Bits & Bytes

ABORTION: Abortion is going to be high on the list of topics for the presidential election. The Biden campaign has launched a $25 million “we will restore Roe” ad campaign that will run for 16 weeks in purple toss-up states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

• https://catholicvote.org/biden-ad-campaign-targets-abortion-issue-in-purple-states/

CANADA: Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church was arrested and held in prison for refusing to close his church during the plandemic. Alberta authorities sent hundreds of police officers to close it for him, going so far as to build a fence around the property! So the church did what the church had to do in its first centuries … it went underground.

On July 31, an Alberta court ruled that public health orders issued by the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) during the pandemic were invalid because they were enacted outside the powers of the Public Health Act, and were made by cabinet, not the top medical officer. IOW, Pastor Coates was right all along. The orders were illegal. He and his church are about to be formally acquitted of all charges.

• https://notthebee.com/article/canadian-pastor-james-coates-who-was-jailed-for-refusing-to-close-his-church-during-the-pandemic-acquitted-on-all-charges-
• https://notthebee.com/article/after-throwing-their-pastor-in-jail-for-over-a-month-for-disobeying-rona-rules-canadian-officials-are-not-erecting-a-us-capitol-style-fence-around-this-church-to-keep-members-from-worshipping
• https://notthebee.com/article/canadian-church-releases-an-insanely-eloquent-statement-on-liberty-and-covid-after-their-pastor-is-jailed-for-preaching
• https://notthebee.com/article/massive-crowd-turns-out-for-canadian-pastor-imprisoned-for-lockdown-defiance
• https://notthebee.com/article/the-canadian-pastor-jailed-for-breaking-lockdown-orders-is-back-in-the-pulpit
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/alberta-covid-case-ruling-a-thin-victory-for-those-challenging-restrictions-lawyers-5438576

COVID-19: Over the last week, the average number of confirmed ‘rona hospital admissions was up 21% over the previous week, leading to some calls to restore mask mandates. However, the past week’s average was 73% lower than the average for last January, suggesting the hype is like the “heat dome” garbage … more about lefties grabbing power through fear than about public health or common sense.

Meanwhile, Texas Governor Abbott and Florida Surgeon General Lapado have assured their citizens that there will be NO mask mandates.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mask-mandates-will-not-come-to-these-us-states-5480845

NEW AGE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbDE_BEHREU [1:35:47] to hear Michael Knowles interview Jenn Nizza, a now-Christian who once made her living as a genuine psychic medium. She reveals a lot about the New Age, what’s real, what’s a con, and how dangerous it all is. “The Trinity of the New Age is Me, Myself, and I.”

• https://www.expsychicsaved.com/

POWERLIFTING: When I was writing yesterday’s blog, I got curious how “Anne” Andres had fared against male competitors. The scores for the most recent competition that she allegedly won in the female division are not posted yet, but the previous ones from February are. I discovered I had no idea how to read them, but apparently you can learn anything on the internet. So if you’re interested, here is the 411.

Lifters compete within a category determined by their gender (ha ha), age, and weight. There are two genders (ha ha); seven age classes; seven (female+) and eight (male) weight classes; and a whole lot of weight subclasses. Lifters get three tries each at the three types of lift – i.e., squat, bench press, deadlift. A minus red number means they failed that lift. This doesn’t count against them so long as they completed one of the three in each type.

TOTAL: The sum of the heaviest weight they lifted in each of the three categories; the highest total wins the category. As you can see from the totals in the graphic above, “she” is a total loser when compared to other lifters of the same age and body weight.

POINTS are handicapped based on age and body weight to give juniors and women a chance to win an overall with a highest point total. “Anne” only wins on points, because her pathetic lifts were handicapped as if he were a real she.

• https://powerliftingtechnique.com/how-is-powerlifting-scored/
• https://www.powerlifting.ca/lifter_database/external/contest_results.php?contest=CPU%20Nationals%202023

GRAMMY NOTES: I was born in 1954.