Ordered 2 sandwiches from @FirehouseSubs Jacksonville, FL, Skymarks Dr tonight at 5:22. When I inquired about my order at 5:50, they said, "we lost your ticket." Apparently still not a big deal, as it took another 13 minutes to get my sandwiches ready. 41 minutes. No apology.
Love the $3 meal at @CircleKStores ! However, it would help if clerks actually put hot dogs on the rollers. Went to 3 different @CircleKStores in Kingsland, GA before 5:30 and not one had hot dogs!
"The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians."
— Thomas Sowell
Women age. We are older. We look older and that is just the way it should be.
Living long is a luxury not everyone is afforded.
We face outwards. Away from the mirror. Toward the world.
"President Trump has now responded to the slaughter of Sarah Beckstrom by announcing that he 'will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries'.
Does that include the United Kingdom? It ought to.
Either way, that's great news - at least for the forty-eight hours until the district court judge of Dead Moose Junction strikes down the President and orders the executive branch to create a cabinet-level Department of Afghans..."
A speech at the Royal Albert Hall in celebration of Thanksgiving, 1944:
We have come here tonight to add our celebration to those which are going forward all over the world wherever Allied troops are fighting, in bivouacs and dug-outs, on battlefields, on the high seas, and in the highest air. Always this annual festival has been dear to the hearts of the American people. Always there has been that desire for thanksgiving, and never, I think, has there been more justification, more compulsive need than now.
It is your Day of Thanksgiving, and when we feel the truth of the facts which are before us, that in three or four years the peaceful peace-loving people of the United States, with all the variety and freedom of their life in such contrast to the iron discipline which has governed many other communities—when we see that in three or four years the United States has in sober fact become the greatest military, naval, and air power in the world—that, I say to you in this time of war, is itself a subject for profound thanksgiving.
We are moving forward in this struggle which spreads over all the lands and all the oceans. We are moving forward surely, steadily, irresistibly, and perhaps, with God’s aid, swiftly, towards victorious peace. There again is a fitting reason for thanksgiving.
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I have spoken of American Thanksgiving. Tonight here, representing vaster audiences and greater forces moving outside this hall, it is both British and American thanksgiving that we may celebrate. And why is that? It is because under the compulsion of mysterious and all-powerful destiny we are together. We are joined together, shedding our blood side by side, struggling for the same ideals, until the triumph of the great causes which we serve shall have been made manifest.
But there is a greater Thanksgiving Day which still shines ahead, which beckons the bold and loyal and warm-hearted. And that is when this union of action which has been forced upon us by our common hatred of tyranny, which we have maintained during these dark and fearful days, shall become a lasting union of sympathy and good-feeling and loyalty and hope between all the British and American peoples, wherever they may dwell. Then, indeed, there will be a Day of Thanksgiving - and one in which all the world will share.
- Winston Churchill
“If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing — whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee — it is preferable to what is going on right now.”
—Zohran Mamdani, 2020
.@yaronbrook asks audiences, what would a government-designed iPhone be like?
They laugh, knowing it'd be expensive, and not good.
Then he says "But we're happy to have government design our healthcare, our education? Things that are most important?”
Our FULL interview here:
Teaching reading "became this holy war!" says reading app designer @NielsHoven.
One reason is that George W. Bush pushed phonics.
Teachers said "if George Bush is telling us what to do, we aren't going to do it."
Seriously.
FL has tripled its rainy day fund since I’ve been governor.
We’ve also paid off 50% of the state’s taxpayer-supported debt (accumulated over 180 years) during my term.
So the answer is: states can do it and FL has done it.
It’s a choice.