Todd Robinson

@feldonthecat Praying, brother.

I know I'm asking again. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated. My wife started Chemo today. She came home with a machine that keeps the treatment at a low level for 48 hours. After a 4 hour treatment at the clinic. They are still waiting on the biomarkers to see if she can di immunotherapy. She wasnhkme for and hour and had the ambulance come and get her. I wasn't home. She's in the neurological floor right now at the hospital. She's had a stroke. TY if you can. Dammit. Cancer sucks.

@PieterVand37940 Welcome to America. I wish you all the best. Glad you're here.

Finally something we agree on, South Africans are not Americans. The moment I set foot on American soil I denounced my South African citizenship and I became a proud Amerikaner. 🫡 Take note of the flag I fly, it is not a South African flag, nor a Palestinian flag or a Somali flag. 🚨 America is my country now.

My family has been here since the late 17th century building this country and fighting in just about every war. And this gentleman is EXACTLY the type of immigrant that has made American great. I am happy to welcome Pieter here. What don't you like about him? The fact that he is assimilating? The fact that he is contributing economically to our economy? The fact that his kids and grandkids will grow up to be thankful and proud to be Americans? What is your major objection here?

@PieterVand37940 Afrikaans is his language and Cyrus Ramphosa is his President South Africans are not Americans and never will be.

Craig, I tweet in English out of respect for my American family. You are welcome to use the translator if you wish to. 😉

@Emilysk1a @ajcrute @Strangeland_Elf I agree 100%. My wife and I vary between eating carnivore and ketovore generally. I get it.

@ToddRobinson314 @ajcrute @Strangeland_Elf While "no exceptions" might be a stretch, there’s no denying how pervasive added sugar is in the US food supplyit’s a serious, systemic problem

The best apples to eat with peanut butter are Granny Smith because the sourness pairs well with the sweetness of peanut butter.

Well, once you roll out the ad hominem you've surrendered the argument on merit. This guy may very well be all you say he is...but a family suffering a tragic loss is never something to take lightly. And I'm a pretty big "justice over mercy" guy myself, which means I have to guard myself from becoming so jaded and callous that I start to lose my humanity as I recognize that mercy is what has saved me. It was a tough thing with what I saw on patrol in LA but you still have to fight it. It's just sad. Sad for his wife who lost a son. Sad for his kids who lost a sibling. And sad for this guy regardless of his sin/errors/foibles/personality/whatever. Logically you certainly can separate your hatred of a man from your hatred of his whole family, can't you? If you cannot, your moral compass is just broken. "Fat Boy Todd"....you know, that has a certain panache to it...

@ToddRobinson314 @PDavidCMcGuire @pastorlocke You don’t get to try and talk down to anyone fat boy Locke is a POS and karma never forgets an address. Maybe look up the person you’re ballwashing on here first next time

Today, words fail us. It’s been a long, hard battle the last few years. In times like this, the sacrifices and the struggles don’t even matter. A few hours ago we received the most earth-shattering news that our 20 year old son, Evan Roberts Locke, could not be revived after his heart stopped due to an overdose. His struggle was very public. It was used as a warning to many, a punchline to the haters but an overall reminder that even in our deepest pain, the grace of Jesus will sustain us. I’ll address the church family with arrangement details this Sunday. Please respect our privacy. He has 5 heartbroken siblings and a world of people that helped him along his journey.

@Emilysk1a @ajcrute @Strangeland_Elf "no exceptions" is perhaps hyperbolic, but it IS a pernicious and prevalent issue to be sure.

@ToddRobinson314 @ajcrute @Strangeland_Elf US food = added sugar. No exceptions

@ajcrute @Strangeland_Elf Alex, just about everything in the USA has added sugar (or high fructose corn syrup). Peanut butter, ketchup, tomato sauce, you name it.

@Strangeland_Elf What do you mean the sweetness of the peanut butter

I don't have to know either party in a controversy to speak up when someone is showing themself to be a terrible example of what we as Christians are supposed to be. Dislike this pastor all you want, but have the charity and restraint not to be so gleeful to see your enemy kicked when they're down. How is this a difficult concept for you to wrap your head around?

@ToddRobinson314 @PDavidCMcGuire @pastorlocke You don’t know him yet you’re gonna make comments That happen often with you?

Are you illiterate? The first line of my post stated I don't know this pastor. Hadn't heard of him until his post popped up on my feed. And again...if you believe it's all good to behave in this manner to someone grieving a dead son, that really doesn't speak well of the condition of your heart.

@ToddRobinson314 @PDavidCMcGuire @pastorlocke I hope you don’t continue to blindly follow hypocritical pieces of shit like Greg Locke grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

@Q_A_Wagstaff @PDavidCMcGuire @pastorlocke Ah, got it. So it's fine to pile on during someone grieving a dead son since they're a bad person. I think my Bible left that part out. Thanks for the clarity.

@ToddRobinson314 @PDavidCMcGuire @pastorlocke This is the type of person greg is. Twice claimed vandalism at that circus tent church of his. Same red paint, same handwriting both times. Said he had security video & photo evidence of the perpetrator both times. None of it ever surfaced, no arrest. Inside job for attention.

You'll be fine. My first (late) wife was an amateur fitness competitor before our first pregnancy. Gained about 45lbs. Baby was 9lbs 9oz. She dropped 90% of the extra weight in about 7-8 months and the rest in the following year. Focus on being healthy for yourself and your baby, keep up your fitness after you get through the first crazy weeks (where time loses all meaning briefly), and you'll do fine.

My biggest fear is gaining too much weight when I’m pregnant I constantly see women saying they exercised multiple days a week and ate healthy and still gained 50+ lbs and it terrifies me Maybe that’s just vanity idk

I don't know this pastor, and I don't know you. But that was a shitty thing to to say to someone raw and grieving. Thanks for making all us followers of Jesus look like scumbags. Yeah, you're really doing kingdom work here. WTAF. "Said what needed to be said"... What a crock of shit. You said what makes you look good in your own eyes on social media. I hope you get your heart right with God, brother.

@pastorlocke I pray this will be the catalyst to wake you up and have you on your knees before God, repenting. Please, Greg, don't let your son's death be in vain.

As a sportbike rider, I used to say that 10% of people on fast motorcycles gave the other 90% of us a bad image and harmed public tolerance for motorcyclists. Now it's more like 70/30. The same slide has been true in science for decades. The scientific community (and I use the term loosely) has done more self-inflicted harm since the 1970's than the damage 100 people like Alex Jones have done to you all. You had this coming, and if you didn't see it coming then either your eyes were shut, you're living in an absolute echo chamber of academia, or worse yet you are one of the perpetrators. When science becomes politicized, politics wins. EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

That's funny. Thanks for the chuckle. My first (late) wife was always encouraging me to go out and do things I enjoy with my buddies, since I'd be so tired after consecutive 80-90 hour weeks on patrol (and always being in court on my days off) that I just wanted to be home with her and my kids when I got a few days off in a row. During a hiring freeze (LA County) in the early 90's I did a full year with no days off. Great money with 50+ hrs/week in OT, but it wasn't worth the toll on my body even as a young guy. When I remarried a couple years after being widowed, I found a woman who shares my hobbies (sportbikes and heavy resistance training) and that's really awesome. So my wife AND my buddies and I all hit the gym and go ride.

My Buddy decided to marry his long-time girlfriend. One evening, about a month after the honeymoon, he was out in the garage cleaning and straightening his golf clubs and bag, taking imaginary swings, and thinking about shots made and missed. His new Bride quietly appeared at the garage door, watched her new Husband as he was in his element and tinkering for a bit, and then offered, “You know, Honey, I've been thinking, now that we're married, maybe it's time for you to quit golfing. You spend so much time on the golf course every weekend. I’m sure you could sell your clubs and all of this equipment for a really great price. What do you think?” He got a horrified look on his flushed face. His wife said, “Darling, what's wrong?” He shook his head, looked her straight in the face, and said, “For a minute there, you sounded like my ex-wife.” “Ex-wife!” she screamed, “I didn't know you were married before!” He gave her a pointed look and quickly remarked, “I wasn't!”

Yes, capitalism is the absolute worst economic model in the history of the world...EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHERS. Something can have inherent flaws and still be the best iteration of that thing globally. Think of mercantilism...which had an abundance of flaws (think England, France, Spain, & Portugal in the 16th through 18th centuries). Even with all of the problems, it was quite probably the 2nd best system the world has ever seen compared to all the rest. Socialism/communism DOES works on the micro level (which is why it SEEMS to well-intentioned folks that it SHOULD work on a national level). A nuclear or extended family would be a good example of each giving from their ability and taking according to need. Functioning communal communities would include a very tiny remote agrarian community, Israeli Kibbutzim, Amish groups, Hutterite colonies, monastic orders, etc., where everyone pulls together and if you fail to contribute adequately you get expelled. But anything beyond this very small CLOSED system and it breaks down completely. To have a functional commune, you MUST have certain factors present as underpinning social order rules like: 1) High trust 2) Small enough to know enough of the others to have no more than 1 degree of separation (i.e. "someone I trust vouches for this guy so we'll trust him). It breaks down at even 2 degrees, like when you start to make copies of copies. This is also (coincidentally) where most criminal organizations falter and get caught. 3) Culturally homogeneous (cultural friction quickly breaks down #1 above). Note that I didn't say race or ethnicity...it's culture. 4) Social enforcement (recognition of high contributors, shaming of those who take advantage) 5) Voluntary participation (or semi-voluntary for those born into it who choose to remain) 6) Consequences for freeloading (i.e. expulsion) You can see how anything beyond a VERY small community has a real challenge with the above criteria (and this isn't just my opinion...this is what historically it requires to make communal living work).

Capitalism makes quitting your job feel like risking your life, because it ties your basic survival needs to staying employed. This system is predatory.

What an absolutely awful and indefensible thing to post in a reply to a woman pouring out grief. I'm even a fellow Christ follower and I find your behavior repugnant. You are doing a bang up job reinforcing the stereotype that all Christians are smug a**holes. Perhaps you can start spending your free time roaming the halls at hospice centers reminding the families of recently deceased people that their unsaved loved ones are going to burn in hell. Perhaps the Westboro Baptist folks are recruiting...you'd enjoy that I'm sure. FFS dude have some class...what is wrong with you?

@OneFlawedMortal The horror isn't that he died. The horror is he was an atheist and now he knows what an all-consuming fire for eternity is. 🤷🏾

This is my friend Steve. Steve and I met at a terrible, mostly empty dive bar. I had too many shots of Jameson, and I was trying to learn the Electric Slide. He was one of three other people there that night. I roped him into learning the Electric Slide, too. In the two decades since, we became good friends. He came to visit when I lived in Chicago. He supported me through my two marriages, the deaths of my parents, and the death of my first baby. He was one of my first customers at the restaurant, and he was always willing to lend a hand when needed. Steve was a sweet man. He was a kind man. He was utterly brilliant and a pioneer in his field. He was absolutely hilarious. A quicker wit you've never seen. And, when his hair was down, he looked just like The Big Lebowski, which was also hilarious. Steve was a university professor, a whisky lover, an atheist, a progressive, a nerd, and an all-around great guy. He hasn’t stopped in at my restaurant for a while now, which was part of his daily routine. I figured his teaching schedule didn’t align with our hours this semester, and I’ve been a bit busy with the restaurant, the house, and motherhood. We'd had gaps in communication off and on over the last twenty years, and we always picked right up where we left off. I just figured this was one of those things. You cannot possibly imagine my surprise when his ex-girlfriend texted me, “Hey, how did Steve die?” I stared at my phone in disbelief. “WHAT???? What are you talking about??” When my husband arrived home from work, we got in the car and drove over to Steve’s house. I was nauseous the whole way there. I didn’t want to believe it. I couldn’t make sense of it. How could he be dead? He wasn’t even 60-years-old yet. Something must've happened. And then we saw it: The remains of the devastating housefire in which Steve lost his life. We parked in his driveway and got out of the car. We walked around the burned house, a cold wind biting my cheeks. Charred rafters, blown out windows, burned furniture... the plastic patio table melted into the front porch. The kitchen table where Steve and I shared many a cup of coffee…gone. The couch where his mother and I used to flip through scrapbooks…gone. His library, his computer studio, his whisky bar, all gone. My husband and I rode back home in silence, burdened by the horror of what we saw. If you live life with an open heart, you will find friends in the most unusual of places, the most hilarious of circumstances, and in the most unexpected people. Steve was that for me. When you make those friends, love them. Cherish your friends and show up for them, whether you live 10 miles down the road or on the other side of the country. Everybody should go through life with a true friend, and if you're lucky, you get to be that true friend for someone else. If you're the praying sort, please pray for Steve's repose.

Your books sound like a fantastic tool for young readers. I get where you're headed with this assertion, and I concur that a label, devoid of proper context, can be damaging. We made a point with our children (classical method homeschooling) if we were pointing out an area needing attention, to liken it to a concrete concept they understood. One girl was a faster runner, one was stronger, one danced better, one had better footwork and ball control (soccer),etc. When put in the context of "You're strongest in area X and area Y, and we're going to give you help in area Z so you feel good about all your abilitiesq and not just your best ones" even young kids can understand they may not be a strong reader which is why you are giving them extra help. If a parent helps a child develop this mental framework, they're less likely to feel the sting if someone outside the family mentions they're "behind" their peers in reading.

A child who is told they're "behind" in reading carries that label long after they've caught up. The system labels easily. It un-labels almost never. We should be very careful about who we tell isn't a reader. Share this with anyone who works with children and books.

@PatsKam Brownies with nuts are an abomination. I will die on that hill.

Y’all don’t hate me for this take, but I don’t think nuts belong in brownies.

This is part of becoming an adult. It won't be the last time she gets locked out of somewhere, and it's of no utility blaming the roomie. I was once showing off my new Trans Am to my GF (later wife) in front of her college dorm and I went around and opened the door to let her out. She, being security conscious hit the door lock as a natural habit when we're going somewhere, and got out. Took me and two friends an hour with coat hangers to get the car unlocked because I was NOT going to call my parents or pay a tow truck to slim Jim it. Lessons learned this way are lessons internalized.

Parents, I need real opinions on this because I’m genuinely torn. Imagine your daughter is away at college, living in a shared dorm. One day she steps out of her room and accidentally leaves her key inside. It happens. She’s not being reckless, just human. While she’s out, her roommate comes back, drops her things off, and then leaves again… but locks the door behind her. Now your daughter is stuck outside, locked out of her own room, probably stressed, maybe embarrassed, trying to figure out what to do next. So here’s the question, who do you even get upset with in that situation? On one hand, your daughter forgot her key. That’s on her. It’s one of those small mistakes that turns into a big inconvenience, and part of growing up is learning to double-check things like that. But on the other hand, the roommate knew it was a shared space. Would it have hurt to at least check if…

Good grief, sir. Most Brits can't be bothered to drive 2-3 hours to see family often because "it's so far", but we'll drive two hours (each way) for our kids sports league games, or a special date night. We think NOTHING of hopping in a car to run to the corner shops. We want SPACE. You have to realize the land area difference here. YOU could drive from Plymouth on the south coast to York in the north and that's about the same distance we drive to see pro sports or see concerts. And we'll do that in a turnaround trip AND make it a fun road trip. It's just different here. In fact, you could drive from Paris through Germany to eastern Austria and STILL barely equal the width Texas. Y'all just don't get it. It's OK though...you do you. We'll do us.

American suburbs are incredibly stupid. Can't even walk to a local grocery store.