DAILY PRAYER: I need this one today.
BEVERLY CLEARY: She looks exactly like I always imagined Ramona to be. 🙂
At six years old, little Beverly was put on academic probation after first grade. Her biggest problem was reading. The assigned books were all boring educational stories about polite children. It was thanks to a school librarian’s friendly encouragement that the girl finally liked to read.
After college, Beverly began working as a children’s librarian. She still found children’s books boring. Dick and Jane weren’t at all like lively, curious, funny, angry, or unruly like real kids. So Beverly Cleary became an author herself.
She wrote Ramona the Pest, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, The Mouse and the Motorcycle – more than 40 books in all. Her books won dozens of awards, sold more than 90 million copies, and are still beloved today. Not bad for the little girl who didn’t like to read. [Text from a Facebook post.]
BORDER: Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem have partnered their agencies to end taxpayer-funded public housing for illegals. U.S. veterans stand to benefit from the move.
COLORADO: The State of Colorado is removing the atrocious portrait of President Donald Trump that they hung in their State Capitol building. Like the artist (who is apparently quite capable of painting a beautiful portrait), the Democrats who control the state legislature showed their true colors when they sneered rather than apologized. “If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then that’s up to them.”
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-removing-bad-painting-of-trump-after-he-complains-about-it
- https://notthebee.com/article/president-trump-found-out-about-this-portrait-of-himself-in-colorados-capitol-and-reacted-in-the-most-trump-way-possible
ELON MUSK: [7:58] – Loose lips are going to start sinking ships.
GRIFTERS: [1:55] – This makes me so angry. Dearest is an architect. He doesn’t get paid until he produces a satisfactory outcome for his client. These schmucks get rewarded with billion$ for not producing satisfactory outcomes for We The Taxpayers!
MILITARY: SecDef Hegseth has been working closely with DOGE and has rung up $800 million in cuts to wasteful spending. One of the biggies was a human resources software development program that was supposed to take one year and cost $36 million. It’s been going for eight years, has run $280 million over budget, yet it still doesn’t do what it was supposed to do!
S&G: Trump has canceled hundreds of thousand$ in contracts to provide education on “food justice for queer and transgender farmers” in San Francisco and New York. Dunno what that means exactly, though I’m thinking it’s likely code for “grift.”
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: “Canada, where healthcare is free, but only if you can afford to wait.” – CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1903826064356655559 [1:09] to hear a Canadian’s horrifying story. CLICK https://x.com/jammles9/status/1903826908967538809 [3:43] to hear another young Canadian who had a biking accident in the U.S. and got an up close look at one of our ER rooms. CLICK https://x.com/siomoCTV/status/1879610897003675812 [:36] to see what Canadians were willing to do to get accepted by a primary physician.
Estimated wait times for an ER visit in Canada: 16 hours and 45 minutes. CLICK https://hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/ to see what the wait time is where you live. Mine is 3 hrs and 3 minutes. I went a while back with chest pain, saw a triage nurse quickly, and was rushed through for blood work. We did have to go back to the waiting room to await the test results, but a nurse fast tracked me through the finish up so we could get home asap. My heart is fine; my primary sent me to a gastro clinic where I found out I have a hiatal hernia, which can cause chest pain similar to heart attack.
- https://notthebee.com/article/this-canadian-woman-with-a-possible-brain-tumor-just-reminded-us-why-socialized-medicine-is-an-absolute-nightmare
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/woman-right-leg-amputated-post-surgery-infection-1.7411886
SHEEPLE: I was thinking about how the Pharisees incited a mob to shout for Pontius Pilate to free Barabbas. It reminded me a lot of Democrats. A few know what they’re doing. The rest mindlessly follow wicked leaders.
SNOW WHITE: [17:12] – Comment on video – “So watched it with my 5 year old daughter and she was getting bored halfway. She asked the obvious question why is she called Snow White? I said bc her skin is White as Snow. She said but her skin isn’t white, she has a tan. Next day she wanted to watch the original and she was glued to it. She loved the animals and the songs. Was scared at the Scary parts and loved when the prince saves Snow White with a kiss. The original has a much better ending that actually makes sense to the target audience.”
TARIFFS: They work just like Trump said they would. Rolls Royce and Hyundai have announced plans to invest billion$ on building new car manufacturing plants inside the U.S.
GRAMMY NOTES: This.
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