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If you are a wage earner, small investor, small business or even a retiree, the GAME of taxation is stacked against you. See comment for details.
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Today is #WorldKindnessDay. Let’s think about the things we should say to people more often, and be the change we wish for in the world! #StarfishClub
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The fire service has an incredible ability to take the most competent person in the room and put them under the supervision of the least competent person in the department.
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Today we remember the 29 men lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975.
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The judiciary can be checked and balanced just like any other branch.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to get a radical leftist judge IMPEACHED after she RELEASED a known predator who went on to kill an innocent 5-year-old girl
YES!! Start a nationwide trend! 🔥
DeSantis is petitioning the State Legislature to impeach Judge Tiffany Baker: “Until you start holding these judges ACCOUNTABLE, they are going to continue to find ways to benefit the criminal element!”
“This was an outrage. This was such an easy call to make sure that this guy was put behind bars, and this judge refused to do it!”
IMPEACH HER, and start impeaching nationwide 🇺🇸
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING
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🚨 WOW! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just dropped this truth nuke: "You take all the debt Florida's accumulated in its history, I've paid off 54% of it just in my tenure as governor!"
"We've reduced our budget 4 YEARS in a row! Inflation has been happening, population's been growing, our budget's LESS *TODAY* than it was four years ago"
"The size of government in Florida is SMALLER today than the day I took office."
"We have the smallest government per capita of any state in the United States."
"And what has that led to? More economic growth than any state this decade during my tenure as governor."
Florida is CRUSHING IT and thankfully held the line on Tuesday ☀️
Sadly, Texas is about to go the opposite direction. They voted blue, and they will slowly begin looking more like California unless things change there, FAST
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A woman was desperately trying to climb out of a white van when the driver grabbed her and shoved her back inside.
A passing motorist named Jay Bostic had stopped nearby, thinking someone needed roadside assistance. But when he saw the woman fighting to escape, he knew something was terribly wrong.
Jay called 911 and tried to block the van with his vehicle, but the driver swerved around him and sped off.
He followed the van through Brookside, Alabama, giving dispatchers their location. When the driver turned into a church parking lot, Jay saw his chance.
He positioned his vehicle across the exit, but the driver accelerated straight into him, rammed his vehicle, and escaped again.
Jay continued helping police track the van until officers caught up. But the suspect rammed a police vehicle and fled again before eventually barricading himself inside with the woman at knifepoint.
For more than 35 minutes, officers negotiated as the terrified woman cried for help.
Finally, tactical officers forced their way inside, overpowered the suspect, and pulled her to safety.
Police later believed she might not have survived without Jay’s intervention. With the van’s windows covered and doors chained from the inside, she could have disappeared without anyone knowing what happened.
When Jay was asked why he stepped in, he simply said, “I’ve got ladies in my life. This is what God wants us to do.”
Jay risked his own life for a complete strangers. Now that’s the type of man I want the Internet talking about.
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Evacuation Procedures
Firegrounds can be dangerous and conditions can rapidly change, endangering everyone inside the structure. Firefighters must clearly understand their department’s policy on evacuations and be capable of following instructions. Some departments will use an audible sound such as sounding the airhorns on the apparatus at the scene. While this works well on smaller structures, larger buildings may prove difficult or impossible to hear the horns. With the advent of portable radios in the hands of every firefighter, Incident Commanders can order the communications section to sound an alert tone and order an evacuation. Some departments will also use specific words for the type of evacuation – Abandon the building to quickly exit the structure, withdraw which means to take all your equipment and exit the building and evacuation for a company that is exiting the building with a civilian. A personal accountability report must be done to ensure that everyone has left the building and is safe.
“With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.” Genesis 19:15 NIV
Genesis 19 is a true Biblical account of the time God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. God dispatched two angels to evacuate Lot, Abraham’s nephew, and his family from Sodom. This was a real, rapidly changing life-threatening situation that could have easily destroyed this family. Like a fire department evacuation, this family was alerted to the danger by the angels and had to listen to specific instructions for survival. Firefighters must understand their evacuation policy and follow that policy without delay. Any delay on Lot’s part would mean certain death – the angel had to grab Lot’s arm to hurry him out of the city (verse 16). Like abandoning the building, lot had to abandon everything in Sodom and go to a safe location.
It is mission-critical that today’s firefighters and first responders obey Biblical truth. Before the end of this shift evaluate your life and identify one Biblical principle you need to obey and pray for God’s wisdom to change.
For further study read Genesis 19:1-29
Lord thank you for loving your people and providing a way to escape the trials of life (I Corinthians 10:13).
Encouragement – Should be a standard operating guideline!!
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Grok Bot made me a list of all the places you can get a meal for Veterans Day.
Here is a copy for you. Thank you for your service.
Full list in the post below.
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I’m grateful for the leaders who have mentored me to know when it’s time to sprint and when it’s time to jog. One thing that I’ve learned over the years:
There is no such thing as “Work-Life Balance.”
There is only work-life prioritization.
Work and your home life weigh a different amount depending on the day. They can never be perfectly in balance when placed on a scale, so you have to choose which one means more each day. Spend too much time on one, and the other fails.
I wish I could say that I’m a master at prioritizing the correct one at the right time. Like most people, that isn’t true.
What I have found that works though, is planning my career in a way that affords me the opportunity to fill both cups.
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Now THIS is QUITE INTERESTING!!! 👇🏽
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has introduced by Meloni to stop riots in Italy has stunned all of Europe.
To rein in violent protests carried out in the name of students, she brought a firm blueprint called "The Anti-Riot Doctrine."
Meloni said one thing plainly:
"If you take to the streets and spread chaos, we will empty your parents' bank accounts!"
Anyone involved in violent protests will face 5 years in prison and a fine of 20,000 euros (roughly ₹18 lakh).
She understood that masked rioters with foreign funding cannot be stopped by tear gas alone. She decided to eliminate the logistics and financial support behind them.
When she began imposing heavy fines on the rioters' parents and deployed 500 military personnel in the city of Milan, suddenly no one could figure out where all those young activists seen on the streets had vanished, or which caves they had gone to hide in!
When the financial and legal loopholes available in the name of protest were shut down, the truth about those putting on a drama in the name of revolution came out.
In my opinion... this exact model should be implemented in other nations too!
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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All Saints' Day is a Christian holy day celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Christian Church. In the 9th century, the Catholic Church set the date of November 1 for the commemoration of all saints. All Saints' Day is a solemnity in Catholicism and a festival in Lutheranism. ✝️
