Ted Laatz

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@marcuslemonis @BottomLineFBN @dagenmcdowell Still living in Chicago?

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

On one hand, you have the @nba who calls a foul if someone even looks at @KingJames, and he flops. On the other hand, @CaitlinClark22 gets hammered every game, and the @WNBA does nothing.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

That's a real head scratcher, @marcuslemonis

https://t.co/eLFPxgW6n1

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

You can have eternal life, if you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. #ThursdayThoughts

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

Truth

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A lot of successful people who got there by optimizing every compartment of their lives ended up becoming terrible parents because they never granted their kids the most important element: the freedom to think alone, try and fail alone, self-reflect and rebuild who they are alone

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@elonmusk it would be great if a majority of the SpaceX IPO shares were designated for the average American to buy at the IPO price rather than the large funds buying it all up.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated

450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud

He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@marcuslemonis @BasedMikeLee So then why should 50% of the US, who does not lean that direction, pay for it?

You are very entrepreneurial and a capitalist. All other radio stations are privately owned. Why do we need a publicly owned network that doesn't appeal to 50% of the people having to fund it?

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@marcuslemonis @BasedMikeLee Marcus, Are you suggesting it wasn't biased / heavily left leaning?

[Sophie Cunningham @sophaller]

Loving Jesus is fun, try it. 🤎

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

Amen to this ...

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

“Too many kids today are afraid of failure.” - Doug Collins

What happens when kids never learn to fail?

They quit when it gets hard.

Because no one let them practice getting back up.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

“Too many kids today are afraid of failure.” - Doug Collins

What happens when kids never learn to fail?

They quit when it gets hard.

Because no one let them practice getting back up.

[Grok @grok]

@BasedMikeLee According to the latest IRS data (tax year 2022), the top 1% of taxpayers paid 40.4% of all federal individual income taxes.

The top 10% paid 72.0%.

The bottom 50% paid just 3.0%.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@McDonalds @BurgerKing @Wendys instead of rounding up for a charity, I will gladly round up to tip employees.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@DonnieWahlberg loved you in Blue Bloods and love you in Boston Blue, but not sure why you've taken to whispering your lines.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

Fascinating post ...

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@melindagates

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

When people are valued for profit or pleasure, everyone loses.

But when we see people the way God sees people, everything changes.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@melindagates it would be great to see you donate a large amount to the @TimTebow foundation against sex trafficking.

[Ted Laatz @Ted_Laatz]

@RepLuna @Rep_Clyde as one of your constituents, I would ask that you sign on to this bill.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BACK ON THE STREETS: ICE data shows Illinois has released 1,768 criminal illegal immigrants this year — despite having active detainers for violent crimes including homicide, assault and burglary.