Florida born, Florida bred. And when I die I'll be Florida dead.
Just an old construction guy who loves God, Family, America, and Liberty. Proud Catholic. Da U!
@sunviru I used to think NASCAR was dangerous until I started watching the tour in the 90's. The tour is waaay worse. This is a 21 stage world championship. Crashes are real.
🚨🚨 He lost his medical license for studying 3,324 children and proving that unvaccinated children were much healthier than vaccinated children. Just like the similar study by the Henry Ford Health Institute, his work was censored by the medical community.
Dr. Paul Thomas.
🚨Update: Iran has secretly offered the Mexican Cartels up to $20 million dollars to assassinate several Senior Trump Officials. The offer also includes a $10 million dollar ‘bonus’ if they manage to take out Trump. Cartels are already operating inside the United States!!
A 24 year old from Chicago who still lives with his parents spent months studying sports betting books and found a legal edge in football parlays. He won $800,000 across two Caesars casinos. Caesars voided every ticket and sent his $50,000 stake back instead. Two state gaming commissions sided with Caesars. He is now suing them in federal court.
– Thomas McPeek is a 24 year old from suburban Chicago who lives with his parents.
– He spent months reading sports betting publications and studying parlay structures, bets where multiple events all have to happen to produce a win.
– He identified what he believed was a consistent edge in certain football wagers where Caesars was pricing odds in ways that gave a sharp bettor an advantage.
– In August 2024 he walked into the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond Indiana with roughly $30,000 and placed hundreds of small bets at self-service kiosks over the course of a week.
– He won $350,000.
– In September he moved to the Isle Casino in Bettendorf Iowa also owned by Caesars and won another $450,000.
– He placed his bets in small amounts at kiosks specifically to avoid drawing attention.
– Total winnings across both casinos: $800,000.
– When McPeek returned to collect at Horseshoe in October 2024 his winning tickets were voided.
– Caesars said he had violated their house rules by coordinating bets across state lines and by structuring his wagers in small amounts.
– Caesars refunded his original $50,000 stake. They kept the rest.
– One casino had already paid him before catching on. Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City Indiana paid him $127,000 in winnings then asked him never to return.
– McPeek filed complaints with gaming regulators in both Indiana and Iowa. Both sided with Caesars.
– In 2025 he filed a civil lawsuit against Caesars in US District Court in Nevada.
– Caesars filed a motion to dismiss in July 2025 arguing the lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction and that McPeek had agreed to their terms when placing his bets.
– "It's not like I can snap my fingers and make the bets win," McPeek told CBS News. "They still have to win."
– The case is still ongoing.
A 24 year old who lives with his parents studied betting books, found a legal edge, won $800,000 across two casinos, and watched every winning ticket get voided.
“Your God CRIED?”
I used to say it with a little laugh. “If Jesus was God, why did He weep like a weak man?”
I mocked the shortest verse in the Bible. Years later it brought me to my knees.
“Jesus wept.” John 11:35. Two words. It should bring you to your knees.
Then I actually read WHERE He’s standing. At the tomb of His friend Lazarus. And here’s the part that undoes me: He’s about to raise him. In sixty seconds He’ll shout that dead man back to life. The victory is already loaded.
And He weeps ANYWAY.
He didn’t have to. The happy ending was already in His hand. But He looked at the grief around Him, the sisters, the mourners, the sheer wreckage that death makes of everything, and He entered it.
He let it hit Him. God, with tears running down His face, at the graveside of someone He loved.
The God of Islam was too majestic to weep. I was proud of that. Until I met a God who was strong enough to.
“We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.” Hebrews 4:15.
Whatever you’re burying right now. He’s not watching from a safe distance.
He’s the God who weeps at gravesides.
And then empties them. For all eternity.
Praise the King Jesus.
Tampa Bay Lightning owners- Jewish. Tampa Bay Rays owner old and new- Jewish. Tampa Bay Bucs owners- Jewish. How is 2% so successful in buying/negotiating franchises in the Tampa area?
One evening, Padre Pio and several friars went to a concert in a hall right next to their monastery. Pio was fully present, enjoying the music with genuine enthusiasm. During intermission, he suddenly leaned forward, rested his head and arms on the seat in front of him, and stayed completely still and silent for about five minutes. The other friars just assumed he was tired and left him alone.
The next day, Padre Carmelo visited a sick man in town. The man was overflowing with gratitude he said; "Thank you for allowing Padre Pio to come visit me last night!"
Carmelo was stunned. "That’s impossible. I was with him the entire evening at the concert. He never left."
But the man and his whole family insisted Padre Pio had been physically present in their home, praying with them. When Carmelo asked the exact time of the visit… it matched the intermission perfectly - the same five minutes Pio had appeared to be "resting."
Yet for all the miracles, Padre Pio never wanted the spotlight. When a woman he healed once asked him, "Are you a saint?", he simply replied:
"No. I am only a poor creature who serves the Lord through His mercies."
Whenever people thanked him for a healing, he would look almost embarrassed and say:
"Don’t thank me, thank God."
All things are possible through Christ.
St. Padre Pio, pray for us.
"When they come to slaughter us tonight, run to the Israeli border as fast as you can and don't look back."
I was 13 years old.
My town was under siege. No electricity. No water. We crawled out of the bomb shelter to pick dandelions because we had nothing else to eat. The Muslim militias and PLO were closing in. Tomorrow was the attack.
So I dressed in my best Easter dress. I wanted to be pretty when they came to kill us.
My father read Psalms: "I shall walk through the valley of death and I will not fear."
My parents told me: We will create a distraction. You run to the Israeli border. Don't look back.
That's what we were facing. That's what Lebanon became for Christians.
The West watched. No one came.
I survived to tell this story. So many didn't.
The purchasing power of $100 since the Federal Reserve was created:
1913: $100.00
1923: $57.89
1933: $76.15
1943: $57.23
1953: $37.08
1963: $32.35
1973: $22.30
1983: $9.94
1993: $6.85
2003: $5.38
2013: $4.25
2026: $2.99
The U.S. dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power.