Al Quartemont

Former News Director at KALB, News Channel 5 in Alexandria, La. Louisiana Christian University Assistant Professor of Journalism

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Impossible to watch with a dry eye.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

#Bears running back Brian Piccolo tragically died of cancer 56 years ago today — June 16, 1970 — at the age of 26.🕯️

The dramatic final scene of the 1971 film "Brian's Song", starring James Caan as Brian and Billy Dee Williams as his backfield mate and dear friend Gale Sayers

#DaBears

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

@GeryWoelfel Aw, sorry to hear that. Took his call many a time, as well as in-person conversations at Bucks games. Legend.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Can confirm.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Love this.

[Just T.J. the Army Vet @thomas_garrard]

We joke about winning the life lottery, because we were born in the USA, but it’s not far from the truth.

These visitors here for the World Cup are getting to experience what we often take for granted.

I live in Alabama. I can start in Mobile and drive north for 5 hours, and still be in Alabama.

My state has beautiful sandy beaches, and also has the foothills of the Appalachians. In between, we have a super speedway that pushes the limits of American muscle. Talladega.

NASA is here. The Army’s rotary wing flight school is here.

We have a festival every year to celebrate peanuts. We celebrate the harvest of a crop with funnel cakes and music.

2 teams from my state are currently in the College World Series, and that isn’t even our most popular sport.

Don’t even get me started on football Saturdays in the fall. It’s something else entirely.

My state is just 1 of 50 states that are all equally wonderful.

This country is awesome, and I do love it so. 🇺🇸

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

@sportsrapport 💯

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Awful. Evil.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin reveals some children trafficked across the Democrats' border say they were R*PED *600-700 TIMES*

"I don't care who you are...liberal, independent, Republican, if you can't STAND for law enforcement to find these kids, WHO ARE YOU?!" 💯

"We found 146,000 kids so far. 146,000 kids. We still have nearly 300,000 missing. We're investigating reports to where some of these kids claim that they were r*ped 600 to 700 times."

The Democrats hear this and either don't care or want to pretend it's not happening. Traitors.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

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[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Honest question. What percentage of Knicks celebrity fans would also show up in Laker gear for Laker celebrity row if the Lakers were in the Finals? I think it’s over 50%

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

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[Ryan @BrewPack8]

I’ll always love being a Milwaukee sports fan. Tickets aren’t 10k to get in, celebrities don’t show up and act like they’ve been a fan for life, no presidents. The biggest guys that show up are David Gruber or former players. You drink beer and root for the Brewers/Bucks. Love it.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

💯 They get their viral clips and nothing ever comes of it.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

Is there anything on Earth more useless than a House hearing?

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Wow. This is fantastic.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

💯 This is an absolute joke.

[Curt Hogg @CyrtHogg]

Major League Baseball should be embarrassed for playing meaningful games in this park in the middle of summer.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Shameful.

[🇺🇸 The FJC 🇺🇸 @The_FJC]

Only in California can a third place democrat candidate get more votes than the first place democrat candidate, when it is necessary to beat a second place republican candidate.

Keep those ballot presses churning until you have enough.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Wow.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Goosebumps. And I’m not even from there. Part of what makes America great!

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Sadly true.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Brilliant comment.

[Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC]

One of the more tedious processes in counting California's vote is that every mailed-in and dropped off ballot has to go through a signature verification process.

An LA County elections worker today tells me California confirms your ballot signature by checking it against all of the signatures CA has on file including your registration signature, previous ballots or DMV.

Kinda makes you wonder why not just ask for an ID up front and potentially eliminate all the backlog from the post election signature checks.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Great story, Karley!

[Karley Marotta @Karley_Marotta]

A seven-year-old Brewers fan walked into a card shop hoping to find a Jacob Misiorowski card. Instead, he found the Miz himself.

Miz told me getting to watch the young fan pull his card from a pack and sign it "was really cool."

@Brewers @Jmisiorowski9 @tmj4

Full story here:

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Have fun milking those. 🤦‍♂️

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

1970s baseball. Was just different.

[Matthew Nichol @MatthewNichol5]

Back when Chicago was great. Channel 5 sports clip when Jimmy Piersall attacked Arlington Heights Herald writer Bob Gallas. The clip also includes the pride of New Trier High School Ross Baumgarten. On another note, let's make Illinois great again and flip it red.

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Have no idea why the Brewers stay committed to this guy in the lineup. Failed to drive in a run in the second inning, too.

[Dominic Cotroneo @Dom_Cotroneo]

Instead of two outs nobody on, it's second and third and no outs.

After a leadoff walk to Alvarez, Crow induced a double play ball to third, but Rengifo threw it away. Cam Smith quickly followed with an RBI double.

Hot water for Crow. 2-1 HOU B4