@Scotchjake Most annoying thing… tell us WE need to know how to speak their language when we leave our country and now they are coming here and still expect us to know how to speak their language. Fuck that shit! Just like pressing 1 for English and the fucker can barely speak it 🤦♀️
A 92-year-old North Carolina man got so bored 2 months into retirement that he applied to work at Chick-fil-A...
...his smile, kindness, and passion for Jesus became so contagious that when he got sick and missed 3 days of work, an ENTIRE TOWN began asking where he was.
His name is Gilbert Martin.
Everybody calls him "Mr. Gil."
Mr. Gil is 92 years old, and works at the Chick-fil-A on Oleander Drive in Wilmington, NC.
He spent decades working in the natural gas industry and when he retired, he greeted people at Sam's Club for 12 MORE years, until they eliminated his position.
Most people would call that a sign to finally rest, but not Mr. Gil!
Two months into retirement, he got bored... so he walked into Chick-fil-A and put in an application.
He was 86 years old at the time.
He's been there ever since.
Not one or two shifts a week either. Monday through Friday.
He says the full schedule gives him more chances to be there for people who need him.
His official job is dining host.
Clean tables.
Clean floors.
But Mr Gil doesn't see it that way... as he describes it, his real job is:
"I get a lot of people that are coming in, just been to the doctor, and got bad news... I'm able to be an encourager; the Lord gave me that."
A 92-year-old man who could be resting at home... chooses to stand in a dining room five days a week... so strangers on the worst day of their lives don't have to be alone.
And Wilmington noticed.
When Mr. Gil caught a cold and missed a couple of days, the owner said he was FLOODED with HUNDREDS of customers who were panicked about him.
Mr. Gil has zero plans to retire.
He says if you ever see him working, come say hi.
"I don't know what 92 is supposed to feel like, but I feel great. Serving others has always brought me joy because I believe that a smile and a kind word can make someone's day a little brighter.”
We need more of this in the world!!!!
I’m going to continue showing the reality of what is happening in our city until Chicago citizens finally say, “Enough is enough.”
Until Chicagoans are ready for REAL change, REAL accountability, and REAL leadership.
Law and order has always been one of my number one priority.
My administration will do just that.
From the Juneteenth holiday weekend through the Fourth of July holiday weekend, at least 67 people were shot and at least 11 people were killed in Chicago, and that does not even include every shooting that happened between those two holiday periods.
Juneteenth weekend (June 19–22, 2026) 47 people were shot, 8 killed and 39 wounded.
Fourth of July weekend (2026) show that more than 20 people were shot, with at least 3 people killed during the long holiday weekend.
Combined total for those two holiday weekends:
About 67 people shot
At least 11 people killed
This does not include the shootings that occurred in between those two holiday weekends.
Families are grieving. Communities are hurting. These are not just statistics, these are mothers, fathers, children, neighbors, and loved ones.
We cannot normalize violence. We cannot ignore what people are experiencing on the ground.
As Mayor, public safety will be a top priority.
I will support our police officers, hold offenders accountable, focus on repeat violent offenders, and work to make every Chicago neighborhood safe.
Chicagoans deserve leadership that tells the truth, listens to the people, and acts.
Danielle Carter-Walters for Mayor-2027
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O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 🇺🇸
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
@catturd2 I live 12-14 hours from Florida. I even know not to swim in lakes, ponds or rivers down there. Ocean and pools only. Oh and the natural springs! I hope that is the right name for it 🤷♀️
🇺🇸 Watch this and try not to feel something.
Every argument, every division, every headline, gone for a few minutes while thousands sing as one.
Sports is the last campfire big enough for everybody.
Beautiful.