Bits & Bytes

2A: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment analyzed 5,287 firearm-related deaths in Colorado from 2016 to 2020 and found that

1. 73.6%, were suicides,
2. 24.9% were homicides/assaults, and
3. 24.7% were justifiable self-defense.

• https://www.ammoland.com/2024/07/colorado-finds-1-in-4-homicides-with-firearms-are-justifiable-self-defense/

CATHOLIC: “Don’t say: ‘That person gets on my nerves.’ Think: ‘That person sanctifies me.” (St. Josemaria Escriva in The Way, 174)

• https://scepterpublishers.org/blogs/scepter-blog-corner/10-quotes-from-st-josemaria-on-suffering-and-mortification

DEBATE: What was going on psychologically, behaviorally, and neurologically with President Joe Biden in the presidential debate with former President Donald Trump? [13:19] – A forensic psychologist does a masterful analysis of Biden’s debate performance, explaining exactly how various behaviors are common in elderly dementia patients.

LIFE DAY: After the mayor of Monroe, North Carolina, issued a proclamation on June 24, 2024, in celebration of Life Day, the City Council voted to censure him and ban him from issuing any more proclamations. Life Day is the anniversary of the day SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

• https://notthebee.com/article/guess-why-this-north-carolina-city-council-voted-to-strip-their-mayor-of-his-ability-to-issue-proclamations

MEDIA: A progressive talk-radio network in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has admitted to complying with a request by the Biden campaign to editing out two embarrassing statement Biden made during a recent interview. CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1811517700658614565 [:17] to hear what they took out. Note: They are run together, so are out of context.

• https://notthebee.com/article/milwaukee-radio-station-admits-they-edited-biden-interview-after-campaign-asked-for-embarrassing-bits-to-be-cut-out

NEW YORK SUCKS A LITTLE LESS: Public polls over the last four months show Biden’s lead in Deep Blue New Yuck has dropped to just 8 points, an unusually narrow gap in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1.

• https://notthebee.com/article/new-york-democrat-says-the-state-has-become-a-battleground-again-as-joe-biden-plunges-the-party-into-disaster
• https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/10/biden-new-york-trouble-00167198

STORIES: I don’t want to read or report on these … but in case some of y’all do, here are the links.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have dumped their poster child, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because she wasn’t anti-Israel enough.

• https://notthebee.com/article/lol-democratic-socialists-of-america-pulls-endorsement-of-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-not-hating-jews-enough

“Lovers of Men” claims Abraham Lincoln had “steamy gay s*x sessions” with male partners. It is set to come out on September 6.

• https://notthebee.com/article/new-documentary-on-the-love-life-of-great-americans-proposes-that-abe-lincoln-was-gay

The hideous goat-horned pagan statue honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg was moved from New York City to the University of Houston where … it lost its head.

• https://notthebee.com/article/satanic-sculpture-at-university-of-houston-was-mysteriously-beheaded

Kathryn Yusoff, a professor at Queen Mary University of London, has published a book all about how racist geology is.

• https://notthebee.com/article/racist-dinosaurs-british-professor-links-white-supremacy-to-geology-and-pale-ontology

GRAMMY NOTES: Please pray for a special intention. I can’t share details, just that prayer is needed all around.