Brenda Williams

Adoptive Mom, Christian, Conservative, Business Owner, Freedom loving American, Autism Advocate

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@deancain Stars in 'I Survived,' a Sarasota-Filmed Movie Highlighting Domestic Abuse and Survival.

Please watch and share. If you or someone you know is in a similar situation, there is hope and help. If just one victim of DV can find the courage to get out, because of this movie, it was worth the cost.

https://t.co/WgyFu3BlRX via @ein_news

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@deancain Stars in 'I Survived,' a Sarasota-Filmed Movie Highlighting Domestic Abuse and Survival.

https://t.co/OIkJEJiILT via @ein_news

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@deancain @missjoynicole @DeanCainUpdates Lol. Glad there aren’t photos of me out there during that “awkward” time of life. My guess is you got to skip that stage. ☹️. Haha

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It’s been a difficult couple of weeks. Two weeks ago tomorrow, I got up around 5:15 am. It was a little early for me, but I couldn’t sleep, so I trudged my way into the kitchen in my UGS (a Christmas gift from my sweet friend, Anastasia). As I entered my kitchen, I walked into water, lots of water. I froze and immediately listened for the source of the issue. The laundry room. I sloshed through the water, sick to my stomach. I’ve been here before. When my son was seven, he flooded the house, the cost was close to 50k. We have a water conditioner and the valve under the laundry room sink failed which in turn caused the valve on the top of the filter to fail and spew water everywhere. I was able to shut off the water, but the damage was done. I have no idea when it began, but by the time I walked into the kitchen, the water had traveled the length of the house in one direction and all the way through the garage, the length of the driveway and into the street in the other direction. The laundry room, playroom, bathroom were completely covered in water, 3/4 of the kitchen, 1/2 of the guest room and 3 feet into my son’s room were also soaked. It even managed to get into the formal dining room through a shared wall with the kitchen. I pulled my Bissell wet vac out of the garage and started pulling up water starting in the laundry. I stopped counting how many times I emptied the reservoir after I passed 20. I think it holds close to 3/4 of a gallon when full. At 6:30 my son walked in and I had only made it a few feet into the kitchen. Every time I put the Bissell next to the wall it would suck water from under the baseboards with the same voracity as it did from the middle of the room. I knew it was bad. My son asked about 10 questions, recognized the stress on my face and my short responses and decided a better option was to eat the cinnamon roll I had put out for him and get dressed for school. At 7:30, I threw a few things into his lunch box and shoved it in his backpack. I exchanged my soaked UGS and my wet to the knee pj pants for crocs and capri pants and rushed to get him to the bus stop. When I walked out to the car and saw the water in the street, I got that sick feeling again. At 8 am I called the insurance company and they gave me the name and number of a restoration company. By 8:15 or so I was home, the restoration company scheduled to be at the house by noon. I spent the next 3 1/2 hours pulling up water. I was working on the playroom, when they arrived, sweat pouring down my face, but I thought it was worth it if I could mitigate some of the damage and thus the cost. By 3:30 Joe Taylor Restoration had pulled up water in the playroom, had 28 fans and 4 dehumidifiers running non-stop. From Thursday afternoon to Monday morning it sounded like we were living on the tarmac of an airport. The only semi safe haven where you could actually talk without using rudimentary sign language or yelling to be heard was my room. That became the preferred choice for every living creature in the house. My son even had a friend over on Saturday and we all hang out there with the door closed. So far, the damage is over 15k, and my insurance covers up to 10k per occurrence. They found mold in the walls between the garage and laundry room and behind the kick board of the laundry cabinet/sink. They think that the valve probably had an undetected slow leak which resulted in mold. The remediation company is coming next Monday to remove the cabinet and 2 ft of wall between laundry/garage. Thankfully that is under a different insurance rider, but the demo is over 6k and that doesn’t include replacing what is being demolished. Not my favorite 2 weeks, but God is still good and is still providing for us.

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@deancain @yesnicksearcy Hoping you didn’t hike your way there. You don’t happen to have a wingsuit in that backpack, do you?!? That would be an epic way to get off the mountain. 😁

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@deancain Somebody didn’t do their homework.

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@deancain Me either. I pray this is the start of the healing process that will take place for years to come. What they have endured is horrific. I hope they get the mental and emotional support both the prisoners and family will need to heal.

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@deancain Hope he wasn’t on your fantasy football team. 😫

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Here are 5 reasons Trump is not a fascist.
1. Lack of Ideological Commitment: Fascism is ideologically driven. Trump is not principled enough to be a fascist.
2. Totalitarian Centralization of Power: Fascist regimes consolidate all authority under the state. Trump delegates power to state governments, (e.g. 2020) pandemic response, (2025) education and has not pursued institutional censorship or suppression of ideological opposition. 
3. Economic Policies Reject Fascist Corporatism: Trump’s agenda promotes “hypercapitalism”—deregulation, tax cuts and minimal state interference in markets
4. Failure to Launch a Revolutionary Movement: Fascism emerges as a mass mobilization to overthrow liberal democracy via violence or coups. Events like January 6 were not a pre-planned fascist seizure of power.  Historians like Richard Evans argue it “was not a coup,” distinguishing Trump from true fascist takeovers. 
5. Reliance on Electoral Democracy: Fascists use elections to get in power, then do away with them once in power. Trump, despite rhetoric, participates in and loses elections (e.g., 2020), then campaigns again, operating within the system rather than dismantling it entirely. 

I sure wish people would either know what fascism/fascist is or stop using the word. What is that saying about stupidity… better to keep quiet than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

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@deancain Good for you! We need more of that positive attitude being sent out!

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@Disney_Sheep @deancain Hey… I’m a Browns fan and I use correct grammar most of the time. Don’t throw the rest of us under the bus. 😁

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I received a direct message from “your personal online director” a week or so ago. I took one look at it and thought, “There is no way that is coming from someone who works for Dean.” You’re a nice guy, but even you have limits! 😳🙄🤣

Hello, you have such a profound impact on Dean Cain career with your comments,love and support.A thank you text wouldn't fail to express our gratitude to you, we love You. Dean would want you to write him personally, if you’re open to it, I can guide you there safely no pressure. Thank you. My name is Toti and I happen to be his personal online director.

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@EndWokeness How do these people every get in office?

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"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force at the command of a Congress can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power."
Remember, when it comes to "gun control," the important word is control," not gun."

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John McIntyre-2017
@deancain Thought this might be of interest to you.

JUST HOW DANGEROUS ARE FIREARMS??
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons gun violence
3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?
480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169: Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, so it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equally, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault all is done by criminals and thinking that criminal wills obey laws is ludicrous. That's why they are criminals.
But what about other deaths each year?
40,000+ die from a drug overdose THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!
36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths
34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide)

Now it gets good:
200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer in Chicago than when you are in a hospital!
710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If Obama and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides.....Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions!

So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple.:
The taking away of guns gives control to governments.
The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.

Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It must be preserved at all costs.
So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster: see in comment

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Today would have been my dad‘s 92nd birthday. I miss his kindness and wisdom and generosity. When I am correcting my 12 year old for something or telling him that we aren’t going to get the latest gadget he wants, I often hear him say, “I wish grandpa was still here. He would take my side!” He isn’t wrong. My dad and my son were 80 years apart, but were kindred spirits. I see my dad in my son, not through genetics, but in how my son thinks, how he designs and engineers and my sons’ desire to create a business tso he can take care me. I love that heart. It’s the exact same one my dad had. Happy Heavenly Birthday, dad! I miss you and love you more than I can express!