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@Feisty_Waters check with local companies. found one that is substantially cheaper than all the 'regular' ones.

For people who don’t have printers at home, work or a school they can readily use, are there places other than public libraries where you can print stuff for a low cost?

@Watchman_motto risk aversion started in the 60's and exploded when politicians began believing they could legislate it away. is the underlaying reasons for codes, laws, rules, etc. all of which increases costs. humans need risk and will find it somewhere, anywhere.

Safety culture in the trades is getting out of hand. I had to work in a factory recently which required: -The new style hard hat with chin straps -High vis -Steel toe -Metatarsal guards -Safety glasses with side shields -Ear plugs -Level 4 cut protection gloves -Harness with lanyard tied off to the lift you’re on I was so safe I couldn’t move. Then after suiting up in all that, our safety guy called off the work because the wind was over 20mph. I get it, I appreciate that it used to be the opposite, and a guy could get fired for not doing dangerous work. And the liability - with work comp and lawsuits and so on. But it really makes you wonder how anything ever gets done in this country any more.

@alphafox that is actually brilliant. (and funny.) we all need more self-awareness. literally starts with listening to the words that come out of our mouths (not what's in our heads).

Women claim they can do anything men can, however this is one task that is impossible for them:

@AlexReimer1 aha, so lbg is the same as genocide, mass deportations or other atrocities.

Players can abstain from wearing Pride hats all they want. The issue is desecrating the Pride hat and making a night about LGBTQ fans about yourself. Why haven’t any of these Giants players posted bible verses to oppose genocide, mass deportation or a litany of other atrocities?

@Poeslawisalive @WallStreetMav 50% of the country does not have a passport. not a problem.

@WallStreetMav Kennedy learned that the majority of Louisiana voters don’t have a valid passport or a certified birth certificate in their possession. One of those two documents would be required under the Save Act. Why am I the only one who knows this?

Two traitors within the Republican Party of the US Senate are blocking the Save Act. Sen Kennedy (Louisiana) and Sen Capito (West Virginia) are two of the lesser known senators blocking action behind the scenes. Kennedy plays the folksy conservative in public, but his voting record when it matters is unreliable. Sen Capito is also turning out to be unreliable when it matters. @SenJohnKennedy @SenCapito

@WallStreetMav need proof. links to voting record, etc. we do not dislike blindly.

@JamesTate121 like an electric rod in water stunning fish for dinner.

The Obama presidential library really is stunning.

@Protect_Wldlife need to separate PREY and PREDATORS. though seemingly ferocious, buffalo are prey. Predators that have human interactions need different remedies and some times euthanasia.

Bison Who Killed 70 Year Old Woman Won’t Be Euthanized After Public Backlash A bull bison that fatally attacked a 70 year old Canadian woman in South Dakota’s Custer State Park has reportedly been spared from euthanasia after widespread public opposition. According to investigators, the woman and her husband encountered a group of bull bison while hiking. Officials say the couple initially moved away from the animals but later continued following the herd. One of the bulls eventually charged, tossing the woman into the air and inflicting injuries that proved fatal. After the attack, many assumed the bison would be put down. Instead, public backlash quickly followed, with many arguing that a wild animal should not be destroyed for behaving like a wild animal. State officials ultimately agreed to relocate the bull to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe rather than euthanize it. The decision has sparked a debate among outdoorsmen and wildlife enthusiasts. If a wild animal attacks someone after being approached in its own habitat, should it be destroyed, or should relocation be enough? What do you think? I think neither ~ it is in its own territory so leave it be!

@infantrydort the ISSUE is hidden in your 4th from last paragraph. how to get rid of muslims/islam without getting rid of the 'good' ones.

Nah, you guys know what? I’m just gonna come out and say it. And when I’m done saying it, tell me if it’s “blatant Islamophobia” or just…. you know… reality. Let me explain to you some of the things I witnessed with my very own eyes in multiple Muslim countries. This will not be for the weak or faint of heart. 1. They didn’t just massacre one another in Baghdad, they chopped each other up into little pieces and stuffed them in underground vats. SPC Plocica was the only one with a strong enough stomach to fish the pieces out with a coat hanger so we could confirm the report. Don’t worry @Primz94933160 was there too as a witness. Rib cages with rotted flesh, pieces of legs with shoes attached, arms, hands, you name it. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen with my two eyes. 2. The obsession with having sex with children or feminine men. The saying over there was women are for breeding and men are for fun. We had to protect our fairer looking male Soldiers from being molested CONSTANTLY. But that isn’t the worst part. I once stumbled upon an Afghan colonel r*ping his 11 year old assistant, I heard the unholy noises emanating from his tent on our FOB. When I moved to interdict I was stopped for fear of a Green on Blue incident. And then we were all “educated” on the fact that this was CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR THEM TO DO. It was as normal as breathing. 3. Women are less than nothing to them. I would always ask how many children elders had for small talk. They could have 10 kids. 7 daughters and 3 sons. What will they tell you? They have 3 sons. I watched a man carrying his dead daughter in his arms to my FOB. She died due to a malfunctioned bomb we dropped. That didn’t matter to him. He dropped her on the ground with a stone cold face and demanded we pay him. She was f*****g NOTHING to him. He left the body with us and walked away counting his money. 4. Some of them have sex with animals. Ask me if I saw a man from COP 763 in east Baghdad mount a donkey in the middle of the night through a RAID FLIR camera. Because the answer will be yes. 5. They did heinous things in battle. Suicide bombings. Using their own wives as human shields. Using children as shields. Shooting from mosques. Spitting at our working dogs… or worse. This all sounds crazy right? And I bet my comment section will flow with similar horror stories. It almost sounds like I’m making it up huh? I wish I was. I really do. I know good Muslims in America. One of them is among my closest friends. But he’s passed through the American filter…HEAVILY. I can safely say he is literally one of us. My question for you is, how are you not “Islamophobic”? My assessment comes from 4 total years immersed in multiple Islamic nations. I wish I could say I’m sorry that I’m an inconvenient truth teller against your agenda. But I’m not sorry at all. You must open your eyes. You MUST see this is a problem. Don’t you? How can you not?

@SBT564 oh give us a bloody break.

Michelle Obama is the prettiest first lady we’ve ever had. And that’s why they’re mad......

@garonnevik cats are prolific breeders. if you never neuter, you will be over run. what happens to the excess kittens? NOT judging. grew up on farms. always had farm cats.

I’m probably opening up a can of worms here, but to those saying I need to spay my cats, consider a few things. We are a grain farm. Grain farms attract rodents. Hundreds of them. Big ones. We can use cats, or we can use more chemicals to handle them. Your choice. Humane societies refuse to give cats to farms. They claim cats are not for work, they are for domestic use only. I have tried. So we have to breed our own, and farmers have a whole network to manage this. We take excellent care of our cats. They are handled and loved. But we are not the city. We are not a neighborhood. We are a rural farm trying to keep our chemical and disease levels low.

@DougWahl1 OUR 28 years. OUR turn. 2026-2029 Trump/Vance 2029-2037 Vance (age 45-54)/Rubio (58-66) 2037-2045 Rubio (66-74)/DeSantis (59-67) 2045-2053 DeSantis (67-75)/Gill (60-64)

Do you agree with Trump being left out? For the first time in US history the sitting President was not invited to attend the opening of a predecessor's library. Clinton, Bush and Biden all showed up at the Obama library... no Trump. Your Thoughts?

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov @DNIGabbard we still have your back. prayers up.

@MikeyDiMercurio oh come on Mr. DeMercurio, submariner, engineer, Naval Academy and MIT alumnus. vessels are renamed all of the time, but only safely under the auspices of Poseidon's rules to remove all traces of the current name then perform a purging ceremony.

We should rename the aircraft carrier named after Bush. Make it the USS TRUMP. Renaming a ship is tricky. Because King Neptune has a ledger of the deep in which he writes the names of all ships. So to rename a ship, you need a ceremony with a Catholic priest, a Baptist minister and episcopal priest a Buddhist monk a Jewish rabbi and the urine of a virgin.

@LauraLoomer will y'all 'influential' accounts please take a breath. a breather. go touch effing grass. get a tad of perspective. Trump endorsed 302. 98% WON so far. And there are elections yet to be held. YOU are creating discord.

The right is more divided now than ever before. Won’t be surprised to see people sit the midterms out. There’s so many issues to talk about, so many races to cover, but foreign propaganda and Podcastistan only want to focus on one issue and it’s destroying all unity. I expect a lot of people will sit the midterms out.

@LauraLoomer like you would know. pot meet kettle.

For the record, it is a blatant lie to say Israeli cabinet members attacked President Trump. Israeli officials expressed bewilderment and alarm over the MOU, but they never attacked Donald Trump. Now that lie has been spread like wildfire. It’s important that we stay factual and show receipts when we make outlandish claims.

@Joshua_the_car if we do not infight, we could have this 2026-2029 Trump/Vance 2029-2037 Vance (age 45-54)/Rubio (58-66) 2037-2045 Rubio (66-74)/DeSantis (59-67) 2045-2053 DeSantis (67-75)/Gill (60-64)

I just want to be clear where I stand. I don’t think JD Vance is a bad guy. I also don’t think JD Vance has the experience or the skills to be our nominee and subsequently the President. Give me DeSantis. Give me Rubio.

@DefiyantlyFree thank you. if we do not infight, we could have this. 2026-2029 Trump/Vance 2029-2037 Vance (age 45-54)/Rubio (58-66) 2037-2045 Rubio (66-74)/DeSantis (59-67) 2045-2053 DeSantis (67-75)/Gill (60-64) Gill?

Let me tell you the one thing that separates the real conservatives from the crying little girls on here running agit prop operations on a 24/7 loop. JD Vance is not my favorite person right now but if he was the Republican nominee, I would do whatever I had to do to make sure he won over Newsome or AOC or Platner or whatever lunatics the democrats nominate. That’s the difference. I might have disagreements, I preferences and I have opinions but I’m not a child. I know politics is binary and I will hold my nose and do what’s right for the country. The people running around screaming how anyone who is pro-Israel is paid were telling you last week MAGA is dead, never coming back and that Trump was purchased by Israel, a pedophile and the anti-Christ. Don’t get it twisted. We are not the same.

1961 Corvette for me. What are you buying?

@CynicalPublius both can be true (and I agree) Bush did not lie about Iraq Bush has become a Deep State charlatan of extremely low character

RE: George W. Bush One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s. This cost me friends and exposed me to relentless personal attacks. I defended his CHARACTER. I thought what I was doing was right. I was wrong. I did not believe—and still do not believe—that he “lied” us into the war in Iraq. My belief was and is based on my knowledge of classified pre-war intelligence and my service early in the war on the Iraqi base that was most suspected to include WMD storage. I defended Bush against “Bush lied, people died.” I defended Bush against “Chimpy McBushitler” and all of the other spurious Democrat insults that served only to undermine the war effort I had been fighting. But while I defended Bush, he NEVER defended himself. Then, when a true Marxist was elected President in the form of the worst human being to occupy the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson (i.e., Barack Obama), Bush was SILENT. He never, ever spoke out against Obama, and even cozied up to him and Michelle, which I assumed was part of the tradition of former Presidents never criticizing their successors. (I was wrong in my assumption.) THEN Donald Trump was elected President by America and suddenly Bush found his voice in criticizing serving Presidents. Why would he do this to a member of his own party other than because Trump was an outsider determined to dismantle the tyranny of the federal administrative state? I now know that George W. Bush is a Deep State charlatan of extremely low character. Allegiance to the Deep State and The Swamp trumps any allegiance he may have ever had to his own party, the United States of America, the Constitution, or the American people. He is despicable. Surprisingly, I now find him more objectionable than the other Presidents in this picture. At least they let us know who they actually were. One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s.