by | November 13, 2026 · 12:06 pm

Samurai Shiba

On November 11, 2026, @SamuraiShibaJP posted:

About sixty people at my company have worked in America.

Last month someone in HR opened an anonymous Slack channel with one question:

“What’s one sentence an American said to you that you still hear?”

We expected maybe ten answers. We got 58. Some of my favorites:

“Go home. Your kid has a game.” My manager in Indianapolis, Indiana, at 4:30 p.m. In 19 years I had never left the office before my boss. I went. My son scored. I almost apologized to the building.

“Hey! You dropped this!” A teenager at a Walmart in Omaha, Nebraska, chased me across a snowy parking lot. With my receipt. For gum. I still keep it in my wallet. The receipt, not the gum.

“Nobody’s mad. Let’s just fix it.” My first big mistake, in Portland, Oregon. In Japan I’d have written an apology letter. They ordered pizza. We fixed it by nine.

“Who’s your guy?” A neighbor in Greenville, South Carolina, asking who fixes my car. I told him I had nobody. His face said I had just confessed to having no doctor. His guy is my guy now. I have a guy.

“You coming Thursday?” A coworker in Grand Rapids, Michigan, invited me to bowling night every week for 11 months. I said no 47 times. He never stopped asking. Week 48, I said yes. I bowled a 61. They cheered like I’d landed on the moon.

“Your English is way better than my Japanese.” Every American. Every single time. I’ve heard it maybe 400 times. Still not tired of it.

The last answer was posted at 3:07 a.m.

“You’re with us.” Christmas Eve, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Every flight canceled. I was sitting on the airport floor. A family of five I had never met took me home. Their seven-year-old gave me her bedroom. I slept under a pink canopy with glow-in-the-dark stars.

In the morning, their ten-year-old son had made me a card for the breakfast table. Crayon. Gold star. “GUEST OF HONOR.”

I’m 51. It’s framed on my desk in Tokyo. The new hires think I won a very important award.

I did.

Fifty-eight sentences. Most of them under ten words.

America, you said them and forgot them by lunch.

We’re still carrying every one of them.

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by | November 13, 2026 · 7:12 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On November 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s racial segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional.

GUN CONTROL: On Thursday morning, at least five people were shot in the Logan Circle area of Washington, D.C., about a mile from the White House. D.C. has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.

EVERYDAY HEROES: oliviaappleberry posted, “If masculinity were toxic, then kids growing up without f athers would be better off than those who have them. But they’re not.”

According to the Census Bureau, 47.3% of Black American children do not have their dad living in the same house with them, compared to 29% of Hispanic kids and 16-20% of Caucasian kids.

ISLAM: The Crusades were launched only after hundreds of years of invasion by Muslims.

MAHA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WZqzPiwCS_c [2:25] to hear what our chances are of developing dementia and what we can do to dramatically improve those numbers.

MILITARY: On Wednesday, after the Veterans Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, his wife, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, and senior adviser took photos.

When some in the group were heard laughing and chatting, the soldier patrolling in front of the tomb, Spc. Thomas Iglesias, stopped walking, faced the group, and called out, “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”

On Thursday, Hegseth awarded Specialist Iglesias the Joint Service Commendation Medal for properly executing his duties, even when it meant reprimanded the Secretary of War himself. “We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist,” Hegseth said.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2120552499832623542 [:52] to hear Sunny Hostin of The View say, out loud, that Abraham Lincoln didn’t emancipate the slaves.

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://x.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/2120235932737749207 [1:38] to watch a student tear down an American flag and assault a TPUSA Field Rep plus two students, calling them “fascist pieces of s**t” during a Pick Up the Mic event at the University of Texas Tyler. Campus police arrested and transported him to the county jail for processing. No injuries were reported.

WOLVES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2030916590915546 [:33] to hear Pastor Tom Brock discuss how far from the biblical truth this progressive Protestant denomination has wandered. This isn’t new. Way back in 1972, the UPCUSA General Assembly declared: “Women should have full freedom of personal choice concerning the completion or termination of their pregnancies and that the artificial or induced termination of pregnancy, therefore, should not be restricted by law, except that it be performed under the direction and control of a properly licensed physician.”

GRAMMY NOTES: I love what Mama Buzz did with this prompt.

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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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