Bridget Edwards

[Ryan Preece @RyanPreece_]

Happy Ryan Day to all the other Ryans out there.

Go be the best Ryan you can be.

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@PJVPhotography I think I know that guy

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@Julian_Paul2 Yes

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HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM:

This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.

What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth.

Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@ChrisBlair4B @NHRA @WWTRaceway The old place?? 😆

[DE GOLDSMITH🪙🪙🪙⭐ ⭐⭐ @vickervics9]

This was filmed at Animal Shelter in Springfield, Illinois on a Tuesday afternoon.
The man is Glen, 50 years old. A high school shop teacher from the north side of Springfield. He came to Animal Shelter on his lunch break because his daughter had been asking him for months to at least go and look. He told himself he was just browsing.
Just getting it out of the way so he could honestly tell her he had tried.
Glen spent about twenty minutes in one of the meet rooms with a three-year-old brown mixed breed named Hector. Hector had been at Animal Shelter for seven months. He had been returned to the shelter twice. The notes in his file said he was too attached.
Followed people too closely. Didn't do well with being lett alone.
Glen sat on the floor with Hector. Let the dog climb into his lap. Scratched his ears. It was pleasant.
Normal. The kind of interaction Glen figured would happen.
Then Glen stood up to leave.
Hector went straight up with him.
Not barking. Not jumping in the usual sense. He climbed. Both front legs wrapped around Glen's midsection. Face pressed hard into Glen's chest.
Completely quiet. Just holding on.
Glen stumbled back a half step. Looked down.
Hector looked up at him.
The shelter hallway went completely quiet. The staff member near the door told us she stopped moving.
Glen tried to lower Hector gently. Hector pressed in harder.
Glen stood there for a long moment. Then something in him changed. His shoulders dropped. He sat back down on the floor with Hector still attached to him, both of them landing together.
Glen held the dog for a long time without saying anything.
Eventually he looked up at the staff member and said: "What do I need to fill out?"
He adopted Hector that afternoon.
Glen's daughter called the shelter two days later, laughing and crying at the same time. She said her dad, who had said for years he wasn't a dog person, was now sleeping on the couch with Hector on his chest because he didn't want to wake him up by moving.
The shelter coordinator told us: "Hector gets called too attached in every return note. But Glen didn't see a problem. He saw a dog who needed someone to stay. And he stayed."
Some flaws are just love without anywhere to go yet.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

n 1919, days before he died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote:

“If the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else… But this is predicated upon the person becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag

We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…

and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Equal rights. Undivided loyalty.
Did Teddy nail it?

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton.

The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

Well deserved!

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@PJVPhotography RIP Dr Frank N Furter

[Doug Yates @Yates_Doug]

Time for a valve cover giveaway! Who wants the #CookOut400 @NASCAR Cup race-winning valve cover from @joeylogano and No. 22 @Team_Penske team’s Ford Mustang?  Share and tag @CookOut to enter!

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[Jennifer Coffindaffer @CoffindafferFBI]

Didn't they make a cartoon about this ;)

Good morning, True Crimers.

Have a great day!

#truecrime
#WileECoyote

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Every woman should fear Islam!

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@PJVPhotography

[Bridget Edwards @VegasBridget]

@PJVPhotography @KatmaiNPS Next year you guys should invite your parents!

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Welcome back, @NASCAROReillyAP! ����

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

There was an official parade for a slot machine on Fremont Street today.

Shetland ponies and little people escorted the world's last remaining Sigma Derby horse racing game from The D to Golden Gate.