Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Oh Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist, save us and grant eternal rest to the suffering souls in Purgatory. Amen.

BELIEVE: [2:01] – Thank you, Mindful!

BORDER: Tom Homan announced plans for a large-scale operation to deport illegal immigrants will begin in Chicago. He said if the mayor “doesn’t want to help, he needs to step aside. But if he impedes us—if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien—I will prosecute him.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mass-deportations-will-start-in-chicago-trumps-border-czar-tom-homan-says-5774099

DOGE: Musk says they’ll be taking a hard look at this issue. Personally, I think it is immoral for debtors to be giving money to anyone other than those who hold their debt. Until you’re out of debt, it’s not your money to give. When we were drowning in debt, our pastor told us we are called to give of our overflow, not of our substance. So we donated prayer, time, and skills until we were debt free.

BTW, for this purpose, mortgages and car loans are not debt, since without those loans, we’d be paying for housing and transportation anyway. Also, in Catholic teaching, Americans are not called to tithe 10% to the church, but rather 2.5% or the equivalent of one hour’s wage. The 10% tithe was from a time before secular government taxes. It was basically a voluntary flat tax for the church to use to meet all of the military, administrative, and social welfare needs of the people. Our churches only need enough to support the clergy, pay for our facilities, and finance our social welfare programs.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-signals-support-for-eliminating-foreign-aid-5773564
• https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-countries-of-aid-worldwide/

J6 COMMITTEE: Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation of the January 6 Committee, reported that his computer forensic investigators had discovered 117 missing files. He said, “It’s obvious that [the J6 committee] went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules.”

On Monday, Liz Cheney, a former member of the kangaroo committee, said there is “no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis” for the Justice Department to investigate the work of a congressional committee. Please note she did not deny having deleted critical information.

• https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/22/rep-barry-loudermilk-partisan-j6-committee-deleted-over-100-encrypted-files-before-gop-took-house-majority/
• https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/09/liz-cheney-accused-destroying-117-january-6-files-says-she-should-not-go-jail/

JUSTICE: Daniel Penny was acquitted for charges that should never have been brought. Now Jordan Neely’s deadbeat biological father, Andre Zachary, is suing him. Please note that Jordan go this last name from his single mother, suggesting Zachary may have never been involved in the life of the son he claims now to be missing so much that he deserves compensation. When Jordan was 12, his mother’s boyfriend murdered her; Andre did nothing to rescue Jordan from the foster care system or help him process his grief and anger. When his son was a grown man, addicted to drugs and living on the streets, Andre did nothing. But now he wants a payday?!

CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1866172060075987307 to hear his crocodile tears after Penny was acquitted. Let us pray his outrageous lawsuit is handled by a common sense judge who tells Andre where to get off and not by some left-wing activist who wants to make headlines out of punishing a good man for protecting a train car full of innocents.

• https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/opinion/jordan-neelys-father-blames-racism-and-system-for-sons-death-but-where-was-he/
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jordan-neely-death-subway.html

NARNIA: We must pray that the lost souls who watch the promised “very new take” will see God’s truth anyway. Or, at the very least, be inspired to watch the other versions or read the books and be awakened to a longing for Jesus. I had a friend who taught a C.S. Lewis class in college. The reading list started with The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce to establish his world view. Then they read The Chronicles of Narnia. A Jewish student told my friend, “I could believe in Jesus if he was like Aslan.” Since my friend was a devout believer, she grabbed hold of that teachable moment with both hands!

• https://notthebee.com/article/producer-for-new-chronicles-of-narnia-movie-says-that-barbie-directors-new-take-on-the-story-is-all-about-rock-n-roll
• https://screenrant.com/chronicles-of-narnia-movie-remake-netflix-amy-pascal/

WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: CLICK https://x.com/PiersUncensored/status/1866263320870682697 [2:16] to hear her convo with Piers Morgan. Luigi Mangione comes from a wealthy, prominent family that owns two country clubs, a local radio station, and several other real estate holdings. He was valedictorian of his high school class and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the eight considered to be part of the Ivy League.

Compare the above with leftists’ responses to Jason Neely’s acquittal:

1. NAACP: The acquittal of Daniel Penny in the death of Jordan Neely has effectively given license for vigilante justice to be waged on the Black community without consequence.
2. Rep. Summer Lee: The acquittal of Daniel Penny in the murder of Jordan Neely is a painful reminder of a long-standing reality: vigilante violence against Black people often goes unchecked.
3. BLM: CLICK https://x.com/DailyLoud/status/1866180793867153832 [:19] calls for blacks to choke whites to death.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-wapo-reporter-taylor-lorenz-says-united-healthcare-ceos-murder-brought-her-joy

GRAMMY NOTES: Our pastor said at his house growing up, the Magi began their journey in the basement and got moved daily, step by step, inch by inch, to arrive at the manger scene on Epiphany.