Don’t touch the thermostat. Close the fridge. Turn that light off. Did you leave the water running? Were you raised in a barn?

Landofthe Unconstitutional NFA
Joined February 2017
Replying to @POTUS45
@POTUS45 @realDonaldTrump , @SecWar @PeteHegseth @SecArmy and everybody else who sat in a chair while this dragged on for 17 years: Make December 3 a pay-per-view. Not for him. For them. Fort Hood. 1 p.m. Central. Firing squad. You already approved it. You already set the date. You already put it back on the post where they died. Finish it like leaders. Broadcast it as a national remembrance. Put the 13 on the screen. Put the families in the seats if they want to be there. Let them speak. At 1 p.m. the country hears one volley. Then the picture goes back to the names. Every dollar to the families of the dead and the wounded. That is how America says thank you. That is how you give back a piece of what was taken. On November 5, 2009, thirteen Warriors were killed and thirty-two wounded inside a readiness center while Warriors were processing to deploy, to treat troops, or to go home. The Pentagon called it workplace violence. For years that label kept Purple Hearts and combat benefits off the table! 6 years! It took Congress, in the 2015 defense bill, to force the recognition. Families buried their own and then had to fight their own government to have the dead called what they were. So do not give the country another closed-door procedure and a press release. Give the country the names. Michael Grant Cahill, 62, Cameron, Texas. Retired chief warrant officer. Civilian physician assistant. Back at work after a heart attack. Husband. Father of three. Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Virginia. Psychologist. Born in Ciudad Juárez. First in his family through college. Headed to Afghanistan. Wife, three sons, two stepdaughters. Staff Sgt. Justin Michael DeCrow, 32. Training new soldiers on the paperwork. Husband and father. Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, San Diego. Psychiatric nurse. Arrived the day before to prep for Iraq. Came at the shooter with a chair. Married. A son. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tennessee. Combat engineer. Wife and two daughters. Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, Oklahoma. Iraq veteran. Re-enlisted. Newly married. Three kids. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wisconsin. Enlisted after 9/11. Combat-stress unit. Headed to Afghanistan. Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah. Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Illinois. Capt. Russell Seager, 51, Racine, Wisconsin. Nurse practitioner. Spent his career treating veterans with PTSD. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago. Home from Iraq. Three months pregnant. She and her unborn child both died. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Maryland. Nurse practitioner. Combat-stress care. Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minnesota. Thirteen names. One of them never drew a breath. Thirty-two more carrying wounds into a seventeenth year. You can do this. The authority is already yours. President approved the sentence October 2. Army set the method, the place, and the hour. First military firing squad since 1945. First military execution since 1961. Use it. No biography of the shooter. No manifesto. No face. Roll the names. Roll the photos. Let the people who loved them have the microphone. One volley on the audio. Then back to the 13. All Proceeds to the families. December 3 belongs to the families. Sign it. Share it.
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The worst place to be in America isn't poor. It's middle class with no savings. Open enrollment texted me, so I went down a Medicaid rabbit hole, and I need everyone to understand how broken this is. If you qualify for Medicaid, a procedure that costs thousands barely costs you anything. Doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, basically covered. Make $45k a year with "good" employer insurance? Congrats, you're paying hundreds a month in premiums just to hit a $5,000 deductible before anything kicks in. One ambulance ride and your emergency fund is gone. You don't have an emergency fund? Even better, now it's medical debt. And here's the part that breaks my brain: the system is designed so climbing out is a trap too. Get a raise that pushes you just over the line and you lose coverage overnight. Try to save money while on disability and they cap you at about $2,000 in assets. Poor people are locked in. Middle class people are bleeding out. The only people winning are the ones rich enough to never think about any of this. We work full time to be one bad diagnosis away from ruin. This country isn't failing the poor or the middle class. It's farming both. We are so cooked.
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I rarely post anything other than weather and my awful sports takes, but I need to vent. In a few months we are going to look back and wish we could go back to $5 gas prices. It seems like every day the news headlines just get worse and worse. The worst part about all of this is that it all could have been avoided. Our leadership has no one to blame but themselves.
BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis might have directly struck Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pipeline in the desert southeast of Medina. Sentinel-3 satellite imagery from today shows a massive black smoke plume nearly 100 km long over the pipeline route, stretching across the desert between Medina and Mahd adh Dhahab. Satellite fire data shows a large fire burning at the same spot, with multiple heat anomalies clustered along a stretch of under 10 kilometers, fire radiative power above 70 megawatts, more than double a conventional fire, and the burn sustained for at least 8 hours, per NASA FIRMS data from today. The East-West pipeline carries Saudi crude from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea, the kingdom's only export route that does not pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The fire comes amid Houthi attacks on Saudi territory over the past 24 hours.
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You would not want to live in a world where the death of children didn't make men emotional, I promise you.
Men are really emotional about this Lindsey Clancy trial.
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Great to hear! But justice delayed is justice denied.
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No. Rascal did not meet the man. However, Rascal thought he was tops. One of the few truly good ones, if you will. I told him it might be in poor taste. Rascal said, he loved the man and everyone else could just get over it. 🤷‍♂️ So this week's giveaway is very much a celebration of and an homage to that good and beloved actor, passionate farmer, and kindly nature loving soul, Sam Neill. Rascal knows the SPAS12 is more in line but, alas, we do not have one. So, even though it is more @prattprattpratt than Sam we will be giving away a Marlin SBL 45-70 govt! To Enter: FOLLOW us as well as our long time sponsor @SummRidge , repost or quote post this post (I know y'all have some good gifs ready), and be sure to ALSO REPLY to this post. Good luck all and thank you for participating with us and helping spread the word! In honor of Sam, get outside this weekend and enjoy the beauty that is all around you, waiting for you. Good luck & Godspeed Mr. Neill.
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Absolute gold from a brand-new Clemson student to @wyffnews4: “I’ve been in South Carolina for, I don’t know, six days, had Cookout. I’m never leaving. I don’t know why anyone would go to Michigan.”
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82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic. What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years. First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home. Eight months later, her luck ran out completely. June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815. The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship. The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges. So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding. Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications. But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight. So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy. The secret held until the war ended. Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII. And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry. She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.
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I was mowing my lawn and an inexplicable pang of grief overwhelmed me. My wife confirmed it when she ran from the house with the news moments later. RIP
Today, we remember a legend. On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline. Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme. He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on. Gone, but never forgotten. Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸 May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016 Forever in our hearts.
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Jon Batson retweeted
Today I learned the people who make pure silicon are basically the Samurai sword makers and master blacksmiths of our era and that even if China gets Taiwan they wont be able to make chips anywhere near as good as the US can because we have the purest quartz in the world.
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Chipper Jones sharing his favourite Bobby Cox ejection story Rest easy, Bobby Cox
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Super Sky Point to Bobby Cox, who piloted the Braves to 14 division titles and a World Series triumph. Perhaps most impressively, he was ejected 161 times during his Hall of Fame career. That’s an entire season of righteous anger. Tell St. Peter to watch balls and strikes. #RIP
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Jon Batson retweeted
We were saddened to hear the news today of Bobby’s passing. So thankful for the chance to play for him. What can I say? He saved my career. Hung in there with me during my early days and made the decision to move me to the outfield. Changed my career/life forever. From Nancy and I, and the whole Murphy family—thank you, Bobby. Rest in peace. @Braves
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MLB Network mourns the passing of Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox.
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Catamounts win game four! @CatamountSB x #itsallhere
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Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center! Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more. Tickets available at tickets.obama.org.
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Jon Batson retweeted
Way to fulfill your utility role! Great game yesterday, we are proud of you! @Allygracebatson
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HOME RUN!!! AG Batson blasts one over the centerfield wall for her fourth of the season and it gets a little closer in the fifth. #CatamountCountry | #WheeAreOne | #Team21
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#WHEEWIN over N.C. Central.. We complete the midweek doubleheader sweep with an 8-0 shutout in game two of the Eagles. Sydney Dirks and Becka Wonsick homered in game two as AG Batson earned the CG victory in the circle. #CatamountCountry | #WheeAreOne | #Team21
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