Here’s a true innovation in Harris County waste. Apparently Rodney Ellis is using taxpayer dollars for “moving monuments” which are wrapped buses that drive around town with political messages.
This is where your record 7.6% tax hike is going. Enough!
This is one of the craziest articles I've written. A donor died 18 month ago, but ActBlue continued to process his monthly donations to the Texas Democratic Party until I asked them about it. No wonder all their people are pleading the 5th before Congress.
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A couple years ago, Mikala Sposito applied for a work ethic scholarship from my foundation. She asked for $2,700.00 to help realize her dream of becoming a welder. (Actually, her first dream was to become an Olympian. As a kid, she excelled at horseback riding, dance, soccer, and track, but not quite at the Olympic level. So, Mikala adjusted her dream and focused on something within her reach. Precisely the kind of commonsense approach to making a living we try to encourage.) Toward that end, Mikala filled out the application, jumped through all the necessary hoops, and signed the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge, as all applicants must.
According to our internal ranking system, which is inherently subjective and relative to each batch of new applicants, Mikala scored a 94, and was awarded $2,100.00, or roughly 80% of what she asked for. This is typical of the average percentage awarded to an excellent applicant. As a rule, we almost never award the entire amount requested. We want our recipients to have some skin in the game, and we encourage all applicants to apply for additional scholarship funds elsewhere, which Mikala did. But in this case, if I had it to do over again, I think I’d have awarded Mikala the full $2,700.00. Why? Because this woman is precisely why I award work ethic scholarships in the first place, as recent headlines prove. Headlines all over the country that identify Mikala Sposito as the sole welder to represent Team USA in the upcoming @WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.
This is a very big deal. The World Skills competition is often referred to as the Olympics of the skilled trades, so it looks like Mikala’s dream is coming true after all. And it seems to me her journey is worth a brief encapsulation. Before she applied for a scholarship from mikeroweWORKS, Mikala demonstrated an affinity for welding in SkillsUSA. As a senior at Dexter High School, she won 1st Place at the SkillsUSA Michigan high school competition and went on to place 14th nationally. Then, as a freshman at Washtenaw Community College, she repeated her success by taking 1st Place in the Michigan college division. She then advanced to nationals, where she finished 8th in the country. That earned her an invitation to the Team USA pre-trials, which whittled the nation's top 16 young welders down to three. At the final USA Weld Trials at the Robotics Technology Park in Huntsville, Alabama, each competitor was evaluated on precision, safety, technical execution, craftsmanship, and multi-process capabilities under extreme time constraints. Mikala Sposito took the Gold, officially becoming the first woman to represent the United States in welding at WorldSkills. Next week, she’ll face off against the absolute best of the best from all over the world.
I should point out that Mikala would prefer it if the press didn’t make a big deal of her gender, and I completely understand. (She’s a welder – not a “weld-her.”) But today, the industry is in desperate need of proof that women can and do excel in the trades. Nationally, just 4.3% of tradespeople are female. At mikeroweWORKS, our female applicants are closer to 20%, but I assure you that percentage could be much higher. Companies are anxious to recruit talented welders of any gender, and women need to understand and believe the opportunities are real. Mikala prove that in spades, and I want to offer her my sincere congratulations, and invite all of you to do the same. Because Mikala Sposito is exactly what our country needs a lot more of. People who understand that talent is never enough to compensate for laziness.
In her application, she wrote, “Hard work beats talent any day of the week, and nobody is going to outwork me. Period.”
She also connected with every point of the S.W.E.A.T. Pledge but said the final tenet resonated with her the most. “Some people choose to be lazy. Some people choose to sleep in. I choose to work my butt off.”
My favorite quote, however, is Mikala’s response to seasoned professionals who see her wield a torch and call her a “natural.”
“I’m not a natural,” she says. Far from it. And none of this came easy. I worked and trained 60-80 hours a week for two years to get here.”
Regardless of what happens in Shanghai, the job offers are already piling up, including the most recent from SpaceX. She hasn’t graduated yet, but the future looks bright, and I for one would not bet against her.
PS. I never do this, but since my name is in the title of the foundation, I suppose I can. Mikala – please accept the additional $600 you requested from mikeroweWORKS two years ago. Shanghai is expensive, and since you’re representing all of us, we’d like to provide you with a little walking around money. The check is in the mail.
Now…go get the gold!
Are you sick of RNC text messages? They need to be adjusted in a legal proceeding. They spam text from different numbers multiple times a day. You tell them to stop and they text you from a different number. This abusive practice must end. Do three things
1 Text “stop” to 80810
2. Text “stop to 94646
3. Send this message to this email address (cut and paste the below message and add your phone number to the end):
[email protected]
I am exercising the express right under the RNC Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions to opt out of the entire Program. I have already replied STOP to 80810 and 94646, and both programs confirmed that I was unsubscribed and would receive no further messages. I now revoke all consent to receive any calls, SMS, MMS, automated, autodialed, recurring, political, news, donation, affiliate, vendor, or other messages from the Republican National Committee, its affiliates, contractors, and service providers. Please suppress my number globally from the entire Program and confirm completion by email.
My telephone number is:
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If you get any political texts from the RNC after doing these three things - let me know by direct message for further evaluation. Do not delete any communications you send out or they send back.
Donating on winred is a huge mistake we have all made. When you give them your information, they share it with a lot of other campaigns that you have no interest in - then years later you are being asked to donate to some candidate in Minnesota. It’s ridiculous.
You have to delete your information out of Winred and fortunately Virginia is one of a handful of states that allow you to demand your account information to be deleted
Click here to fill out the web form: https://t.co/lwiMuO1f9S
Getting out of winred is a small step on controlling your text messages that you are receiving from every political candidate running for Office all over the country.
If you’re not from DFW, I don’t think you have an idea how significant the immigration issue is here. I don’t mean the mass of the problem, but rather how personal and widespread the frustration is among the residents regardless of political affiliations.
Even before my post, it’s been the topic at almost every dinner or party. If you’re from here and anything less than the upper class, you have a deep resentment for the companies and politicians ushering in foreigners at the expense of your home. We’ve watched some of the most liberal progressive people we know pull their kids out of public schools because they’re the only Americans left in their class. I don’t know how these people will vote, but they are facing the reality of their progressivism.
A lot of these people are uncomfortable having the discussion in public given it touches a raw part regarding race. I get the sensitivity and there is a sense in which that’s right. But if our politicians want the support of the people of Texas, they’re going to have to recognize that however silent, there is a significant majority that feel disenfranchise, betrayed and a level of despair watching their home be transferred to newcomers.
These are not hateful, mean or racist people. They simply want to give their kids an upbringing that resembles the one they had. They want their kids to go to schools with other English speaking Americans, meet kids at the park they can be friends with and they don’t want their kids to be minorities. This is normal and good.
If Bo’s post was over the line for you then you’ve lost touch with every voter and are in for a rude awakening.
Exposed: The UN & Clinton Foundation occupy an old US base in Panama to help supply illegal aliens on their way to America
This is an organized human trafficking operation
“Get out there and vote!
Make your voice heard.
Don’t listen to the detractors,
because your vote matters.” 🗣️✊🏼🇺🇸🗳️
@Deancain, with the help of his son, show the difference between common sense and crazy, leading up to the Midterms in November…
#TheHomeland@proudamericanst
I condemn racism in all its forms, including James Talarico saying white men are America's top terror threat and that he prays to overcome his own 'whiteness,' whatever that means. Only one person in this race has a history of dividing Texans by race, and it’s James Talarico. I will continue to focus on uniting our State and bringing together the broadest possible coalition to fight for Texas, our values, and our families.
Do you all remember her?
Salon owner, Shelley Luther was thrown in jail for refusing to close her salon during Covid. Dallas Texas Judge said she could avoid jail if she admitted her actions were wrong & closed her salon until she was “permitted” to reopen.
Her reply to Judge : I’m not going to shut the salon. Feeding my children isn’t selfish. He put her in JAIL.
In 2024, Shelley won a seat as a Republican member of the Texas House Of Representatives, now running for reelection unopposed.
Simply BADASS 🙌
BREAKING: George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.
The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”
In 24 years of watching 9/11 memorials and the reading of the names of the dead, I have never heard applause.
This morning the crowd did — because one brave widow, @TerrySStrada, looked at the leaders in front of her and refused to let the day pass in silence.
She called out Saudi Arabia’s role, the broken promises, and a string of administrations that protected the Kingdom instead of helping to deliver justice for the families.
A stunning, must-watch minute. Stand with the families.