Barb W

Five beloved kids and one even-more- beloved husband. I'm blessed.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[Rep. Riley M. Moore @RepRileyMoore]

Saint Pope John Paul II said that the Sacred Heart of Jesus “has given men everything: redemption, salvation, sanctification.”

Today, with gratitude for this most amazing gift, the Bishops of the United States are consecrating our country to the Most Sacred Heart.

Catholics, Christians, and all patriots should read this message from the President and pray for our country today.
https://t.co/BiwWOcPpQf

[Barb W @5andone]

@fem_mb We went last night. It was meh. The first was so much better and we went with high hopes. Oh well…

[RON .D. WATKINS @Ron_WatkinsQ]

🚨 BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth reveals that after IMMENSE pressure, Scouting America — formerly the Boy Scouts — has CAVED to demands they go back to separating males and females in showers, tents and intimate spaces

They're also OVERTURNING woke, DEI policies

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX): Your organization said that restricting and banning abortion is a tool that the far right uses to maintain white supremacy. Do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacist?”

SPLC CEO Bryan Fair: “Ummm, I believe that reproductive liberty is... I can’t answer that question yes or no.”

Brandon Gill: “How many babies that are in the United States that are aborted are black?”

Bryan Fair: *Speechless*

Brandon Gill: “About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies—blacks represent about 13% of the population. Does that sound like something a white supremacist would oppose?”

I love this guy!

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

They show this speech on a loop in the museum at Normandy. It’s that good.

[The Real Guardrail Guy @theguardrailguy]

https://t.co/gB7OIfr0Om

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Rodney is a great, great American who has created one of the best, simplest, most beautiful multiplying acts of charity in the country. Been following him for years. Let’s get some Raising Men & Women Lawn Care kids on the WH lawn!

[Jen Fulwiler @jenfulwiler]

Update on my 19 y.o. daughter who’s battling medulloblastoma cancer:
- We are now at St. Jude in Memphis
- She’s in the middle of 7 months of hard chemo
- We met local priest friends who visit with the sacraments
- Every good thing you’ve ever heard about St. Jude is true ❤️

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

The water is ON, the Reflecting Pool is reflecting, and D.C. is looking better than ever.

We are so back. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🇺🇸

[The Patrick Madrid Show @PMadridShow]

The Power of a Father’s Example: What I Learned from Something My Dad Never Said
By @PatrickMadrid

https://t.co/smdd3XghY4

[Cardinal Dolan @CardinalDolan]

“Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.” You’ve heard me say before that’s one of my favorite prayers. I say it when I get up in the morning, and He never lets me down. I bring that up because it’s June 1stand we’re starting the month of the Sacred Heart. @thegnewsroom

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

Clotilde d’Arc, a direct descendant of St. Joan of Arc’s brother Pierre, dressed as St. Joan during the annual celebration of her 1429 victory over the English at Orléans.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

So why and how did millions of Americans begin to express hatred for Israel and, albeit more subtly, the Jews who support it?

There are four converging fronts in this perfect storm:

https://t.co/CIQbP24i6v

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

DC before vs after Trump's restorations

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NOW: VP Vance waves as he boards Air Force Two with Second Lady Usha Vance.

The vice president will be speaking at the United States Air Force Academy’s 68th graduation ceremony on Thursday.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Sec. Burgum isn't Catholic, so it's understandable that he wouldn't know this, but teaching on the relationship between man and technology is very much part of the role of being pope!

(See: Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum; Pius XI on contraception; Pius XII on nukes; et al.)

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

Bishop Robert Barron urged Catholics to avoid the “demonization” of the Trump administration during the immigration debate, arguing that concerns about border security and human trafficking raise serious moral questions that should not be dismissed.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.