Raised by Atheist Missionaries in the Vatican, then moved to East Van where I attended High School and learned to dance the Watusi.
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Mark Steffich retweeted
I’m no fan of Captain Highliner. Served under him in ’72. He left us battered and frozen.
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She didn't monetize her sacrifice—she answered the call.
The Senate hearing room went cold when the insult landed.
Tammy Duckworth sat across from J.D. Vance, waiting for him to answer her question. She'd come prepared with policy, with specifics, with the kind of detailed inquiry that veterans' issues demand. But instead of engaging, Vance chose a different route. He compared her to Forrest Gump.
Let that sink in for a moment. A sitting senator, facing a decorated combat veteran who'd left parts of herself on an Iraqi battlefield, thought a fictional character was the appropriate reference.
Duckworth's response was surgical. She didn't raise her voice. She didn't need to. When you've piloted a Black Hawk helicopter through hostile fire, when you've felt the explosion that tears through metal and bone, when you've woken up in a hospital missing both legs and part of an arm, petty insults from small men barely register.
November 12, 2004. That's the day her helicopter was hit by an RPG over Iraq. She was co-piloting, focused on her mission, when the world turned to fire and shrapnel. The rocket-propelled grenade destroyed her aircraft and nearly destroyed her. Most people would have let that be the end of their service story.
Duckworth spent a year in recovery at Walter Reed. She learned to walk again on prosthetic legs. Then she went back to work.
No book tour about resilience. No cable news circuit trading on sacrifice. She didn't monetize her Purple Heart or turn her injuries into a personal brand. She served in the Illinois National Guard, then ran for office to continue serving in a different capacity.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel. Combat veteran. Purple Heart recipient. The first disabled woman elected to Congress, then to the Senate. The first senator to give birth while in office, bringing her newborn onto the Senate floor because the rules hadn't contemplated a working mother who'd also taken shrapnel for her country.
When Vance tried his cheap shot, she treated it exactly like what it was: noise from someone who'd never answered a question he found uncomfortable. She'd faced real danger. She knew the difference between actual courage and performance art patriotism.
That's who Tammy Duckworth is. Remember it.
Mark Steffich retweeted
Esa ”Tiki” Tikkanen is actively on the ice here in Helsinki, playing with a VM helmet on his head and a KOHO stick in his hand. #LetsGoOilers
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@oilersdailyy @BleedOilBlue @EdmontonOilers @NHLAlumni #EsaTikkanen @kurri_jari
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Boston Pizza in Edmonton unable to play an Oilers game.
@sportsnet greed is out of control
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A gentler, kinder time, when a soft shoe, and a little Laurel and Hardy magic could make the world feel right again. Step by step, toe by toe, in "Way Out West" Stan and Ollie remind us that sometimes the simplest pleasures are the sweetest.
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“I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed... No men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in, because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it... You know, they're standing there with no clothes... And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”, Shut your mouth piggy”, “I’m going to be dating her in ten years”, "I've known her since she was 12... The first time I saw her she walked into a room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?', “No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds." “Grab her by the pussy”, “must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees”, “a person who is flat chested is very hard to be a 10”, “Woman: you have to treat em like shit”, “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait”, “your disgusting” (to a woman requesting a break to pump milk during a depositor)”, “If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her”, “She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem”, “Do you think my daughters hot? She’s hot, right?”, "I think that she’s got a lot of Marla, she’s a really beautiful baby. She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.”, “"He's going to grow up to be a very confident guy... He's 14 years old, he's going to be fine. It probably gave him a lot of confidence."
Mark Steffich retweeted
🪖As a wounded combat vet, wear the poppy. Honour the ones who never came home and the ones still carrying it. 🇨🇦 🌺
Mark Steffich retweeted
The @NHL and #Rogers signed an $11B deal to hijack Canada’s game, strip away free CBC access, and slice up broadcasts behind endless paywalls.
They don't care about the fans. They see us as piggy banks to be squeezed dry for every nickel.
Time to cancel subscriptions and let the viewership crash. 🚫🏒💰
#BoycottSportsnet #RogersGreed #NHLPaywall #HockeyIsDead #CordCutting #RipOff #CBC
Mark Steffich retweeted
"Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no."
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
Mark Steffich retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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Hey Republicans.
So why is it okay that Trump attacks Abdul El-Sayed for being Muslum?
But he brings this guy to the Oval Office?
And accepts a plane from Qatar?
