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Yooper, Internal Medicine Physician

[DrC @fchaltry]

@PatMcAfeeShow Were you falling down when you took this pic?

[DrC @fchaltry]

@NewKrash @BostonConnr Awesome. That one made me laugh

[One Knoxville Sporting Club @OneKnoxSC]

LET’S GOOOOOO 🇺🇸

[Barstool SEC @SECBarstool]

GOOD MORNING

IT’S A GREAT DAY TO REMEMBER THAT PARAGUAY HAS ZERO SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS

IT’S NOT FOOTBALL IT’S SOCCER

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[DrC @fchaltry]

@zacobson How does he turn his head with that huge neck!?

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

South Koreans are getting the full Mexico treatment with tequila shots to the DOME during the World Cup

[DrC @fchaltry]

@GBPdaily Noooo

[DrC @fchaltry]

@DennisSuttonSZN This is idiotic

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

Theodore Roosevelt read every single day

Even on his wedding day

Even while exploring the Amazon

Even the day he charged up San Juan Hill

He read 20,000 books in his lifetime

"I am part of everything I have read"

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is Norway's largest stave church. Heddal stavkyrkje was built entirely out of wood in the 1200s and it is still in use today.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

DC before vs after Trump's restorations

[Path To Manliness @PathToManliness]

“Desecration of the White House?”

Brother, Theodore Roosevelt literally boxed while serving as President.

Abraham Lincoln wrestled.

George Washington was known for physical strength.

JFK pushed national fitness.

American history was not built by fragile men clutching pearls every time masculinity shows up.

We used to admire strength, competition, courage, and controlled violence in the service of excellence. Now people act like two elite fighters stepping into a cage is somehow the collapse of civilization.

You know what actually desecrates institutions?

Corruption.
Lying.
Endless bureaucracy.
Weak leadership.

Not athletes competing.

A UFC event at the White House sounds less like national decline and more like America remembering who it is.

Founding Fathers watching a title fight under the lights:

“Brother, pass me another beer.”

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

If you just get jacked and read old books, 99% of your problems will disappear

[🇺🇸 🦅Simple Man 🦅🇺🇸 @Soaringeagle45]

An old cowboy owned a small ranch in New Mexico. The New Mexico Wage & Hour Dept. claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.

“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the agent.

“Well,” replied the rancher, “There’s my ranch hand who’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $600 a week plus free room and board.
The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 per week plus free room and board.
Then there’s the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.”

“That’s the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit,” says the agent.

“That would be me,” replied the rancher.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

I will explain to you what is the "Homeric Law", why they hate Homer and why they want you weak and spiritually dead. In the Battle of Marathon, all the Greek heroes who became role models for us, took part. Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Aeschylus with his brother Cynegirus. But besides them, a dog also helped in the fight. According to Claudius Aelian (On the Characteristics of Animals, VII, 38), a Greek brought his dog to the camp, and the dog attacked the Persians alongside its master. This scene is also depicted in the wall painting of the Stoa Poikile (Painted Stoa) from the 5th century BC.

The bronze helmet of Miltiades, which the Athenian general wore during the battle, was dedicated by him himself to the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia as a thank-offering to the god for the victory. The helmet was discovered and is today on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Themistocles, that great Greek, after the Battle of Marathon could not sleep and wandered sleepless through Athens. He used to say: "Οὐκ ἐᾷ με καθεύδειν τὸ τοῦ Μιλτιάδου τρόπαιον", which means, "The trophy of Miltiades does not let me sleep." He wanted to surpass Miltiades so much that he couldn't sleep. Can you imagine that? When the Persian king Artaxerxes asked for his help to attack the Greeks, Themistocles drank poison and committed suicide so as not to betray his country, Greece.

When Aeschylus died, he asked his relatives and close friends to inscribe an epitaph that reflected what he stood for in life and the values he held dear. Our first thought would be that Aeschylus would have wanted them to write that he was a great tragic poet with many awards and an outstanding body of work. Yet the epitaph makes no mention at all of his tragedies or his theatrical achievements, the very things for which all humanity remembers him today. Aeschylus wanted something written that showed what truly mattered to him. The epitaph therefore reads:

"This tomb in wheat-bearing Gela hides Aeschylus dead, son of Euphorion, the Athenian; of his worthy courage the grove of Marathon can tell, and the long-haired Mede who knows it well."
- (Source: Ἀθήναιος 14, 6)

The only thing that mattered to Aeschylus was Greece.

During the communal meals (syssitia) in Sparta, three choruses were formed according to the three age groups.

1. The chorus of the old men would begin singing:
"We once were strong young men."
(Ἄμμες πόκ' ἦμες ἄλκιμοι νεανίαι)

2. The chorus of the men in their prime would reply:
"We are the ones now; if you want, behold us"
(Ἄμμες δέ γ' εἰμέν· αἰ δὲ λῇς, αὐγάσδεο)

3. And the third chorus, that of the young boys, would say: "We shall become much better."
(Ἄμμες δέ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες)

These Greeks were great because they lived according to the most fundamental "Homeric Law", one that some people today want you not to know.

"Always strive for excellence and to surpass the others, and do not bring shame upon the race of your ancestors." (Homer, Iliad Z 208–209)

With these words, Hippolochus advised his son Glaucus when he sent him to fight in Troy. Earlier in the same book we read:

"Why do you ask of my lineage, fearless son of Tydeus? The generations of mortals are like the leaves of the trees: some the wind scatters upon the ground, and others the forest brings forth again when spring renews the trees. Thus one generation of men springs up, and another passes away." (Homer, Iliad Z 145–149)

We Greeks, we still use that Homeric phrase.
We say "Aien aristeuein," which means "Always to excel."

These words from Homer shaped generations of heroes and glorious men. This phrase lived in our collective memory, at least until today, and we fought to become better than our ancestors and worthy of our heroes. We had role models; we admired our grandfathers. The archetype of the heroic ancestor was born, and the lifelong purpose was always to surpass him through great deeds in one’s own life.

Until the dark days of today arrived, days baptized as "progress," in which every day we slide from bad to worse. You read my posts, you see what they are trying to do with the Classics. They hate Homer, they hate Plato and Aristotle, Alexander, Leonidas, they hate Achilles, they hate the Greek tragedies. They won't admit it, but you can see it when they are "manipulating the translations" to fit their agendas. Some want to create a degenerate world, sunk in atheism, anarchy, and spiritual collapse, far removed from values, virtues, and morality. They call this "progress," yet it is nothing but total subjugation, heads bowed, without any desire to resist.

To live without the imperative "aien aristeuein" (Always to excel), is to accept the slow death of the human spirit. When excellence is no longer the measure, when the only sacred thing left is the right to mediocrity and the comfort of never being judged by the shadow of greater men, then man ceases to be a bridge toward something higher and becomes merely a consumer of fleeting pleasures in a rootless present.

A civilization that teaches its young to surpass their ancestors in virtue, courage, wisdom, and beauty ascends.

One that teaches them to despise or ignore their ancestors has already begun its long descent into oblivion.

"Aien aristeuein"

And yes, my name is Homer, I'm Greek.

Homer Pavlos.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

[DrC @fchaltry]

@AncientHistorry Well written

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

A big part of Midwest culture is throwing a party in the garage

Graduation party? Garage
Easter? Garage
Grandma’s 90th? Garage
Memorial Day Weekend? Garage
Just need a space to hold 20 people? Garage

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.

The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted

CNN said there was "little evidence."

Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud

Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.

IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.