#Pickens County

[bachiles]

Table Rock Tea Company

Chris and I went on a little adventure last week and it included visiting a place that has been on our bucket list for awhile. When we were driving home from some trip we saw a sign for Table Rock Tea Company in South Carolina. Now given that this is only about 40 minutes away from us it wasn’t a huge trip but one that we had to fit into our schedule. We wanted to take advantage of the free tour…

[aspiringbelle]

I'm glad I won't be there.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

A no-kill shelter in my area is on the verge of closure due to lack of funds. Pickens County Humane Society has experienced a sharp decline in donations and a rise in expenses. If they aren't able to raise money FAST, they will have to shut down.

This region is flooded with strays. We desperately need open shelters, and the government barely gives a shit. If you've got some extra cash and a soft spot for animals, please, throw a few bucks their way.

[tomoleary]

Mike Mignola - B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 5: The Pickens County Horror and Others Trade Paperback Original Cover Art (2012)

Source, source

[mutant-distraction]

Edgar Vergara, of Jasper, captured this amazing trail-camera photo in Pickens County on Oct. 22, 2023 at 3 a.m. “I’ve never seen a deer photo like this before!” Edgar said.

[crownbonding1]

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[business4u]

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[heberthome]

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[genderqueerpositivity]

A slew of anti-trans bills were just filed in SC. Some target an issue that isn't happening.

Transgender issues could prove to be a major topic in the South Carolina State House in 2024, judging by a slew of Republican-led bills filed ahead of the upcoming legislative session.

Nine bills pre-filed in the S.C. House pertaining to gender transition procedures, gender affirming care, gender-assigned bathrooms and other LGBTQ-related issues signal that the topic of LGBTQ+ care and access could be one of the major talking points among the state’s lawmakers this year. More than one bill has been filed pertaining to surgeries specifically, and one of them is championed by two of the most powerful Republican figures in the state.

As expected, starting the year and legislative session off by targeting trans people.

Hiott, who represents the Upstate’s Pickens County, said he believes it’s wrong to think there are more than two genders and that no doctor in South Carolina should be performing gender reassignment surgery on someone under the age of 18.

“I just think that you were born a male or you were born a female, and that’s the only two genders there are,” Hiott said. “What you were born as, that’s what God intended you to be, and I don’t believe it should be anybody’s right to change that.”

Fuck Christian fascism.

[67-romeo]

A South Carolina Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift cargo helicopter and a UH-60L Black Hawk medium-lift utility helicopter from 59th Aviation Troop Command and crews support the South Carolina Forestry Commission to contain a remote fire near Table Rock, Pickens County, South Carolina, Nov. 20, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine) More photos of this ongoing mission can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/scguard/albums/72157672902078803

[wutbju]

The State reported this weekend that Ellen Weaver's Department of education "retained a private attorney" to help it limit schools from choosing their own books for their own libraries.

The attorney? Class of 2005 Miles Coleman.

The State did a good job of covering Miles' deep ties with the "intellectual" side of Klandamentalism:

Miles Coleman, an attorney with the prominent Nelson Mullins law firm and president of the Columbia chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative national legal group, was contracted by the Department of Education to represent it regarding the new regulation. Coleman, who the Education Department described as a nationally recognized expert in First Amendment law, was retained at a rate of $225 an hour, according to a request to employ outside counsel that state Superintendent Ellen Weaver filed with the state Attorney General’s Office.

They continued:

Coleman, a partner at Nelson Mullins in Greenville, also specializes in appeals, business litigation and complex civil and criminal litigation, according to his bio. Among other clients, he represented the Pickens County school district in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP concerning the district’s decision to ban the book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. He also represented the Christian Learning Centers of Greenville, a private religious education provider, in their fight to obtain a $1.5 million state earmark. A 2009 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Coleman has been heavily involved in conservative organizations. In addition to being a member of the executive committee of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, Coleman was a fellow at the National Review and is currently the secretary of the board of directors at School Ministries, an organization that provides support for public school students to go off campus during school hours to study the bible. While in law school, Coleman also received a 2007 Blackstone Legal Fellowship. The fellowship is a summer legal training program run by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group, which was designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ADF has strongly denied this characterization and describes itself as a leading Christian law firm “committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.” “Mr. Coleman is a nationally recognized First Amendment expert whose work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Coleman was engaged by the SCDE regarding the State Board of Education’s instructional materials regulation to help ensure it protected students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights,” Raven said. While the Department of Education has a general counsel, it’s not unusual for state agencies to work with outside counsel when special expertise is needed, Raven told The State. Coleman also appeared to take a leading role in pitching the new rule to legislators. In April, Coleman appeared at least twice before legislators to explain the need for the new rule, saying that it aimed to fix a “patchwork quilt of 80 or more different policies,” according to the South Carolina Daily Gazette. He also defended the regulation’s sweeping prohibition on “sexual content” in library books and classroom materials. By keeping the definition broad, Coleman told lawmakers that the Department of Education was trying to avoid lengthy debates about what did or did not meet standards, according to the Daily Gazette. “It’s simple enough that it’s not going to get bogged down,” he told lawmakers.

We all know Miles. We know his parents:

And remember his grandfather too.

And do you remember what his grandfather said about Chuck Phelps after we alumni were up-in-arms about his defense of a violent rapist?

This is "justice" in Klandamentalism. It's all connected. Tightly connected.

[lowcountry-gothic]

Table Rock in Pickens County, South Carolina. Photo by Adam Kring.

[cathedral-of-the-forest]

Apparently Deer also ignore the Counties prohibition on animals on the ball fields. In our defense, no one uses the balls fields to play ball this time of year. Hell most South Carolinians don’t even like to go outside when it’s 4O degrees out. Not unless they have too, anyways.

As for the deer? Well, they are Pickens County Deer, and everyone knows Pickens County Deer are real pricks. So, not a shocker.

[beardedmrbean]

More details have emerged about the suspect who fatally shot a Tennessee surgeon inside of an exam room where the doctor worked. 

Larry Pickens, 29, was charged with first degree murder and aggravated assault for allegedly shooting and killing Dr. Benjamin Mauck, the Collierville Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday. He was arraigned on Thursday morning at the Collierville Municipal Court and is being held on a $1.2 million dollar bond, according to online jail records. 

Police believe that Pickens was a long-term patient of the Campbell Clinic, and Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane told CBS News "he had visited multiple sites" within the network. It was a one-on-one targeted attack, Lane said. 

CBS affiliate WREG-TV reported that a nurse told police that Pickens allegedly pulled a gun from his waistband and fired three shots. The nurse said she recognized Pickens from previous visits to the clinic. 

The Collierville Police Department said they do not have any prior reports regarding Pickens but are checking other agencies. 

Police have not released a motive in the case, but WREG reported that Pickens had previous run-ins with law enforcement. In one case he told police "he had mental health issues," and "was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been off his medication."

The suspect had reportedly been at the clinic for several hours before the shooting, Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane said, and investigators are currently interviewing staff at other clinics. The orthopedic clinic system, founded in 1909, has nine locations and two ambulatory sites, with 90 doctors, the website says. A statement from the clinic said they "are shocked and heartbroken" by the death of Dr. Mauck.

Pickens was apprehended outside the clinic five minutes after the shooting.

"We were able to take him into custody without any further delay," Lane said. He said the 911 call came in at 2:03 p.m. in the afternoon, and the first officer arrived at the scene at 2:06, and the suspect was in custody a few minutes later. 

Collierville is in Shelby County just outside of Memphis. 

[gobbluthbutagirl]

trump rally in pickens county south carolina attended by lindsey graham AND marjorie taylor greene. then huge thunderstorm in pickens county south carolina that leaves 1,500+ households without power. @god if you weren’t such a bad shot you could have killed three birds with one stone

[sheniq]

Willie Earle is shown in a police mug shot. Accused of robbing and killing a white taxi driver, he was lynched by a group of whites in 1947. On February 17, 1947, Willie Earle, a twenty-four year old African-American man, was being held in the Pickens County Jail in South Carolina, on charges of assaulting a white taxi cab driver. A mob of white men, mostly taxi cab drivers, seized Mr. Earle from the jail, took him to a deserted country road near Greenville, brutally beat him with guns and knives, and then shot him to death. When arrested, twenty-six of the thirty-one defendants gave full statements admitting participation in Earle’s death. A trial commenced, and at its start, Judge J. Robert Martin warned that he would “not allow racial issues to be injected in this case.”During the ten-day trial, the defendants chewed gum and chuckled each time the victim was mentioned. The defense did not present any witnesses or evidence to rebut the confessions, and instead blamed “northern interference” for bringing the case to trial at all. At one point, the defense attorney likened Earle to a “mad dog” that deserved killing, and the mostly white spectators laughed in support. Despite the undisputed confession, the all-white jury acquitted the defendants of all charges on May 21, 1947, and the judge ordered them released. Some Greenville leaders cited the trial as progress in Southern race relations: “This was the first time that South Carolina has brought mass murder charges against alleged lynchers. This jury acquitted them. If there should be another case, perhaps we may get a mistrial with a hung jury. Eventually, the south may return convictions.” In 1948, when Earle’s mother attempted to collect under a state law ordering counties to pay two thousand dollars to the family of a lynching victim, her claim was denied on the grounds that, due to the acquittals, there was no proof her son had been lynched. In 2010, an historical marker was erected near the site of Willie Earle’s murder. #BlackHistory #WhiteHistory #criticalracetheory #reparations https://www.instagram.com/p/CoyOuTBrYKH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=