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Ok this one is my favorite we love Costco welcome let’s get you a slice of pizza and a pop, USA USA USA
For many visitors from Europe, a first trip to Costco during the World Cup becomes a cultural experience on its own. The huge packages, endless variety, and products ranging from food to clothing, coolers, and even hot tubs show a different side of everyday shopping in the U.S. It’s fun to see the surprise and excitement over something Americans sometimes take for granted. Even a simple Costco hot dog becomes a memorable moment because of the combination of taste, size, and value. Travel is not only about seeing famous places; sometimes it’s about discovering small everyday differences between cultures. Who would have thought a warehouse store could become one of the highlights of a World Cup trip?
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European tourists in America right now
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Anyone else have a male cat prone to urinary crystals and transition OFF the expensive prescription diet?? It is EXPENSIVE
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Your kids will become like you, and so you must become more like God. This realization is what drives the sudden maturity of new fathers.
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The parenting advice that I’ll be sitting with for a VERY long time: You either face your demons or they raise your children.
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Everyone shouts "Tax the Rich"... but look at the facts. A $150k earner pays around $30,600 in federal tax. A $25k earner pays about $1,200. It takes 25 people on $25k to contribute what one person on $150k does. So why drive high earners out of the U.S. when they already shoulder most of the burden? The problem isn't how much tax is collected. The problem is how much the government wastes. Stop blaming the rich. Start holding the government to account.
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To the PRODUCERS of the 250 show at the White House… music is the ultimate unifier. Take this more seriously. Some suggestions. -Belmont University Orchestra - Luke Combs - Billy Strings - Forrest Frank with the children’s choir Or people that no one has ever heard of, but happened to be incredible performers. People want creativity and authenticity.
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In the summer of 1995 I was given a choice that I didn't know was life or death. I was a data systems analyst with the 33rd Fighter Wing out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. F-15Es. I tracked every break on every jet after the day's sorties, built the readiness reports, forecasted the trends from a little office right on the flight line. JP-8 in the morning air. Great people. I loved it. In my off hours I served on the base Honor Guard. We carried the caskets of fallen service members, fired the 21-gun salute, and folded the flag into a tight triangle to hand to a mother, a widow, a child. I have looked a lot of grieving families in the eye. I did not yet understand how close I would come to being the reason someone folded a flag for me. Late that summer I learned our unit was rotating to Saudi Arabia for Operation Southern Watch. They gave me a choice: deploy in January, or wait and go with the next rotation later in the year. My boyfriend at the time—my husband now—told me to just get it over with and go in January, when the desert "only" hits 105 instead of 120. So I said yes. The week before I shipped out, a quiet young Airman moved into the dorm room across the hall. A crew chief in my unit. We'd nod and say hey passing in the hallway but I never got the chance to really know him because we deployed the next week. I did my 93 days in Dhahran, lived in Khobar Towers with hundreds of other Americans, came home that spring on a 24-hour C-130 ride, got engaged, went back to the beach and the good Florida weather and ordinary life. My quiet neighbor deployed with the next rotation. The one I'd chosen not to be on. Two weeks before that rotation was set to come home, terrorists bombed Khobar Towers. Nineteen American Airmen were killed. Twelve of them were ours, from the 33rd. One of them was the quiet crew chief from across the hall—Airman 1st Class Peter J. Morgera, 19 years old, from Stratham, New Hampshire. Over the years I've wondered why my husband told me to go early. Why I came home and they didn't. There is no tidy answer. What I have is a responsibility—to make sure they are not just a number. So today, say their names with me. Eglin lost: MSgt Kendall K. Kitson, Jr. — Yukon, OK TSgt Daniel B. Cafourek — Watertown, SD TSgt Patrick P. Fennig — Greendale, WI TSgt Thanh Van Nguyen — Panama City, FL SrA Earl F. Cartrette, Jr. — Sellersburg, IN SrA Jeremy A. Taylor — Rose Hill, KS Sgt Millard D. Campbell — Angleton, TX A1C Brent E. Marthaler — Cambridge, MN A1C Brian W. McVeigh — DeBary, FL A1C Peter J. Morgera — Stratham, NH A1C Joseph E. Rimkus — Edwardsville, IL A1C Joshua E. Woody — Corpus Christi, TX Memorial Day isn't about the ones who came home. It's about them. I get to be grateful only because they paid for it. Say their names today. 🇺🇸
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For everyone who is excited about the two 300-foot statues of Lewis and Clark on the MISSOURI River and has asked how it will be funded and where we want it to go, I have created a webpage just for that. Visit here for information on how to donate and get involved! theeagleye.net/lewis-and-cla…
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Maturing is realizing this is a bigger deal than the Super Bowl
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Why is Amazon promoting the Coca Cola 600 at 5PM when the Indy 500 is the largest race in the world and starts around noon today????
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The American chestnut was the dominant tree of the eastern US forest for thousands of years. One in every four trees in the Appalachians was a chestnut. Then, between 1904 and 1940, a fungal blight from Asia killed roughly four billion of them. The species nearly went extinct as a forest tree within a single human lifetime. The recovery effort is now in its fourth decade. The American Chestnut Foundation breeds disease-resistant hybrids by crossing American chestnuts with blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts, then backcrossing for generations to recover the American tree's form. Other researchers have used gene editing to insert a wheat gene that detoxifies the blight. The first restoration plantings are alive and growing in the Appalachians. They won't be mature for another 50 years. None of the people who started this work will see it finished, but we should all be glad they're doing it.
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RT @RedpenFL: This is a mistake @realDonaldTrump Lock the clock on STANDARD TIME. Stop changing the clock twice a year, but on STANDARD TIM…
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UGH the 500 is sold out serious fomo I am bringing the toddler with next year
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You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing. That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens. Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior. A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.
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Does anyone know when WWI will be over so we can get rid of the temporary federal income tax? Asking for a friend
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The single largest form of wage theft is clearly marked on each of my paychecks and you're in charge of that.
The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
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This is my mother on my wedding day. Look at how much she loved me. My life meant more to her than the trauma of the rape that produced me. She told me that the minute she held me after I was born, the trauma was gone forever and replaced by the love she felt for me. We went on to give her 2 granddaughters and 3 great grandsons. Her love left a legacy of a continuing family. Please don't abort your future happiness. No baby deserves a death sentence.
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This is also the logic of why to have more children. With just one you will only ever see one side of them. With two or more, you will see all their facets as each interacts with the others. More is more.
C.S. Lewis’ incredible observation on friendship
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The DOJ's deadline to charge Fauci for lying under oath about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan is in 6 days. We can’t allow the statute of limitations to run out. He MUST be charged! Agree? RT.
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