For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!
🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill
"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"
"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻
"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."
"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."
"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."
"God bless America, God bless you!"
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My 6 year old has been following the LA mayor's race
He had questions
Two weeks ago he said "daddy, the man from TV said the city spends $1 billion a year on homeless people"
I said "that's true"
He said "did it get better?"
I said "no"
He said "where did the money go?"
I said "a federal judge ordered an audit. The city couldn't account for over $2 billion"
My wife said "it's more complicated than that"
It isn't. That's what the audit said.
He said "the man from TV said one guy who was supposed to help got $23 million"
I said "also true"
He said "what did he buy?"
I said "a $7 million house and a Range Rover"
He said "what did the homeless people get?"
I said "ramen"
The analyst texted me unprompted
"Sir I read the indictment. The unit economics actually work. Just not for the homeless"
I said "do not share that"
He said "sir I already sent it to 9 people"
He said "daddy the man from TV said most of them need treatment, not more tents"
My wife said "that's an oversimplification"
I said "which part is wrong"
She didn't answer
Election night he came running downstairs
"Daddy he's winning. By 40,000 votes"
My wife said "well I guess a lot of people are upset"
They were. The mayor was in Ghana when the fires started.
By Friday the lead was 20,000
By Saturday it was 7,000
He said "daddy they're still counting"
I said "it's been four days"
He said "at school if you turn something in late you get a zero"
I said "California has different rules"
He said "why"
Nobody answered
By Sunday the man from TV was losing by 3,000
My son came downstairs and said "daddy what happened"
I said "the votes that showed up late all went the other way"
He said "all of them?"
I said "enough of them"
My daughter looked up from her cereal and said "I liked the man who said he'd clean up the parks"
She's 4
My wife was quiet
Last night my son asked "daddy, why do they keep counting until the person who was winning isn't winning anymore"
I didn't answer
He already knew
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The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem.
Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things.
Hand clearance:
- Around 28,000 dollars an acre
- People with tools on dangerous slopes
- Cuttings that then have to be hauled away
A herd of goats:
- Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre
- Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch
- Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through
- Reaches branches several feet up
- Visibly thrilled to be at work
Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.
Paul Skenes is an awesome human in case anyone was wondering.
He was driving by the Ingomar Franklin Park Little League baseball fields last night and saw the lights on and just pulled on in.
He was there over 2 hours signing, taking pictures and playing catch with the kids.
I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...
I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.
In 1985 I made the USA World Championships Gymnastics Team. I placed 3rd at the Trials, my highest placement to date as a young gymnast.
At Worlds, on my 8th and final event I fell. It was a devastating fall. I missed a release move and tumbled to the ground. My right foot was stuck while my body spun around the knee. I knew it was bad. I screamed, or thought I did. No one came. It felt like forever on the raised platform, no coach, no trainer, no doctor while I writhed.
Eventually my coach realized I wasn't getting back up. They rushed to me. The trainer thought my knee was dislocated and he attempted to push it back in place. It wasn't dislocated though. My femur was broken - we didn't know that yet - and he was pushing bone against bone.
My dad joined me in the ambulance. I remember sobbing -- "What am I going to do now? I don't know how to do anything else. This is all I want to do."
He cried too. We assumed my career was over. He said: "You can do anything you want to do. You're smart and you can be anything you want to be. You're just getting started." He was right in so many ways.
But all I wanted then was to be a gymnast.
I was taken to the nearest hospital and rushed into surgery. It was a French speaking hospital and we didn't fully understand what anyone was telling us.
When I came out of surgery a doctor who spoke English told us "It was a broken femur. Not her knee." We cheered. We were all so happy. My coaches, my parents, me. Bones often heal better than joints.
I left Canada on crutches with a full leg cast. When I got home to Pennsylvania, my doctor changed the cast to a lighter one, with a hinge at the knee. And I went back to the gym. I started training right away.
8 months later, in June 1986, I walked into the arena in Indianapolis for USA Championships. No one thought I'd be there. Everyone thought I was done. Forever.
I knew I wasn't done. Not yet.
I won. I became the National Champion less than a year after breaking my femur on the world's stage.
Never give up. Never.
Protecting girls’ sports has been a top priority of President Trump, and as the father of two daughters, it has been one of my top priorities since coming to Congress.
What is happening in California is beyond ridiculous.
Despite overwhelming opposition from parents and common sense Americans, Gavin Newsom and Democrats continue to allow biological males to compete against girls, undermining the very purpose of women’s athletics.
Just when you think this debate has been settled, left-wing states like California double down on the same failed ideology.
Girls deserve a level playing field.
They deserve fairness, safety, and the opportunity to compete on equal terms.
Any elected official who cannot acknowledge the basic biological differences between men and women has no business making policy that affects our children.
This shouldn’t be controversial. Protecting our daughters should be COMMON SENSE.