Paul
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Paul
@PDL2001
Husband & Dad. Attorney. Orchardist. Wanderer & Wonderer.
Illinois Katılım Ağustos 2020
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I’m calling the 1990s. I want these Democrats back.
Today In History@historigins
In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969. This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.
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Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled, "Obama: It was You."
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
* It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques.
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims."
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism.
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
* It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an.
* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.
* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House
* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.
* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
* It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.
* It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.
* It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.
* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.
* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.
* It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal White House religious events.
* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It was you the whole time who ushered in this mess we are in!
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@judisommer1 @SimakowiczAlma @Bonkavision5 @irishspirit59 Saving money by not having to fund their defense?
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@SimakowiczAlma @Bonkavision5 @irishspirit59 I expect far too many don't care or appreciate the consequences.
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Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

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@Bonkavision5 @irishspirit59 My friend was here recently from England.
She asked if Americans were aware of how much the rest of the world hates Trump.
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@FiredUpHVNY @Bonkavision5 @JoeHeatly That’s because we are paying for their defense. That is changing.
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@Bonkavision5 @JoeHeatly I’ve been to many European, UK, and Nordic countries and they are so far ahead of the US in terms of healthcare, education, transportation, and work/quality of life balance it’s pathetic. Not to say they don’t have crime, homelessness, etc but we’re so far behind in so much.
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@stephbjork @PKilfoyle89769 @Bonkavision5 You’re right. It’s stupid to have an alliance with these future Chinese colonies
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@PKilfoyle89769 @Bonkavision5 How did they do that exactly?
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@VoterVetoPower @Bonkavision5 @AnnieKeeghan Speriamo per voi e per l'umanità, ma resta di fatto che in milioni lo hanno votato in passato, per ben due volte..
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@RichardArion1 The Corps should be broadly representative of the country’s demographics.
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20% of West Point are women
This is very very bad
Legal Eagle 🦅@AllThingsCivil
SecDef telling USMA’s Class of 2026, which is comprised of 21% women and 40% minorities, that “diversity is not our strength”
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@markallanbovair Just leave things alone. Try to find something useful to do. Like the save America act
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One winter of getting up 2-3 hours before sunrise and this will be repealed. Zero sunshine is protected with this act.
Rick Scott@SenRickScott
This is excellent news! I look forward to FINALLY passing my Sunshine Protection Act out of the Senate and making this commonsense policy a reality for the American people.
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In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969.
This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.
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@Holden_Culotta Maybe should have gone along with his party and represent his constituents instead of being a jerk
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Tim Dillon on Thomas Massie’s loss: “I don’t know how you run a country where people can just dump $32 million into a race.”
“This guy who’s like, release the Epstein files.”
“Prosecute pedophiles.”
“Get out of foreign wars.”
“He loses to a guy who’s like: let’s cover up the Epstein files.”
“Let’s not prosecute pedophiles.”
“Let’s go to war with your kids.”
“You would think just platform to platform, that’s a tough sell.”
“If you spend enough money, you can just create any reality you want.”
“No one knows who the hell the other guy is.”
“He was just handpicked, came out of nowhere … was like, ‘we gotta get kids back into the military, we gotta get them to Iran now.’”
“You would think that’s probably not a super popular idea.”
“Let’s get your son out of the house and into Iran.”
“You would think that as ideas go, that’s probably a relatively hard sell.”
@TimJDillon
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@RealEJAntoni @RonColeman Or just leave things alone and work on real problems
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We tried permanent Daylight Savings Time in the 70's and it was such a disaster that it was repealed in less than a year - the better choice is to lock the clock on permanent Standard Time:
dailysignal.com/2026/05/21/tim…
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@Idontgive2u Bâtir une vie de couple en prenant de tels engagements financiers différents semble démontrer que votre couple n’a rien d’un couple idéal
D’autant que vos enfants respectifs ont; à un an près le même âge
Je ne conçois pas une vie de couple sans partager TOUS les frais
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Je suis mariée depuis six ans.
J’ai un fils de 17 ans issu d’un premier mariage.
Mon mari, lui, a une fille de 16 ans.
Quand nous avons décidé de vivre ensemble, nous avions posé une règle très claire :
chacun resterait responsable financièrement de son propre enfant pour les dépenses importantes, notamment les études.
Nous avions des situations différentes, des accords différents avec nos ex-conjoints, et cela nous semblait plus simple ainsi.
Depuis que mon fils a 10 ans, j’ai ouvert un livret d’épargne à son nom.
Je suis infirmière.
J’ai fait des gardes, des nuits, des heures supplémentaires pendant des années.
À chaque prime, à chaque majoration, je mettais un peu de côté.
Ce n’était pas facile.
Mais je voulais qu’un jour, mon fils puisse choisir ses études sans avoir à renoncer à cause de l’argent.
Aujourd’hui, cette épargne couvre presque entièrement ses frais d’études supérieures.
Il y a deux mois, il a été accepté dans l’établissement qu’il rêvait d’intégrer.
On a pleuré ensemble en lisant la réponse.
J’ai eu l’impression que toutes ces années de fatigue et de sacrifices avaient enfin un sens.
Une semaine plus tard, mon mari m’a demandé qu’on parle sérieusement.
Sa fille souhaite entrer dans un établissement privé.
Elle n’a pas été acceptée dans la filière publique qu’elle espérait.
Les frais sont élevés.
Et lui n’a pas les économies nécessaires.
Son ex-femme non plus.
Il m’a alors proposé ce qu’il a appelé une “solution familiale” :
prendre une partie de l’épargne de mon fils pour financer les études de sa fille.
Je suis restée silencieuse.
Honnêtement, au début, j’ai cru qu’il plaisantait.
Je lui ai rappelé que cet argent n’appartenait pas au couple.
Que je l’avais économisé pendant dix ans pour mon fils.
Et que dès le départ, il savait parfaitement que cet argent n’était pas destiné à être partagé.
Mais il m’a répondu que maintenant, nous étions une famille.
Qu’il ne devait plus y avoir “mon fils” et “sa fille”.
Puis il m’a dit quelque chose qui m’a profondément blessée :
“Si tu aimais vraiment ma fille, tu ferais un effort.”
La discussion est devenue tendue.
Je lui ai rappelé que je ne lui avais jamais demandé un centime pour constituer l’épargne de mon fils.
Que je n’avais empêché personne d’anticiper ou d’économiser.
Et que protéger ce que j’avais construit pendant des années ne faisait pas de moi une mauvaise personne.
Sa fille a entendu une partie de la dispute.
Depuis, elle est froide avec moi.
Elle m’a dit qu’elle avait toujours eu l’impression que je privilégiais mon fils.
Qu’elle ne comprenait pas pourquoi je ne pouvais pas “donner un peu” pour que ce soit équitable.
Mais dans cette histoire, je n’enlève rien à personne.
Je protège simplement l’avenir de mon enfant.
Mon mari me répète que le mariage implique des sacrifices.
Je lui ai répondu qu’un sacrifice ne devrait jamais se faire sur le dos d’un enfant qui n’est responsable ni des choix des adultes, ni du manque d’anticipation des autres.
Depuis une semaine, nous dormons dans des chambres séparées.
Pas parce que nous nous détestons.
Mais parce que je sais qu’en cédant aujourd’hui, j’enverrais à mon fils le message que ses efforts — et les miens — peuvent disparaître dès qu’une pression affective apparaît.
Et honnêtement…
je ne sais plus si je suis une femme égoïste…
ou simplement une mère qui protège ce qu’elle a construit pour son enfant.
Vous en pensez quoi ?
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@Nosty_57 @Idontgive2u Doesn’t mean you break a deal set up long ago because dad didn’t fund his daughter’s account.
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@Idontgive2u Mon père et ma mère c'était le cas chacun deux avait un enfant (mon demi frère et demi-soeur) en grand jamais il y avait des traitements de faveur car c'était pas son sang
Ça toujours était 50/50 pour tout le monde
Certe c'est pas ton enfant mais tu dois l'aimer comme une mère
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@Jim_My_13 @Idontgive2u No. The question is that she funded hers and he didn’t fund his. Too bad.
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@Idontgive2u La vraie question c'est est ce que toute ces années vous partagiez tout les frais communs a équitablement et est ce que lui avait autant de moyens que vous pour économiser. Si c'est le cas vous avez 200% raison si c'est non alors avoir dans quel proportion 🤷
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