Been through the Profession and Passion phases, now it’s all about Purpose. God only knows what I’m doing on Twitter!
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Tim Rethlake retweeted
Maybe this is why she couldn't find the fraud.
@peggyflanagan, in her own words:
"I'm going to tell you a secret, and don't tell anybody, okay? ... I graduated from high school with a 1.75 GPA by the skin of my teeth and I got into college based on stellar letters of recommendation and a charming personality."
A 1.75 GPA. By her own admission, she talked her way into college on personality.
She's spent eight years as @LtGovFlanagan while $250 million was looted through Feeding Our Future and billions more disappeared across state programs — and she never saw a thing. She oversaw the whole State while Walz was AWOL for a while year running for VP. Now she wants a promotion to the U.S. Senate?
Washington doesn't need another charming personality. It needs someone who can read a balance sheet.
16 days. #SaveOurState #StopTheFraud #VoteRepublican
VOTE @Michele_Tafoya for Senate
Being unique is a good way to be memorable to prospects.
But being unique only matters if it is in service to how your solution serves customers.
This is why, for example, you don’t wear clown shoes to your first meeting.
Yes, they’ll remember you, and probably speak about you after.
But not in a way you would want them to.
Be different where it counts, where it matters to them.
Tim Rethlake retweeted
Oh do I have a true story for you today…
Trip to Walmart today, I saw
an elderly lady stocking shelves. She dropped an item, I picked it up for her. In a very feeble voice, she says thank you. I asked how old she was, in her late 80’s. We talked a minute or two, she is going through so much, trying to survive.
I gave her a $100 bill, told her to get something she needed.
Why is anyone this old, in the United States, working? Why do politicians insist on taking care of the rest of the world? I'll never understand it, they are suppose to work for us!
Something needs to change. All I see is no respect, no discipline, no morals, want everything free!
It's a damn shame! People wonder why I hate politicians so bad!
We need term limits, NOW!
I’m not a millionaire, struggle myself. But, I’ll be damned if I’ll watch an elderly person, near 90 years old do this shit, just to survive!
Not sure who needs to hear this today, but here ya go. . .
There will be plenty of people who will doubt you.
Just make sure you’re not one of them.
#confidenceiscontagious
A prayer for us this week:
“Creator of all, as we strive this week to provide for those you have entrusted to our care, help us to remember the gifts you have bestowed on us that allow us to serve others.
We thank you for our physical health that provides the engine that fuels our actions.
We thank you for our intellect that provides the creativity that inspires others.
We thank you for our soul that provides the love that comforts others.
Amen.”
Tim Rethlake retweeted
Imagine taking $253 million of federal money through 48 grants, and when the Inspector General shows up asking the most basic questions any bookkeeper would ask… did these people exist, were they eligible, did they get the training, were the wages real… you go dark for four months and then call the questions too intrusive.
That is Minnesota. Tim Walz's Department of Employment and Economic Development sat on numerous requests for participant data on 26 grants worth $210,898,737 and handed over nothing, not a spreadsheet, not a file, nothing. Their excuse is privacy for 30,000 residents. Privacy? You took the money from the people of this country and now the people of this country are not allowed to see where it went?
Here is the reality. The IG memo itself says the missing data does not by itself prove the money was misspent, fair enough, and yet it also says nobody can verify whether participants existed, whether they got the services reported, or whether the reported wages were accurate. When you refuse to let anyone check, you are telling us exactly what the books look like. Honest people do not hide receipts. Anthony D'Esposito called it deliberate obstruction and he is right.
And keep in mind this is the same state that gave us Feeding Our Future, $250 million meant to feed needy kids gone out the door, in a state the administration says got bilked for as much as $9 billion. Walz walked away from his reelection bid saying he needed to focus on defending Minnesotans against the criminals who prey on their generosity… and his own agency cannot produce a single participant record for the auditors. How do you not see it?
I have seen this movie over and over. The money comes out of your paycheck, runs through Washington, lands in a state agency, flows out to subrecipients nobody can name, and when someone finally asks, the answer is always the same… trust us, it is too sensitive to show you. You are the one paying for it, and you are the one they treat like you have no right to ask.
Make no mistake, this is institutional rot and it is despicable. Subpoena every record, freeze these grants until every dollar is accounted for, and do not send one more cent to people who will not show the receipts.
Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT.
Love,
What all of you good people are thinking
Minnesota took $210 MILLION in @USDOL grants. Now it’s stonewalling investigators.
Taking YOUR money is fine. Asking where it went is “too intrusive.”
You took it. Account for it.
@DOLOIG & @WHFraudTF demand answers. nypost.com/2026/10/16/us-new…
Tim Rethlake retweeted
While the Somali Fraud gets all the headlines, people don't realize how lucrative we make it in Minnesota for the Somali's to come here, hate America and not work
Say there is an Unemployed Somali Couple with 3 kids...here are the LEGAL benefits they get,(without ANY of the Fraud)
Free housing (Up to $2500/mo)
Roughly $2,000/month in cash and food benefits
Full medical coverage for the whole family, Zero Out of Pocket
Energy assistance grant for utilities. Covers most or all
Discounted or free cell phone/internet via the Lifeline program
WIC for young children and infants, plus free school meals
$2500 a month for Daycare,(can be paid to the nieghbor)
Oh and if the Kids are "Autistic" they get $990/mo for each, non taxed because its SSI
So while we need to go after the Fraud, we also need to look at the LEGAL benefits we are providing to people that hate us and hate our country
Several of my “homework” assignments to followers here call for you to be by yourself with no distractions, just you and your big ol’ brain thinking away.
It’s hard to do because our brain has been conditioned to always be receiving stimuli and it doesn’t know how to process silence anymore.
Here’s proof. In a UVA study, 25% of women, and 2/3rds of male participants chose to give themselves an electrical shock rather than sit for 15 minutes with no stimulation!
We don’t have to live this way. Your brain can be retrained to be at peace with silence. It’s a choice and you have the freedom to make it.
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
Saw this in a small art gallery today.
Made me chuckle, but also had to appreciate the not so subtle persuasive message.
Posting this week about gotta have traits when hiring sales team members.
They must have a strong ego, not a big ego.
Strong egos are perfectly happy making the customer the hero, big egos can’t step out of the spotlight.
Strong egos handle rejection as a challenge to improve, big egos handle rejection by blaming the customer.
Strong egos have grit and steadiness over the long haul, big egos continually bounce between highs and lows.
Yesterday, I posted that Curiosity was a key trait to look for when hiring a new sales rep.
Here’s another one, “Proactive”, which I define this way;
A proactive person believes tomorrow can be better than today, and I have the freedom to make it so.
Now, having the freedom to do it and actually doing it aren’t the same, but believing you have the agency and o make things better is more than half the battle.
Think I’m overstating this? Do you know any successful sales reps who have a reactive mindset?
I rest my case.
Curiosity is an important trait to look for when hiring new salespeople.
But you can’t just ask, “Are you a curious person?” So use how they prepped for this interview to gauge their level of curiosity.
Here’s a way to do that:
Ask, “Tell me what you did to prep for this interview.”
You’ll likely hear how they went on your company website, and how they Googled you.
That’s just table stakes. Now, probe deeper:
“Where, specifically, did you go on our website? Why those pages? What did you learn? Where did that lead you? Where else did you look? Who else did you talk to?”
A candidate that can share stories with you that shows diligent research and a knack for connecting the dots, has high curiosity and will likely commit the time to knowing their prospects before asking for that first meeting.
A prayer for us this week:
“Creator of all, we thank you for the grace you bestow on each of us.
The grace of our eternal reward need not be earned, but it can be lost depending on how we use our free will.
This week, as we make choices of our actions (and inactions), give us wisdom in those moments of choice to choose the highest good which is reflective of your love for all of us. Amen.”
Tim Rethlake retweeted
One of the best aspects of being married...
Someone who will tell you the hard truths when nobody else will.
Case in point:
Nick Saban says he complained about how the media made him look like a bad guy until his wife asked if he’d ever watched his own press conferences
“I used to come home and complain about it. I would say, ‘I don’t understand why I’m being sort of depicted this way when that’s not really who I am.’ And she said, ‘Do you ever watch yourself?’”
“I said, ‘No.’ She said, Well, it comes from your press conferences. You know, you’re anxious. You don’t treat these people with much respect. You don’t have any relationships with them. You never smile…”
“You never joke. You never make people feel a part of what you’re trying to do or respect what they’re trying to do, which is to promote your sport. So, what do you expect?”
“And it really, really pissed me off that she said that because I didn’t realize that, but she was right.”
Tim Rethlake retweeted
Every day, our culture hurdles gleefully to the brink of destruction.
At some point, a majority of Americans picked a political party and that party told you to be afraid: if you don’t vote for them, the other party will win and ruin everything.
And so, we cheered our party on.
We ignored their moral depravity because they convinced us the moral depravity of the other guy is and will be worse.
Your party made sure you were terrified and angry all the time about the other guy; they did this because frightened and angry people are easily led.
We refused to demand better and now the chickens have come home to roost.
You should read the headline of this article and be terrified of what’s coming, but you won’t. You’ve been trained to not think too deeply, particularly when it comes to questioning your own party.
What is coming is death: The death of our beloved republic, the final death of what tiny, fractured consciences we have left.
We pretended we could kill thousands of unborn children every day and not be broken by it.
We pretended we could cheer on & justify those who opposed abortion, even if it was clear they were wicked.
We pretended we could jump into war after war, breaking generations of men and women and never pay the price for it.
The two parties only agree on three things:
Debt is good
War is perpetual
The Jews are the bad guys.
No matter who we vote for, we fall deeper into debt, bomb and kill more people in foreign countries and destroy the future for the next generation
I beg is all to leave the matrix and embrace Christ.
Embrace the dignity of the human person, from conception to natural death
Refuse to be scared into voting for demons.
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
For those of you playing along at home, this might be good to contemplate this weekend. . .
Find a spot where it’s just you, paper, and pen. No phone, no other people. Even your dog should sit this one out. So, no distractions.
Write your answer to this question:
“What are all the things I’m afraid of?”
This will be harder than it sounds. We tend to not want to look in that dark closet for fear of what’s in there. We’re talking about the big ones here. Like:
“I’m afraid my spouse doesn’t love me anymore.”
“I’m afraid of my children growing distant from me.”
“I’m afraid of losing my job.”
“I’m afraid of not aging well.”
Next, score each one from 1 - 10, with 1 = “Not likely to happen” and 10 = “Highly likely to happen”. (For scores of eight or higher, what evidence do you have?)
Cross any fears with scores of seven or lower off your list.
Then divide the remaining fears into three groups:
1. Those you have zero influence over.
2. Those you have some influence over.
3. Those you have significant influence over.
Cross group 1 off your list.
What you have left is a list of fears that have a high probability of happening, that you have some to significant influence over.
Now, what are you going to do about it?
Tim Rethlake retweeted
A’ja Wilson wins WNBA MVP.
Caitlin Clark became the first player in league history to average 20 points and 8 assists. She got just 1 first-place vote.
And 19 of the 74 voters left her off their ballots entirely.
Tim Rethlake retweeted
Asad Aliweyd, the spokesperson at Wednesday’s press conference, is the executive director of a nonprofit ordered to repay $1.1 million to the state for “fraudulent claims,” according to KARE 11’s own reporting.
This was not mentioned in any Minnesota mainstream media report from yesterday, in case you were wondering.
Somali leaders cite American upbringing, gun violence and overworked parents amid gang shootings
"This is not a Somali community [issue] … This is a gun violence issue," one speaker said.
Another speaker, Asad Aliweyd, said: “This is not simply a Somali problem. It’s a youth violence and gun violence problem and we must address it together."
Aliweyd is the executive director of a nonprofit that was ordered to pay back $1.1 million to the state for “fraudulent claims,” according to reports. He has not been charged with any crime.
Tim Rethlake retweeted
Keith Ellison says Republicans mean to cheat in the midterms, and people should be "ready to protest, take to the streets."
"Don't act like, oh, they couldn't mean that. They mean it...So be ready to get your dukes up."
"I'm one who believes in peaceful protest, First Amendment."
"But if they try to take our vote away, we should absolutely be in the street. And I'll be right out there with everybody else."
So the sitting Minnesota AG is casting doubts on the legitimacy of the election before a vote is counted and warning about firing up street mobilization in response.
Not too long ago, this kind of rhetoric was deemed by Democrats as A Threat To Democracy -- but now it's just boilerplate Democrat.