The Bronze Statue

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A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, “How much for the bronze rat ?”

“Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story,” said the wise old China-man.

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. “I’ll just take the rat, you can keep the story”.

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.

A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.

Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay.

Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned.

The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown.

“Ahhh,” said the owner, “You come back for story ?”

“No sir,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat.

Phones….

Now is probably not a good time to ask if Heaven has free Wi-Fi…Or where to find a Hotspot.
-Sheila Tolley-

Phones

Fun Facts…Cities Part 1

There are officially more than 50,000 cities around the world.

According to the United Nations, 2007 was the year in which the population of the world shifted so that more than 50% of the people worldwide lived in cities, not rural areas, for the first time in human history.

Rome was the first city in the world to attain a population of 1,000,000 people. Incredibly, historians estimate this landmark was reached more than 2,000 years ago in 133 BCE.

The first city in the world to be home to more than 5,000,000 people was London in 1900. In fact, London was the biggest city in the world until it was overtaken by New York in 1915.

With a total population of more than 37 million people, the world’s most highly populated city is Tokyo.

Zagreb, Croatia, is the only capital city in the world whose name begins with Z.

The world’s largest French-speaking city isn’t Paris – it is Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.

THE SPHINX—GASOLINE PRICES

Mangione doesn’t want justice anymore.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/18/judge-allows-gun-notebook-evidence-luigi-mangiones-trial/

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Every culture on Earth has some form of a Supreme Creator.   It might be a Giant Turtle or a Tree.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/05/17/the-white-house-issues-a-powerful-message-of-prayer-in-celebration-of-rededication-250-n2676229

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Senator Kennedy has an opinion.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/18/kennedy-remarks-on-la-race-and-kamala-harris-n2202432

NATIONAL

State and Federal taxes make more from oil companies than the companies make per gallon.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/05/21/chevron-is-letting-californias-know-who-is-really-at-fault-for-the-states-gas-prices-n2676476

For sure, the elected officials knew about the fraud.   It is around NINE ( 9 ) BILLION DOLLARS.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/18/aimee-bock-ilhan-omar-was-involved-in-feeding-our-future-fraud-n2676248

The gift from the Democrats, over 10 million illegals, that keeps on giving.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/18/southern-california-homeowners-are-being-asked-to-search-their-properties-for-hidden-cameras-heres-why-n2676256

OTHER

Peru has a medium earthquake.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/peru-earthquake-quake/2026/05/20/id/1256910/

Massachusetts should be avoided.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/20/cambridge-ends-shotspotter-impacts-minorities-n2676386

Schlitz Premium is fizzling out.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/20/business/iconic-american-beer-brand-fizzling-out-after-nearly-200-years-of-brews/

He is Bill Clinton trashy.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/21/porta-potty-scandal-maine-dems-senate-bid-implodes-n2676499

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The Price Per Barrel Editor:    Who divides up the price of gasoline at the pump, LL?

The Tax Cat:    This article is an excellent source of facts.   If you can read, you will see that the federal and state governments make MORE than the oil companies from gasoline.

https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/05/05/gas-prices-explained-what-goes-into-the-price-at-the-pump

Anyone who speaks of BIG OIL robbing us is retarded or misinformed.   The government taxes are the thieves.

Trump suspended the federal tax until the Iran war ends.

A nice short article.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=classical+gaas+song#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:72c6c0d3,vid:mREi_Bb85Sk,st:0

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With the beagles being freed, test it on Congress.

https://genesiustimes.com/fauci-admits-lab-creation-of-coronavirus-in-bats-but-would-totally-never-do-the-same-with-rats/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/

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No doubt.

https://babylonbee.com/news/woman-healed-of-liberalism-after-touching-golden-trump-statue

https://redstate.com/

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Messier 2
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.

Explanation: After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though Messier originally described it as a nebula without stars, this stunning Hubble image resolves stars across the cluster’s central 40 light-years. Its population of stars numbers close to 150,000, concentrated within a total diameter of around 175 light-years. About 55,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Aquarius, this ancient denizen of the Milky Way, also known as NGC 7089, is 13 billion years old. An extended stellar debris stream, a signature of past gravitational tidal disruption, was recently found to be associated with Messier 2.

Tomorrow’s picture: moving Sun dark

Bible Verse

 There is a right time for everything. Everything that we do on the earth has a proper time.

A Young Law Student Has A Question

A young Law student, having failed his Law exam, goes up to his crusty old professor, who is renowned for his razor-sharp legal mind.

Student: “Sir, do you really understand everything about this subject?”

Professor: “Actually, I probably do. Otherwise I wouldn’t be a professor, would I?”

Student: “OK. So I’d like to ask you a question. If you can give me
the correct answer, I will accept my marks as they are. If you
can’t give me the correct answer, however, you’ll have to give me an “A”.

Professor: “Hmmmm, alright. So what’s the question?”

Student: “What is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and
neither logical nor legal?

The professor wracks his famous brain, but just can’t crack the answer. Finally he gives up and changes the student’s failing mark
into an “A” as agreed, and the student goes away, very pleased.

The professor continues to wrack his brain over the question all
afternoon, but still can’t get the answer. So finally he calls in
a group of his brightest students and tells them he has a really, really tough question to answer: “What is legal but not logical,
logical but not legal, and neither logical nor legal?

To the professor’s surprise (and embarrassment), all the students
immediately raise their hands.

“All right” says the professor and asks his favorite student to answer “It’s quite easy, sir” says the student “You see:

You are 75 years old and married to a 30 year old woman, which is legal, but not logical.

Your wife has a 22 year old lover, which is logical, but not legal.

And your wife’s lover failed his exam but you’ve just given him
an “A”, which is neither legal, nor logical.”

Conflicting Thoughts

I must stop asking:  How stupid can you be?
People seem to be taking it as a challenge.

-Sheila Tolley-

(1) Isn’t it weird that in America our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don’t?

(2) Only in America are legal citizens labeled “racists” and “Nazis” but illegal aliens are called “Dreamers.”

(3) Liberals say, “If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it’s worth it!” Well then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn’t that be worth it?

(4) I can’t quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country but consider it punishment to be sent back there.

(5) The Constitution: It doesn’t need to be rewritten; it needs to be re-read.

(6) William F. Buckley said: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view.”

(7)  ‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer.”

(8) Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but some people always insist that now they are due to climate change.

You can’t fix stupid…. I don’t care how much duct tape you use!

 

Fun Facts…US Presidents Part 3

The S in Harry S Truman’s name did not stand for anything. It was meant as a tribute to both of Truman’s grandfathers, both of whom had middle names starting with S.

Before he became an actor (and long before he worked in politics) Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard. 

President Grover Cleveland once worked as a hangman.

When he took office in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person ever elected president at the age of 42.

William McKinley was once portrayed on an American $500 bill, but the McKinley bill was discontinued in 1969.

In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first sitting president to throw the opening ceremonial pitch at a Major League Baseball game.

Woodrow Wilson had just two years political experience as governor of New Jersey before he was elected president in 1912.

Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
 Winston Churchill