I now understand the American dream.
I came to the World Cup because I was offered a last minute ticket to watch England play Croatia in Dallas and I started documenting my journey.
The content went viral on social media. So much so, the President of the United States saw it himself.
I was invited to attend the grand opening of the great American state fair for freedom 250 and halfway through Donald Trumps speech, I was told to come and wait back stage for a photograph.
This sort of thing could only happen in America.
As an Englishman I never really understood what America has to make it “the land of opportunity”
But results speak for themselves.
@HomerosHayyam41 I don't know about 'millions of years' but it does look like layers of harder rock that were left over after the softer layers eroded. You can see it isn't a 'wall', it is several parallel lines of rock.
The Lancet “condemned conspiracy theories” in 2021 that are now the consensus belief of the entire US intelligence community in 2026. Maybe sit this one out.
@ClarksonsFarm1 They have one of the car lots where I work covered in solar panels. It is glorious! Covered parking....I feel like an executive every time I park there!
Over 13 years ago CNN covered Obama's $34 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
That work is widely blamed for CASUING the ongoing algae issues.
Adjusted for inflation, Obama's project cost nearly $50 million. Trump's renovation comes in at $16 million.
The selective outrage from CNN shows exactly how they cover presidential spending depending on who is in office.
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger." -GW
The older I get, the slower I am to judge. I've learned that I rarely know the battles someone is fighting.
What looks like arrogance may be insecurity. What looks like anger may be pain. What looks like foolishness may be a wound that hasn't healed.
The only difference between me and anyone else is God's purposes in grace. We've all fallen short, made mistakes, sinned, and needed mercy.
Choose compassion. Speak truth. Love people.
Lord knows, I'm still trying.
My wife and I own Forest Park Pharmacy, and we don't accept insurance. None of it. That decision is exactly why we could fix what happened to a patient today.
A family came in wanting to transfer their kid's antibiotic to us. The child had already STARTED the course. Then, mid-treatment, the insurance company decided the last 14 tablets suddenly needed a "prior authorization" before the other pharmacy could hand them over. A sick kid, halfway through an antibiotic, and the answer was "please hold."
The drug is linezolid. It's a generic. It's been generic for over a decade. It treats serious gram-positive infections — the kind you do NOT want to stop antibiotics in the middle of, because an interrupted course is how you breed resistant bugs and end up right back where you started.
So why the hold-up on a cheap, common generic? Follow the fake math.
Insurance and the PBMs behind them price drugs off a number called AWP — "Average Wholesale Price." People in my industry have another name for it: "Ain't What's Paid." It's a benchmark number, not a real-world cost. On paper, the AWP for just those last 14 tablets is about $2,500.
My cash price for the same 14 tablets? $18.
Read that again. The system that's supposedly "protecting" this family from cost is the same system that inflated an $18 medication into a $2,500 line item, then slapped a prior auth on it to "review the expense" THEY invented. They manufactured the problem, then billed everyone for the privilege of solving it — and made a sick kid wait while they did it.
This is the whole game. When a drug is priced honestly, there's nothing to "manage." When it's priced off a fantasy benchmark, you get spread pricing, PA paperwork, pharmacy phone trees, and delayed treatment — all dressed up as cost control.
Here's the part nobody tells you: roughly 90% of prescriptions are low-cost generics. For the vast majority of what people pick up every day, running it through insurance does two things — raises the real cost and risks delaying your care. That's it. That's the value-add.
That's why we fired the insurance companies. No middleman deciding your kid can't finish their antibiotics on schedule. No fake prices. Just the real number, on the shelf, today.
The medication was always cheap. The insurance was the expensive part.
@afneil Every time someone goes on one of these hyperventilating screeds, @realDonaldTrump comes over the top with something that proves it is all false. If what you say is true, where is the evidence?
At Tokyo Station, a Muslim man started performing namaz (Islamic prayer) in a public area.
A Japanese local citizen immediately stopped him and said firmly:“This is a public place, not your home. Why are you praying here? Do it at home or in the toilet. This is Japan — we don’t give special facilities for this. Japan has zero interest in attracting Muslim tourists!”
Japan knows how to protect its culture and public spaces.
To the New Yorkers fleeing NYC, a couple things…
1. You are fleeing policies. Those policies are a result of a leftist worldview, that in many ways you supported, donated to or assisted, even if it was with just your silence or apathy.
2. The places you are fleeing to, have done a much better job protecting their society and environment from that worldview than you did. So you need to learn from them, not try to lead them.
3. You may be rich and powerful and very intelligent in your respective field, but none of that power stopped the inevitable takeover of your beloved city, most likely because you thought you could placate or compromise with the left. You were wrong.
4. Respectfully, the lesson that needs to be learned from this, is not that the left went “too far” but that there is no such thing as “far enough” for the left. They can't be negotiated with, they need to be defeated. You can either help with that, or you can keep fleeing from place to place until there is no place left.