-Orthodox Christian -Forester -BS Forestry from Mississippi State University -From Jackson, Miss. -Hunter, Fisherman, Civil War Reenactor -Deo Vindice
Baxterville, Mississippi
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Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
Romanian Church celebrates Synaxis of Military Martyrs for first time
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Soldiers who died for Christ now have a feast day of their own in the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
Italy. Milan now. Italian soldiers, trained for war, protecting Milan Cathedral. A symbol of Christianity in Europe and in Italy.
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Bend, Oregon man who shot and killed a shooter at his daughters' school speaks out, praises female teacher for fighting the shooter, allowing him to have a clear shot.
Kaylub Giamanco says he is haunted by the sound of children pleading for their lives.
He also praised the teacher for grabbing the gunman's weapon, allowing him to take a shot at the shooter.
"I want to recognize [the teacher]. She gave me the opportunity to make my shot without losing my life..."
"I swung the door open, and I stepped in, and I fired, and they dropped to the ground... I looked down at the gunman, and he was scrambling for his weapon. And I looked at him, and I shot him 2 more times..."
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
In 2026, this is how women are treated for peacefully standing up for their rights. There was no way I was going to leave that stadium of my own free will. We did nothing wrong.
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The British army once sentenced Daniel Morgan to 500 lashes, a punishment that usually killed a man, for the crime of knocking out an officer who struck him. He survived every stroke. And he spent the rest of his life joking that the drummer had miscounted and only given him 499, so the British still owed him one. He collected that debt at a place called Cowpens.
Morgan was not born to anything. He was a rough, barely educated frontiersman who made his living hauling freight by wagon on the Virginia frontier, a big, powerful, hot-tempered young man. During the French and Indian War, serving as a civilian teamster with the British army, a British lieutenant struck him with the flat of a sword. Morgan answered with his fist and dropped the officer cold. For a colonial to strike a British officer was close to a capital offense, and the court-martial sentenced him to five hundred lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, a flogging meant to flay a man and very often to kill him.
They tied him up and laid it on, and Daniel Morgan did not die. He carried the ridged scars on his back for the rest of his life. But instead of breaking him, that brutal punishment forged something. It left him with a cold, permanent hatred of the British army and its contempt for colonial men like him, a hatred he would one day repay with interest. And it gave him his lifelong joke: the drummer lost count and stopped at 499, so the British, he liked to say, were still one lash short of paying him in full.
When the Revolution came, that uneducated wagoner turned out to be a natural soldier of rare gifts. He raised a company of frontier riflemen, crack shots who could kill at distances that terrified British regulars, and he led them north to Saratoga, where his marksmen helped shatter Burgoyne's army and win the turning-point victory of the war. Morgan had a feel for battle that trained European officers lacked, an instinct for ground, for timing, and above all for the men he led. He understood that his militia were not professional soldiers and could not be asked to do what professionals did, so instead of cursing them for it, he built his tactics around what they could do.
That genius reached its peak at the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781, one of the most perfectly fought battles in American history. Facing the dreaded Banastre Tarleton, Morgan set a trap built entirely on human nature. He put his unreliable militia in the front line and asked them only for two volleys, then permission to fall back, which they gladly did. Tarleton's British, seeing the Americans retreat, charged forward in a confident rush straight into Morgan's real line of hardened Continentals, and then Morgan sprang the jaws, hitting the British on both flanks at once in a double envelopment while his cavalry rode down their rear. In minutes Tarleton's command was destroyed, hundreds killed and captured, one of the most crushing and complete victories of the war, and Tarleton himself barely escaped. It was the frontier wagoner out-generaling the darlings of the British army.
So the debt was paid. The boy they tried to flog to death grew up to be the man who methodically dismantled the British in the field, who understood soldiers because he had been treated like dirt as one, and who turned the hard lessons of his own back into some of the finest tactics the Revolution ever saw. Remember Daniel Morgan. The British gave him 499 lashes and made an enemy who never forgot, and he collected the last one at Cowpens, with interest.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
Elon Musk reveals that an ex-Tesla employee who assaulted a woman for stepping on his prayer rug went on to kill three students in Austin.
MUSK: "We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay. So she wasn't expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory. She accidentally stepped on his prayer rug, and he assaulted her. He violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that, and then a few months later, he went and killed three students in a bar in downtown Austin. Now, I think we shouldn't let people like that into the country. Do you?"
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In June 1965 a 27-year-old Scot weighing 456lb stopped eating, didn't start again for 382 days, and the fat he was carrying kept him alive for every one of them.
Angus Barbieri worked in his father's fish and chip shop in Tayport, across the Tay from Dundee. He had eaten his way past 32 stone. He checked himself into Maryfield Hospital for what his doctors intended as a short fast.
It went well. He felt fine. He asked to carry on.
The doctors agreed, warily, and let him go home, provided he came back in regularly for blood and urine tests. He lived on tea, coffee, sparkling water and vitamins. No food. A week became a month. A month became a season. The weight came off at about three-quarters of a pound a day. Day 100 came and went, then 200, then 300, with the hospital checking his blood every step and waiting for something to break.
Nothing did.
For long stretches his blood sugar sat at around 30mg per 100ml, about a third of normal, the kind of reading that has junior doctors reaching for a drip. He went about his days perfectly lucid.
On 11 July 1966 he sat down to his first meal in over a year: a boiled egg and a slice of bread with butter. He weighed 180lb, under 13 stone. He had lost 276lb, very nearly 20 stone, and it went into the Guinness Book of Records as the longest fast in history. Five years on he was still around 14 stone, and he lived until 1990. His doctors wrote him up in 1973 under the driest title in medicine: Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration.
His brain kept working the whole year, which is the part the textbooks of the day had no answer for.
In 1967, in Boston, George Cahill's team supplied one. They ran fine tubes into the blood vessels draining the brains of three obese patients five weeks into a fast and measured what the brain was burning. It had switched to ketones, made in the liver from body fat, as its main fuel. The organ every textbook said ran only on glucose was running on fat, and running happily.
So every thought Barbieri had that year was powered by the fat around his middle.
A human body carries months of fuel and a brain built to use it. It was shaped by two million years of hunts that came good one week and failed the next, and it treats an empty plate as an ordinary Tuesday.
Angus Barbieri had 382 of them.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
In 1893 a Norwegian scientist deliberately froze his ship into the Arctic ice, let it drift for three years, and lost not a single man to scurvy or anything else. Then he walked off it and spent nine months in a hole in the ground eating bear.
Fridtjof Nansen was thirty-two, a zoologist with a doctorate on the nervous system of a worm. His theory was that the polar current would carry a ship across the top of the world if the ship was built not to be crushed. He built one. He called it the Fram, took twelve men, and sailed into the pack.
For three years they lived in the dark and the cold with no fresh food arriving from anywhere. On every previous expedition that had meant scurvy, the disease that had killed more sailors than the sea. Nansen's crew had none. They shot polar bear and seal, and ate the meat fresh and barely cooked, as the Inuit did. The doctor on board had almost nothing to do.
In 1895 Nansen and one companion left the ship on skis to make for the Pole. They got further north than any human had been, turned back, and were caught by winter on an empty island. They built a hut of stones and walrus hide, and for nine months they ate bear meat and walrus blubber and nothing else. No vegetable, no grain, no fruit. They came out in the spring fatter than they went in.
Then they walked home.
Nansen went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and lived to 68.
Every schoolchild is taught that a diet without vegetables will rot you from the inside. Two men spent a winter underground on nothing but fat and meat and came out fit to walk across the Arctic, and that was 130 years ago.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
JUST IN: The man who stopped the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, has been identified as 36-year-old Kalub Giamanco.
Giamanco, a carpenter, was reportedly driving home for lunch when he heard gunshots.
After hearing the gunshots, Giamanco, who has a concealed carry permit, followed the suspect into the school.
He then shot and killed 16-year-old John J Griffin moments after the teen opened fire into a special education classroom.
Giamanco, who has two children of his own who attend the school, is family friends with one of the victims, a 7-year-old who uses a wheelchair and was shot in the face.
The 7-year-old survived and is in the hospital.
Three children at Silver Rail Elementary School were killed. Their ages are 5, 8, and 11.
According to Giamanco's brother, Giamanco doesn't feel like a hero because he feels guilty for not being able to save more children.
You are a hero, Kalub.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
A Georgia man gets tased by Coweta County deputies at a gas station over a seatbelt violation—on private property where the law doesn’t even apply. Charges dropped. He sues for excessive force.
While that lawsuit is pending, the same sheriff’s office runs his plate through Flock 5 times over 197 days, querying 6,000+ camera networks nationwide. Justifications entered: “info” and “37.”
He felt followed and watched near his home and business. Ended a 6-year contract servicing another PD’s vehicles because he no longer felt safe.
This is exactly what Flock enables: retaliation against people who challenge them.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
"Everything bad in a person is accidental. You young people should not express disgust toward those who drink excessively, fight, or use profanity, because the image of God is preserved within them as well—even though they probably aren’t aware of it. The enemy defiles them and covers them with filth, just as an icon becomes covered with dust; but if it falls into good hands, it will be cleaned, and it will begin to shine.
Of course, it is difficult to see the image of God in those who treat you badly and insult you—those whose faces bear the likeness of a beast rather than a human being—but they deserve even greater pity, because their souls are distorted, perhaps even beyond repair, and condemned to eternal torment and torture. How difficult it is to love your enemy. How difficult it is to devote your entire life to learning how to love those who insult you… But you must know that through such love, you become like Christ.”
St. Gabriel of Georgia
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
Just last night, the biggest moment in the #JusticeForHeeHaw movement went down.
Hannah was live on @FoxNews, one of the biggest news channels in the world, bringing more eyes and attention to the movement.
This is a huge step for us in the right direction, and a huge push for Justice to be served.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
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Worth thinking about:
<<"in 1785, Muslim pirates from North Africa, or “Barbary,” had captured two American ships, the Maria and Dauphin, and enslaved their crews. In an effort to ransom its enslaved crew and establish peaceful relations, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams—then ambassadors to France and England respectively—met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Britain, Abdul Rahman Adja. Following this diplomatic exchange, the Americans laid out the source of Barbary’s hitherto inexplicable animosity in a letter to Congress:
'We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the grounds of their [Barbary’s] pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise [dated March 28, 1786].
'Abdul had continued by smugly noting that Islam’s “law” offers “as an incentive” more slaves to those who are first to board infidel vessels, and that the power and appearance of the seaborne jihadis—who reportedly always carried three knives, one in each hand and another in their mouths—"so terrified their enemies that very few ever stood against them.”>>
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Meet the early church fathers who knew the apostles
Clement of Rome (35–99 AD)
Saw and conversed with the Apostles (Peter and Paul).
Ignatius of Antioch (35–110 AD)
Disciple of the John the Apostle, Igantius was the child Jesus held.
Polycarp of Smyrna (69–155 AD)
Disciple of the Apostle John, instructed by the apostles and conversed with many who had seen the Lord.
Papias of Hierapolis (60–130 AD)
Hearer of John and companion of Polycarp, collected oral traditions from followers of the apostles.
Quadratus of Athens (125 AD)
Disciple of the apostles.
From the surviving writings from these Church fathers who were directly taught by the apostles, they confirm a real baptism that is required to be done by a real bishop with spiritual authority, and the Eucharist being the real body and blood of Christ, Also the Eucharist being the Medicine of the body
Undeniable facts from people taught directly by the apostles.
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Do you know what God feels when He comes to your heart and finds nothing?
The Sower returns to the field.
It is evening. A man stops at the edge of the field he sowed with his own hands. He chose the best seed and kept nothing for himself. He bends over the furrow and looks for a green shoot. He searches for a long time. And he finds none.
Christ told us the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3–9). We usually read it as a lesson about ourselves. Rarely do we stop at the man standing at the edge of the field and at what He feels.
Because the Sower is God. And the field is you.
The path, the rock, and the thorns
The seed was never at fault. Nor was the hand that scattered it, for it was not sown sparingly. The problem has always been the soil.
Some seeds fell on the path. This is the heart hardened by so many passages: worries, noise, thoughts we no longer choose. The Word reaches the ear but no longer finds the way to the heart.
Others fell on rocky ground. This is the heart that catches fire quickly. It weeps at a sermon, admires the saints, promises change. Then the first scorching heat comes and everything dries up, like a straw fire.
Others fell among thorns. This is the heart that wants both the good and everything else. Money, pride, quarrels, drunkenness, sexual immorality, the concern of appearing to be someone. They grow undisturbed beside the good shoot, until one day they choke it without a sound.
You do not have to look far for these three soils. You carry them all within you, on different days.
The Father’s sorrow
Have you ever seen a parent who gave everything for their child? And who now, grown old, sits at the window waiting for a phone call that no longer comes?
This is, in small measure, God’s sadness.
Or think of a gardener who tended a tree for years. He watered it, protected it from frost, propped it up when the wind bent it. Autumn comes with the basket in his hand. And he leaves with it empty.
God did not give us only a seed. He gave us His Son, the grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died so that it might bear much fruit (John 12:24). He buried His own life in our field.
Then He comes, day after day, to your heart. Not as a judge with the ledger open, but as a Father who hopes. He looks for a forgiveness, a sincere prayer, a hand extended to the one who has nothing. The fruit of His love is our love.
When He finds nothing, He does not grow angry. He grieves. And His grief is heavier than any anger, because it comes from love. Through the prophet Isaiah He asks about His vineyard what more He could have done for it that He did not do (Isaiah 5:4).
What answer would we give Him today?
It is not yet too late
And yet the Sower has not stopped. This should break our hearts more than anything else. He knows how many seeds have been lost in us, and He sows again with the same generous hand.
The path can be plowed. The rock can be broken. The thorns can be pulled out. The soil cannot change its past, but it can choose what it becomes.
He does not ask you for a hundred seeds tomorrow. He asks you for a single green shoot. A forgiveness postponed for years. A general confession. A prayer spoken from the heart, not from habit. A phone call to someone who is alone.
This evening, when He bends once more over your heart, let Him find something. Not out of duty, but because He loves you. Perhaps this time He will leave your field with joy.
Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
Jim Hancock🇸🇴☦🇺🇸 retweeted
The bodycam footage is finally out.
And now the truth is there for everyone to see.
HeeHaw wasn’t charging. He wasn’t attacking. He wasn’t some uncontrollable threat.
He was doing what everyone who knew him said he always did: running up to greet someone in his friendly, curious way.
And for that, Officer Trenton Garner shot and killed him.
Watching the footage makes this even harder to stomach. HeeHaw was a one-year-old miniature donkey, on his own property, being himself. That should never have ended with a gunshot.
For weeks, we demanded answers. We demanded the footage. We demanded accountability.
Now we have the footage, and if anything, it makes the need for justice even more urgent.
There is no world where what happened to HeeHaw should simply be accepted and forgotten.
We are furious. We are heartbroken. And we are more determined than ever.
Officer Trenton Garner must be held accountable for what happened to HeeHaw.
We will not stop speaking his name.
We will not stop pushing for answers.
We will not stop until there is justice.
#JusticeForHeeHaw.
Now more than ever.
