Crystal Blankenheim

Happily Married to @RLBlankenheim for over 21 years.

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@Holden_Culotta Who told him that his tie should cover his dick?

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@Real___iTamara Bring back the firing squad.

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@CleanLAwithMe God bless you and thank you, for the work that you do!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Can President Trump PLEASE give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Amish for their amazing work rebuilding Western North Carolina?

They have literally rebuilt HUNDREDS of bridges, homes, businesses, and roads... and are STILL HERE HELPING!!!!!

No group deserves it more.

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@MJTruthUltra Powerful.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨HERO: A 24-year-old babysitter turned herself into a human shield to save an 8-month-old baby girl from a horrific dog attack!

Felicia Hambrick was caring for her best friend's three children in Tacoma, Washington, when the family’s pit bull unexpectedly burst out of a bedroom and charged toward them.

Holding the 8-month-old infant, 4-foot-11 Felicia made a split-second choice.

Instead of trying to run, she threw herself backward onto the floor and curled her body tightly around the child, using her own torso and limbs as a protective barrier.

The dog launched a relentless attack, biting and clawing at Felicia over and over.

She absorbed roughly 40 severe bite wounds across her neck, arms, legs, and stomach, refusing to let go or expose the child.

The mother was able to beat the dog back with a broom to free Felicia before emergency responders arrived.

Felicia spent five days in the hospital and needed 94 staples to close her wounds.

Because she absorbed the full force of the attack, the 8-month-old baby girl walked away without a single scratch!

Absolute bravery and selflessness in the face of sheer terror—that is what a real hero looks like!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God is so good.

[iTamara @Real___iTamara]

Please pray for my Baby Boy. He just had another seizure 💔🙏

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@DeAngelisCorey @DAngelisMiranda God Bless your growing family

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Beware of Foreign Entanglements.

[Michelle #AmericaOnly🇺🇲 @MichelleRM68]

Good God! Have you guys seen the horrific state that Oakland, CA is in right now?

I do not understand how Democrats who control the vast majority of cities in America that look like war zones continue getting elected. It's INSANE!🤦‍♀️👇

[Moms for Liberty @Moms4Liberty]

“They’re getting bolder.”
Massachusetts father, Luis Rivera, has a warning for parents⬇️
“I sat in those school committee meetings for months over a bathroom stall. I know how this works here. They don’t come to you first. They do it at school, they document the parents as the problem, and then when you won’t say the words they want you to say, they use the state. With my daughter, they told a nine-year-old she could use the nurse’s bathroom if she didn’t like a boy peering at her in the girls’ room. With this family the state of Massachusetts took the girl out of her house. They’re getting bolder.”

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

A couple years ago, Mikala Sposito applied for a work ethic scholarship from my foundation. She asked for $2,700.00 to help realize her dream of becoming a welder. (Actually, her first dream was to become an Olympian. As a kid, she excelled at horseback riding, dance, soccer, and track, but not quite at the Olympic level. So, Mikala adjusted her dream and focused on something within her reach. Precisely the kind of commonsense approach to making a living we try to encourage.) Toward that end, Mikala filled out the application, jumped through all the necessary hoops, and signed the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge, as all applicants must.

According to our internal ranking system, which is inherently subjective and relative to each batch of new applicants, Mikala scored a 94, and was awarded $2,100.00, or roughly 80% of what she asked for. This is typical of the average percentage awarded to an excellent applicant. As a rule, we almost never award the entire amount requested. We want our recipients to have some skin in the game, and we encourage all applicants to apply for additional scholarship funds elsewhere, which Mikala did. But in this case, if I had it to do over again, I think I’d have awarded Mikala the full $2,700.00. Why? Because this woman is precisely why I award work ethic scholarships in the first place, as recent headlines prove. Headlines all over the country that identify Mikala Sposito as the sole welder to represent Team USA in the upcoming @WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.

This is a very big deal. The World Skills competition is often referred to as the Olympics of the skilled trades, so it looks like Mikala’s dream is coming true after all. And it seems to me her journey is worth a brief encapsulation. Before she applied for a scholarship from mikeroweWORKS, Mikala demonstrated an affinity for welding in SkillsUSA. As a senior at Dexter High School, she won 1st Place at the SkillsUSA Michigan high school competition and went on to place 14th nationally. Then, as a freshman at Washtenaw Community College, she repeated her success by taking 1st Place in the Michigan college division. She then advanced to nationals, where she finished 8th in the country. That earned her an invitation to the Team USA pre-trials, which whittled the nation's top 16 young welders down to three. At the final USA Weld Trials at the Robotics Technology Park in Huntsville, Alabama, each competitor was evaluated on precision, safety, technical execution, craftsmanship, and multi-process capabilities under extreme time constraints. Mikala Sposito took the Gold, officially becoming the first woman to represent the United States in welding at WorldSkills. Next week, she’ll face off against the absolute best of the best from all over the world.

I should point out that Mikala would prefer it if the press didn’t make a big deal of her gender, and I completely understand. (She’s a welder – not a “weld-her.”) But today, the industry is in desperate need of proof that women can and do excel in the trades. Nationally, just 4.3% of tradespeople are female. At mikeroweWORKS, our female applicants are closer to 20%, but I assure you that percentage could be much higher. Companies are anxious to recruit talented welders of any gender, and women need to understand and believe the opportunities are real. Mikala prove that in spades, and I want to offer her my sincere congratulations, and invite all of you to do the same. Because Mikala Sposito is exactly what our country needs a lot more of. People who understand that talent is never enough to compensate for laziness.

In her application, she wrote, “Hard work beats talent any day of the week, and nobody is going to outwork me. Period.”

She also connected with every point of the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge but said the final tenet resonated with her the most. “Some people choose to be lazy. Some people choose to sleep in. I choose to work my butt off.”
My favorite quote, however, is Mikala’s response to seasoned professionals who see her wield a torch and call her a “natural.”

“I’m not a natural,” she says. Far from it. And none of this came easy. I worked and trained 60-80 hours a week for two years to get here.”

Regardless of what happens in Shanghai, the job offers are already piling up, including the most recent from SpaceX. She hasn’t graduated yet, but the future looks bright, and I for one would not bet against her.

PS. I never do this, but since my name is in the title of the foundation, I suppose I can. Mikala – please accept the additional $600 you requested from mikeroweWORKS two years ago. Shanghai is expensive, and since you’re representing all of us, we’d like to provide you with a little walking around money. The check is in the mail.

Now…go get the gold!

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

🚨 NEW BECERRA WHISTLEBLOWER: We were “accomplices in a human trafficking operation.”

Migrant children “cried and refused to get in the vehicle” after Becerra sent them to FAKE relatives. “HHS was giving us paperwork that was not frickin’ verified.”

Xavier Becerra turned HHS into the largest child trafficking operation in history. He CANNOT get away with this.

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

In 1986, lawsuits were piling up against vaccine makers for the injuries they caused. Instead of forcing them to make safer products, Congress gave vaccine manufacturers PROTECTION from lawsuits!

That was a terrible mistake. Finally, after 40 years we have legislation to repeal that law.

SIGN THE PETITION to tell Congress to repeal the 1986 Act. Then share it.

https://t.co/Nm3NlhJ1jd

[Crystal Blankenheim @clblankenheim]

@MKnowlesShow These Women are SO Gross! God, have Mercy on us.

[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

“That’s their job” is a terrible excuse to be inconsiderate.

If you grab cold food, decide you don’t want it, and leave it sitting on some random aisle, now somebody has to find it, the food may be ruined, the store loses money, and everybody eventually pays for waste like that.

Same thing with carts. Same thing with trash. Same thing with restaurants.

Yes, workers get paid to do a job. That doesn’t mean we should make their job harder on purpose.

Put it back. Clean up after yourself. Think about the person coming behind you.

Being considerate is free.

[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

If you change your mind at the store, don’t just leave stuff anywhere.

Today I showed the boys how people will grab something, decide they don’t want it, then leave it on whatever shelf is closest.

Somebody has to come behind you and fix that.

And with things like meat, milk, or frozen food, leaving it out can ruin it completely.

Put it back where it belongs.

Respect the workers you may never meet.

Doing the right thing usually isn’t hard. It just takes a little consideration.

[Herb W Morgan @Herb4Controller]

Californians didn’t lose $15 billion. The state confiscated it and is treating it as its own.

That is not a slogan. In a February 10, 2015 report to the Legislature — Unclaimed Property: Rethinking the State’s Lost & Found Program — Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor wrote it in black and white:
“Because property not reunited with owners becomes state General Fund revenue, the unclaimed property law creates an incentive for the state to reunite less property with owners.”

— Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), p. 3
The LAO said unclaimed cash was already the General Fund’s fifth-largest revenue source, more than $400 million a year. Every dollar they don’t give back is a dollar Sacramento gets to spend.

“Property” here is not a house. It’s a forgotten bank account, an uncashed paycheck, an old insurance payout, leftover stock, a closed utility deposit. Little piles of your cash the state swept after nobody touched them for a few years.

When the LAO wrote that report: $7.2 billion in 28 million forgotten accounts.

Now, on Cohen’s watch: $15 billion+ sitting in 84 million of them.

That is not a lost-and-found. It is an interest-free loan from Californians to Sacramento — and it is almost never paid back. The LAO found the state returns about 40 cents on the dollar over time. Cohen’s big “reunification” last winter? $30 million. Against $15 billion. That is a rounding error, not a repayment.
Last fiscal year her own cash report booked $1.32 billion in “Abandoned Property” as General Fund receipts.

She is not closing the loophole. She is widening it. Cohen is the sponsor of Assembly Bill (AB) 1447, which the Los Angeles Times reported would make it easier for the state to seize forgotten stocks and mutual funds if you don’t answer a notice. Industry groups told the Senate the same thing: easier confiscation.

CBS: other states automatically send the money back. Cohen mails press releases — and a bill to grab more.

I’m running for Controller to reverse that incentive. This is your money. I will return it.

https://t.co/0umJgQyHvF — type your name. Then vote like it matters.

[Samuel Holden @SamuelHolden_]

I made this video for my people.

It's important to understand that while we can never return we must remember and rebuild.

There's an endless road to rediscover ☀️⚡🇺🇸