So my daughter had a test and asked her teacher if she was going to grade them over the weekend so she could know her grade on Monday.
Her teachers reply “I’m not spending my weekend grading papers.”
Okay then.. moving forward my children will not spending their after school hours doing hours of homework.
They will not spending their weekend working on projects. They can do that during school time then.
The Crown Prince and Minister of Defense of Dubai, United Arab Emirates has directed the country’s Community Development Authority to replace the title “housewife” with “Generations Shaper”, in a symbolic move announced on Arab Mother’s Day to honor the role of mothers in shaping families and society.
@AP Now if only YouTube actually does something about spreading misinformation on their platform daily. That would be a relief, but they won’t because they suck ass
The United States has reached out to us regarding their bases in Middle Eastern countries. We’ve also been approached by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait.
We’re already working with some of them, and our expert teams are already on the ground, assessing the situation and sharing invaluable experience. Because no matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air defense systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defense. There are modern interceptors designed to counter heavy drone strikes.
Now, we are discussing future deliveries of certain equipment that Ukraine has. We want Middle Eastern countries to give us the opportunity to strengthen ourselves as well. They have some air defense missiles that we lack. We would like to reach agreements on this.
Funding is the scarcest resource today. Our defense industry is currently operating at half capacity, and we need more financing to produce drones for ourselves. That’s why we are ready to sell to our partners the systems we have in surplus. And we’re not just selling – we’ll provide our expertise as well. Interceptor drones don’t work without our expertise. It’s the system that works.
From an interview with Le Monde (1/5).
A man in China is going viral after traveling 12 hours a day for six months to visit his wife in hospital
He took multiple buses, made food to save money, and spent $14,000 on medical bills before donors gave $20,000 to help
We went to a dinner as a group and had a $500 bill. We tipped $40. We were happy we can be able to give our server something, but her reaction was the opposite. She told us she assumed we're going to give her at least $120. When we asked for the manager, she said she was just joking, but she wasn't smiling at all. Idk, but is $40 tip enough for $500 bill? I just feel like expecting $120 is not realistic.
~Lea Robertson
Rep. James Comer: "I don't like where we are with having to fight this battle in Iran, but remember -- this is cleaning up Joe Biden and Barack Obama's mess. Unfortunately it landed in President Trump's lap."
@0IvankaTrumpRV2 You are mentally ill and so is Tulsi Gabbard. Your daddy raped you and you cannot come to charms with it or admit it so you think it’s OK for him to rape other girls ..that is sickening. You need mental health.
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard has officially designated John Brennan and Adam Schiff as “domestic enemies” of the United States.
Do you support Tulsi Gabbard?
YES or NO?
IF YES, Give me a Thumbs-Up👍!!
@leadpellet@EWTNVatican@Nefertari_25 So then you must agree that maggots worshiping a child rapist and 34 account felon Trump is exponentially worse right? This Veronica sounds like a moral person. Trump , am evil amoral criminal.
@EWTNVatican@Nefertari_25 The Catholic Popes have created lots of things over the centuries. Many are not Biblical but considered of religious significance.
Matthew 15:9 KJV
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, an extraordinary moment unfolds inside St. Peter’s Basilica: the unveiling of Veronica’s Veil.
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MacKenzie Scott employs a "no strings attached" style of giving, wherein the nonprofits to which she donates have full control over how to best deploy the new funds. Yet with all of her giving, she still holds a $28 billion net worth, putting her on the #ForbesBillionaires list.
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@bobbycotton2024@Forbes Wow, Jeff, he must be really jealous that she has a normal husband a happy life and doesn’t live to be the richest person in the world. She was actually the one who built her businesses. Not you . Now be gone with your plastic wife.
@Lauren_Chris@domdyer70 Hey MAGAt moron. Kristi Noem, the far right POS who shot her dog dead certainly isn’t a liberal you ignoramus. And intelligent Liberals don’t drive Teslas and don’t like to support Elon Musk rat.
A woman who’d raised Henry, a 13-year-old Lab, since he was a puppy was caught on camera removing his collar and abandoning him at a Washington park, then driving off in her Tesla.
@Microinteracti1@BillKristol You are a rambling idiot for saying that JD Vance, Lindsay Graham, and Marco Rubio are not bad men. They are even worse than Trump because they support and enable him. And you are morally lost as well.
Robert Mueller died last night.
He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.
He had integrity.
And tonight the President of the United States said good!
I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.
I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.
Good.
This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.
That is what is happening. That is what has happened.
The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.
America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.
And the church said nothing.
Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.
Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.
Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.
JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.
These men are something more painful than monsters.
They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.
Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.
Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.
That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.
And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.
When Trump is gone, they will still be here.
Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.
That morning is coming.
Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.
He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.
He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.
The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.
That is all it needed to be.
A man died. His family is broken open with grief.
That is all it needed to be.
Instead the President said good.
And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
@TheTNHoller Well…. You are a pathological lying POS who has caused maggot brain rot in way too many Americans lying for a child rapist 34 count felon. What in the hell do you expect?