Debra Presley

@raven_brah You just show your ignorance of the way so many Boomers grew up. Fast food was a luxury very seldom indulged in for many, many middle-class families. We ate at home, often in a small, one bathroom house with one car.

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

In case anyone isn’t aware the push for SQ832 (min wage) is primarily coming for 3 sources: 1. Tulsa Community Foundation (George Kaiser) ~$825,000 2. Lynn Schusterman ~$775,000 3. NEA (teacher’s union) ~$500,000

1 AM. Arkansas. A dog won't stop barking. A father walks down the hallway. Opens his 14-year-old daughter's bedroom door. The bed is empty. The window is open. He already knows the name of the man who took her. He's known it for three months. Aaron Spencer is 37 years old. Army veteran, 82nd Airborne, deployed to Iraq. Farmer. Husband. Father of a little girl who used to sleep with the light on. The man who took her is named Michael Fosler. 67 years old. Three months earlier, when she was still 13, Arkansas had arrested Fosler and charged him with 43 separate crimes against her. Sexual assault of a minor. Internet stalking of a child. Sexual indecency with a child. Possession of child pornography. 43 counts. Against a 13-year-old girl. 43. The judge looked at all of it. And set the bond at $50,000. Fifty. Thousand. Dollars. Then she wrote "no contact order" on a piece of paper and called it justice. Fosler walked out the same day. And on the night of October 8, 2024, he came back for her. That's when Aaron Spencer grabbed his Glock 19. That's when Aaron Spencer climbed into his Ford truck. That's when Aaron Spencer stopped waiting for the system to save his daughter. He found Fosler's truck on Highway 31. His little girl was inside it. He chased him six miles. High beams flashing. Horn screaming. Begging him to pull over. Fosler did not pull over. So Aaron rammed the truck into a ditch. Drew his pistol. And fired sixteen rounds. Fifteen of them found the man who raped his daughter. Then he picked up the phone, called 911, and said the only words a father can say in that moment: "Michael Fosler is dead on the side of the road for trying to kidnap my daughter. I had no choice." The state charged him with second-degree murder. The prosecutor went on TV and said, quote: "We don't live in the Wild West." The judge slapped him in a jail cell. And every father in this country went silent for a long, long minute. Then something happened that nobody predicted. Aaron Spencer, awaiting trial for killing the man who raped his little girl, announced he was running for Sheriff of Lonoke County. A murder defendant. Running for the badge. The whole country laughed. The pundits called it a stunt. The papers called it impossible. March 3, 2026. The voters of Lonoke County walked into the polls. They did not laugh. They gave Aaron Spencer 53.5% of the vote. They threw out the incumbent sheriff who had locked him in a cell. They gave him a 27-point landslide. The father who killed his daughter's rapist is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in a county where Trump pulled 76%. His murder trial begins June 22, 2026. Five weeks from today. If he wins the trial, his name stays on the November ballot. If he wins November, he becomes the sheriff who answers 911 calls in Lonoke County, Arkansas. The father. With the badge. Of the same county that arrested him. This is what happens when a system lets a 43-count predator walk free for $50,000. This is what happens when a judge writes a paper order instead of doing her job. This is what happens when a father decides he is done waiting. There is something left in this country. Something the courts cannot kill. Something the judges cannot bond out. Something the prosecutors cannot silence. It is called a father. And in Lonoke County, Arkansas, 53.5% of the voters just looked Aaron Spencer in the eye and said: "Sir. You did the right thing. Now come run the whole damn sheriff's office." His trial starts in five weeks. God bless Aaron Spencer. And God bless every American standing behind him.

Couldn't have said this any better. How do we even fix this?

Wow…hope this gets replicated!

This is INSANE! This sheriff won’t cooperate with @ICEgov - the revolving door of illegals in Tulsa is out of control! This tells us that @SenMullin @SecMullinDHS is OBLIVIOUS of what is happening in Tulsa! 🤬😡🤯😞

Three reasons a home library is vital to western civilization: 1. Internet censorship 2. Changeable and vanishing eBooks 3. Artificial intelligence If hundreds of homes preserved the good books in print, we would not have to worry about losing our documented history.

The land under these panels will never be farmed again. Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites. Why? The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them. In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides. The fertile farmland is gone forever.

Attn: Tulsa - Our District Attorney “Republican” candidate at a rally, Colleen McCarty. Does a leopard change its spots?

Tulsa: This article quotes and includes a picture of “Republican” candidate for District Attorney, Colleen McCarty. Now a Republican only because it is politically expedient. Group opposed to Okla. 'personhood' bills to rally deseret.com/2012/2/28/2039…

Absolutely. This quite obviously should be the law. We already require the president to be a natural born citizen. Why wouldn't we extend that requirement to congress and the judicial branch?

As frustrated as I can be at times with our Speaker of the House, he is a believer and this is a wonderful story to watch.

Scientists mapped a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice. One-millionth the size of the human brain. It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it. They found over 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and even some new structures they didn't know existed. Mapping the entire human brain in this level of detail would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year + a 140-acre data center. But the human brain itself can hold up to ~2.5 million gigabytes of information - enough for ~3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing. It can process roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second - enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability. And it only runs on the amount of power needed for a single dim light bulb. No technology even comes close to doing what the brain can do. The more we learn about biology, the more complex it becomes. This is God's Glory on display.

Very interesting thread…and maddening.

Just this month, during a U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing “Lives at Stake: Holding Tax-Exempt Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) Accountable,” Representative Aaron Bean of Florida displayed a photograph showing boxes of human organs sitting on shelves and wondered why they were not being used for transplants.  Jennifer Erickson, a Senior Fellow of the Federation of American Scientists, explained that OPOs are exploiting a legal loophole in which they receive payment for organs that will never be transplanted. While people donate organs in the belief that they are helping someone in need, the loophole allows OPOs to receive payment for organs that are not destined for transplantation but rather for “research.” Ms. Erickson said that in the case of pancreases, this loophole has led to a dramatic rise in pancreas harvesting. Over 7,000 pancreases have been harvested in the U.S. since 2020 with no corresponding increase in pancreas transplants, and no proof at all that these extra organs were actually being used for research. In fact, a New Jersey OPO threw out a hundred pancreases on a single day after federal agencies started investigating this practice.  When Rep. Bean asked what this means for patients, Ms. Erickson said, “It means that a hundred families in New Jersey, on the worst day of their life because they lost a loved one, a wife or a child to a car accident or some other injury, said yes to organ donation. They were lied to and their loved ones’ organs were cut out and left on shelves to exploit a CMS loophole.” Ms. Erickson also told the Ways and Means subcommittee that OPOs are harvesting kidneys that will never be used for transplantation. She related how an industry insider gave a presentation to other OPOs regarding how to differentiate the financial count on kidneys from the clinical count, essentially showing them how to commit Medicare fraud. She gave testimony from another congressional whistleblower who said that when their OPOs freezers were too full of kidneys, they would take the excess to a nearby hospital and incinerate them. Rep. Bean found this shocking, especially because the largest single payer of OPOs is Medicare, meaning that taxpayers are funding this waste and abuse. “Our report shows that our inspector general found examples of OPOs misusing Medicaid dollars on everything from sporting events, limousines, retreats, five-star retreats, breaking the law on their nonprofit status … this needs to be on the front page of every newspaper and on every newscast that there is waste, fraud, and abuse. And it’s shocking and it’s evil.”

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views. He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult. The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework. Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed. Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference. He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition. This is why elaborative encoding works so well. Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens. His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your behaviour, you have not actually learned it. The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

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Wow

One thing I strenuously object to is this generational indictment of baby boomers who allegedly don’t care about younger generations, don’t care about inflation, don’t care about debt, real estate values, etc. None of that is true. I’ve been fighting excessive spending all my life as a conservative and we haven’t been able to stop it, but that’s not a generational problem. It’s political and those of us, and there are legions of conservative boomers, have been trying all our live to stop it. We should not be blamed, generationally, for the crashing effect of spending on inflation and the debt. Also, the younger generation should understand that we are in an existential battle with hostile, evil countries like Iran and ultimately we are protecting them even more than ourselves because if this lunatic Gi hottest regime gets a nuke that changes everything. This isn’t about selfishness or diverting our resources to some foreign cause or interventionism it is about preserving the United States existentially. Not to mention that the runaway border, lawlessness, spending, inflation, racial tension, social issue chaos and almost every other terrible thing is from Democrats not from boomers. We just make for a convenient scapegoat and that’s just lazy thinking. Our kids after all or younger, so why would we not care about them? I’m not denying that they really believe this way with the help of Groypers who have lied to them, but I have an obligation to push back on some of these things, respectfully

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