My house is paid off.
No mortgage. No bank. Nothing owed.
Took I and my wife 22 years and every extra dollar we ever had.
Except property taxes are $11,000 a year now.
If we don’t pay, armed men show up and take a house we already own outright.
We also paid 32% in income tax this year.
Plus sales tax on everything we bought.
Plus gas tax every time we filled up.
We paid off the house.
We still don’t own the house.
We just stopped paying the bank and started paying everyone else instead.
TAXATION IS THEFT
Property taxes shouldn’t exist.
Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.
The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”
Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.
Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.
“Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”
She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.
Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.
America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.
Then NASA calls.
1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.
Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.
“It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”
Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.
August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.
Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”
Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”
Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.
Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”
Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.
Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”
“I’m in math,” she says.
Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.
Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.
Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”
April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.
Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.
Primary computer stutters.
Backup comes alive.
Judith’s AGS.
It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.
April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.
The world cheers the astronauts.
Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”
Judith’s backup.
Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.
She keeps going.
Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”
Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”
July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.
Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”
The counselor said “finishing school.”
Judith chose “finishing equations.”
Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.
“They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”
She never flew. But she made sure others could.
From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.
🚨WOW: WNBA player DiJonai Carrington just HIT Sophie Cunningham in the face, knocking her to the ground, and then posted "white privilege" after she got ejected.
Pray for Sophie Cunningham.
She doesn't deserve this abuse.
🚨 JUST IN: A SECOND former NBA player — Royce White — is declaring himself eligible for the WNBA, per Fox
"I'm transgender. I identify, sometimes, as a woman, for purposes of basketball."
He joins Enes Kanter Freedom. White is 6 foot 8 at over 260 pounds, INSTANTLY would dominate existing female players 😭
"I'll be declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft."
The only way to stop him? The WNBA HAS TO DEFINE "WOMAN" and BAN males identifying as women.
PURE CHECKMATE!! 😂
We have a two tier system for justice and moral outcry in this country. It's clear in this video he caused severe head damage to this woman and nobody in credentialed media/journalism cares.
Like 95% of uber drivers can't speak English.
I've canceled quite a few rides because of this.
I refuse to get in a vehicle when the driver can't read the road signs.
Uber should be SUED for taking their customers lives in the hands.
It's an accident waiting to happen.
🚨 The SSN linked to Barack Obama (042-68-4425) was originally issued in 1977 to a French immigrant named Jean Paul Ludwig who lived in Connecticut.
Obama never lived there. Ludwig later died in Hawaii, where Obama’s grandmother worked in the probate office with access to deceased people’s records.
The claim: the number was never properly retired and was quietly used by Obama. Using someone else’s SSN is fraud.
Stay tuned.
@AmericaPulseNew
Texas Children’s Hospital is set to become the nation's first “detransition clinic” after a sweeping settlement between the hospital and Texas following whistleblower claims about the hospital's transgender surgical practices.
Under the agreement, the hospital has 90 days to open the clinic and must provide free detransition care for five years to patients who previously received gender-transition care.
Texas Children’s will also pay $10 million, with more than $8 million going to the state, to resolve claims they billed Texas Medicaid for illegal "gender-transition" interventions. $1.7 million will also go to whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge.
The settlement also requires the hospital to revoke the privileges of five doctors associated or previously associated with the hospital.
“This historic settlement is a resounding defeat for the radical gender ideology that has preyed on Texas children under the guise of ‘care,’” Attorney General Ken Paxton said.