Steve R

I am old enough to remember the 1st moon landing. tm @Oscar8062120

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

He quit his dream job on live television rather than say something he didn't believe

In 1970, Andy Rooney walked away from CBS. Not because of money. Not because of ambition. Because they refused to let him tell the truth as he saw it.

He had created a documentary called "An Essay on War," drawn from his years as a World War II correspondent. The piece was personal, unflinching, and deeply felt. CBS executives reviewed it and decided it was too harsh, too uncomfortable for their audience. They asked him to soften it. When he refused, they offered to shelve it quietly.
Rooney chose a third option no one expected: he quit.

Then he did something even more remarkable. He purchased the film rights with his own money, found a home for it on PBS, and sat in front of a camera for the first time to read his own words. That documentary won him a Writers Guild Award.

But awards were never the point. For Rooney, this was about something he had learned two decades earlier in the skies over Europe.

During World War II, Rooney worked as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes. He flew combat missions with American bomber crews, watching young men barely out of their teens climb into aircraft knowing some would never return. He walked through barracks where beds remained perfectly made, family photos still standing on nightstands, and understood without anyone saying a word what had happened.

He was among the first journalists to enter Nazi concentration camps after liberation. He saw things that would stay with him forever. He earned a Bronze Star and Air Medal for his reporting under fire.

That war taught him something he never forgot: truth matters more than comfort. The real story is never found in statistics or sanitized reports. It lives in the details, in the faces, in the moments that make your hands shake when you try to write them down.

After his break with CBS, Rooney spent time at other networks before returning in the early 1970s. On July 2, 1978, he sat behind a cluttered desk on 60 Minutes and delivered his first regular commentary.

He talked about car accident statistics over the Fourth of July weekend.
It seemed trivial. But that was Andy Rooney. He didn't need dramatic subjects to find meaning. He could look at a loaf of bread, a drawer full of rubber bands, or a telephone bill and show you something true about how we live. He found the universal in the ordinary, the profound in the everyday complaint.
For 33 years, he closed America's most-watched news program with three-minute observations that could make you laugh, make you think, or occasionally make you uncomfortable. He delivered over a thousand of these commentaries before his final appearance in October 2011.
He died one month later at age 92.

Andy Rooney once said a writer's job is to tell the truth. Not comfortable truth. Not popular truth. The kind of truth that sits heavy in your chest until you finally put it into words.

That's what he did his entire life. From the war zones of Europe to Sunday evening television, he never stopped pushing, never stopped questioning, never stopped insisting that words matter.

When someone told him no, he found another way.

When they asked him to compromise, he walked away and found people who wouldn't ask him to.

His legacy isn't just the familiar face at the end of 60 Minutes or the cranky observations about modern life. It's the war correspondent who never forgot what he witnessed. It's the writer who understood that the best words are the ones that make people lean forward and pay attention.

He spent his life proving that you don't need to shout to be heard. You just need to tell the truth clearly, specifically, and without apology.

That's what courage looks like in journalism. That's what integrity sounds like when you refuse to let anyone edit it out

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@TomBradyEgo At this time of year a lot of former Marylanders, now part time, are probably in Florida rooting for TB.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@Dell Hope they don't follow the same update rules that they apparently use for the rest of us. Apparently their AI decides when it is most inconvenient for me, and poof! reboot!

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@PontistGirl So the "P" stands for punster.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@FreeRange_Pols Would be extremely satisfying to prove Polymarket wrong, wouldn’t it?

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@Biaazhelia Are you available? I don’t think Sydney is.

[Maryland Republican Party @MDGOP]

🚨PSA: The wording of Question 3 on your ballot is very confusing. Simply put, a vote for Question 3 is a vote to remove constitutional protections and allow EXTREME partisan gerrymandering in Maryland.

Vote AGAINST Question 3 to STOP gerrymandering, defend our constitutional protections, and require fairer maps, districts, and representation.
#SaveOurVoice #StopGerrymandering #VoteAgainstQuestion3

[Theresa @Theresa93464351]

Bernie that’s theft !!!

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.

He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.

He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."

https://t.co/hpzXKuQne3

[Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo @AsmwomanMacedo]

"NDAs have no place in government," said Assembly Minority Leader Alexandra Macedo, R-Tulare. "The Bay Delta Plan will impact farmers, ranchers and millions of Californians and their livelihoods. They deserve to know the scientific findings by state scientists. Before the Governor starts worrying about his next chapter, he should explain why Californians cannot see the science behind decisions being made right now."

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Remember when the Iranian government cut off the internet from its people and over 50,000 Starlink terminals were smuggled in for the people to use?

Well the UN has just sided with IRAN and repeatedly told Norway and the US to take action to disable Starlink inside Iran.

That’s what world governments do.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@Riley13842 Looks like vegetable soup to me.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@haileyfishing Unlikely. Where in Europe are you from?

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@RSunfish92407 @crsanchezx Unless the other attendees were told that everyone in the class is coming.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@SandraWeeden Please note the two restrictions on your answers. 1-Walkman, apparently no other brand is acceptable. 2- Blockbuster, again brand specific. Perhaps the original poster meant these to be generic, I don’t know. If I was less literal, I could claim all 20. How about you?

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@peterboghossian Sre there any of the old penal colony sites still available? Exile seems like a good idea.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Ro Khanna posted this last night. I read it twice looking for the true part, and I'm still looking.

I was an Army medic in Iraq. When you're packing a wound at two in the morning, nobody asks how the patient's congressman voted. So it gets under my skin when a sitting member of Congress turns those wars into a partisan scorecard and then gets the score wrong.

Start with Afghanistan. The 2001 authorization passed the Senate 98-0 and the House 420-1. The one no vote in the whole Capitol belonged to Barbara Lee, a Democrat from Ro's own state. Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Reid, and Schumer all voted yes. So did Bernie, which I'm guessing won't come up at their rally. Obama sent about 30,000 more troops in the surge, Democratic Congresses kept paying for it, and Biden's Autopen ran the exit. Thirteen service members died at Abbey Gate. I remember. I hope Ro does.

Iraq: 29 Senate Democrats voted yes, including Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, Schumer, Reid, Daschle, and Feinstein. Over in the House, 81 Democrats voted yes, Adam Schiff and Ed Markey among them. Calling that "all Republican" takes real delusions of adequacy.

The Bush tax cuts? In December 2010, Obama and a Democratic Congress extended them. In January 2013, Obama and a Democratic Senate made most of them PERMANENT. If you renew the lease and then buy the house, you don't get to keep calling it the landlord's place.

Credit where it's earned: Democrats did vote against the 2017 tax law and against the Iran war. That's two out of Ro's six. In my classroom that's a 33 percent. That's an F, and I'd go lower if the gradebook let me.

Now the debt, the part that should keep every parent up at night:

o Bush: +$4.9 trillion

o Obama: +$9.3 trillion

o Biden's Autopen: +$8.5 trillion

Obama by himself added almost twice what Bush did. CBO says the long-term drivers are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on what we already owe. Ro voted for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, every dollar of it borrowed, and somehow it never made his list. He couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but he managed to leave his own vote off the tab.

His $10 trillion is made up too. Brown University's Costs of War project, the left's favorite source on this, puts ALL post-9/11 war costs at about $8 trillion through 2022, and that already includes veterans' care out to 2050 plus interest. Iran isn't in it. If Ro's math leaves you confused, that's on purpose. He's muddying the water so it looks deep.

Jim Quinn's Second Law: watch what liberals accuse conservatives of doing. Logicians call Ro's move non causa pro causa (false cause). Grab six events, staple a number on them, blame whoever you don't like.

What's next? A Democrat votes for the war, funds it for a decade, extends the tax cuts, and then blames Republicans for the bill... wait, I'm looking at the screenshot. He already did.

And the "tax the rich" sermon comes from one of the wealthiest men in Congress. Ro, file this year with the standard deduction only and mail the IRS double what you owe. Then I will listen.

Here's what actually makes me mad. Combat-wounded veterans who were medically retired out of those same wars still have their retirement pay docked because they also draw disability. The Major Richard Star Act (HR 2102) fixes that for about $10 billion over ten years, pocket lint next to Ro's numbers. If you care what those wars cost, Congressman, the people who paid it are waiting. The discharge petition is H.Res. 1247. Sign it.

One last question. Besides spending borrowed money, what have you done that left one family LESS dependent on Washington? Keeping an underclass waiting on the next check and voting for whoever promises it isn't compassion. The antebellum South depended on a dependent class too, and nobody should call that progress.

Which line item would you cut? Tell me in the comments. Ro, I saved you a seat up front.

But what do I know, I'm only an old Army medic who reads the roll call before he posts.

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

@TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@ajo96th @andypollin1 Unfortunately the list doesn’t account for impact knee injuries, only that the vast majority of ACL injuries were non contact.

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@JaimeeUSA Exactly which hour out of the 24 is getting extended by 60 minutes? Or will we now have 25 hours a day?

[Steve R @SteveR208039261]

@stephenforall @noturtlesoup17 Integral calculus, 300 seat auditorium, monotone prof.