2A: Last year, Oregon voters passed ballot measure 114, which would have required Oregon citizens to acquire a permit before purchasing a gun and restricted magazines to 10 rounds or fewer. A Circuit Court judge just ruled that these measures violate both the state’s and the nation’s constitutions.
- https://notthebee.com/article/oregon-gun-control-law-violates-the-states-own-constitution-judge-rules
- https://www.opb.org/article/2023/11/21/oregon-supreme-court-gun-law-firearms-measure-114-harney-county/
BIDENOMICS: A recent CNBC survey found that 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The White House said the U.S. economy is the strongest it has ever been. Voters don’t agree. An October poll by Quinnipiac found only 37% approve of Biden’s economic performance.
An October poll by AP-NORC found about 8 in 10 Americans saying their overall household debt is higher or about the same as it was a year ago, while only 15% said their household savings had increased over the past year.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/60percent-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-before-the-holidays-study.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/us-economy-finance-live-updates-1722646
- https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3883
- https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/inflation-debt-poll/2023/10/27/id/1139898/
CANADA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvAApI8-DKU [2:57] to hear Fr. Mark talk about the new report from Statistics Canada. Below are some highlights from the data:
In 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the age-standardized mortality rate in Canada was 830.5 deaths per 100,000 population. In 2021, this jumped to 907.2 deaths. In 2022, it jumped again to 972.5 deaths.
Despite the alleged effectiveness of the ‘rona jabs, the number of COVID-19 deaths increased from 14,466 in 2021 to 19,716 in 2022. The report blamed this on “exposure to new highly transmissible COVID-19 variants and the gradual return to normalcy (e.g., reduced restrictions and masking requirements).”
However, these new variants are far, far less lethal than the original and early variants that circulated in 2020. Also, numerous studies have shown that lockdowns, masks, and other restrictions had little effect on transmission or death rates. In fact, some studies showed that the people who were most likely to get very sick from COVID were the home-bound and the masked.
- https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/start
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231127/dq231127b-eng.htm
DEMONIC: Disturbing content. CLICK https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1730632082844516361 [1:03] to hear a witch talk about how she has used her abortions for spell casting. CLICK https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1730633002361741370 [2:40] to hear a former witch describe her personal experiences of Satanic child sacrifices. CLICK https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1730633773300002865 [:50] to hear an exorcist explain why Satan worshipers “cling to abortion as a sacrament of the demonic underworld.”
FOOD INSECURITY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es614SrcbhI [6:09] to hear a reality check about welfare and hunger in the United States. The comments about poor people and healthy eating strike a chord with me. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the bottom fell out of the building industry. Predictably, since architects are at the front end of the process, our family was hit early and hard. I am very grateful for the emergency help we received courtesy of taxpayers and charitable friends, relatives, and total strangers. All five of us had widespread food allergies, so I was always looking for whatever nutritional advice I could find. The WIC people offered free consultations with a certified nutritionist who told me, “It’s so nice to finally work with someone who wants my help. Hardly any of the women who get these WIC checks care about their own families eating healthy. They swagger in here in their designer boots and are like, ‘shut up and give me the money.‘”
JUSSIE SMOLLETT: An Illinois appellate court upheld Smollett’s conviction for lying to the cops and ordered him to complete his 150-day jail sentence. So far, he’s only spent six days behind bars. He can try to appeal to the Supreme Court, but my guess is they won’t agree to even hear it. CLICK https://twitter.com/ArXilocus/status/1560724078633267200 [2:04] to hear Victor Davis Hanson give the best-ever description of the Smollett case.
SOCIALISM: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwsy9105hXk [6:33] to see how pro-socialism university students change their tune when socialism is applied to their GPA.
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