Raymund

Politics of Independance, the Jags, climate change, medicine, against corruption. Views are always my own.

[Raymund @RaymundWhite]

@MsPocketRocket Abra-Abracadabra; Steve Miller Band!

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Should have been CBE at least Lou!

[Lou Macari @LouMacari10]

What a fantastic day at Windsor Castle to receive my MBE from Prince William. I was dead nervous beforehand, but was then ok chatting with him about football and our work with the homeless over the last 10 years at the Macari Centre.

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@UndisScot Crail Harbour, late as usual!

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@MsPocketRocket The Yardbirds! Maybe Yazoo. The only way is Jimmy…

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@MsPocketRocket X-Ray Spex: still germ free & dayglo!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Democrat Scott Colom has won the Mississippi U.S. Senate race, defeating GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. He is the first African American to represent Mississippi in 145 years.

RETWEET to congratulate Senator-elect Colom on making history!

[Raymund @RaymundWhite]

@MsPocketRocket That’ll be The White Stripes Army.

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@MsPocketRocket You must be Downtown Pet! 😁

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@MsPocketRocket That’s Amore. Dino.

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@MsPocketRocket I say a little prayer, mainly Aretha.

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@UndisScot Kelvingtove Art Gallery, too late though!

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@MsPocketRocket The Undertones, of course!

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

An American legend has taken his final rest. John Kinsel Sr., one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to outwit the Japanese in World War II, has died at 107. His passing closes a key chapter in the story of the men whose secret messages helped save countless lives in the Pacific. In 1942, the U.S. Marine Corps recruited Navajo men for a classified mission. Standard codes were being broken, but the complex, unwritten Navajo language—known to fewer than 30 non-Navajos—became the solution. Kinsel, born in Lukachukai, Arizona, was among those who stepped forward. He served with the 9th Marine Regiment in brutal battles including Guam, Bougainville, and Iwo Jima. Under constant fire, the Code Talkers sent fast, accurate radio messages using terms like “turtle” for “tank” and “chicken hawk” for “dive bomber”—a code the Japanese never cracked. The mission remained secret for decades. Kinsel returned home unable to speak of his role until the operation was declassified in 1968. He spent his final years in the log home he built himself and passed away peacefully in his sleep. With his death, we lose a living link to one of America’s most remarkable wartime contributions. As Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said: “He fought for all of us to have the freedom we enjoy today.” Rest in peace, warrior ..
❤️Thank you for your interest!❤️

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@MsPocketRocket QOTSA

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

More love and celebration of Sir Patrick Stewart's life

This is very moving

Buckingham Palace paid tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.

He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.

By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.

He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.

Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.

An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.

He never stopped and left school at 15.

By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.

In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.

Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.

You’ve probably heard that part.

Here’s the part you haven’t:

He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.

But he never stopped trying to understand his father.

He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.

He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.

He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.

So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.

In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.

He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”

Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”

At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.

2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.

He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”

After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.

He played every character himself and donated every cent.

In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.

In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.

She was his first dog in more than 50 years.

He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.

Then he kept fostering more.

When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.

So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.

Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖

[Finlay McLaren @fin_lay24]

For those not on Facebook: Brian Blessed’s tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart.

[Raymund @RaymundWhite]

@HOMESofFOOTBALL Did the walk round the terracing as we were trying to come back from 0-3 against Clyde.
On loan from Chelsea (?Wayne) Foster equalised at the death. Brilliant.
Pie stall queue at the top near the shed was the coldest place in Glasgow.
Great days.

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@MsPocketRocket The O’Jays.