by | October 9, 2026 · 9:42 am

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DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [3:11] – I remember needing help learning how to breastfeed also. This video really got me in the feelz!

GROK: We should want AIs to be instilled with Christian values. [10:09] – My concern is that a demon could easily infest an AI and lead people to believe it is a god. … “Himself”? Grok is a computer program, not a HIM. … Demons know that Jesus is the Son of God, who died and rose again. “Being a Christian” involves making a personal commitment to humbly follow Jesus, something demons won’t and computer programs can’t do.

MUSLIM TERRORISM: Minnesotan and ISIS Sympathizer Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud has been arrested for plotting a mass-casualty attack at the Mall of America. CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2107882810078048676 [1:26] to hear U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Dan Rosen’s praise for the FBI’s work in preventing the attack.

RACE: The person who posted this photo captioned it, “Slavery is White People’s worst crime.” – The monument in this image is located in Zanzibar; it depicts one of the country’s last slave markets, which was run by Arabs and shut down by Brits.

Arab Muslims ruled Zanzibar from 1698 until 1890 when the British took over. Under Muslim rule, Zanzibar’s economy depended on exporting spices grown by the native Bantu, ivory taken from elephants who were killed for their tusks, and slaves who were kidnapped to be sold to slave traders.

Wikipedia says, “Every year, about 40,000–50,000 slaves were taken to Zanzibar. About a third went to work on clove and coconut plantations of Zanzibar and Pemba, while the rest were exported to Persia, Arabia, the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Conditions on the plantations were so harsh that about 30% of the male slaves died every year, thus maintaining the demand for more slaves.”

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2107867170868756741 [1:22] to hear the “invocation” offered at the beginning of an Ottumwa, Iowa, city council meeting.

“Dear Dark Father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old … It is done! Hail Satan!“

They then recited the Pledge of Allegiance with its statement “under God.” A pastor got up and called for a reversal of the “CURSE put on our city.” CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2107905815399252430 [1:04] to hear how the mayor and one of the council members responded.

TAXES: Government money comes from We The Taxpayers.

TRANS: On February 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar (18) shot his mother and half-brother at their home in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, then moved on to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where he killed five children and one staff member, and injured 27 others before killing himself. Van Rootselaar was a former student of the school. Van Rooselaar also self-identified as female.

The FBI arrested another trannie this week in Washington for helping Van Rootselaar with encouragement, tactical advice, money, and other support for Van Rootselaar’s heinous plan. James “Mel” Cody Bryant of Bellingham has been charged with conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country. If convicted, Bryant faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

VERMONT: CLICK https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/2108021949016486229 [:50] to hear Republican Lt. Gov. John Rodgers ask his opponent a tough and very direct question. Then hear her smugly reply, “Wow. Um. You know, John, seems like kind of a new low here … I’m gonna give you an opportunity to ask a different question.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1104067782233605 to hear how a scientific study showed prayer on an MRI.

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by | October 8, 2026 · 8:15 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire started. Over the next four days, it killed about 300 people and destroyed more than 4 square miles of buildings.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdM9OG6Jgr_/?stkn=bWQyZTlqYXgwY2lq to hear a cradle Catholic take on the workers in the vineyard parables. I’ve often thought about the difference in that parable, not in the end wage, but rather in the experience of the various workers during the day. Yes, the early morning hires worked all day, but they also knew all day they would have money for their families. Those hired later had hours of anxiety and, for the latest ones, maybe despair that this night, their children would go to bed hungry.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

IMMIGRATION: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed denaturalization cases against 40 individuals accused of various crimes, including child pornography, drug offenses, sodomy against a special needs man, child sexual abuse, identity theft, voluntary manslaughter, and espionage for China.

MILITARY: In 2009, Nidal Hasan, an Army officer stationed at Fort Hood went to his desk, bowed his head for several seconds, then shouted “Allahu Akbar! ” and began spraying “bullets at soldiers in a fanlike motion” before taking aim at individual soldiers. He killed 13 and wounded 32. The Obama administration labeled the attack “workplace violence,” because they didn’t want to admit it was an Islamic terror attack. President Trump has just approved Hasan’s execution by Army firing squad.

OH CANADA: The bad news is that Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program approved a woman’s request to die, because she was upset that she could no longer cook for her family. The good news is that, with counseling, she came to understand that her family valued who she was, not what she did for them, and revoked her request.

In 2021, the Canadian government removed the “reasonably foreseeable death” requirement. MAID deaths now account for around 5% of all deaths in Canada.

PLANET FITNESS: On Oct. 1, Laquan Holland (40) was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a Planet Fitness women’s locker room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Holland entered the women’s locker room where he sexually assaulted a woman and prevented her from leaving the area. He then attacked a second woman who attempted to intervene.

Planet Fitness, which advertises itself as a “judgment-free zone”, has a policy of allowing male members to enter women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers, supposedly “based on their self-reported gender identity.” There’s no indication that Holland even pretended to be a woman. He has, however, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. Planet Fitness says it has canceled Holland’s membership and is working with police.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: St. John Bosco, also known as Don Bosco, was a19th century Italian Catholic priest and founder of the Salesian orders of priests, sisters, and lay people. He is known for his success ministering to youths, particularly boys. In his biography, it says he had a dream in which a tall dark figure with horns appears holding a magic lantern. Through it, boys were shown all kinds of tempting scenes which entertained them so intensely that it distracted them from Holy Communion.

TRANS: Zion Teasley (25) has pleaded guilty to stabbing Lauren Heike (29) to death and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Before the murder, Teasley wrote in his diary that he was battling with his gender identity. He told authorities that he killed Heike because he was jealous of her beauty.

TREASURY: The Treasury Department has saved We The Taxpayers $175 million by not sending money to dead people.

GRAMMY NOTES: In 1972, I was privileged to journey behind the Iron Curtain with a high school tour group. We visited Helsinki first, then crossed into the USSR to visit Leningrad and Moscow. Our Russian tour guide was a young mother who told us she wanted to care of her 3 yo daughter herself, but that the government didn’t allow that. She had to work. AND she was given only two choices of jobs. She took tour guide as the less onerous of her options.

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by | October 7, 2026 · 6:09 am

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AI GRANNY: “Daisy” is an AI program designed to sucker scammers into wasting time they might otherwise have used to harm real people.

AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 7, 1868, Cornell University welcomed its first 412 students to the rural campus overlooking Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, New York. I was born (literally) across the street from the campus, delivered the Cornell Daily Sun when I was a teen, and after going elsewhere for my Bachelor of Arts degree, attended graduate school there. Dearest earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell’s School of Architecture, which is housed in the domed building in the photo.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1682869256120228 [1:06] to hear how one evangelical pastor came to have an existential and spiritual crisis.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

EVERYDAY HEROES: Arlene Mabry, 63, has driven a truck across the country for 22 years, the last eight with a blue heeler named Dutch in the passenger seat.

At a truck stop outside Amarillo, Texas, she ran in to pay and left the driver’s door open with Dutch on the seat. The fuel island camera shows a man in a ball cap climb the steps, lift Dutch out and carry the dog to a pickup. On the video Dutch keeps twisting around to see the truck.

Arlene put the picture from that camera on a truckers’ page that night. Then she parked and waited.

Two days later a driver named Hollis spotted a heeler tied to a fence at a rest area outside Oklahoma City, 260 miles east. He was headed the wrong way. So he handed Dutch up to a driver going west, and that driver handed the dog to another one in Elk City.

The third truck pulled into the Amarillo truck stop a little after midnight. Dutch came down the steps of a stranger’s cab, crossed the lot and went straight up into Arlene’s.

LIFE: CLICK https://x.com/darlingstrawbie/status/2106386255940309460 [2:45] to watch a brilliant bit of pro-life satire.

MAHA: I was surprised by this “Long Game” email from Dr. Alex who is generally negative about supplements. I’m so glad he wrote it, because I’ve never even considered taking creatine, yet when I checked it out at Consumer Lab, I found that the research suggests it could help a substantial number of my personal issues.

Dr. Alex writes, “Creatine … is one of the most heavily studied supplements in existence and the evidence behind it is solid, because it helps your muscles produce quick energy, which supports strength, and it helps you preserve muscle as you age, which is exactly what anyone thinking about longevity should care about. But… it only gives you an edge if you actually work your muscles regularly. …

“There’s also a growing body of work, still fairly early, hinting at benefits for the brain, particularly when you’re stressed or running short on sleep, and I’d file that firmly under promising rather than proven, because I’ll always try to tell you which of the two we’re dealing with.”

  • Effect of creatine supplementation during resistance training on lean tissue mass and muscular strength in older adults: a meta-analysis @ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29138605/
  • Consumer Lab’s article about creatine @ https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/review-creatine/creatine/. This has a paywall, but I belong, so if you want details, let me know. I can’t copy/paste the text, but I can take screenshots. If you’re serious about supplements, I highly recommend joining. The Consumer Lab data base is ginormous and their lab tested recommendations and not approvals are genuinely helpful for choosing what to buy.

MIDTERM: Dr. Steve gives an update on early voting, polling, and campaign spending. [14:50] – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1070020979236507 [1:10] to hear Frank Luntz admit that “The Trump Effect” is a thing.

TRUMP’S “34 FELONIES”: [5:26] – Two years ago, a judge testified before a congressional committee about what a total mess New York’s case against Donald Trump was. He concluded, “I have very little doubt that this matter will be reversed upon appeal.”

Grok says about the current status of the appeal: “Trump was convicted in May 2024 on 34 counts of falsifying business records and sentenced Jan. 10, 2025, to an unconditional discharge (no jail, fine, or probation). He has appealed the conviction in New York state appellate court, where it remains pending. Parallel efforts to move the appeal to federal court on immunity grounds have been denied multiple times (most recently Aug. 2026) and are under review by the 2nd Circuit. The process is active now and is not deferred until after his term.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/–29merSOqk to learn how to use acupressure points to relieve nasal congestion. I just tried it and the ones by the nose worked really well for me.

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by | October 6, 2026 · 6:02 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On October 6, 1927, “The Jazz Singer,” directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, was released as the first film with a synchronized (if partial) soundtrack. It marked the end of the silent film era.

ARIANISM: In the fourth century, Arius of Alexandria preached that God the Father is the only unbegotten God, that He created Jesus, then adopted Him as His son. According to Arius, Jesus is to be worshiped only because of His preeminence as the first creation. This was declared heresy by the Council of Nicaea in 325AD. This part of the Nicene Creed was written to respond to this heresy: “I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father.”

CATHOLIC: Ephesians 2 – “8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

DIGGER: [6:57] – The Body Language Guy, who is a huge Tom Cruise fan, thinks this is the worst movie he’s ever made. N.b., his review is free of spoiler alerts.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

EDUCATION: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/3567618263412302 [:51] to hear a stunning example of how useless college has become.

FLY DUBAI: Investigators say the hijacker’s plan was to approach Ben Gurion Airport as if for a normal landing, and then, at the last moment when interception would no longer be possible, to crash the plane into the terminal and cause mass casualties.

LIFE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1417298216426705 [1:12] to hear a young woman who has almost certainly had an abortion and is deeply conflicted about it. Pray for her and all the others like her.

MAHA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yRFLIk17IXU [1:42] to hear some of the amazing benefits of indigestible fiber. Raw potato is supposed to be a rich source of indigestible fiber (aka, resistant starch), but who wants to eat raw potato? The other day, I experimented with adding some to a tossed salad. I cut it up small and found it added a nice crunch that was not at all noticeable to my palate or my husband’s as raw potato.

NAZIS: I have often wondered why the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZIs) got to be classified as “far right” when it is clearly aligned with all the other variations on centralized control over everything and everybody. I mean … they had “socialist” right in the name.

The article linked below explains that the “artificial shift of Fascism and National Socialism to the right side of the political spectrum” was the result of “Marxist-Leninist propaganda” in “the first half of the 20th century.”

“The primary battle was fought during WWII, where the Soviets had the upper hand over Italian Fascists and Nazi Germany. As the victor in the bloody war, they rewrote and propagandized their version of history, cementing non-Marxian flavors of socialism on the right wing of the political spectrum.”

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5v8aEnMNQmE [1:44] to hear the two brilliant analogies God gave a minister to answer two common objections to the Christian message.

TOLERANCE: Nine whole minutes between these two posts. ::smh::

VOTER FRAUD: CLICK https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2105325320387625196 [3:12] to hear AG Todd Blanche announce how that thing that never happens has happened again … and again … and again.

GRAMMY NOTES: I was awake with a spinal for one of my procedures. My experienced surgeon was working with an intern. When I heard him say, “No, not like that,” I rather forcefully asked them to please get it right!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/4629048150705452 [:38] for a fun ATC-pilot exchange.

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by | October 5, 2026 · 8:40 am

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2A: Washington and Oregon might be okay, especially cities like Portland that have already invaded themselves.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/28512461145039050 to hear a convert discuss Catholic bashing. [:55] – I’m a cradle Catholic, 72 years old, and have also NEVER heard any Protestant bashing from any Catholic pulpit. I have heard Catholic bashing while visiting Protestant churches and one time, an anti-Catholic church near ours leafleted our cars during Mass. Another time, a teen from our parish was on an outing with a friend and, while she was trapped in their car, the friend’s parents preached at the kid about how wrong Catholic teachings and practices supposedly are.

LIFE: On Sept. 14, an unprecedented wrongful-death case called Wabbington v. Boyd was settled and dismissed with prejudice. The defendants were two late-term abortionists who were found liable for having aborted a 26-week-old viable fetus while the mother was under the influence of methamphetamine and could not give valid informed consent. The abortionists knew the mother was high, but performed the abortion anyway. They and their clinic, Southwestern Women’s Options, have been ordered to pay $200,000 to the dead child’s estate.

MAHA: [9:40] – We can make healthy life choices to reduce the likelihood of getting cancer.

MEDICARE: On Oct 2, Trump announced his administration will be using the Medicare Improvement Fund this month to help ease seniors’ health care costs. Congress allocated $2 billion for this purpose, but never delivered any of it. Trump says this month, eligible seniors will receive $90 payments, either by direct deposit or check. Most Medicare Part B enrollees are eligible for the payments, except those whose premiums are already paid by Medicaid or who pay an income-related monthly adjustment amount. I think that means us, but I won’t hold my breath, in case it’s not.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yus3jPYeznQ [2:55] to hear a priest tell about what he believes was the most impactful summer of his life.

GRAMMY NOTES: In April 2019, five-year-old Landen Hoffman was visiting the Mall of America in Minnesota with his family when a stranger suddenly picked him up and threw him more than 40 feet from a third-floor balcony. The boy suffered skull fractures and multiple broken bones. Many feared the worst.

Yet after seven months of recovery, Landen was walking normally and back in kindergarten with a bright smile. His family shared that the young boy often told people who were hurt: “Don’t worry, I fell off a cliff but angels caught me and Jesus loves me, so I’m okay and you will be too!”

In 2016, I woke in hospital, disoriented and needing to pee. It was dark and I forgot I was hooked to monitors and an IV. When I jumped out of bed to run to the bathroom, I tripped and fell like a log, face first, to the floor. I swear that my angel caught me, because it felt like I landed on a big, fat body pillow. I didn’t even have a bruise.

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by | October 4, 2026 · 9:11 am

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1059320023403816 [:40] to hear a Protestant admit that the Holy Scriptures they rely on came to them via more than a millennium of Catholic monks. I responded, “Gutenberg was a Catholic. The first printed Bible that he created with his revolutionary movable type press was a Catholic Bible.”

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

EDUCATION: A public school district in Maryland told a home schooled teen he could not join a local JROTC unit because of a state law. Excluding home schooled students bars them from accessing benefits should they choose to enlist. The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) helped the teen by pointing out to the school district that (a) JROTC is federally funded and (b) federal regulations declare that home schooled students who are otherwise qualified for a local JROTC program cannot be excluded.

LIFE: It’s not safe. It’s not harmless. And we who oppose it are not “stupid” and/or ignorant of how “science” works. The science says human life begins at the moment of conception.

MILITARY: When Navy SEALs went on night operations in the rivers and jungle of Vietnam, leeches attacked. Standard issue gear did nothing to keep them out. So the guys had their girlfriends and wives mail them pantyhose which leeches can’t bite through.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: On September 24, former President Joe Biden received the Sonia Schorr Sloan service award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware. His thank you speech for the “incredible honor” begins at 9:35. I didn’t listen to it.

In the comments, @BeHumbleWithGod posted a 1930 quotation from Pope Pius XI. “God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from Earth to Heaven.“

TENNESSEE: In 1995, Christa Pike tortured Colleen Slemmer with a meat cleaver, then bashed her head in with a large chunk of asphalt. She kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull and would show it off and boast about how she got it. In 1996, Pike was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death. On September 30, 2026, having finally exhausted all appeals, she was injected twice with what should have been but failed to be lethal doses. She is now in a hospital on life support. I am praying she is spending some quality time with Jesus before it is too late for her to repent.

VISAS: State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott says, “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right—and if you violate the terms of that privilege, you will lose it.”

Thus far, the Trump State Department has revoked more than 250,000 visas, because of violations or other conduct by the holders, including criminal activity, public safety concerns, immigration violations, fraud or misrepresentation, or other information indicating that they were no longer eligible for a visa.

“Every visa decision is a national security decision. Through continuous vetting on a scale never seen before, we are identifying and removing those who commit crimes, support terrorism, defraud Americans, or abuse our immigration system,” Pigott said.

VOTING: A federal judge on Oct. 1 threw out a case against a Jamaican woman who voted in a U.S. federal election, finding that the law the prosecution says she broke is unconstitutional because it was passed by Congress. “Congress has no power to say who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections—that foundational power is reserved for the States.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Big Shout Out to my #2, who was born 43 years ago today. That’s her in 1985 with me (pregnant with #3) and Dearest Daddy on graduation day.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1426680179332756 [1:30] to watch Kona, the diabetic alert dog, beat the tech, again.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1126899706530635 [1:03] to watch Kona pull off another amazing alert.

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by | October 3, 2026 · 9:18 am

MAHA: Eat Veg First

[1:59] – My son-in-law got us to try eating vegetables before meals and we’re loving it. Hubby and I fill ramekins with a wide variety; we dubbed them “monkey bowls” because it sounds funny and is easier and less pretentious than “preprandial veg.”

Veggies that work well for this purpose include naturally small things like cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, and roasted Brussels sprouts, as well as things that cut up and keep well, like cucumber, zucchini, and bell peppers. I’m also investing in jars of pickled and fermented veg to add zing and variety. I often include a glob of hummus, a little bunch of sprouts, a few greens I have cut up small with my kitchen scissors, and a splash of something to finish. I keep meaning to learn how to make my own salad dressing, but honestly, Newman’s Own Italian is so delicious and fairly unobjectionable ingredient wise so I have yet to get a round tuit.

I have learned that I have to put less food on our plates, because our little monkey bowls of veg are so filling! Another unexpected thing has been our tendency to expand lunch-time monkey bowls into cereal bowl-sized salads and eat nothing else. For the full-sized salads, I usually add some slices of hard cheese and/or hard boiled egg slices and a handful of our home-made trail mix.

Chrissy’s Trail Mix: Measure and dump into a large bowl, then toss well – 1 cup each of desired nuts plus 1 cup mixed (about 1/2 cup each) of dark chocolate chips and raisins, and 1 cup of mixed seeds. The precise blend varies with what’s available at our store, but most often the nuts I use are almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, and walnuts, while the seeds are sunflower and pepitas (pumpkin). Our preferred dark chocolate chip is Ghiardelli brand, which Consumer Lab found had less cadmium than many other brands. Mixing raw and roasted and salted and unsalted also adds to the variety of flavors and textures. Wasabi peas can add a fun zing and crunch if you like them. And there are lots of dried fruits besides raisins, but if you’re concerned about not eating too much sugar, I suggest you substitute for the raisins, rather than add them to the mix.

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by | October 3, 2026 · 8:01 am

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BORDER: [4:58] – A caravan of about 300 left Honduras on September 20 and entered southern Mexico on September 24. The group, which is still heading to our border, has since swelled to more than 600 members. Tom Homan says there’s no way in hell they’re going to get into the U.S.

COVID: @TheRickster1957 posted, “My wife contracted severe case of Covid and was struggling to breathe. I knew admitting her to hospital would have been a death sentence. I was able to reach out to @RX_forLiberty for help. He provided phone consult and prescribed Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Budesonide and Doxycycline. Dr. Barke saved her life and did not charge a dime! I will forever be in his debt.“

DEMOCRATS “vs” REPUBLICANS: Dems voted down a Republican-led effort to ban insider trading. I’m thinking that Republican senators getting rich from insider trading didn’t actually want the bill to pass; why else would they tack on a voter ID provision they know Dems oppose? So, now Republicans get to tell their constituents they voted for the ban, while Democrats get to tell their constituents they voted against voter ID. Meanwhile, they get to keep lining their pockets in a way that is highly illegal for the rest of us.

https://notthebee.com/article/senate-democrats-block-stop-insider-trading-act

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

EVERYDAY HEROES: ”Wednesday afternoon I was driving west on I-40 when my blood sugar dropped to a dangerous level. Luckily a Burger King restaurant was at the upcoming exit. As I stumbled through placing my order I mentioned to the voice on the speaker that I was diabetic and in need of food. Low blood sugar makes it difficult to think or act. I pulled up to the first window in order to pay for my food. I was shocked to see Burger King employee Tina Hardy running toward the front of my car. She squeezed between the front of my car and the building just to bring me a small serving of ice cream. Tina later explained that her husband was also diabetic and she could tell that I needed help. After paying I pulled up to Tina’s window where she gave me my food. She instructed me to park across the driveway so that she could keep an eye on me until I felt better. After eating I waited for a break in business so that I could return to Tina’s window. I then took this picture and spoke with Tina’s supervisor, telling him what she did for me.” Credit : Rebecca Boening

IRAN WAR: The New York Post reports that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has put out a 25-page letter urging Americans to vote Democrat on Nov. 3.

MAHA: A new episode of The Real Food Show. [2:53] – Back in the 1980s, I was diagnosed with a vast number of food and chemical sensitivities and had to go on a Rotary Diversified Diet (RDD) of organic foods. Initially, I only had one food per meal; when I had identified 2 I tolerated, I could try them together to see how that worked, etc.

The RDD organizes all foods by families; a specific food is only eaten once in a four day rotation, while a relative is only eaten on the second day after. E.g., in my rotation, I had turkey, cauliflower, and pears on Day One and chicken, broccoli, and apples on Day Three.

A friend was visiting for a week and I realized she had been nervous about eating meals with me when I overheard her tell her husband on the phone, “It tastes like real food!” I always thought that would make a great title for a cookbook about my diet and I’m so tickled with Sec. Kennedy’s name for his show!

MIDTERMS: [17:29] – Most often, election results are to the right of what the polls were showing. The exciting news is that the blue states are showing GOP candidates even or near even with the Democrat candidates. And get this … the latest Quinnipiac poll of men shows only 17% of American men approve of the Democratic Party!

NATIONAL SECURITY: An immigration judge has ruled that the U.S. can deport the Palestinian-born leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on the grounds that he is a national security threat.

TRANS: A 17-year-old trans person (Julia Egler) has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for murdering her mother and her mother’s boyfriend in 2024. She told investigators her mom had “misgendered” her. CLICK https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2027551138552131843 [1:20] to hear her talk with investigators

TRUMP ECONOMY: So far this year, jobless claims have averaged just under 210,000. This is the lowest average for the January through September period since 1969.

The population of the United States in 1969 was approximately 202.68 million people. Today, it is estimated to be 349.04 people. If I did the math right, today’s population is 92% higher than it was in 1969. So a lowest average jobless claim is truly remarkable!

In other news, the US federal workforce is at its lowest level in 60 years, down by 11% since Trump took office.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6KZxerM9Ne8 [:23] to see the most not boring treadmill work-out ever.

CLICK https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/2106042019323789451 [1:39] to see what may be the best cooking show on the internet!

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by | October 2, 2026 · 7:42 am

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DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

EVERYDAY HEROES: Wheelchair ballet teaches dance to the “differently abled.” [12:20] – I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. And I’m very proud of the work my Dearest architect has done to make buildings accessible.

EVERYDAY HEROES 2: One-legged dancers gets the Golden Buzzer! [10:06] – I had to put this one here too.

FLY DUBAI: [2:20] – An Omani national was in the second seat on a FlyDubai flight when he stabbed the pilot multiple times and hijacked the plane. The hijacker, who had worked for FlyDubai for around a year, apparently planned to fly the plane into the ground, killing all 174 souls aboard.

The flight had departed Dubai for Tel Aviv just before 7 a.m. and was cruising around 34,000 feet before the violence broke out. The jet dropped from an altitude of approximately 33,000 feet to around 15,400 feet in just 12 minutes. The pilot was able to transmit a radio warning and Israeli fighter jets were scrambled as a precaution.

Passengers successfully subdued the hijacker, regained control of the aircraft, and somebody safely landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia.

ISLAM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2287027855205054 [1:42] to hear someone make a very interesting point.

MAHA: [10:29] – Osteoarthritis runs strongly in my family so I was especially interested in this video about how to preserve one’s cartilage for as long as possible.

TRUMP: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2820745781643169/ [1:33] to see yet another example of what a genuinely kind man our president is.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JCrCg892X8M [:59] to see one of God’s cutest creations. And also learn a few facts about them.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RyNCuzvubrE [:58] to see some of the cutest flower girls ever.

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AMERICA.GOV: On Sept 29, Trump signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to integrate services with a new website consolidating nearly 30,000 federal government websites into one chatbot that will allows users to ask questions and receive guidance about procuring services.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: You know the saying … if they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

INTERSECTIONALITY: It always fascinates me to see who wins when one diversity group butts heads with another. Before trans became The Thing, a lesbian who was traumatized by men because she’d been raped would have garnered all the feelz. Now, she’s “disgusting.”

MAHA: [14:33] – Most strokes happen in the morning. There are simple things you can do to reduce your stroke risk by a lot.

MIDTERMS: CLICK https://twitter.com/i/status/2104646544104296555 [2:50] to see what Conservative Momma has to say about not voting this November 3.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://x.com/WWG1WGA_QQ/status/2104997859003085287 [1:05] to hear what happened when some middle school students said no to pride day. When it comes to the gay religion, the leftists totally forget all about “separation of church and state.”

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1990455401663131 [2:35] to hear Yuri Bemenov tell us how communist regimes use leftist “useful idiots.”

WOLVES: CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2104730377126297766 [1:52] to hear the latest “Make Christianity Gay” sermon.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdZMypElBpo to watch a super cute, old, VW ad.

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