Barbara Springer

wife, mom, grandma, retired educator, tour guide, sales associate, actress

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lippyent As one of my students so brilliantly termed it, the Dewey Dismal System!

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lippyent The Hunt for Red October.

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lippyent A whatchamacallit

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lowlevelbuzz @AgathaChocolats Best one!

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@METAVERZUZ Bernadine. Pat Boone

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lippyent Calendar with local advertising. Next to the telephone with the looong cord that usually got tangled.

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@BamaSaltyMarine First, try removing that unnecessary apostrophe and see if whatever you are struggling with then begins working.

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@lippyent The eating scene in Tom Jones. Or the diner scene in When Harry Met Sally.

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@AgathaChocolats This Silent Disco is so strange.

[B&S @_B___S]

Every morning 11 year old dog Maisy is waiting for her 90 year old friend Richard during his daily walk

[Chad Pergram @ChadPergram]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To A Doozy Of A Week In the Senate

This is going to be a doozy of a week in the Senate. This is the Senate’s final scheduled week of session before the summer recess. But it may drag into the weekend and maybe next week.

First of all, conservatives and President Trump want to blow up the recess to pass the SAVE America Act. It’s about the math. That bill doesn’t have the votes to pass. But this could spark a confrontation at the end of the week whenever the Senate tries to leave town. Moreover, relations between the President and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) aren’t great.

There will be lots of hue and cry about the SAVE America Act and Thune over the next few days.

There is likely a procedural vote tonight on a bipartisan agreement to avoid a fall government shutdown. This is significant, considering the concern about a shutdown this falll. If the Senate clears the procedural hurdle today, the measure is likely on a glidepath to passage later this week.

Then what happens with Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche. The chances of Blanche getting confirmed swung wildly over the weekend. The administration now says he’s nixing the weaponization fund - after the President threatened to revive it over the weekend. If Blanche can get out of committee tomorrow, that likely unlocks votes of skeptical Republicans with a confirmation vote this coming weekend.

Also, the Russia sanctions bill - an homage to late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - has the votes to pass. But that requires clocktime. It’s unclear where that falls in this.

Plus, there was a major deal over the weekend on a bipartisan bill to salvage college sports. Lawmakers believe college athletics as we know them may evaporate over the next two years unless Congress acts. The SEC and Big Ten signed off on a package which deals with athlete compensation. Unclear where this bill lands this week.

The same with FISA. The top anti-terrorism program has lacked Congressional authorization since springtime even though a bipartisan agreement was ready to go. Today’s swearing-in of Jay Clayton as DNI could unlock Democratic votes to pass the bill.

And lurking out there is a bill to regulate cryptocurrency. It’s unclear if there is the time to process that this week at all.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: RFK Jr. just SHATTERED the room with the most INSANE compliment ever delivered to President Trump…
In a live Cabinet meeting, the Health Secretary looked Trump dead in the eyes and DROPPED this absolute bombshell:
“My uncle prided himself on being the most open, transparent administration in history… he held 30 press conferences.
YOU, Mr. President, have a press conference almost EVERY SINGLE DAY.”
Then he went nuclear:
“You’ve opened the inner sanctum of the presidency for the first time in American history. That’s a beautiful thing.”
And the final dagger:
“Although you’ve given these guys compliments… they are THE MOST HOSTILE press corps ANY president in history has ever had to deal with.”
The room went silent. History just got rewritten in real time.
This is the moment the media never wanted you to see.

[Nick Coffey @TheCardConnect]

This picture is everything.

There are certain eras you wish you could’ve witnessed with your own eyes. For me, it’s Darrell Griffith in the late ’70s and early ’80s.

Born and raised in Louisville, he helped put the city on the map and will forever be woven into its basketball identity. Some players have the “cool factor,” but from the way people tell it, Griff was something beyond that.

Anytime someone tries to describe the presence he commanded in this city, the story always seems to end the same way: You can’t really explain it. You had to see it.

@LouisvilleMBB

📷: Barbara Montgomery | Courier Journal | 1980

[HoWLiNG MuDDy KaYaK @icemanCollins]

@greg_price11 Doesn't work that way DSA... But you already know that... 🤔💥👍👍👍

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@AgathaChocolats I’ll pass

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@AgathaChocolats And then they sang Happy Birthday!

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: At 1:21 AM Elon Musk posted this video of Sen. John Kennedy saying exactly how to restore Confidence in Elections to his 241 Million followers

1st Step:
“Prove you are who you say you are”

2nd Step:
“Have an Election Day, not an election month”

TIME TO GET LOUD

[Barbara Springer @bcs1973]

@bekahj Add chopped pecans. Yummy.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

If you have a son or daughter who's starting to think that socialism is the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back:

Next time you talk, don't argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just listen:

- When you say "socialism," do you mean that you want the government to pay for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the means of production? Because those are two very different countries.

- You say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the power to un-rig it?

- Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up?

- Can you name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer?

- When borders open or the walls fall down, anywhere in the world, which direction do people run? Towards the free market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries fell, which way were the guns pointed?

- Would you rather be poor today, or rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics.

- If you and I make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt?

- Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either of you?

Try having this conversation with your kids this week. Don't argue. Only listen. And if you want, call into my radio show and tell me how it went.