Jim McCarthy

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[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@FedExHelp I need to file a claim on a delivery that you lost...but the website returns an error. Been happening all morning. Calling got me a robo callback that directed me to the website. Can you help?

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Dads when left at home with the kids 🤣

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

The Patrouille de France flying over the Statue of Liberty today. What a symbol. 250 years of shared history.

[New York Post @nypost]

Karmelo Anthony convicted of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at Texas track meet - now faces up to life behind bars https://t.co/kympCczVKc

[Watches of Espionage @watchesofespion]

Best Quartz Watches for the W.O.E. Community- The fact is that quartz watches are more accurate, typically cheaper, and more durable compared to their mechanical counterparts, making them an excellent choice for anyone leaning into the Use Your Tools.

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[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

I'll be writing about this for NR, but I will lay the Los Angeles situation out here flatly. Pratt didn't lose because of fraud. Pratt lost because, just like Chicago, it's an 80/20 Democratic city. In fact, he seems to have placed exactly where was in the final polls.

The real scandal is what's legal: with a 100% mail-in system, an endless window for ballot counting and legal mechanisms for unions and organizers to harvest (and later "cure") ballots, California's system is a purpose-built black box designed to fuel paranoia. And for no other purpose than that it allows Democratic intra-party battles to become a test of organizing strength for NGOs and unions.

People are right to be angry about the system. But even the way the votes are being counted now makes perfect (albeit disgusting) sense without recourse to claims of "fraud."

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@TedMoondust UK and Canada were in charge of that area historically. The US Navy has to patrol it, pulling them away from other areas. It is high time that Canada met it's obligations. A good first step would be completing the buy of F35, giving Canadian warfighters the equipment they need.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Despite everything I went through in gymnastics, it's made me who I am. And I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity.

The chance to train. To compete. And to win.

I'll always fight for female athletes.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@TedMoondust You know, Canada is the unreliable partner in NORAD. No longer able to control the Newfoundland-Greenland-Iceland gap, and dragging their feet recapitalizing the RCAF, Canada is not shouldering the load. High time to come to the table.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@bengtneathery @RealAirPower1 Expound.

[The Chieftain @Chieftain_armor]

I don't believe i can go any more flamboyant.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

0 F = extremely cold
100 F = extremely hot
0 C = kinda chilly
100 C = you're dead

Conclusion: centigrade is a scale created by complete morons
https://t.co/IIRGmINWJi

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@JonA2i @RealAirPower1 I don't know, I think the US has proven our reliability in Israel in spades since 10/7...and if you want the RCAF to have the best, F15EX is the best choice.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@10zJohnson Why? That is one of the worst stadiums in the NFL. High time for an improvement.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@Rick03039934 @RealAirPower1 Sure you would, especially since RCAF lacks sufficient aerial tanker capacity. And if you ever had to launch AAM's, you want the capacity that F15EX allows vs Gripen's much lower payload.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@William83775296 @RealAirPower1 Grippen E should be compared with F15EX as it would fill the same role. Not enough range for northern Canada, not enough payload. Bad choice for the low choice vs. F15EX.

[Jim McCarthy @jam3ohio]

@JenniferSey It's stories like yours that underscore how important it is to keep women's sports for women.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

In 1985 I made the USA World Championships Gymnastics Team. I placed 3rd at the Trials, my highest placement to date as a young gymnast.

At Worlds, on my 8th and final event I fell. It was a devastating fall. I missed a release move and tumbled to the ground. My right foot was stuck while my body spun around the knee. I knew it was bad. I screamed, or thought I did. No one came. It felt like forever on the raised platform, no coach, no trainer, no doctor while I writhed.

Eventually my coach realized I wasn't getting back up. They rushed to me. The trainer thought my knee was dislocated and he attempted to push it back in place. It wasn't dislocated though. My femur was broken - we didn't know that yet - and he was pushing bone against bone.

My dad joined me in the ambulance. I remember sobbing -- "What am I going to do now? I don't know how to do anything else. This is all I want to do."

He cried too. We assumed my career was over. He said: "You can do anything you want to do. You're smart and you can be anything you want to be. You're just getting started." He was right in so many ways.

But all I wanted then was to be a gymnast.

I was taken to the nearest hospital and rushed into surgery. It was a French speaking hospital and we didn't fully understand what anyone was telling us.

When I came out of surgery a doctor who spoke English told us "It was a broken femur. Not her knee." We cheered. We were all so happy. My coaches, my parents, me. Bones often heal better than joints.

I left Canada on crutches with a full leg cast. When I got home to Pennsylvania, my doctor changed the cast to a lighter one, with a hinge at the knee. And I went back to the gym. I started training right away.

8 months later, in June 1986, I walked into the arena in Indianapolis for USA Championships. No one thought I'd be there. Everyone thought I was done. Forever.

I knew I wasn't done. Not yet.

I won. I became the National Champion less than a year after breaking my femur on the world's stage.

Never give up. Never.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.