Jason Vande Brake

Wealth Advisor at Northwest Wealth: Former Juco Basketball Coach: Views expressed are my own and may not represent the views of Northwest Wealth Management

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@HelleChad Basketballs at Iowa Central were notoriously under inflated.

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@CoachWags33 @BballCoachThom Congratulations Coach!

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@Coach__Woodley I miss the peanut butter sandwiches and homemade Chili!

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

Dear, @VivekGRamaswamy, my counter take..... 😇

Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.

However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.

Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000 page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.” 

You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful.  In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”

A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.

We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.

A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.

Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.

Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.

Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.

In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.

Warmest regards,

Sundance

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@JesseKellyDC Sounds like something an assassin would say

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@jmoeller_14 Were you one of the honey pots?

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Is this real or did he spell North Carolina wrong?

[Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken]

The U.S. is at the forefront of humanitarian response to the growing crisis in Lebanon, announcing nearly $157 million in assistance today. We are committed to supporting those in need and delivering essential aid to displaced civilians, refugees and the communities hosting them.

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You are so close, so close!

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Governments across the rich world are bigger than they once were. Why are they so ineffective? https://t.co/qEHPqlPuNy

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Hey @Twins can we get Brooks Lee a helmet that fits a little better? Think he might be here for a while…

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This is awesome, congratulations Coach Fletcher!

[Spartan MBB @SWCCBasketball]

Press release for @coachfletch23: https://t.co/8kMoJ4dMpi

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@danboever Probably because of all those bombs you’ve hit over your career

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@aaronwthomas Let us know when you are heading over for a game!

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Hey @MdgtImpssbl just wanted to let you know Casino Bob’s surgery went well and he even had a hole in one playing with Leo! Thanks for the great message!

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Congratulations Coach Larson!

[Iowa Lakes MBB @IowaLakesMBB]

Congrats to @troy.larson for being named ICCAC Coach of the Year!! https://t.co/wjvGZURPjX

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Congratulations to Daryl Madison, the best bus driver in the world, for being selected into the Iowa Lakes Hall of Fame. Thanks for sitting with me on the bus in Mason City!

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@CoachGraw Here’s $6 order off the dollar menu

[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

Inflation is a lesson in appreciating what you had instead of just complaining about losing it https://t.co/SdnFeVEaWg

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Good luck to @BamaStateBB and @Lakers_Baseball Legend Jose Vazquez as they take on the Vols tonight.

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@owen0larson @GoJacksMBB Congrats Owen!