Barry Paschal 🇺🇸

Man plans; God laughs.

@mattvanswol @robert71559 I took an ambulance ride to the ER after a fall. A couple of months later I got a bill from the ambulance company for ~$1,500. We told them they hadn’t charged our two (TWO!) insurance companies. They rebilled it - for ~$3,500. Then, after insurance paid, we still owed… $1,500.

Nearly a year ago, my wife went to the hospital for stomach pain. They did a CT Scan of her abdomen and thankfully didn't find anything serious. We got a bill in the mail of $9,117.42 I spent months talking to insurance, the hospital, billing appeals... I was told the claim was still processing. I was told the claim was out of the normal service area. I was told it wasn't clear it was medically necessary. I was told the insurance wasn't valid on the date of service. Finally, we got it handled, but it took well over 6 months from the day we got the first bill to the day we finished the process and paid. We did everything right. We have insurance. We pay our insanely high premiums every single month. It's just so frustrating. This whole healthcare system is broken, from top to bottom.

@nypost @EWErickson Welcome to the free world!

Yamaha pulling out of California after half a century: HQ headed to Georgia trib.al/UrSWdji

@RedWavePress So, he threw the rule book at them? 😂 “Ordnance” is the word you wanted.

JUST IN: A man shouts Allahu Akbar while being arrested after chucking a homemade ordinance at anti-Muslim protesters near Gracie Mansion in New York City. Islam is not compatible with Western civilization!

@grey4626 More people need to read this and tune out their overwrought, malignant sources.

Sit the fuck down and listen... You brain-dead conspiracy tourists and partisan rage-monkeys losing your fucking minds over “Elvis Presley” and “Janis Joplin” popping up in Epstein document searches need to shut the hell up, sit down, and absorb a dose of reality before you embarrass yourselves further. These names are not on any “client list.” They are not implicated in trafficking, abuse, recruitment, or conspiracy. They are throwaway, irrelevant mentions scattered across thousands of pages of unfiltered deposition transcripts and discovery material...someone casually said “Epstein had Elvis records in the lodge” or “we played Janis Joplin on the flight” or “I saw a poster of her in the guest house.” Mundane human conversation that any competent review would flag as utterly meaningless noise. Under normal protocol...the protocol that has governed every prior Epstein/Giuffre v. Maxwell unsealing...the DOJ and the court apply meticulous redactions to protect innocent third parties. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) authorizes protective orders. Judge Preska’s own 2023-2024 unsealing orders explicitly required continued redaction of non-party identifiers absent a compelling override. Basic privacy statutes, due process, and simple decency demand that dead celebrities, distant acquaintances, and random staffers not be dragged into the public sewer for clicks. But Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna couldn’t tolerate that. They needed the rush. They needed the viral dopamine hit of “fighting the deep state.” So they mounted a full-court press: public letters, hearing grandstanding, coordinated X outrage campaigns, the whole performative circus. “Release EVERYTHING immediately!” they shrieked, implying that any delay, any careful review, was proof of a cover-up protecting whichever boogeyman their base hated that week...Trump, Clinton, Gates, take your pick. Psychologically, it’s textbook narcissistic projection fused with political opportunism. They cannot conceive of institutional caution that isn’t corrupt because their own motives are impure: clout, donor pats on the head, and the delicious thrill of wielding moral superiority over faceless bureaucrats. They whipped the mob into a frothing “transparency or treason” frenzy, leaving the DOJ with two choices: take the time to do it right and be accused of obstruction, or dump the raw, unredacted discovery and let the chips fall. The DOJ chose option B. Message received loud and clear: Fine. Fuck you. You want it raw and right now? Here it is...every unfiltered page, no redactions, no context, no guardrails. Enjoy the flood. Now innocent names...long-dead musicians, caterers, pilots, distant cousins...are smeared across search results. Real disclosures about actual powerful figures get drowned in algorithmic noise. Victims’ advocates watch in horror as legitimate evidence is contaminated by deliberate chaos. And the lowest-IQ corners of the internet get to scream “Elvis was a pedo!” or “Janis recruited girls!” while the rest of us roll our eyes at the predictable self-own. This isn’t transparency. This is sabotage disguised as principle. Massie and Khanna didn’t expose the guilty; they deliberately violated established privacy protections, poisoned the evidentiary well, and handed disinformation merchants a gift-wrapped distraction. They own every bit of this circus...the confusion, the defamation of the innocent, the dilution of actual accountability. You demanded unfiltered truth without the patience or intelligence to handle it. Congratulations. You got exactly what you begged for: a steaming pile of raw discovery with zero curation. 💀🗡️

OK, fellas - you might have procrastinated and missed getting a romantic restaurant reservation for Valentine’s Day, but there’s still hope: Nothing says “I love you” like a case of ramen noodles. You’re welcome.

I wonder why we stopped hearing so much about “migrant caravans”? Apparently they just evaporated after 2024.

@dee01848 @NWSWPC @grok @grok what about Augusta GA?

@NWSWPC @grok what does this mean for Temple Georgia

❄️ Winter Storm Update ❄️ Here's the latest on the impending winter storm set to begin across the south-central U.S. on Friday. Confidence continues to increase for damaging ice accumulations across parts of the South. Preparations should be completed as soon as possible.

These muffins look like they fell asleep on a nude beach

This should be shared far and wide. Merry Christmas. ⁦@glennbeck⁩ youtu.be/qs097yMFtYY

This is incredible. youtu.be/qs097yMFtYY?si…

Thanks, Texas A&M! By letting the most overrated and overhyped quarterback in college football take you to the woodshed, Georgia is headed to the SEC championship game! Go Dawgs!

Sure, you might be an exceptionally accomplished person, but have you ever taught an octopus how to play piano? sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/1…

So, @sonicdrivein has Fifty Cent corn dogs all day on Halloween. Kudos for landing that endorsement. @50cent

Sometimes my tiny dog will bark hysterically through the fence at pedestrians on the street. After they pass from view, she’ll proudly run back in, tail wagging, and I’ll say “Good job! You chased them off!” In that spirit, “Good job, No Kings protesters! We don’t have a king!”

@4thOfJuly365 Dork Cult Protest Day #dorkcultprotestday

Comment "Dork Cult Protest Day" on this post and let's get it trending to #1

The @TheKingCenter was vandalized this weekend, with the vandal damaging the eternal flame and peeing in the reflecting pool. Strange that we haven’t heard more news about the suspect’s arrest.

@PTNickB @TheKingCenter @BerniceKing @TPstudios @NAACP @AttorneyGriggs @tylerperry Um… yep, another “white nationalist.”

@TheKingCenter @BerniceKing There are many messages that create division in this country. It is the current messages of white nationalism that are the most insidious, as they always have a complicit angle of racism. @TPstudios @NAACP @AttorneyGriggs @tylerperry @BerniceKing #Diversity #Equality

Official Statement from The King Center Regarding Vandalism of the Eternal Flame "The King Center is aware of a minor incident that occurred near the Eternal Flame. While there was minimal damage to the Eternal Flame and the surrounding area, The King Center remains fully open to visitors. The Eternal Flame still burns with love, and we continue to welcome everyone with open arms and gratitude for the incredible support of our beloved community. The dream lives on."

Has anyone checked on @NPR and @PBS lately? Are they ok?

WTF, @grok? This is from an answer you provided to a fact-check question about whether Jamie Lee Curtis cried when she heard of Charlie Kirk’s death: “There is no evidence that Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, has been assassinated.”

@HarmeetKDhillon I hope Georgia Tech beats the brakes off Clemson tomorrow.

This is an unfortunate policy choice by Clemson. So many policy choices going around …