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Jim Coats

Nancy, I heard a wonderful song recently at Church.  One major thought stood out in the lyrics was that the Son of God walks next to us and we will never be abandoned.  It gave me comfort and bolstered my already strong belief .  He IS with Toby.

I always mention when I meet a Veteran helicopter pilot OR Medic/Corpsman that they were my favorite people in Vietnam.  I'm very proud of Toby and impressed that he is a member of the elite (All-American) 82nd and a medic to boot!

Frank Wiley

Yes, 4:30 for the Summit.  Nancy I'm praying for Toby!  I think you'll have communication from Toby while he's deployed.  When my two Godsons were in Iraq and Afghanistan we heard from them about once a month.  I don't know for sure but I doubt that Toby will actually be on the ground in Iran.  I just don't see Trump doing a major Troop deployment into the country.  It seems to me that the naval blockade is working well because the Iranians seem motivated to negotiate.  It's causing Our Country a little financial pain but if we can take Nucs off the table for Iran I think it's worth it.  Tell Toby we're praying for him, We Thank Him, and are Proud of him!  In this time of the mass majority of his generation of "What's in it for me?"  He's a special young Man!!

Bill RIHS

Nancy, we got this🙏. Yes, you have a great young man and we are proud of Toby and you for your loving support for him. I hope you and the family hear from Toby soon!

Frank Wiley

I learned something new.  I mentioned before that I know a child of a friend who works in Medical Center Management.  We were talking and she was talking about Surgicenters.  The are almost all owned by a consortium of Surgeons.  There are two benefits for the Surgeons, not including the financial benefits.  One is that there are no sick people in the centers spreading diseases and secondly they don't have to treat people with no insurance or way to pay like regular Hospitals do.

Frank Wiley

I found it both ironic and humorous that many Congress people who attended "No Kings" protests gave a standing ovation to Charles the King!!  

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

It's only King Trump they don't like.

Michael Kelly

The caterwauling of Democrats and Liberals and other varieties of malcontents attempting to portray Trump as fancying himself as a "King" is laughable, since one of the most Sure Signs of considering some Fool as a King, is what they did for Four Long Years with Biden. Not a Single on of them Save John Fetterman has had enough honesty and gumption to say out loud how poorly the mental health was of Biden during his entire tenure as our 'King" or so they so bacly wanted the Whole World to Believe as Being Fit as a Fiddle.  

Frank Wiley

"The Ghosts of Gold Mountain" Gordon Chang does a great job of explaining what the Chinese Railroad Workers went through.  The building of the rail bed up and through the Sierras was almost all Granite Rock work and almost all of it either cutting a rail bed wide enough where there were shear cliffs and by tunneling through solid granite.  The longest tunnel was the length of 5 foot fields and it was curved.  There were no power drills.  The workers would use a steel rod and a heavy sludge hammer.  One person would hold the steel rod and two people with sludge hammers would take turns striking the steel rod until they made a hole about 18" deep.  They would then insert dynamite, blow out rock, and clear the rock as they moved forward.  There were Chinese teams working from the West side of the Sierras and White teams working from the Easr side of the Sierras.  The White Supervisor/Engineer said the Chinese advanced faster.  The Chinese were also paid less than the White workers.

Frank Wiley

Four years ago Spirit Airlines and Jet Blue Airlines wanted to merge.  The Democrats stopped the merger!  Merrick Garland, Pete Buttidge, Nancy Pelosi, and Liz Warren celebrated stopping the merger.  Now they're blaming Trump for Spirit Airlines going out of business.  These people are "batshit crazy"!!

Jim Coats

Frank.  I understood that the dems thought that if Spirit and Jet Blue merged, there would be less competition and consumers would have to pay higher prices to fly.

Well, once again the dems didn't look past the tip of the hood of their Prius.  Now we DO have less competition because an entire airline and its 15,000 employees are gone.  How's that workin' out for ya dems?

AMERICA FIRST!

Frank Wiley

Citadel CEO and 80% owner Ken Griffin was going to build a skyscraper in New York City to house his expanding business.  Idiot NYC Mayor Mandami did a commercial singling out Griffin and saying how he (Mandami) was going to stick higher taxes on him and the other rich.  Well money talks and walks!  Griffin is now building his skyscraper in Miami, Florida!!  

Lester Cox

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill. 

Funny how the words "hard work" are never mentioned by the left when pushing their socialist ideas. 

Michael Kelly

Trump must be taking STUPID PILLS again, calling for a Temporary Cease Fire because of a phone call from Vladdy Boy begging Trump to make those Vicious old Ukrainins to stop Droning Moscow during his May 9, Parade Gala in which Russia celebrates Victory over Dictators and Nazis world wide. So far, only one Dignitary is attending, but that number may jump up to Two if Trump attends. It is Plain old Foolish to anchor your Nobel Peace Prize aspirations on engineering a "Peace Plan" on anything, anything, anything that putin says he will do cross his heart hope to die. putin is not human, it is a creature of the foul depths of evil. Why just 3 or so days ago, he smart bombed a Children's School, and a Maternity Clinic in Ukraine. A doctor friend of mine in Ukraine wrote me a letter coming from the depths of Despair because one of the Children she worked with during a difficult Birth, was injured on the bombing, and one of her mosther's best friends was killed in hier home. 

IT IS TIME TO STOP TRYING TO MAKE DEALS WITH THE DEVIL, AND JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS, WE ARE HAVING TO TAKE CARE OF A WHOLD BULDOZER BLADE FULL OF CANS THAT HAVE BEEN KICKED DOWN THE ROAD BY PREVIOUS "WORLD LEADERS" AND WE CAN'T BE STUPID ANYMORE DOING IT, WE ARE OUT OF WIGGLE ROOM. UKRAINIANS DON'T SEE TRUMP AS AN ALLY ANYMORE, THEY BELIEVE HE SIDES WITH PUTIN, AND THEY POINT TO THE EVIDENCE TO PROVE IT, HE WON'T SELL WEAPONS OR AMMUNITION TO UKRAINE, HE CONSTANTLY BERATES THEM FOR NOT WANTING TO JUST GIVE PUTIN ROUGHLY 30 PERCENT OF THEIR COUNTRY, WHY? WELL VLADDY BOY WANTS IT THAT'S WHY. 

TO DEAL WITH PUTIN, YOU MUST KNOW THAT YOU REALLY CAN'T. YOU MIGHT AS WELL TRY TO CONJURE UP THE DEVIL IN A GRAVEYARD AND MAKE A DEAL WITH  HIM TO TEACH YOU TO PLAY GOOD GUITAR. TRUMP DON'E EVEN HAVE ONE. 

IM ENTITLED TO VENT ABOUT TRUMP, IVE VOTED FOR, AND SUPPORTED HIM THROUGH THICK AND THIN, ON ALL THE OTHER POTENTIAL NOBEL PEACE PROJECTS, HE'S DOING A B PLUS, BUT PUTIN IS ANOTHER ANIMAL.

Michael Kelly

On a personal Note, I have been patiently waiting for a Better lower Left Leg for some time now. On May 7, I had an Appointimet in Bakersfield, Ca. because I live in Kern County now. My Prosthesis doesn't fit well, but it is the only one I got. For over a year I have made my Court Appearances in a Wheel Chair, and I must hire a Driver to take me back and forth to Court. Well, at this Prosthesis Appointment, I learned that I now can have the newest Technology which is something that was only a Dream of mine a year ago. They now have computerized Feet, and they are Waterproof. A Computerized Foot can actually Sense and Bend with the movement of your leg and it gets signals from the movement of your upper leg muscles and nerves. Who'd a Thunk It by Golly. The Beer Summit I am going to try and attend even though this new computerized lower limb will not be available by May 13, but it is progress and it will be improvement after all. 

I had run into a young man over a year ago, who was walking around quite normally. He came up to me because he saw I was wearing a Prosthesis and introduced himself. After we talked a while, he told me he had bot legs amputated above the knee. You would not have known it. He pulled up a pant leg and showed me a Computerized ankle, and then told me that his two legs were computerized. I was amazed at his ability to move with not evidence of change in Gait. His cost 300,000 per leg. Apparently progress and frequency of need have caused the price to decrease. Thank God for Progress. 

Frank Wiley

Great news about your new leg Mike!!  Hope to see you at the Beer Summit!

David Rainwater

Michael K. that is a wonderful story and I'm so glad that this new technology is available to you.  I wish you the very best.  Reminds me of the old Dupont saw, slightly altered...better living through science.

Michael Kelly

David R.  That's a very funny T-Shirt I need to have made. Thanks.

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

Mike K, keeping fingers and toes, all of them, crossed for you and hope all goes well with your new leg.

Bill RIHS

Micheal K.  Great news on the new leg, I hope it turns out to be better than you can imagine. Hope to see you at the Beer Summit🤞🏻👍.

Jim Coats

LEFTY.  It's about time something has gone your way, prosthetically speaking!  I'm very happy for you.  I agree with Frank and Bill.  It'll be good to see you stomp your way*** into a Beer Summit one of these days.

***In case you didn't recognize the very loose reference, that's a semi-quote from a line from In Harm's Way with Henry Fonda as Admiral Nimitz and John Wayne as a Captain who lost his leg in battle....Midway I believe.  The quote, Nimitz speaking, according to Google is:  "I'm sending you back to the states to slap a peg leg on you and then you're going to stomp along with the rest of us in command of a task force."

Vaya con Dios amigo!

Frank Wiley

Happy Mother's Day to all Moms!!  We wouldn't be here without you!!

Lester Cox

Hey Michael, here's wishing for you the absolute very best outcome with your new computerized leg. So many advancements and happy you are a beneficiary of the outcomes. 

Jim Coats

OK.....who's coming to the Beer Summit tomorrow afternoon?  All I know for sure is Frank, Bill Rihs and I will be there.

Frank Wiley

Bill Randall also.  See you at 4:30.  

Bill RIHS

I will bring Les also.