A few years ago, I made a post expressing pride in the success of many of the students from my first teaching position in a small rural school in southern Indiana. I think I said something about being humbled to have been (maybe) a small part of their success.
I got a really nice note from one of those students who shared a story about something he learned from me that has influenced his life lessons in management. He is now a Senior VP at General Motors.
He posted pics from celebrating the Cadillac racecar … and also the Cadillac Beast, which took a couple laps. I’m including a video (not from him) that shows the lap. Part is boring, but you can hear crowd noise, see two flyovers and how the racecars lined up behind The Beast (and the SS entourage, of course).
Solo/Ensemble season is here. Vocal is local and starts tomorrow. Instrumental for local musicians starts next Saturday. If you get District GOLD, you qualify for STATE.
Every participant is a winner. What other activity (maybe shooting free throws in a ball game) requires someone to stand in front of a person with the job of (usually) finding their every mistake?
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What is this fascination with calling politicians Fascist or Hitler? I find it grossly sickening, personally offensive to the extreme, and worthy of an immediate block of anyone I know who states that on my page. Oppose the candidate….that is fair. Criticize some of the things he has done. That is fair. I have too.
But this Hitler stuff has gotta stop — before somebody really DOES get killed.
Hitler is reported to have killed 11 to 17 MILLION people (NOT including the 20 million that the U.S.S.R. lost via his invasion), including approximately 6 million Jewish people in medical experiments (like tying together women’s legs as they are about to give birth), shootings, hangings, decapitations, mass poisonings, forcing mothers to choose between multiple children, starving, work camps and burning in ovens. How many died in boxcars en route to extermination camps? Do we have any extermination camps like that?
How many people has the current candidate killed? Compare that to the many stories of former workers or critics of former presidents who mysteriously suicided or otherwise accidentally died or disappeared.
Hitler imprisoned/killed”Gypsies” (Roma and Sinti), Homosexuals, people with mental and physical disabilities (my polio-inflicted mother would have been in that group), some religious groups, political opponents (wait! Who is doing that?), and black people living in Germany. Compare what he sanctioned in the ghettos of Warsaw with any of the genuine injustices in this country. Think Anne Frank and what she went through hiding in an attic for years before succumbing to disease in a Nazi death camp — along with her sister and mother.
He established the Einsatzgruppen, which were tasked with carrying out mass killings. They massacred entire villages with machine gunning and even filled village churches with women and children and then setting them ablaze. Did anything comparable happen when the current candidate was actually the POTUS?
Fascist Hitler executed over 80 of his own generals (that is worse than firing or being on the receiving end of a “mean tweet”, btw). Remember Field Marshall Rommel, his incredibly successful “Desert Fox” commander? Because he eventually recognized the evil, Hitler sent executioners to his home and offered him the choice of suicide by poison or public humiliation and trials. He did get a fake hero burial and his family was taken care of… because that helped the Hitler image.
He refused to recognize the accomplishments of non-Germans, and especially black Americans who won medals in the Berlin Olympics.
Is this the man desperatos are comparing to a presidential candidate?
Imagine Hitler serving fries at McDonald’s. Photo opp that it was, just visualize THAT comparison.
Showed up on my Igram today. She was a teacher, a Christian, fired by her district…..but in the end, she won. Teachers should listen. PARENTS…. listen to her tell of direct instruction to lie to parents. Scary.
California’s Jurupa Unified School District has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit after public school teacher Jessica Tapia claimed the district violated her First Amendment rights when it fired her for not adhering to gender-affirming school policies. May 20, 2024
I’m not saying a thing about POLITICS. I’m just talking about some local observations and ending with a quote from the CEO of Kroger. Some say it is greed. Others claim politics. I don’t care so long as someone can make it stop.
Recently, I was criticised for posting price changes that were higher than the “averages”….. Some I included, from local findings and things that affected me personally, included:
$1 Sausage Muffin is now $1.89. $1 drinks are now $1.39.
Local car wash increased price from $7.50 to $10 for cars — and more for SUV’s and trucks.
My favorite meal at Casa has increased from @$12 to @$20.
Local specialty steak in restaurant is up $4.
$5-7 combo meals are now $11-12
My homeowner’s insurance is up $100’s and the insurance on my aging car just (yesterday) increased another $30…. up $64 in last two years. I thought insuring aging cars always DEcreased.
Private Selection bread at local Kroger has DOUBLED. Items where price has remained close are now in SMALLER packages….so same thing.
Oil change on my car has gone up +$30
And streaming services; Netflix, Prime, Paramount, PBS…. yeah, you know.
Amazon Prime — wow…..what is it now?
Treats like DQ shakes & Blizzards, Wendy’s Frosty…. up $2-3
In the time that most things I spend money on have increased +40%, my Social Security has gone up about 3%.
Feel free to add your examples.
Below is a quote from the Kroger CEO. We’ve always been in the “budget conscious” group, but he mentions “other customer segments”. Are you in any of those?
“The reduction of excess savings built up during the pandemic, higher interest rates and the effect of inflation are pressuring customers’ ability to spend,” Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen stated on the company’s quarterly earnings call. “This is especially true for our most budget conscious customers, as we’ve been seeing for a while now, but we’re now seeing other customer segments beginning to make changes as well. Customers are purchasing lower-price cuts of meat, buying less, and focusing on essentials.”
In April 2003, while serving in the Hawaii State Legislature, Gabbard ENLISTED in the Hawaii Army National Guard. In July 2004, she was deployed for a 12-month tour in Iraq, serving as a specialist with the Medical Company, 29th Support Battalion, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
She served in the US Congress from 2013-21 and believes her criticism of VP Harris caused her placement on a TSA’s watchlist. She is NOT a conservative and NOT (yet) a republican. She has endorsed President Trump.
For every flight, because her boarding passes have an “SSSS” designation, she is followed by (according to Air Marshalls):
2 explosive detection K9 teams
1 explosives specialist
1 plain clothes TSA officer
3 Federal Air Marshals
Every flight is preceded by a “very in-depth screening” lasting 30-45 minutes
If you have a non-political reason why she was placed on a terror watchlist, please share. This is shameful.
Solo/Ensemble season is here. Vocal is local and starts tomorrow. Instrumental for local musicians starts next Saturday. If you get District GOLD, you qualify for STATE.
I’m not saying a thing about POLITICS. I’m just talking about some local observations and ending with a quote from the CEO of Kroger. Some say it is greed. Others claim politics. I don’t care so long as someone can make it stop.
