Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
This kid bagging my groceries put all the cold items together, all the boxes in perfect formation.
"You're really good at this," I said.
He stopped and looked up.
"Nobody's ever told me I was good at anything before."
He's maybe sixteen.
I watched him finish bagging with the precision of someone who just discovered they had a talent.
Recognition changes everything.
Struggling to wrap my head around this. Tim Tebow gave Congress a map with 338,000+ unique IP addresses in the United States that have traded/shared images of children being sexually abused in the past 6 months and NOBODY is talking about it.
We have gone in 20 years from most commercials being about washing powder, cars, and pillows— to basically EVERY SINGLE ad being for a pharmaceutical drug.
Are we going to just pretend like this is normal?
Wth is wrong with America
Ridiculous insane situation
I was eleven years old. My mother was taking me to an eye specialist when we were stopped by a patrol of the IRGC at this very spot. A few strands of my hair were visible, and I had grown too tall for my trousers. Again and again she pleaded with them not to take me, explaining that I was tall for my age, that she had just returned from the front lines and had not yet found the time to buy me new clothes. I was frightened, but my mother's fear was far greater than my own.
Many years have passed since that afternoon. Yet when I see this place of cruelty and its power holders reduced to dust, I am overcome with emotion and an unexpected, trembling relief. To witness a regime of terror crumbling into ruin feels like learning to walk after long paralysis, like unfurling wings and discovering flight, like water offered at last to one who has wandered for hours through the Sahara.
I feel a release, a memory long buried in the body beginning at last to loosen. In this moment, the child I once was seems to breathe again.
“Minnesota saw a Somali man walk FREE after a jury convicted him of stealing $7.2 MILLION in taxpayer money.”
The jury called the evidence overwhelming.
The judge overturned the verdict anyway.
If a unanimous conviction can just be undone like this, justice is DEAD.
Adam Carolla: "How do you spend $24B on homelessness and not have any results? It sounds mathematically impossible. It's like saying, 'I did 24 billion on home renovations and improvements' and then you walk in and say, 'It's the same sh*tty burnt orange tile from the 70s...'"
85% of white people want photo ID to vote.
82% of Latino people want photo ID to vote.
76% of black people want photo ID to vote.
How come virtually 0% of House and Senate Democrats want photo ID to vote? 🤔
Joe Rogan: "There was a headline that said, 'If you’re unvaccinated, it might be time to make your end-of-life will… And then the same magazine, years later 'COVID vaccines may cause heart damage.' Same exact magazine."