Bart'sOldNorthState

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[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

‼️HELP NEEDED‼️

Sometimes the best-laid plans go wrong. A law intended to protect disabled North Carolinians is harming the very people it was designed to help.

This is my friend Morgan. She has cerebral palsy, is 100% disabled, and depends on her mother Rose for full-time care.

Rose can do this thanks to the Innovations program, which compensates caregivers for leaving full-time jobs to provide full-time care for loved ones.

Sadly, Rose was recently diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm and does not expect to survive.

While planning Morgan’s future care and guardianship, Rose discovered that HB543 prevents her oldest daughter from stepping up as guardian and receiving benefits after Rose passes.

That means Morgan’s sister would have to work a full-time job, hire care for Morgan, and raise her own two children.

This law wasn’t intended to harm families with disabled children, but that’s exactly what’s happening.

Rose reached out to the NCGA, but they said no new business can be handled in the short session. Rose and Morgan may not have until the long session in January. They need help right now.

Please tell the NCGA that one sentence stands in the way of Morgan receiving the same continuous care from the family that loves her.

Tell them to have a heart and fix HB543 now! 🙏🏼

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@GrecianFormula The best one EVER built was the F-117A Nighthawk.

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@dogwoodblooms Been uniting the state since 2003. The whole state of NC gettin' along in one bottle. Three consecutive state championships can't be wrong... right? And that's just the sauce...

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@jadamlucas @DiamondHeels Excellent column. I remember that year, and in particular that postseason like no other. It was incredible, and I only wish they could have the hardware for their efforts. That postseason was electric.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨Christians, it’s time to STAND with Lynsi Snyder and In-N-Out Burger! ✝️

Atheists are demanding In-N-Out remove the Bible verses from their cups, wrappers, and packaging — calling them “exclusionary.”

Lynsi Snyder, the owner, is refusing to back down. She says those verses reflect her family’s deeply held Christian values that built the company from the very beginning.

Here’s the truth:

- In-N-Out isn’t forcing anyone to read the verses.
- They aren’t banning atheists from eating there.
- They aren’t discriminating against anyone in hiring or service.

Printing John 3:16 or other Scriptures on a burger wrapper is not exclusionary — it’s simply a private business openly living out its faith in a free country.

If atheists don’t like it, they can eat somewhere else. No one is stopping them.

This isn’t about “inclusion.” It’s about erasing every public expression of Christianity until nothing is left. First the cups, then the company, then your church, then your home.

Lynsi Snyder is showing courage in a world that wants Christians to hide their faith. She’s saying: We will not apologize for who we are.

Christians — support her.
Buy In-N-Out.
Post about it.
Tell your friends.
Pray for her and her team.

If we don’t stand now when a family business simply wants to honor God on their own packaging, we deserve the godless culture we’ll get.

Stand with Lynsi. Stand with In-N-Out. Stand for Christ.

#InNOut #StandWithLynsi #ChristianValues #DontEraseFaith

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@GeigerTweeter @dogwoodblooms More than ever!

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@GeigerTweeter @dogwoodblooms No difference in the barbecue, just a difference in the finishing sauce.

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@WilliamIWells @dogwoodblooms

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

My father has cancer. Stage four. The VA said maybe four months. He served three tours in Vietnam and came home to people spitting on him, calling him baby killer, telling him his service meant nothing. He never talked about the war. Never wore his medals. Never went to reunions. Just carried fifty-two years of shame for doing what his country asked him to do.
Last month hospice started coming to the house and I realized I had no idea how to honor him, how to tell him his life mattered when he'd spent half a century believing it didn't. So I posted in a quilting group asking if anyone made military quilts, and a woman responded immediately. She'd found me through a shop where she runs a business making Quilts of Valor for dying veterans. She said “I'll start tonight.”
She finished it in three weeks, worked around the clock because Dad's time is short. Every star is hand-stitched. Every stripe is perfectly aligned. She shipped it express and included a letter thanking him for his service, telling him that her father died alone believing nobody cared that he'd served. She said “Let your dad know the country was wrong. His service mattered. He matters.”
We wrapped him in it yesterday. This photo is him seeing it for the first time. He cried for twenty minutes, kept touching the stars, kept saying “Someone made this for me?” I've started coordinating with other quilters now, connecting dying veterans with makers who can get quilts finished in time. Racing against cancer, against time, against fifty years of men dying before anyone told them thank you.
Dad has maybe six weeks now. But he'll leave wrapped in stars. ⭐🇺🇸

By Angela mcnutt

[Roger Ledbetter @rledbetterCPA]

Teaching my daughter about payroll withholding

She did chores all week so I owe her $10

I hand her $7

> this isn't $10

"right, I withheld the rest"

> what does that mean

"I kept $3 of your money"

> but it's my money

"It was your money"

> what are you even doing with it?

"Funding household infrastructure"

> what

"The roof over your head. The hallway you walk through to get to the bathroom. The door locks that keep strangers out"

> you're charging me for the hallway

"I'm charging you for access to the hallway. The hallway itself was a capital expenditure"

> you're my dad. you're supposed to---

"I'm also your government"

> what if I don't want to pay for the hallway

"Then I can't guarantee the hallway"

> it's a hallway. It's already there

"For now"

She asks what else the $3 covers

"Meals, dispute resolution, nightlight maintenance"

> dispute resolution?

"When your brother takes your toys and I make him give them back. That's taxpayer funded"

> that's just parenting

"That's the Department of Justice"

> what about meals. You already feed me

"That's a social program. Not everyone qualifies"

> I'm your daughter

"Which is why you're currently enrolled"

She wants to see where the money goes

I tell her that would require a FOIA request

> what's that

"A form asking me to show you what I do with your money. Processing time is 6 to 8 weeks"

> 6 weeks to see where my $3 went?

"Could be longer. We're understaffed"

> there's two of you

She asks how she gets any of it back

"It's already spent"

> you spent my money already?

"We had a budget shortfall"

> you just took it 20 seconds ago

"And the deficit existed 30 seconds ago. The timing worked out"

> so I'm not getting it back

"I didn't say that. You might qualify for a refund"

> of my own money

"Correct. You just have to fill out a form telling me how much you made"

> you know how much I made. You paid me

"Right but I need you to tell me how much I paid you"

> so you already know the answer

"The point is compliance"

She asks what happens if she gets the number wrong

"Penalty"

> from the money I don't have because you already spent it?

"We could set up a payment plan"

> I'm 8

"Monthly installments. Very manageable"

> you're going to penalize me for getting wrong a number you already know and then make me pay you back with money you took from me

"Now you're getting it"

> I want to talk to mom

"Mom's not a qualified representative. She can't help you here"

She stormed off to her room saying how this is extortion

Slammed the door

That's my little citizen

I've never been more proud

[Chris Cox @ChrisCoxCap6]

My son Carter was diagnosed with cancer at 4.

Today, he’s 16, healthy — and choosing to help other kids who are still in the fight.

If you have a minute, please watch his short video and consider supporting his fundraiser for Blood Cancer United.

If you’re willing, repost so more people see it.

Donate here:
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[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.

[Lee Pace @LeePaceTweet]

Since writing about James Spurling (pictured in 2021 when the west concourse at Kenan Stadium was named in his honor) and his death one week ago, loads of stories I’d never heard have rolled in, one of the best from Tar Heel football player Mike Faulkerson-Dulaney from the early 1990s. Mike had a pet Columbia red-tailed boa constrictor who got loose in the dashboard of his truck. He drove to Spurling’s Eastgate BP and Spurling took the front dashboard off so Mike could retrieve the snake.

And this from UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp (2008-13) hits the nail on the head: “There are a lot of caring, kind, and capable people who work in Carolina athletics. But none will ever top James Spurling. When things were good, he was wildly enthusiastic, and when they were bad, he put his hand on my shoulder and said everything would work out. He believed it. And he did that for everyone.”

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

I wasted 6 years building something God never asked me to build.

70-hour weeks.

Marriage on fumes.

Kids growing up without me.

A “career” that meant nothing.

Then I read Psalm 127 in the cab of my garbage truck.

“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

Read that again, slowly.

Truth #1: Your hustle means nothing without God’s direction.

“They labour in vain.”

Vain. Empty. Pointless.
You can build a tower God never commissioned.

Truth #2: Most men aren’t led. They’re self-employed.
They call it “drive.” It’s self-worship.

Truth #3: Anxiety is a sign you’re carrying what God should carry.
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows…”

That’s not “discipline.”
That’s self-reliance pretending to be virtue.
God gives His beloved sleep.

Truth #4: Children are not interruptions to your mission. They are your mission.
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”

The world calls them burdens.
God calls them reward.

Truth #5: Your children are weapons, not trophies.

“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.”
You don’t display arrows.
You sharpen them. Aim them. Launch them.

Truth #6: A full quiver beats a full bank account.
“Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…”

Truth #7: Your children will fight battles you’ll never see.
“They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
The gate is where the public fights happen.
Your job is to prepare them to stand there.

Save this. You’ll need it.

You’re building a house right now. Every day.

In your marriage.
In your household.
In your conscience.

get alone with Psalm 127 and write down the one thing you’re building that God never asked you to build. Then start dismantling it.

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@dogwoodblooms

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

My only birthday wish is for you to repost this. If you pray this prayer, and MEAN it, your life will forever change. Jesus is the only way to eternal life. Pray the sinner's prayer with Billy Graham right now, and give your life to Jesus today🙏

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@johnrich I've heard of "spit-shining a turd" before, but this takes the cake.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts, deserving endless retweets.

[Bart'sOldNorthState @BONS_bbq]

@dogwoodblooms @StephenKing

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Over 40 Western North Carolina tree farms have just donated 1,000 Christmas trees to military service members and their families.

Attached to each Christmas tree is a handwritten note, thanking them for their service to United States of America.

BEAUTIFUL!!!!