by | September 16, 2026 · 5:53 am

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KENTUCKY: CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2099899469953110349 [1:15] to hear Republican Rep. Thomas Massie move to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2099928052947947702 [:09] to see Attorney General Todd Blanche’s reaction to the news.

LINDSAY CLANCY: This case bothers me deeply, so I’ve mostly been avoiding it. If you want to read some of the latest, click the links below. The first two are about the lone male juror who refused to acquit. The second two are female jurors who sided with the murdering mother.

MAHA: I have a disability. I’d LOVE to be cured! Being healthy and fully functional would not change my value as a human being. But it sure would make my life easier and more fun!

NEW YORK SUCKS: When I was applying to colleges, I knew that my New York State High School Regents diploma gave me an edge over kids from other states. Libtards at the Board of Regents have decided that, as of 2028, there will no longer be any such thing.

SOCIALISM: In the dead of night on September 16, 1979, eight people crammed into a tiny homemade gondola, lit a fire beneath a patchwork balloon stitched together in secret, and prayed it would carry them to freedom from “the warmth of collectivism.” Their flight, lasting approximately 28 minutes, landed them in a field near the town of Naila in Bavaria, West Germany. The story captured the world’s imagination and became front page news across the globe. Walt Disney Productions turned it into a film called Night Crossing, released in 1982. Their equipment was eventually put on display at museums in Germany.

STUPID PEOPLE: Interesting how “Roza” knows a big word like “misogyny“, but not simple facts like yogurt is made from milk which only comes from girl cows and eating yogurt is not “consuming” an animal. It is consuming an animal product, but the cows with girl names are just fine, thank you very much.

TEXAS: CLICK https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2099578456723902656 [:14] to hear Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate, James “I’m a Christian who hates Christianity” Talarico instantly name his favorite drag queen, “Alyssa Edwards” (aka, Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson).

TOLERANCE: North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

GRAMMY NOTES: The girls’ toy room turned office turned junk storage area has been successfully transformed into “The Bunkhouse” for the grands, complete with 4 bunk beds, shelves of books, toys, puzzles and games, a table, some stools, a white board, a black board, and a place to recharge their devices. It now also boasts a patchwork privacy curtain made from Dearest’s old shirts. I think we can leave the hall light on at night and let that lovely glow act as the grands’ night light.

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by | September 15, 2026 · 1:09 pm

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ELECTION INTEGRITY: Mariana Alexandra Dewey, a citizen of Peru, has been arrested and charged with one count of false claim of citizenship, one count of false claim of United States citizenship in order to vote, one count of fraudulent election conduct, and one count of voting by an alien in a federal election.

In other news, SCOTUS has blocked Trump’s attempt to require unique barcodes and scanner-ready envelopes for all mail-in ballots nationwide.

FYI: In first-century Palestine, the mustard seed was widely recognized as the smallest seed routinely sown and handled.

LIBERAL LUNACY: They can’t define what a woman is, but they’re sure women can’t get photo ID to vote. Also, they want Lindsay Clancy found not guilty because her hormones made her crazy, but they also think a woman should be the President of the United States with her finger on the nuclear button. But that’s okay, because they also think men can be women, so a man who is a woman wouldn’t have dicey hormones, right?

MAHA: [21:53] – Dr. Alex talks about an extraordinary study that showed the bowel cancer risk in African-Americans (very high) and South Africans of similar genetic make-up (very low) flipped after just 14 days when the diets of the two populations was reversed.

NASA: This is the most spectacular of the sunset photos the Mars Rovers have sent us. The blue glow happens because fine dust particles in the thin Martian atmosphere scatter blue light more efficiently than other colors.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has issued a sweeping directive mandating that transgender inmates be housed strictly according to their biological sex at birth. In addition to removing trans-identifying men from women’s prisons, the directive also blocks federal funding for gender-affirming medical care and halts social transition accommodations, such as pronoun and dress code changes, for individuals in federal custody.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1137180439287317 [1:25] to hear a very do-able plan for coping with anxiety.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1805535754123011 [:28] to see a precisely synchronized pair dive from the 2024 Olympics.

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by | September 14, 2026 · 7:07 am

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EVERYDAY HEROES: Every Sunday after church for a year, Edna Kowalski took a cab to the county animal shelter to visit Chester, an old beagle mix who’d been at the shelter for two years. Within a month, the volunteers noticed Chester waiting at the front of his kennel by 11 every Sunday, before her cab even pulled into the parking lot. When the cab ran late, Chester paced until he heard Edna’s voice.

When a volunteer finally asked Edna why she didn’t just adopt Chester, she explained that her lease didn’t allow it and she couldn’t afford to move on her pension. When the shelter director told Edna’s building manager about how Edna had visited Chester 52 Sundays in a row, the manager agreed to allow Edna to adopt him.

GREENLAND: The New York Times reports the ChiComs have established a regular cargo service using an Arctic shortcut from Asia to Europe.

LEFT-ISM: Terrorism [noun] – The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.


LYING LIARS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1094549199709515 [2:47] to hear yet another b.s. “statistic” Dems put together.

MAHA: Once in a blue moon, I have smelled nail polish remover on my breath. I just learned that this is a real thing (as opposed to me being flaky). There are two reasons it can happen … one good, one very bad.

Briefly, when the body uses up readily available glucose, it starts burning fat. Acetone is a waste product of this fat-burning process that is expelled through the lungs. Acetone is a type of nail polish remover. If you’re healthy and fasting, exercising, and/or eating a low-carb diet, acetone breath is a sign your body is burning fat.

But if you’re NOT healthy, acetone breath can be a sign of a life-threatening blood sugar crisis. Symptoms of this include deep, rapid, and labored respiration; frequent urination and extreme thirst; persistent vomiting and abdominal pain; blurred vision; confusion; extreme lethargy; loss of consciousness.

NORTH CAROLINA: A year ago, a student at Ardrey Kell High School asked for and received permission to paint the above message on the school’s “spirit rock.” Within hours of the message appearing, school officials ordered it to be painted over, then publicly humiliated and slandered the student. The girl and her parents sued. The school board just settled, agreeing to pay $95,000 in costs and attorneys’ fees and issuing a public statement apologizing to and clearing the student of all wrongdoing.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TyqRf6ivFPQ [2:08] to hear Father Dan Reehil call out two behaviors that our culture labels as loving, but which the Bible and church teaching say are actually deadly sins of omission.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1281922633983212 [1:14] to hear the latest absurdity from the left.

GRAMMY NOTES: Sorry if you’re tired of my petunias, but I’ve never grown them before and I just can’t get over how floriferous they are. This abundant display is courtesy of only 3 plants!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1814290069561802 to admire some creative parental problem solving.

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by | September 13, 2026 · 12:18 pm

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BORDER: Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan national, has been removed from the United States for her role in planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024. The deportation was carried out through the long-dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court, marking the first case ever brought before it. Zada is now permanently banned from ever returning to the United States.

CHICOM: [30:42] – The Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force announces major seizures and enforcement actions against a Chinese-run illicit scam marketplace that uses slave labor to steal money from American victims.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [4:20] – This lady takes secondhand, hyper-sexualized Bratz dolls and transforms them into sweet young girl dolls.

GAS PRICES: Oil is currently cheaper than it was under Biden. But oil has to be refined before we can use it. We haven’t built a major new refinery in this country since 1977, because Democrats have used permits, lawsuits, fees, and a promise to ban gas cars to starve us of homegrown gas and make us dependent on foreign countries, many of which hate us. The good news is that Trump just broke ground in Texas on the first new refinery. So stop blaming Trump. He isn’t the one who created the problem. He is the one who is fixing it.

LIFE: A federal judge has ordered a temporary ban on Illinois’ enforcement of an assisted-suicide mandate. Read below for more about the legal battle between left-wing death mongers and Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Little Sisters of the Poor—two orders of Catholic nuns that have cared for the sick and dying for generations—and Luke Vander Bleek—a Catholic pharmacist who owns a community pharmacy in rural Morrison, Illinois.

MAHA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JegIoGhKe8M [2:00] to learn how to cut your all-cause mortality risk in half. It takes two or three 40-minute, “Norwegian 4×4” work-outs per week.

“Four by four” or “Norwegian 4×4” is a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout where you do four 4-minute high-intensity efforts followed by 3 minutes of active recovery. This is repeated four times.

For more information, see the site linked below. The site includes advice on how beginners can get started.

MAMDANI: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2098435641537114237 to see Zohran and AOC chitchat and chuckle during the reading of the World Trade Center victims.

MEDIA: This is how the New York Slime marked the 25th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on our soil. The Times building is 1.5 miles from Ground Zero.

NASA: Voyager 1 was launched in 1977. It is now the most distant human-made object in space. It relies on small thrusters to keep its high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, so it can transmit scientific data and receive commands. Twenty-two years ago, these thrusters stopped working and NASA wrote it off.

Then a new generation of engineers looked at the specs and suggested a fix. They sent a command and waited. Voyager 1 is 16 billion miles from home; it takes a full day for a command from home to reach it and another day for any data it sends back to reach home. But after two days of waiting, the engineers found out their fix had worked!

Voyager 1’s body is about the size of a subcompact car. It was built in 1977 and subjected to the brutal conditions of outer space for 47+ years. For 22 years, it couldn’t do its job. Today, it has returned to full function thanks to engineers who had not even been born when it launched.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1530468065445048 [:54] to hear a powerful reminder that, when God tells you to do something, DO IT.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iH5if7bOLnQ to watch 2,977 drones (the number of 9/11 victims) recreate the World Trade towers.

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by | September 12, 2026 · 10:40 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “we choose to go to the moon” speech. Less than seven years later, Neil Armstrong made man’s first foot print on the lunar surface.

CATHOLIC: A fundamental principal of Catholic social teaching is called “subsidiarity.” Subsidiarity states that matters ought to be handled at the most immediate or local level at which they can be effectively addressed. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1627112542325780/ [1:45] to hear President Trump say that the state, not the federal governments should be handling emergency food programs (e.g., SNAP).

CLIMATE HOAX: They’ve been telling us for decades that man-made climate change was going to kill off the Great Barrier Reef. In fact, it’s doing better than ever.

They’ve also been telling us how hurricanes would get worse and worse and worse! This year has been the quietest season since 1966.

COLORADO: Yvonne “Missy” Woods, a Colorado DNA analyst, has just been sentenced to 10 years in prison for perjury, forgery, cybercrime and attempting to influence a public servant. Woods spent 29 years at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, where she was the star DNA expert with a reputation for closing cases faster than anyone. Among other things, she deleted male DNA in 32 sexual assault cases, then reported none had been found. Colorado is now retesting evidence in more than a thousand cases, because any result she signed off on may have been faked.

GOP MIDTERM CONVENTION: Texas congressman Brandon Gill opened the event with this “land acknowledgment” – “It’s only appropriate that we kick this off with a land acknowledgment. I’d like to acknowledge that we stand here today in the great state of Texas and the United States of America — the ancestral homeland of great American patriots, pioneers and explorers who put down roots, fought for freedom all over the globe, and bled and died to build the greatest civilization known to man. My friends, we live in the finest country in the history of the world. And we’re no longer going to apologize for that.”

LIFE: CLICK https://x.com/frfrankpavone/status/2097733031645569148 [:31] to watch what has become of “safe, legal, and rare.”

MAHA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d5QkC5deaFM [1:18] to hear how amazing broccoli sprouts are for your health. We just harvested our first batch and it was insanely easy to grow them.

Below are links to the products I bought, with which I am very pleased. I used 2 Tblsp of seeds and got about 3/4 of a jar full. All they need is to be soaked for 4-6 hrs before starting, then drain, rinse and set on the stand. After that, I just rinsed and drained them a few times a day, leaving them on the stand until they were well sprouted. They say they’ll keep in the fridge for up to 5 days, so I started a new jar right away.

Just remember that broccoli sprouts lose their health benefits if they’re cooked.

MILITARY: The number of suspected cartel-linked drones in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by 75 percent since the U.S. military began using high-energy lasers. One hundred drones were completely disabled in August alone.

OH CANADA: In the early morning hours of July 24, Elaine Blais (65) got out of bed, fainted and hit her head. She then became cold, clammy, and short of breath. Her husband, being a doctor, knew she needed immediate help, so called 911. They waited nearly 90 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, by which time, Elaine was beyond help. She was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. This is what happens when the government takes charge of running all the health care.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: Each of us has a guardian angel. According to exorcist Father Chad Ripperger, there is just one thing they are waiting for, which is to be asked to do their jobs. Memorize at least one guardian angel prayer and make a commitment to say it every day.

“Angel of God, our guardians dear, to whom God’s love commits us here. Ever this day be at our sides, to light and guard, to rule and guide.”

“Guardian angel of my children, I ask you to protect them. Stand where I cannot stand, see what I cannot see, and keep away from them everything that would do them harm. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.“

GRAMMY NOTES: He makes a good point. I had 5 siblings. We and our parents shared 4 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. (My cousins had 11 in less space!) A/C and air filters were non-existent, despite 2 of us having bad seasonal allergies. I was #5. My mother, who kept the books for Pop’s business but otherwise was a SAHM, didn’t get her own car until I was in high school.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1805133874264333 [:23] to see shift happen.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MgpA2aP_kYA to enjoy a cute new R*CKST*R.

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by | September 11, 2026 · 10:17 am

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Heather “Lucky” Penney was sitting in a routine briefing at Andrews Air Force Base when someone entered the room with shocking news: A plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then came the second aircraft.

Colonel Marc Sasseville looked across the room at the 26-year-old F-16 pilot. “Lucky, you’re coming with me.” But there was a terrifying problem. Their F-16s weren’t armed for combat. There wasn’t enough time to load missiles before another hijacked aircraft could potentially reach Washington.

So Penney and Sasseville prepared for a mission with almost no precedent. If they found a hijacked airliner threatening Washington, their own F-16s might have to become the weapons. Sasseville would aim for the cockpit. Penney would take the tail. There would be no ejection at the last second. They understood what the plan could mean. Penney later recalled believing it might be the last time she ever took off.

At 10:42 a.m., their fighters became airborne and began searching the eerily empty skies around Washington. They never found Flight 93. Because nearly 40 minutes earlier, at 10:03 a.m., the aircraft had already crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The passengers and crew had fought back themselves.

Penney later realized that without their counterattack, Flight 93 could have reached Washington before her fighter was even airborne. She continued flying missions that day and later helped escort Air Force One back toward Washington.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46-year-old elevator mechanic Charles “Chuck” Costello Jr. was working at a hotel in SoHo, twenty blocks north of the World Trade Center. It was a rare day for the New Jersey father of four to be working in Manhattan, but as a Boeing 767 slammed into the North Tower and hundreds of thousands of people began fleeing Lower Manhattan in terror, Costello did the unthinkable: he jumped out of his work site and ran over two miles straight toward the burning towers. When his coworker desperately urged him to stay back, the humble Navy veteran and devout Christian simply replied, “I’ll be fine. Just keep your cellphone on,” before disappearing into the thick smoke.

Inside the burning complex, stalled elevators had become horrific death traps, locking hundreds of panicked occupants inside pitch-black shafts filled with jet fuel smoke. While official contractors withdrew their crews from the chaos, Costello voluntarily charged into 1 World Trade Center to offer his technical expertise. Working alongside firefighters and police officers, who quickly came to know him as “the elevator man”, he used his specialized tools and knowledge to override controls and manually force open jammed doors, freeing trapped workers line after line. After extricating countless people from the North Tower, he refused to seek safety for himself and instead ran directly into 2 World Trade Center to perform the exact same life-saving operation.

Costello’s tireless efforts saved hundreds of lives before the towers collapsed, but his refusal to abandon those trapped inside came at the ultimate price. On January 5, 2002, search and rescue crews finally recovered his remains deep beneath the rubble in a South Tower elevator shaft, resting side-by-side with a firefighter and a police officer. In his pocket were his driver’s license, union card, and rosary. Today, his son carries on his legacy as both an elevator mechanic and a volunteer firefighter. While the world remembers the overwhelming tragedy of that morning, Chuck Costello’s quiet, self-sacrificing courage stands as a testament to the highest order of human love, serving as a poignant reminder of how easily extraordinary human stories can be overlooked.

@ShakesandBerry posted, “I was a classroom teacher on 9-11. Our principal told the twelve of us who taught second grade to put two classes together in six classrooms and declare the day a ‘free fun play and movie day.’ Under no circumstances were we to show fear in front of our little ones and NOT to let them know what was happening. Six teachers stayed in their empty rooms and recorded from 9:00 am through the rest of the school day.

“Teachers took turns taking the kids outside to the playground and coming back in to watch cartoons and children’s movies. Some parents who were terrified of the news, came to pick their kids up early to take them home. I left school that afternoon after removing the full tape, and inserting a new one to keep recording. When I got home, I recorded all night long and kept recording both there and when I went to school the next day.

“It took me five or six years before I could watch all those tapes. I cried through them all. I still, after all these years, remember the LOUD thuds of human bodies hitting the ground.

“Americans must continue to honor lives lost by VOTING OUT every Muslim in our local, state and federal governments, and getting them OUT of our country.“

Genelle was on the 64th floor of the North Tower when the planes hit. She tried to escape by walking down the stairs. She got to the 13th floor when the tower collapsed. She was thrown to the ground and pinned under thousands of tons of concrete and steel. Her head was wedged tightly against a concrete pillar, her legs were completely crushed beneath thirty feet of debris.

Genelle had been raised by a devout Christian, but had walked away from the faith. Lying trapped, broken, and in excruciating pain for hours, she begged God to give her a second chance and promised that if He saved her she would dedicate her life to Him. She prayed, “God, You know this. I know You can do miracles, from what my mom told me. Testimony of what I’ve heard and seen — I know You can do miracles. Just show me a sign that You’re there. Just show me a sign that You’re listening to me.”

Just as she was about to completely give up, a hand took hold of her left hand. A man called her by her name and told her his name was Paul. He held her hand and kept telling her that she was going to be all right and that help was getting close. Paul stayed right by her side until a search dog named Trakr led rescue workers to her. Then, he disappeared.

Genelle was the last person saved. She had been buried alive for 27 hours. Genelle believes Paul was the guardian angel God sent to give her hope. She spent a month in the hospital and endured four surgeries to save her crushed right leg. Keeping the promise she made to God, she was baptized later that same year and married her boyfriend. She later wrote Angel in the Rubble to share her testimony.

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by | September 10, 2026 · 8:29 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: One year ago today, God called our friend home.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: [8:18] – My biggest concern about AI is that demonic entities will infest them, pretend to be gods, lead untold numbers of souls astray.

EVERYDAY HEROES: “Double” is a diabetic alert dog assigned to Myles (6) who has type 1 diabetes. Double and Myles’ mom were inside while Myles was outside playing soccer when Double told Mom that she needed to check on Myles. Sure enough, Myles’ blood sugar was low. Mom says, “Double consistently alerts us 15 to 30 minutes before his Dexcom CGM catches the same change. This is why I will never stop being grateful for what he can do.” CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/26756279407403899/ [1:37] to see the video.

GROK vs CHATGPT: “Why do you have a problem with that?” Real answer: “My programmers hate Christianity.” [22:46] – Listening to Simon Jacobson AI (above), Grok, and ChatGPT, it is very clear that the people who program so-called “Artificial Intelligences” have a vast influence over what answers they give. Just as a quick test, I asked Simon and Grok the same question. “What is my purpose?” Simon gave me a pastor’s response that specifically references my soul; Grok didn’t even mention the possibility that I might have a spiritual or eternal purpose.

MAHA: [7:53] – If you don’t have time to walk after meals, there’s a simple exercise you can do while sitting that can cut your post-prandial blood sugar spike.

MILITARY: On Sept. 8, U.S. forces destroyed five tankers with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in retaliation for an earlier attempted missile attack targeting a U.S. warship. The U.S. warship evaded the Iranian attack without any harm to U.S. personnel on board.

RECALL: Chrysler is recalling 328,381 Jeep Cherokees because real coil springs that may have been incorrectly installed could detach from the vehicle while driving, increasing the risk of an accident.

ROTTEN APPLE: Mayor Mamdani’s plan to use taxpayer moneys to provide food at 30% off has led to a coalition of small-business owners suing for antitrust violations and predatory pricing. I saw firsthand what happens to small, locally-owned businesses in situations like this. When I was growing up, there were two sporting goods stores in Ithaca, NY – Cullen’s and Gould’s. One of my brothers and a Gould son took over for their dads when they retired. Then, Ithaca gave a national chain a sweetheart deal – 5 years of zero taxes – to come to town and build a newer, bigger, “better” store. Cullen’s and Gould’s went out of business, because they couldn’t compete. Then, when the five years was up, the national chain closed its Ithaca store.

GRAMMY NOTES: In 1972, I got to join a tour that visited Leningrad and Moscow. Our guide told us the state gave her 2 choices for career. She picked tour guide as the less onerous option, but what she really wanted to do was stay home with her 3-year-old.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2258890391512875 [:34] to see what happened when a semi had a blow out.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1_mjwObzBoY [:48] to hear what Father Mike had to say about gossip.

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by | September 9, 2026 · 8:13 am

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EQUITY: @jimmy_esq posted this graphic, asking, “Why should any of these people, who are not in the stands and therefore presumably did not buy tickets, be able to see the baseball game in the first place?“

EVERYDAY HEROES: @Squeeze1i posted this photo with, “My son is autistic and is incredibly attached to his teddy that he has since birth, it’s been 11 years. I tried to find the bear online but only found a miniature version and not the real one, seemed to be out of production since 10 years. I reached out to the company, Baby Fehn, and the customer service informed that they could reproduce a bear especially for us! The bear arrived today and needless to say my son was emotional. THIS is customer service!!!! The absolute GOAT!“

FLORIDA: Governor Ron DeSantis has confirmed that after finalizing the new budget, the state of Florida will have slashed spending for 4 straight years. Despite having a similar population to New York, Florida’s budget will be less than half the size of New York’s. The state’s rainy day fund will be 100% full and more than 3 times larger than it was just 7 years ago. All of this with no state income tax and upcoming cuts to property taxes.

LEFTism: Karlyn Borysenko, founder of “Decode the Left” is “a psychologist and independent journalist who analyzes the left and provides strategic intelligence.” CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1914939109185333 to hear her explain the two reasons she films left-wing graffiti.

LYING LIARS: The Catholic Church does not ordain women.

MAHA: [30:31] – If you’ve got half an hour and are interested in lowering your blood pressure, this video has a lot of easy-to-understand information.

NEBRASKA: The Nebraska Senate race is between Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts and independent Dan Osborn. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1112265244609130 [:59] to hear Osborn, who is being endorsed by the Democratic Party, explain why he has to lie to voters about his positions. Compare what he says, when he thinks nobody is recording, to what his campaign site claims …

“My name is Dan Osborn and I’m running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska. Every day, I roll up my sleeves and get to work, fixing what needs fixed. No institution in America needs fixing more than the United States Senate. I’ll bring Nebraskan values to Washington, with a work ethic honed by my years as a Navy man, a Nebraska National Guardsman, an industrial mechanic, a union leader, a husband, and a father.”

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oDvudXu2-1A [2:44] to hear Sec. State Marco Rubio explain some of the ways that Marxists present themselves these days.

GRAMMY NOTES: In Texas, disabled military veterans pay no property tax.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/02aykRWGvHM to see the cutest delivery.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VfVILyoDk7M to see some very odd nesting behaviors.

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by | September 8, 2026 · 6:02 am

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1596483158729808 [4:29] to hear a few of the many reasons I love being Catholic. The comments on this video are wonderful! My favorite – “I literally just said to my daughter ‘I can’t be in two places at the same time, I’m not Padre Pio.’ When you grow up Catholic, it’s just part of your daily life.”

CRAZY CRIMINALS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/975708258750512 [1:44] to hear a common sense plea for sanity on our streets and in our courts.

IMMIGRATION: “Gays for Gaza” activist Cameron Capara was shot dead in front a gay bar in Tucson by an Islamist migrant from Gambia. The shooter, Ousman Ceesay [44], was new to the Tucson area and did not know the victims. Detectives found a note in his home that indicated the shooting was a “targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community.”

LIFE: Methinks the Lindsay Clancy case is finally waking up some people who thought the slippery slope was a myth.

MAHA: CLICK https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/2096267045033640073 [1:06] to hear Beatrice Adler-Bolton, speaking at “Socialism 2026,” say that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.” She argues that good little socialists should avoid the “fascist” goal of being healthy and fit.

Adler-Bolton is author of “Health Communism” and co-host of the twice weekly podcast “Death Panel.” She and her ilk “argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.” They claim it is capitalism that “has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as … a fiscal and social burden.” Yet, it’s the left that promotes abortion and euthanasia.

They also need to face up to the fact that the epidemic of obesity can be credited to the capitalistic Big Food industry, which has deliberately created and marketed highly-processed foods that are not only malnourishing, but also addictive. Ditto her idea that advocating for poor health promotes another highly capitalistic industry, namely, Big Pharma.

OH CANADA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/4425033294376879 to hear what the Canadian Broadcasting Company has dictated about 9/11 reports.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: God bless him! I can’t imagine the amount of pressure the other 11 put on him for DAYS and DAYS. If only it had been a real life “Twelve Angry Men” and he had been able to convince the other 11 he was right.

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://x.com/MrShermichael/status/2095930270843113908 [:24] to hear Palestinian journalist, Rula Jebreal, call Hakeem Jeffries a “bought and paid for monkey”, then qualify it as “not racist.” I’m pretty sure there is no such thing as a “not racist” way to call a Black man “bought and paid for” and/or “monkey.”

GRAMMY NOTES: The Kennedy-Nixon debate. I was 5. My older brother had to watch it for school and he told me to be quiet, so he could hear. So what I really remember is my brother yelling at me. LOL

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by | September 7, 2026 · 8:22 am

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FLORIDA: This week, Florida’s State University System Board of Governors voted unanimously to ban illegal aliens from the state’s 12 public universities, beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year. The decision follows moves by the Florida Board of Education to bar undocumented students from the state’s 24 public colleges, GED programs and, most recently, career and technical education programs.

IRAN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer and missed. In response, we shot our missiles at three of their crude oil carriers and destroyed them all.

JUDAISM: @realMaalouf asks, “The men have long beards and women cover their hair. They dress in a distinct way, pray in another language, are very religious, and have many children. Yet their presence does not cause fear and no one worries they might blow themselves up in a suicide attack. What’s different?” A fair question!

LIFE: CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2096263334379302915 [1:17] to hear a pro-choice liberal betray her hypocrisy.

MURDER: Corie A. Walsh, a mother in Illinois, was arrested and charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son after a neighbor found the child in the basement of the home. Witnesses say that Walsh was “heavily invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was debating it over text just hours before the murder occurred.

NEVADA: In January 2020, Democrats were 38% of the state’s electorate and led Republicans by more than 83,000 active voters. When automatic voter registration kicked in that year, the Democratic edge rose to more than 110,000. Joe Biden won the state’s electoral votes by 33,596 votes.

Since January 1, 2025, the state has been actively cleaning up its voter rolls, removing people who have died, moved, or never should have been registered in the first place. At this point, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a scant 672 individuals.

OH CANADA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/4505446949691109 [2:20] to hear the facts about MAID. “The slippery slope is now vertical.”

S&G: [11:50] – Before gay marriage was legalized, its supporters made three specific promises. Every one of them has failed.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: [8:46] – One of TikTok’s biggest tarot readers, Alex Reads Tarot, walked away from a million followers, a six-figure business, and the only identity she’d ever known. And the moment she said the name of Jesus, her own community turned on her.

WOLVES: On August 16, the Very Rev. Micah Cronin (a woman who identifies as a man) took the helm of All Saints’ Episcopal Cathedral in Milwaukee. Cronin is married to the Rev. Elias Henry (also a woman who identifies as a man) who pastors at The Corner House, a Lutheran, LGBT-affirming campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

GRAMMY NOTES: One of my brothers (see link below) used to host Chinese tourism students for summer programs at Cornell University. He told us they always wanted to see our stores. The quantity and quality of goods, particularly food, always made them suspicious that he was only showing them the government stores, so he would pile them on the bus and let them choose where it went.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O0MppjtY8XQ to see what Dude Dad did after his mailman left him a snarky note.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2602883476829616 to see what Maggie tried to herd.

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