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Resident Libs and Never Trumpers GITT
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You gotta read your own links
Fact check: Did Trump rail rule repeal affect Ohio train derailment?
After a train derailment caused a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, a liberal advocacy group claimed: "Obama imposed stricter rules on trains carrying toxins. Trump killed them." PolitiFact checks that claim.www.wral.com
"The Facebook post includes an image of the aftermath of the train derailment in Ohio. However, this rule, if it had remained in effect, would not have applied to that Norfolk Southern train as it was not categorized as "high-hazard."
*****THE CLEMSON DUBCAST: Carol McIntosh, mother of Dabo Swinney
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Earlier this week, Dabo Swinney wished a happy 80th Birthday to his mother and shared some details of her positively remarkable life story.
Five years ago, Tigerillustrated.com sat down with Carol and she told the story in full.
A small excerpt:
At some point my mother noticed there was something different about how polio had affected me, compared to others. It left me weakened from my waist up and affected my upper body, but not my legs. If polio affected your legs you had no strength or use of them, never growing and never developing any muscles. These people were in big, heavy braces just dragging themselves around. Some were on crutches that held their arms up. At the time I thought: “You know, I’m so thankful.” It was better for your arms to be affected by polio than your legs.
I couldn’t raise my arms. I couldn’t use them. I couldn’t use my hands. So at first I was put into body braces that came around my body, under my arms so they could help keep my arms up. And still to this day, you can see the tremors in my hands and the atrophy. That’s what polio did to me. So I wore those braces until they would have to be changed, and then I would get a new brace. And that went on and on and on.
My upper body was so weak that I developed a bad case of scoliosis, a severe curving of the spine. Because the polio attacked my muscles, I was temporarily paralyzed. And it was drawing me way over to my left side. My body was curved so badly that had I not had corrective surgery and braces, I would have remained curved over had I lived. That’s when my mother realized something was wrong, really wrong. Even with the braces, she would take the braces off just to bathe me and put them back on. But my body would still flop to the left. So my mom took me back to the Crippled Children’s Clinic and Hospital in Birmingham. My body had to be encased as I continued to grow so it would remain straight until I was old enough to have surgery.
I was put in a full body cast and spent 14 months in it. At the time I had long hair; my mother had let it grow out into a long ponytail. And the day they were going to put me in that body cast, they had to cut my ponytail off and basically shave my head. I was almost 9 years old, and I thought that was the most terrifying thing for them to do. My mom wasn’t there; they wouldn’t allow her to be there with me. She did ask them to save my ponytail. So they did, and they put it into a plastic bag and they gave it to her and she kept it for years.
Today we present the audio from that 2019 conversation with Carol.
And we join her son in wishing her a happy 80th birthday.
Carol McIntosh interview
And here are the previous two in case you missed them:
Marc Whiteman of WYFF
Patricia Watkins, mother of CJ Spiller
Clarence Thomas needs to go
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OP, I sent this to my daughter 3 or 4 years back for her to listen to. If you get a chance and are willing, you might learn something!Really, he thinks a domestic abuser should be able to buy a gun. Even Alito voted against that.
Supreme Court upholds federal gun ban for those under domestic violence restraining orders
Friday's decision in U.S. v. Rahimi, could have major implications for several pending gun-rights cases and legislative measures.www.foxnews.com
A Conversation with the Justice Clarence Thomas