ACTBLUE: A month ago, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment during a House hearing. She refused to even verify her name! [8:03] – CLICK https://x.com/mich_enjoyer/status/2079961553445491066 [4:16] to watch an interview with an ActBlue donor named Elizabeth Waffle (88). According to ActBlue’s records, Elizabeth has made 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000 over the past five years. Elizabeth was forced to move into a shabby trailer two years ago after her house burned down. She owns an old pickup truck, but no computer. At the time of the interview, she did not have enough money to pay the lawn guy. Elizabeth says of the donations record, “I don’t have that kind of money.”
DEMOCRATS: The answers on this thread are fun. They include “(the sound of silence)”, “I’ll go make some popcorn while we wait”, “How about I just bring you a live unicorn?”
The only real answer given by a few was “Sen. John Fetterman.”
EDUCATION: In the mid-1970s, I dated a guy in college who became convinced one of his professors was only reading the first and last pages of his students’ exam “blue books.” So for one exam, my bf wrote a good intro and conclusion on these two pages, but filled the entire inside with a detailed description of a recent football game. He even included those X and O charts so beloved by football coaches, which, if the prof had even glanced at the insides, would’ve caught his attention. The prof gave him an A.
EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G-yeh3Zpkmg to watch JetBlue Flight 292 land with the wheel on the nose gear facing sideways. The photo above shows what was left of the nose gear afterwards. Talk about riding your rims! This happened on September 21, 2005, with Captain Scott Burke at the helm. I’ve never seen or heard of this one before, but even if you have, it’s worth watching again!
HEALTH: Blood pressure after 60 is far more complicated than simply “the lower the better.” In this video, Dr. Alex explains why the best target depends on the person sitting in front of you, not just the number on the machine. [16:51] – After my father died, we learned something important about blood pressure and medication doses. My mother had been my father’s primary care giver in his final years. After he passed, she suddenly had much less day-to-day stress, which, minus a reduction in her bp meds dosage, resulted in her having too-low symptoms.
IRAN: [15:51] – We may be only a few weeks away from the complete destruction of the Islamist regime.
MIDTERMS: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has $16.3M cash on hand with $18.5M in debt. Fifteen million of that debt was secured using the DNC’s own headquarters in D.C. as collateral.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has $128.5M in cash on hand with zero debt.
SAVE America Act: The “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” calls for every voter proving he or she is an American citizen when registering to vote and producing proof of ID when voting. Despite its overwhelming popularity with voters, Democrats have been stonewalling its passage. The latest attempt to get it passed involved attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 (NDAA) which passed the House on July 22 on a 216-212 vote.
UK: Khadija Patel was recently awarded with the British Citizen Award in recognition of her work empowering young women.
GRAMMY NOTES: When one of my grandsons was four years old, he was watching a video that introduced him for the first time to the Passion. When the soldiers came into the garden to arrest Jesus, our precious boy grabbed his toy sword and ran at the television to protect his best friend. Later, he asked his mom and his dad why Jesus had been crucified and they both said, “Hmmm. We’ll ask Father after Mass on Sunday.” Father had the same reaction, but had nobody to pass the buck to! I don’t know what he said exactly, but I have often wondered … how do you explain this to a four-year-old?!
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3lbaG-HeFUI [2:15] to hear Tim Hawkins sing a ditty about Karen.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wLDHblWxrLA [2:54] to hear how the McIntyre’s new mattress has disrupted their marriage.
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