✝️This song is so powerful. Truly had me sobbing. My Dad isn’t a believer and probably never will be no matter how hard I try. To think I won’t see him on the other side is 💔 Do you ever think about that for your loved ones/friends that don’t believe in Christ?
This has to be one of the bravest videos I have watched on the internet today.
When Charlie Kirk died it hit so many us of really hard. Not only was it a profound loss but the reality was that the left really wants conservatives dead because of political views. They are ok with m*rdering people if you dont conform to their political ideology.
These are dangerous times.
In a way it also (like this man here in the video) "woke" people up. They realized the political propaganda, media manipulation, and the dehumanization occuring by the left and media.
He learned something far more valuable in the death of Charlie Kirk.
This took a lot of guts to post this video online. I commend him.
🚨🇺🇸 HAPPY FLAG DAY!
Johnny Cash captured the soul of America like no one else in “Ragged Old Flag”:
“She's getting thread bare, and she's wearin thin, But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in.”
That ragged old flag still flies.
We are mighty proud of her. 🇺🇸
Dr. Ken Berry is one of my favorites and one I've been following since even before I decided to try carnivore.
He lost 70 lbs on carnivore. Now he, along with many of us who are carnivore, are sharing our experiences and how we feel.
We're sharing the weight we've lost and the health issues we've reversed.
We're sharing the fact that the foods we thought were healthy were the foods that were keeping us overweight and/or sick.
We all used to eat these so-called "health foods." Fruit juices, whole grains, oats, etc.
All they did was spike blood sugars, spike insulin, cause fat storage, cause gut issues, and cause inflammation.
All our lives, we were told to limit things like fat, red meat, eggs, butter, and salt.
We were told to get our protein from lean meats or plants because it's lower in fat. Fat was the enemy, and we need to do whatever it takes to limit our intake.
But, without fat, we were always hungry, always searching for the next snack or meal, always craving.
As a cardiac ICU nurse who heard every single day that fat is bad, cholesterol is bad, salt is bad, etc, it was difficult for me to accept the fact that the foods I've always been told are unhealthy for me were in fact, the healthiest ones for me.
Going carnivore, I went against everything I was taught about nutrition, everything I learned as a nurse, everything I assumed was healthy for me.
I started carnivore with an "all-or-nothing" attitude.
I didn't limit my fat. I ate fatty steaks and eggs cooked in 1/2 stick of butter and salt every single day.
And it was like my body rejoiced finally being fed the foods it needed all my life.
I had already lost some weight before going carnivore but it was a struggle and my body was hoarding fat.
Going carnivore, I not only lost so much weight, body fat, and inches that I no longer recognized myself, but all of my health issues resolved. Some of them resolving in the very first week before I had lost any weight.
That's when I knew that everything I had been told my entire life about food was a lie.
We were all misled and misfed.
Greg Burgess writes....
So apparently Jill and I are on a plane to China with Trump, Elon Musk, half the Cabinet, and a collection of CEOs whose combined net worth could probably refinance the moon.
Totally normal day for Gen X.
And I just can’t stop laughing at how the media spent YEARS telling us:
- China hated Elon
- Trump was “finished”
- America was collapsing
- capitalism was dead
- and everybody important was abandoning the U.S.
Meanwhile, here we are somewhere over the Pacific looking like the cast of Succession meets Top Gun: Retirement Plan Edition.
Remember when China sanctioned Marco Rubio back in 2020 and everybody acted like the geopolitical chessboard had permanently shifted?
Now suddenly everybody’s still showing up to the table because — shocking development — nations tend to like:
- money
- technology
- manufacturing
- trade
- AI
- energy
- semiconductors
- and not being economically irrelevant
Who knew.
The best part is the internet meltdown cycle never changes.
Trump:
“America needs stronger trade relationships.”
Media:
“HITLER.”
Elon:
“I make electric cars, rockets, satellites, AI, and robots.”
Internet activists:
“Yeah but we posted an angry hashtag.”
Cool.
I’m sure Beijing is trembling before your TikTok resistance movement.
And flying with this group is exactly what you think it would be.
Trump walks around the cabin narrating reality like it’s an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Geopolitical:
“Great flight. Powerful people. Very high IQ. The Chinese are saying they’ve never seen anything like it.”
Elon looks like he hasn’t slept since 2019 and is simultaneously calculating orbital trajectories and wondering if the beverage cart could be automated.
Meanwhile Jill and I are sitting there like two exhausted Gen Xers who survived dial-up internet, chain-smoking restaurants, lawn darts, and drinking from garden hoses… wondering how in the hell we became side characters in the weirdest timeline imaginable.
Honestly, at this point if Trump walked into Beijing blasting “Danger Zone” while Elon live-streamed it from orbit, I wouldn’t even blink.
Because the people who told us America was over are still tweeting from iPhones, driving Teslas, using Starlink during hurricanes, and cashing checks tied to the same capitalist machine they claim to hate.
Gen X translation:
The world’s still running.
The adults are still making deals.
And the internet is still confusing hashtags for accomplishments.
Carry on.
@BuzzPatterson@GovPressOffice I had someone call me racist for saying I hadn't seen a friend in a coon's age! I just looked at her like she had 2 heads (which might have helped) and explained this colloquialism came about because a racoon, commonly referred to as a 'coon, lives about 7 yrs. Shut her up!!
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They did not take cursive from the schools because children no longer needed it. They took it because of what it was quietly building in them.
Consider what the exercise actually is. A child, six years old, is handed a pen and asked to draw a single unbroken line that becomes a word. The wrist must float. The fingers must hold a living pressure, never quite the same twice, always correcting. The eye must follow the ink forward and trust the hand to finish what it has begun. There is no lifting, no stopping, no starting over mid-word. The loop must close. The ascender must rise and return. The sentence must travel from one margin to the other as a single continuous gesture, and at the end of it the hand must still be steady.
Twelve years of this. Every day. Ten thousand small acts of sustained, self-correcting attention, carried out below the level of conscious thought, until the motion belongs to the body and the body belongs to the motion.
This is not penmanship. It is the slow construction of an interior form.
The hand that has learned to carry a line without breaking it is the hand of a mind that has learned to carry a thought without breaking it. The two are not metaphors for one another. They are the same faculty, trained in the same child, by the same daily discipline. Continuity of the stroke becomes continuity of the reasoning. The patience of the loop becomes the patience of the argument. The commitment to finish a word one has started becomes the commitment to finish a sentence, a paragraph, a life's idea, without reaching for the nearest distraction halfway through.
Print is a different creature entirely. Print lifts. Print stops. Print assembles a word out of separate, stamped, interchangeable pieces, each one beginning and ending in isolation. A mind raised only on print learns to think the way print is made, in discrete tokens, in replaceable units, in fragments that can be recombined by any outside hand without the owner noticing the substitution. It is precisely the shape of thought a language model produces. It is precisely the shape of thought a language model can steer.
Cursive is kata. This is the whole of it. A form repeated daily, for years, not for the sake of the form but for what the repetition lays down in the practitioner beneath the form. The swordsman does not train kata so that one day he may fight in kata. He trains it so that when the moment comes and there is no time to think, the movement is already inside him, older and deeper than thought, and it rises on its own. Cursive was the kata of the literate mind, the daily quiet drilling of continuity, of patience, of a line held steady under the long pressure of its own length. And the signature it produced at the end, that small flourished mark unique to a single human being on earth, was only the outward proof of an inward form no machine and no other hand could ever reproduce.
Take the kata away and the practitioner is left with vocabulary in place of faculty. He can recognise a whole thought when he encounters one. He cannot carry one himself. He can admire a finished argument. He cannot sustain one long enough to close its loop. He begins books he does not finish, sentences he does not end, ideas he abandons the moment the screen in his palm offers him a brighter one. And when the machine begins feeding him tokens in the exact shape his schooling taught him to receive, he meets it with no interior resistance at all, because no interior form was ever built in him to push back with.
They removed it quietly, across a generation, and they removed it in the last years before the machines arrived. Twelve years of daily practice in unbroken, embodied, self-authored thought, gone from the curriculum of almost every child in the Western world, just as the instruments designed to complete their sentences for them came online.
The hand forgets. The mind, having never been taught the kata, forgets a thing it never knew it had.
That is what cursive was. That is what was taken. And that is why the thought of anyone who still writes by hand, in long unlifted lines, remains, quietly, stubbornly, and without their ever needing to announce it, their own.
Now the question stands open. What else has been banned, phased out, quietly retired from the curriculum and from common life over these same decades, under the same soft excuses? Mental arithmetic. Memorisation of poetry. Latin. Logic as a formal subject. Map reading. Knot work. The keeping of a commonplace book. The reading aloud of long passages in class. Singing in parts.
What was each of those actually building in the child, beneath the surface of the lesson, and whose interest was served by its disappearance?
@louisedbegin The trail less traveled is always the best. What started with Tom Dorrence, for me, and carried over to Buck was the understanding of a lifetime...the revelation of partnership with your horse. Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard (TD) works in all ways.
In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.
He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.
He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.
Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.
The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.
Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.
The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.
By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.
This is the system that exists today.
The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.
The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.
The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.
Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.
The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.
The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.
It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.
You are the customer.
The corridor is where you live.