Husband, Retired-Electrical Engineer/Programmer. I’m enjoying watching President Trump do what he promised. Escape CA. Mission complete 6/17/26 😎. 🚫 Crypto.
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Anyone else remember the Ray Bradbury short story, “A Sound of Thunder”?
It’s where the term, “The butterfly effect” came from.
A summary of the last page.
The Consequence: When the group returns to the future, they find that the political climate has changed and a brutal dictator has won the recent presidential election instead of a democratic leader.
Eckels discovers a dead, crushed golden butterfly on the bottom of his boot, proving that even the smallest, most insignificant action in the past can catastrophically alter the future. The story ends with the safari guide, Travis, raising his rifle and firing.
There was a sound of thunder.
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Another American kid KILLED on the road by an illegal driver, twice deported.
When will it finally be enough?
Ryan O'Shea was 21.
The captain of the University of New Haven hockey team.
A criminal justice major who wanted to be a cop.
He was killed Oct. 16 in a wrong-way crash on I-91 in North Haven, Connecticut.
DHS says the driver who hit him had been removed from the U.S. TWICE before and came back illegally.
He has not been charged, and the investigation is ongoing.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blamed Connecticut's sanctuary policy.
Gov. Ned Lamont hasn't publicly addressed it.
Say his name. Ryan O'Shea.
consequences.
- immediate
- commensurate
- public
- escalating
BREAKING: Over 100 TEACHERS in Texas will now have their teacher certification suspended and become ineligible to teach in Texas public schools after they endorsed Charlie Kirk's assassination or incited more violence, Governor Greg Abbott announces.
They're all FINDING OUT.
"The Texas Education Agency is investigating Texas teachers whose actions called for or incite violence following the Charlie Kirk assassination."
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BREAKING: Over 100 TEACHERS in Texas will now have their teacher certification suspended and become ineligible to teach in Texas public schools after they endorsed Charlie Kirk's assassination or incited more violence, Governor Greg Abbott announces.
They're all FINDING OUT.
"The Texas Education Agency is investigating Texas teachers whose actions called for or incite violence following the Charlie Kirk assassination."
I was at a grocery store yesterday.
Saw a young lady wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with “Dress for Success”
She was wearing pajamas and slippers.
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Get out and vote. We can’t afford to lose.
The only promising thing is that most college students are either too lazy to register to vote, too lazy to vote, or don’t realize they can’t vote at the polls at their out of state university.
At @UTSA for Pick Up the Mic, a student read a poem celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk with such glee, then told me I was brave to be out here without my neck covered.
I told her I’d pray for her.
This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway.
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The only way to reduce crime is consequences.
- immediate
- commensurate
- public
- escalating
🚨 Are you and your loved ones training every week? Curling up in a ball won't save you from a primitive instinct to kill. Bystanders won't help you. You'll be relying on the defective mercy and empathy of a wild animal.
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"This was filmed last Thursday at Riverside Veterinary Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The officer is Sergeant Alan Briggs. He's 44 years old. Twelve-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department. The dog is Bruno, a nine-year-old German Shepherd. They were partners for eight years. Bruno joined the force at fourteen months old. Trained in narcotics detection and patrol support. He and Alan were paired in the spring of Alan's sixth year on the force. From that first week, Alan said Bruno worked like he'd been waiting his whole life to do exactly that job. Eight years. Hundreds of calls. Bruno never missed a shift. Earlier this year, Bruno began slowing down significantly. A serious illness had progressed through his system over several months despite treatment. By October, Bruno had stopped eating consistently. Stopped lifting his head fully when Alan came into the room. The veterinary team sat with Alan two weeks ago and walked him through what was coming. Alan requested that Bruno's final day be spent at home first. They drove to their favorite trail in the morning. Bruno walked as far as he could. Alan carried him the rest of the way. At the clinic that afternoon, Alan sat down on the floor rather than placing Bruno on the examination table. He said he didn't want Bruno's last position to be somewhere unfamiliar and cold. He held Bruno in his arms on the floor, back against the wall. The vet, Dr. Melissa Horan, prepared the procedure. She told us she's been practicing for nineteen years. She has learned to give families as long as they need. Alan leaned down and pressed his face against Bruno's head. He spoke to him quietly. Told him he had been the best partner anyone could ask for. Told him he didn't have to hold on anymore. Bruno lifted both front paws. Slowly. The way a person reaches up when they want to be held. He wrapped them around Alan's shoulders and pulled himself closer. Alan held on. Dr. Horan told us she set down what she was holding and waited. She said: "I've been in this room for a lot of final moments. What Bruno did in that moment was one of the most deliberate things I've ever seen an animal do.
And President Trump didn’t have to trade Viktor Bout, “The Merchant of Death”. (For Brittney Griner).
Russia frees 74-year-old American Stephen Hubbard captured in occupied Ukraine
cnn.com/2026/10/21/europe/st…
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Only pure evil can see a sweet little girl in a wheelchair and shoot her in the face.
Burn forever in hell.
I’m not at all religious, but Charlie Kirk was a rare genius leading a mission to save the United States - the world - from evil. RIP.
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