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ARKANSAS: CLICK https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2100662131104321566 [:28] to hear the Democrat’s candidate for U.S. Senate say that, if elected, she will fight for the rights of plantation owners, I mean, Arkansan farmers who prefer to pay dirt wages for illegal aliens rather than hire American.

CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2100678060152619314 [11:19] to listen (or not … I stopped after half a minute) to hear what Democrats used to say about illegals taking American jobs.

BORDER: [4:22] – Judge Steven J. Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that government officers can search the cell phones of people entering the United States without a warrant or probable cause.

P.S. If you skipped the video above by the Wyoming Border Patrol, go back RIGHT NOW and watch it!

GREENLAND: Trump announced on Friday, “At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval.”

Rubio added that the deal will block China, Russia, and other non-NATO nations from setting up military bases or placing troops in Greenland.

MAHA: The Power of Resistant Starch [32:55] – If you’re looking for a sprouted bread to buy and freeze, I can recommend Food for Life Flourless Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Bread. We’ve eaten it often and like the taste and texture. And Consumer Lab has tested and approved it as having 10.1 grams of carbs, of which 2.8 grams is insoluble fiber (a type of carbohydrate that does not dissolve in water and helps add bulk to stool) and .76 grams is resistant starch.

Their website lists ingredients as: Organic “Sprouted Wheat, Filtered Water, Organic Sprouted Barley, Organic Sprouted Millet, Organic Malted Barley, Organic Sprouted Lentils, Organic Sprouted Soybeans, Organic Sprouted Spelt, Yeast, Organic Wheat Gluten, Sea Salt.”

Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and fitches (and put them in one vessel) and make bread from them.” ~Ezekiel 4:9

MEDIA: [11:57] – President Trump has banned three news outlets from the White House – CNN, MS NOW, and Politico – “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!

President Obama had a long history of freezing out Fox News, because he considered their coverage of him to be unacceptably biased. He didn’t accuse them of flat out lying. He accused them of not being as fawningly approving of everything he did as the other news outlets were.

MICHIGAN: CLICK https://x.com/jacob_wass/status/2100965950799372589 [1:59] to hear the Democrat’s candidate for U.S. Senate make like a bantam rooster.

FYI: “Bantams” are members of any miniature breed of chicken or duck. The roosters crow and act tough like standard-sized roosters, but weigh in at between one to two pounds vs. normal roosters that average 7.5 pounds.

PROTECTING CHILDREN: The Department of Justice has secured agreements with dozens of hospital systems representing thousands of individual institutions in New York and Pennsylvania to end transgender treatments for minors.

TOLERANCE: “Kept getting cut off.” – CLICK https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2097668561653108762 [:47] to hear how one comedian flipped the script.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2955063448187648 [1:17] to hear a safety reminder.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/950259418075355 [1:21] to hear the start of an unusual blind date.

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BAPTISM OF CHRIST: The traditional date of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist – Bethany Beyond the Jordan — is today known as Al-Maghtas in Jordan. The crown prince of Jordan, Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, recently visited the site and directed officials to promote and improve it in time for the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus’ baptism in 2030.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST: She’s running to become the U.S. congressional representative from the 7th district of New York (parts of Brooklyn and Queens) and has been endorsed by Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders. I’m wondering if she’s read the Oath of Office.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

MAHA: The Real Food Show [23:05] – There is so much to love about this episode.

NETFLIX: What fresh hell is this?! The wokies at Netflix are doing what they call a “rock’n’roll” remake of C.S. Lewis’ beloved classic, The Magician’s Nephew.” Best comment – @David_Fairchild posted, “Aslan isn’t some generic figure with an interchangeable identity. He’s male. Lewis wrote him as male. … Giving Aslan a female voice isn’t daring or profound or some brilliant act of creative genius. It’s an act of creative vandalism pretending to be artistic sophistication. It’s more ideological slop produced by the machine that’s given us plenty already.

PREPARING FOR ANTI-CHRIST: CLICK https://x.com/Protestia/status/2100880006545330210 [:46] to hear the pastor of a Lutheran church introduce “they-self” to the congregation while wearing shorts and sandals and surrounded by sin-celebrating stage dressing.

@Mitchell_Texas reminds us that Ephesians 5:11 says, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”

PSA: Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 220,000 F-150 pickup trucks because the fuel tanks might fall off.

SEND OUT THE CLOWN: One of the Dem’s biggest buffoons, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), was soundly defeated in his primary earlier this year so, buh bye, don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.

But Green, being Green, can’t leave without launching some more Look At Me! Stunts. Case in point … demanding the impeachment of President Trump, citing the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti as evidence of President Trump’s inability to lead the country. Never you mind that Good and Pretti were both killed while attempting to harm ICE agents. True to form, the majority of Democrats voted to proceed with the effort, which thankfully was killed dead when 47 Democrats voted present and 18 others voted with with 213 Republicans.

STUPID PEOPLE: Sometimes I wonder if people post stupid things just to get clicks.

TEXAS: A scammer behind bars! – An elderly woman and an alert bank staff helped federal authorities put Muzaamil Ahmednab (35) behind bars. Ahmednab is part of a criminal network that has stolen $250 million. Tarrant County DA Sorrells says, “If you are participating in this scam, know this: We are dismantling your network. You will face justice in Tarrant County.”

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BACK THE BLUE: And purge the bad actors! – Last May, Jennifer Combs was arrested by Trinidad Police and spent a night in jail after a Facebook post raised concerns about bacteria and problems with Trinidad’s drinking water. The felony charge against her was later dropped, while environmental officials ultimately confirmed problems with the city’s water system. After investigating and finding almost 20 problems with the Trinidad Police Department, the state stripped the city of its right to operate its own police department. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will be taking over from now on.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XROlWTVFvRc [1:47] to hear the extraordinary graces Mary promised to those who faithfully honor her Seven Sorrows.

Some time ago, I forget when exactly, I started saying the following prayer at the beginning of each day – “Eternal Father, I offer You this day all of my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings for the intentions of Mary’s Immaculate Heart. For the sake of her Seven Sorrows, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

I’m blown away by this video, because I had never heard of these promises before!

ELECTION INTEGRITY: Dearest is an election inspector. He has to take a new class to learn how the new voting machines work. Hmmm … the Dems never used to worry about losing in New York. I wonder if we’re switching to machines, because so many of us have gone MAGA.

EVERYDAY HEROES: On the night of April 12, 1977, Delta Flight 1080 left San Diego for what should have been a routine flight to Los Angeles. Instead, just after takeoff, the L-1011 began trying to pitch itself dangerously nose-up. The left elevator had jammed in the full nose-up position.

Captain Jack McMahan pushed the controls fully forward, but the aircraft was still fighting him and came frighteningly close to a stall in cloud. There was no cockpit warning telling the crew what had actually failed, and the normal controls weren’t giving them enough authority to solve it.

So McMahan started experimenting. He discovered that by reducing thrust on the two wing-mounted engines while keeping the center engine producing much more power, he could use the engines themselves to help force the nose down. It was an improvised solution to a failure the crew had never encountered before. The cabin crew even moved the 41 passengers toward the front of the aircraft in an attempt to shift the center of gravity forward.

For more than 100 miles, the crew wrestled the crippled TriStar through bad weather before eventually bringing it and all aboard safely into Los Angeles. McMahan was later awarded the FAA’s Distinguished Service Award, while the incident led to changes to the L-1011’s elevator system and operating procedures.

FORENSIC BOTANY: [10:16] – This is so interesting!

LIFE: The instant a sperm penetrates an ovum, a new human being exists inside his or her mother’s womb. At that moment, the woman is pregnant.

MAHA: [15:01] – One of my earliest TV memories is Jack LaLanne. I learned almost all of these exercises during my post-knee replacement physical therapy. When I finished PT, my therapist told me to keep doing them.

MINNESOTA: [8:59] – My first thought is that somebody with power and money wants the Amish farms and is hoping that making their lives miserable enough will force them to pack up and move.

MITCH McCONNELL: [6:50] – Where else would someone in this condition be permitted to continue making decisions? Do We The People deserve better?

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://x.com/Protestia/status/2099793092924543135 [1:41] to hear Tahira Elbrahim introduce herself to a woke Canadian church as a “cisgender hetero Muslim” who has come to talk to them about the “queer Muslim experience.” The speaker, Tahira Elbrahim, is an “EDI and wellbeing professional who refers to herself as a soul having a human experiment.” She seeks “to bring her EDI lens into spaces of faith.”

TEXAS: CLICK https://x.com/JWheelertv/status/2100259352338686248 [1:10] to hear the lesbian minister at James Talarico’s longtime Austin church explain to an undercover reporter that he is following the Spanberger playbook – i.e., pretend to be moderate to get elected, then go full woke once in office.

TRANS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1744241866704907 [11:00] to hear Bernie Sanders cite “two peer-reviews studies” to justify what doctors did to Chloe Cole and thousands of others. Stick around to hear Cole respond.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/4565535310396996 [2:52] to hear a grotesque story of child abuse called “transing the gay away.”

UK: Parliament voted 286 votes to 270 against legalizing assisted suicide!

GRAMMY NOTES: One of my Peak Memories! I floated on air for hours after. Took myself out to lunch to celebrate and HAD to tell the waiter, “I heard my baby’s heart beat today!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Samghwj9VQM [:45] to hear Nick Freitas (Army Special Forces) attempt to trash talk John Lovell (Army Ranger).

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CATHOLICS: @EricRSammons commented, “Year ago some Mormon missionaries were at my house trying to convert me. Knowing I was Catholic, they started to recount papal sins of the past. I interrupted and said, ‘If you want to talk about papal scandals in history, have a seat—I know of a whole bunch you probably don’t!’ But then I followed with, ‘But that’s how I know the Church is divine: no purely human institution would have survived her members.’

FBI: On Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the bureau has captured of all 10 figures who were on the bureau’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list when President Donald Trump was sworn in as president. That’s 1 year and 8 months. In all four years of the Biden presidency, the bureau captured only four of the “Most Wanted,” maybe because they were wasting their time investigating and harassing Trump and his supporters.

IRAN WAR: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1728181091846355 [12:22] to hear Democrat Senator Schumer condemn the war, then Republican Senator Tim Sheehy respond. I learned how much Democrats care about our troops when they shed crocodile tears over each one who died in Bush’s wars, then couldn’t have cared less how many died in any of Obama’s wars.

MAHA: Dr. Alex writes, “Prediabetes means your blood sugar is above normal but below the diabetes threshold. In the UK that is an HbA1c of 42 to 47 mmol/mol, in the US it is between 5.7% and 6.4%. It is not a diagnosis so much as a warning, and it is the most winnable fight in the whole of chronic disease and so easily reversed with lifestyle change.

“Here is the evidence, and it is about as good as it gets. In a large American trial, people with prediabetes were put into one of three groups. One got a placebo. One got metformin, the standard diabetes drug. One got a lifestyle programme built around modest weight loss and 150 minutes of activity a week.

“Metformin cut the rate of new diabetes by 31 per cent. The lifestyle programme cut it by 58 per cent. The lifestyle arm beat the drug. Not by a whisker, by a mile, and it did it with walking and food.”

MASSATWOSHITS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1436706518395992 [2:10] to hear the appalling story of a Catholic family that has been broken apart by gender whackos. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1074943218728468 [:48] to hear from people who have talked to many detransitioners. “It’s very similar to getting out of a cult, because the indoctrination is so strong.

MIRACLE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jBIEyhKpOA8 [1 :23] and prepare to praise God!

OHIO: On Monday night, the Cleveland City Council passed Resolution 1047-2026, which renames “the easternmost and westernmost points of its shoreline and two miles into Lake Erie from its shoreline as the ‘Gulf of Cleveland.’

PSA: Consumer Lab tested and approved lavender essential oils by Aura Cacia, DoTERRA, Pure, and Young Living. Aura Cacia was Top Pick for being half the price of Pure or Young Living @ 60¢/mL. DoTERRA was the most expensive at a whopping $2.04/mL.

TRUMP ECONOMY: In the second quarter of 2026, as markets recovered and workers maintained strong saving habits, Americans’ retirement account balances climbed to record highs, with the average 401(k) balance hitting $155,800.

In other news, U.S. households registered their highest income levels ever last year, while the poverty rate fell to a record low. The median household earned $87,460 in 2025 which, after adjusting for inflation, is the highest since 1967, when the federal agency began tracking the data. The gains were highest among Black households, which posted a nearly 5 percent increase in median income.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1430022675638223 [:41] to hear one LWW’s insane justification for supporting child-murderer, Lindsay Clancy. I love Brittany’s response LOL!

VDH: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2140811129840019 [:59] to hear his thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1490493896460106 [:21] to hear why the plane was granted its request for a long, slow descent.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2081405039187153 [1:32] to watch a flight crew give a little boy a great big memory.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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