a Self Sufficient Lifestyle - TWO

Here is the second of nineteen easy steps you can take to to start helping you being prepared for life's storms.  These are steps that do not require a farm, do not require acreage and do not require a lot of money.  They are practical steps that you can select from and learn to be able to take care of your family by being ready....

2.  Learn to cook without electricity or gas

There are numerous options to cooking on a traditional stove.  Build or buy a rocket stove that only requires biomass for fuel.  Learn to use it while cooking a variety of food items.  Also consider a propane stove; just make sure that you also stockpile extra propane tanks.  Good excuse to buy that grill you have been wanting.

19 Baby Steps Toward a Self Sufficient Lifestyle - ONE

You hear in the news every day about things that happen that create hardships in families.  Loss of job, illness, loss of loved one, tornadoes and storms, government shutdowns, and on and on.  All of us will suffer through one of these.  It brings peace to the soul to be prepared when everything is crashing down around us.  Our grandparents and earlier generations knew this simple thing but many of us have forgotten in our world of everything being at our fingertips.  Need cash - run to the bank.  Need food - run to the store.  Have the sniffles - run to the doctor.  Forgot something - jump in the car. You get the point. We depend on the government and insurance companies to rescue us if there is a natural disaster and we depend on organized medicine to keep us healthy.

However, if something happens to what we depend on, we fall apart.  We don't have the ability to be ready for life's trials if we wait until the storms come to prepare. Alas, everywhere you look there are roadblocks to being able to take care of ourselves.  Not the least of these roadblocks is our dependency on transportation systems and the power infrastructure to deliver goods and energy to our homes.  On the other hand, with some time, perseverance and a bit of hard work, we all can take steps to be self reliant. And isn’t that what prepping is all about: being able to take care of our own needs no matter what?
 
Here is one of nineteen easy steps you can take to to start helping you being prepared for life's storms.  These are steps that do not require a farm, do not require acreage and do not require a lot of money.  They are practical steps that you can select from and learn to be able to take care of your family by being ready....

1.  Build up a emergency food supply

Stuff happens but you still have to eat. Start by building up a cupboard full of food.   Buy an extra can of food or box of cereal when you shop and over time you will have a cupboard full of food.  (no more rushing to the store for bread and milk when snow is predicted). No room... stuff it under the bed.

If you follow the guidelines in 20 Items to Kick Start Your Food Storage Plan, you will have more emergency food than 95% of your friends and neighbors.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT..... ITS ALWAYS GOOD TO READ DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

We have the left media, we have the right media but there are other points of views still ... what do you think?

People often question my claim of mass manipulation — the propagandists together with the politicians, the mass media and ecumenical religious leaders.  What you may or may not know, however, is this simple fact: One-world government requires one-world propaganda. Control by a worldwide few over the many.  For example, now that Bayer has bought Monsanto and ChemChina has bought Syngenta, you have:

• about a half-dozen mega-corporations including Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland that control everything that's grown.
  
• another half-dozen or so (like Mondelez, Nestle, General Mills) that control every food produced.
  
• six or seven pharmaceuticals that control all the medicines you have to take after you get sick from all the modified seeds, chemicals and foods.
  
• six megacorporations that control 90 percent of all that you read, watch or hear to make sure you keep eating and taking the medicines.
  
• an ever-growing bureaucracy called the U.S. government being begged to regulate everything in our lives, Constitution be damned.

There are also only a half-dozen companies that control most of the gold mining in the world (Barrick, Newmont, Anglo-gold etc.). Are you beginning to get the picture?

Until you understand how few are the hands that hold power and how concentrated this power now is, you cannot read between the lines or otherwise decipher mass media reports and, thus, begin to make sense of the "global loonies" and their "globaloney."

The globalist mass media is a sham. It must be decoded on our terms — on the basis of our original politics, our original culture, our original beliefs and our original traditions. Unless we approach the mass media in this way, we will never have the tools to keep from being brainwashed by globalism, even if it is called "democratic" globalism.

The need to conceal evil is becoming less necessary as the American people themselves continue to become more perverted. We are far past the beginning stages of conditioning the public mind to accept the formulation of public policy.

In the beginning, it all has an aura of free expression and "free choice." That's what we think of "democracy." Freedom. But in reality, democracy is all about the transformation of human beings to the animal farm of mass mental brutalization, where they are conditioned to defend their worst betrayers.

How does it happen?

When anything becomes public policy, it is actually government sponsored. Public policy is a high-sounding term which implies that the people agree and desire certain action.

Change agents invented the concept "public policy" to disguise authoritarianism by making it seem palatable.

But before something becomes official and "public policy," it begins as unofficial public policy. In the beginning or unofficial stage, the government and its politicians appear to be silent or neutral on an issue.

All appears to be spontaneous, coming from grass-roots idealism. For example, taking away our ability to protect ourselves began under the altruistic sounding words "gun control."

As always in such chicanery, these words are totally misleading. But they have worked their charm on lukewarm church-going Americans. Not one in 10,000, when they hear the words "assisted suicide" and "planned parenthood" think of them as murder. Nor do many more think of "gun control" as unreasonable or unconstitutional.

This is because propaganda is the science of persuasion and mind control. Its purpose is to forge allegiance to a political order or to ensure acceptance — and, therefore, consumption — of a particular product whether it is needed or beneficial or not.

Propaganda victimizes the public by changing and controlling its belief system to the benefit of the political establishment or for the monetary gain of corporate interests and the medical establishment.

I have learned the power of propaganda. I have watched as otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people have had their minds manipulated so that they acted against their own best interests as a result of propaganda. It seems that organized and sophisticated propaganda is able to operate above the threshold of intelligence.

In other words, without some imperative to trigger inquiry, very intelligent people buy into lies and myths the same as the general population. The lies and myths then become conventional wisdom. The human mind rarely accepts a challenge to conventional wisdom. When confronted with a challenge to the established belief system, the mind closes off.

When this happens, the individual employs avoidance behavior, writes off the new knowledge as conspiracy theory and labels it as kooky, insane or stupid.

The information is then dismissed, never to be considered again, even when the facts support the new knowledge.

The people who use propaganda to persuade the populace against their best interests create myths and sell them as benefits.

And how do they accomplish this right under our noses, you might ask? The answer to that question, dear reader, is the reason why the elites want to control the Internet and shut down alternative media...

The esoteric purpose of propaganda is to extract wealth and labor illegally as concealed involuntary servitude. This truth is in plain sight for those who seek it. And the truth is that while some people are mildly alarmed, few would ever suspect the progression pattern and how propaganda finally evolves into law.

By the time laws are enacted, the people will have been prepared to accept them as desirable and "for the good of the country" and the community by the politicians and the mass media.

The only escape from this tyranny is mental freedom — from the unconscious to the conscious mind.

The very first step toward mental freedom is to recognize that the politics of envy (class warfare) and self-sacrifice are subtly practiced on us by the elites and slowly made palatable to the people through their propagandist mouthpieces.

Only when you free your mind will psychological power and advantage be reversed from external authorities back to you, the individual.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

BARRY'S CORNER - LIVING IN ELKMONT

I enjoy the quiet on early Sunday mornings. A cup of coffee by the pool and watering the plants. Love to get out on early mornings when the birds are waking up, squirrels are chasing each other around the yard and the smell of damp earth is everywhere. Watching as the plants stand up and drink the water. Almost like getting out of a warm bed slowly lol. Love to watch the sun come from behind the trees and watch as the rays spread across the yard. Alone with thoughts but surrounded by the waking that happens daily by design. Funny how as we age we learn to enjoy some things that have been around forever but just now take the time to enjoy it. We miss a lot! Not because it’s not here, but because we refuse to be still. Have a good one!

BRENDA KAY DALY JOHNSON

Brenda Kay Johnson, age 64 of Athens, passed away Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at her residence. She was born June 28, 1953 in Limestone County to Robert Daly and Louise Bates Daly. Brenda was a school teacher for the Limestone county school system. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Randy Johnson and one brother, Harold Daly. 

Survivors include two daughters, Laura Beth Johnson (Nick), Emilie Allen (Matthew), both of Athens; two brothers, Roger Dale Daly (Glenda) of Elkmont, Don Daly (Joyce) of Columbia, TN; five grandchildren, Sebastian Johnson, Madeline Allen, Zoey Allen, Jeremiah Cardon and Gabriel Allen. A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 3 p.m at McConnell Memorial Chapel with visitation from 2-3 p.m.

NADINE H. ATCHELY - OBITUARY

Nadine H Atchley, age 82 of Elkmont, AL died Thursday, June 7, 2018 at Limestone Health and Rehab, Athens, Alabama. Born Saturday, April 11, 1936 in Limestone County, AL, she was the daughter of John Edison Haney and Jesse Dildine Haney. Ms. Nadine has lived here all her life. She loved her family, her church, birds and gardening.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Walter Lee Atchley; brothers, Ronald Haney, Herbert Haney, Dennis Haney and Bobby Haney; sister, Sherry Blankenship.
She is survived by daughter, Tammy (Gene) Fleming, Athens, AL; sons, Troy Lee Atchley, Ardmore, AL and Barney William (Patricia) Atchley, Toney, AL; brothers, Marion (Edna) Haney, Jimmy (Jean) Haney, Cloyd (Joan) Haney and Nolan (Jean) Haney; grandchildren, Holly, Justin, Eric, Whittney, Lee, Rebecca, Addy and Brody; several nieces and nephews.

A Visitation was held on Friday, June 8, 2018 at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home, Ardmore, Alabama from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM. Funeral Services were held on Friday, June 8, 2018 at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home, Ardmore, AL, at 4:00 PM with Bro. Tony Boyles officiating. Burial was in Gatlin Cemetery, Ardmore, AL.

RONALD "RONNIE" HOWARD MALONE, JR

Ronald “Ronnie” Howard Malone, Jr. age 73 of Athens, passed away Monday, June 4, 2018 at ECM Hospital. Mr. Malone was born April 15, 1945 in Limestone County, AL to Ronald Howard Malone, Sr. and Beatrice Nichols Malone. Preceded in death by his parents.
 
Services was Thursday, June 7, 2018 2:00 p.m., at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with Alan Jaynes and Kim Harbin officiating. Visitation was Thursday, from 12:00 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. prior to the service. Burial will be in Pettusville Cemetery.

Survived by his wife, Betty Malone of Athens; two sons, Kevin Malone and wife, Laura and Daniel “Brad” Malone both of Athens; seven grandchildren, Abby Malone, Hayley Malone, Nate Malone, Katie Malone, Matthew Malone, Emily Malone and James Malone; three brothers, Mark Malone and wife, Joann of Athens, Toney Malone and wife, Donna of Madison and Randy Malone of Elkmont; one sister, Lucy Jones and husband, Roger of Athens.

Pallbearers will be Jeff Bailey, Colby Malone, Todd Bailey, Jake Malone, Mack Malone and Will Jones.

JOE'S SUMMER FORECAST

As many of you know, Hill Spirit's favorite weather guy is Joe Bastardi. He always seems to have a good handle on the future of the weather by studying the past, some times like centuries into the past to look for trends. This is what he sees for the United States over the next three months.

• Large scale warm summer expected.
  • Likely the warmest since 2012.
• Center of heat will be over Texas and into the West.
• There is a worry about a cooler August.

The analog package includes four holdovers from last year - 1934, 1996, 2006 and 2011. Also joining the bunch are the last 5 summers
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June

Analog:

July

August

A large scale warmer than normal summer is ahead of us. The big CDD area will be from Texas northward into the Plains and then back into the West.  Though not as hot as 2016 or 2012, it does look hotter than last summer and the three before 2016.

To Read His Complete Article, click HERE.