Country music legend Dolly Parton died today at the age of 80.
My favorite story about her:
Parton wrote the songs “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” on the same night.
When the first song was at the top of the charts in 1974, Elvis wanted to record his own version of the song. Dolly was interested until Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ manager, said that it was standard procedure that when the king of rock and roll covered a song - half of the rights to that song would go to him in the future.
She refused it.
“I said, ‘I’m really, really sorry’ and cried all night. It was terrible for me, on the one hand, it’s Elvis. People told me: “You are crazy.” It’s Elvis Presley…’ but I just couldn’t do it. Something told me in my heart not to do it and I didn’t. I know he would rock with that song. But I couldn’t. And then Whitney Houston came along with her version and I made enough money from the rights to buy Dollywood.”
She grew up in severe poverty and no one famous has done more for the education of the poor than her.
In 1990, the percentage of students who did not graduate from high school in her hometown was over 30%. She introduced the “Buddy Program”, where all high school graduates received a nice sum when they graduated. It wasn’t just a waste of money, she personally came and explained the concept to them - everyone should find a buddy, and whoever doesn’t succeed she will find one for them. Everyone had to sign that they will graduate and do everything in their power to ensure that their buddy also graduates. She taught young people about friendship and helping.
The number of school dropouts dropped to below 6% and has remained so until today.
When 900 families lost their homes in the 2016 fires, she paid each family $1,000 for the next five months. When she came to the bank to finish the paperwork, she gave each family another $5,000 to find. A total of nine million dollars.
Also, her work - Imagination Library from 1995, was inspired by her realization that young people in rural areas and poor families already fall behind when they start school and that this prevents them from pursuing higher education. The goal of her program was for every child in her district to receive one book, once a month, from birth to school, completely free of charge, without any conditions. It started as an initiative in her hometown and has spread to a huge number of countries around the world.
By 2018, over 100 million books were distributed in this way.
She is also known for her witty statements, at the beginning of her career she said:
“I’m not offended by jokes about stupid blondes because I know I’m not stupid… and I’m not really blonde either.”
Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.
Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).
A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.
At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at https://t.co/cLu9I7M2wC
In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at https://t.co/arzrqInqJA
Abortions are number one cause of death in the United States of America
With more than a million American children aborted every year, there are as many abortions as deaths from heart disease and cancer combined
There are 20 times more aborted children than adult suicides
🚨 WOW! This Christian pastor walked up and WENT BERSERK on Muslim Dearborn MI City Councilmembers trying to push Sharia Law
"You're only ONE PERCENT OF THIS NATION! We are NOT a nation of Muslims, we are a nation of CHRISTIANS! We are one nation under GOD!"
"YOU are up under Sharia Law!"
"You have seen what has happened in this city, and it is my people that have funded you. It's my people that made sure that you have what you have, and you spit on us. You degrade us!"
"We have LOST this city. This is a city that is no longer up under American laws. We are up under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"
🙏����🇺🇸
CHRISTIAN NATION!
Melanoma was a rare disease within living memory. In 1935 an American's lifetime risk was one in 1,500. It is now about one in 33.
The sun has not changed.
Not better detection either. The dermatologist who published the 1,800 per cent rise went out of his way to rule that out, because the death rate was climbing alongside it.
Not a failure to cover up. Sunscreen went from nothing to a global industry across the exact century melanoma exploded.
Not sun exposure. A cancer registry across four Nordic countries and Australia found more melanoma in office workers than in the men who spent their working lives outdoors.
So something changed inside the skin rather than above it.
The omega-6 in American body fat went from 9 per cent in 1959 to 21 per cent by 2008, tracking the soybean oil supply almost exactly. That fat turns over on a half-life of roughly two years, so the skin you burned this summer was built out of the oil in your kitchen two summers ago.
And sunburn is an inflammatory reaction. The fuel for it is the omega-6 sitting in your cell membranes when the light lands.
Which is why four grams of omega-3 a day let volunteers take 36 per cent more UV before they burned, in a double-blind trial. Why fish oil cut the inflammatory signal in irradiated human skin by more than 60 per cent. Why mice fed seed oil burned worse than mice fed omega-3 under the same lamp.
It is also why my inbox fills up every June. People two and three years into carnivore, fair-skinned, no cream, hours outside, telling me they come in pink now instead of scalded. I stopped burning somewhere in year two and assumed I had imagined it. Thousands of people reporting the same change, in the exact direction the mechanism predicts, is not a coincidence. It is data nobody has bothered to collect.
The trial nobody wants to fund is two groups, one lamp, one kitchen running on sunflower oil and one on butter.
Fifty years of advice about what to put on your skin. Not one word about what you built it from.
Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.
“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”
“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”
“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”
“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”
“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”
“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”
Charlie Kirk was right, and now JD Vance e is saying it
Young people are turning to socialism because our country has been sold out to foreigners and now the middle class has been wiped out and can’t afford to live
JD Vance says it can be fixed
“A lot of Americans look at this rising tide of socialism and say, "How did we get here?" We got here by 40 years of bipartisan leaders selling our industrial base to foreign countries, allowing low-wage immigrants to come in and compete with Americans for jobs, by destroying the foundation of the middle class. That's how you got socialism.
How you fix that problem is by doubling down on Donald Trump's economic nationalism, not going back to the way we've done things for the past 40 years.
It's failed everywhere it's tried.
It's failed everywhere it's tried, and it always leads to socialism. It always leads exactly where we are. The only way to get out of it is to double down on the economics of the past 18 months.”
Charlie Kirk spoke on this SO MANY times and nobody listened
He warned if people couldn’t afford a home or even groceries they would turn to socialism. He warned American being replaced by low wage workers would make it worse
And here we are….
A second former NBA player plans to join the WNBA.
Royce White – a first-round NBA Draft pick in 2012 – told me he will be declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft. The only thing that will stop him is if the WNBA makes a "definitive statement" that males can't play in the league.
🚨🚨 El renombrado biólogo del cáncer a nivel mundial Thomas Seyfried, PhD, revela "ahora tenemos un mecanismo de por qué los medicamentos antiparasitarios están funcionando".
Profesor Thomas Seyfried: "Mebendazol, Fenbendazol [Hice] una investigación profunda sobre ello y dije, ¿por qué los medicamentos antiparasitarios funcionan contra las células cancerosas, y resulta que los parásitos usan la fosforilación a nivel de sustrato mitocondrial en el tejido... y el mebendazol y fenbendazol matan a estos parásitos. Así que lo probé en la célula cancerosa y, por supuesto, ataca el sustrato mitocondrial y la glucólisis"...
Los parásitos dependen de EXACTAMENTE la misma vía de energía disfuncional que las células cancerosas y estos fármacos no se preocupan de que el cáncer no sea un parásito...
"Así que ahora tenemos un mecanismo de por qué los medicamentos antiparasitarios están funcionando, pero el cáncer no es un parásito"...
Thomas Seyfried menciona evitar investigar la Ivermectina por la presión política durante el covid, pero la Dra. Isabella Cooper, PhD en Ciencia Cetogénica e Hiperinsulinemia, le señala el mecanismo:
"La Ivermectina, en realidad actúa en la vía de muerte celular mitocondrial"...
Stephen A. Smith publicly apologized to Kyrie Irving, admitting that many of his past criticisms—especially over Kyrie���s absences, COVID-19 vaccine stance, and personal controversies—were over the top and unfair.
But Stephen A. isn’t the only one who owes Kyrie an apology.
Charles Barkley should also apologize for repeatedly attacking @KyrieIrving over his stance on the #CovidVaccine. It’s easy to criticize in the moment, but it’s just as important to own it when you were wrong.
Every person with MD after their name should have stood up and stayed true to their oath during COVID
They should have stood for common sense and rational thinking
They should have spoken against the panic, the excessive restrictions, the crazy rules, and the vaccine mandates which were wrong and a breach of medical ethics
Yet over 90% of them stayed silent and went along with lunatics like Fauci
And they still would today
The medical professional failed
And it still fails every day. Which is why your medicine is broken.
If the legions of doctors can be so wrong on such a major issue, what hope is there for healthcare?
A reminder: You cannot have enough disgust for American Public Health Associations 👇🏽
(p.s. nothing says “we are people of science” like disabling comments on your posts)
I'm A Doctor: Why Fauci MUST NOT Get Away With It— An Honest Reflection
Here's my full take and personal evolution as a doctor who initially listened to (and even looked up to) Fauci at the beginning of 2020, to where I am now...
Stephen a smith publicly apologises to kyrie Irving for using the espn platform to attack him in the past over his stance on not taking the coronavirus vaccine . This comes after Anthony Fauci declined to answer any questions before a Senate committee
Ford has a security vulnerability that they are internally leaving unfixed so they can sell you the solution
Their vehicles are vulnerable to a relay attack, that lets someone with a signal booster trick your vehicle into thinking they have the key fob
Ford knows this works and your vehicle can be stolen, but instead of fixing the security issue they are charging customers $7.99 per month, that’s $96 per year to be protected from this hacking
The security package even comes with stolen vehicle assist…. So they know that your vehicle can be stolen by this and they’ll assist and get it back… for a price
There should be a lawsuit against Ford for this
A sheepdog in California is being credited for helping first responders land a helicopter during an emergency situation in Orange County.
The Laguna Beach Police Department is praising the dog for helping out first responders.
"While LBPD, LBFD & OCFA personnel responded to an emergency today, drone pilots captured footage of the units clearing the trail for a helicopter," they said.
"While doing so, a helpful sheepdog stepped up and helped guide a herd of goats out of the way so the units could work."
"That’s a good boy."