”The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back.
He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something. The animal dove and Enzo followed.
At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives.
Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Enzo). (A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.)
The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant!
The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.
Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth.”
Putin & Russia don't give a shit about NATO as something of a military threat.
They don't care about it -- at all, at all, at all.
And they never did.
Just like now that Finland is part of NATO and Sweden is coming soon, the Kremlin couldn't care less.
Because, unlike independent thinkers on X, they are evil but not stupid, and they always knew the West is most obviously of no threat to Russia.
They always knew NATO & the West were way too heterogeneous, relaxed, comfortable, disarmed, unprepared, and too busy minding their own business in a world where a war of conquest is a stupid idea that just doesn't work -- especially when it comes to messing with the world's top nuclear power.
The only way Russia cares about Ukraine's "NATO membership" is that it effectively removes Ukraine from a list of countries against which the Kremlin can unleash yet another Great Patriotic Special Military Operation, thus prolonging and justifying its never-ending rule over Russia -- you know, the fortress all surrounded by enemies since the dawn of time.
So next time they talk about Ukrainian "neutrality" -- let me give you a simple translation: "We need Ukraine out of NATO so that we can conquer it and triumphally bring its severed head on a plate to the Russian public -- until the euphoria dies down again and we have to decide who's next."
@JohnWDean It appears the Republicans goal is to attack every law written such that it is made totally ineffective. It is impossible to write a foolproof law as the meaning of a language changes over time. Interpretation of law cannot be absolutist, judgement, opinion
@baldeagle@DorothyEubank16@KathleenASmit12 I cannot see that manufacturing died here in US. Yes, physically it moved to Asia, that brought millions of workers a better life. The products produced in Asia often were designed here, US. We wanted product at lower price, we got it, jobs shifted to imports
@baldeagle@KathleenASmit12 Interesting response. When it is thought of, the millions of employees pay the taxes on net income. Anyone earning a profit should, I believe, pay back a percentage to government. A tax cannot be based on a fluctuating market value as you said.
So Billionaires have somehow convinced half of our country that they shouldn’t have to pay taxes, help fund Social Security or Medicare and the minimum wage is just fine at 7.25 for last 14 years.
Do have this right??
Seriously?
I know everyone is excited about the video footage being released but we shouldn’t take our foot off the gas. You still need to see the separation agreement Pittman negotiated with Manger and all the NDAs USCP employees were forced to sign under Pittman and Manger to conceal the dereliction and malfeasance in the preparation for what occurred on J6 when the intelligence was there. My tweets don’t go far anymore as I released too much information here on X so I had to be muted. Additionally, it’s looking more and more likely I won’t be allowed to testify before Congress as my testimony would be DAMNING so someone else will have to pick up the baton. God bless.
Tarik K Johnson
Former Lieutenant US Capitol Police
If you're also looking forward to the days when folks who quote Hitler, who tried to steal classified files and incite insurrection are no longer elevated to relevance, then I suggest you follow us at @ReallyAmerican1 where we refuse to let trumpism be normalized.
Sometimes I feel like I went to sleep and woke up in a deranged parallel universe, because how TF is a guy quoting Hitler and facing 91 felony counts a front runner for the presidency in a major political party?
When did THOSE things become OK???
Chris Christie on CNN:
"George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, they are rolling in their graves. If they knew that anyone would have the audacity as a felon, which Donald Trump will become this spring, to run for president? And that other people running for the office would be willing to support someone like that?"
Aileen Cannon doesn’t have the magical ability to delay Trump’s trial past the election, and she sure as shit doesn’t have the ability to delay Trump’s other trials. She won’t gain these magical powers no matter how many hyperbolic tweets claim she has them.
Dear Black Community,
Just a reminder of who Republicans are, just in case you’ve concussed and feel the need to vote for one.
“African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.” - Mitch McConnell
Arizona GOP Rep. Eli Crane calls minorities ‘colored people’ on House floor.
“I know a ton of white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than Black people I know.”
“Look at my African American over here.”
“Shit hole countries.”
‘go back' to the 'crime infested places from which they came'
Do not give those racists your vote.
#FreshWords
The Iron Curtain is descending over Russia
#Estonia and #Norway do not rule out closing border crossings on the Russian border, following #Finland.
If this happens, #Russia will be practically cut off from the #EU (except for the border in the #Kaliningrad region).
Lux Express, a major Baltic car carrier, suspends bus transportation on the Helsinki - St. Petersburg route for an indefinite period of time. Earlier, Ecolines announced same decision.
Joe Biden gave a press conference after his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. He was knowledgeable, calm, articulate, and presidential. That’s what we need in the White House. Not a bloviating miscreant, not a malignant narcissist, not a would-be despot who wants to round up his political enemies and destroy our democracy.
Trump and his lawyers have sued Judge Engoron and the gag order has received an Emergency Stay. For now…Trump is free to talk.
The United States is being assaulted by a man who has stated that he wants to be a dictator.
I know I would never vote for someone who referred to me, my neighbors, or ANY human beings as "vermin."
Copying elements of Hitler's speeches is a bad look for anyone, let alone a former President.
And if that isn't immediately disqualifying for you, it says more about you than it does about him.
1/ The deaths of crew members of the Russian submarine 'Rostov na Donu', destroyed in a Ukrainian missile strike on 13 September, has reportedly become the subject of a scandal after relatives were denied compensation and the dead had to be buried at their comrades' expense. ⬇️