Scott Poley

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[Scott Poley @dspoley]

Goal! Corner kicks goal! #OnEveryCorner #Sweepstakes @Enterprise

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@steveschale There’s a reason Venice is called the Cape Coral of Europe

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Presidents: Combat Veteran Edition #8 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy, our 35th President, was one badass President.

His boat was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. He then swam miles towing a badly burned crewman with his teeth to save him.

Born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Kennedy tried to enlist but was rejected because of a chronic and severe back injury along with debilitating gastrointestinal illnesses.

Refusing to sit out the war, he used family connections to get in. He became a lieutenant in the Navy.

He commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands in 1943.

In the darkness of night of August 2, 1943, a Japanese destroyer slammed into his boat at full speed and cut it in two.

Two crewmen were killed instantly.

Kennedy was thrown hard into the cockpit and reinjured his back badly.

Kennedy and his ten surviving crew clung to the wreckage for hours. It began to sink.

One man, Patrick McMahon, was badly burned and could barely swim.

Kennedy gripped the strap of McMahon’s life jacket in his teeth and swam more than three miles in four hours through rough seas to the nearest island.

The crew spent days stranded, moving between tiny islands.

Kennedy swam out into dangerous coral channels at night, searching for passing American boats.

He eventually encountered two native Solomon Islander scouts.

Lacking any paper, Kennedy used a pocket knife to carve a rescue message into a green coconut shell:

"NAURO ISL COMMANDER NATIVE KNOWS POSIT HE CAN PILOT 11 ALIVE NEED SMALL BOAT KENNEDY"

The scouts paddled through enemy-controlled waters to deliver the coconut to an Allied base.

They were finally rescued after six days.

Kennedy later took command of PT-59 and continued combat patrols.

He was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism and the Purple Heart for his wounds.

He was the only U.S. president to receive the Purple Heart.

He fought for the Republic in the Pacific long before he ever stepped foot in the White House.

Thank you, Mr. President! 🇺🇸🫡

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@BaseballandLaw Highly recommended!

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This is incredible

[Cyndi @Cyndi986]

Some souls don’t just play music… they let us feel it. ❤️🎹

Blind. Autistic. Brilliant.
And somehow this song says more than words ever could.

Show him some love and support. 🌎✨

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Highly recommended!!!

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🎙️ Sad News: Charlie Neal, the longtime voice of HBCU football and sports broadcasting, has passed away.

A brief tribute to this trailblazer: https://t.co/VSIqVBPUcM

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@Super70sSports 💯

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@WFLA Apparently that WAS a load bearing wall…

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We need more Ben Sasse's in the world.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Extended interview: Former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has metastatic pancreatic cancer. He spoke with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley about where America has been and where it could still go.

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@heitner It is the solution from the non-statutory labor exemption perspective especially vis a vis antitrust attacks on collectively bargained restrictions. Whether colleges truly want players to be employees (who could bargain for seniority based perks, benefits, etc.) is interesting.

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@heitner This just reflects their true value to the institution. Keep up the good work.

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@Genetics56 This completely ignores the demographic shift of people and wealth moving south to escape the high tax low growth states that was only increased by state and local approaches to Covid. The southern states are all adding population and wealth at the expense of the northern states.

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@3YearLetterman Need to up their NIL game. Maybe hire Gus Malzahn as a consultant.

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@YahooFantasy Half PPR: Mike Evans, Michael Wilson, Michael Carter. I like Mikes apparently. #MakeYourPick

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@Matt_Pinner CHiPs

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@NFL_DovKleiman Dexter Bussey
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@AlexBerenson Was Randy Johnson pitching?

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@RobertParish00 Where’s Bill Laimbeer?

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@warningtrackmac Congratulations Kyle hope to see you in Lakeland