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Sammyesx

Myth Your Parents Made You Believe As Achild

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When we were kids we were made to believe different things, most of which were scary and the consequence unfavorable to us. Share with us the things which you were made to believe as a kid and how you got over your useless belifs. I'll start.

Picking money from the ground. When am being told stories of people who picked money which did not belong to them on the ground, how they'll turn to goats, chicken, yam, wheel barrow and a host of others, fear engulfs me to the marrow. I refused to pick money from the ground under no circumstances but one day all that changed.

I was coming back from school (2011) under the scorching sun, thirsty and famished after the days compound work I was going home alone that day when I saw 50 Naira lying on the floor. grin I prayed in my (God if am going to turn into a goat let me but I will take this money) I bent down and picked the money and looked at myself and started laughing seeing the fact that am alive and nothing is wrong with me. I just kuku carry the money enter the nearest shop buy water drink, if not I don't know if I would be alive typing this.

Share yours!!

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Pokovirtuousblog

Lifestyle Entrepreneur Ada Johnson Speaks On Her Stay In Nigeria, Says 'Too Stressful For My Soft Life Ambition'

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The Nigerian-American Fashion Model had made the disclosure in a post on her social media handle, Pokovirtuousblog can confirm.

In a post on her Instagram handle a couple days ago, budding Nigerian Lifestyle Entrepreneur, Ada Johnson, informed her followers that Nigeria is very much stressful for her.

"Landed in Nigeria safely and immediately wanted to leave. This country is definitely too stressful for my soft life ambition.

"#mmadichie #life #naija."

Our reporter gathered that her followers wouldn't keep mum as they've since taken to the comments wagging their tongues.

Nkemmbamalu, 'Kai! I know this all too well'; _Kwatha_, 'No please. I want you to have the best time here', among others.

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Youngancient

How Can I Remove A Burnt Stain On Pressing Iron?

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How can I remove a burnt stain on pressing iron?

Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you all had a great time today.

As we all know, today is Sunday and while we are resting, we are also preparing for tomorrow (Monday) and other weekdays ahead💁. In my zone, I wanted to iron my clothes for the whole week today and when I took the iron, it had a burnt stain on it so I definitely couldn't iron my white shirts.

I stopped myself from being angry because anger wouldn't solve the problem for me. The only way I know how to clean the stain is to rub the burnt surface on fine sand with water(while the surface is hot) but that's a looong process, I said to myself 🤔. I need a faster way of removing the stain without stress.

Please, I need your help🙏.

Ohh!! I forgot to say this one😏👇

Do have a wonderful Sunday everyone 🤗💙.

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Sgpeterson

$14bn War Chest: Record Spending On Election Fuelled By Polarised Anger

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Record spending on US 2020 campaigns fueled by polarized anger

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$14bn War Chest: Record spending on US election fuelled by polarised anger

United States (US) 2020 campaigns cost some $14 billion, a record sum showing that parties are increasingly willing to spend big on races to express visceral opposition to their rivals — even when their chances are slim.

The enormous cost of this year’s presidential and legislative elections is nearly double the cost of 2016’s races, and more than triple those of 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group that tracks money in politics.

The Democrats, in particular, lost some costly wagers this year.

South Carolina’s incumbent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham easily beat his rival Jaime Harrison, who spent a record $108 million after donations from Democrats poured in from all over the country, according to Karl Evers-Hillstrom from the CPR.

“To all the liberals in California and New York, you wasted a lot of money,” Graham said following his reelection.

To be fair, a number of billionaire donors gave to keep Graham afloat — and, according to the CPR, the vast majority of his funds also came from out of state.

Amy McGrath in Kentucky also suffered a blow in her face-off with Republican Mitch McConnell, a senator since 1985 who Democrats desperately hoped to unseat given his unwillingness to compromise.

He recently triggered ire after pushing through the nomination of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court just before the presidential vote.

The campaign of McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, burned $88 million, the second costliest Senate run in US history.

Republicans also lost some expensive investments: donors nationwide gathered some $10 million in a bid to thwart New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 31-year-old Democratic socialist who’s amassed significant power in the House’s left flank, to the disdain of conservative rivals.

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Spending from her challenger, the 60-year-old ex-cop John Cummings, along with her own $17 million in fundraising made the race one of the most expensive House duels ever — but the representative known as AOC breezed back into Congress by more than 38 points.

– Motivated by passion –

For campaign financing experts, pricey losses confirm that money isn’t the only factor when it comes to winning elections, and can’t change the political landscape overnight.

Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest people in the world, learned the hard way during the Democratic party that money alone can’t buy him a spot in office: the former New York mayor spent $550 million in advertising — a record for a campaign — but gained little traction with voters.

Fundraising is key to advertising campaigns and developing name recognition, but only goes so far in reversing long-entrenched political sentiment.

“If you are in an ultra-red state, your chances of winning are pretty close to zero,” said Evers-Hillstrom of the CPR.

Yet donations keep pouring in.

For Michael Malbin, a political science professor at the State University of New York, the stark polarization of the Donald Trump years has played a large role in motivating donors.

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Anger and rejection of Trumpism on one side, an indictment of “Socialism” on the other — such factors are “strong motivators” to donate, Malbin said.

It’s unsurprising, then, that the largest sums are concentrated on candidates like McConnell, Graham and Ocasio-Cortez, politicians who incite constituent’s passions.

But while thousands of donors contribute to high-profile battles, “90 percent of the races in this country are underfunded on one side or the other,” Malbin said.

“Money is going… to the candidates who have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.”

The ease of donating online has also changed the game, since the Democrats launched the online platform ActBlue in 2004.

“It’s become incredibly easy, it’s the Amazon of politics,” Malbin said. “All you have to do is click.”

If one thing is clear, it’s that campaign spending is unlikely to fall anytime soon in a country with few limits on financing elections.

“If we continue to be as polarized as we are, we can probably expect a lot of money to be spent,” said Evers-Hillstrom.

[AFP]

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