RogerB

Christian; Husband; Father; Papa; AU grad. Retired HR/benefits pro. Interested in dividend investing, baseball cards, fun. And I try to bring a sense of humor!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Steven Tyler still sometimes misses getting high, but he won’t touch it.

On Joe Rogan, the Aerosmith legend admitted: “If I do, I’ll wind up doing too much. I can’t control it.” He’s lost marriages, his kids stopped talking to him, and he got kicked out of his own band. Today in 2026, he’s still sober, calls his sponsors when the urge hits, and keeps showing up to meetings.

Rock bottom doesn’t have to be the end of the story. Even after decades of fame and multiple relapses, Tyler proves it’s never too late to choose yourself every single day. Sobriety isn’t about never feeling the pull, it’s about refusing to answer it.

That kind of quiet strength is more powerful than any stage performance.

[Clint Richardson @Clintau24]

🧵| Shug Jordan in #DDay

When 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy 80 years ago today, James Ralph "Shug" Jordan was one of them.

In fact, Shug was one of the few people to know the secret details of the landings before June 6, 1944. (1/8)

[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@Millyardcoins Right...As long as our country exists, they will always be worth at least $21. The silver content makes them hugely valuable during any 'chaos'. And their date and mint might make them collectable bits of our great history!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@DaveScarangella My Father was Navy, in the Pacific, on a ship hit by a kamikaze plane. Mother said he had nightmares and sweats for over a year after they were married. Doctors now would say PTSD. His doctor told him that he either needed to start drinking or just get over it. God got him thru.

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@ProfMJCleveland So, depending on your demeanor, The Saint and Perry Mason. Truly 50s cool!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@LizAnnSonders My father often thought that I was his brother. But every time I left, I said I love you, Dad. And he would always reply And you know I love you, too. He was a WWII Navy vet who lived to 96, but died 6 weeks after my Mother.

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@Kristinartz

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@richmoycards I fell for several fake and over-priced things from a LCS in Savannah years ago. Always have evidence of honesty before buying!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@rmchurchward Ok. Deal. Can you DM payment info?

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

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. 🇺🇸

[ConfederateShop @ConfederateShop]

Jefferson Davis’s accomplishments:

1. Distinguished services in the Black Hawk War.
2. Served valiantly in the war with Mexico.
3. Hero at Monterey; wounded at Buena Vista; scaled the walls of the City of Mexico.
4. He introduced the wedge movement and saved the day at Buena Vista.
5. United States Senator from Mississippi.
6. Secretary of War in Pierce's Cabinet.
7. First to suggest trans-continental railroads connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific.
8. First to suggest camels as ships of the uninhabitable West to convey military stores.
9. First to suggest buying Panama Canal Zone.
10. First to suggest buying Cuba.
11. He planned American trade with China and Japan.
12. He suggested closer relations with South America.
13. He urged preparedness for war.
14. He enlarged the United States Army by four regiments.
15. He organized cavalry service adapted to our needs.
16. He introduced light infantry or rifle system of tactics.
17. He caused the manufacture of guns, rifles and pistols.
18. He rendered invaluable services to Colt's Armory.
19. He ordered the frontier surveyed.
20. He put young officers in training for surveying expeditions.
21. He sent George D. MeClellan to Crimea to study the military tactics of the British and Russian armies.
22. He appointed Robert E. Lee as Superintendent of West Point, he advanced Albert Sidney Johnston to important posts.
23. He had forts repaired and many of them rebuilt.
24. He strengthened forts on the Western frontier, frequently drawing on arsenals in the South to do it.
25. He had the Western part of the continent explored for scientific, geographical and railroad work.
26. He was responsible for the new Senate Hall, the new House of Representatives, and for the extension of many public buildings in Washington, especially the Treasury Building.
27. He was responsible for the construction of the aqueduct system in the Nation's capital.
28. He was responsible for "Armed Liberty" on the Capitol having a helmet of eagle feathers instead of the cap of a pagan goddess.
29. He had Cabin John Bridge built with its span of 220 feet.
30. He was United States Senator under President Buchanan.
31. He was nominated for President by Massachusetts men in 1860.
32. He refused to allow his name to be presented for President at the Charleston Convention.
33. He stood strongly for the Union, but stressed the constitutional right of a State to secede.

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@NBForrest83 As a graduate of Emma Sansom High School and N.B. Forrest Jr. High, I am proud of this young woman and what she did for the Confederacy!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@Very_Cool_Cards There is not much any more cool than Nolan in the tux! When it was 'current' my son and I had 3. The LCS had some selling for $100. I traded one for $50 value. I don't remember what, though.

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@RenaissRewind @lorddouglasarch Oh, my goodness. You must read McCullough's bio of John Adams after you finish 1776. And everything else he wrote. A Master of our history and incredibly good storyteller.!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@CardPurchaser Nope. But I had about 50 of that Upper Deck issue! I think there was at least one in every pack!

[RogerB @RDBadvisor]

@martinamcbride First, one should never say Happy Memorial Day. It is a day of somber remembrance of those who have given their lives for our freedom. So you can choose where to celebrate our nation's 250th year. But the only reason the WH event is political is because of your action. Liar.