Sam
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Sam
@CadleSam
All Is Vanity ~ Jeremiah 17:9 ~ Calvinist-ish ~ ✌️
At the Cross Katılım Şubat 2017
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It was an honor to visit your husband’s grave today on your behalf, and to pay my respects. It was wonderful to see the beautiful flowers representing many others who did the same. Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to the loved ones they left behind. Thank you for your service and sacrifice @SharrellAnne2 🙏🏽

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This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.
SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007
There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸
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While Romanian families shivered in unheated apartments and waited hours for meager bread rations, Nicolae Ceaușescu built himself a 1,100-room palace that consumed $3 billion of his nation's wealth. The Casa Poporului stands today as a monument to the inevitable outcome when central planners face zero market constraints on their appetites.
Ceaușescu's palace contains 12 stories above ground, spreads across 365,000 square meters, and required 20,000 workers laboring in shifts around the clock. He demolished entire historic neighborhoods of Bucharest to clear space for his architectural ego trip. Meanwhile, his citizens endured bread queues, rolling blackouts, and heating restrictions so severe that hospitals couldn't maintain proper temperatures. The dictator diverted the nation's resources toward marble, crystal chandeliers, and gold leaf while his people literally froze.
Without market prices to signal genuine demand or profit-and-loss mechanisms to punish waste, political authorities inevitably channel resources toward projects that serve their personal preferences rather than human needs. Ceaușescu faced no competitors, no angry shareholders, no bankruptcy risk. He simply commanded the nation's productive capacity to serve his grandiose vision.
The palace required 3,500 tons of crystal, 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights, and 700,000 tons of steel and bronze. Every ton of material that went into those ornate rooms represented food, medicine, fuel, or housing that never reached Romanian families. The arithmetic is brutal but simple: centralized control means resources flow toward political vanity projects rather than genuine human priorities.
The building still stands, largely empty, costing millions annually just to maintain its unused splendor.

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Easy always leads to stagnation
John Lee Pettimore@JohnLeePettim13
People are addicted to easy. And easy is why their life stays hard.
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@CadleSam @kindame3v2 I'm almost earning my age in hourly wage.
Gotta be grateful about that.
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My cousin took me to see it a couple months before I joined the navy.
It hit me harder than I thought it would.
US Department of the Interior@Interior
This Memorial Day, and always, we remember and honor the service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation’s freedom. Their courage, dedication, and sacrifice will never be forgotten. Photo of U.S. Navy Sailors at Pearl Harbor National Memorial
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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
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So, Sen Tillis says he is now unfiltered due to him retiring and he can now say things he couldn't before due to "political considerations."
In other words, Tillis admits to lying to voters for the last 12 years to get re-elected and now that he isn't running again he can finally tell the voters exactly how he feels about them.
Not sure this is the flex he thinks it is.
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@MassieforKY Today should be about honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Not about greedy ambitions
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A fearless nun who rescued Christian and Yazidi slaves from ISIS in Syria made a direct and uncomfortable statement: “ISIS is Islam. Islam is ISIS.”
After witnessing the horrors firsthand, she accused the Western world of protecting Islam’s false image as a “religion of peace,” while ignoring the genocide and enslavement of non-Muslim minorities across the Muslim world.
She argues that the West must stop defending this ideology and start protecting the people who are actually being persecuted. Her words are hard to hear, but they come from someone who saw the reality up close.
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They are fast learners..who can deny the the climate gods.😂
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Iran declares it will not charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, will instead charge “environmental protection fees”
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