For the first time, three of America's most influential cardinals and archbishops agreed to a joint interview, sharing their candid take on war in Iran, immigration, and the future of the Catholic Church. Sunday on 60 Minutes. 60Minutes.com
Thomas Sowell just publicly ENDED Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC : “As I listened to her, I was amazed that there seems to be no factual issue as far as she is concerned. She just pronounces things to be so and that’s the end of it.”
REPOST and amplify his voice!
#thinblueline#lawenforcement
The $40 Million Decision Shaq Walked Away From.
In the 1990s, Shaquille O’Neal had a major endorsement deal with Reebok. His signature shoes sold for well over $100 a pair.
One day after a game, a woman approached him outside the arena and told him his shoes were too expensive for kids in struggling families. That single comment changed everything.
Shaq walked away from a reported $40 million contract extension with Reebok. Instead, he partnered with Walmart to create an affordable sneaker line simply called “Shaq.”
To make sure the shoes still looked and felt premium, he brought in former Reebok designers to help engineer the collection. Priced around $20, the “Shaq” sneakers became a massive success.
To date, more than 400 million pairs have been sold worldwide.
Shaq could have kept cashing huge checks for luxury sneakers. Instead, he chose to make sure every kid who looked up to him could actually afford a pair.
In 1983, 19-year-old Ibrahim Yassin was a cattle farmer with a pregnant wife. When his wife went into labor, an IDF officer named Tzachi Bareket risked everything to help deliver the baby and get them emergency medical care.
Yassin was so shocked at the selflessness of Bareket and so grateful for his care for his wife and new child that he began feeding him information on the PLO, which had recently taken over much of southern Lebanon after being kicked out of Jordan for trying to overthrow the king.
But Hezbollah became suspicious of Yassin. And when a brutal, suicidal and homicidal terror organization like Hezbollah suspects you, brutality you can expect.
Hezbollah arrested Yassin. Hezbollah tortured Yassin. And then, Hezbollah murdered Yassin’s baby.
But a heartbroken Yassin was smart about his revenge. He decided to feign total allegiance to Hezbollah and ended up rising through the ranks to become one of the terror organizations’s most trusted operatives.
But behind the scenes, he had become one of Israel’s deepest moles inside of Hezbollah, and he repeatedly passed on critical intelligence that saved countless Israeli lives.
In 1997, Yassin and his family fled to Israel. Yassin had become so enamored with the Jewish people and the Jewish state that he decided to become a Jew himself. After an intense conversion process, Yassin became “Avraham Sinai.” But his faith was too strong to simply stop at conversion - he studied and became a rabbi in Tzfat.
Rabbi Sinai’s son, Amos, who was also born a Shi’ite Muslim in Lebanon, grew up to become a decorated combat soldier in the IDF’s elite Golani Brigade’s Battalion 51.
Later, Rabbi Sinai was asked to compare the two sides of the Israeli-Lebanese border, and he simply said: “Here it’s heaven. There it’s hell.”
🤬Outrage: A black man who beat a 1-year-old to death was sentenced to probation after Judge Jacqueline Bluth approved the deal.
Mainstream media is silent on black-on-white crime.
If this doesn’t go viral, it’s shameful.
Hold the woke judge accountable?
A. Yes.
B. No.
"One" (1968)
Harry Nilsson wrote this after getting a busy signal and listening to the steady beep, beep on the line.
Three Dog Night later took it to No. 5 in 1969 and made it the version most people know.
Did you know it started with a busy signal?
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"All I Need Is a Miracle" (1985)
Not bad for a side project.
Mike Rutherford, the guitarist and songwriter for Genesis, started this band during breaks, juggling both at the same time.
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BREAKING: Mohseni Ejei, head of Iran's judiciary, has now ordered faster executions of detained protesters in Iran.
This is what happens when you leave the Islamic terror regime in power.
Share this, the mainstream media ignores it.
BREAKING: Mohseni Ejei, head of Iran’s judiciary, orders faster executions of detained protesters in Iran.
No one in the media seems to care, please share if you do!
I read Kristol religiously as a young man. He was a great thinker for our time.
It's a shame his descent has led him to become the political pundant equivalent of the homeless guy with no pants standing in an intersection yelling at all the cars as they pass by.
@Hot_Pepper76 Neil young. Can’t sing and he can’t write like bob dylan can to make up for his crappy voice. Without Crosby, Stills and Nash he’s nothing. Also Neal diamond. Elevator must at best. And Karen Carpenter. Elevator music at its worst.
"December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
This 1975 song flipped the band’s formula:
the drummer took lead vocals, the usual frontman sang only the bridge and harmonies, with the bassist on falsetto.
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In 2-and-a-half minutes, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell touts how Iran "humiliated" Trump by shooting down the planes, decried Hegseth saying "we leave no man behind" because it was not gender inclusive, decries the notion of rescuing 1 airman like that because 120,000 Americans were POWs in WWII, despite not having the capabilities of today, he chides America for not doing the same for those POWs and John McCain in Vietnam, and he commends the North Vietnamese for not killing McCain on sight:
O'DONNELL: ... and they humiliated Donald Trump by proving him wrong, by shooting down his planes, shooting down two of his planes.
The pilot of that plane was rescued within hours of the shootdown. The still unnamed, seriously injured colonel had to hide for 48 hours before the rescue team could find him and save him without losing any other military personnel in that very risky mission.
They did lose two rescue planes worth $100 million each that they had to leave behind in Iran and destroy as they were leaving.
And today at the White House, that brilliant rescue was described by the secretary of defense and by General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a long standing American military rule of never leaving anyone behind.
HEGSETH: We leave no man behind.
O'DONNELL: That is, of course, the old school version of the idea. Back when only men flew American military planes, general Dan Caine, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, put it this way.
CAINE: We leave no one behind.
O'DONNELL: The general knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman they were trying to rescue, and it might be a woman the next time.
But this 21st century notion that we leave no one behind ignores the 120,000 prisoners of war held by German and Japanese forces in World War II for years, who were left behind.
And the idea of using 155 aircraft and hundreds of military personnel on an immediate rescue mission for a single person of any rank, was inconceivable in World War II or in Vietnam, where we left John McCain behind.
John McCain was shot down in the skies over North Vietnam, and at the time, no one tried to rescue him. In fact, he was injured in the crash of his plane in a lake in Hanoi and was helped out of the water by the North Vietnamese people. His plane was there to attack.
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Ok this is legitimately a threat to annihilate an entire people, an obvious and grotesque war crime. There is absolutely no defense of this and it should lead to immediate impeachment and removal.