AmLinRoad12

Baptized in the name of Christ. Wife and mom. Common sense, good stories, road trips, coffee. St. Louis Cardinals, Everton forever ❤️💙

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@vbspurs @Ralph_L8 That’s what I thought…poor Nicky got the short end of the stick, genetically speaking.

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@vbspurs @Ralph_L8 How did Tsar (I like the spelling better than czar) Nicholas end up so much shorter? His mother’s family?

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@HantsPolice Why didn’t the police believe Henry when he said, “I can’t breathe”? Why were they ‘misled’?

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@PamelaB303 @JenneCameron @BumpstockBarbie “She believes her birth control is protecting her”

Do you think we women don’t know/understand that no BC 100% prevents pregnancy? Why is your premise that we’re ignorant?

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@vbspurs My mom’s family is more stoic. Not surprising, considering they’re all descended from German immigrants. When it comes to more emotionally fraught situations (like funerals), it’s more comforting to be around them than overly emotional people. They show love; it’s not excessive.

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@KhanSaba1278 Looks like a great party! 🎉

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@vbspurs 🤦‍♀️
Diana was much too young when she married, and she’d never dealt with her childhood trauma re: her parents’ divorce. Did anyone ever speak of her having divorced parents as a problematic thing at that time, or was it just glossed over? I assume it was glossed over.

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@vbspurs I forgot about her getting rid of Harvey. Why? She grew up in a houseful of pets IIRC.

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@EmilySm43 Lucky

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@The1Hamp @el_yardo @SharronBreak @HonkyTonkJew @vandavintage @vbspurs @mirabiledictu86 @maximumleader @Bronzino5 @Iseecanyou @BakoJer @scatbug1 @MemberVRWC @carolynkeener54 @ScottMcBryde1 @spides99 @LopezBees @notarealdoc @KellyMcla47742 @haas_drew @Anastas67240784 @Sandpony Without watching along, I know what you’re talking about.

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@crochet_mom314 I always thought a lot of topics from the Civil War sounded like movie titles: The Kingdom of Jones, The Rock of Chickamauga, Andersonville, Angel of the Battlefield.

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@OldHollowTree My husband is a better cook than I am.

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@AllisonRFloyd @FreedTMG It is, but it’s not using his employer’s records to get private information about a customer for his own personal use (bar is on the floor), so it’s ok. Unprofessional, but ok. Best case scenario, he says he’s interested and gives her *his* number, and she decides what to do.

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@vbspurs @grahamformaine It’s not funny that someone like him is getting so much support, but “you Nazi period pad” is 🔥 😂

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@DaftOdyssey @uranoutofluck @_cream_gravy “Him getting fired…now there’s a possibility of revenge”

Sounds like a threat. But apparently that’s not enough for the police to give her a restraining order against him? Obviously that needs to be fixed. If he violates her privacy or worse, do you think it’s her fault?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

252 years ago today, the British Empire closed the busiest port in North America to teach one colony a lesson, and accidentally turned thirteen colonies into one country.

On December 16, 1773, a few dozen Bostonians had thrown 342 chests of East India Company tea into the harbor. The damages came to roughly £9,659. Lord North, the Prime Minister, decided to make an example. Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. King George III signed it on March 31, 1774. It took effect at dawn on June 1.

The Royal Navy moved warships into Boston Harbor and dropped anchor. Every dock was sealed. No ship could enter or leave. Not a barrel of flour, not a load of firewood, not a letter. The port would stay closed until Boston paid the East India Company in full and promised to behave.

The intent was to isolate Massachusetts and force her neighbors to watch her starve.

What happened instead is one of the strangest political miracles in modern history.

Down in Williamsburg, a 31 year old burgess named Thomas Jefferson and a few friends, including Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, pulled a dusty old book off the shelf of the House of Burgesses library, a record of how the Long Parliament had once handled a tyrant, and proposed that the entire colony of Virginia observe June 1, 1774 as a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" in solidarity with Boston.

The Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, dissolved the House two days later for treason. The burgesses simply walked across the street to the Raleigh Tavern and kept meeting.

June 1 came. In Virginia, every Anglican church was draped in black. The bells tolled all day. Plantation owners shut their doors. Jefferson wrote later that "the effect of the day through the whole colony was like a shock of electricity."

The same shock ran through every colony south of New England. Wagon trains of food started rolling toward Boston from as far away as Charleston. The Marblehead fishermen offered to give the Boston merchants the use of their docks for free. A Quaker miller in Pennsylvania sent a hundred barrels of flour. Israel Putnam personally drove a herd of sheep from Connecticut to feed the city.

Three months later, 56 delegates from twelve colonies sat down together in Philadelphia. It was called the First Continental Congress. None of them had ever met under one roof before.

Parliament wanted to punish a city. It created a nation.

252 years ago today, in a harbor full of Royal Navy frigates, the American Revolution stopped being a Massachusetts problem.

[Nate Richardson @therichnate]

Countdown to America’s 250th birthday🇺🇸

[AmLinRoad12 @Lin12Am]

@sherrod_im @TiredBambooLaw Corny, but 10000000% times better than Valvoline Guy.

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@TiredBambooLaw Or give her YOUR number and let her decide to call/text you back.
Crazy, I know.

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@AntzS1984 @charles_stevo He’s hardly a new scapegoat. Yes, he’s only been manager this time for 18 months but he’s had years at the club before that. Yes, we had a chance at Europe because of him, but we lost the chance because of him, too. The whole picture matters.