Sherry

Mother, daughter, sister & aunt. Midwestern family w/southern & military roots. Love my God, family & country. Addicted to books, music & learning.

[Sherry @heldski]

I've spent a lot of time trying to locate this excerpt from something Walter Cronkite wrote in, I believe, in 1993. I first saw it in an English/Language Arts textbook my children used during middle or high school. It had stuck with me, but when I began searching for it, it was nowhere to be found. Google is only one of the search engines I tried that came up empty.

It wasn't until January 2024, when @Grok became available to me that I was able to locate the excerpt. Now, oddly enough, even grok cannot find it. How strange, is that, huh? Not surprising, I guess since Cronkite had, in more recent times, seems to have taken a slightly different stance. So, I guess it is a good thing I saved my previous conversation with grok on the topic.

Anyway, I am using this updated post to replace the previously pinned one and including a screenshot of the January2024 with Grok.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Not a single person crying about how the Supreme Court has made it impossible for black people to get elected supported Winsom Sears over the affluent white lady.

Not one.

[Cindy K @MAGAMAHACindy]

Hypothetically…….. We are being taxed on money we never made.

Let that sink in.

If I bought my property outright for $160,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $446,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $446,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper and now I’m being billed for it.

If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.

If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.

So why does owning a home work differently?

Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?

A house isn’t just an investment, it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.

You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.

This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received.
It’s time people start to notice.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

INDIANA — VOTE BY MAY 5TH

James “Jay” Starkey
District 6

Paula Copenhaver
District 23

Brenda Wilson
District 38

Michelle Davis
District 41

Dr. Brian Schmutzler
District 11

Jeff Ellington
District 39

Trevor De Vries
District 1

Tracey Powell
District 21

Blake Fiechter
District 19

Darren Vogt
District 15

[Sherry @heldski]

@SenatorHassan Lies, lies, and more lies. That is all your party does. Just stop.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Senator Lee is single-handedly forcing the entire Republican Senate to work.

🙏

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

💯

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

The Iranian regime executed a 19 year old for demanding democracy.

I stand with his memory and the thousands of other young Iranians.

Those who grieve the elimination of Iranian leaders over murdered protesters is telling.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Florida Southern College has just created an ROTC SCHOLARSHIP in honor of fallen Captain Cody Khork, who was lost to Operation Epic Fury

Well-deserved 🙏🏻

SHERIFF GRADY JUDD: "Normally, the pictures I hold up are of bad guys. This is a hero. This man went off to war at the direction of his country."

"This is Captain Cody Khork. He's 35. He's from Winter Haven."

"He was in the U.S. Army Reserves. He was called up. He died in the early days as a result of an attack."

"His family has asked that we escort him past Florida Southern College, where he went to college."

"This man is a hero, and he died in order that we can live in a free and democratic society, and he did what was asked of him of his country."

"Once he is escorted to the funeral home, which is in Winter Haven, he will remain there until he has services this weekend, and then on Monday we will escort him to Bushnell, which is his final resting place."

"From the time he arrives in Polk County on that airplane until the time we take him to Bushnell, Captain Cody will not be by himself."

"Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there will be a deputy standing guard because it's the right thing to do. We're proud of him."

"We're proud of all our military personnel that are standing in the gap and doing what this country has asked of them." 🇺🇸

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Listen up all you champagne socialists and basement dwelling “America First” LARPers that love to opine about war, a subject you chumps know absolutely nothing about: American global dominance doesn’t care what you morons think about this conflict.

One side of you preens about “human rights” while cheering regimes that stone women to death for not wearing head coverings and tosses gays off of rooftops, while the other side cosplays as rugged isolationists while being perfectly okay with embracing Islamists and handing tyrants the keys to global dominance on a silver platter as long as you can blame it all on the Jews.

Both of you morally posturing idiots are united under one sacred agreement: cowardice disguised as principle.

You are both happy to virtue signal from the safety that American dominance brings you while the real world gets carved up by the very monsters you would refuse to confront.

You all have the geopolitical understanding of toddlers waiting on their next tantrum and are happy to believe in whatever lies make you feel most comfortable with the fact that you lack a spine.

It’s a pathetic, vomit inducing symmetry, your lefty moral exhibitionism and your Halal right strategic suicide pact making up two sides of a coin stamped “weakness” and “self sabotage.”

American military doctrine is quite literally built on engaging only military targets and goes through rigorous checks to ensure civilian casualties are minimized, but war is war and mistakes happen; you gaggle of rejects would understand that if you actually had the gumption required to serve your country and fight for something bigger than yourselves.

History will remember you cowardly losers as the useful idiots who teamed up to embrace the decline of America because climbing out of the closet or your mother’s basement to face reality was just too icky of a concept.

It makes me sick, seeing your conglomeration of slacktivists cheering for the demise and failure of the very service members that are fighting for your right to endlessly run your own worthless suck holes.

Absolutely screw all of you people.

We are winning, and we will continue to win no matter how loud you malcontents cry and squeal.

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Remember when we lost 13 American service members in the failed withdrawal of Afghanistan that was actually completely avoidable?

Didn’t hear you condemning that massive failure, though.

No accountability for gross negligence during the Biden Admin, just you standing by and remaining silent throughout it all because it didn’t fit your narrative.

And now you are using those recent service members’ deaths as a weapon against the Trump admin, despite almost half of them dying in a noncombat related accident, you giant douche.

Guys, you don’t hate this traitorous coward enough.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

TMZ followed by several different other "news" sites (I use that term lightly) published a story with this all caps headline "PETE HEGSETH
BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER" accompanied by a photo with him, surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters.

If you've never covered the military, or served, or if you don't have any family or friends in the military this would seem like a shocking story.

But it's not--not even remotely.

It is a common practice for our country to provide these special meals to our service men and women at least once a week--Has been for decades.

I did my due diligence to prove my point to anyone who doubts my accuracy -- in 2009 when Robert Gates was the secretary defense during the Obama administration I present you with a story from a reporter who was embedded with the soldiers in Afghanistan.

"The lobsters and crab legs are shipped from the United States and driven down on a refrigerated truck from Bagram.
On seafood night, the crew serves up 400 of the tasty tails, 130 pounds of Alaskan King crab legs, and 135 pounds each of shrimp and scallops."

Here is the link: https://t.co/71KY99QS4v

And here is a story from 2024 when Lloyd Austin was the secretary of defense and Joe Biden was the president of the United States.

"The military spent $103.7 million on meat, fish and poultry, including $16.6 million on ribeye steak and 147 orders of lobster tail for $6.1 million.

Orders of blueberries, ice cream and doughnuts also exceeded $100,000."

https://t.co/jvObGKqcb4

I am once again disappointed with the lack of balance and context in my profession. Deeply embarrassed and disappointed in members of Congress, who were tweeting this out. Why? Well because how is it that they don't know this? 

You may or may not like who is the current president of the United States, but your obsession should not make something that is both a norm but also a show of gratefulness for our soldiers, an outrage to satisfy your unhappiness.

[I am Ken @Ikennect]

Just a simple fact

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

BREAKING: 10,655 teachers have opted out of their unions and joined the Teacher Freedom Alliance.

This is the way to hold union bosses accountable.

Starve the beast.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Pass the National Constitutional Carry Act

[Danielle Gill @danielledsouzag]

As Democrats attacked President Trump during Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral, they all just so happened to not show this 1999 video of Jackson praising Trump for always helping the Black community.

Follow: @DanielleDSouzaG

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

If you are longing for a simpler time that is now gone forever, this video will likely hit HARD…
🥲

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

I set fire to my school when I was thirteen years old.

They sent me to an institution. I was there for about a month. A man in that facility did something to me that I have never spoken about publicly until today. I was a child. He was not.

I carried that for thirty-one years. Through a marriage. Through five kids. Through driving a garbage truck at 5 AM and writing between stops in parking lots with the engine running. Through 1,800 posts and 26,000 subscribers, and a ministry I built with my bare hands.

Thirty-one years of silence.

I'm breaking it now.

Not because I want your sympathy. Not because I want to "process" or "heal" or whatever word the therapists use. I'm breaking it because I watched a 22-year-old kid on the Shawn Ryan Show this week describe being groomed on Roblox at twelve years old, by a developer that Roblox put in their own commercials, and I sat in my chair, and I could not move.

Not because of what happened to him.

Because I looked at a picture of my own children on the wall across the room.

And I thought about every screen in my house. Every app I never opened. Every conversation I never asked about. Every night, my kids were in their rooms on devices I paid for, connected to platforms I never checked, talking to people I never met.

And I realized something that made me sick.

I've been so busy carrying my own silence that I almost missed what was happening right in front of me.

Let me tell you what's happening.

Right now — tonight — there are grown men on Roblox, Discord, VR Chat, and a dozen other platforms your children use every single day. They have playbooks. Not metaphorical playbooks. Literal, documented grooming strategies. They build trust with your kid over weeks. They gift virtual currency. They isolate. They normalize. And then they destroy.

The kid on the Shawn Ryan Show tried to kill himself at fifteen. His mother reported it to Roblox. The company did nothing. The predator — a man named Kevin Nolan, featured in Roblox's own TV commercials on Cartoon Network — is still free. Still online.

Seven hundred thousand people watched that interview in two days.

Twenty million reports of child exploitation hit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline last year. Twenty million. Reports of online enticement surged 192% in a single year. And those are just the cases someone actually reported.

Your child's bedroom is not safe. Not because you failed as a parent. Because the battlefield moved into your house through a screen, and nobody told you.

I know what it feels like when a man reaches for a child in a room no one is watching. I know what it does to a boy. I know what it costs him for the next three decades. I know the silence. I know the shame. I know the way your body flinches at things you can't explain, and your wife asks what's wrong, and you say "nothing" because you don't have the words.

I have the words now.

And I'm using them.

I'm not starting a movement. I'm not launching a nonprofit. I'm not pivoting my platform. I'm doing what a father does. A father protects his own. And he warns other fathers.

So here's your warning.

Check your kids' phones tonight. Not tomorrow. Tonight. Open Roblox. Open Discord. Look at the friend lists. Read the messages. Ask your child who they're talking to. And when they say "just my friends" — verify it. Because the man who hurt me was supposed to be helping me. And the man who groomed that kid on Roblox was supposed to be making games for children.

The people who destroy children don't look like monsters. They look like helpers. They look like developers. They look like youth pastors, coaches, and family friends. And they are counting on you being too busy, too trusting, or too distracted to notice.

Don't be.

Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. — Nehemiah 4:14

That was written for men standing on a wall with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other. Building something and defending it at the same time.

That's us.

I wrote the full story on Substack today. Everything I've never said. What happened to me. What I found. What I'm going to do about it. And what I need from you.

If you're a father, read it. If you're a mother, read it. If you have a child with a screen in their hand, read it.

And if you know someone who needs to see this — share it. Not for me. For the kid in the room, no one is watching.

I'm done being silent.

We're not hiding anymore.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Jesse Jackson’s son specifically asked people to keep politics out of the funeral.

Democrat leaders couldn’t do it.
They still used the moment to attack Trump and the right.

When a family asks for something that simple and it still gets ignored, that can tell you a lot about priorities.

Wild to watch.

[EmilyT @StartWhere_U_R]

@CynicalPublius @jtalexander Here is a refresher to educate those unaware of Iran’s export of terrorism

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

We all just gonna pretend Iran didn’t execute the strategic version of a death blossom?

Firing munitions at almost every country around them.

Understand how insane that is.

But yea, they can have nuclear materials right? 🙄

Homie, they shouldn’t even have a photo of uranium.