Laura Blanchard

Crazy Busy Professional Engineer & business owner that balances a career with raising 2 very active boys & dogs. Love living life to the fullest! OH and GOLF!!!

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

This has so amazing!

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Just got my company’s health insurance renewal quote… 32% increase … how can small businesses make it anymore? thanks @BCBSKS 🤬 #smallbusiness #healthinsurance

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Check out our @SouthwestAir flight to Dominican Republic. Nice reflection!

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Come on @Disney and @YouTubeTV get your shit together

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Not only was a pocket knife thrown at KU Jayhawks by Tech fans (it hit one of the staff members) Tech would urinate on tortillas & throw them at the jayhawk team… @TexasTechFB @TexasTech what trash fans & how disgusting! Come on @Big12Conference & @NCAA do something before someone gets hurt @KUAthletics

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

@libsoftiktok @UnivOfKansas @UnivOfKansas wishing that I wasn’t paying tuition for my son to attend there now. Guess we will have to start looking at transferring! Sad for this college

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

Charlie Kirk was NOT a racist. I have proof and I am proof.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren't "one people" are we?

The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

Every American should be absolutely furious right now.

Charlie Kirk has never once encouraged violence against any political group, and he was just shot at an event in Utah.

Never advocated for anything except peace.

An absolute outrage. There are no words. Pray for Charlie.

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Support Gavin and his team at Baker!

[Miguel Regalado @CoachMRegalado]

Support our 2025 Baker University Football Fundraiser! https://t.co/LLLlyPhRJf
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[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Will never go to #NYC again. Not for work or for tourism, they have lost their minds!

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

I'm just going to leave this here, okay?

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

@USPS you are really screwing up small businesses. Checks that never get delivered or take months to get here. How am I supposed to run a business if you don’t do your job? #usps

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Hey @StateFarm after being a loyal customer for over 30 years paying thousands of dollars a month with home, auto, and my business you couldn’t even take the first appraisal that you received to replace my roof, you had to keep sending out appraisers until you got the answer you wanted. Wow I even have $10k deductible.
This is pathetic. 2 roofing contractors said the roof needs to be completely replaced.

Guess I will be switching insurance providers and probably saving a lot of money a month since I have never priced you out. #statefarm #insurnace @VickiSchmidtKS

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

Mine youngest just graduated from this school district and I have never been happier to be finished with something in my life. This school district is terrible. Oh the stories I could tell you. From a teacher that actually thinks she is a cat, to the lack of education during the pandemic.

[Laura Blanchard @lauranoz]

@MilaLovesJoe Maybe they shouldn’t be cheating the system by using cheap illegal labor… and taking jobs from Americans!