Bits & Bytes

DAILY PRAYER: Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on us. Amen.

BALLROOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: [12:15] – So tiresome.

EVERYDAY HEROES: On July 30, 2009, at the Polarland Aquarium in Harbin, China, Yang Yun (26) experienced crippling leg cramps at the bottom of a whale pool. She thought she was going to drown when she felt Mila, one of the beluga whales, gently grab her leg and bring her to the surface.

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/mila-to-the-rescue-beluga-whale-saves-drowning-diver
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5931345/Beluga-whale-saves-diver.html

FEMINIST REGRET: “I’m convinced that the reason I’m still booking a table for one at the age of 63 instead of having settled with a significant other is because, like so many women of my generation, feminism has ruined my love life. Instead of empowering us, those ideals of the second-wave feminists made us believe marriage and domesticity were to be avoided like the plague and that men were competition rather than partners.”

• https://my.alongwalker.co/z/40884.html

PHOTOMICROGRAPHY: I have no idea how they ranked the images. They all look amazing to me. The one above (air bubbles in melted polyvinyl alcohol) is my favorite and it didn’t even make Honorable Mention!

• https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-photomicrography-competition

PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Prosper the works of our hands and grant our nation financial stability and abundance. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

S&G: [1734] – Detrans stories make me sad and angry. But we need to share them.

SHUTDOWN: Two Democrat leaders have said, out loud, that their political games are more important to them than we are.

On October 9, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that “every day gets better for us” Democrats during the government shutdown.

Then, on October 16, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) said , “Of course there will be families that are going to suffer. … But it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

• https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5547212-democrats-blamed-for-shutdown/
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/no-2-house-democrat-says-healthcare-drives-partys-strategy-shutdown-heads-next-week

WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM: CLICK https://x.com/saras76/status/1981066455715369065 [:44] to hear House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lie through his lying pie hole. The construction of the White House Ballroom is being funded entirely by private donations and, as shown above, only a portion of the East Wing is being demolished.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gus87VrslhM to see the daughter of Lord Gourdon.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HtcV7noxZi4. I don’t know what this is about, but it made me laugh.