by | November 12, 2026 · 12:14 pm

Samurai Shiba

@SamuraiShibaJP is one of my favorite X accounts. Here is what he posted on November 11, 2026.

At 8 a.m. every Wednesday, my team in Tokyo has a Zoom call with our team in Salt Lake City, Utah. For them, it’s Tuesday at 4 p.m.

After three years, our side started a shared file. The title: “Things the Utah team does that we still don’t understand.”

They said I could share some of it.

“The first five minutes are about nothing. Weather. Somebody’s dog. Somebody’s kid’s soccer game. Our manager timed it once. Five minutes and forty seconds, every week. He used to call it waste. Now he logs on early so he won’t miss it.”

“A three-year-old walked into the frame and announced he had used the potty by himself. Fourteen adults in Utah cheered. Our manager said ‘Congratulations’ in English. Best moment of the quarter.”

“When someone shares an idea, three people unmute just to say ‘Love it.’ In three years, our side had never unmuted for anything but a problem. Mr. Hoshino now says ‘Love it’ at home. His wife is suspicious.”

“Kenzie ends every call with ‘You guys are crushing it.’ We were not crushing it. We were six weeks behind. She said it anyway. Every week. We caught up in five.”

“They sang Happy Birthday to our oldest engineer at 4:57 p.m. their time. Three minutes before they could go home. Fourteen people. Wildly off-key. He is 61. He said nobody had sung it to him since he was a boy.”

The last entry is about Mizuki.

Mizuki is our youngest engineer. He’s so quiet that Utah once asked if his camera was a photo.

In March, as a call was ending, after everyone had said bye, he typed one small line in the chat: “My son was born yesterday.” Then he left the meeting.

The next Wednesday, Mizuki logged on, and fourteen cameras in Utah turned on at once.

Every single person was holding a sheet of paper. On each one, in marker, copied off the internet: おめでとう. Congratulations.

One of them was upside down. Nobody fixed it.

Fourteen days later, our office got a package. Inside was a tiny onesie with the shape of Utah on it. Fourteen signatures on the box.

His son is eight months old. He has never been outside Japan. He has fourteen aunts and uncles in Utah who have never held him.

Every week, they ask how he’s doing.

First five minutes.

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by | November 12, 2026 · 7:21 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On November 12, 1966, Buzz Aldrin took the first “space selfie” while performing extravehicular activity during the Gemini 12 mission.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1429146439287040 [2:38] to hear Josh Pray (“we Catholics!”) on Advent. FYI: The First Sunday of Advent this year will be on November 29, just 3 days after Thanksgiving. We all will have Saturday to take down the turkeys and pumpkins and put out the Advent decorations while (hopefully) eating up the last of the turkey leftovers.

GOP: House Republicans have elected Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as House minority leader, and Senate Republicans picked Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) as Senate minority leader for the next Congress, which begins in January.

IMMIGRATION: Come January, Democrats will have majorities in both the House and the Senate and all four southern states will have Democrat governors. Since the midterms, two new migrant caravans have reportedly crossed from Guatemala into southern Mexico, heading north in hopes of taking advantage of Trump having less power to keep the border closed.

MILITARY: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) filed articles of impeachment against the secretary of war on Nov. 9, alleging that he committed ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’

The impeachment articles charge Hegseth with waging war in Iran without congressional authorization, continuing the war after the House and Senate both directed the removal of U.S. forces, and continuing operations in Iran after the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day termination period and any potential 30-day withdrawal period had expired.

The House voted 211–204 against advancing the impeachment resolution on Nov. 10. I’m confident they’ll pursue it in January.

SOCIALISM SUCKS: When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, the other half quickly figures out that there’s little point in them working either and the entire social structure falls apart.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: Eric Metaxas noted, “The feelings of anger & bitterness & envy — and the concomitant desire to TEAR DOWN AND DESTROY the good, true, and beautiful — is demonic. God is not the Author of such things. So this is a full-on spiritual battle in the political realm. Pick a side.”

STUPID VOTERS: In 2020, the Michigan Supreme Court suspended Judge Kahlilia Davis for failing to keep a video record of the court cases in violation of Michigan Court rules.

In 2022, the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission found she had purposely unplugged courtroom recording equipment, threatened coworker, used a fake handicap placard so she could park closer to buildings, lied under oath, and abused other court powers. The commission recommended she be removed from the bench entirely. The Michigan Supreme Court (now run almost entirely by Democrats) merely extended her suspension until 2029.

In 2026, she decided to run for office again. A 2024 lawsuit sought to keep her off the ballot, but a court ruled she had the right to run. Detroit’s Democrats elected her. She has been and will continue to be paid to do the job she is legally barred from doing. I strongly suspect that, since her bench is unoccupied, its work either is not getting done or is being shared by the other judges. May God have mercy on her soul. She’s going to need it.

TOLERANCE: Alexandra Patterson was arrested after the students staffing an anti-abortion booth at Armstrong Student Center at Miami University reported a post she made to Yik Yak. It said, “how many dining dollars to kirk the anti abortion table in Armstrong.” Court records say Patterson faces charges of aggravated menacing, inducing panic and making a terroristic threat.

She is being held on a $170,000 bond at the Butler County Jail, and the incident has been reported to the FBI. If she posts bail, she will have to wear an ankle monitor, as well as stay away from the students threatened and from social media.

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz shared this with me. “Fr. Mike Schmitz has told about a triathlon he did (the kind where you swim two miles, bike 100 miles and THEN run 24 miles! Starts at 7am and you have to finish by midnight). Anyway, loads of people were in the bleachers along the last half mile. He had finished already, showered and changed and come back to cheer the rest. They announced that one guy was left and he had 15 minutes to run the last two miles. A whole bunch of people cut through a park to come up behind him and cheer him on and by the end he was full out sprinting and crossed the finish line seconds before midnight! Father said the Saints in Heaven are like that. Cheering us on and supporting us with their own prayers to God.”

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by | November 11, 2026 · 7:04 am

Veterans Day

AMERICAN HISTORY: On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (November 11, 1918), the world’s warring nations agreed to cease fighting, bringing about the end of the Great War.

CATHOLIC: [4:52] – November 11 is Veterans Day in America and Armistice Day in much of the rest of the world. But long before World War I, November 11 was already the feast of a soldier.

DEMOCRATS: They ran on making our lives more affordable, but don’t look for them to be caring about gas prices come January. The Democrats in line to lead House and Senate committees in the next session of Congress are way too busy planning all the ways they want to investigate President Donald Trump and the people in his administration to give a toot about campaign promises or their constituents’ wallets.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Ditto abortion.

FAA: On Thursday of this week … as in not 30 years ago … the US Federal Aviation Administration said it plans to begin phasing out the floppy disk systems that more than 400 ATC facilities across the country use for weather and other critical information.

These systems were new back to the 1980s, which begs the question … where have they been maintaining the equipment?! Does anyone even still manufacture this stuff? … Oh wait, there it is. “The FAA relies on … decades-old Compaq computers and replacement parts bought on eBay.”

Dear God in Heaven. Air traffic controllers are guiding the take offs, landings, and flight paths of thousands of multi-million dollar airplanes carrying multiple millions of human beings every day using computers the rest of us trashed before Y2K.

MAHA: From “Mobility Minute” by Will Harlow – “Most people treat pain during exercise as a stop sign. This feels sensible. But it often backfires. When you rest a sore joint, the muscles around it get weaker. Weaker muscles give the joint less support. So it hurts more next time.

“A better way I’ve found is to judge each session by how you feel the next day. I call this the Next-Morning Check. While you exercise, a mild ache is often fine. If you were to score it out of 10, keep it at 4 or below. (Sharp pain is different. Any time you feel sharp or stabbing pain, stop that exercise and swap it for a gentler one.)

“Then pay more attention to how the joint feels when you wake up the next morning. If it feels the same as usual, or better, you got the amount right. Carry on. If it feels stiffer or sorer than usual, you probably did a little too much. Cut the reps by 25% next time, change the exercise, or don’t push the movement as far.”

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1119544360873609/ [1:28] to hear a moving testimony from a devout formerly-Muslim, now-Christian woman.

WOLVES: CLICK https://x.com/disntr/status/2118081264838115811 to hear a female pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America preach that Joseph’s coat of many colors is really a “story of a boy in a princess dress who suffers violence at the hands of those who hate them for being queer.”

GRAMMY NOTES: My family has been talking about how we can choose what we think about and how what we choose to think about changes our brains, behaviors, feelings and attitudes. Mama Buzz noted, “I’ve noticed prayer works this way too. Years ago, I wanted to be in the habit of praying more frequently and also to remember to talk with God regularly, not just when I’m crying out in despair. It started with getting back to some kind of bedtime prayer habit. And then I was making a point to notice things and thank God for them (like a beautiful sunset etc). When people asked for prayer, I started saying an immediate power pack (Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be) rather than hoping I would remember later. Over the years, I have added more and more of these simple little moments and opportunities for prayer and, while I do not regularly have deep meditative prayer (something I should work on), I find that the more of these small moments I’ve added to my regular habits, the more frequently part of my brain is engaged in some kind of prayer and also I have very regular conversations with God. I am not sharing all this to toot my own horn, I have LOADS of room for becoming more Holy, but I’m reminded that just like practicing gratitude, prayer is a muscle that can grow and get stronger with practice by doing a little bit at a time.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1820060132674731/ [ :19] to see something my kids could have come up with. LOL

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by | November 10, 2026 · 8:17 am

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DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2372141086955550 [1:07] to hear Ro Khanna lie.

LIFE: CLICK https://x.com/realnoahcoffin/status/2118792227119894644 [1:07] to watch a pro-abort run out of arguments.

SALON: This left-wing news and opinion web site was launched in November 1995. Not The Bee compiled a montage of classic headlines.

  • I’m a pedophile, but not a monster
  • White guys are killing us: Toxic, cowardly masculinity, our unhealable national illness
  • Thanksgiving is for sociopaths
  • Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American
  • Why I can’t stand white belly dancers
  • Human-on-dolphin sex is not really that weird
  • I am officially breaking up with my penis
  • Having herpes has made my sex life better
  • How Joe Biden is like America’s founding fathers
  • Genetic sexual attraction is normal and very real: A woman describes the reality of parent-child incest
    MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to American than Hamas could ever be
  • If you’re white, you’re racist and don’t realize it

All I can say to the Salon crew is this … don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

SCIENCE: In southwest Africa’s Namib Desert — where less than half an inch of rain falls per year — the Stenocara desert beetle survives by climbing to the top of sand dunes each morning and tilting its shell into the ocean breeze.

Under an electron microscope, engineers discovered that the beetle’s wing cover is a masterpiece of surface chemistry: its microscopic bumps are hydrophilic (water-attracting), while the valleys between them are coated in a superhydrophobic (water-repelling) wax.

Microscopic fog droplets in the morning wind stick to the hydrophilic bumps, merge into heavy drops, and immediately slide down the waxy channels straight into the beetle’s mouth.

Inspired by this mechanism, materials engineers developed 3D dual-coated polymer and stainless-steel CloudFisher fog nets suspended across arid mountain ridges from Namibia to Morocco and Peru.

With zero moving parts and zero electricity, each square meter of biomimetic mesh condenses up to 20 liters of crystal-clear drinking water every foggy morning.

SOCIALISM SUCKS: North and South Korea started from the same place when the country was split in 1945. One side went communist, and the other went with free markets. Today, South Koreans are about 26 times richer than North Koreans.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YAlZVFZTQB4 [1:56] to hear how the rosary saved a young woman from Ted Bundy and what happened later on death row. – When my kids were little, we’d pray the rosary at bedtime. They each had those big, colorful, wooden rosary beads that they kept by their beds. One morning, one of them told me she’d had a nightmare. “I grabbed my rosary and went right back to sleep.”

VETERANS DAY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1167467496242166 [1:53] to see how the Jacksonville State University marching band honored those who served. You might need a tissue. Or two.

GRAMMY NOTES: In the mid-1960s, before my brother left for boot camp, he had to have his wisdom teeth removed. Mom fed him watermelon. At boot camp, he suffered debilitating pain. The docs found one of the little white seeds had gotten into his wound and germinated.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1366024225462860 [:14] for a visual reminder of why we all need to be active in a local church.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/39757520927227712 [2:16] to hear a heartwarming story with a useful moral.

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by | November 9, 2026 · 12:44 pm

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DIRTY JOBS: Back in 2013, the percentage of U.S. adults who said a college education was “very important” stood at 70. Today, it’s at 31. I’m guessing Mike Rowe is delighted with this trend!

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

EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9BLeF8h9NRM [2:56] to hear a great story from a woman who is not only exceptionally good at her job, but also funny as … I don’t know what cuz I’m not southern!

MAHA: In 2003, a study entitled “Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life.” was published in the Journal of Personality and Psychology. In this study participants were randomly assigned to either list things they felt grateful for, hassles that annoyed them, or life events about which they were emotionally neutral. Those who made the gratitude list were found to feel more hopeful about the upcoming week.

In 2017, a study entitled “Effects of gratitude meditation on neural network functional connectivity and brain-heart coupling” was published in Scientific Reports. In this study, thirty-two people laying in MRI scanners first silently expressed gratitude for their mothers, then recalled someone they resented. While expressing gratitude, participants heartbeats slowed, showing they were calmer, while their brains showed increased communication between brain areas responsible for emotional regulation. When remembering resentment, the opposite happened.

In 2026, a study entitled “Amygdala-putamen connectivity links gratitude to greater well-being” appeared in Dialogues In Clinical Neuroscience. In this study, 363 adults who practiced gratitude showed more prefrontal cortex activity and less in the amygdala. The prefrontal cortex helps you stay rational and override reactive emotional responses, while the amygdala perceives threat and drives aggression.

Gratitude is also known to trigger the release of dopamine and serotonin, two of our feel-good hormones that regulate our moods and emotions. Dopamine is associated with pleasure and reward, while serotonin helps stabilize mood and promote feelings of well-being. We can choose what we think about! If we choose gratitude, we not only train our brains to notice more of the good, but we get feel good rewards that make choosing gratitude easier and easier. Over time, gratitude rewires the brain, which is a scientific explanation for something the Bible has been telling us for millennia.

MIDTERMS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1607806971099128 [1:24] what a moderate analyst predicts for the next two years. He’s not wrong. The Trump economy is booming. It’s only gas prices, which are responding to our war to prevent the Islamic nutjobs in Iran from getting nukes. If we had an honest, pro-America media, voters would know this.

SOCIALISM SUCKS: In 1950, the average Cuban was almost twice as rich as the average Taiwanese person. Today, the average Taiwanese person is about 7 times richer than the average Cuban. One side went communist, and the other went with free markets.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wh55t1oYg2o [1:34] to hear what the “sweet old lady” did. – Years ago, a friend told me she had tried to enter an occult store and literally could not pass through the door.

TOLERANCE: An unidentified man is in custody for decapitating a statue of Jesus Christ at St. Alban’s Church in Bewsey, Warrington, U K. The perp also painted Arabic graffiti on the monument which reports say meant “no cross s–t.”

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gt6y82jLMgw [2:48] to hear a stern message delivered by a woman with a wonderful sense of humor. I’m homebound/disabled. The church ladies thought my Dearest was St. Joseph himself for taking our first two to church, but when he decided the baby should start attending as well, they broke out the Hallelujah Chorus. He came home and told me about it, not proudly, but with the same kind of anger and disgust this lady has here. “What does it say about fathers in general that they treat me like that for bringing my own children to church?!” I already loved him, but boy howdy, I loved him even more after that!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wp4YC8wN0zE [2:59] to hear a wonderful true story you won’t want to miss.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Sy3XqfXYaA [2:52] to hear a really inspiring message from the first U.S. soldier to become Miss USA. “Do not fear failure, but please be terrified of regret.”

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by | November 8, 2026 · 9:59 am

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CATHOLIC: @CatholicDrip_ posted the graphic above with “St. Ignatius was just one generation separated from the Apostles. If he got the Eucharist wrong this early, then nobody got it right!”

@reynolds_i94552 responded, “How arrogant does one have to be to think the creator of the universe would leave Heaven to enter a cardboard tasting cracker, all across the planet!“

I responded, “Just as arrogant as you have to be to think that He became a man for the express purpose of suffering to death in agony so that you could spend eternity with Him in Heaven.”

DOJ: [3:17] – Janine Pirro’s office is reportedly pursuing a criminal investigation into the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade that sparked protests outside the homes of conservative justices.

MIDTERM LOSSES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2363574991084280 [11:14] to hear a detailed analysis of how the losses will (not) affect Trump’s international policy.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PGf7ZZ5JVl8 [2:57] to hear a true story of demonic deliverance.

STUPID PEOPLE: A lot of Democrats have said and continue to say that Donald Trump is a fascist dictator who threatens democracy itself. How does that work with the fact that Trump’s party got trounced in the midterm elections?

TOTALLY TRUMP: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1454173183523489 [1:16] to hear how The Donald is working to protect the Oval Office and Cabinet Room from future Democrat predators.

VIEWERS BEWARE: [25:30] – Ann Reardon does an excellent job here updating We The Viewers on how to detect AI content so we can, if we choose, avoid it. She also explains why we should definitely choose to avoid it.

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1807061390201950 [:11] to see how a toddler tried to help Jesus. When one of my grandsons was about 4, he was watching a video that told him, for the first time, that Jesus was arrested. And he, like a miniature St. Peter, grabbed his toy sword and ran at the television to save His Lord. ❤

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FtVy7AKtkss [1:52] to hear a weird and heartwarming story like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

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by | November 7, 2026 · 9:37 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On November 7, 1983, a bomb tore through the second floor of the Senate wing of the Capitol. The device detonated late in the evening and no one was harmed, but it caused an estimated $1,000,000 in damage.

The group claiming responsibility, the far-left terrorist May 19th Communist Organization (“M19CO”), mailed a recording to NPR that stated, “We purposely aimed our attack at the institutions of imperialist rule rather than at individual members of the ruling class and government. We did not choose to kill any of them this time. But their lives are not sacred.“

Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans were active members who participated in multiple violent actions, including bombings at Fort McNair and the Washington Navy Yard which occurred on April 25, 1983, and April 20, 1984, respectively, and a 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery, in which two police officers and a guard were killed.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years on weapons and explosives charges; Evans was sentenced to 35 years for conspiracy, malicious destruction of government property, harboring a fugitive, and using false identification to buy firearms.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1841174523558533 [1:28] to hear nothing surprising about what’s coming.

EVERYDAY HEROES: In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew swept across Florida, leaving wide-scale power outages and telecommunications failures in its wake. In Omaha, Nebraska, Eric Olsen worried about his 87-year-old grandmother, Claire Olsen, who lived alone in Palm Coast, Florida.

Local law enforcement and emergency services were too overwhelmed with emergency calls to do wellness checks, so Eric ordered a pizza online from a Papa John’s near his grandmother’s home. In the special delivery instructions box, Eric requested that the driver call his personal phone number upon arrival and hand the phone to his grandmother so he could confirm she was unharmed.

The Papa John’s delivery driver, Lance Tyler, followed through, giving the family much needed peace of mind.

MAHA: As the article linked below says, “[Resistance] training helps us improve our bone density, build muscle mass, have better tendon and ligament health all of which are highly essential with increasing age.” CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uwNNHOT_PUE [2:21] to hear about a study that showed it also improves memory.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Two years ago, the Bow School District banned spectators from wearing pink “XX” wrist bands at varsity soccer games. A federal judge has just ruled this violated the First Amendment and awarded plaintiffs $275,000. Most of this will go to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. The plaintiffs will each get $17.91, an amount that symbolizes the year states ratified the First Amendment.

REPUBLICANS: We are not like them.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cxTK9LhAWGY [2:00] to hear what God told her son to do. I need a tissue.

STUPID PEOPLE: [10:59 ] – A Brit laughs at the leftie Americans who “fled Trump” and found out the hard way that “there’s no place like home.”

TRAUMA BOND: A trauma bond is a strong, unhealthy emotional attachment that forms between a person and the person who abuses or mistreats them. The two main factors that contribute to the establishment of a trauma bond are a power imbalance in the relationship and intermittent rewards and punishments.

GRAMMY NOTES: Carrying unforgiven wounds in my heart and mind is like hauling a backpack full of rocks. Recently, I off-loaded some old baggage by visualizing putting it all into a trash can, dragging the can to the curb, and walking away. It really helped.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1024444360611618 [:18] to hear what Kermit the Frog had to say about Jim Henson.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mAveszYVl2U [:52] to hear what Simon did when his wife went away for a week.

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by | November 6, 2026 · 6:20 am

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CALIFORNICATION: Los Angeles’ most prominent gay neighborhood, West Hollywood, just approved a measure to allow polyamorous couples to register as partners.

MIDTERMS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1127716703076644 [2:58] to hear VDH talk about what Clinton and Obama did after losing their majorities in the House and Senate.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1120673823666724 [1:14] to hear Vince Coglianese predict what the Dems will do with their majorities and how that will piss off average American voters.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1848176573287408 [1:14] to hear a Republican talk about what we can do during the next two years.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1527741019377000 [1:28] to hear a prophecy about God’s plan for the future – “the birthing of a new party of righteousness.”

RIP: [1:25] – Sir Patrick passed away on October 28, 2026 at the age of 86. Though his career on stage and screen spanned more than 60 years, he is known to most as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. His colleagues and close friends, Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes, both credited Stewart’s professionalism and dedication for the lion’s share of the show’s success.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sZWTReoI1TY [2:27] to hear a Christian neurosurgeon teach a powerful lesson. – What someone said or did to hurt me was on him/her the first time and I need to forgive him/her for it. But every time after, when I rehearsed the memory and re-experienced the hurt, I was hurting me. God doesn’t like anyone hurting me, including me. I need to repent of brooding over old injuries and stop doing it.

STUPID PEOPLE: Another thing liberals don’t understand is that fascism is not “right wing.” It shares with socialism and communism the goals of centralizing power, nationalizing the economy, and crushing dissent. The true right wing wants limited government, free markets and individual freedom.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/gidlefangurl/status/2117627902426784114 [:48] to see one of the most unusual fishing videos I’ve ever seen.

CLICK https://x.com/awkwardgoogle/status/2117744406719848568 [:41] to see what happened in the cafeteria.

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by | November 5, 2026 · 8:08 am

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CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hRj9U1dv6Gc [2:47] for a country music version of the above.

CATHOLIC: [15:46] – Fr. Chris Alar gave a deeply thoughtful homily about the results of the midterm elections.

EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fgom6ksU_9s [:49] to see what happened. Praise God! I need a tissue!

FLORIDA: Republican Rep. Byron Donalds defeated Democrat David Jolly to become the state’s first Black governor and extending Republican control of the governor’s office.

MAHA: [12:26] – A few small tweaks to my morning routine could make a big difference.

MICHIGAN: CLICK https://x.com/JustinUSA/status/2117872101138866480 [1:04] to hear the next governor tell us who he really is. We warned them.

MIDTERMS: President Trump’s response to the party of hate and stupidity taking control of both chambers of Congress for the next two years.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zXhkC2caK7k [1:13] for one of the most unusual routes I’ve ever seen for a guy to come to the truth.

STUPID PEOPLE: Ana Navarro is one of the hosts on CNN’s “The View.” CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2117436821772616107 [:09] to hear what she posted about why we should vote Democrats. Grok says this is an authentic clip, not a deepfake or fabricated video.

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://x.com/austindunn96/status/2117731998563172568 [:39] to see what led up to the old “tolerant” liberal smacking a TPUSA volunteer.

UK: A UK clinical trial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was launched in February 2021 after “evidence already showed healthy children faced an extremely low risk of serious illness or death from Covid.”

The trial focused on the vaccine’s safety profile, rather than its effectiveness in preventing infection. In a move that beggars belief, the trial was continued AFTER U.K. government advisers became aware of a potentially deadly blood clot risk.

IOW, they were testing the safety of a vaccine in kids who didn’t need it, then when they found out it would likely kill some of them, they continued injecting the stuff into British children as young as six.

VAXXXINE: South Korea did a massive study of the immune systems of people who took the jab. They found that, with each successive shot, people got sick more and more often. – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/942221755432026 [1:27] and https://www.facebook.com/reel/682959504783408 [1:51] to hear more about the incidence of strokes and immune deficiency following the jab.

WISH: @AleppoAteMyFace posted this with, “to repent of their sins, commit to chastity, and live for the Lord? Yes I hope you wish that for me too. I wish that for me.“

GRAMMY NOTES: I’m realizing that acts of true forgiveness need to be much deeper and more specific than just saying, “I forgive that person.” They involve really remembering and acknowledging each event, the specific and true harm they did, the reasons it was wrong and therefore needs forgiving, and finally, a full and deep handing to God of the full right to decide how He deals with that person.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/Juliedonuts/status/2116904609520451658 [1:22] to hear a precious little saint explain why she was sent home from school.

CLICK https://x.com/MadridistaBene/status/2116852949183856868 [1:54] to watch a master class in parenting.

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by | November 4, 2026 · 6:07 am

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GIVING GOD THE GLORY: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1120059990423765 [1:30] to hear a true story.

FAFO: CLICK https://x.com/LibOrNormal/status/2116497964076085715/video/1 [:35] to watch what happened with a liberal white woman tried to block ICE agents from going to work. That woman is lucky he just pushed her. It is a criminal offense to obstruct, impede, or interfere with a law enforcement officer in the execution of their duties. This can result in penalties such as fines or imprisonment, depending on the severity of the obstruction.

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: According to the laws of infinite probability it is theoretically possible that you could open your dryer after it finishes its cycle and discover all your clothes neatly folded. According to the same laws, this is many, Many, MANY times more likely to happen than that a single strand of DNA ever formed by accident.

MAHA: A quotation from Will Harlow’s “Lifelong Mobility” newsletter – “A group of nursing home residents – people who were not exactly in ‘peak’ condition – increased their leg strength by 174% in just 10 weeks. Not 10 years. Ten weeks.

“Not a typo. And these weren’t athletes. They were elderly adults in a care home.

“What the research keeps telling us is this: your body doesn’t break down after a certain birthday.

“It breaks down when it stops being given a reason not to. Put the right demands back in – consistently, in the right way – and the body responds. At almost any age.”

MEDIA: The 26-year-old rapist is described as a “youth” (“un joven” in the original Spanish), while his 22-year-old victim is described as a “woman.” In case you’re having trouble translating ABC’s media-ese, a 26-year-old Moroccan raped a 22-year-old female at a migrant camp.

MINNESOTA: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2117257124145418691 [2:42] to hear clips of the man the Democrats ran for Hennepin County Commissioner. According to his website, he is an engineer and a school board member.

SIN SICK SOULS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1987619358571212 [:30] and remember to pray for this woman and all the millions like her.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1695885758777142 [:47] to hear a member of Dunning-Kruger’s “Peak of Mount Stupid” confidently spout utter nonsense.

TDS: CLICK https://x.com/CNviolations/status/2117356811875766598 [:22] to watch a TikTok video made by the woman who was recently arrested for assaulting a student at the University of Michigan. In it, she is celebrating her psychiatric medications.

US vs THEM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1094089976798813 [:42] to hear the difference between Christianity and Islam explained in the simplest terms.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/ChristopherHale/status/2116520271922237669 [:36] to hear how Pope Leo and Robert Prevost come down on the issue of the Villanova vs. Notre Dame game in Rome.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2CEC9pqOUqU [1:46] to hear a wonderful story about how God helped heal a mother’s broken heart. You may need a tissue.

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