Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
I've been brown my whole life. I've lived in the South most of my life. I've never once been unable to vote. I've never been unable to get a license or photo ID. And I've never once needed the party of racism and voter suppression, @TheDemocrats, to speak for me. #VotingRights
Please make sure to follow author @TJ_Harker. He knows more about the Derek Chauvin case than just about anyone, including many of those in the courtroom.
He is as smart and scrupulous as they come. No BS here. He's going to tell it exactly as it is.
Democrats in Congress have voted down a proposal to create a national Smithsonian Women's Museum because Republicans refused to agree that it would include 'trans women'. https://t.co/2nfwGatNvM
So thanks again, Dems, for screwing over women bc we wanted something of our own.
Hey, @elonmusk, @KDansky's account has been mass reported by trans activists. She’s locked & suspended. Please look into this and help her get her account back.
Terven, one of our fearless leaders needs us. Please help Kara and spread this post far & wide!
Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less
America - Those of you not from Minnesota really have no idea how lucky you are that @Tim_Walz lost the election.
Here he is today celebrating George Floyd - who gave his life to crack - instead of remembering those that gave their life for freedom.
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On Christmas Eve in 1955, a simple newspaper mistake created one of the most heartwarming Christmas traditions in history.
A Sears advertisement invited children to call Santa Claus, but the phone number printed in the ad accidentally connected callers to the Continental Air Defense Command operations center in Colorado Springs instead.
The first child who called asked if Santa was there. Instead of dismissing the call, Colonel Harry Shoup — the officer on duty that night — decided to play along.
He instructed his staff to check radar systems and give children updates on Santa’s “current location” as he traveled across the world delivering presents.
What began as an accidental mix-up soon became an annual tradition. After NORAD replaced CONAD in 1958, the program evolved into the famous NORAD Santa Tracker, which now uses satellites, radar, aircraft, and volunteers to “track” Santa every Christmas Eve for families around the globe.
Wise words from this young woman!
“Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in aisle ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go.”
“Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.”
“When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand. Think about your grand parents and your parents and how pissed you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them. But more, think of them as you.”
“Once upon a time they were you. They were busy, they had work, they had children, they were able. Today, they are just in an older body that is not going as fast as it used to and this busy life is confusing. They deserve our utmost respect and consideration. One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a shit about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and jeez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.”
Thanks to the author, Adele Renee. ♥️
I stand with Sall Grover who has been ordered to pay up to $120,000 for correctly identifying a man as a man in Australia.
They punish the dissenters with functioning eyes. They've made speaking the truth is some form of hate crime.
And even still, he's a man.
A boy at our school is from a poor family and can't afford new learning materials. He arrived today with a biology book from 2010 that had belonged to his brother. We want everyone to feel included, so we expelled this bigot for possessing Transphobic propaganda.
Elon just endorsed it.
Gad Saad dropped the hammer on Fox this morning.
We now live in a world where:
- Rape victims get less sympathy than their rapists
- Homeowners get less than the squatters breaking in
- American vets get less than illegal migrants
- Repeat felons with 186 charges get 200 more “chances” because “society made them do it”
This isn’t kindness.
This is suicidal empathy.
Universities spent decades teaching our judges, leaders, and elites that personal agency is a myth if you check the right oppression boxes. So criminals become victims, victims become bigots for complaining, and the whole system rots from the inside.
My grandfather said he’d never move into a retirement home.
He said, “Too expensive… and the food tastes like someone boiled sadness.”
Instead, he checked into a beachfront hotel.
We asked, “Grandpa, isn’t that even more expensive?”
He smiled and said, “Not really.
At the retirement home, I’d pay $200 a day for cold meatloaf and no visitors.
But here? For $150 a day, I get ocean views, room service, fresh towels, a pool…
…and suddenly all my grandkids remember I exist every weekend.”
Then he leaned back in his chair and delivered the final line like a mob boss:
“And if I die in the hotel lobby, the manager will actually look disappointed.
But at the nursing home? They just call it Tuesday.”
It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.
Men cannot be women.
Speaking of unaffordability, why does UW-River Falls require every undergraduate to waste her time and money on “cultural diversity” requirements such as “Queer Media” or “Mapping and Spatial Justice”?
https://t.co/aup4OkFTsW
Meet Sophia Page, Watertown, Wisconsin homecoming queen and senior. During a student walk out over the school board’s removal of a controversial tribute to transv•stite s•x worker Marsha P. Johnson from the spring concert, she shamefully held a “Spot the difference” sign comparing the school board vice principal to ass•ssinated Charlie Kirk.
The phalloplasty outcomes data is among the most problematic in all of gender surgery:
Urethral complications — meaning the inability to urinate through the neophallus without fistula, stricture, or requiring catheterization — occur at rates between 40% and 75% in most published series. This is not a rare complication. It is the expected outcome for a substantial proportion of patients.
Tactile sensation in the neophallus is partial and unpredictable. Erogenous sensation — the ability to achieve orgasm through penile stimulation — is present in some patients but absent in many others, and cannot be guaranteed or predicted preoperatively.
Erectile function requires a separate prosthetic implant — a hydraulic or malleable rod inserted into the neophallus — which itself carries significant complication and failure rates, with revision surgery commonly required.
The overall reoperation rate for phalloplasty across published series ranges from 30% to over 60% depending on technique and follow-up period.