This was tilmed yesterday at the community adoption event in San Diego, California. The dog is Duke, a 10-year-old German Shepherd being showcased for adoption. The veteran is Tech Sergeant James Parker, 39, Air Force, walking through the parking lot heading into the store. Duke served with James in Afghanistan from 2011-2013. When Duke retired from military service two years ago, James couldn't adopt him immediately-rental restrictions. Duke went into the adoption system. James had been searching for months through databases.
Yesterday, James was at the pet store buying supplies. Had no idea there was an adoption event happening. Duke was sitting with volunteers at the outdoor table.
Watch what happened. James walks through the parking lot. Duke's head snaps up. Sees James. Goes completely rigid.
Staring. Then breaks into a full sprint. Rips the leash from the volunteer's hand. Runs straight across the parking lot. Launches into James's chest. Both crash to the ground. Duke frantically checking James's face with his nose. Whining. Tail going insane. James wrapping both arms around Duke. Sobbing. "I've been looking everywhere for you. Everywhere." Volunteer told us: "Duke saw James and just took off. The recognition was instant. l've never seen anything like it." James adopted Duke immediately. Took him home yesterday. Ten years after serving together. Found by complete chance in a parking lot. James told us: "I searched every database for months. Never expected to find him at a random pet store. But Duke found me." Sometimes the reunion you're desperately searching for happens when you're just buying dog food.
Are we about to find out that the girls he allegedly sent nude pics to on Kik are in fact underage?
Is Graham Platner a pedophile?
Did Senate Democrat leadership endorse a possible pedophile?
I just cannot understand depression
There are kids dying of cancer going through chemo. They would give anything for one more day
But you a grown ass rich man looks in the mirror and says I'm depressed.
Tell me why youre sad rich man? Lmao i
Ford fired a $200,000-a-year employee over a $1.95 cookie he paid for.
Kurt Kromm, 11 years at the Kentucky Truck Plant, felt his blood sugar drop at 3:30 a.m. He's diabetic. The kiosk flashed red on his card, so he paid at the second machine, ate the cookie, went back to building trucks.
A week later security walked him out. Wouldn't even let him take his tools.
Then he pulled up his bank statement. The $1.95 charge was sitting right there. Ford checked with the kiosk company, confirmed he paid, cut him $28,000 in back pay, and begged him to come back.
He said no. Took a job closer to home with a raise.
So the final scorecard: Ford spent $28,000, lost an 11-year veteran, and took a national PR beating to recover a cookie that was never stolen. The cookie cost $1.95. Firing the guy who bought it cost 14,000 cookies.
A foreign-born federal judge, Sparkle Sooknanan (yes, this is her real name), BLOCKED the Trump Administration from verifying who is eligible to vote in American elections. Months before the midterms.
The ruling is questionable. But the real problem runs far deeper than one decision and one judge. Sparkle is just the latest example. Ilhan Omar. Shri Thanedar. Pramila Jayapal. Foreign-born officials in positions of power, proving time and again their loyalty is not to America.
We introduced legislation to close this gap for GOOD. If you hold power in the American government, your loyalty belongs to America.
Read the full op-ed: https://t.co/QFOn8f4kYu
In 2007, a doctor wrote about a cat named Oscar who had developed a strange habit at a nursing home in Rhode Island.
Oscar was not known for being especially friendly. He usually kept to himself and rarely spent long periods with residents.
But every so often, he would quietly enter a room, jump onto a bed and curl up beside someone.
Then he would stay.
Hours later, that person would often die.
At first, staff thought it was coincidence. But as the pattern repeated, they began paying attention. When Oscar refused to leave a patient's side, nurses sometimes called the family and told them it might be time to come and say goodbye.
Geriatrician Dr. David Dosa documented Oscar's behavior in the New England Journal of Medicine. By then, the cat had already been observed accompanying more than 25 patients during their final hours.
Later accounts linked Oscar to around 100 deaths.
No one ever proved exactly what he was detecting. Some suggested he could smell subtle chemical changes in the body. Others believed he noticed tiny changes in movement or behavior invisible to humans.
Oscar died in 2022 at the age of 17.
For years, in a quiet nursing home, a cat who usually preferred to be alone seemed to know exactly when someone should not have to die that way
PSA.
My Monday motivation is to be much more careful when I purchase dude wipes.
True story, even though I did make the graphic for this post with AI.
I made a rookie mistake.
I grabbed Dude Wipes without looking because I always buy the shea butter ones. Apparently I bought Cool Mint.
The second that wipe made contact, I was negotiating with Jesus and wondering who in the hell decided your bum needed mint?
Read the label, my friends.
Some lessons don’t need to be learned and I’m trying to protect you
She left the part out about how Fauci and his Dem/Globalist pals gain-of-functioned a bio-engineerer virus and intentionally released it on the public while Trump was President to hamstring his administration.
Seems like a pertinent part of the story.
I'm sure it was just an oversight on her part.
REST IN PEACE 🕊️
The Garden City Police Department - KS says K9 Kaizen has died after being diagnosed with an extremely aggressive terminal illness.
For the past five years, Kaizen has been an invaluable member of the Garden City Police Department's Patrol Division, GCPD said. As a dual-purpose dog trained for patrol deployments and narcotics detection, his work led to numerous narcotics seizures and the apprehension of felony suspects. He served his community with unwavering courage, boundless enthusiasm, and an eagerness to work that never faded.
Kaizen spent his final day with his partner at home laying on the "forbidden" couch, playing with his favorite ball and eating steak. At the end, Kaizen was surrounded by those who loved him most - his partner, K9 Officer Julian Garcia and his former handler, Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Isaac Gonzalez.
Rest in peace Kaizen. Your work is done. 🐾🙏
Just finished another interview
35 year old female, lifelong fitness and “healthy diets” to include vegetarian and vegan for periods, always avoided ultra processed foods
Ended up with two autoimmune conditions, conventional medicine was not particularly helpful with goal of just symptom management with pills and injections
Went carnivore 1.5 years ago and now all conditions in full remission and feeling healthiest ever!
For anyone wanting to give wealth to their children, it’s a pretty good offer. With some billionaires generously giving back.
This was the hope, yeah? Generational wealth being created and the very wealthy helping others.
My son in-law asked me to teach him how to grill and I might have ruined him.
My daughter got married three years ago. Her husband, Kyle, is a good guy, works in IT, polite, laughs at my jokes even when they're not funny.
But the man cannot grill.
Last summer they hosted a Fourth of July BBQ. Kyle was in charge of the burgers, i watched him flip them eleven times in six minutes. They came out gray, dry, tragic.
I didn't say anything, my wife kicked me under the table twice as a reminder.
Two weeks ago Kyle calls me.
Kyle: Hey, Can I ask you something?
Me: Sure.
Kyle: Would you teach me how to grill? Like, actually grill?
I was honored, genuinely.
Me: Absolutely, come over Saturday.
He showed up at noon with a notebook, A notebook.
Me: You're not taking notes.
Kyle: I want to remember.
Me: It's grilling, not calculus.
I started with the basics, Charcoal vs gas, heat zones, when to flip, the importance of letting meat rest.
He's writing everything down.
Then I got to seasoning.
Me: Most people overthink it, salt, pepper, garlic powder. That's it. You don't need seventeen spices.
Kyle: What about marinades?
Me: Waste of time unless you're doing chicken.
Kyle: Really?
Me: You're adding moisture to something you're about to dry out with fire. Doesn't make sense.
He wrote that down.
Then I said, "And if anyone ever tells you to flip a steak more than once, you walk away from that person."
Kyle: Why?
Me: Because they don't respect the steak.
He stared at me.
Kyle: Are you serious?
Me: Completely.
I could see his brain trying to figure out if I was messing with him. I wasn't.
We grilled for three hours, burgers, steaks, brats. He did great, listened, didn't rush, the kid has potential.
At the end I sent him home with leftovers and a meat thermometer.
Me: Use this, don't guess.
Last weekend my daughter calls.
My daugther: What did you do to Kyle?
Me: What do you mean?
Her: He's obsessed, he bought a new grill, he's watching YouTube videos, he tried to explain 'heat zones' to his mom, she had no idea what he was talking about."
Me: That's good.
Her: He grilled chicken at 9pm last night because he wanted to 'practice his sear.'
Me: Sounds like he's taking it seriously.
Her: Dad, He told my coworker her husband was 'disrespecting the steak.'
I started laughing.
Her: That's not funny, she thought he was crazy.
Me: He's not wrong.
Her: You created a monster.
Me: I created a man who knows how to grill.
She hung up on me.
Yesterday Kyle sent me a picture of a ribeye with perfect grill marks.
The text said: "Flipped once."
I've never been prouder.
This guy is going to be bigger than just the mayor of Los Angeles. He’s got bigger things on his mind. And he’s spot on!
Pratt: “Raise a finger and say fuck you communists. This is our home and you can’t have it.”
I love this guy! He speaks for me. @spencerpratt
I was watching the Jeffersons, and George said this...
"My son ain't dating no Zebra"
Obviously you wouldn't hear that today. Personally I think that's hilarious. Does that make me a racist?
We don't even realize how the PC crowd is gradually taking away our first amendment.