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Cathi Culver's avatar

Loved it! I don't know where you learned to write, but it's inspiring and I'm grateful for you.

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Mike Nellis's avatar

Thank you Cathi!

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Deb Chrystal's avatar

We escaped to hot wings with blue cheese sauce and Buckeye college ball today. Tomorrow will be last of postcards and fibs, Monday will be a protest

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Valp's avatar
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Mike, you are amazing. Thanks for those words of wisdom today....I needed them!

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Carole klein's avatar

passed this piece on to many people. really...just what was needed. enjoy your space

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Vivian's avatar

Thanks for today's perspective. 😄

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Claude Scales's avatar

Memories of a friend and colleague who was a Notre Dame football star: https://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/2012/12/remembering-peter-demmerle-and.html

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Steve's avatar
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"find what lights you up........."

I'm thumbing my nose at Trump and his MAGA turds by leading volunteer trail groups and doing easier level trail maintenance for the US Forest Service.

DOGE gutted our federal public lands agencies. But, hey, the Pentagon "surely needs" their 1 million civilian employees, concessionaires, contractors to have a "strong" national defense. DOGE never got near the Dept. of Defense.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

EMERGENCY, not!. BLUE state governors hold the key to stop the assault of constituents. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders, and should not be present no matter how good they are at spreading mulch and collecting trash. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! REMEMBER JANARY 6th! They started this civil war right then. We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. Spare me the “you are inciting violence”. We all know TACO. Blocking a road at the border is not advocating violence, it is moving the conflict from the cities to the border, a much safer place for the state’s citizens.

Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs

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Judith Sue Meisner's avatar

OH-IO! Football is a welcome release from our unfortunate reality. Thankfully

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My Walk's avatar

We’re all Rudy

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Beau Sharbrough's avatar

High Potential comes back in a few weeks. So it's college football for me for now. Great opening weekend. Gotta recharge your batteries somehow.

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mary thiel's avatar

Thank you for this great advice

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Beth Ehrlich's avatar

Thanks for sharing your positive thoughts today. There are a lot of us in this together. Very smart to take care of yourself and family. We all need to remember to recharge for this long fight. Have to believe we will get rid of try dictator want to be’s.

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SCOTT BRIZARD's avatar

Love this a lot, thanks Mike.

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Jeanne C's avatar

Great thoughts! Thanks, Mike!

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Pamela J Detwiler's avatar

I hope you have a wonderful time with your son and your dad, and Notre Dame wins! I honestly don't care about the game, other than the fact that half of the attorneys in my office went to law school there, so if they lose, next week will be sad. 😁

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Jnatale43@gmail.com's avatar

Cheers to you,

And The U !

Remember the Orange Bowl!

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