by | July 20, 2025 · 10:13 am

Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please help us to make kindness our default position, except when to do so would violate Your Truths. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CATHOLIC: This is a beautiful talk. [20:09] – I am hypersensitive to perfume and, before I became too affected to attend Mass at all, I would stay in the cry room. One Sunday in the late 1980s, I went to the cry room as usual, but found it filled with youthful confirmands, all dressed up and smelling much too good. My little girl and I retreated to an adjacent, empty room, only to have Bishop Matthew Clark (Rochester, NY diocese) come in with his assistants to vest. I explained why we were there and tried to leave, but he said no, we should stay. Before he vested, he got down on his knees and had a sweet interchange with my daughter.

CHRISTIAN CULTURE: Recently, there has been controversy surrounding Chip and Joanna Gaines who decided to feature a same-sex couple on their Back to the Frontier reality show. The Gaines couple have been public about their Christian faith and, in the past, have been associated with the Antioch Community Church, which holds traditional views on marriage.

I don’t actually care about the issue, but I was intrigued by Allie Beth Stuckey’s comment about CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xUT4wcpDJVA. “You can believe that you have found a way to out-compassion God.” Whoa … what an excellent way to think about this! As for assuming that money and/or fame are God’s rewards, it was Satan who offered all that stuff to Jesus. Jesus promised His followers the cross.

FOUND on the GUADALUPE RIVER: A Texas woman founded a Facebook group where Texans can share photos of objects and pets lost in the flood or found after. I looked at a few pages and the tears were running down my cheeks.

HYPOCRITES: Democrats trying to benefit from MAGA-ites who are pissed about the Epstein files have been asked why they didn’t demand the files be released while Biden was in office. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (left) said she was too busy with other things. Rep. Jamie Raskin (right) said he doesn’t know.

MEDIA SHILLS: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1946020435037925585 [:51] to see another example of the hyper-politicized, unfunny propaganda that CBS paid Colbert $15 million a year to produce.

NEW YUCK CITY: CLICK https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1945858127577940297 [:36] to hear Zohran Mamdani defend the abolition of private property. He is New York City’s leading (i.e., Democrat) mayoral candidate, which is a very scary thought. House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has reportedly met with Mamdani … and has continued to not endorse him.

PARENTING: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ogy9BesmOEk to see how identity politics should be handled. This is exactly what my parents would’ve done! LOL

PRISONER EXCHANGE: All ten Americans who have been held in Venezuela have been swapped for the return of more than 250 Venezuelan men (mostly Tren de Aragua members) whom we deported to El Salvadoran prisons.

Among those released was Wilbert Castañeda, a former U.S. Navy SEAL. His brother, Christian, said in a statement to The Epoch Times: “We have prayed for this day for almost a year. My brother is an innocent man who was used as a political pawn by the Maduro regime. We knew that President Trump would not leave a decorated SEAL behind.”

RUSSIA HOAX: “A treasonous conspiracy” [7:40] – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that then-President Barack Obama and his national security team didn’t like the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia had no ability or desire to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. At Obama’s direction, they suppressed publication of this assessment and manufactured fake evidence aimed at destroying Donald Trump and his administration.

GRAMMY NOTES: True. I was born this way. My first grade teacher remarked once that I was a “lone wolf.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1253936996465138 and watch closely!

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A1HLs8ZitRI for Nick’s One Rule.

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  1. mindful webworker's avatar mindful webworker
    July 20, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    …Tulsi Gabbard has declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence”…

    It’s sad yet amusing to me how things coming out are supposed to be surprising and newsworthy, when some of us who read widely (and not-mainstream) have known about them for years, even at the time they happened.

    Admittedly, it’s one thing to “know” something happened and quite another to have solid evidence that lead to legal conviction, which might never happen.

    (Noting that Hill and Billary are still walking free. And Fauci. And…)

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  2. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    July 20, 2025 at 1:18 pm

    I was not born an introvert — in fact I was quite the extrovert in my youth — but life has made an introvert and a virtual recluse of me. I find being around other people stressful and exhausting. It would be different if I had anyone around me who shared my beliefs, interests, tastes, passions, etc., but I don’t. I fantasize sometimes about what it would be like to live someplace where there were other people like me…

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  3. GenX Crit's avatar GenX Crit
    July 21, 2025 at 2:06 pm

    I’ve been labeled a “lone wolf” before.

    How did that make you feel?

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    • chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
      July 22, 2025 at 8:04 am

      Confused. I didn’t know what it meant and suspected it might be a bad thing, because when my mother started a sentence with “You’re …”, it didn’t end well.

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