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Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.
@BenMullin Sounds like you were being a Hostile Employee. They do not have any reason to answer your loaded questions. Learn To Code or something...Right Scott....
Our country is being taken over by Islamists.
They have turned our own Constitution and democratic processes into weapons against us.
Most Americans remain in deep denial about the threat.
They insist on a meaningful distinction between “moderate Islam” and “radical Islam.”
Yet if that divide were genuine, its followers would not be drawing from the exact same Quran.
Unless we find the courage to have these difficult, uncomfortable conversations, the United States will fall to the long-term Islamist strategy of conquering the West.
Too many of us are trading our grandchildren’s safety for the comfort of not being called names.
You want to know why everyone in Corporate America hates HR?
Here's why.
Working with one of our Fintech clients to extend an offer for an AI Engineer.
This candidate's background is ridiculous. Coming out of one of the hottest startups, degrees from IIT and Carnegie Mellon.
He's got a competing offer, so the hiring manager and director decided to bring him in at Principal level to beat them on title, beat them on comp.
Done deal, right?
Wrong.
Enter HR.
They rejected it. "Doesn't have enough experience."
This is an AI Engineer. From IIT and Carnegie Mellon. With a competing offer. And they're saying he doesn't have enough years of experience although he has amazing skills.
Now a week has gone by. More people need to sign off. The manager has zero backup candidates. And the candidate just let me know he's leaning toward the other offer. This whole thing left a bad taste in his mouth.
So to recap: HR just cost a team their number one candidate, wasted a week of everyone's time, and killed a hire that the actual business wanted to make.
But sure, tell me how HR "adds value."
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that 1 year ago, on a Charlotte NC city bus...
...a White 64-year-old Navy Veteran was beaten and paralyzed by a Black man who broke his neck
The veteran is a quadriplegic now.
His attacker walked out of jail 3 months later.
This is why Republicans Lose. There is a difference between Groomers which should be prosecuted, and just letting people be happy for who they are without demonizing them.
What bothers me the most about the Nowak case is how he had no chance. He was stabbed, and in other cases maybe he would have received assistance, maybe the perpetrator would have run away and then people would have helped, an ambulance would have come.
But he wasn't just stabbed. Then a systematic process began. The knife was hidden by a family member. A second family member made the call to police and lied. This set in motion the police response which judged Nowak the perpetrator without interviewing him or anyone. He was cuffed and couldn't even speak as he was cautioned that he was arrested.
It wasn't just the police response, it was that he lay wounded and dying and those around him were all a family, involved in hiding the weapon, lying to police and telling police when they arrived that Nowak wasn't stabbed.
The whole system was against him, in his own country he was completely alone, surrounded, with no chance to survive. From the moment the perpetrator decided to stab him, he had no chance. The entire system worked against him.
And when you see the video of the perpetrator and family, they act like this is a completely normal day...like they would just walk away and it was fine. No sense of shock, no sense of shame.