Rich Balvanz

Full-time grandpa. Former Lutheran pastor, commodity broker, broadcaster, cattleman, farmer, but not all at once.

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@JoshuaBarzon The greatest cost of new neighborhoods is the loss of productive farmland around many cities. Trees are easy. Food isn't.

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@madpuggle @BuckSexton Actually....sticks ate slightly larger in diameter and 24 to 36" long. What you have here is a #3 sized twig. These are mainly used as kindling for campfires and have little other use. Sticks on the other hand have manifold uses, as in stick ball and beatings.

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@JayTC53 Bots exist to give him clicks to keep the lies comin'

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Somewhere in America, a movie theater. The boy at the concession counter asked me a question about architecture, and called it butter.

"You want that layered?"

Layered. I looked at the popcorn. I looked at him.

"Explain."

"Instead of all the butter on top, I do butter, popcorn, butter, popcorn." He mimed the strata with a flat hand. He had explained this before. He would explain it again. A craftsman, patient with the public.

I was not prepared. In my land, what is given is given; you do not direct the distribution of a blessing. Here, the boy stood ready to construct my popcorn in courses, like a stone wall — foundation, mortar, foundation, mortar — so that no kernel, however deep, would live unblessed.

"The ones at the bottom," I said slowly, "are usually…"

"Dry. Yeah. Not on my watch."

NOT ON MY WATCH. The oath of a sentry, sworn over popcorn. This is who they have guarding the snacks.

"Then layer it," I commanded, "as your conscience demands."

He built it like a man who would be judged by it. Pour, pump, rotate. Pour, pump, rotate. Four stories. A tower of equal blessings.

The film was fine. I do not remember it. What I remember is the eightieth minute, deep in the bucket, past the depth where popcorn hope usually dies — and finding the kernels there as golden as the first.

The bottom of the bucket. As rich as the top. I confess I held one kernel up in the dark and simply looked at it.

Butter on top blesses the surface. Butter in layers blesses the whole nation.

I tipped the boy on the way out. He had already forgotten me. The best masons forget the wall, and begin the next one.

Layered. Always layered. Some words you only need to learn once.

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@BishopJaxi Thou hast failed the cleverness hurdle.

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@OrevaZSN It's a game of chance and nothing more. The fact you don't understand this explains everything.

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@RepThomasMassie So your argument for losing is that your constituents are easily duped?

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@clippedszn The guy's seeing the wrong kind of doctor.

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@ImMeme0 Flies buzzing around horses**t

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@DissentFu Here you are, hoping to monetize yourself on X to get a few dollars of Elon's wealth.

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@McFaul One politician could spend a trillion dollars before noon.

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@McFaul People who are not Elon Musk have looked at the work of Elon Musk and together decided that his efforts are valued at over $1 trillion. This is the only way to accurately describe it.

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@NotYourNaught @SxarletRed Not in an economic sense

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@INKSTK360 @SxarletRed Everyone with one extra dollar in his pocket is a capitalist.

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@TheRicanMemes When welders are richer than whiny university professors and politicians, something is going right.

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@Polymarket My secretary still does what I tell him.

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@FT One can always recognize the value of a person by observing the value those who oppose him. Oh ye of little value...

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@simonateba @elonmusk Brutally honest. NO!!!

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@GavinNewsom Politicians should be taxed 50% on everything above $50,000.

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@nightwing01 @CactusCuddler17 @AbdulElSayed How much would you be willing to pay to keep your son alive? $500? $1,000? Is $3,000 too much? I'm just interested in knowing what his life is worth to you and your wife.