Some days you just need to run into the grocery store to pick up something quick. You may have just been at the gym, home with sick children, or maybe just getting off from work. When this man decided to pick up a few things after work in Washington State he never gave it a second thought until…
After a few minutes, he noticed a little girl staring at him. Andy Ross was legitimately dirty after a long day’s work in the woods, he knew it but didn’t give it too much thought. Now standing in line the little girl was still staring.
The mom whispered to her daughter, “That’s why you need to stay in school.”
Obviously she was saying this to her daughter assuming Andy was a failure based on his looks.
Andy wasn’t letting this slide if for no other reason then to let that little girl know the truth and educate her with his story. He confronted the mom and totally left her speechless with her preconceived ideas of him being a loser.
The he posted this message on Facebook, what a powerful and surprising post.
“So I had a very interesting ‘educational’ conversation with a woman and her daughter today. As I entered the store before I got home, a little girl kept staring at me. Which is fine. I know that kids are curious when they see someone, especially as dirty as I was.They ended up in front of me as I was checking out. Little girl still staring, her mother told her to stop staring. As they finished and headed towards the door, I hear her mom say quietly to the little girl, ‘That is why you need to stay in school.’ I figured this was a great time to educate this mother and her 7/8-year-old daughter. The following is our conversation:’“First, I happen to be a very educated dirty man. I not only have a high school diploma, I also have a college degree and many medical certifications.So assuming that I am uneducated because of my appearance is actually quite ignorant in itself.”
“Secondly, if you are telling your daughter to stay in school because I have tattoos up and down my arms, that will actually suppress her creativity and potentially hinder her imagination as she develops.Again, contradictory to your point ma’am. I am proud of my tattoos and artwork that Forrest Bateman put on my body. It’s a representation of my pride in my country and my service over multiple combat tours as a special operations medic.”
“Third, if you’re referring that statement to the hat (not featured) I’m wearing because it features an elk, you might not understand it. I happen to co-own Evergreen State Outdoors and am proud to own an outdoors company and support my rights to hunt and responsibly be a gun owner.”
“Finally, I chose to work in a construction industry. I am proud to say that I am apart of building America and I enjoy my job everyday. I tried working a desk job when I got out of the service and it wasn’t for me. I enjoy working with my hands and being outdoors. Subsequently, it comes with being dirty some days. I make good money, have benefits, and am able to provide for my family without issue.”
“So my appearance reflects nothing to do with my level of intelligence or pursuing a higher level of education.”
Andy’s post should remind us all to never judge a book by it’s cover and to always remember people have many reasons for doing what they do.
We never really know when our talents will be noticed by the right people. A lot of stories about celebrities and their road to stardom start with someone “discovering” their abilities in odd ways.
Hopefully, the girl that we are going to tell you about will find her place in the music industry once she gets a bit older, because she will have an incredible story to share about how her singing went viral and how she ended up on Ellen’s show.
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Violet Burdick, who is only five years old, and her musician father Ryan posted a video of her performing Dolly Parton’s famous song Jolene on YouTube and people loved it.
Soon after the video went viral, Violet’s aunt Erin decided to send a copy of it to Ellen. Needless to say, the show’s crew was mesmerized by Violet’s singing abilities so they decided to invite her over together with her dad.
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Ryan said he had no idea Erin sent Violet’s video to Ellen, but he wasn’t mad. On the contrary, both he and his girl were eager to meet the famous host. They traveled from New York to L.A. and had to get tested for COVID-19 three times, but it was all worth it.
Once at Ellen’s, Violet charmed everyone at the studio, as well as those watching on TV, with her incredible vocal. She and her dad also spoke of just how much they love Dolly Parton and how much they appreciate all she does for the battle against the coronavirus, including funding the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. They also spoke of Dolly’s contribution to the community through the “Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.”
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And as we all know already, Ellen won’t be her if she hasn’t a surprise in her sleeve.
Once Violet’s cute performance came to an end, she and Ryan were told they were getting an all-expenses-paid vacation to Dollywood in Tennessee.
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Ryan hopes Violet will become a singer one day, and in case she does choose to get involved in music, he’s there to support her every step of the way. He also knows just how much Ellen is doing for these prodigy kids who show up at her show. “That is one nice thing about that show, they follow up with the child performers and to see them later and how they progressed. That is fun,” the proud dad said.
If you want to listen to Violet singing, check the video below.
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial lasted for five days and the Senate voted to acquit him of inciting the Capitol riots which took place on January 6, 2021. This means he will be eligible to run for the office in four years time.
However, even if that is the case, Twitter, who banned Trump from using the platform, won’t let him use it ever again. This decision was made on January 9, when the platform added a special “fact-check link” beneath many of the former president’s tweets, including one where he called mail-in ballots “fraudulent.”
Former President Donald Trump will not be permitted back on Twitter even if he runs again for office and wins, according to the company’s chief financial officer. https://t.co/YiW9IFyEJ8
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said in a statement released a few days after the Capitol riots during which five people lost their lives, among which a police officer.
“In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.”
Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal spoke to CNBC, saying: “The way our policies work, when you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform — whether you’re a commentator, you’re a CFO, or you are a former or current public official.”
“Remember, our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence, and if anybody does that, we have to remove them from the service and our policies don’t allow people to come back.”
What do you think about Twitter’s decision to ban Donald Trump from using their platform ever again?
Growing up, little children come across many things that are completely new to them, and it is their curiosity that leads them through life and teaches them about everything that surrounds them. Of course, having their parents and loved ones by their side to guide them through their experiences is a true blessing.
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Sweet Harper is a little girl who seems to love the rain so very much. Well, we do understand why she enjoys the drops falling down and wakening that specific scent that radiates from the ground. Whereas some people hate the idea of going out when raining, there are also those who love feeling the drops getting down their skin, and Harper belongs to the latter.
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When her dad sees it started to rain, he offers his lovely daughter to take her out for a couple of seconds, just for her to feel the drops of rain on her face. Needless to say, she is over the moon by this “journey” she gets to experience for the first time in her life.
Being out in the rain is so fun that Harper can’t stop giggling. In fact, she managed to put a smile on millions of faces who have seen the video of her playing in the summer rain.
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Realizing Harper is happy, dad decided to get her out while carrying her in his arms one more time. And later, he took her hand and let her walk, thus many agree he’s one really cool dad.
Who knew that such a little child having fun in the rain could become one of the cutest videos ever? Take a look at Harper below. Isn’t she adorable?
Pretty much everyone is familiar with the life story of Fred Trump, one of the wealthiest men and most successful businessmen in the U.S. He built his empire with nothing but a hard work and then left most of it to his son Donald Trump.
When Donald inherited the construction business in Manhattan, people knew the Trump empire will only grow bigger and bigger, and that’s exactly what happened.
Besides becoming a magnate just like his father, Donald Trump also became the 45th President of America. However, he’s not the only successful person in the Trump family.
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One of Donald’s older sisters, Maryanne Trump Barry, had a very rich career and helped promote the family’s name in her own right. From what she has been saying of her younger brother over the years, the relationship between the two was a perfect one, but then, recordings of her speaking of Donald emerged in 2018 and 2019 and the wide public realized she hadn’t been completely honest in the past when it came to her relationship with the former president.
Maryanne pursued a career as a lawyer and became one after graduating from Hofstra University in 1974 and earning a law degree. Shortly afterwards, she got her first job with the U.S Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.
Her career moved on when she was appointed as a Federal Judge in 1983 to the District Court of New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan and was later appointed to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit during President Clinton’s presidency. Maryanne retired in 2011.
She used to spoke of her father’s wealth and said in many occasions how she sort of “stepped down” because she didn’t want to be Donald’s rival in running the business. “I knew better even as a child than to even attempt to compete with Donald,” she told New York Mag. “I wouldn’t have been able to win. He was building models when he was very young. Huge buildings.”
In the book The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire, Maryanne wrote: “There’s no question Donald helped me get on the bench. I was good, but not that good.”
However, despite the support the siblings had provided for one another during the years, The Washington Post published secretly recorded audios in which Maryanne could be heard describing Donald Trump as a “cruel” man with “no principles.”
“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Maryanne tells her niece Mary Trump in one of the recordings. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.”
“His g——- tweet and lying, oh my God,” the sister added. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s—.”
“He got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams,” Maryanne Trump Barry said in the recording. “SATs or whatever. That’s what I believe.”
The White House rejected these allegations.
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Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and Donald Trump’s niece who was doing all in her power for Trump not to become a president as she was involved into an inheritance dispute with the Trumps.
As for the rest of Donald Trump’s family, and that includes Maryanne Trump Barry, they all support Donald and are very close to him until this day.
President Joe Biden “accused” his predecessor for not doing a good job when it comes to preparing the American citizens for vaccination.
According to Reuters, Biden said during a news conference at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland that the coronavirus program he inherited from Trump was in “much worse shape” than he expected. Further, he explained how Trump failed to secure the doses needed, while Biden himself managed to purchase 100 million doses from Moderna and additional 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the first three weeks of taking the office.
When I took office three weeks ago, America didn’t have a plan or enough supplies to vaccinate most of the country. But my team got right to work, and as of today, we’ve increased weekly vaccine shipments by nearly 30% and purchased enough vaccines to vaccinate all Americans.
At the same time, Biden acknowledged the hard work by the scientists who worked on the vaccine and thanked them for developing it with such an emergency. HuffPost reported the president saying: “While scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time, my predecessor — I’ll be very blunt about it — did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans. He didn’t order enough vaccines. He didn’t mobilize enough people to administer the shots, and he didn’t set up federal vaccine centers where eligible people could go and get their shots.”
To everyone at the NIH — all the doctors, scientists, and researchers fighting this pandemic and saving lives — thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’re truly the best America has to offer. pic.twitter.com/lLpdZSLdjX
Currently, the U.S. has contracts for 600 million doses of vaccines which is enough for all the people living there.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said: “We appreciate the confidence that the U.S. government has demonstrated in our COVID-19 Vaccine.” Representatives of Pfizer also spoke of the contract, saying: “We will deliver 100 million doses by the end of March, a total of 200 million doses by the end of May, and the full 300 million doses by the end of July,” according to Reuters.
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America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci believes that almost every American will be able to register to get vaccinated by the end of April, 2021.
Hopefully, everything will go as smoothly as planned and this pandemic that turned our world and our lives upside down will soon be over.
One thing that the coronavirus taught us is that no one is immune to it. This contagious virus that spreads with incredible speed can affect everyone, and no one knows what the consequences might be. Some only have mild symptoms, and for others, it can be deadly.
Former president Donald Trump was tested positive for COVID-19 in October of 2020. At the time, he compared the virus to a flu and only spent three days at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, before he was transferred to the White House.
Many believed that what Trump had to say about the virus was careless knowing that the U.S. is one of the most affected countries by it in the world with more than 26 million cases reported and 464,000 deaths confirmed as of February 11, 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump’s case of coronavirus was far worse than he admitted, report says https://t.co/rClHnbOcil
The New York Times reported how the president was treated using an experimental drug cocktail injection and the antiviral medication Remdesivir.
His physician, Dr. Sean Conley, spoke of the president’s condition but didn’t reveal much. In fact, on the day he was admitted to hospital, Dr. Conley said the president’s situation was not severe, but the next day he revealed details he previously concealed.
“Late Friday morning when I returned to the bedside, President had a high fever and his oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94%,” he was reported saying. “Given these two developments I was concerned for possible rapid progression of the illness. I recommended the president we try some supplemental oxygen. See how he’d respond. He was fairly adamant that he didn’t need it.”
“Doctors at the time noted how Mr. Trump used his neck muscles to help him breathe in those moments, a classic sign that someone’s lungs are not taking in enough oxygen.” https://t.co/JNMViisSLJ
Citing an anonymous source, allegedly a person close to Trump, CNN reports that doctors even considered putting the president on a ventilator after he was found to have lung infiltrates which occurs when “the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as fluid or bacteria.”
At the time, First Lady Melania was also diagnosed with COVID-19.
The second day of the impeachment trial of former POTUS Donald Trump didn’t start as he was hoping. People close to him told CNN and Fox that he was “beyond furious” at his legal team among which lawyer Bruce Castor and attorney David Schoen.
Allegedly, Trump was angry at Castor for praising the House impeachment managers for “a job well done” and not being able “to get at the heart of his defense team’s argument,” according to CNN.
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Speaking of Trump’s role in the Capitol riots, Rep. Jamie Raskin said, “He assembled, inflamed and incited his followers to descend upon the Capitol” falsely convincing them that the elections were stolen from him. During the rampage, five people lost their lives, among which a police officer.
However, after recent writings by CNN, it looks like Trump feels no remorse for the riots and doesn’t feel guilty of inciting them. When asked whether Trump feels remorse, an unnamed source close to the former president who was discussing the impeachment case with the CNN, laughed instead of answering the question.
During the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the TV cameras are focused on the person speaking and viewers are unable to see how lawmakers are reacting.
A chilling footages of the Capitol riots were played during the second day of the trial. In one of them, the public could hear rioters trying to reach to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as well as Vice President Mike Pence.
One of the rioters could be heard saying, “Where are you, Nancy? We’re looking for you!,” while others say, “She’s in here,” and “Nancy? Oh, Nancy? Nancy, where are you, Nancy?”
“This attack never would have happened but for Donald Trump,” said Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa. “And so they came, draped in Trump’s flag, and used our flag, the American flag, to batter and to bludgeon.”
Others also took a stand and shared their thoughts on the matter. Among them, Sen. Susan Collins, a republican from Maine who commented on the video, telling CNN: “It was reliving that day with some additional detail that just reinforces my belief that it was a terrible day for our country and that there’s no doubt that it was an attempt to disrupt the counting of the electoral votes.”
“I’ll always be grateful to law enforcement and the Capitol police for protecting us, but also proud of the fact that we came back that night and finished our constitutional duty, we did not let the rioters accomplish their goal of disrupting the vote,” she added.
Sen. Ted Cruz, believes that despite being “emotional,” the video footage of 6th of January 2021, when the riots took place, doesn’t show direct connection with Trump.
