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@jamesahnis @rawsmedia You have a Constitutional right to *peaceably* assemble/protest. You don't have the right to violate law/commit crimes while assembling. Civil disobedience still means you are violating law, and you should expect to be arrested. You don't have the right to resist lawful arrest

@ZSabol @ATRightMovies Every time. 😥

What movie scene never fails to make you cry?

@ATRightMovies Michael: It's Mine? Leigh Ann: Yessir. [pause] What? Michael: Never had one before. Leigh Ann: What, a room to yourself? Michael: A bed.

@KDPomp @RivetersSC That's gr..., oh, fireworks! Hon, there's fireworks dahntahn.

5-0 opening night win for @RivetersSC followed by firework’s 🎇🎇🎆🎆

@OGSAWB @MattBraynard Oh, I got what you meant. I was shouting a compliment to all the Boomers out there who took the time and cash to make our childhood special. 🍻 (Neither am I always articulate 😂)

@TreePointer @MattBraynard 💯 Mad respect indeed. (I’m not always articulate)

We're so back. An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

@OGSAWB @MattBraynard Boomers took us to Pizza Hut and shelled out their $$ for our birthday parties. Respect!

@MattBraynard I’m down. The hottest. 📢70s, 80s, 90s babies, we’re back. (Shoot, Boomers get an invite as well. After all where would we be without y’all?) 🇺🇸❤️

@AmericanDad1966 @lucyshow11 @KathleenWinche3 Yep, that was my first thought.

@lucyshow11 @KathleenWinche3 Missing one:

Throwback Thursday to some of the most beautiful female singers of the 80s! Who’s your favorite? 🔥

@lucyshow11 Oops, you forgot: Sheena Easton, Vanessa Williams

@KathleenWinche3 Yep. Woolworths, GC Murphy, K-Mart, and more! Many department stores (Macy's and the like) had them, too.

I went there all the time growing up!! Do you remember doing to Woolworths lunch counter?

@Rainmaker1973 Well done, Officer Rogers!

A Ring doorbell video shows a Chattanooga police officer kicking the door and rushing into a burning building to save a mother and her two children. Rachel Blaylock can be heard screaming “There’s a fire!” as flames spread. She says Officer Eli Rogers didn’t hesitate.

@Mrgunsngear It's too bad there wasn't a sturdy metal box around as a rest for shot stabilization and a little cover.

Shooting footage from Boston last night. -the laser shows just how terrible the shooters trigger control is -the guy hit appears to have been shot by his friend, oh well According to the neighbors, the house is suspected to be an illegal drug distribution point. Avoid democrat ran cities accordingly... #CityLife #boston #mattapan #crime #decay #beantown #FAFO #urban #democrats

@timecaptales I miss that Burt Reynolds laugh.

Johnny Carson stopping the show to make fun of Burt Reynolds’ swagger (1978)

@Hoang_HQ Also acceptable = "Eastbound and Down" youtube.com/watch?v=9G0ro0…

Very very nice machine🚘Cool angels!!! King of music!!!🙌

@chrishume_ John Adams (TV miniseries, 2008)

Must watch American movies before the 250th: The Patriot Saving Private Ryan Remember the Titans Top Gun Independence Day American Sniper Lone Survivor Ford v Ferrari Miracle What did i miss?

@chrishume_ 1776 (the musical)

@ThePoniExpress The pitcher knew, immediately.

110 mph. 410 feet. Konnor Griffin is a future 30/30 guy. Maybe 40/40. And honestly 50/50 is not out of the question.

@lucyshow11 My grandmother once sent me, as an 8-year-old, down the street to buy a couple packs of cigarettes for the men painting her house. I returned with the smokes and a quart sized glass bottle of root beer for me and my little brother. Mission accomplished. No questions asked.

For a pack of cigarettes and change for a gumball 😅

@TimeSlipN @LloydLegalist Holy moly, that door is a beast!

@TreePointer @LloydLegalist I see your 1976 Buick Regal doors and I raise you a 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V doors. These were even longer and as a kid back then, it was almost impossible to open sitting in the passenger seat without an adult on the outside helping. 🤣

This door weighed more than the entire car you're driving now.

@GigaBasedDad History repeating: Europe was "broken" by their wars in the 15th Century when they could have come to the aid of Constantinople in 1453. Oh what might have been.

The two World Wars broke Europe

@AncientHistorry In Lord Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte," the poet contrasts Napoleon's downfall with the greatness of Washington's noble humility. The final stanza:

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field. His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family. When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message. The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit. He accepted. Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved. He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control. Instead, he resigned on day 16. He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done. Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days. He died poor. On his farm. 2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power. King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble. The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die. Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him. Most people who live there have no idea why.