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Husband, father, grandfather. Legal immigrant from Europe; tax-paying US citizen for 50+ years. Retired Technical Director. #GodBlessYou #MAGA #WeThePeople

[Norb Norkus 🇺🇸 @nnorkus]

@canncon Here is a thoughtful expert analysis of the ballistics data from the Robinson hearing that counter your DPH program opinion from yesterday. https://t.co/qyoXQy9iCr

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@EricLDaugh @_Patriot1776Q_ The puppet masters will give him more assignments to bring down his piece of America.

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

Those who light the way endure the fiercest storms.

The Phare du Four, a 19th-century lighthouse located off the coast of Brittany, France.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A South Carolina restaurant owner found $12,000 in CASH hidden in a sunglasses case inside his new restaurant.

Instead of keeping the money, he called the former owner to return it...

...the man who answered was fighting a serious health battle and drowning in medical bills, wondering how he'd survive it.

Then a stranger he barely knew called to say: "I found your money, come get it!"

But here's the part that got me...

The new owner's restaurant had been CLOSED for months because a fire next door knocked out his power.

No customers. No income. Nothing.

He found $12,000 at the lowest point of his year, and he still gave it back anyway.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[꧁♛𝓑𝓵✯𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼♛꧂ @heyitsmeCarolyn]

Home DIY gone wrong! 👀

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@EricLDaugh He’s the hero of common sense. Too bad common sense is an endangered species.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.

They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”

Incredible work, really.

Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.

What a beautiful system.

Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”

Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.

A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.

That’s America’s real crisis.

Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.

Consequences.

We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
(article below)

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

OMG 😂😂

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@EricLDaugh All of Congress can go home. They haven’t done anything to improve our country whilst padding their stock portfolios.

[zeen @Zenitsuvf]

This looks way too fun not to try

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@lynnhowlett @ArlineL0 Both parties steal elections back and forth, pretending to “give people a choice”. We need to pull their masks off and take back honest elections without Party labels.

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@ArlineL0 The two party system is really an artificial construct to keep people divided and prevent them from lining up behind a true patriot running for office. Right now the “two party” is really a crooked Uniparty system keeping themselves in power, at our expense. It all needs change.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: President Trump just DROPPED this line against the people who want war to continue

"The same people criticizing negotiations today spent twenty years defending a strategy that cost thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars, and ended with the Taliban back in power.

Forgive me if I don’t take lectures on “strength” from the architects of failure."

@DonaldJTrumpJr: "This times 1000000000!"

@Dakota_Meyer

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@BobLonsberry https://t.co/D8r2I1LxJh

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@TaraBull EU money and pressure. She will regret caving in to them.

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@ArlineL0 Joe M. says “Orange Man bad. Vote for me to milk your tax $ and smooze with elites in DC.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you realize the intro of the famous song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is the intro of Beethoven's 5th Symphony simply played backward.

Mind-blowing.

[Norb Norkus 🇺🇸 @nnorkus]

@BobLonsberry I can’t believe you are reposting Democrat and RINO warhawks regarding the Iran MOU $300 billion. The Trump administration has repeatedly said no US taxpayer funds are involved. It is an investment fund for Middle East nations to fund the rebuilding of Iran.

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@EricLDaugh Cornyn is a sore loser who wants to burn everything down on his way out. He is on his anti-Trump agenda, revenge tour.