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@RoyalFamily If Carlsberg did Easter 🐣

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From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

Lord 🙏🏼 protect our missing pilot from the evil forces of darkness. Strengthen his spirit and courage so that he may rise to the challenge to find his way home to us. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

There’s a mom at our school drop-off. Messy bun, always three minutes late, kids usually eating dry cereal out of a Ziploc. The "Pinterest moms" always whispered about her. I honestly felt a little bad for her. Then one day at the playground, my neurodivergent son had a massive, violent sensory meltdown. I’m sitting in the dirt, crying, totally paralyzed. The "perfect" moms just stared and pulled their kids away. Suddenly, she’s there. The messy mom. She drops her giant bag, sits right in the dirt next to us, pulls a heavy sensory toy out of her purse, and calmly shields my son from the crowd. No panic. No judgment. He regulated in three minutes. I was speechless. We had coffee after. She told me her house is a disaster and she has severe ADHD, but she knows exactly what a nervous system collapse looks like. I asked her how she deals with the judgmental stares from the other moms. She took a sip of her cold coffee and said: "Perfect moms know how to bake organic muffins. Chaotic moms know how to survive the trenches." Every time I see her running late now, I just smile. Girls, be like the messy mom. Stop apologizing for your chaos.

@swn_koike Outstanding! 👏

わーい、できたよー！ SWALLOWTAIL SHAWL 140×59cm 44g 2/14ウールアルパカ混工業糸

@BostonRob Congratulaions, beautiful work! 👏👍🏻🙌🎉

Please help me congratulate my #LuciaRose Out of over 200 students she was One out of only fourteen selected by her teachers to be recognized and receive the academic achievement award for her outstanding work on her capstone project. I’m so very proud of you. #LuciaRose.

チョコレートポップコーンの作り方

@atelier_AMOR Thank you.

@MarionEdD 作品を見せてくれてありがとう！ 素敵なモール糸で、編みぐるみにピッタリ。 可愛くて抱きしめたくなる編みぐるみですね。 私はたまにかぎ針編みで編みぐるみをつくります。SNSには報告しないけど。

全ての反応を確認しました。 時間をかけて一つずつ返事をします。 ゆっくり待っていて。 1つ宣伝したいことがある。 日本の新宿には大きな手芸店がある。 日本の優れた毛糸メーカーの糸が勢揃いしていてニッターにとって幸せな場所です。 円安だから毛糸を買いに来て🩷 okadaya.co.jp/okadaya_blog/s…

@mamama060607 Looks delicious. Beautiful. 🍓

かわいい ちょっとフリフリめな服のとき持ってっちゃおうかな

@atelier_AMOR Thank you, I was wondering about that

日本語の編み物(amimono)という言葉は棒針編み、クロッシェ編み、アフガン編みなどを広く含んでいる。

@urart81 Beautiful yarn, beautiful process.

めちゃんこ可愛い毛糸を先日入手したので 巾着バッグ作るど〜！！！！！！！！！！ 久しぶりの編み物楽しむぞ( ੭•͈ω•͈)੭

SHOCKING: 100’s of thousands of Ethiopian Christians gather in an unapologetic explosion of faith. While the godless West dies in atheism, Ethiopia rises as an UNSTOPPABLE force for Christianity.

@amiko60amiko Beautiful craftsmanship💕!

アラカンだって可愛い方が好き❤️

Nemophila Harmony is a flower event in Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan About 5 million baby blue-eyes flowers (nemophilas) bloom

He found the strawberry garden 📹myadorabletortoises

This is “fast food” in Italy

@FitFusion__ Very nice 💕🧶

soft cream** Easy and flashy crochet pattern

Wax printing process, indigo dyeing

@KTHopkins Just because they make them doesn't mean we have to buy them

Barrel jeans were designed by an evil bastard who never wants women to have sex ever again.