JJJ Senior

Never Concede, We the People voter, #MAGA 👊
Believe's in (Pro) Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness.❤ My wife & kids, God, Music, Jeopardy.❤ USA ❤

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

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[Love Music @khnh80044]

Loved it .. that's comedy gold!😂

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@Jigger639 @AlexDelarge6553 And so did John Wayne? She definitely had the sheriff’s interest.

[Jonathan Kriebel/KrispyKris @krispykriskring]

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.

Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.

Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders. The German secret police sentenced him to death, and his execution was only days away.

At the same time, his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child. Most people in her position would have gone into hiding, grieved quietly, and prayed for a miracle.

Lucie Aubrac decided to do something completely different.

She got her hands on forged identity papers, created a believable cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie. History would later remember Barbie as the brutal Butcher of Lyon, but Lucie did not let fear stop her.

She looked him in the eye and successfully convinced him to grant her a final visit with her condemned husband.

But Lucie did not risk her life just to say a tearful goodbye. While she was inside the prison area, she was secretly memorizing the positions of the guards, counting the minutes between patrols, and mapping out the exact route the prison truck would take.

She was treating a desperate situation like a military operation.

On October 21, 1943, that prison truck rolled through the streets of Lyon. It was carrying Raymond and several other prisoners toward what should have been their final destination.

What the German soldiers did not know was that Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a dedicated team of Resistance fighters.

She planned an ambush with absolute precision.

When the truck finally reached the chosen ambush spot, her team struck fast, coordinated, and without a single moment of hesitation.

In the middle of the sudden gunfire and chaos, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free from the truck. Lucie, who was visibly and unmistakably pregnant, had organized every single detail of his dramatic liberation.

Right after the rescue, the couple had to go into deep hiding. A few weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched frantically for them across France. They managed to evade capture until the war ended.

When liberation finally came, the Aubracs did not just try to sit back and recover from their trauma. Instead, they rebuilt their lives and continued to serve their country.

Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life to help rebuild France's infrastructure. Lucie became a respected historian, pouring decades of her life into making sure that the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten.

She wanted to make sure these women, who were so often unnamed in the history books, were written permanently into the record. Together, the couple raised three children, traveled the world, argued, laughed, and grew old side by side.

Years later, journalists asked Lucie what had compelled her to risk everything on that dangerous October day. She did not hesitate for a second. She looked at them and said, "He was my husband. What else would I do?"

In his final years, he continued speaking publicly to young generations about the Resistance, the power of memory, and the absolute obligation to tell the truth about history.

When Lucie passed away in 2007 at 94, and Raymond followed her in 2012 at 97, they left behind a 64 year marriage that was a testament to the ultimate triumph of life and family over hatred.

Their love didn't just survive a war it blossomed into a lifetime of shared smiles, proving that the greatest force in the world is a heart that refuses to give up on the one it loves ♥️♥️

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

Ok, so really teach Skattebo a non lesson/lesson, trade him to the @Eagles ??? Just sayin? I dare ya! 😊

[Aidan Doc 🧸 @AidanDoc__]

I’m glad the NFL is going away with this coaching style.

[Dan El Captain @Mrstanleycup]

The Wife Who Believed Before the NFL Did
Kurt Warner's truck ran out of gas on a freezing winter night.
Brenda and their two kids were inside.
All four of them dug through the seats for loose change.
They didn't find many coins.
Kurt jogged to a gas station thinking his kids deserved better.
About five years later, he was a Super Bowl MVP.
But Brenda had already lived a lifetime.
She was a U.S. Marine. Her son Zack was born in 1989.
At 4 months old, an accident left him with a brain injury and legally blind.
Doctors didn't expect him to ever sit up.
Read that again.
Then her marriage ended while she was eight months pregnant.
She moved back in with her parents. Went on food stamps. Finished nursing school.
Then she met a college quarterback at a country bar.
He showed up the next day to meet her kids. Zack grabbed his hand and pulled him inside.
"No judgment, no expectation, just loved him," Brenda says.
But football wasn't working.
Green Bay cut Kurt in 1994. He stocked shelves overnight at a grocery store for $5.50 an hour and took care of the kids by day.
Brenda had never even watched an NFL game.
They married in 1997. Kurt adopted Zack and Jesse. Five more kids followed.
The Rams signed him that December and sent him to Amsterdam. Kurt says Brenda told him: "I will hold down the home front for three months."
Then 1999. Then 41 touchdowns. Then the NFL MVP and a Super Bowl with a then-record 414 yards.
Think about that.
In 2001, they started the First Things First Foundation. By May 2024, it had given a home to its 61st family.
In 2017, Kurt chose Brenda to present him at the Hall of Fame. "You, above all others, deserved to share this stage with me," he told her.
In 2018, they opened Treasure House, a home for adults with disabilities. It was Brenda's idea. Zack was one of its first six residents.
From a baby doctors didn't expect to sit up to one of the first residents of a home his parents built.
Some quarterbacks are measured in MVPs.
Kurt Warner is measured in a truck out of gas. A wife who held down the home front. A home for people like Zack.

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

Gotta love this story, in today’s world? My wife just said, That’s one lucky woman. 😉

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

Tom Selleck spent years in the margins of Hollywood before anyone recognized his face.

He was nearly six-foot-four, athletic, and raised in the San Fernando Valley after being born in Detroit. He played basketball and studied business at USC, convinced his future was in sports.

Someone suggested he try acting. At first the idea struck him as absurd. Still, he took classes. Then more classes. Eventually he gave up any thought of a conventional path and started showing up for auditions.

For a long stretch, almost nothing landed. He did commercials for Pepsi and Close-Up toothpaste because he needed the money. There were stretches when the phone stayed quiet and he wondered whether he was wasting his time. He kept going anyway.

In 1980, CBS cast him as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. The character was unlike the typical television detectives of the era—witty, easygoing, and human.

A Vietnam veteran living in Hawaii who solved cases with humor rather than grim intensity. Viewers responded immediately. The show ran for eight seasons. Selleck won an Emmy and became one of the most recognizable faces on American television.

Around the same time, Steven Spielberg was casting an adventure film about an archaeologist with a hat and a whip. Selleck was the first choice.

He auditioned and, by most accounts, impressed the room. He had the look, the presence, and the right tone. CBS, however, refused to release him from his Magnum contract.

The network had invested heavily in the series and was not willing to lose its lead. Spielberg cast Harrison Ford instead. The role became Indiana Jones.

For years afterward, people asked Selleck whether he regretted missing it. He consistently said no. Magnum had been a gift, and he was grateful for what it gave him.

In the years that followed, he made a less common choice for a star at the peak of his success. He slowed down. In 1987 he married Jillie Mack, a British actress he met in London. Their daughter Hannah was born the next year.

Selleck began prioritizing his family over the industry’s usual pace. He bought an avocado ranch in California, turned down work that would keep him away for long stretches, and lived at a different speed from most of Hollywood.

In 2010 he returned to television in Blue Bloods, playing Frank Reagan, the New York police commissioner and patriarch of a family shaped by duty and tradition.

The series ran for fourteen seasons. He kept working into his seventies, but on his own terms and with the distance from the industry he had chosen decades earlier.

His career has none of the usual public scandals or dramatic comebacks. It is the story of a man who was told for years he would never make it, who lost one of the most iconic roles of his generation for reasons outside his control, and who eventually decided that what he already had was enough. 🌹

[Kene @Tempo_ae]

Won an Oscar for her performance

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

LUCILLE BALL talks with Dick Cavett in 1971 about her early years and being typecast.

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

Thousands of fans lined the streets outside a church on Long Island in September 1967, hoping for a glimpse of one of television’s biggest stars on his wedding day.

What they witnessed was the beginning of a marriage that would quietly outlast nearly every Hollywood headline around it.

On September 16, 1967, Scottish actor David McCallum—then famous as Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.—married Katherine Carpenter at the Lutheran Church of Our Savior in Valley Stream, New York.

Katherine was a fashion model when the two met. For McCallum, the relationship arrived during a painful stretch after the end of his first marriage to actress Jill Ireland. The wedding drew a large crowd, but the real story unfolded long after the cameras and fans left.

Over the next 56 years, David and Katherine built a life centered on steadiness rather than spectacle. They raised a blended family and welcomed two children of their own.

Katherine later moved into interior design while David continued acting, eventually becoming a household name again as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS. In interviews, he spoke simply about their partnership: the need to share burdens, understand each other, and keep choosing one another through ordinary days.

David McCallum died on September 25, 2023, at the age of 90—just nine days after the couple’s 56th wedding anniversary.

Their marriage stood as a reminder that lasting love is rarely about the grand moments people gather to watch. More often, it is the accumulation of quieter decisions made when no one is looking.

Hollywood gave David McCallum fame. Katherine Carpenter shared more than half a century of his life.🌹

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@NYC voter were warned. 😐 Just sayin?

[AvaArmstrong,🇺🇸 Author @MsAvaArmstrong]

Why am I not surprised 🫠

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

When Rita Moreno appeared as a guest on The Muppet Show in 1976, she created one of the greatest musical comedy sketches in television history.

Attempting to perform the classic jazz piece "Fever" with charm and elegance, she faced her arch-nemesis: Animal the drummer.

What made this act a timeless masterpiece was Moreno's exceptional comedic talent.

Instead of being genuinely overshadowed, she used every annoyed glance, every calculated silence, and every explosive reaction to perfectly counter Animal's chaotic drumming.

Nearly 50 years later, this iconic confrontation remains a classic example of how a talented artist can transform high-level music into pure, unadulterated comedy. 👑😂

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.

Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.

His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready.

On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge.

That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners.

So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening.

A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting.

York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods.

By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors.

When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132."

He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education.

When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him.

The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@USATRUMPMAN1 George Orwell, from the novel Animal Farm, I think it was the pig, Napoleon 🤔

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

Yeh, and Benghazi was caused be a Utube video/film or something, posted on the internet? As if? The minions carried the story??

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Never Forget…

The Obama Department of Defense and the Army catagorized the Fort Hood Terror attack “work place violence” because they did not want it labeled as an Islamic Terror Attack.

Even though Nidal Hasan shout “Allahu Akbar” as he killed 13 Americans.

Telling.

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@RockNRoLL_85 Saw his good bye tour concert. Even as an old guy, he was great? His opening act was John Bonham’s son band. It was an excellent concert. 🙏

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@USATRUMPMAN1 Hard days night?

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

Sad story, yes. I live in Baltimore, 45 years ago +/-, when it was known as charm city, was married there, in wonderful neighborhood church. Since then, have left, raised kids outside the city. Church’s have closed, neighborhoods are in trouble, Charm City is Charm City no more?

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

Claudia Bismark was a beloved artist who lived in Fells Point for more than 35 years.

She was 76.

On Tuesday she went to breakfast with her husband.

Charging documents say a man sat in the back of the deli and watched her husband pay in cash.

When they left, he went out the back door and followed them.

A few blocks later he came up from behind, knocked them both to the ground, and took a wallet with $150 in it.

Claudia died Thursday.

Her husband, Wade, was left with a concussion and facial injuries.

The man charged is Montray McCray, 32.

Prosecutors cited at least 5 prior convictions, and local reports list:

* Guns
* Drugs
* Theft
* Evading arrest
* Violating a protective order
* Retaliating against a witness
* Court documents also list him as a lifetime registered sex offender.

A lengthy criminal record.

A lifetime sex-offender registration.

And he was still free to walk into a market, pick out 2 victims over breakfast, chase them down and kill one of them.

For $150.

The judge held him without bail this time, and homicide charges are expected.

A woman paid with her life.

For $150.

Her neighbors are the ones who helped identify him.

Meanwhile, I couldn't find a word of national coverage.

Only local Baltimore news has covered it.

Baltimore, the least you owe Claudia is to make sure he never walks free again.

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@WIPMorningShow A little too much gets laid on Hurts. Anyone who watched that Chicago travesty & didn’t see the Rams debacle coming? I don’t know, I think it’s a coaching thing? The penalties alone stand out? The coach has to put the his players in a better position to make plays? Been there? 🤨

[JJJ Senior @3jsenior]

@USATRUMPMAN1 Get Smart, great TV & also very entertaining & good movie. 🤓