We’re stranded on the other side of the country. I don’t have much to say about the situation. I’m not feeling safe about any form of travel until it’s resolved. Please pray for the entire nation, the countless others in the same situation, and that the Administration can bring this to a quick resolution.
Ever wonder why sushi in Japan
never smells fishy,
and melts on your tongue like warm butter?
The secret doesn't start in the kitchen.
It starts on a fishing boat at dawn.
In most of the world, caught fish suffocate
slowly in nets on the deck.
Panic floods their muscles,
burning up energy and turning the flesh sour.
Centuries ago, Japanese fishermen developed
a method called Ikejime.
One fish at a time, by hand,
they end its life in a split second
and thread a thin wire down the spine
so the nerves never fire in distress.
Zero slow suffering. Zero blood left behind.
All that preserved cellular energy
slowly turns into pure umami
as the chef ages the fish for days.
Respect for the creature
and perfection on the plate
turned out to be the exact same thing. 🍣🇯🇵
You're tellin me in 24 hrs, the NVidia CEO steps down in a spy scandal, all of Microsoft & Outlook goes down globally, a building collapses in NYC, a Tanker sinks a River cruise ship in New Orleans and now the FAA has grounded ALL flights across the country?! WTF is going on??
Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts.
A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German.
Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy.
We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America.
@LeaderJohnThune@tedcruz@BasedMikeLee
You just freaking promised to work for the next 2 months - WITHOUT DAYS OFF - and now you’re leaving early?
WTAF is wrong with you dunderwaffles?????
In the autumn of 1946, an American widow from Philadelphia walked into a schoolroom in bombed-out Tokyo, looked at the 12-year-old Crown Prince of Japan, and told him she was giving everyone in class an English name.
"In this classroom," she said gently, "your name is Jimmy."
The boy stiffened and answered, "No. I am the Prince."
"Yes," she smiled. "You are Prince Akihito. That is your real name. Wait and see, though. In this class, you are Jimmy."
Her name was Elizabeth Gray Vining. Thirteen years earlier, a car crash had killed her husband and left her paralyzed with grief. She found her footing again through her Quaker faith and writing children's books.
After Japan's surrender, Emperor Hirohito made an unprecedented personal request: he wanted an American woman, a Christian but not a fanatic, to open windows to the world for his young son.
Out of every candidate in America, they chose Mrs. Vining.
Until she arrived, young Akihito had been raised apart from his parents by chamberlains who bowed before speaking. Nobody had ever treated him simply as a twelve-year-old boy.
For four years, Mrs. Vining did. Classmates called him Jimmy in English lessons. She introduced him to tennis, Western literature, and Abraham Lincoln, and arranged for him to visit ordinary homes and meet children outside palace walls.
When she sailed home in 1950, the boy she called Jimmy had grown into a thoughtful young man who cared deeply about peace.
Nine years later, when Crown Prince Akihito married Princess Michiko in 1959, only one private foreign guest was invited to the wedding.
It was Mrs. Vining.
Decades later, as Emperor of Japan, he still visited his old teacher in her quiet Pennsylvania home until she passed away at ninety-seven.
Peace between two nations is signed on battleship decks by generals. Sometimes, though, it is built in a quiet classroom by a kind widow from Philadelphia.
For a decade, @ChuckGrassley and I have investigated Crossfire Hurricane.
We want ALL records declassified.
Key files are still sealed: government emails, hundreds of DOJ OIG interview transcripts, and a 400-page DOJ report.
The American people deserve transparency.
Read our letter to @POTUS below.
John Thune isn’t weak.
You don’t become Senate Majority Leader if you’re weak.
He’s cunning. He’s treacherous.
But most of all…
Thune is a traitor.
To Republicans and America.
From blocking recess appointments to legislation.
He’s the Benedict Arnold of this generation.