Toledo, Ohio, was the place to be when two very vibrant and beautiful twins celebrated their 102nd birthdays together! Born in 1922 and raised in Toledo's Old West End, the "Johnson twins" just celebrated their milestone birthday on September 15 in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania. Guests traveled from as far as Texas to commemorate the special day with twins Marilyn Wright and Madelyn Casper. RELATED: Jennifer Hudson Has Birthday Wishes for 104-Year-Old Woman Who Gives All Glory to God Celebrating 102 With Twins is a Must Madelyn's son, Thomas Casper, shared with WTVG, "Twins at 102 — I don’t think that happens every day. We just thought we have to really celebrate this one big time." Marilyn and Madelyn have always been close. Between the two of them, they have 13 children! And, while they must have kept very busy growing and raising their large families, they've made time for each other. Madelyn says they are like "two peas in a pod." Even when they haven't lived in the same city, they've been on the same page-thinking and doing like one another. Marilyn shared an example, "[I would get] on the phone, I say, ‘Madelyn, I just made a meatloaf. I wish you could be here.' She says, ‘I made one too.'" On one occasion, the two unknowingly bought the same fabric to make curtains for their sons. The Two Sisters Bond Over the Most Basic and Magnificent Things Sisters bond over the most basic and magnificent things, and, quite likely, even more so when those sisters are twins. Moming, meatloaf, and a million other things have connected these special ladies, who continue to work together. Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Casper used to talk on the phone until Madelyn "couldn’t hear." These days, according to Marilyn, she is Madelyn's ears, and Marilyn is her eyes! At 102, the centenarians are healthy and going strong. Marilyn's daughter, Julie Fox, told WTVG, "We feel very blessed to still have both of them with us, and they’re both still in pretty good health, too — physical health, not only mental." RELATED: Thoughtful Granddaughter Has a Walt Disney World Surprise for Grandma on Her 91st Birthday So, what do these incredible ladies say is the secret to longevity? Be Kind To Your Neighbor Marilyn teased that a cocktail before dinner is a good practice before adding that it has much to do with heart. "We have to tell people, ‘Be kind to your neighbor.' Just show kindness. Don’t hate. The word hate should be out of the dictionary," said Marilyn. It sounds like the Toledo twins will be spreading joy and light until their last days, and those may be many days away! YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Woman Turning 97 Years Old Decided To Treat Herself To A John Deere Tractor For Her Birthday "Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching." Proverbs 1:8 WATCH: These Twin Sisters Have An Important Message To Share When Celebrating Their 102nd Birthday  LISTEN: Prayers for Loretta Lynn After the Death of Grandchild | Pastor and Wife Were Killed in Car Accident, Kids Show Hope h/t: ABC News Featured Image Credit: YouTube/WPLG Local 10 The post These Twin Sisters Have An Important Message To Share On Their 102nd Birthday appeared first on GodUpdates.

When Kamala speaks, concrete reality disappears into a foaming mess of abstract and often dishonest blather. Her words are fillers, not meaningful answers. If she is even thinking about what she is saying, it’s not obvious. What is obvious is that the back of her brain is always busy popping up tropes, slogans, and hackneyed […] The post Kamala Tells People Why They Don’t Know What She Stands For appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former President Donald Trump will head to Vice President Kamala Harris’s home state of California this weekend to rally supporters in the deep blue state with less than a month to go in the presidential race.  The event will be held on Saturday at the Calhoun Ranch at 5:00 p.m. local time in Coachella, according to Trump’s campaign. Coachella is in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, widely known for its annual music and art festival. The announcement indicated that Trump’s remarks will focus on inflation, the cost of living, and the records of Harris, her vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.  “Under Kamala Harris and her dangerous Democrat allies like Tim Walz, the notorious ‘California Dream’ has turned into a nightmare for everyday Americans. Since Harris and Biden took office, prices have skyrocketed by nearly 20 percent, leaving Californians grappling with crushing costs,” the campaign said. “Families are struggling to stay afloat, with the average California household losing more than $33,232 since January 2021. Californians are suffocating under rising prices for everything from groceries to housing, thanks to Kamalanomics.” The announcement also pointed to surging home prices in California, including in cities like San Diego, where the median home price is more than $1 million, and gas prices reached record highs in 2022.  “This is the future Harris and Walz want for the rest of America — crippling inflation, unaffordable housing, and sky-high gas prices,” the campaign said. “If this is the California Dream, it’s every American’s worst nightmare. President Trump is the only candidate who can reverse the damage done by Comrade Kamala, and it’s why Americans will elect him the 47th President of the United States this November.” Steven Hernandez, the mayor of Coachella, responded to the news of the rally by criticizing Trump.  “The City of Coachella was proud to welcome Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2020 primary election, but news of former President Trump’s upcoming visit has been met very differently,” Hernandez wrote on Facebook. “Trump’s attacks on immigrants, women, the LQBTQ community and the most vulnerable among us don’t align with the values of our community. He has consistently expressed disdain for the type of diversity that helps define Coachella. We don’t know why Trump is visiting near Coachella, but we know he wasn’t invited by the people who live here. He ain’t like us.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a conservative, will assist the Secret Service in providing security for the event. He said that Hernandez’s statement was divisive.  “Mr. Hernandez, better take a look around, because he obviously was invited by the people that live there and work there, and maybe he’s going to be in line for an awakening in the future, because this constant divide and this constant rhetoric that we have going on is not good for the country,” said Bianco, who endorsed Trump earlier this year. Bianco is reportedly considering a run for governor in 2026. While California is a Democratic stronghold, several key House races in the state could determine control of the chamber.

Nearly 14,000 children underwent sex changes across the country from 2019 to 2023, according to a new database that tracks transgender children’s clinics. Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals opposed to the politicization of medicine, this week launched “Stop The Harm,” a database that tracks “sex change treatments being performed on minors at healthcare facilities in the United States.” The group found that, from 2019 to 2023, at least 13,994 children underwent sex changes, for which doctors submitted charges of around $119 million. That is likely an underestimate, as the analysis could not account for claims from certain insurance companies or those who paid in cash. The database tracks children’s hospitals and other providers that offer puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries that seek to change the gender of children. Users can view lists of children’s hospitals that provide sex change operations on children in their state, also viewing the profiles of some of the worst-offending hospitals. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, for example, had 145 child sex change patients from 2019 to 2023, including 39 surgery patients. It also charged $274,000 for child sex change interventions. Oregon’s Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center had 267 child sex change patients and 223 surgery patients. The report also highlights doctors who’ve billed the highest sums of money for sex change interventions on children. At Boston Children’s Hospital, one doctor billed a whopping $5.19 million for sex change interventions for children, the highest of any single provider. Dr. Oren Ganor of Boston Children’s Hospital has been highlighted as an “affirming pediatric and adolescent medicine provider” by a transgender activist organization. Ganor “specializes in complex reconstructions, microsurgery, and gender-affirming surgeries” and is “deeply invested in clinical research, and aspires to use research to improve the field of gender-confirming surgery.” The Daily Wire asked Boston Children’s Hospital if it could identify Dr. Ganor as the individual who billed the sum, but did not receive a response. One doctor at New York’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel billed $4.59 million for sex change interventions, while a doctor at Stanford doctor came in third after billing $4.15 million. The site also highlights the “Dirty Dozen,” which Do No Harm calls the “worst-offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors.” “To select our list, we identified each hospital and pediatric facility offering sex change treatments and considered a combination of factors to determine the institution’s engagement in performing and promoting sex change treatments on minors,” Do No Harm said. “We considered legislative activism, such as explicit policy statements and/or testimony in favor of legislation, in addition to community activism, such as promoting sex change treatments among local schools and youth groups.” One of the hospitals on the list, Seattle Children’s, had 285 sex change patients from 2019 to 2023, including 50 surgery patients. The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, meanwhile, recorded 265 sex change interventions from 2019 to 2023 including 165 surgery patients. It also billed nearly $1.75 million in charges for sex change interventions. San Diego’s Rady Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado, which saw 136 and 120 patients, respectively, both made it onto the dirty dozen list as well. The Daily Wire previously reported that the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to promote sex change operations to parents of school children, with district personnel reaching out to the hospital to facilitate one student’s transition. Sex change interventions for children have not been relegated to the coasts and traditionally left-wing states, however. In Nashville, Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center recorded minor 33 sex change patients, including 22 surgery patients from 2019 to 2023, while Missouri’s St. Louis Children’s Hospital had 49 sex change patients during the same time frame. Do No Harm performed its analysis with data from “commercial insurance providers, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Department of Veterans Affairs,” noting that the analysis excludes data from “internal Kaiser Permanente and internal Department of Veterans Affairs claims” and direct payments, indicating that the figures could undercount the number of sex change interventions performed on children and their associated costs. 

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A post shared on social media purports that musician Taylor Swift has unfollowed all accounts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, since the arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Verdict: False Swift unfollowed all accounts in 2017. Fact Check: Combs’ mother made a statement shared on social media regarding her son’s arrest, which was shared by […]

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